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pauliehedron

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Been doing IT stuff for a while.

Security Analyst / Network Engineer in Chicagoland

WE FIGHT FOR THE USERS!

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#NetSec #NAFO #FFXIV #BlockedByRaspberryPi #BaldursGate3

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I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring for Speaker of The House. Do I get lobbyist money now?

pauliehedron,
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@jerry

I'll vote for you, from Chicago. :ablobcatnod:​

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Ok. I am tired of Infosec.exchange being sluggish. I just submitted a crazy order with Hetzner to upgrade the instance. Hopefully the last time for a while. I ordered a dell AMD Genoa 48 core server with 256 GB of ram to act as a database and redis server, a dell 64 core sapphire rapids server with 256gb of ram to act as the single front end/puma/streaming server, and an amd 7950 with 128gb of ram to run minio (insourcing from Backblaze).

I ordered all with 10g network interfaces to be connected to the same switch.

I continue to see issues with Backblaze performance causing issues with posting.

This will consolidate the environment down from about 13 servers to 4 (I will keep using less expensive servers on 1G networks for Sidekiq if it can’t run on the sapphire rapids server.

I will be putting that behind Fastly for global distribution and ddos mitigation. I don’t know whether I’ll keep serving media via bunny.net or try to do that with Fastly also. Bunny works pretty well and is cost effective for media delivery.

Anyhow, changes are coming. Thanks for patience.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry

z16 next??? :ablobcatwave:​

Off to visit the coffee place, thank you so much for all you do. :blobsalute: ❤️​

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I should clearly not be left alone with just my thoughts.

pauliehedron, (edited )
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@jerry You're not alone, you always have your phone, just like the rest of us. :ablobcatnod:​

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An initial few pics from the pirate parade in #pcb

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pauliehedron,
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@jerry More feet pics. :ablobcatnod:​ 🦶​

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#FeetOfInfosec #OnlyFeet
This is perhaps the last good beach day of the year.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry @IoanSaid New domain name incoming... Infofeet.exchange

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October marks one year since the mass exodus from Twitter made my life exciting. For those that joined and stayed, I’m glad you’re here :blobheartcat:​

pauliehedron,
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@jerry @deadbeefmonster My first venture into the fedi was in 2017, on a server that defederated infoFEDdotExchange, but it felt really good that even that account still worked with my authenticator I setup in all those years ago.

In a few years when the next thing becomes a not thing, having an old landing pad helps the future population be more sticky. I'm here all the time now! :ablobcatnod:​

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Squeaked in my infragard re-registration just before the deadline. I am sure my info won’t stolen a second time. Right??

pauliehedron,
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@jerry They make you use a hardware key now, right? Right?

pauliehedron,
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@jerry :pika:​

jerry, to random
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Sooo…. Many… hot takes… about AI….

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Hot takes and sausage, side of hashtags.

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….and we’re back (at the beach 🏖️)

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Hope we get a new wave of infocat.exchange posts! :ablobcatnod:​

jerry, (edited ) to random
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EDIT: while this did solve some problems for some people, it didn’t solve the notification issue that was reported.

I just found and fixed an issue with infosec.exchange that I hadn't seen in a long time. The problem was that sometimes feeds would not refresh, particularly notifications. The problem started around the time I upgraded to 4.2.0, however that isn't the problem. A look at the web server error logs shows lots of instances of this error:
24: Too many open files

This is a problem I fought a lot in the early days. The issue is the file limits in ubuntu are too low for busy web servers (infosec.exhange web servers regularly have 3000-4000 active connections)

The fix is pretty simple - adding
LimitNOFILE=1000000
to the nginx.service file. The problem is that when I upgraded mastodon, I also upgraded nginx. And apparently, like a bastard, nginx replaced the system service file, which no longer contained the LimitNOFILE=1000000 statement.

Hope that helps someone else...

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Now just need to fix the missing fedi admin hashtag. ❤️​ :ablobcatnod:​ 😜​

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Is anyone having issues with notifications not showing up in their mastodon notifications until refreshing the web browser?

pauliehedron,
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@jerry

I have this lovely feature which I'm blaming on iOS 17 (I use the PWA). :ablobcatpopcorn:​

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I had a problematic dream that, after Trump won reelection, he passed a law that required all websites include a scrolling banner of his truth social posts

pauliehedron,
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@jerry No dreams, if you do 4 hrs a night sleep. :ablobcatwave:​

jerry, to random
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Working on a title for my autobiography…. So far, I am thinking “Things to avoid” or “At Least I Tried”

pauliehedron,
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@jerry I vote for "We occasionally have good things."

