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Packet Loss Has Different Consequences

4 hours ago 42.5K views 0 shares

The difference between IT Engineers and drug dealers when "losing a few packets" is night and day. For network folks, it's just Tuesday - hit retry and move on with your life. For the pharmaceutical distribution specialists, it's 5-10 years without parole. TCP will happily retransmit your lost data; the DEA won't retransmit your freedom.

The Bell Curve Of DevOps Enlightenment

AWS Devops Programming Cloud

1 day ago 96.2K views 0 shares

The bell curve of DevOps wisdom. On both extremes (with IQs of 55 and 145), you've got the enlightened ones who know the truth: just blame AWS and chill. Meanwhile, the average 100 IQ middle-managers are sweating bullets about "hosting in-house" like it's 2005 and they just discovered server racks. The true galaxy brains understand that when your cloud provider inevitably goes down, you can just post the AWS status page in Slack and take an early lunch.

Life After AWS Crashes

AWS Devops Programming Cloud

1 day ago 98.8K views 0 shares

When half the internet suddenly vanishes because AWS decided to take a nap, there's nothing left to do but rediscover the mythical "outdoors." The tweet says it all: "AWS is down, go touch grass." Suddenly DevOps engineers everywhere are forced to experience sunlight, fresh air, and the strange green stuff growing from the ground. The most terrifying part? Some of them might actually enjoy it. Nature: the ultimate fallback system when your cloud provider fails.

It Was Always DNS

Networking Security Devops Linux Debugging

2 days ago 180.4K views 0 shares

The five stages of network troubleshooting, as told by ancient wisdom: 1. Denial: "It's not DNS" 2. Anger: "There's no way it's DNS" 3. Bargaining: *frantically checking firewall rules* 4. Depression: *silent contemplation while staring at wireshark* 5. Acceptance: "It was DNS" The universal truth every sysadmin discovers after wasting 6 hours of their life. DNS - secretly stands for "Did Not Solve" until you finally check it.

The Perfect On-Call Excuse

AWS Devops Programming Debugging Backend

2 days ago 154.2K views 0 shares

The universal get-out-of-jail-free card for on-call engineers everywhere! When AWS went down yesterday, every developer suddenly had the perfect excuse to dodge responsibility. "Sorry boss, can't fix that critical bug... it's an AWS problem." *smug face* Meanwhile, you're just chilling on the couch, secretly grateful that for once, it's actually someone else's infrastructure to blame. The sweet relief when the biggest cloud provider becomes the scapegoat and you can finally get some sleep instead of debugging your own spaghetti code at 2 AM.

Microsoft Is A Corporation That Turns Updates Into Chaos

Windows AI Devops Microsoft Programming

2 days ago 123.2K views 0 shares

Microsoft Is A Corporation That Turns Updates Into Chaos

Remember when updates were supposed to fix things? Microsoft out here bragging about AI writing 30% of their code while simultaneously turning every patch Tuesday into a digital apocalypse. Nothing says "cutting-edge tech company" quite like breaking recovery tools, localhost connections, media creation tools, and Active Directory in a single update cycle. The skeleton isn't the Grim Reaper—it's just the average sysadmin after discovering what the latest "security improvements" did to their infrastructure. Maybe the other 70% of human-written code was the only thing keeping the servers running.

Unfortunately Named Enterprise Linux

Linux Devops Bash Programming

3 days ago 157.4K views 0 shares

The sign makes a brilliant wordplay on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), one of the most popular enterprise Linux distributions. "Can't spell HATRED without REDHAT" is a savage burn that sysadmins who've battled RHEL licensing or compatibility issues will feel in their souls. The irony is delicious—a system designed to be reliable and enterprise-grade being associated with pure frustration. Anyone who's ever spent 3 hours trying to install a package that worked perfectly on Ubuntu knows this special kind of pain. It's the computing equivalent of stepping on a LEGO while barefoot.

Just Like The Old Days

Windows Security Microsoft

6 days ago 146.0K views 0 shares

Looks like Windows 7 will still be clinging to life with 22% market share in October 2025 — well after its funeral date. Microsoft's trying to kill it, but some developers just refuse to let go of their beloved OS. It's like that relative who keeps showing up to family gatherings despite being pronounced dead years ago. The stubborn persistence of legacy systems is both impressive and terrifying. Somewhere, a sysadmin is planning to run Win7 until the heat death of the universe while muttering "if it ain't broke..."

The Debian Enlightenment

Linux Devops Bash Programming

12 days ago 114.1K views 0 shares

That moment when you've spent years scoffing at Debian's strict stability policies and ancient packages, only to finally install it and have an epiphany about why server admins worship it. Suddenly all those hours fighting with bleeding-edge distros and their random breakages flash before your eyes, and you just whisper to yourself: "I get it now." The stability... the reliability... it's like finding computing nirvana after years of distro-hopping chaos. Your uptime counter finally has a chance to reach double digits!

Covering Sec Ops And Sys Admin For A Startup

Security Devops Programming Cloud

12 days ago 123.1K views 0 shares

Covering Sec Ops And Sys Admin For A Startup

The perfect metaphor for startup security doesn't exi— That's literally just a padlock icon spray-painted on the spare tire. Congrats, you've passed your SOC 2 audit! Meanwhile, your entire infrastructure is running on an intern's AWS account with the password "startuplife123" and everyone shares the same admin login because "we'll fix it later when we scale." Nothing says "we care about security (on paper)" quite like having all your protection concentrated in the one place attackers will never look – your compliance documents.

The Secret Handshake Of Port 67

Networking Devops Windows Programming Linux

13 days ago 131.8K views 0 shares

The number of people who know that DHCP servers listen on port 67 is inversely proportional to the number of people who've ever had to manually configure network settings. For most folks, networks just "work magically" until they don't. Meanwhile, the networking veterans are tapping their temples because they've debugged enough connection issues to know that port 67 is where all your IP address begging happens. It's like knowing the secret handshake at the exclusive club called "I've actually read an RFC."

The Ultimate Firewall Activation Method

Networking Security Hardware

16 days ago 126.6K views 0 shares

Whoever labeled this network cable with "Cut here to activate firewall" is the chaotic evil genius we all secretly aspire to be. Nothing says "I've been in IT long enough to develop a twisted sense of humor" quite like setting up your colleagues for catastrophic network failure. The best part? Some poor soul will eventually believe it. Ten years in networking and I've seen people reboot production servers because someone told them it would "make the internet faster." Trust no one, especially the guy who labels cables.

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