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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just helped a customer configure out a high-density #server configuration with 30TB #drives. Suddenly the 500GB ones in my servers in the office seem sub-par.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of these days, I'm going to actually internalize the idea that writing #documentation •as• I do something is far more efficient than going back and figuring out what I did when I'm finished.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why is it that the folks responsible for deploying physical #security tend to be completely oblivious when it comes to #InfoSec? “We’ve installed all of these cameras and want you to forward these ports from the Internet now.” #HowAboutNo

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Engaged in a #Windows vs #MacOS vs #Linux discussion the other day that (for once) didn’t devolve into a fan-driven religious war. It got me thinking that the three things that drive our choices are value, consistency, and ecosystem. (I’m sure that there are more. Feel free to weigh in.) 1/x

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Maybe I’m just a dinosaur. I’m still of the opinion that products and services that help us do things with no requirement for us to understand what we’re doing are ultimately serving us poorly. 1/2

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So… we’ve been using a beeper to train Charles to stop madly barking at the neighbour. He barks, we activate the beeper, he stops. Hoping that he’ll eventually get the idea that he shouldn’t bark at the neighbour, though we may be more hopeful than we should be. 1/2

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I can’t do a mail merge with attachments on #Microsoft365? Oh well, nothing that can’t be handled by a CSV file and a #bash script building #MIME files with base64-encoded attachments.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reading #clickbait headlines lately and thinking that “appeal to celebrity” needs to have equal standing to “appeal to authority.” #LogicalFallacy

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Social media and a complete absence of critical thinking skills are a poor combination. I know that sounds •really• obvious, but the mix is far more common than it should be.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Interesting to see an online trend toward rejecting posts as #AI slop… whether they are or not. It’s not quite critical thinking, and it may be little more than trolling, but at least there’s some skepticism before blind acceptance. That’s better than we’ve had in a long while.

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KM @sudox.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My iPhone: Wireless network “RV There Yet?” has been found at a new location. Me: No kidding.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Well, huh. Retrofitting #MikroTik equipment on a PPPoE WISP for #IPv6 and labbing out the design. The PD for the clients can be handled entirely through RADIUS and the PPPoE server. CE still needs a separate PPPoE and DHCP-PD client configuration, but everything on the PE is simple. Liking. #NetEng

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Seen today: “…it doesn’t have any AI but is still fun!” Has the #AI hypefest really reached a point where anything that isn’t AI needs an apology?

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There's a reason #popup blockers exist. Nobody likes being interrupted by a tangential frame sticking itself in our faces. Apparently the designers behind modern web sites (and those behind #ads that drive them) have forgotten this. Now we have to deal. Now I need a hotkey for the #reader function.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Historically, technical folks have feared career change (yes, it’s a change and not a progression) into management because they fear that their hard-won technical skills will atrophy. It’s a legitimate fear. Skills need to be used to be kept. So… is managing a fleet of #AI agents any different?

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today I learned that SVG is XML-based, which means I can script variants of my network icons with sed. This makes me smile. #NetEng

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sigh. Once again, I get the trouble ticket that tells me that something isn’t working and that an error is occurring. Fair. That happens a lot. 1/2 #IT #Support

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Kirk Byers @ktbyers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our free Learning Python for Network Engineers course starts today, Tuesday, June 16th. For more details and to sign-up see: buff.ly/LZq140c

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm getting more than a little frustrated with wasting my time on circular troubleshooting with the questionably-useful chatbot that has replaced frontline support at #Cisco #TAC. #NetEng

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

An unspoken concern with #AI: How do we leverage it effectively without contributing to a Silicon Valley hegemony.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The large-scale analytics and correlation present a •far• better value proposition, but even then there are a lot of folks conflating “need” and “want” there. NLIs are next to worthless unless you’re looking to micromanage prompts because employees can’t be counted on to be properly sycophantic.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

At that scale, one could always self-host the models and move the bulk of that opex to capex, but that would be heretical to the one true faith of *aaS. 🙂

