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Happy Sysadmin day everyone! May you be showered with gifts and praise!

I still prefer to buy things that use AA batteries than in built rechargeable ones. Li batteries are almost always the first thing to go.

Me too! In my case postfix locked up and stopped sending mail there was a massive queue. I checked the logs and saw the same second twice and that's when I learned about leap secon…

Fore Linux firejail works well https://firejail.wordpress.com/

Check https://tinc-vpn.org/ it may run on your router if you're running openwrt or similar

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797602

We're having issues connecting to the ECR registry and ubuntu apt repos (the ones hosted on AWS) for the past hour and a bit in eu-west-1

I gave it the job of modifying a fairly simple regex replacement and it took a while over 5 minutes, claude failed on the same prompt (which surprised me), codex did a similar job …

Astronomers often have an error margin of an order of magnitude or two. 1 billion or 100 billion. Close enough either way!

I still use perl. It's my go to for string parsing (think pipe log file, do something with it and send it to stdout). It's also my go to for anything that I still want to work in 1…

A lot of business would accept the rare downtime from Cloudflare in exchange for the DDoS protection. If the internet was always a nice place we wouldn't need Cloudflare and simila…

Feel sorry for anyone with a "smart" coffee machine.

I was getting 500 errors a few hours ago on amazon.com

Generally expect issues for the rest of the day, AWS will recover slowly, then anyone that relies on AWS will recovery slowly. All the background jobs which are stuck will need pro…

Back in the day people used to shut down mail servers at the weekend, maybe we should start doing that again.

Hah good point, pagerduty is working at least.

To everyone that got paged (like me), grab a coffee and ride it out, the week can only get better!

Not just ISPs github and npm still don't and AWS is iffy too.

Here's a paper on the painted lady migration described in the article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49079-2

The disabling of TOTP is going to make things interesting, I wonder how prevalent pass keys are now? Especially for Linux users?

Same. I automatically assume that all information I send to any organisation will end up on the Internet sooner or later be it by accident or sold to some shady third party.

Same thing happened to me over 20 years ago back then it was common to get domain hosting email all from one provider. They hiked up the price to something extortionate and changed…

I use perl for the same reasons. The few dynamic scripts that I need I want to write and forget them for years. Odds are with perl they'll still work 20 years from now.

I'm fond of digikam https://www.digikam.org/ it's simple enough for most users and has complex features for more advanced users its open source cross platform and doesn't do some w…