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Andy Newton | Doer of stuff, arguer of things | PE @ ICANN | ART AD @ IETF | Organizer @ NoVaLUG | WorkCamp @ Saint James
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This old meme has been going around for years, but in the aftermath of the AWS outage there has been some pushback on-line about it. And that's a good thing, because it is likely that people new to the industry are not in on the joke and might take the meme more literally.

This meme was never about DNS being unreliable, but about the nature of troubleshooting issues in that DNS is so reliable many of us assume we have set it up correctly and overlook our mistakes with DNS when looking for root causes.

It is unfortunate, but way too many people function off of received opinion, and AI is likely making that worse. FWIW, I did once work with an operations manager who insisted we hardcode IP addresses because DNS used UDP and UDP was "unreliable".

#dns #memes #receivedopinion
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Look what just arrived… @paulhoffman
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Could come in handy
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One of the things I don't like about the rdap client I maintain is that the text output is great for viewing the information but not so good with cut-n-paste. So I started hunting around for a text serialization format that works with serde, and really the only one (other than JSON) is YAML. So I tried it. Yuck. It was too verbose.

The alternative is to create a custom text serialization, and that sound awful. So I thought, why not RPSL? And well... I have started down that path. There is a good bit of custom logic in doing this as RPSL mixes object type / role / contact kind into one attribute name. But the format is good for conciseness and readability.

Of course, RFC 9537 redactions start causing problems, but there will just need to be some more custom logic for that. Ugh.
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I thought the big masto servers were supposed to be well policed.
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The woodworkening has begun.
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It feels like Fall weather and new work lights are now up in the garage… this means one thing: time to do some wood working.
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Teaching myself #riscv I learned a couple of things. One of them is that if you want to experiment by using qemu to emulate Linux on RISC-V, you can either search the internet looking for the right incantation and image file for qemu, or you can use the “—arch riscv” option with Lima VM (lima-vm.io), which you should be using for all your VM and container dev anyway.
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More RISC V play. The VisuonFive2 board has a definite issue, and it is not the processor but the very slow I/O. As my OrangePi RV2 just landed on my desk, I thought I would give it a try. The I/O is much faster, and just in the couple of hours tinkering this thing feels very usable even for a desktop. I would say it is somewhere between an RPI4 and an RPI 5. But that is just my initial impression.

This means that RISC V is a definite threat to ARM at the lower-middle tier of the market.

#riscv #linux
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Today… some tinkering. Debian on a StarFive VisionFive2. Though this is an image provided by StarFive, it looks like it is pulling riscv packages from the Debian unstable repo, which is nice.

And, of course, I wanted to see rust on it so I installed yes-rs for the added chuckle factor.

#riscv #linux #rustlang

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Mission accomplished. And it does start with a T and end with an A.
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This Memorial Day I am following tradition: car shopping. We pulled into an independent used car lot with one right across the street. This lot had mostly used Teslas and the one across the street looked to be about 60% used Teslas.
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