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Placing a coffee between the keyboard and the trackpad is a bad idea. #JustSayin

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Wow. Fifteen years since I became a founding member of the #FNS. Great experiences, great people, dubious networking. flatnetworksociety.com

flatnetworksociety.com

The Flat Network Society

Dedicated to the advancement of layer 2 irresponsibility.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Auditor: Can you send a screenshot of the access VPN timeouts so we can demonstrate policy compliance? Me: (Sends relevant portions of the configuration.) Them: This is just text. We need a screenshot. Me: (Sends screenshot of my terminal session showing same.) #InfoSec #NetEng #MaliciousCompliance

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We have dozens of relatively simple methods to secure Internet traffic, but we’re often reduced to “just open access through your firewalls from this huge list of source addresses” because too many folks can’t be arsed to do any of those. 1/2 #NetEng #InfoSec

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Cloud services, data security risk, and limitation of liability clauses are a bit of a perfect storm. Too many of us use the services because they’re accessible, but we’re often blindly trusting that they will… 1/2

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I think I’ve been in this industry for too long. I searched for a synopsis this morning and accidentally typed “synoptics” instead. Last week I was teaching the NATO phonetic alphabet and taught “unicorn” instead of “uniform.” #NetEng #SiliconValley

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

That’s it. Folks have become so conditioned to being influenced by fear, we don’t even notice it anymore. Make the change. Be bold. If it isn’t going to work, that will become apparent quickly enough and can be undone. (See the US’ foolish move to permanent DST in 1974. That got cancelled pronto.)

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"SD-WAN" (over MPLS no less!) with IPSec tunnels (not transports!), hard static routes for link monitoring, and floating static routes for tunnel failover... because that's less complicated than using a routing protocol. #NetEng #BangHeadHere

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Perhaps you’re wondering why I’ve called this meeting. #Corgi #CorgiLife

Red and white corgi staring into the camera with his paws together.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

So, for the folks going on about #IPv8… been there, done that. IPv8 was already proposed and allocated 32 years ago. It didn’t go anywhere. I’m 100% certain a similar fate awaits this new one. datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc...

datatracker.ietf.org

RFC 1621: Pip Near-term Architecture

The purpose of this RFC and the companion RFC "Pip Header Processing" are to record the ideas (good and bad) of Pip. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not speci...

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

My philosophy on volunteerism going forward: If I say I’m going to do something and I haven’t been asked, I’m #volunteering and won’t be asking to be paid for my time and efforts. 1/2

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

After #MTPC, I started wondering if there would be enough @mikrotik.social users on this side of the Atlantic to warrant something similar. I’m not convinced yet but, should it that ever change, #RouterOS User Symposium (ROUS) has a nice ring to it… if we can convince people that it exists. #IYKYK

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Something to consider about all of the efforts to sustain #IPv4 so far beyond its original shelf life. #NAT and #IPv6 were thought out at roughly the same time. 1/?

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In Silicon Valley, you don’t learn #AI. AI learns •you•. (Apologies to Yakov Smirnoff.)

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Listened to a presentation today from someone with an accent that made every instance of “configuration” sound like “conflagration” instead. Thinking about this further, sometimes there’s little difference between the two. #NetEng

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

At TORNOG 1 in a Nokia automation workshop. They're talking about gRIBI and I'm suddenly craving a steak. #NetEng

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Taking a break from the day to day for an awesome event in Toronto. #NetEng tornog.ca/events/torno...

tornog.ca

TORNOG 1

Toronto Network Operators Group

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hm. RADIUS bandwidth profile was defined as 1024/8192 B/s instead of 1024/8192 KB/s. I now have an explanation for the angry tickets from a few customers. Easily corrected. I also know that my traffic restrictions are working correctly… if not as intended. #Oops #NetEng

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Jeff Mc @jeffmca.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Ah, the repeated excitement of, "Well, at least it's a different error."

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So we now have solid proof that #AI •can• replace CEOs? #Giddyup

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