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Mike Andrews

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(he/him) Server/net/infosec nerd (Fark). Keywords: JoCo Cruise, MSTie, 🎒, IPv6, bourbonπŸ₯ƒ, hubby/stepdad, failed 🎸ist. Then it gets weird…

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OK, aggressive botnet, I get it, you're looking for SQL injection vulnerabilities. I'm impressed by how many IP addresses you're using. They're so cute when they're young. *pats head*

27.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Steve Vai - Teeth of the Hydra (Official Music Video)
Steve Vai - Teeth of the Hydra (Official Music Video) YouTube video by SteveVaiHimself

Having only two hands never stopped Steve Vai from playing guitar, bass, harp, and another guitar at the same time: youtu.be/46qjDJ0lLdE

23.02.2026 07:44 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

buff drinklots

10.02.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder the same about Lowtax, but he had other things to feel guilty about.

31.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Microsoft Office 365 had a big cloud outage earlier today.

23.01.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder.

01.12.2025 01:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As of today, I've been at my current job for exactly half my life. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

31.08.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sinclair ZX81 or Timex Sinclair 1000 (pretty much the same thing). I had a borrowed ZX80 which was even worse. There were two Tandy Color Computers inbetween that and the borrowed PCjr.

26.08.2025 13:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I rewrote a script that took 21 hours to run and got it down to 71 minutes, and only one person in the world is going to care about it, but I'm still counting it as a win.

18.08.2025 01:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unpopular take from a developer: all AI is a scam, all of it, and you should not use it for anything ever

08.08.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Yup, we do still exist -- thank you for reminding people :)

17.07.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We (Fark) do indeed still exist.

17.07.2025 22:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Things I did not expect to still have in my pocket when going through security at a Primus show. Oopsie!

(For the uninitiated, it’s a ten-gigabit ethernet fiber optic adapter)

16.07.2025 07:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so when do you get your hard drives back :p

20.06.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe the DC parade would’ve had more than 10k people show up if they’d offered everyone an extra hour in the ball pit

16.06.2025 04:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Always a good time when you discover a feature you should add to your work app (like support for a new image format), only to discover you already did it two years ago and just forgot

29.05.2025 15:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy First of May to all of us JoCo fans that celebrate outdoors.

01.05.2025 12:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The biggest surprise about the 4chan hack is that it took as long as it did β€” if they really hadn’t patched anything in a decade

23.04.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The weather radio has started singing the song of its people.

31.03.2025 02:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our turn soon (Lex)

31.03.2025 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sling Orange

29.03.2025 00:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Brief Fark outage planned tonight after midnight ET (more likely 1 am ET) lasting up to an hour. It won't be for letting it all hang out.

17.03.2025 17:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We did a nerdy thing with our basement stairs.

25.02.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fark starts its 26th year today. Some of us have been doing this half our lives. I don't really know what to think of that.

09.02.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe "Super Bowl LIX" isn't the one to keep using roman numerals for.

09.02.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The shirt would fit me better, this week anyway

05.02.2025 00:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the client side look like? The setup we use here doesn't need a streaming server, the AppleTV just talks SMB or NFS directly to the NAS. Much simpler, but doesn't work for everyone's use case.

28.01.2025 05:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We've now reached a point where OpenVMS ships with a newer version of Perl (5.40) than most Linux distros (5.36).

18.01.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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43 days til nerdboat and I just had my first "missing the boat" dream... only to wake up to an email about their new booking system changeover.

18.01.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This week’s win: getting a program that took 10 hours and 100 GB of memory to run slimmed down to 6 and 22.

16.01.2025 02:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0