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Abouta geek diggin' deep
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SkillsJava dev, Linux/UNIX sysadmin, performance engineer
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LocationLithuania
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Joined devRant on 2/26/2018
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I don't know whether my keyboard needs cleaning, or I'm developing some sort of dyslexia , because I seem to be skipping letters and short words in my messages, or writing all te letters but in mixed up positions more often lately...7
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I don't understand wtf is happening today..
- in project A, terraform suddenly decided to stop working with kubernetes-related providers -- the CA cert mismatch error. I agree, it should be not working, because there are 2 kube-api severs behind an LB. But why now??? Why was it working for the last 2 months, until NOW????
- in project B, terraform suddenly decided to stop working _correctly_ with kubernetes-related providers -- it doesn't find resources randomly, even though they are available and I can see them via kubectl get. TF_LOG=DEBUG shows terraform sending correct requests to the kube-api, but the response is a 404. wtf... I see those resources present in another terminal window, only using kubectl. wtf....
- my PR in github was commented, I wanted to ask a question seconds later, and I'm getting a 502 from GH
wtf... I can't spot a pattern and that drives me freaking crazy.
Is this the Friday's curse...? IDK4 -
A question for the people who say Macs are superior...
WHAT THE FUCK
I'm wrestling this iOS signing issue for the fourth day. How the fuck do people manage to build anything using tools broken by design and sold to them for the price of their mother.23 -
when you have 2-4x better network throughput accessing a computer next to you over WAN than over LAN .....6
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What's it like to be an ITSupport in a public healthcare facility where average employee age is 60y:
Doc: Hello. I can't make this thing work
IT: Hi. What thing? Please describe the problem
Doc: I have _this_ webpge [red.: ITSD knows what page] open but it's not loading anything. It just shows a spinning wheel
IT: I see. Can you hit F5?
Doc: err.. a what?
IT: A key on the keyboard. F5. It's at the top row of your keyboard, slightly left from the middle
Doc: <pause>
Doc: Found it. Okay, I clicked it. Nothing's changed
IT: Maybe the focus wasn't on the browser.. Anyway, can you close the window?
Doc: ...okay...
Doc: <rumble rumble>
Doc: <catching its breath> Okay, I closed it. But I won't have it closed the whole day, it's 27ºC inside.
IT: <facepalm>.... -
Holy shit, it just hit me.
I'm an IT engineer who's irl also doing woodworking. And masonry.
Is this a dream life or what6 -
A while ago I was asking wtf is this new trend with using 0.0.0.0 as a target address for connect()'ing TO.
Turns out, I was asking the right questions. This nonsense will soon be blocked in browsers, as it's a dumb security issue.
ref.: https://oligo.security/blog/...4 -
> received message after decompression larger than max (16777217 vs. 16777216)
OH COME OOOONNNN!!!!!!!2 -
TIL:
How to become root w/o having to provide a password:
unshare -rm
no go ahead and bind-mount your own /etc/hosts (or any other file/directory) w/o affecting the rest of the system!1 -
What's this new trend with connecting to 0.0.0.0...? Since when is 127.0.0.0/8 no longer enough?
Does 0/0 offer to the clients smth 127/8 doesn't?6 -
fuck.. FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!
I'mma fakin EXPLODE!
It was supposed to be a week, maybe two weeks long gig MAX. Now I'm on my 3rd (or 4th) week and still got plenty on my plate. I'm freaking STRESSED. Yelling at people for no reason, just because they interrupt my train of thought, raise a hand, walk by, breathe, stay quiet or simply are.
FUCK!
Pressure from all the fronts, and no time to rest. Sleeping 3-5 hours, falling asleep with this nonsense and breaking the day with it too.
And now I'm fucking FINALLY CLOSE, I can see the light at the end of the tunne<<<<<TTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT>>>>>>>
All that was left was to finish up configuring a firewall and set up alerting. I got storage sorted out, customized a CSI provider to make it work across the cluster, raised, idk, a gazillion issues in GH in various repositories I depend on, practically debugged their issues and reported them.
Today I'm on firewall. Liason with the client is pressured by the client bcz I'm already overdue. He propagates that pressure on to me. I have work. I have family, I have this side gig. I have people nagging me to rest. I have other commitments (you know.. eating (I practically finish my meal in under 3 minutes; incl. the 2min in the µ-wave), shitting (I plan it ahead so I could google issues on my phone while there), etc.)
A fucking firewall was left... I configured it as it should be, and... the cluster stopped...clustering. inter-node comms stopped. `lsof` shows that for some reason nodes are accessing LAN IPs through their WAN NIC (go figure!!!) -- that's why they don't work!!
Sooo.. my colleagues suggest me to make it faster/quicker and more secure -- disable public IPs and use a private LB. I spent this whole day trying to implement it. I set up bastion hosts, managed to hack private SSH key into them upon setup, FINALLY managed to make ssh work and the user_data script to trigger, only to find out that...
~]# ping 1.1.1.1
ping: connect: Network is unreachable
~]#
... there's no nat.
THERE"S NO FUCKING NAT!!!
HOW CAN THERE BE NO NAT!?!?!????? MY HOME LAPTOP HAS A NAT, MY PHONE HAS A NAT, EVEN MY CAT HAS A MOTHER HUGGING NAT, AND THIS FUCKING INFRA HAS NO FUCKING NAT???????????????????????
