I bought a refurbished SFF PC and put a PCIe NIC in it. Installed opnSense.

Cheap as chips. Supremely powerful.

I have X years experience with {keyword salad}.

Can you confirm {details already in the opening post}?

I still double-check my CIDR’s/netmasks and expected ranges with a tool (some online one or other). Easier to avoid silly mistakes or typo’s

TL;DR: it depends entirely on the DHCP server software.

Generally the safe/reliable policy is to assign a smaller DHCP range (or ranges) and allocate static assignments outside of the DHCP range(s).

Assume your network is 192.168.1.0/24.

Specify 192.168.1.128/25 for DHCP, which means all DHCP addresses will be above 192.168.1.128.

This leaves you everything below 192.168.1.127 for static assignments.

This is why it’s important to have tests that assert a system’s failure modes too.

shouldFitTriangleInTriangleHole()

shouldNotFitTriangleInAnyOtherHoles()

Bonus points for just parameterizing it.

Amazing. I get there’s some atlassian bullshittery behind that.

There’s also a draw.io (diagrams.net) plugin for intellij and probably eclipse.

I’ve used coreos happily on homelab bare metal.

PXE booting it with cloudinit/ignition automation for provisioning.

It’s make for an excellent VPS.

Ah yes, our beloved right wing government kissing the USA’s boots.

Cut it in half and avoid the spec violating abomination.

You’d probably be able to remove the cooler’s non-compliant a-port and just solder the cable directly.

Then at least it’ll be less of an abomination.

They do!

See their Era, Mood, Ridge, Terra cases.

In future, assume everything is a hostile payload until scanned.

Microsoft provides free VM images of various versions for developers to test with, use one of them, install whatever scanning tool you want, then install your suspicious payload.

Rinse repeat.

Well. To Java that’s just a string of utf-8 characters, assuming you haven’t bastardised the encoding, and it’s just yanked out of an HTTP entity. So of course they’re different.

If you’re using some json parser and object mapping library (like Jackson) then all bets are off 'cause it could be configured any which way.

On every other language and library it’s whatever the defined behaviour is.

3/10

I did this until I moved to an ISP that cared about IPv6.

It was almost trivial even with the ISP’s PoS router.

I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

I’m really appreciating your use of &c.

Are you in the nineteenth century by any chance?

Yet.

As IPv4 blocks get scarcer and ISP’s get more customers, they’ll all eventually have to move to IPv4 CGNAT.

And that’s completely fine for most people.

If you’re not one of those people, then IPv6 is your saviour.

Derp, here’s me trying to figure out what “98X” was referring to.

I said “this is my contract mandated notice period, starting today”.

IIRC the Empire State Building was built “agile”.

We’ll keep adding floors until there’s only enough money left for the roof.

Something about making things in that early 20th C. period of the USA was amazing.

An old employer of mine that I fired was full to the brim of people who genuinely thought that nine women could make a baby in one month.

Like techies we pointed out that nine women could average one baby per month if that what they wanted over nine months but it requires another nine months of planning first.

They didn’t get it. Just kept hiring fixed term contractors to “increase velocity”.

The worst port of it was when my team was just the small internet hippy department that no one took seriously we never had these problems, then we got promoted to “proper department” and lost everything.

All cops eventually become bastards or quit.

I.e. the good apples eventually rot too or get removed from the bushel.

Five cats in a trenchcoat with a severed hand.

Check.

They think…

Unfortunately not critically thinking.

Whomever wrote that has no idea what unbiased, uncensored,and impartial mean.

Actually, yeah. It’s pretty obvious when you put it in those terms.

I was just hoping that “I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy” would have more inertia.

You’d think that, of all the peoples of the world, the one people who’d least want to be, who’d know better, the agents of genocide and forced migration would be der Juden.

Surprise Type coercion is our greatest weapon!

What about the limitless coffers of Rome implicit global scope?

Well then, surprise type coercion and the limitless coffers of Rome implicit global scope are our greatest weapons.

Exactly this, it distinguishes it from HighContrastForNerfedPlayer

He’s only worried about looking like a loser.

Heathens.

You’re a god-forsaken heathen for using the wrong language.

Had a similar incident with my son’s hand-me-down laptop. It just sits on a desk with a monitor and what-not plugged into it. It’s now a wide flat desktop.

Seems like they’ve “over hired” in marketing.

That one was my favourite.

Especially when it makes someone stop and think about it.

Hang on… would that work?

An infinite, non repeating sequence of digits?

Yeah, that would contain all possible sequences of arbitrary length.

That’s the point, embrace, extend, extinguish.

Or enshitify perhaps.

The vampire hunter?

Neat!

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke or Azimov, can’t remember which titan of SF said it.

It’ll get slightly more sinister from Microsoft’s evil influence, but less incompetently douche baggy from losing some of the loot boxing CxO’s.

Ah, crap, same thing.

Don’t set the static IP within the DHCP range (well you can, but it then depends on how smart your dhcp server is, just avoid the situation).

You run a risk of the same IP being assigned to another device.

Well the white ones look like they were somewhat cable managed.

God have pity on that mortal souls of its a blue one.