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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Toucan health update, now 5 years post getting covid a bunch of my vitamin levels fell off a cliff and working on that with my doctor. This year has been the worst resurgence of long covid stuff in a while.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

craft unions, it does not shock me that a lot of Demsocs first introduction actual more left wing politics just produced a mindless devotion to the idea of anything that calls its self a union.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really was not news to me as a communist, it is what these kinds of groups tend to do. A lot of grocery stores have different departments under their own craft unions and in my experience often hate the idea of the other workers there unionizing. We want people organizing as a class not competing

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Socialist/Communist left has always been pretty critical of craft unionism though. Criticism of them being used to maintain their own leadership and nothing else is like over a 100 years old. Where I work the unionized workers argued for pay structures to cut other works pay.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am kind of terrified I hate Oracle but not sure how I feel about IBM running Java.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SQL, and my attempts to explain concepts like source of truth, and that scripts can't work with "well i just kind of know" and you can't explain how you do that. I can't imagine anyone doing this in their personal life.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that would delineate them from other employees with very similar duties. Just some script in Python/SQL can't do this, but neither could any ai agent no matter how smart, they can't get data that is not there. If you are going to restructure the process to have that data available why not do it in

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If the employees carrying out a task the system we have constructed around it has a lot of "well i sort these based on gut feelings and a dozen small things I notice" I recall being told to make a system only have the users who need to use it, but couldn't give me a list of factors or attributes

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having to build agents at work, the problem is they in theory could be best at tasks that are slightly too unstructured to be easily done with a python script, but you still have to be like 85% of the way there, and the trade off is less deterministic. I never can get my bosses to understand this

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still pissed at the students we had to put up with, never felt like it was slower students who were the problem, but the violent students. Kids who couldn't stop groping other students, or would assault you if you talked to them. I liked explaining things to like one of the kids who was a bit slow

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching literally everything be called AI, an LLM advocate saying if you have used routing in like in a map app you have used AI as if graph theory and finding the shortest path is not decades and decades old.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"it is not that hard you big babies if you hadn't mostly removed it from your networks over nearly a decade ago you are bad at your jobs, do better" That is what I would say, is that good idk. On the other hand i hate its dying as i can't impress the pentesters with it being gone off my network.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

changes and downtime inducing bugs at the same time when you need a new feature. Configs and things are in git. Avoid blackboxes if you can this results in using a lot of OSS. EAP-TLS over any other solution, everything else is more config complex and less secure.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

and lots of routing as routing is standardized stacking is proprietary. We just make use of routing over split brain DNS setups or finicky NAT setups. We will ditch NAT asap as it has caused the last 2 network failures we have had. Update often don't sit on old updates then have to eat 6 months of

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is amazing how often in IT we hire new people and they are shocked at the lack of ever any feeling of emergency in our department. You can just build systems that are reliable, avoiding reliance on fragile systems like STP, think about failure modes. We use anycast gateways over stack/FHRP

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What if its Java using a JVM running on WASM is that ok.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ellison and others are very very obsessed with immortality research, I assume because they know they are evil on some level and unlike some of the robber barons who tried to turn money over to the public and churches to get into heaven, they are hoping to avoid meeting their god.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

People are misunderstanding Peter Thiel's whole deal about cancer treatment not going anywhere, a lot of billionaires clearly have some very bad anxiety around their own mortality, what he means is he personally has not become immune to cancer because of it so its been for nothing.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I miss the squatters because they didn't want people to notice they were there were honestly the best neighbors i ever had. Ya sometimes people in withdrawals were walking through my yard, but every neighbor comes with some issues, liking mowing at the crack of 6am.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

No one refuses to listen to Microsoft and learn how Windows works then Windows admins. Had "linux is a scam" guys holding out into the 2020s saying they only update monthly, all IT accounts are domain admin and people who worked for them rolled by eyes when i told them that is bad

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I mostly just read how things worked and what Microsoft recommended i tried to kill off NTLM as much as i could and force resource constrained delegation and IT accounts over to cert auth and having SMB signing apparently made us "good"

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Tbf to MS what good advise they had was kind of ignored r/sysadmin threw a bit fit when they talked about just having NTLM off by default. But last pentest at work they told me our NTLM disabled AD domain was about the best some of them had seen(tbf some were fairly green) but still

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Feel like food brands i used to be able to trust and eat are too spicy now. I wonder if it would be possible to breed a bacteria that destroys capsaicin and then I can release it onto pepper fields so food quits being so spicy.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Wrong side won the protocol wars and now the internet is doomed, we would probably have mars colonies if we didn't have to deal with NAT because we actually had enough address space.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

