The blog post is written and published.
Sysadmin In The LLM Age
"You cannot vibe code your way into becoming a better sysadmin. Or better anything else for that matter."
https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/05/sysadmin-in-the-llm-age/
Boosts on this post are appreciated, thank you.
Hey liebe Sysadmins.
Wie macht ihr das mit Sachen, die ihr nicht aus den Linux-Quellen zieht. Wie bemerkt ihr wenn Updates für eure Dienste da sind? RSS-Feeds, Email-Dienste, wie macht ihr das?
les scripts kiddies se reveillent vers 18:00 pour lancer leur scans...
bon ils servent a rien,mais je me demande coment ils ont récuperés toutes ses urls...
à vrai dire ça m'inquiète un peu...
#sysadmin
I think I'll compose this thread into a blog post because I'm still pissed off about it and I need to write more about.
The blog post is written and published.
Sysadmin In The LLM Age
"You cannot vibe code your way into becoming a better sysadmin. Or better anything else for that matter."
https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/05/sysadmin-in-the-llm-age/
Boosts on this post are appreciated, thank you.
Is anyone in the #Canadian #sysadmin or #accounting communities having discussions about how QuickBooks Online is compromised by the CLOUD Act, and identifying real alternatives?
Even alt providers in #Canada are still mostly using AWS, Google, Azure to host their cloud stack, which doesn't really solve the problem.
I'm genuinely curious if anyone else has come to any conclusions here. I'm happy to discuss in private convo, feel free to hit me up on Signal (contact info attached).
It appears Linux root-on-ZFS is a mess. No standard way to do it. Kernel updates require recompiling ZFS. Boot environments are a cornucopia of constantly evolving hacks.
If you're actually using #ZFS on root, on #Debian, what's your preferred hack to make that happen? #sysadmin
I suspect #openzfsmastery might need to assume root on extFS and data on ZFS, leaving root-on-ZFS for the advanced user or a terminal chapter. 
I am writing a post on rise of software that help bring back sanity to the web. Please help me expand the list 😎✨
https://thatshubham.com/blog/2026
#indieweb #distraction #enshittification #technology #internet #socialmedia #adhd #depression #mentalhealth #sysadmin #retro #youtube #facebook #google #firefox #chrome
It appears Linux root-on-ZFS is a mess. No standard way to do it. Kernel updates require recompiling ZFS. Boot environments are a cornucopia of constantly evolving hacks.
If you're actually using #ZFS on root, on #Debian, what's your preferred hack to make that happen? #sysadmin
I suspect #openzfsmastery might need to assume root on extFS and data on ZFS, leaving root-on-ZFS for the advanced user or a terminal chapter.
Not only are workloads increasing, by hollowing out their junior ranks, businesses are putting themselves squarely in the path of a slow-burning demographic time bomb as seniors begin to retire in record numbers.
"There won’t be an endless supply of experienced hires to fall back on, so everyone will be fighting for the limited, increasingly expensive talent with domain expertise"
What exactly is the tech-industry's endgame here?
https://www.fastcompany.com/91483431/companies-replaced-entry-level-workers-with-ai
#noai #techbros #ai #llm #technology #programming #sysadmin #linux #indieweb #capitalism #reading #art #adhd
This one beats them all and it’s going to make me laugh until tonight:
“I’ve been assigned to carry out a penetration test on a server you manage. The test will be performed from the outside, since the perimeter security needs to be assessed. In order to perform the test, I therefore ask you to disable any firewall, protection, blacklist. If any of these are in place, the server might not be reachable and could prevent the assessment.”
I had to read it three times just to make sure I’d understood it properly.
Ok fedi, help me out:
If you're teaching any kind of CS course at a high school level, do you have students keep a paper notebook? What kinds of things do they do by hand vs on the machine? Do you have specific assignments aside from larger projects/programming?
I'm doing some work today on revamping my web development course from last year and could use ideas.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@brianb/115984283483440526
HAND WRITING IS A LEARNING TECHNOLOGY
we are already seeing the cognitive differences among Millennials & Zoomers who never learned to write properly by hand & those who did.
a notebook is the most basic of knowledge management systems. it can be:
- an archive
- a backup
- a reference
- an idea lab
- a gaming platform
- a collaborative project
- a canvas
but from a #devops #sysadmin POV, a notebook is an important form of REDUNDANCY. you can't brick a 3-ring binder or phish notes in a safe.
This one beats them all and it’s going to make me laugh until tonight:
“I’ve been assigned to carry out a penetration test on a server you manage. The test will be performed from the outside, since the perimeter security needs to be assessed. In order to perform the test, I therefore ask you to disable any firewall, protection, blacklist. If any of these are in place, the server might not be reachable and could prevent the assessment.”
I had to read it three times just to make sure I’d understood it properly.
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115984116493117731
Luckily, many of my clients are intelligent and well-prepared people. Needless to say, that email, before making me laugh, had already made the client laugh. He immediately thought he was dealing with people who were great at marketing but had little technical skill.
I presented my theory on software engineering, but he immediately tore it apart, declaring himself extremely skeptical. In his opinion, it is more likely to be a technique to lower our defenses and then try to sell us "security products" after a "pentest full of flaws". Or simply sheer incompetence.
Anyway, their connection hasn't any open ports. So they can pentest anything they want to, as long as they want to.
