RE: https://mastodon.social/@jessie/115774314854244968

I notice that the British Library is also hiring a #Linux Server Specialist ( #RedHat), UK only, to recover from their 2023 cyber attack.

https://ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec179gf.open?WVID=5071482BMD&LANG=USA&VACANCY_ID=8062619t4R

This posting is up in Boston Spa; that's not that Boston, not /that/ Boston, keep going.... yep that one.

It's interesting to see them trying to hiring #opsec and #sysadmin skills to try and harden their systems. Wonder if it will work.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jessie/115774314854244968

I notice that the British Library is also hiring a #Linux Server Specialist ( #RedHat), UK only, to recover from their 2023 cyber attack.

https://ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec179gf.open?WVID=5071482BMD&LANG=USA&VACANCY_ID=8062619t4R

This posting is up in Boston Spa; that's not that Boston, not /that/ Boston, keep going.... yep that one.

It's interesting to see them trying to hiring #opsec and #sysadmin skills to try and harden their systems. Wonder if it will work.

The federated feed is great, but I want to follow more experts who are deep in the weeds.

Tag a Mastodon account that posts high-quality content about:

• Reverse Engineering
• Vintage Computing
• Network Security
• Accessibility / UX
• Privacy
• Enshittification
• Art
• Photography

Who is your favorite "must-follow" account that deserves more eyes?

#weekend #followfriday #feditips #askfedi #linux #sysadmin #mastodon #vintage #infosec #enshittification #art #photography #writing #design #ux

🤖 STOP aux bots d'IA qui scrapent vos données ! ✋

Au lieu de se battre avec des dizaines de robots.txt (Hello WordPress & Gitea), on passe à l'offensive centralisée. 🛡️

On bloque les GPTBot, ClaudeBot, et autres directement à la porte, au niveau de notre cher NGINX Proxy Manager !

C'est plus propre, plus efficace, et ça fait plaisir à notre CPU. 😉

👉 La méthode complète, avec le fichier .conf à créer : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/blocage-robots-ia-nginx-proxy-manager

#nginx #sysadmin #npm #ia #ai #robots #crawlers

2.5 Admins 278: XXXfil

Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in the USA is alarming, and fine tuning storage for databases.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-278/

#podcast #sysadmin

If BASIC were to reinvent itself for the modern era, not as a nostalgia exercise, what would it look like? What niche would it fill? Could it ever be a proper sysadmin tool like it was in the 8 and 16 bit eras? #programming #linux #windows #freebsd #openbsd #sysadmin #basic

Comparing devices at the office this afternoon.

#IT #SysAdmin #Networking #MikroTik #FreeBSD

If BASIC were to reinvent itself for the modern era, not as a nostalgia exercise, what would it look like? What niche would it fill? Could it ever be a proper sysadmin tool like it was in the 8 and 16 bit eras? #programming #linux #windows #freebsd #openbsd #sysadmin #basic

Wasting bunch of time reducing the public IPv4 usage on AWS for a client to reduce recurring monthly costs (AWS charges by the hour for IPv4s)

There are things AWS doesn’t even support that would help, like giving an RDS instance a public IPv6 without public IPv4. It's dual-stack or die! Please, I don't need any IPv4…

I pray for the day all networking is #IPv6 native and any IPv4 is just gateways for backcompat for laggards…

#networking #sysadmin

🤖 STOP aux bots d'IA qui scrapent vos données ! ✋

Au lieu de se battre avec des dizaines de robots.txt (Hello WordPress & Gitea), on passe à l'offensive centralisée. 🛡️

On bloque les GPTBot, ClaudeBot, et autres directement à la porte, au niveau de notre cher NGINX Proxy Manager !

C'est plus propre, plus efficace, et ça fait plaisir à notre CPU. 😉

👉 La méthode complète, avec le fichier .conf à créer : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/blocage-robots-ia-nginx-proxy-manager

#nginx #sysadmin #npm #ia #ai #robots #crawlers

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@82mhz/115722686490910352

In my experience, 95% of the situations I follow could transition to totally open-source solutions without major problems. Some others could do so by implementing a progressive plan.

The limitation is almost always human: people accustomed to working in a certain way for years, and a lack of willingness and commitment to change, even minimal change. If in private sectors, this happens under the "threat" of a drop in productivity. If in public sectors, under the threat of severe inefficiencies.

I saw a local election won (in part) thanks to a promise not to change anything.

Inertia, at times, causes incalculable damage.

#IT #SysAdmin #OpenSource

Goodbye Linux & Podman, hello FreeBSD & Jails!

Just migrated my blog (https://blog.hofstede.it) to a fully native BSD stack (where my Gemini Capsule was already living).

Stack (using Bastille VNET Jails):
- Caddy (Ingress, TLS, Reverse-Proxy)
- Nginx Jail (Internal. Static file serving)
- PF

The Cool Part: A Zero-Trust CI/CD pipeline.

My Forgejo runner deploys via restricted rrsync into an air-gapped "transporter" jail, which nullfs mounts the web root.

Security: Source-IP restricted, no interactive shells, no PTY.

The simplicity of files-on-disk beats container abstraction every time.

#BastilleBSD #SelfHosted #SysAdmin #IPv6 #ZFS #FreeBSD #RunBSD

Wasting bunch of time reducing the public IPv4 usage on AWS for a client to reduce recurring monthly costs (AWS charges by the hour for IPv4s)

There are things AWS doesn’t even support that would help, like giving an RDS instance a public IPv6 without public IPv4. It's dual-stack or die! Please, I don't need any IPv4…

I pray for the day all networking is #IPv6 native and any IPv4 is just gateways for backcompat for laggards…

#networking #sysadmin

Self-Host Weekly #148: Maintenance Mode

#MinIO alternatives, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Poznote - a lightweight note-taking app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-05/

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #devops #sysadmin #privacy #security #homeautomation #app #apps #software #newsletter #fediverse

Just published one of my favorite pieces I get to write each year - my favorite #selfhosted apps launched in 2025.

Let me know what I missed!

https://selfh.st/post/2025-favorite-new-apps/

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #development #devops #sysadmin #server

Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things

My #favorite apps of 2025, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #wastebin -- a lightweight #pastebin app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-12/

#selfhost #selfhosting #foss #opensource #homelab #newsletter #devops #sysadmin #development #privacy #security #fediverse #software

You haven't truly lived the life of a #sysadmin until you're googling around to figure out some issue and find a post about it where someone's asking the exact same question and... it's you. You, asking the exact same question ten years ago. And nobody answers.

@stefano

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Linuxisms #IT #SysAdmin

That is not correct in Linux either

When you try to install a software on FreeBSD, using the official "install.sh" way but it tries to write binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Linuxisms #IT #SysAdmin