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Running Away From Work With This

2 days ago 199.3K views 0 shares

Someone just casually stole an entire server's worth of RAM sticks and is making their escape. That's probably like $5,000+ worth of memory modules just chilling in a car. Either they're "borrowing" hardware from the office to upgrade their gaming rig, or they just discovered the company's decommissioned equipment isn't being monitored. The real question is: did they test each stick before yoinking them, or are they about to get home and discover half of them are faulty? Nothing says "I quit" quite like literally taking your work's memory with you—both figuratively and literally.

Memory Prices Make Me Cry

Hardware Devops Programming

22 days ago 252.0K views 0 shares

Picture this: You're an IT company trying to upgrade your infrastructure, and RAM prices are skyrocketing faster than your coffee consumption during sprint week. Your company's net worth? Doubled! Not because you're crushing it with innovation or landing massive contracts, but because the memory sticks sitting in your server room are now worth more than the actual servers themselves. It's like discovering your dusty Pokemon cards are suddenly worth a fortune, except way less fun and infinitely more depressing. The market giveth, and the market taketh away... your budget, your sanity, and your ability to justify that "necessary" 128GB upgrade. Companies are literally hoarding RAM like it's digital gold, watching their balance sheets inflate while their ability to actually BUY more RAM deflates. What a time to be alive in the tech industry!

My Poor Tired Raspberry Pi

Iot Devops Hardware Docker Linux

1 month ago 309.8K views 0 shares

Started with "I'll just run a Pi-hole on it." Then added Home Assistant. Maybe a little Plex server? Oh, and a VPN would be nice. And why not throw in a web server, a Discord bot, a weather station, and that random Docker container you found on GitHub at 2 AM? That poor little ARM processor is running more services than AWS has regions. The SD card is crying, the temperature is approaching the surface of the sun, and you're still browsing r/selfhosted for "one more thing" to add. The Raspberry Pi: bought for $35, now doing the work of a $3,500 server. No wonder it's tired, boss.

Server The Servers

Cloud AI Linux Backend

1 month ago 233.2K views 0 shares

Content digital VAX 11/780 The Ticketmaster system is a hodge-podge of C and assembler and runs on ancient VMS hardware. The people who developed and maintained it are long since dead and/or retired. It has proven impossible to replace because nothing has been found that can handle thousands of simultaneous purchases as efficiently. The server room that houses the VMS machines has a room where a goat is left every two weeks. The next day, the goat is gone.

Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room

Devops Networking Backend Cloud

1 month ago 244.8K views 0 shares

Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room

Cloudflare updates have achieved 9/11 status in the IT world. Every time they push an update, half the internet goes down and you're just standing there watching your monitoring dashboard light up like a Christmas tree. The priest performing last rites on the server infrastructure is honestly the most accurate representation of a sysadmin's emotional state during a CDN outage. At least when your own servers crash, you can blame yourself. When Cloudflare goes down, you get to explain to your boss why the entire internet is broken and no, you can't just "restart the cloud."

Sometimes

Networking Devops Debugging Backend Cloud

1 month ago 229.4K views 2 shares

When your production server is located in a data center on the other side of the planet and you're trying to debug why the API is timing out. That 999ms ping is basically the network equivalent of trying to have a conversation via carrier pigeon. At that point, you're not even debugging anymore—you're just sitting there watching the loading spinner while contemplating your life choices. The ramen slurping perfectly captures that "well, might as well eat lunch while I wait for this request to complete" energy. Pro tip: if your ping is approaching a full second, maybe consider switching from TCP to sending postcards.

My 12 Year Old X 79 Homelab Server Going Into Yet Another Life Extension Due To Ram Prices

Hardware Devops Backend

1 month ago 259.6K views 0 shares

My 12 Year Old X 79 Homelab Server Going Into Yet Another Life Extension Due To Ram Prices

When RAM prices are so astronomically absurd that you're out here running a server older than some developers' careers. That ancient Ivy Bridge-E CPU is literally held together by hopes, dreams, and thermal paste from the Obama administration, yet somehow it REFUSES to die. It's like the Nokia 3310 of processors—completely indestructible and mocking you from beyond its expected lifespan. Every time you look at current RAM prices you're like "welp, guess we're doing another BIOS update and praying to the silicon gods." Your homelab is basically a digital zombie at this point, shambling forward on DDR3 memory while the rest of the world moved on to DDR5. But hey, if it boots, it computes! 💀

The Timing Of This Meme

Cloud Networking Devops Programming

1 month ago 236.1K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The ABSOLUTE PERFECTION of this timing! 💀 New employee at Cloudflare: "Just made some optimizations, hope you enjoyed the smoother experience!" *smiles innocently* Meanwhile, THE ENTIRE INTERNET was literally BURNING TO THE GROUND because Cloudflare had a catastrophic outage that took down half the web! Imagine the sheer AUDACITY of accidentally causing a global internet meltdown on your FIRST DAY and then BRAGGING about making things "smoother"! That smug little smile is worth every penny of the billions in economic damage. I'm DECEASED. ⚰️

It's Always A Cloudflare Problem

Cloud Webdev Networking Security Devops

2 months ago 159.6K views 0 shares

The universal scapegoat of our generation has arrived. When the production server catches fire at 3 AM and your phone rings, nothing beats the sweet relief of saying "Sorry, it's a Cloudflare problem" with that smug little smile. Cloudflare—taking the blame so you don't have to since 2010. The perfect excuse to go back to sleep while someone else's engineering team deals with the dumpster fire. And the best part? Sometimes it's actually true!

Cloudflare Outage: From Panic To S'mores

Cloud Networking Security Devops

2 months ago 216.7K views 1 shares

Cloudflare Outage: From Panic To S'mores

The Cloudflare support engineer's two moods during server incidents: Panel 1: Initial panic with a simple "lol" while watching the server rack burst into flames. Classic understatement for "half the internet just went down." Panel 2: Acceptance phase with "yummy" as they casually roast a marshmallow over the burning infrastructure. Because if 30% of the web is already offline, might as well make s'mores while DNS propagates. Remember that time in 2022 when a single config error took down 19 million websites? Good times.

My Day In Two Parts: The DNS Saga

Networking Security Devops Linux Debugging

2 months ago 176.8K views 0 shares

The three stages of every network troubleshooting session, beautifully captured as poetry against cherry blossoms: First, the denial: "It's not DNS" Then, the stubborn resistance: "There's no way it's DNS" Finally, the crushing realization: "It was DNS" DNS (Domain Name System) is the internet's phonebook that translates human-friendly domain names into IP addresses. And somehow, despite being the first thing you're supposed to check, it's always the last thing you actually check. The haiku-like progression perfectly captures the emotional journey from confidence to despair that every network admin has experienced at 2AM while the production server is down.

Customer Reported Connectivity Issues To Server After Electrician "Extended" The Cable

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2 months ago 86.1K views 0 shares

Customer Reported Connectivity Issues To Server After Electrician "Extended" The Cable

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