Tootfinder

LOL…
Just wasted most of a day and all of my capacity for diplomacy on a customer whose problem amounted to “Microsoft has a feature I dislike.”
It’s called “Focused Inbox” and while I also now believe it to be a flawed feature, I believe that it provides some users with something they want, and that their provider of $REDACTED just has to deal with not being that important to users…
#Sysadminnery

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…
#Sysadminnery

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

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.

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.

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 …

No, really, creating a login role account so multiple people can have access to support a system is very bad.
— How I make developers look at me incredulously.
#InfoSec #Sysadminnery

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.
#Sysadminnery

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