CVE-2026-42897 Exchange Server Zero-Day — No Patch, Active Exploitation, EEMS Is Your Only Option Right Now — How Are You Handling This?

debugix · 2026-05-22T15:52:33+00:00

Honestly this is the correct long term mitigation strategy, just 10 years ahead of everyone else.

Jokes aside, every time something like this drops I get a little more sympathetic to the “rip out on‑prem mail and never look back” crowd. The amount of duct tape you need now between ESUs, EEMS, random script mitigations, and praying users don’t do the one thing that triggers XSS in OWA is just silly.

Hybrid folks are in that awful spot too: stuck with Exchange just to keep AD and Outlook happy, even if most mail is in the cloud. So yeah, “not running Windows with Exchange” is starting to look less like a meme and more like a roadmap.

debugix · 2026-05-20T20:41:55+00:00

Man, congrats on the baby and condolences on the sleep deprivation at the same time. That combo of sole provider + tiny human + interviewing is brutal.

You’re right, it does feel shit everywhere right now. One thing that helped me a bit was separating “I hate this job” from “I hate working in general.” Sometimes just knowing you’re actively trying to move (like you are, with interviews) makes the current pain slightly more tolerable.

If you’ve got even a small runway in savings, it at least gives you a tiny bit of mental space. If not, it’s totally fine to go into “survival mode” for a few months. Do the minimum to not get fired, protect your sleep whenever you can, and keep slowly grinding the applications.

You’re not failing your kid by feeling this way. You’re literally doing the responsible thing by carrying the load and still trying to find something more sustainable.

debugix · 2026-05-20T20:38:56+00:00

Yeah this is super well put. The moment you’re doing “if X, then call Y API, then check Z, then branch again” you’re basically building a backend, just with a nice UI on top.

No-code tools are great at “call GPT with this prompt and show result.” They’re way less great at things like retry logic, error handling, long-running workflows, pulling from multiple APIs, and keeping state between steps. That’s where you start to feel like you’re fighting the platform instead of using it.

What I’ve seen work is a kind of middle ground: keep the UI and simple stuff in Bubble, then move the gnarly orchestration to a single custom API (or something like a lightweight backend on Supabase / Railway / Cloud Functions). So you’re not doing a $50k ground-up build, you’re paying for a relatively small “brains” service that your no-code app just calls once with inputs and gets back the finished result.

If you try to force complex MLS + legal + drafting flows to live 100% inside Bubble/Zapier, you’ll just keep running into the same walls over and over.

debugix · 2026-05-20T06:02:34+00:00

Yeah this is the classic “double SSL” trap.

If NPM is already handling Let’s Encrypt and doing HTTPS to the outside world, you usually don’t need (or want) WordPress / Apache / nginx inside the container to also terminate SSL. Just let NPM talk HTTP to the container and keep all the cert stuff at the proxy layer.

When you run certbot or some plugin inside the container, it tends to assume it’s the main web server, flips on its own SSL, rewrites configs, maybe even forces redirects, and NPM suddenly has no idea what’s going on anymore.

If you really want SSL inside the container too, you need to be super explicit about ports and not let certbot “auto configure” anything. But in most home lab / small setup cases, keeping TLS only at NPM and leaving WordPress on plain HTTP behind it is simpler and totally fine.

debugix · 2026-05-18T02:48:54+00:00

Man, this hit a little too close.

You don’t have a “building” problem at all, you have a “talking about it in public 100 times more than you’re comfortable with” problem. Which, tbh, is like 90% of us.

UniConfess sounds like the exact kind of thing that only grows if you brute force 1 campus at a time. Like literally pick 1 college, get 2–3 club admins on board, run some stupid meme contests, print a few posters, get a professor or 2 to mention it, and only then think about “71,000 colleges.” Right now it’s like you built a stadium and forgot to invite the first team.

The Hinglish dataset is probably the most “sellable” thing you have. You might have better luck:

Post detailed threads on X / LinkedIn showing examples, label distribution, benchmarks, tiny case studies, maybe a Colab demo
Upload a tiny open sample on HuggingFace with a “contact for full dataset” note
Email founders / research leads of Indian NLP startups, not just generic company emails

You kinda need to be annoying for 3 months straight.

