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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-08-24 21:25:36

I hate when I screw up.
I know, it happens every now and then to everyone. It just sucks so bad.
Make sure your programmatically deployed config files don’t have lingering interface details specific to one machine. Weird things happen. Terrible things.
<sigh>
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-07-22 21:42:16

Just so that anyone unfamiliar with the fundamentals of #Sysadminnery doesn’t misunderstand:
If OpenAI had wanted a closed testing sandbox, they would have actually constructed and used a closed testing sandbox. THIS IS NOT HARD.
Sure, it's possible that they have shit netadmins and sysadmins who couldn’t contain a test planned by shit devoopsies and project managers unwilling …

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-07-04 23:29:25

I’m building a toolchain to get OpenSSH 10 running on CentOS 6 on a production box to fix backups, in case anyone is envying my July 4 festivities.
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-08-04 20:33:12

I swear there is nothing more annoying in my job than the complete and total nightmare of domain names, distinct auth systems, and self-competing branding that fell out of SolarWinds’ dismemberment.
I never saw the value in this mess and still don’t. I only ever touch any of it when it makes noise, which it only does when the tooling itself is breaking in ways that I can't even comprehend based on the alerts.

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-09-03 22:30:49

This was part of my frustration with working in policy enforcement, a.k.a. Abuse Desk. No one bothers to report abuse. That’s a 2-nines “no one.”
The worst embedded autoplaying horse porn email spammers generate at most single-digit-percentage abuse reports. I’m sure social media is much worse, because people have acclimatized themselves to social media being full of garbage that no one will stop.
#Sysadminnery