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+published: true
+date: august 24 2021
+title: update adventures
+author: ben
+---
+
+it appears that there hasn't been a news post here in over a year...
+
+perfect time to have a major outage!
+
+we ran into a nasty [breaking change](
+https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0#Linux_Bridge_MAC-Address_Change)
+in the systemd included in proxmox 7. we lost networking on the proxmox
+host tilde.team lives on for a while while i scrambled to get stuff back up
+and running.
+
+see my [blog post](/~ben/blog/update-adventures.md) for the full story.