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

Or just use MST in BC and Yukon and CST in AB. Same thing.

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

Everyone else is still doing the twice-yearly switch to no changes there. 3/3 #DST

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

BC and YT are now permanently on MST (UTC -7) but they want to call it Pacific Time and Yukon Time instead of MST. No idea why. AB is now permanently CST (UTC -6) like SK next door, but they want to call it Alberta Time. Again, no idea why. 2/? #DST

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

Politicians are strange. With Alberta and British Columbia switching to what they want to call "Permanent Daylight Saving Time" they've actually simplified Canada's time zone system but •need• to complicate it by inventing new names for existing time zones. 1/? #DST

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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

The value is definitely there, but consistency and ecosystem are sketchier. Thoughts? 3/3

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

In the spirit of RFC 1925 7a (and Meat Loaf) two out of three are usually enough, but we’ll always want it all. Windows and MacOS are pretty good at delivering on two or more, but now I’m wondering if Linux’ lack of adoption on the desktop is related. 2/x

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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

Yes, #AI can be an example of this, but that’s not alone, nor is it where it all started. Vendors have been pushing products that claim to minimise the need for basic technical skills for years and we’ve bought into it because we would rather invest in technology than our people… or ourselves. 2/2

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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

The thing we didn’t consider was #corgi #spite. Ultra-powerful corgi spite. I hit the beeper, he stopped barking, and then promptly turned around to roll in a particularly pungent pile of vermin spoor. Sigh. Bath time. I should have known something like this would happen. 2/2

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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 · 20/08/2026

Went to CAiNE 2026 last weekend. Felt good to be back.

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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

Would it •really• be too much to provide the actual error in the ticket so that I don’t have to rely on my ultra-vague crystal ball? If I have to resort to that, the best I can do is acknowledge that something isn’t working and offer moral support. 2/2 #IT #Support

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

Reposted to the Fediverse for reach. If you’re already there, I couldn’t find you easily.)

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

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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

It’s almost like subscription pricing for software that’s perpetually in the development cycle (and therefore never •quite• stable) is more addictive than crack to providers.

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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 · 24/05/2026

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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 · 22/05/2026

I'll also weigh in that a self-proclaimed AI company (Cisco) doesn't have much credibility when they tell us that AI is all that. Do I smell a vague odour (kinda like the one that came from IBM in the late 1980s) coming from West Tasman Drive?

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm getting old too and resistant to change too. I fight that resistance, but still think that change needs a purpose beyond change itself. AI is still a solution looking for a problem and if the automation folks think that it will help them deal with massive scale, I suppose that's purpose enough.

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

…and it holds a similar level of truth. This is why it belongs in the automation tracks and not the general tracks. #NetEng #AI #Cisco #CCNA #CCIE 3/3

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦 @ghostinthenet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

AI in networking is a logical extension of large-scale analysis and orchestration. This has the same foundational thinking as the “every networking practitioner must be a developer” mantra from 10 years ago… #NetEng #AI #Cisco #CCNA #CCIE 2/3

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

Either way, the trick is to make sure that exaggerated hand gestures don’t cause the blessed caffeine to release the magic smoke from either device.

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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

I'm sure there are. Call it a litmus test? 🙂

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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

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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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