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Fri Oct 15 02:44:48 PM EDT 2021
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A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that there was a company
who jumped on my resume almost immediately after I'd
submitted it to one of the job hunting boards. There was a
scheduled 30-minute screening call, followed by an html link
where I had to video-respond to five questions or so -- one
take, shoot and forget.

Recall that not only was there no response, but also the
position closed and then was relisted with additional
detail. Disappointing.

This morning, the inbox held a message from that company
asking me to pick a time for a 20-minute technical interview
with a Cybersecurity Solutions Architect.

Who knows? Sure, I've picked a time. I'm happy and grateful
for the opportunity. And I'm continuing the hunt. Don't get
attached.

Last night I was browsing logs and doing my periodic revisit
of my routing and firewall rules when, on a whim, I decided
to add a time-based firewall rule blocking traffic between
the front-end cloud vps with the static ip address, reverse
proxy, and all of the extra iptables work; and the DMZed
services hosted in the rear. In particular, that action
disabled some websites, pleroma, matrix, and a few other
things while I slept.

While all but essential notifications are blocked by the
different devices' do-not-disturb settings anyway, somehow
it seems I slept better. With a little re-architecting of
the network, I may just schedule flipping the switches on a
cloud instance or two instead -- saving a few dollars in the
process. TBD -- we'll see.

In the meantime, I should probably at least put up a
friendly 503 page for actual non-bot visitors to advertise
"business hours."

Happy Friday :-)