Be it moments, wins, pets and even sysadmins. :ablobdj:​

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Yes, being a ciso makes me eminently qualified to run a franchise restaurant 🚮

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Food safety is just a bunch of controls with tests, with standards and frameworks; and failure of say holding temp is a material breach of life.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Given there are still people involved, I bet there still would be an argument about seasoning Microsoft Chicken 2012; "We can't do lemon pepper, has to be BBQ! The business says so!"

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Eevee hiding under a table, giant yawn

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pauliehedron,
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@jerry Infocat.Exchange :ablobcatnod:​

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Infosec.exchange is dying so fast that I am thinking about how fast I can get one of them new 128 core sapphire rapids servers in place for the database. It's clearly all the people quitting and not engaging that is causing a massive surge in activity

pauliehedron,
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@jerry

PostgreSQL be like...

Scene from South Park with Kenny dodging bullets.

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This whole business of infosec.exchange not having exclusively infosec content has me so upset that I will be posting more cat and orchid pictures to make myself feel better

pauliehedron,
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@jerry And dog. And sunsets. And bathrooms!

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😢​

pauliehedron,
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@jerry I wish I could have seen what 2017 Infosec.Exchange was like like that poster did. :ablobcatwave:​

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I have bad news everyone. Tonight I am turning infosec.exchange into a private facebook group
/s if not obvious

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Looks like your reputation is improving, people think you're old enough to be a/on a facebook. :ablobdj:​

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People, lay off. Who among us hasn't misplaced our $80M fighter jet before?

pauliehedron, (edited )
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@jerry Pantomimes Horshack

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No spoilers, but that last episode of Foundation season 2 was crazy

pauliehedron,
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@jerry It was! Phew!

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Credit card bill came today. My wife just learned about my lens addiction the hard way.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry They are a great band though!

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I missed the Apple event. Gotta go catch up with the news

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Pro phone sounded a lot like your camera threads with all those fancy words.

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I didn’t realize how ridiculous this would look - a 112mm CPL on a 82-112mm step up ring. But the $9 step up ring saved me from needing another $120 CPL

pauliehedron,
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@jerry The Starship Cameraprise.

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Wrapping up second to last day at the beach 😕

The weather and water are amazing this weekend.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry It's fine, we will give ya shit for not wearing a hat instead. ❤️​ :ablobcatnod:​ :ablobcool:​

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What is your favorite ssh client for Windows?

pauliehedron,
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@jerry SuperPutty front end with Putty. Being able to share sessions with others easily is handy.

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Load average on the ISE database is getting into the 30’s. Time to think about that sapphire rapids upgrade 💸

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Looks to be missing another half dozen or so options; not verbose enough. Oh and some double hyphens.

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Fascinating write up on how Microsoft lost its keys: https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Unless I missed it their, production internet connected network is infested with APT? This seems very ominous for the rest of us small peeps.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Volunteer as well. Woof.

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Good heavens - fediblock fever has taken hold of lemmy instances - apparently Infosec.pub doesn’t block all the right instances and that is being attributed to malice

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Which ones aren't blocked, the Tankie ones?

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TIL some people believe that hurricanes are made to target Florida.

I guess it makes sense - when it the last time you heard about a hurricane devastating Nebraska?

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Africa still holding a grudge from them causing the Pangea breakup.

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A guy is taking his cat for a morning walk along the beach

pauliehedron,
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@jerry Not guy, Servant. :ablobcatnod:​

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Wtf is with a 6 month old matrix server having a 250gb Postgres database?

pauliehedron,
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@jerry We honored hundred are chatty? :ablobcatwave:​

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So sad to hear the terrible news about @nova 😢

pauliehedron,
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@jerry

https://hachyderm.io/@jbeda/110922766367332571

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😢

pauliehedron,
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@jerry

The name was the recipe.

Did you get a chance to do the normal EOL of an instance process, or just poof?

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This is definitely my favorite orchid to take pictures of - very photogenic. It looks like it has a little alien mouth

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pauliehedron,
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@jerry Tonsils on Covid

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Finished my last dose of paxlovid this morning. Looking forward to my taste buds returning to normal. I am finally feeling human again, but I get tired really fast and my mind is still very cloudy. Thanks for the concern and well wishes.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry I'm on day 6 of my first time and lost taste yesterday. Today no headache so that's a trade. Kek

Hope ya have no rebound!

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I just watched the first episode of “Silo”. I never read the book, so can’t compare, but the show is quite good.

pauliehedron,
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@jerry I just started it on the plane back from Costa Rica, and yeah I'm enjoying as well!

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