These things happen when a skinflint company contracts out network setup for a decade, gets acquired by another skinflint company who axes the contractors and doesn’t hire on-site network personnel, gradually builds out infra on top of the unsupported foundation, and then hires c suite buddies who want to bring in their own people to further muddy the waters.

If I had a nickel for every time clearing the ARP tables fixed a problem, I’d have a shitload of nickels.

My old company solved that problem by making everything high priority by default, with efforts directed by the whims of the CTO.

Hell, I think domain names other than lemmy.xxx is confusing some people.

This. Techies know custom domains are a thing. A LOT of people are going to look askance at anything that isn’t among the most common TLDs. I mean, lemmy.zip is kinda funny. But it also screams “don’t click me, zip files from an unknown source are dangerous!”

…and now I’m having intrusive thoughts about exe being a TLD. I’m-a go lay down until the voices stop.

You are not alone.

They’re usually served with beer.

FUCK YOU!

Pass the beans when you get a chance? Thanks!

(problem with ARP tables or something)

If I had a nickel for every time clearing the ARP tables fixed something, I’d have a shitload of nickels.

I wouldn’t touch Reddit’s all with someone else’s ten foot pole. But there’s hardly any posts in my subbed feed (niche interest ghost towns for the most part), so Lemmy’s all is where the content is.

You know what this feature is really useful for? Seeing who upvotes spammers to preemptively block them. Admittedly, I haven’t had much of a use for that aspect since kbin.social died, but it was neat while it lasted.