Morning thought: HAProxy’s caching may not be as advanced as other solutions (such as the excellent Varnish), but for some use cases it is fantastic.
#Sysadmin
PSEF, MFA is trying to see what I'm running
I decided to spin up a secure Filebrowser instance like the Navidrome lead dev suggests, make it public-facing w/ TLS and a reverse proxy, a simple brute force fail2ban jail for it, and an ACL to make sure it plays nice with the navidrome user. Here's the original article and the Filebrowser one:
Navidrome Setup: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/10/29/setting-up-navidrome/
Filebrowser Setup: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/12/09/setting-up-a-secure-public-facing-filebrowser-instance/
#floss #freesoftware #opensource #selfhost #navidrome #filebrowser #linux #gnulinux #sysadmin
Before giving people at work access to the servers I run, I need to know their AD usernames as that is the authentication and these need to be in a certain group in AD.
Since earlier this year, I started also asking them for the AD password. First as a mistake by me (finger muscle memory), later as a "let's see if they are smart enough....".
Today I got my first password. I told them "Really dude, you're giving me your password?" to which they went from "Oh shit, let me change it". Good reaction, it will probably not happen again.
Five minutes later they came back with "Sorry, I've now changed it to xyz,". 🤣
I've asked their manager to bring this up with them, but also not to be mad.
Trying to troubleshoot a hacked #WordPress site to determine the initial vector & the the guides are like "check the logs".
There are dozens of different log files with 10s of thousands of lines of gibberish.
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#CyberWeek #CloudNative #SysAdmin #DevOps #Engineer #Kubernetes #Developers #CyberMonday #CKA #LFCS
Maybe we could get Nike to Sponsor #linux! Just Sudo It indeed!
Linux 6.18 is now the new LTS kernel, and Alpine 3.23 ships it immediately alongside major tooling updates like APK 3.0. 🐧
The release leans into Alpine’s minimal, fast, non-systemd design while expanding desktop options and keeping a cautious, security-focused posture. 🔍
🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/new_lts_kernel_and_alpine
#TechNews #Linux #OpenSource #Security #Kernel #FOSS #Performance #Sysadmin #DevOps #IT #Privacy #Software #Desktop #Cloud
Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS support to 15 years via a Legacy add-on, giving enterprises longer security coverage and fewer forced upgrades. 🛡️
The move boosts stability for regulated and long-lived systems but raises questions about balancing longevity with innovation. 🖥️
🔗 https://www.webpronews.com/canonical-extends-ubuntu-lts-support-to-15-years-with-legacy-add-on/
#TechNews #Linux #Ubuntu #Security #OpenSource #Privacy #Enterprise #IT #Cloud #DevOps #Sysadmin #Compliance #Data #Software
Hey Fedi, wie findet ihr, sollte "Bereitschaft" als IT-Sysadmin gehandhabt werden? Wie läuft es momentan bei euch?
Zu bedenken ist, dass man bei "Bereitschaft" nicht wirklich "frei" oder Urlaub hat, man muss im Zweifel immer arbeitsfähig sein. So ist es nicht möglich zu reisen (wenn man z.B. den Laptop nicht nutzen kann), oder Dinge zu tun, bei denen man nicht gut unterbrechen kann.
Wie sollte "Bereitschaft" eurer Meinung nach vergütet werden, im Vergleich zu einem "normalen" Arbeitstag?
Bitte schreibt mur eure Meinung! Gerne auch boosten!
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Short English version: how would you like "standby/attendance" to be handled by your employer? Financially, compared to normal working days and in general: what does "standby" mean to you?
#bereitsschaft #sysadmin #vergütung #gerneboost
Haack's Networking
https://content.haacksnetworking.org/w/byjvKm4LXLLn7q4ngYaG8f
Arg. Switched our server to OpenRC (on Debian), now LXC containers don't start on boot.
We've enabled their autostart setting and doing sudo rc-service lxc restart starts them just fine, but they crash during boot!
Received container state "ABORTING" instead of "RUNNING"
Any ideas?
I have a strong suspicion that the VM running FediMeteo is being throttled. The network speed is abysmal, and the same goes for I/O.
Tomorrow morning I’ll try moving it to another provider at the same price. Let’s see, I’m really curious to observe what happens.
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