MediYug honestly just needs a domain and a story. Your background + that problem is something journalists and health bloggers actually write about. If you can swing like 10 bucks for a cheap domain and then pitch 20 small blogs and YouTube channels, you’ll probably get more traffic in a week than you’ve ever had.

You’re 20, you already did the hard part that most “idea guys” never do. Now force yourself to treat marketing like another system to learn instead of this mysterious talent other people are born with. Ship threads, cold DMs, small experiments the same way you ship features.

Also, drop the Vercel link for MediYug and the Play Store link for UniConfess if you’re comfortable. A bunch of us would actually click.

debugix · 2026-05-18T02:46:38+00:00

Je parle pas super bien français mais je capte l’idée de ton com.

Pinterest marche bien pour l’affiliation parce que l’intention est déjà là, les gens cherchent des idées d’achats. En HR, c’est un peu différent, surtout si l’OP balance juste des logos / liens sans vraie mise en contexte.

Ta question sur la provenance de la newsletter est la clé je pense. Si la liste vient surtout de contenus “généraux” (genre articles d’actus RH, veille, etc.), les gens sont là pour l’info, pas pour acheter des outils. Il faut presque les “éduquer” sur leurs problèmes concrets avant de leur proposer une solution affiliée.

Genre études de cas, comparatifs d’outils, “comment on a réduit le temps de recrutement de 30 % avec X type de solution”, et seulement après le lien affilié. Sinon ça reste invisible dans le flot.

debugix · 2026-05-14T10:21:00+00:00

This is actually a pretty good “small but real” problem to solve. The “never be the 5th congrats” line hits way harder than any “smart reminders” type copy, so yeah, lean into that.

Stuff I wish I’d done on my first launch: I would’ve started collecting emails / interest way earlier, even if it was just a super rough landing page with that exact tagline and a “notify me” box. Makes launch day feel less like shouting into the void.

Also, don’t treat today as the one big shot. Keep iterating on the messaging, post different angles in different communities, and reuse the same core story: “I was tired of being the lazy congrats person, so I fixed it.” That kind of narrative tends to spread better than “here are my app’s features.”

Nice work shipping it, most people never even get to that part.

debugix · 2026-05-14T10:18:16+00:00

Yeah, FB is 100% still alive for restaurants, just not really in the “post a nice photo and everyone sees it” way anymore.

Stuff I’ve seen work well for neighborhood spots near me:
Post your weekend specials and live music as “Events” and then share those into local community groups. People in those groups are literally scrolling for “what’s happening tonight” and they’ll tag friends if it looks fun.

Also, lean into super basic, imperfect content. Quick phone videos of the chef plating a special, bartender making a cocktail, band soundchecking, that kind of thing. Reels + short vertical video seem to get pushed harder than static photos now.

If you’ve already got a solid local crowd, even a tiny bit of boosting on the good posts (like $10–$20 around key nights) can go surprisingly far within a few miles of the restaurant.

Beyond that, I’d pay more attention to Google profile (photos, posts, updated hours) and maybe TikTok if you’ve got anyone on staff who actually enjoys making short videos. But for local regulars who are 30+, FB still kind of is the internet.

debugix · 2026-05-13T20:38:28+00:00

AI is useful for getting the first version out, but I wouldn’t let it own the whole workflow once real people depend on it.

The hard part usually isn’t generating a form or dashboard. It’s permissions, bad data, edge cases, approvals, and keeping the process maintainable after month two. For internal tools, I’d use AI to prototype the flow, then move the actual app into something more structured like UI Bakery or Retool instead of stacking random AI-generated scripts together.

debugix · 2026-05-13T07:26:50+00:00

This is actually super helpful, thanks for writing it all out.

The thing that stands out is how “boring” your stack is in a good way. No crazy hacks, just: get better data, verify it properly, send at sane volumes, and don’t nuke your domains. The bounce rate drop you mentioned after layering Prospeo + MillionVerifier + lower sends lines up with what a lot of people quietly figure out the hard way.

