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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

[01:44:35] insomnia I need to hire someone actually.

[01:44:57] insomnia UNIX/Linux infrastructure engineering type stuff.

[01:45:22] insomnia build & maintain a ~500 system network in multiple US States.

[01:45:40] insomnia I have Ansible automation hub but is completely empty.

[01:45:49] insomnia not a single playbook written. heh.

[01:46:11] insomnia well. it has some...requirements most people can't or won't deal with.

[01:46:28] insomnia you either need to have or have the ability to get a secret or top-secret clearance

[01:46:35] insomnia it's in-person on a closed network.

[01:46:38] insomnia no remote work.

[01:47:03] insomnia Arizona

[01:48:36] insomnia Arizona's #2 export I think is weapons

[01:48:44] insomnia #1 is microprocessors

[01:49:00] insomnia power has to be another, we sell California a f'load of nuclear power

[01:50:05] insomnia well if you know anybody might be interested

[01:51:30] insomnia well the job isn't very sexy.

[01:51:54] insomnia it's just Linux geek stuff. scripting and writing kickstart profiles & automating software installs etc

[01:52:17] insomnia the people who use the computers do cool shit, but we're just the IT staph

[01:52:52] insomnia I love it here, but it's gotten pretty spendy.

[01:53:11] insomnia I'm lucky enough to be in a fuck-you position.

[01:54:36] insomnia the only kind of development I do is like, write scripts to start and stop applications on different servers in the right order

[01:54:42] insomnia because other people keep doing it wrong.

[01:54:51] insomnia that's not exactly Steve Jobs level stuff.

[01:55:23] insomnia These engineers might know how to make neat stuff but I swear some of them must have eaten paint chips when they were kids.

[01:55:53] insomnia like how nuts?

[01:56:10] insomnia oh. yeah.

[01:56:21] insomnia well that's a givven.

[01:57:11] insomnia We apply STIGs and monitor everything.

[01:57:25] insomnia In God We Trust. Everyone else, we monitor.

[01:58:07] insomnia hey, we sometimes get to sit in military gear.

[01:58:21] insomnia MRAPS and Hummers kitted out with all kinda' shit.

[01:58:35] insomnia I've stood next to ICBMs in various stages of build

[01:58:57] insomnia talk about bad guys.

[01:59:59] insomnia it's cat & mouse all the time. it never ends.

[02:00:16] insomnia I don't find it stressful though.

[02:00:35] insomnia What I find stressful is sometimes having to wait 3 months for someone to do something very simple.

[02:00:51] insomnia or 20 days for a fucking IP address to go through various stages of approval. that shit will drive anybody batty.

[02:01:40] insomnia oh shit

[02:01:59] insomnia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KleseAAmUKw

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[02:03:49] insomnia what in the name of Jesus H. Christ are you animals doing in my head?

[04:18:38] insomnia .quote add <ComputerTech> i was born after 7/11

[04:19:21] insomnia <-- 1991

[04:19:44] insomnia efnet yo

[04:19:51] insomnia remember when eff.org ran an IRC server?

[04:20:32] insomnia I was there Gandalf...I was there ten thousand years ago....

[04:20:34] insomnia or however that went.

[04:21:28] insomnia -ChanServ- Registered: Oct 02 08:34:15 2020 PDT

[04:21:51] insomnia .yt WKUK grapist

[04:36:37] insomnia btw, lrh is still live.

[04:43:46] insomnia If gay's your way that's okay!

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