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Cloudflare is preventing me from logging into a customer’s WordPress that they horked up. Apparently I look like a bot.
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The metric of the day is “oom-kills per hour”
I is SRE
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Cool. After an hour of trying to log into an actively DDoS’d webserver, all 5 retry cycles seem to have reached authentication…
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It’s really appalling how much time I waste trying to figure out which antique browsers on which platforms I need to run to talk to all of the antique hardware that I support.
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I started out trying to fix a problem between my Nextcloud Desktop client and one server, ended up submitting a patch to MacPorts for an update to the cadaver port. Perfectly normal sequence.
(Nextcloud client DOES NOT use cadaver)
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RE: https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/116692326777473465
“Seem” is a favorite word…
The machine was gummed up to the point where fail2ban saw my failed logins as an attack.

dnsviz is being cranky for me. Everyone else stop using it for the day, OK?
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Had an account manager feed me slop to “help” me address a MS365 problem today. Turns out Copilot is poorly informed about how today’s MS365 operates.
In its defense, it DID give me the key phrase that I needed to search for to understand the problem. It just told me to look for it in places where it is not. An actual web search enlightened me.
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Today MS365 forgot the existence of both of the 2 rarely-used accounts I have with them solely for the purpose of supporting one of our largest clients. Then an hour later they remembered my existence, so I could reset the password that needed resetting.
How do people use this garbage and find it acceptable?
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Some people might call it a company culture problem that all of our customers are used to just emailing my boss whenever they have issues. I call it a way for his vacations to also be effective time off for me…
Of course, what I do on those days is all the tech debt stuff that I can never get done while firefighting.
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I wish I understand *why* what I did fixed the problem that I still don’t understand, but it did.
I was just trying to get all 5 VMs involved onto one host so I could snoop on the traffic between them more easily.
I’m blaming stuck ARP or Spanning Tree. Two of those VMs were briefly fighting over the same IP last night before I fixed the freshly-minted clone to use its proper new one.
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