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Microslop Windoze

6 hours ago 108.3K 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

2 days ago 251.1K 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

3 days ago 244.1K 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

3 days ago 226.7K 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

4 days ago 178.7K 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

9 days ago 238.7K 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.

Hypervisors Are Pretty Disloyal

Devops Security Windows Linux Backend

13 days ago 261.2K views 0 shares

Your hypervisor is out here playing the field like it's running a whole datacenter behind your back. You think you're special with your little VM setup, but nah—that hypervisor is simultaneously sweet-talking Windows Server 2019, Windows 11, and Kali Linux all at the same time. Talk about commitment issues. That's literally the job description though: running multiple operating systems concurrently while making each one think it's got exclusive access to the hardware. The ultimate player in the virtualization game, and we're all just VMs in its harem.

Systemctl

Linux Devops Backend

15 days ago 164.4K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when someone pronounces it "system-control" all formal and professional in a meeting? Instant cringe. But the moment someone says "system-cuddle" you immediately know they've spent 3am debugging why nginx won't restart and have developed the appropriate coping mechanisms. The duality of Linux sysadmins: pretending to be serious professionals while internally baby-talking to our services. "Who's a good daemon? You are! Yes you are! Now please just start without throwing a cryptic error." Real talk though - after the thousandth time typing systemctl restart , you've earned the right to call it whatever keeps you sane.

Gentlemen A Short View Back To The Past

Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend

17 days ago 150.4K views 0 shares

Cloudflare outages have become the developer's equivalent of "my dog ate my homework" - except it's actually true half the time. The beauty here is that while your manager is frantically screaming at you to fix the site, you're just sitting there sipping coffee because literally nothing is under your control. The entire internet could be on fire, but as long as Cloudflare's status page shows red, you're untouchable. It's the perfect alibi: externally verifiable, affects millions of sites simultaneously, and best of all - there's absolutely nothing you can do about it except wait. Some devs have been known to secretly celebrate these outages as unexpected coffee breaks. The other guy clearly hasn't learned this sacred defense mechanism yet.

Internal Server Error

Devops Webdev Debugging Backend Cloud

19 days ago 179.7K views 1 shares

Someone built a Cloudflare error page generator so you can fake outages and buy yourself precious debugging time. Because nothing says "professional incident response" like gaslighting your users into thinking it's Cloudflare's fault when your spaghetti code just threw up. The tool literally lets you customize everything—error codes, locations, status messages—so you can craft the perfect alibi while you frantically grep through logs trying to figure out why your production database just decided to take a nap. It's the digital equivalent of pointing at someone else and running away. Peak DevOps strategy: deflect, delay, and deploy the blame elsewhere. Your manager will never know the difference between a real Cloudflare outage and your nil pointer exception. Probably.

Gotta Fixem All

Devops Kubernetes Bash Docker Linux

25 days ago 344.2K views 0 shares

Welcome to your new kingdom, fresh DevOps hire. That beautiful sunset? That's the entire infrastructure you just inherited. Every server, every pipeline, every cursed bash script held together with duct tape and prayers—it's all yours now. The previous DevOps engineer? They're gone. Probably on a beach somewhere with their phone turned off. And you're standing here like Simba looking over Pride Rock, except instead of a thriving ecosystem, it's technical debt as far as the eye can see. That deployment that breaks every Tuesday at 3 AM? Your problem. The monitoring system that alerts for literally everything? Your problem. The Kubernetes cluster running version 1.14 because "if it ain't broke"? Oh, you better believe that's your problem. Best part? Everyone expects you to fix it all while keeping everything running. No pressure though.

What's A TXT Record

Networking Security Devops Linux Backend

28 days ago 309.8K views 0 shares

Someone just asked what a TXT record is and now the entire DNS infrastructure is having an existential crisis. The rant starts off strong: naming servers? Pointless. DNS queries? Never needed. The hosts.txt file was RIGHT THERE doing its job perfectly fine before we overengineered everything. Then comes the kicker—sysadmins apparently want to know "your server's location" and "arbitrary text" which sounds like something a "deranged" person would dream up. But wait... that's literally what TXT records do. They store arbitrary text strings in DNS for things like SPF, DKIM, domain verification, and other critical internet infrastructure. The irony is thicker than a poorly configured DNS zone file. The punchline? After this whole tirade about DNS being useless, they show what "REAL DNS" looks like—three increasingly complex diagrams that nobody understands, followed by a simple DNS query example. The response: "They have played us for absolute fools." Translation: DNS is actually incredibly complex and essential, and maybe we shouldn't have been complaining about TXT records in the first place. It's the classic developer move of calling something stupid right before realizing you don't actually understand how it works.

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