ALready under loads of pressure, and the whole day is wasted. And now I'll be spending time to fucking UNDO everything I did today. Not try something new. But UNDO. And hour or more for just that...
I don't usually drink, but recently that bottom shelf bottle of Captain Morgan that smells and tastes like a bottle of medical spirit starts to feel very tempting.
Soo.. how's your dayrant overdue tired no nat hcloud why there's no nat???? fuck frustrated waiting for concrete to settle angry hetzner need an outlet2 -
"best" server. BEST.
is the hedgehog stealing my wifi...?
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by NewMedia Express (Singapore) [9430.76 km]: 436.529 ms3 -
So I'm sitting on the swings, minding my own business, seing how best I could destroy this cluster of servers, when suddenly I notice SOMEONE IS COMING FOR MY COFFEE
"hi neighbour! What you've got there"5 -
I've never been a big fan of the "Cloud hype".
Take today for example. What decent persistent storage options do I have for my EKS cluster?
- EBS -- does not support ReadWriteMany, meaning all the pods mounting that volume will have to be physically running on the same server. No HA, no HP. Bummer
- EFS -- expensive. On top of that, its performance is utter shit. Sure, I could buy more IOPS, but then again.. even more expensive.
S3 -- half-assed filesystem. Does not support O_APPEND, so basically any file modifications will have to be in a
`createFile(file+"_new", readAll(file) + new_data); removeFile(file); renameFile(file + "_new", file);`
way.
ON TOP of that, the s3 CSI has even more limitations, limiting my ability to cross-mount volumes across different applications (permission issues)
I'm running out of options. And this does not help my distrust in cloud infras...9 -
Hmm..
My game changing caching proxy [mitmcache] in CI implementation works miracles in localhost. It shaves off build times significantly: what used to build in ~2min now builds in 18sec.
However, this doesn't seem to be true in CI... For some reason build times remain the same [more or less] when cached and considerably longer when the cache is cold/empty..
Damn it.
I don't understand why...
A week wasted. And I have to explain the client why me failing in this is a good thing, so I'd get paid
https://gitlab.com/netikras/... -
Since we're sharing traffic lights... Today I was running towards a green lad with a boner all day.
Talk about poor design choices, right...11 -
so, I am trying to implement a caching solution for my CI/CD (because, you know, BitBucket CI caching sucks ass big time). This time I was writing a module in Python. I spent 2 evenings in the evening building it, debugging and testing, implementing several features making it a flexible solution.
So, yesterday I had a pretty much well working version. Before pushing changes I wanted to drop the cache and give it another round of testing, just to be sure I was pushing a truly working code. I rm-rf the cache directory, restart the engine and I'm greeted with an error message saying the module I was working on cannot be found.
wtf..?
Out of a sudden the IDE stopped showing all the project files as well.
wtf happened....?
oh, of course.. I rm-rf'ed my project directory, not the cache directory. Deleting EVERYTHING I had.
fuck.
I should not be working half-asleep4 -
Speaking of fragile environments, what the hell is going on with the absolute dependency on python...?
I mean, I'm as reluctant to upgrade my system's python version as libc's.
How to break at least half of your system:
1. python3 --version
Python 3.8.10
2. rm -f /usr/bin/python3
3. ln -s /usr/bin/python3.13 /usr/bin/python3
And good luck opening most of the UI utilities and some of the terminal-based ones.
wtf... While everyone's barking at systemd, python quietly crawls in and claims the system's flexibility for itself w/o any resistance.
I imagine that's one of the aspects making NixOS a resilient solution...12 -
Today I started tearing off some parts of the external wall of an old abandoned wooden house, built either in 1860s or 1930s. Surprisingly, the HTML is still very solid, except for the parts it was supposed to rot.
My project is on!!!
While it would be freaking cool to live in a renovated and modernised 150+y old house, a nearly 100y old house is still good enough!
I already imagine myself WFH there...3 -
- found myself in need of a speciffic tool
- quick google search didn't yield any usable implementations [at least free]
- TTOOOOOTT TTTOOOOOOOTTT, LET THE REINVENT-THE-WHEEL TRAIN THROUGH!!! Now, where's that my favourite ide....11 -
I think it's time to make a devrant bot automatically downvoting spam posts and spin it as 2 instances. Any takers? :)
fight automatism with automatism
robot fights of 2024 😁7 -
--- s3-r-w.us-west-2.amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
44 packets transmitted, 16 received, 63,6364% packet loss, time 43544ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 258.995/280.765/377.149/37.359 ms
Sounds like a good day to grab a ball and go outside.4 -
happy 2nd birthday to my work lappy's session!!
$ uptime
08:16:38 up 730 days, 9 min, 122 users, load average: 1,72, 1,92, 2,0613 -
I am living my dream.
I have a nice fam, enough capital, a job I enjoy, I'm enjoying the life in this world every day now. And yesterday I caught myself in a moment that 10 years ago I thought only happens in movies. An engineer participating in a meeting with the client while riding on a motorcycle.
I mean, how cool is that! It may not seem like much now, because it was a necessity - I had to be at 2 places at once. But a 10 years younger me would wet his pants if he knew I would one day be doing that IRL.
How about you? How would a 10 years younger you feel about the _now_ you?5