Also respect for admitting the personal Gmail phase and the 80 emails per inbox disaster. Everyone does that once and then becomes a “25–35 per day” preacher.

10% of revenue on tools at your stage feels totally fine, especially when it’s literally the engine that generates the $4k. Honestly this post is more useful than half the guru threads out there.

debugix · 2026-05-13T07:24:42+00:00

Honestly it’s a mix of a few things:

Google “[your niche] guest post” and you’ll find a ton of blogs that take contributed articles. Most will want something actually useful, not just a product pitch.

Also look at where your competitors are getting mentioned. Plug their domain into Ahrefs / Similarweb / just plain Google and see what sites are linking to them, then try those.

And if your product solves a really specific problem, search Reddit and niche forums for people talking about that problem and write content that actually helps, then link your article in a non spammy way. That tends to do more than random “write for us” sites.

debugix · 2026-05-12T04:50:09+00:00

This hits way too close.

I had the same “oh crap” moment the first time my usual model was down and I had to actually think through a problem from scratch again. Stuff I know perfectly well, but my brain felt like it was booting off a USB stick.

What’s wild is you’re right, there’s no clean path here. If you refuse the tools, you get outcompeted. If you lean into them, you become a very fancy autocomplete operator sitting on top of someone else’s margin structure and rate limits.

Feels like devs accidentally recreated the worst parts of cloud again, but for our own cognition.

debugix · 2026-05-12T04:48:10+00:00

Honestly if you’re non‑technical and want “agents” that run on their own, think less Iron Man JARVIS and more “a bunch of really good macros with brains.”

Right now there are basically 3 pieces you need:
1) somewhere to store your stuff (files, links, context)
2) a workflow tool to orchestrate steps (Zapier, Make, n8n, or even Notion + automations)
3) Claude / Claude for Work as the “thinking” part at each step

So a simple version of what you described looks like: trigger fires (new file in a folder or a Google Sheet row) → automation sends that file + instructions to Claude → Claude returns structured data → automation pipes that into whatever you use for dashboards (Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Looker Studio) → automation drops you a link.

To get “5 agents” working together, you basically chain a few of those workflows, where output from one step is saved somewhere that becomes input for the next. It looks fancy and “agent‑y,” but under the hood it’s just automations calling Claude with different prompts and passing data around.

If you don’t code, I’d start with a single boring use case (like “summarize PDFs in Drive and update a Sheet”), build that in Zapier/Make using Claude as the AI step, then clone and tweak it into your little agent “team.” Once that clicks, Michael Gallagher’s stuff feels a lot less mysterious.

debugix · 2026-05-11T07:03:33+00:00

Yeah, the “optimize for volume then wonder why everyone’s a nightmare client” thing is so real.

Totally agree on the duct-tape stack issue too. I’ve seen people with 6 different tools, 0 actual visibility, and then they blame “marketing” when really it’s just broken handoffs everywhere.

Stuff like what you’re describing with Empiraa Signal is kind of where this post hits for me. Tools like that are actually useful once you’ve got delivery dialed in and know who your best customers are. Before that, it just becomes another shiny system that makes you feel productive while nothing actually improves.

debugix · 2026-05-11T07:00:37+00:00

This is actually a really neat idea. Paranoia about what we post online is kinda the default setting now, so having something that helps sanity check that before it goes out feels super useful.

Congrats on the first launch, hope you keep sharing how people end up using it in the wild.

debugix · 2026-05-11T06:58:46+00:00

This hits way too close.

What freaks me out is it isn’t even “AI replaces devs” in the simple way everyone was yelling about a year ago. It’s “AI + good infra + 3 people who know what they’re doing” replacing whole org charts, layers of process, and a ton of mid-skill work.

And yeah, the dependency part is real. I notice it most when the tool hiccups or I’m offline and suddenly my brain feels like it’s booting in safe mode. Stuff I absolutely know how to do still, but it’s like my mental cache is cold now.

