this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we'd send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn't anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.

So um, I guess I'm open for applications for the position of "nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages" now

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

There's an xkcd for everything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I had a similar, we'd kept an IRC channel open for years, then he went off the deep end with conspiracies and I cut contact. I miss my friend but that friend was a chill software geek, not the rage addicted lunatic who took his place.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no other place like 127.0.0.1

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

::1 is a compelling alternative

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

::1 and the same?

...ok that was a bad pun

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It sucks but make sure to remove every means of potential attacks

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brutal. However, there's plenty of us who fit that bill here, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

[email protected] is one of the biggest communities on that instance (and therefore also likely one of the biggest in the entire fediverse, since that instance is so big). In other words, I think you might be right, LOL.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Im sorry that this happened to you. It sucks to learn that someone isn’t who you thought they are after you trust them.

I’m a network engineer by trade and a Linux enthusiast, and happily apply for the position 😊

I hope that one day there will be a larger community of network engineers on Lemmy, however it seems that most did not make the migration off of that old site.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Curious about what you discovered about them and how they were hiding it

[–] csm10495 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry bud.

Though this got me thinking can there be a specific message to a specific user attempting to login (and deny their login)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You could create a login banner and just delete their account

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thats a shame!

Once upon a time, me and a few buddies had a pretty nice BGP setup going between a few sites.

He maintained two sites, I maintained both my home network, and a cloud-based router, and had my other friend connected up.

It was a pretty sweet setup. iBGP routing, we had a form of dynamic multipoint VPN.

Was a fun experiment. But, good things can't last forever. So... my network is the only piece left.

And- I don't trust anyone else enough to setup any access at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry to hear that. I've had a similar thing happen before, it sucks.

I'm not super dependable tbh, but I always make an effort to communicate as much as I can with folks. Feel free to hmu on DM, we can connect on other platforms if you wanna.

Otherwise, best of luck, you'll find a new buddy :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Someone can never have enough nerdy friends just you do have to be rather selective...I'm open for nerdy friends 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How nerdy you talking? Because I was tempted to get this, then I saw the price. https://shop.telegeography.com/products/2023-submarine-cable-map-free-shipping

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True friendship is indeed to trade ssh keys.

What kind of hardware are we talking about here. Tiny boxes, big boxes? Disks, networking?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm coming up on 45 years being friends with a fellow nerd and we talk about all sorts of things that I have nobody else I could talk to about that stuff. I'm pretty thankful and I'm pretty sure that it'll end with one of us dying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

.....in ethernet cables 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you wanna chat, you can contact me on matrix (if i have it set up right): @jsnfwlr:matrix.home.phalacee.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What made them so terrible?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'd like to apply because I am always looking for someone passionate about open source, Linux, and BSD - also networks galore. I currently run my own Mastodon and Lemmy instances. Please look me up on Mastodon at HousePanther. I am sorry your friend turned out to be an asshole and did you dirty. That's not cool at all! There are good people out there.