#Nostalgia alert! #USENIX #ATC just caught the Zoom flu 
and decided to RIP itself in 2025. Apparently, "Renaissance-era Florence" 
for #sysadmins couldn't withstand the mighty power of virtual meetups and a couple of nerds on Discord.
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/ #virtualmeetups #techhistory #HackerNews #ngated
Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 
Did you know #Tux, the #Linux mascot penguin, was designed by Larry Ewing in 1996 using the #opensource graphics tool #GIMP? The name “Tux” was chosen as an acronym for ‘Torvalds’ UniX’ and a reference to the black-and-white “tuxedo” appearance of penguins.
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Hey #UK #fediverse #sysadmins / #network folks! How difficult is it to wire a British house built in 1950? I got limited power sockets, the fibre comes into the house next to the front door & it would be nice to stick the WiFi AP in the direct centre of the house. How difficult is it to run ethernet cabling? I am not really a home DIYer so any tips would be appreciated.
Please boost far & wide for coverage and many thanks in advance!
@mwl It's horrible. I've been running my own for ~30y and don't think most of my fellow #sysadmins are well-suited to running mail systems. I know it can't make anyone happy.
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Sooo!
What are #sysadmins contingency plans for when Nazi USA starts to fuck with #tld and other Internet infrastructure?
Like implementing fascist (anti-#DEI) slash and burn, packet inspection drops and other shitfuckery?
And if you think that's unlikely the US Nazis are already leaning on US suppliers to make sure they don't have DEI policies.
What's your plan for the Great Firewall of the USA?
Or US exercising Internet #killswitch Obama put in?
Switching copies of TLD Database to be root?
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Quick question for #sysadmins and #netadmins : do the AI scrapers use IPv6 addresses ?
I wanted to try something at home, but since you have more logs than me, it might be interesting to share this :)
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A question for all the #selfhosting enthusiasts and #sysadmins out there:
I had a Go site on a VPS and recently decided to migrate to self-hosting Ghost on a Digital Ocean VPS (I was using Oracle before) and my site has become basically inaccessible. I checked the RAM usage in my admin and it's consistently above 90%. I have 1GB ram and figured I wouldn't need more since I don't get much traffic, but now everytime I try to open my site it takes forever to load.
What I don't understand is that, on the Oracle VPS, I not only had my Go site, but also had Caddy, Plausible for analytics with a #postgres DB and never had any issues. Now, all I have is the ghost site, mariadb, and caddy and nothing works.
Do I need more RAM or is this a DO thing? Both the Oracle and DO VPSes are hosted in the EU which is pretty far from here, to be fair. I do suspect it's a RAM issue because I can't even ssh into the VPS. When I try to open my site, the connection just loads until it eventually times out.
EDIT: adding the link in case someone wants to check it out, could just be my distance from the server
Call to #database #sysadmins everywhere.
Sometimes databases purge gender change markers spontaneously.
For no reason.
No one has figured out why this happens.
It's a mystery.
@falcennial it's helpful for #sysadmins and anyone who is running their own #firewall (regardpess if WAF, hosted/managed or DIY/bare metal), as they can just pull that Feed-URL to (un)block stuff automatically...
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@Cappyjax @WB2EEE @Zugschlus @elly
I disagree with your assessment to some extent, as on #Linux there's not much of a tolerace or even acceptance of #rootkits like #CorwdStrike for all the right reasons!
Cuz it's not about #Fanboyism, but a fact that most Windows - #Sysadmins (or rather decisionmakers for that matter) seem to be high on #Copium and refuse to take actual #consequences but accept the #Enshittification as a fact of life when it's not...
It's just that this entire shitshow would not have happened on #Linux because here we don't have an entire ecosystem of #ValueRemoving "#AntiVirus" bs being shoved on Desktops and Servers in the form of #Binaryblob #Kernelhacks!
@WB2EEE @Zugschlus @elly Which only applied to a small subset of machines and almost all #Linux #sysadmins know to properly test stuff or at the very least have proper #backups, use #snapshots to test stuff and be able to #backroll stuff if not quickly setup stuff easily.
Further proving my point in that the amount of issues would not have happened on Linux!
@cdp1337 I think #Windows users and espechally #WindowsServer #Sysadmins are way too tolerant if nit accepting of BS.
If #RedHat / #RHEL, @opensuse , @ubuntu or @libreoffice ever pulled 1% of the shitshow that is #Microsoft365 / #Office365 / #MicrosoftOffice / #Copilot, they'd be sued by their customers and have users with Pitchforks at their front gates...
I'm happy to be here and after thinking about attending a security test course I decided to focus on creating a #GNU #Linux #Debian #distro which is focused on #security for #sysadmins #developers #pentesters and #artists called #procyberian #ProcyberianSystemsDistribution and then now let's say #happhacking !
https://github.com/procyberian is our home for our projects ! #github
Thanks !