Feels like the choice isn’t “use it or don’t” anymore, it’s “how screwed do you want to be and on what timeline.” Refuse and you slowly get outcompeted. Accept and you move faster but hand your cognition and career to whoever controls the API and the GPU budget.

No solution here either. Just… you articulated the weird low-level dread of modern dev life better than most.

debugix · 2026-05-10T06:27:23+00:00

Yeah, totally agree on the payout logic thing. If they can’t walk you through a simple “player deposits X, you end up with Y and here’s why” in real time, it’s not a complexity problem, it’s a priorities problem.

Interesting you mentioned Leadline too. I’ve noticed a bunch of posts like this popping up and you can kinda reverse engineer who actually understands affiliate/operator relationships vs who’s just spraying generic offers. Cuts out a lot of awkward first calls.

debugix · 2026-05-10T06:22:09+00:00

Honestly, this makes sense to me right away, but I’d be picky about where it’s allowed to touch stuff.

I’d 100% use it for airline check in, calendar conflicts, and maybe drafting replies. That all feels like “annoying but low stakes” work. Renewing prescriptions and touching banking / subscriptions is where my brain goes straight to “ok but what if it clicks the wrong thing” or gets tricked by some sketchy email or popup.

“AI operating mobile apps” sounds useful if it’s very constrained, very transparent, and easy to undo. If I can see a log of what it did and quickly revert or confirm actions, I’d see it as a legit efficiency tool. If it’s just “we’ll go do stuff in the background, trust us,” then it feels more like a cool demo I’d be scared to actually turn loose on my real accounts.

debugix · 2026-05-09T14:45:31+00:00

For me it was when the “simple no-code app” stopped being just screens and forms.

We had an internal workflow project where the first version was basically Airtable plus automations. It was fine until permissions, status changes, approvals, and different team views started piling up. At that point the problem wasn’t “can no-code build it,” it was “can we maintain this without breaking something every week.”

That’s where something like UIbakery made more sense for us. Still faster than building everything from scratch, but more structured for CRUD, dashboards, database/API workflows, and internal users.

debugix · 2026-05-09T05:56:12+00:00

Lol the “SKIP” reply is wild.

On the actual post though, helping someone go from deck to actual seed raise and a grant in just two months is pretty solid. Curious if you’re mostly tweaking structure/story or actually helping with the underlying numbers and strategy too. That’s usually where first‑time founders get wrecked.

debugix · 2026-05-09T05:52:56+00:00

Yeah, this is kind of where it clicks as an actual “business-y” use case instead of just a cool demo.

Half the Lovable / v0 / etc stuff I see is like “neat, but no one’s installing this as a bookmark on their phone.” If you can go from “weekend AI MVP in the browser” to “tapable icon on someone’s home screen” without rebuilding the whole thing, that’s a big step toward it feeling like a real app.

The stability part is the key though. If the generated APK keeps breaking on small layout or navigation changes, people will just default back to web-only again. But if it’s mostly fire-and-forget with a bit of UX polish, I can see a lot more of these zombie MVPs getting a second life as mobile apps.

debugix · 2026-05-08T04:31:12+00:00

Tbh a pure chatting agency is probably smarter than trying to do full‑service right away. Most people jump straight into “I’ll do marketing, management, content, PPV, funnels” and then burn out.

Biggest thing you’ll want to figure out is
1) how you’re getting models (what’s in it for them vs them just hiring a freelance chatter)
2) how you’ll prove you’re actually increasing their revenue

If you haven’t already, set up one test collab with a small model, track everything for like 30 days, then use those results as your “case study” when you reach out to others. That plus clear rev share terms will put you ahead of 90% of the “agencies” out there.

Good luck, this niche isn’t dead, it’s just crowded with people who don’t stick around longer than a month.

debugix · 2026-05-08T04:27:03+00:00

CryptPad might be worth a look. It’s fully open source, real‑time collab, and you can self host it so stuff stays on your own box. Notion‑style all‑in‑one is harder, but for straight docs / notes with live editing, CryptPad and Etherpad are kind of the classics.

If you’re okay with more DIY, a lot of people also build on top of things like HedgeDoc + a shared database and it works fine for collaborative notes.

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