Today is my last day with @smartosorg@hostux.social and @triton_dc@hostux.social .
I will still be in greater - #illumos .
Also both #smartos and #triton developers and users are quite a good community!
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Dan McDonald
@danmcd@hostux.social
mastodon 4.6.8Dad&Husband, BEAGLE DAD, #illumos 
core team, 2nd-wave Internet settler, early IPsec & IPv6 builder, and Oxide SW engineer.
Michigan ( #goblue ) and Arizona alum. Ex-{NRL,Sun,Nexenta,OmniTI,Joyent,MNX}.
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Time for my occasional reminder that the #illumos ptools are amazing and highly productivity enhancing.
On my MacOS workstation this is a common work flow:
ssh $ILLUMOS 'pwait pgrep something' ; say {-a other-speaker} SOMETHING IS DONE
Can work on other things until I hear shouting.
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@angusm@mastodon.social @GreatDismal@mastodon.social
Somebody's gotta be funny around here. Sure the fuck....
... actually, it IS you, today.
I'm going back to re-read this new EULA on my Ono-Sendai now. Hope it's still just the standard black-ice-is-not-our-fault language.
I think I managed to do this ONCE while playing Ticket to Ride: Europa
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Boosted by @mattblaze@federate.social
Local special election so I'm heading out to vote remand immediately after start my poll working shift.
Thanks @mattblaze@federate.social for the inspiration.
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@poleguy @sophieschmieg
I remember similar opinions in the 80s when people would bring up Reagan's "Star Wars"/SDI.
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@scarlet@plush.city
Reminded of this post from post-election 2016 from an ex-GOP footsoldier, esp. the part about Truman's attempt at national medical coverage:
https://www.politicalorphans.com/socialism-for-white-people/
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@Darkphoenix @tzimmer_history
It's projection... it's ALMOST ALWAYS projection.
I mean, for example, look at preachers who are public homophobes getting caught with gay porn on their computers. It's like that, but over more areas.
The fine folks at @SystemsAppr@discuss.systems posted this beaut. I do feel officially old now.
https://systemsapproach.org/2026/04/20/not-your-fathers-internet/
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THANK YOU 2FA!
My Apple devices pinged me to "reset my Apple Account Password". I refused. I'd LIKE to know what events (and what IP, etc.) triggered that Apple Account Password reset.
I know some of you WORK there... any ideas on how to diagnose how far someone got? Is it just knowing my email, or more?
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@poleguy @sophieschmieg
I don't know, given I don't know what SDI money got put to what use. GPS? IF so then that's not a bad deal.
56 year old Dan: This is cool! Nice retrocomputing exercise!
16 year old Dan: Pfft, my Atari 800XL could do it faster!
https://imapenguin.com/2026/03/breaking-enigma-with-index-of-coincidence-on-a-commodore-64/
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@mattblaze@federate.social
Additionally in-air refueling needs a tanker from somewhere.
That reminds me: my Dad's manager flew KC-135s for the Air National Guard, and a day before the Libyan bombing with F-111s he mysteriously had to take the day off work.
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@itisiboller@infosec.exchange
So impressed by GenZ! This sounds like something my own kids would've said or heard/seen.
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BTW Apple Support was useless, likely by design to prevent accidental disclosures that might, oh I don't know, cause a password-reset to maybe succeed?
So I'm not as angry as I first was about it.
This looks VERY cool, and I wish Big Ag would think about something like this.
I wonder if actual-farmer @sarahtaber@mastodon.online may have an opinion on this?
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange
Refused all the way down. And you're right about no harm.
I'm in the middle of a vetting process right now, and someone joked, "Maybe $VETTING did this to see if you'd get suckered?"
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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
Serious question, what about the Linux kernel *recently* has you changing your mind? Is it just AI/LLM policy? Or something else?
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@karlauerbach@sfba.social @SystemsAppr@discuss.systems
To be fair to them, they are trying to solve for a combination of instruction and current-deployments.
I have a big-fricking "switch" but I use it to replace a bunch of small 8-port netgear trusty blue-GS1xx, because they don't make the equivalent in 1/2.5/5/10G yet. My routers are #illumos zones.
I like smaller pieces for the same reasons of understanding & repairability. One of the @SystemsAppr@discuss.systems folks was a strong proponent of micro-protocols.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I'm serious. If you're only associating him with folks who claimed he turned them on to Ayn Rand, he did grow up (unlike said folks).