2026-09-14 23:48 UTC
I started in networks.
The volume of people who work in technology that don’t understand networking is astonishing. I probably spent more time explaining how a web proxy works than I did actually setting things up.
Firewall rules? Spells and magic. Routing? Unpossible! DNS? Forget it, I’m going home.
Replies (3)
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@prettybunnys@piefed.social 2026-09-15 03:35
Subnetting and the difference between /8 and /24 or /32 and how you allocate IP addresses between them has always been crazy for me to grasp. I feel like if I could finally understand that after 20 years … I’d be happy but no here I am, effectively ignorant to it and looking at networking wizards as true wizards
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@whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2026-09-15 11:02
It’s always DNS…
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@aquovie@lemmy.cafe 2026-09-15 12:51
People lack the necessary motivation. I explained DHCP, IP, and ports to my kids in like 10 minutes. Because otherwise they couldn’t play Minecraft together.