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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

[01:46:12] insomnia/rizon well. it has some...requirements most people can't or won't deal with.

[01:46:29] insomnia/rizon you either need to have or have the ability to get a secret or top-secret clearance

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

[01:46:39] insomnia/rizon no remote work.

[01:47:03] insomnia/rizon Arizona

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[01:52:53] insomnia/rizon I love it here, but it's gotten pretty spendy.

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

[01:54:36] insomnia/rizon 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/rizon because other people keep doing it wrong.

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

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

[01:55:54] insomnia/rizon like how nuts?

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

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

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

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

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

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

[01:58:36] insomnia/rizon I've stood next to ICBMs in various stages of build

[01:58:58] insomnia/rizon talk about bad guys.

[02:00:00] insomnia/rizon it's cat & mouse all the time. it never ends.

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

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

[02:00:51] insomnia/rizon 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/rizon oh shit

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

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

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

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

[04:19:44] insomnia/rizon efnet yo

[04:19:52] insomnia/rizon remember when eff.org ran an IRC server?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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