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What's The Password?
Security Hardware
1 day ago 61.0K views 0 shares
What's The Password?
The ultimate security theater—an Epson projector with a "PASSWORD PROTECTED" sticker slapped on it. Because nothing says "Fort Knox" like a device whose default password is probably "admin" or "0000". The IT department's noble attempt at security that'll stop absolutely no one except the presenter who actually needs to use it five minutes before the demo. Meanwhile, the hacker in the audience is thinking, "Ah yes, this sophisticated 4-digit barrier is truly impenetrable."

Is Ai Copy Pasta Acceptable Flow Chart But Better
AI
5 days ago 69.0K views 0 shares
Is Ai Copy Pasta Acceptable Flow Chart But Better
Content Should I copy and paste Code from ChatGPT? It doesn't work It works NO STILL NO

The Great Production Server Escape
Devops Networking Programming Backend Cloud
11 days ago 88.8K views 0 shares
The Great Production Server Escape
Ah, the classic production server meltdown scenario. Nothing triggers the fight-or-flight response quite like hearing those dreaded words: "Who was working on the server?" That's when you suddenly develop superhuman speed and peripheral vision loss. Ten years of experience has taught me that no explanation involving "just a small config change" will save you from becoming the human sacrifice at the emergency postmortem meeting. The fastest developers aren't the ones who can type 120 WPM—they're the ones who can disappear before their name gets mentioned in the incident report.

The IT Team's Pre-Holiday Prayer Circle
Devops Networking Security Programming Linux
14 days ago 74.6K views 0 shares
The IT Team's Pre-Holiday Prayer Circle
That sacred pre-vacation ritual where you desperately pray to the server gods that nothing explodes while you're gone. Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like frantically patting server racks and whispering "please don't die" to infrastructure that's held together by duct tape and Stack Overflow answers. The true holiday miracle is making it to January without getting that 3 AM call about the production database deciding to spontaneously combust while you're trying to enjoy your eggnog.

In My Best Werner Herzog Voice: The Sysadmin Chronicles
Devops Networking Security Programming Linux
15 days ago 76.7K views 0 shares
In My Best Werner Herzog Voice: The Sysadmin Chronicles
The eternal struggle between management and sysadmins, narrated in the grim tones of Werner Herzog. While executives demand explanations in their cubicle kingdom, the battle-hardened sysadmins are just trying to keep the digital house of cards from collapsing. They're not solving problems—they're performing digital triage. The truth? Most IT infrastructure is held together with duct tape, prayers, and that one Perl script written by a guy who left in 2011. Nobody touches the production server because nobody knows what will break if they do. It's not incompetence; it's survival.

Emergency Supply Kit
Networking Security Devops Linux Debugging
17 days ago 82.0K views 0 shares
Emergency Supply Kit
The true essence of network administration distilled into a single container: cigarettes and a "GOOD LUCK!" note. Because when the entire company's VPN goes down at 2PM on a Friday, or someone accidentally runs rm -rf on a production server, or the CEO can't connect to WiFi during a board meeting—nicotine and blind optimism are your only reliable protocols. The cigarettes aren't for smoking; they're for bartering with the server gods who clearly hate you today. Network admins don't need fancy disaster recovery plans—just chemical coping mechanisms and the crushing acceptance that DNS is probably lying to you again.

My Code'S Motto: 'We'Ll Fix It In Production.
Testing Debugging
21 days ago 71.9K views 0 shares
My Code'S Motto: 'We'Ll Fix It In Production.
Content Matt Today at 4:16 AM just test in prod kitty Today at 4:16 AM yeah we have a team of testers they're called users

The Ultimate IT Meeting Killswitch
Devops Programming Linux
22 days ago 89.3K views 0 shares
The Ultimate IT Meeting Killswitch
Ah, the nuclear option for any IT meeting! Nothing brings a room full of engineers to a grinding halt faster than casually dropping "a hotdog is a taco" into conversation. Suddenly, the quarterly infrastructure planning becomes a heated philosophical debate about food taxonomy. The real genius here is in its simplicity - you don't need complex technical sabotage when you can just exploit the engineer's natural inability to let an objectively wrong statement go unchallenged. Three companies derailed by bread-based classification arguments? That's not a bug, that's a feature.

The Sacred Power Button Pilgrimage
Devops Networking Security Hardware Linux
25 days ago 99.9K views 0 shares
The Sacred Power Button Pilgrimage
The eternal IT paradox strikes again! Poor Eric drove TWO HOURS just to press a power button because three different people swore the server was already running. Every sysadmin just felt that in their soul. This is why we have trust issues and why "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" isn't just a question—it's a lifestyle. Next time someone asks why IT folks seem grumpy, just remember they've probably made similar pilgrimages to the server shrine only to perform the sacred one-finger ritual of resurrection.

How To Fix (Almost) Every Computer Problem
Debugging Windows Programming StackOverflow
27 days ago 85.0K views 0 shares
How To Fix (Almost) Every Computer Problem
The universal IT support flowchart, as passed down from father to son. Nothing quite like frantically following an ancient Reddit thread at 3 AM where some hero named xX_CodeWizard_69_Xx solved your exact obscure error message in 2015. And somehow that random solution works better than anything in the official documentation. The real tech support was the strangers we met along the way.

System Admins: Perception Vs. Brutal Reality
Windows Networking Security Devops Microsoft
28 days ago 75.7K views 0 shares
System Admins: Perception Vs. Brutal Reality
Oh. My. God. The TRAGIC reality of system admin life laid bare! 💀 Friends think we're gaming nerds, Mom's CONVINCED we're tech billionaires, and society pictures us as awkward IT guys with headsets. Meanwhile, the boss imagines us napping on keyboards! We picture ourselves as Matrix-level digital gods, but the DEVASTATING truth? We're just clicking "restart" on Windows error messages and praying to the server gods that nothing explodes today. The glamour! The prestige! The CTRL+ALT+DELUSION!

When Your Enterprise Search Takes A Very Personal Turn
Microsoft Security Devops Windows
1 month ago 106.0K views 0 shares
When Your Enterprise Search Takes A Very Personal Turn
When you're just trying to manage some corporate devices but the search suggestions are having an existential crisis. Apparently Microsoft Intune isn't just for MDM anymore—it's for VPNs, nipple shields, and reliving Reddit nostalgia. Someone's IT department is definitely monitoring these searches and silently judging. The beautiful moment when enterprise software collides with "things I definitely shouldn't be googling on my work computer." Corporate compliance teams everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force.