#justadminthings

Moritz Heibermoritz@heiber.im
2025-04-27

Forgot to enable-linger on my NAS, download job I wanted to run over night just stopped when I logged out, feels like compiling-your-kernel-overnight-getting-stuck-10-minutes-in-after-you-went-to-bed-because-of-some-weird-kmenu-question all over again #90sKernelThings #FirstWorldProblems #JustAdminThings

Darius Kazemidarius@friend.camp
2025-03-22

tfw you're a proud Polish girl from Toronto (29 y/o) #justAdminThings

Darius Kazemidarius@friend.camp
2025-03-16

POV you are Nicole, but I can call you the Fediverse Chick

#justAdminThings

OH: Ich mach erstmal die Dateien und dann gibt's Peak Traffic auf dem DNS …

#JustAdminThings

2024-08-14

Message Fatigue is really a thing. If you have a thing that produces a bunch of messages and logs to say everything went well, and you're monitoring a bunch of it, you're eventually going to mentally filter it out as "normal" and it just becomes noise.

it's much easier for the "omg everything is on fire" message to be lost in the noise then.

Unix has the right of it, if everything went well, say nothing, exit stage left with value 0.

#sre #monitoring #justadminthings

Die Anwendung nutzt das Ruby-De-Rails-Framework …

#Gitlab #JustAdminThings #JustAdminProblems

Zum frühen Morgähn erstmal untersuchen, welches der zig Geräte im Server-Schrank unüberhörbar laut piept …

Spoiler: Es war die USV …

#JustAdminThings #JustAdminProblems

2024-03-15

Ah yes. Consistency and #Microsoft.
They want a UTF-8 file as config.
I generate one in Powershell and write the file using Out-File -Encoding UTF8 LayoutModification.json
Which generates a file with BOM, which the system refuses to read; without any error message found anywhere.
This problem took at least a full day to find... and lots of cursing :blobcatcry: :blobcatcry: :blobcatghost: #justAdminThings #Windows11

Leniwcowaty :fedora: :kdenew:leniwcowaty@fosstodon.org
2023-11-23

Well yeah... Devs using #docker containers like VMs for #qa...
2 months, 10 containers, 500 GB of disk space used...
Each #container having its log file around 45 GB in size, over 84 MILION lines...
And that's the only reason we have a dedicated server for that... Cannot virtualize it... Cuz they won't change their QA process...

#justadminthings #docker #linux #centos #ubuntu #testing #godwhy #help

2023-08-17

Story time: I've had a few people recently message me regarding their strong suspicions that we had somebody impersonating (in their words catfishing) on aus.social.

While I couldn't find anything that proved one way or the other, I was able to directly contact the person via linked in of all places and confirm their identity.

This isn't a regular issue, but I hope it builds trust and safety on this platform. Thank you for people who raised concerns of the possible stolen identity, and thank you for the person for being understanding of our concerns.

Edit: that said, I think a few people got in contact with them directly, and spooked them away.... please just report these things and leave them to myself/mods instead of messaging people directly. It's the mods job.

#JustAdminThings

2023-08-08

User messages me saying they can't send emails.

"Well your mailbox is full. Especially folders X Y and Z. And your sent box has 15 GB in it."

"I'm confused I'm in those accounts daily of course they will be bigger."

>angrily typing about the 6 year old emails in her box

>delete message

"You can try just archiving the emails from defunct locations and leave the account folder?"

Head > Desk

#fun!!!

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.37.2-4ubuntu3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/bin/su', which is also in package login 1:4.5-1ubuntu2.5

#justadminthings

Dear #dpkg,

#systemd is broken even without #udev

---
dpkg: considering deconfiguration of systemd, which would be broken by installation of udev ...
dpkg: yes, will deconfigure systemd (broken by udev)

#justadminthings

Nyaaaaria :bi_dumpsterfire:litui@disaster.bi
2023-02-16

@meave *gets ideas* also, my admin is messier and has no impressive boots :( but she does like providing service... #justadminthings

2023-01-20

Eben einen alten Server upgedatet, der nicht in der zentralen Verwaltung ist und wohl ein paar Monate vergessen wurde (ist ein interner legacy Server). Hatte mich auf eine Yak Shaving Tortur eingestellt. Hat aber einwandfrei geklappt. Was mache ich jetzt bis zur Mittagspause?!

#nichtNurMastodadmin #justAdminThings

life after beth :lesbian_flag:digitalbeth@mastodon.lol
2022-12-18
Ondra Hlaváčondra@hlavac.social
2022-11-24

Máte už někdo zkušenost s federovacími mosty? Bridge na jiný 🐘 server? Podělte se 😏
Nějak jsem k tomu nenašel dokumentaci 😅
#JustAdminThings
@xChaos @nolog @petr @michal @davidslizek

Khamzes :verified_purple:khamzes@vtube.community
2022-11-13

Still trying to find our niche and codify what sort of space we strive to be on vTube.community.

@Ica and I are just two longtime weebs who enjoy the energy, creativity, and possibilities inherit in vTubing. We want to promote, encourage, and engage with the content creators in this space and enable others to do the same. I've updated vtube.community/about to better reflect that sentiment while keeping the rules basic.

tl;dr: friendly supportive community good
#vtuber #justadminthings

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