TCP/IP beat out OSI and now we are stuck with worse networking, so applications are stuck directly talking TCP instead of having a session layer on top of it, so failovers and stuff going a different route can still end up breaking connections.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Easy fix grow and eat more beans, its a good thing Americans always respond reasonably and sanely to suggestions like this and it wouldn't instantly become some kind of conspiracy to kill us all by making us eat beans by George Soros or something.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I would love to just have better class balance and experience with all classes, a restoration of the more Vanilla like lighting system, classic killed some of those ethereal more warm lighting vibes. Maybe take in some of the TBC era zone improvements, I am not really hoping for turtle level content

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Nothing wrong with roundup and there is no for sure proof it is an actual risk of giving anyone cancers, courtrooms aren't science.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is why my team leader does for all problems I ask them. I just get a copy paste of his output from copilot and its wrong like 49/50 partly because he is terrible at prompting so it makes it even worse. Telling me the SQL was broken because it had an * in it, when that is just 100% valid

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

So now Liberals and Conservatives fear the roundup. RoundUp is your friend in the war against invasive plants. Even Trump is smart enough to think it is good. Don't be dumber then him.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Damn Microsoft-Blizzard killed TurtleWow, now where will i play World of Warcraft but like a good version.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Looks like my family has a history of Hashimotos disease and based on some blood tests I might have it and at least some of my fatigue issues are due to it.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

That they can always contact IT if they think someone is requesting an improper amount of data or in a weird way, sure we have DLP as a safety net, but also just having people who know each other. Also if you aren't running DMARC and detect spoofed emails and block them that is 150% ITs fault

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Does management frequently write"urgent" emails requesting data out of the blue, well of course that user is going to have a hard time telling that from phishing we worked with managers to avoid wording things similar to phishing emails and data requests should be made person to person.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

One that required them to log in a lot and cause fatigue, we tell our users after they log into their computer using their pin for their passkey they should never see a popup for their work accounts again. Times when compliance forced phishing tests on us we passed nearly perfectly

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Kind of fits with my mindset on cybersecurity that any attempt to blame endusers is almost always wrong. Management, IT and developers create breaches not end users. Sure maybe they fell for phishing but you are the one who setup a not very phishing resistant auth system.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Oh ya families i knew that raised animals beyond keeping some birds for eggs very much had very crappy jobs during the winter, going and breaking the ice off the water tanks for the cattle in snow storms ect. We did raise and train hunting dogs on the side, but that was pretty easy.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Most crops aren't that picky on day to day timing and sometimes my dad wouldn't feel like working that day and would sit in bet eating cereal watching TV instead of us going and doing farmwork.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Modern American owning a farm is not even a real job, you sit on your ass nearly all winter, like your busy for a few weeks during planting and harvest and occasionally gotta spray stuff. Vehicle maintenance a bit in the off season. Bad weather typically means day off

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The last 6 months have seen a major improvement in its use for code it took 4 years but i actually find it useful to take a bit of load off me. Though it works well enough that I trust it a bit to do something a bit bigger then typing accelerator and then it goes off the rails

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Did a pretty damn good job building the .j2 template for the ACLs, and then misunderstood egress vs ingress on ACLs. I think it saves me typing, it saves me explaining some basic powershell stuff to some of my coworkers who need to quickly query AD. Even efficient local hosted LLMs manage that.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I go back and forth with our use at work, I was making 2 new VLANs at work and asked claude to build them the same way our other ones are setup and what software was going to be hosted on vlan and get allow the ports needed. It has from our documentation what networks it needs to talk to

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We could just mine hydrogen, its down there in the ground, I think its silly for cars, but geologic hydrogen would help us decarbonize industrial processes like fertilizer production, also maybe we could burn it as a last resort power plant if batteries are running low before methane.

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Had to adjust some ASR policies today and we got stuck waiting 2 hours for it to finally pull it down despite us spamming sync on the device. Had a few things where security policies should have prevented something to find it was just not applying. So ya i see that. Glad we have Ansible for server

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sometimes getting them to peel carrots and carry in bags from the grocery story is not really saving me that much mental work, and in the case of some jobs it removes the interruption and breaks I get

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InDefenseOfToucans @indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I think of it a lot how i have to guide my roommates how to do everything, I can't say clean the kitchen i have to tell them to clean the countertops and they should sweep and take the trash out and make sure this pot is in the dishwasher I will cook with it later. I have to plan and cook the food.

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