My account is with mailinator (free throwaway email) and I’m hopeful someone does this for me. That sounds quite nice.

Link took me to the comments.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/never-before-seen-linux-malware-gets-installed-using-1-day-exploits/

https://archive.ph/1FTQW

Starting from the home screen, your main home page on Apostrophy OS is called the “Domus.” It’s a grayscale page with shortcuts for the Aphy Store (Apostrophy’s own app store), your calendar, contacts, Apostrophy’s VPN service, your files, email, and more. You can’t customize anything on this page, and everything you do here is run through Apostrophy’s servers for maximum security.

So far, not so good…

I think the older coins were. I don’t think the newer coins are.

I don’t have a magnet around but I’ll be testing it later.

Consoles (Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation) are all hacked eventually. All that will happen is someone will hack a camera to sign any image sent to it.

I think this tech (signed pictures) is just going to make the problem worse. Once a camera is hacked, it’s “signed” but fake… Same spot we are now but now we have fake verified pictures

You will very likely waste hours of your life. you will have to google “rsync ssh non standard port” every time you want to use rsync. you will have to remember scp flags. this is also bad. probably worse.

I feel personally attacked. I use an SSH config file so its not a problem (anymore) but wow.

It’s all open source now so someone will keep it going, I’m sure.

I’d almost say your exposure is bigger in the cloud. WAY more software involved, it’s shared environment, and someone elses computer… In addition, it’s complex to properly setup. People often leave it alone once they get it working, no security test or checks.

Even IF it was because it was hosted at home, I blame the companies who build this shit. Market to end users, “super easy to use!!” But no security by default? Nuts.

Enable auto updates, randomly generated admin password (no defaults like 123456), and support for more then 3 years will go a LONG way for the average consumer.

I can get 8gbps for a reasonable price. For ~30 less I’m getting 500mbps because my firewall only supports about 700mbps of actual throughput.

The home 2.5GE routers might have 2.5gig nic but I highly doubt they can support it for a sustained time.

Question: how to get a job as SysAdmin in 2023-2024?

We’ve been “moving to the cloud” for the last 4? years. We’ve all had training on it and most of us have accounts in “the cloud”. However, I’m supporting a legacy piece of healthcare software that they’re trying to move customers off. Dev’s have a POC that we COULD work in the cloud but it’s more a lift and shift then it is anything else. They’re going to have a HARD time getting Doctors, Hospitals signing on to be “in the cloud”, never mind the provinces. ALL health care data legally needs to stay in Canada so that’ll be fun too… Anyway, We’re not actually hiring your standard sysadmins, everyone they’re looking for needs cloud experience and they’ll be expected to at least support some ‘legacy’ software also.

it sounds like it’s the current work environment.

It is and it isn’t. I get ~$30 a day to carry the phone which is 1 week on 4 weeks off. If anyone calls me I get minimum 3 hours pay per day. This is on top of the 7h days if I worked that day. OT is a little weird math wise but I get 1.5* pay basically every time I’m called out. I’ve read this is MUCH better then a lot of places out there.

After hours work is planned but again, healthcare means I have to do it at 2-4AM usually. During the first year of covid was nuts. needed Director and in some cases VP approval for all work. why I have no idea, they don’t know what we do. It’s not so much the planned downtime that gets me, It’s when the unplanned stuff happens or I have to fight with a different team.

A couple months ago ~50% of our sql replication from one DC to another stopped working over the weekend. After an hour of fighting with the networking team I installed wireshark on both ends, wrote a quick while true nc to port 3306, captured this and showed them the packets were NOT making it to the other end. Going out A but not getting to B, it’s NOT ME. only then did they trace the fucking things to find a bad route on a device they were working on a couple hours before.

I’m a SysAdmin and I’m drained. High school and college my story was similar, I got into C programming, wrote some annoying programs and installed them at school. Got Local admin on the windows boxes from messing around… Domain admin was the same password… Shit like that made it fun. I’d selfhost websites, games, etc, etc. I wrote a simple chat app in college to talk to the other guys in the class.

Now that I’ve been a Linux Admin for ~12 years I want out. On call, after hours work, stress of downtime, all of that is too much now, there no joy in selfhosting because its just more work.

I don’t want to be rich, I just want a good life, you know? House, kids, vacation once a year. This isn’t really possible these days like it was for my dad. I wish a cabin in the woods would work for me.

I thought they backed out of that a couple weeks ago already

Yeah, it’s the entire thing /s

There was an article a couple years back saying that manufacturers will use cheaper components for the same products, making it LOOK like the same TV but it’s actually built cheaper. The really bad ones will keep the same product number/SKU but others will usually append a letter or two.

So the over all cost might be less but you’re actually getting a poor quality version.

I’m late 20s/early 30s. Since ~2011 the only social media I used was Reddit. No Facebook, Twitter, etc, etc.

What you’re saying is exactly how I met my now wife. I looked after myself, did shit I enjoyed, found community events, hobbies groups, lived life, met lots of people, made new friends. Eventually I asked one of the friends on a date and now my best friend is my wife and I can’t be happier.

I will say, not having Facebook was a problem in some areas though. I missed out on group activities, group hobby chats, that sort of thing but I didn’t care. Friends would invite me to some of them anyway. Also, It might have changed these days but a handfull of people refused to trade numbers, they wanted me to add them on Facebook which was impossible. I didn’t let that get in the way either but it was kind of ‘hard’ to miss out on a potential friendship. It all worked out in the end for me.

This and the privacy nightmare in new, always connected cars are the main reason I’m not buying anything new.

I can’t unread this. Good job sir.

I have one of these. No complaints.