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Running Away From Work With This

3 days ago 207.1K 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.

Stop Doing DNS

Networking Devops Linux Backend

3 days ago 223.0K views 0 shares

Someone finally said it. DNS is apparently a scam perpetuated by Big Nameserver to sell more resolvers. Servers were perfectly happy being identified by raw IP addresses until sysadmins got greedy and demanded "respect" in the form of complex distributed systems that nobody understands. The argument here is that we had hosts.txt—a single file that every computer could use to map names to IPs. Simple. Elegant. Completely unscalable. But who needs the internet to grow anyway? Instead, sysadmins convinced everyone we needed this elaborate DNS infrastructure with recursive queries, authoritative nameservers, TTLs, and zone files. Now when someone asks for example.com, you get a 17-step journey through multiple servers just to return an IP address. They've been laughing at us this whole time while we troubleshoot NXDOMAIN errors at 3 AM. The three diagrams with increasing question marks perfectly sum up every developer's understanding of DNS: "I think I get it... wait, what?... I have no idea what's happening anymore."

It Feels Weird

Networking Devops Backend

4 days ago 137.6K views 0 shares

BGP peering being described as something "even friends can do" is the networking equivalent of saying "even friends can perform open-heart surgery together." Sure, technically possible, but someone's definitely getting hurt. For the uninitiated: BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) is how the entire internet routes traffic between autonomous systems. It's the protocol that literally holds the internet together, and misconfiguring it can take down chunks of the web (looking at you, Facebook 2021 outage). Setting up BGP peering between networks requires trust, technical competency, and usually involves at least three conference calls where nobody's mic works properly. The idea that you'd casually BGP peer with your buddy like you're sharing Netflix passwords is both adorable and terrifying. "Hey bro, wanna exchange routing tables?" is not normal friend behavior. That's enterprise-level commitment right there.

The Magic Key

Linux Security Devops Bash Programming

4 days ago 189.6K views 1 shares

The Linux sysadmin's equivalent of "abracadabra" - just prefix any command with sudo and watch your permissions problems vanish into thin air. Can't install that package? Sudo. File won't delete? Sudo. Server on fire? Probably sudo. It's the universal skeleton key that grants you god-mode privileges on Unix systems. Sure, you could carefully consider whether you actually need root access for each operation, or you could just slap sudo on everything and live dangerously. Most of us choose the latter because reading permission errors is for people with time on their hands. Fun fact: sudo stands for "superuser do" but in practice it means "I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm doing it with admin privileges."

Don't Try This

Security Networking Windows Linux

7 days ago 204.1K views 0 shares

Security through absolute chaos. The digital equivalent of leaving your front door wide open with a sign that says "Free stuff inside" just to confuse burglars. Opening all ports, never updating the OS, and removing all passwords isn't security—it's creating a honeypot so cursed that hackers think it's a trap. They see this setup and their threat assessment models just crash. "Nobody could possibly be this reckless... must be the FBI." The real genius here is weaponizing incompetence to the point where it becomes indistinguishable from a sophisticated sting operation. Your move, hackers.

The Greatest Card That's Ever Lived

Hardware Networking Devops Programming Debugging

13 days ago 295.2K views 0 shares

This Yu-Gi-Oh card perfectly encapsulates the god-tier status of that one technician who can fix literally anything in your office. You know the one—the person who somehow knows how to unjam the printer, reset the router, recover your "accidentally deleted" production database, AND explain why your code works on their machine but not yours. The effect text is chef's kiss: buffs all your machine-type monsters (your infrastructure), can special summon from your deck (pull solutions out of thin air), and the "Your mom's toothbrush" spell card immunity is just *peak* absurdist humor. Plus the 3800 ATK means this card is absolutely busted—just like how that one tech wizard makes everyone else's troubleshooting attempts look pathetic. The real kicker? If they've been in your field for 3 turns, you can summon a "Gooch collector" from your deck but it gets destroyed at the End phase. Translation: their help is temporary, and eventually you're on your own again. Better hope they don't leave for another company or you're all doomed.

Microslop Windoze

Windows Microsoft Linux

15 days ago 154.6K views 0 shares

The ancient art of insulting Microsoft Windows by misspelling it has been passed down through generations of sysadmins like some kind of sacred tradition. "Microslop Windoze" is the preferred nomenclature among those who've spent too many hours troubleshooting driver issues at 3 AM. Drake knows what's up. Using the proper corporate names? Boring. Childish. But breaking out the leetspeak-adjacent insults that your Linux-loving coworker has been using since 1998? Now that's culture. That's heritage. That's the kind of petty energy that keeps IT departments running. Fun fact: These nicknames peaked during the Windows Vista era when they were actually justified. Now we just use them out of muscle memory and spite.

