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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-10-05 22:07:36

It’s amusing to me that the only times I’ve ever seen a FreeBSD graphical login screen has been @… screenshots. 30 years as a user and sysadmin and it has never been a thing I have thought to set up.
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-10-02 21:20:51

I need to stop even doing the no-brainer tickets for the day. I almost chewed out a client for not knowing how to make her screenshots mail-worthy and then being confused by a 28MB message being rejected.
I was a good boy. I spent 10 minutes rephrasing myself to be inoffensive. I think.
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-09-29 19:11:12

What's that work thing that I keep forgetting about until I run into it while doing something else and realize that I really need to fix that?
Why don't you know?
#Sysadminnery #IAmOld

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-11-27 03:52:52

5 synack retries is too many.
I will die on this hill.
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-09-18 14:38:14

We are NOT AMUSED.
If you're hosted by Aceville, you're dead to me.
#Sysadminnery #SpamAssassin #AIBots

screenshot from the VM used for SpamAssassin RuleQA. It shows the runn of the command 'w' which reveals one logged in user and triple-digit load averages. 

Raw Text:

root@sa-vm:/var/log/apache2# w
14:28:18 up 111 days, 8:42,  1 user, load average: 208.31, 203.42, 138.01
USER  TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
billcole pts/0  67.149.19.2 14:02 4.00s 7.525 0.22s sshd: billcole [priv]
@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-10-17 16:19:47

You know what they say about Stupid Games...
#Sysadminnery infosec.exchange/@atax1a/11538

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-10-12 01:44:03

Although I must admit, I much prefer crystal-clear problems (URL NO CONNECT) with clean fixes over the sort I spend most of my time on, where I can only see the problem through the lens of other people's perception of slow vs. fast across something like a 10k-mile connection. With all the concomitant obscurants, both technical and cultural.
#Sysadminnery

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-10-12 01:15:01

Had a major customer infra migration today, went perfectly fine until it didn't, right when boss/network guy was boarding a plane.
He spent most of his DC-Miami trip texting w/me getting me to look at everything except his firewalls. He even made me go digging into a Win22 IIS and on-host firewall config, which is an absolute fucking nightmare.
Guess where the problem was...
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