What gets your events,
With all the contents,
And slices through all the fog.
What's great for study ,
And makes a great buddy?
It's log, log, log!
It's log, it's log,
It's big, it's wordy, it's text.
It's log, it's log,
It's better than bad, it's what's next!
I thought my colleague was an alien who decoded base64 strings on the fly, but he wasn't.
It turns out there's a neat little trick to know that you're looking at a base64 encoded JSON object.
Do you people have naming conventions for your Devices/Servers?
I went with Discworld characters for Servers:
Not pictured, the storage server named 'colon'.
If your crawler is spoofing its identity because I have disallowed it from my sites, I consider that an attempted server breach. You are no better than someone trying to compromise my SSH connection.
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Some friendships just don't crash. 
Happy Friendship Day from your most stable and reliable OS. 
#RunBSD #FriendshipDay #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #GhostBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #HardenedBSD & other BSDs i might have missed :)
Average fedi admin
: @FernSilverFox
@allanjude @jimsalter @joeress are hosting an amazingly awesome Podcast: @25admins; definitely look them up if you wanna keep up with the pros out there
and ofc support them if you find the podcast awesome! Doffing my hat to you guys 
ME: (trying to sleep)
B: (on his laptop) should I have to reset the NTDS secret of my computer account?
ME: NNgh... no.
B: Why?
ME: Because you're not part of an AD domain and you never will be.
B: Ok.
B: ...
B: What if it says a root certificate failed signature validation?
ME: IF YOU ASK ME ONE MORE WORK QUESTION I SWEAR I WILL GO TO THE KITCHEN AND STAB AN ICE PICK INTO MY BRAIN.
B: Jeez I was just-
ME: ARE. YOU. TESTING. ME.
(we go to sleep)
TIL I've not had a job description for six years.
2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag
Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.
Average YouTuber: "My mobile carrier is terrible today; I'm only getting 200 Mbps! How am I supposed to survive?"
Me: "Hey, I get 20 Mbps on my phone's hotspot! I can work just fine!"
Why openSUSE MicroOS is the Best Immutable Linux Distro
Hey les copains #sysadmin grands sorciers de #proxmox et #ceph question réseaux svp:
- 2 interfaces 10gb en bond0
- bond0 bridgé en vmbr0 (tolerance de panne + répartir 20gb sur vlans (vmbr0.x) (internes ceph et utilisés par VMs)
q1: MTU, je veux jumbo sur le vlan ceph et normal sur le reste. Je mets:
- 9000 sur le bond
- un peu moins sur vmbr0
- ce que je veux sur les differents vmbr0.x mais max <vmbr0
q2: comment gérer les limites de bande passante par vlan?
@fatalerrors obviously ;)
@doctorwhom Fuck you.
Ok, so here's the deal ...
Building a new VM for @juliewebgirl
I want to upgrade that server to Alma 10 with all the new php, python, etc, etc. That cascades to my own stuff eventually.
Alma 10 REMI isn't quite done baking. I don't NEED all my coolie tools. Do need tmux and mosh. Compiling but I PREFER things "in chain". Makes my life easier. (I compile code code as a bare minimum).
I'm #SysAdmin the less work the better, I'm lazy. You know the drill.
Credentials shouldn't be around in plain text files. But I also don't want to set up a fully fledged credentials management solution for my homelab.
Wouldn't it be nice to dynamically load the credentials I need when I step into my work directory, and remove then when I leave it?
Let's use @bitwarden and direnv to keep credentials safe in all simplicity!
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/28-direnv-bitwarden-integration/
Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold
Why openSUSE Slowroll is the Best Balanced Rolling Linux Distro
Hey les #SysAdmin fans de #vélo, de #trail et de #randonnee, qui se lance dans l’ouverture et la maintenance d’un serveur francophone wanderer ?
> wanderer is a decentralized, self-hosted trail database. You can upload your recorded GPS tracks or create new ones and add various metadata to build an easily searchable catalogue.
Oops. wrong server
