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26d ago
inMy home server got hit with a weird login attempt from Brazil last night
Welcome to the club, my server logs look like a failed UN summit. Had a bot from Russia try 'password' as the root password for six hours straight. Setting up fail2ban was a game changer, it auto-blocks those clowns after a few tries. What are you running on that server anyway?
26d ago
inI was working on a Garmin G1000 system in a King Air last month and a senior tech showed me a trick for checking the ARINC 429 bus with just a multimeter.
People get way too worked up about ARINC bus checks... a multimeter trick is neat but it's not some magic fix. @stella111, it probably just shows if the line is dead or alive, not the actual data. Not sure why everyone treats it like a huge deal.
27d ago
inBought a $30 dough scraper and it's the best money I've spent this year
Honestly, this is the real adult upgrade. You spend years using the wrong tool because it's fine, then a simple swap changes everything. It's the kitchen version of finally buying a good phone charger.
27d ago
inI know everyone loves the new composite pads, but after using them on 8 different horses this month, I'm sticking with leather.
Sounds like a case of new tech hype. Maybe they work great if your horse is a robot.
28d ago
inFinally got my average crawl space time in these old Philly rowhouses down from 45 minutes to under 20.
Oh man, this hits home. It's like we're all just waiting for that one moment of frustration to finally look up the easy way. I swear half my life is spent doing things the stupid, hard way because I won't just stop for two seconds and search for a better method. The worst part is, once you learn the simple fix, you feel like an idiot for all the time you wasted.