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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>The whole <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/shitshow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shitshow</span></a> is so bad, at work entire address blocks as big as /12 have to be blocklisted because they basically <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DDoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDoS</span></a> clients unless we'd want to bankrupt customers for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bezos</span></a>' <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/scraper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scraper</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bots</span></a>! </p><ul><li>If it was my decision the entire <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/aws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aws</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ASN16509" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ASN16509</span></a> would've been blocked!</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sysadmin</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SysadminProblems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysadminProblems</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ITsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ITsec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComSec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpSec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GAFAMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GAFAMs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AllGafamsAreEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AllGafamsAreEvil</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AllGafamsAreBad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AllGafamsAreBad</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>Pulled my hair out trying to figure out why the hell <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thunderbird</span></a> could only see ~2000 out of the total ~16000 messages in a folder in an <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IMAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IMAP</span></a> account I just configured.</p><p>It would briefly flash “16000 messages” and then show “2000 messages”.</p><p>Eventually I figured out that it's because, on the server side, most of those email files (Maildir++ format) had the wrong owner, so <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Dovecot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dovecot</span></a> couldn't read them.</p><p>🤦‍♂️ Yep, that'll do it. One `chown -R` later, emails are pouring in.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SysadminProblems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysadminProblems</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>Downside of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/laptops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laptops</span></a> not having a built-in <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Ethernet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethernet</span></a> port any more: it can use a USB adapter for wired <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networking</span></a>, but then I can't assign it a static <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IPaddress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IPaddress</span></a> based on its MAC address on the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/DHCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHCP</span></a> server. 😭 <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SysadminProblems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysadminProblems</span></a></p>
IBBoard<p>Apparently there aren't any active Puppet modules for dealing with DKIM or DMARC. No releases in a year or more, and no compatibility with Puppet 8 😕</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SysAdminProblems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdminProblems</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Puppet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Puppet</span></a></p>
Seth Galitzer<p>Anybody else have one of those days when your peaceful lunch was interrupted by a ruptured brand-new data center UPS battery which caused a cascade failure resulting in a hard shutdown of said UPS and data center, resulting in several hours of lost work, but thankfully no data, and a virtual server host that didn't come back, requiring manual migration of virtual server guests to other host servers in the cluster, or was that just me? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sysadminproblems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sysadminproblems</span></a></p>
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