Nerds Are Built Different

Security Networking Devops Hardware Kubernetes

17 days ago 314.9K views 0 shares

Government cybersecurity out here flexing like they're ready to take on any threat, batting away script kiddies like flies at a picnic. Meanwhile, some random homelabber who spent their weekend setting up a Raspberry Pi cluster and learning Kubernetes for fun has achieved FINAL FORM and ascended to godhood. The homelabber's cybersecurity setup is so absurdly overpowered it makes government infrastructure look like a toy. We're talking VLANs, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, zero-trust architecture, and probably a custom-compiled kernel because why not. All protecting... what exactly? Their Plex server and a collection of Linux ISOs? The dedication is absolutely unhinged and we love it. Turns out when you're spending your own money and actually care about learning, you build Fort Knox. When it's a government contract with the lowest bidder... well, you get Windows XP running critical infrastructure in 2024.

For Me It's A NAS But Yeah...

Linux Networking Devops Hardware Docker

18 days ago 297.4K views 0 shares

You set up a cute little home server to host your personal projects, maybe run Plex, store your files, tinker with Docker containers... and suddenly everyone at the family gathering wants you to explain what it does. Next thing you know, Uncle Bob wants you to "fix his Wi-Fi" and your non-tech friends think you're running a crypto mining operation. The swear jar stays empty because you've learned to keep your mouth shut. But that "telling people about my home server when I wasn't asked" jar? That's your retirement fund. Every time you can't resist explaining your beautiful self-hosted setup, another dollar goes in. The worst part? You know you're doing it, but the urge to evangelize about your Raspberry Pi cluster is just too strong. Pro tip: The moment someone shows mild interest, you're already mentally planning their entire homelab migration. Nobody asked, but they're getting a 45-minute presentation anyway.

Well Shit

Linux Devops Bash Programming

18 days ago 292.3K views 0 shares

You know that moment when someone discovered they could recursively force-delete everything from root? Yeah, that person is taking notes in hell right now. The -rf flags mean "recursive" and "force" – basically "delete everything without asking questions." Combined with /* starting from root and sudo privileges, you've just nuked your entire system faster than you can say "wait, I needed those kernel files." Someone, somewhere, at some point in history, hit enter on this command and watched their entire operating system evaporate in real-time. No confirmation. No undo. Just pure, unfiltered chaos. Modern systems have some safeguards now, but back in the day? Chef's kiss of destruction. The penguin's tears say it all – that's the face of someone who just realized backups were "on the todo list."

Backup Supremacy🤡

Security Devops Databases Backend

18 days ago 224.1K views 0 shares

When your company gets hit with a data breach: *mild concern*. But when they discover you've been keeping "decentralized surprise backups" (aka unauthorized copies of the entire production database on your personal NAS, three USB drives, and your old laptop from 2015): *chef's kiss*. The real galaxy brain move here is calling them "decentralized surprise backups" instead of what the security team will inevitably call them: "a catastrophic violation of data governance policies and possibly several federal laws." But hey, at least you can restore the system while HR is still trying to figure out which forms to fill out for the incident report. Nothing says "I don't trust our backup strategy" quite like maintaining your own shadow IT infrastructure. The 🤡 emoji is doing some heavy lifting here because this is simultaneously the hero move that saves the company AND the reason you're having a very awkward conversation with Legal.

Sabrina Carpenter

Linux Devops Bash Programming Debugging

24 days ago 265.3K views 1 shares

You know those ominous comments in config files that say "DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE" or "TOUCH THIS AND YOU'RE FIRED"? Yeah, Linux treats those the same way Sabrina Carpenter treats paparazzi—complete and utter disregard. You can scream warnings all you want, but when push comes to shove, that config file is getting modified at 2 AM because something broke and StackOverflow said to change it. The Tux penguin just sits there with that smug expression, knowing full well it's about to watch you destroy your entire system configuration while ignoring every single warning comment left by the previous sysadmin who quit three years ago. Pro tip: those warnings exist because someone before you learned the hard way. But you'll ignore them too, because we all do.

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