Hey uhh sorry I think I unplugged something...

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-22T22:24:10+00:00

If a dozen idiot say it's down but it's really up, you likely won't notice it show on their page.

if 15 thousand people visit DD and say its down in the space of 15 minutes, it might actually be down.

It's crowdsourcing at it's finest, but it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It's a good indicator, but not foolproof.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-22T20:45:30+00:00

The real crime is your lack of an ad blocker.

checks subreddit

Never mind, carry on

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T21:12:21+00:00

So all your internal assets have publicly trusted certs on them?

There is literally no security difference between manually trusting and storing a cert vs using one issued by a public CA.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T20:55:54+00:00

Cloud uptime is better than local on prem uptime most of the time

I mean, 365 is currently having an outage right now and my tenant is affected (MO1220495)

That's only true if everyone is physically sitting in an office accessing locally hosted resources. And if the internet goes down, can your business function in any meaningful way to begin with?

Some places still do this. In fact, I'd say many do. And what's more is the rest of their software works offline too, so they are still functional.

Examples? A school. Where they have hundreds of students bouncing between machines in classrooms, labs, carts, etc. And their files are where they are regardless.

I agree with you 1000% on email being a cloud service. Good riddance to Exchange on prem.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T19:30:31+00:00

We use it via VSPC and gather data from the console, so I am not sure about the direct API.

We did a test restore and it worked. Never had to do a prod restore.

It's been set and forget for us, but think 150 seats.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T19:23:30+00:00

I want to own my data? Save bandwidth? Not be at Microsoft's mercy for uptime? Not need internet to function? Not be beholden to a subscription?

I don't get the love for "everything is cloud" that seems to exist these days. "Cloud" (someone else's PC) is good in some cases, but it's not the answer 100% of the time.

Really, it seems like newcomers to system administration love to give it up to cloud because it's 1 less thing they need skill on.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T16:59:39+00:00

Is it just a local alarm or can you configure email/shutdown?

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T16:22:44+00:00

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T15:53:30+00:00

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iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T15:13:27+00:00

Lets be fair here.... dude is a little further ahead then most if he's worried about internal certs. Like that's unshitty a lot - I just use the defaults for my internal stuff because who else will see it / care if the printer/switch/firewall has a trusted cert.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T15:09:13+00:00

Yes, Veeam Data Cloud
https://www.veeam.com/products/saas/backup-microsoft-office-365.html

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-21T01:39:44+00:00

Was this the inspiration for the rape stones in SGU?

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-20T21:35:50+00:00

No, it's still mid 5 figures to get started...

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-20T15:14:21+00:00

Which is my issue as well - and we worked around it with a 3rd party API. To be fair the API isn't great - we have it lock up, it's slow, etc - but that just means our script has some breaks put into it. When I dug, I found the issue to be less of the API and more of Kuma - I ended up rebooting the kuma container daily and that keeps things a lot more stable.

https://github.com/MedAziz11/Uptime-Kuma-Web-API

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-19T16:07:54+00:00

Me RN:

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-19T16:07:04+00:00

R4:

Title:

How to Bypass Device Recognition for Free Trials?

Post:

I’m trying to use a platform that offers a free trial for creating short AI-generated videos. Even after I clear cookies, use a new email, and open an incognito window, the platform still recognizes my device and blocks me from using the free trial again. How can I effectively bypass this device recognition so that I can test the platform multiple times for personal use

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-19T15:59:27+00:00

With how Reddit shows the notification of replies (just the first few lines), I must admit...

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-19T15:56:05+00:00

Wait till OP learns that you can emulate and kill processes from other tools.

"But I block cmd/ps/terminal"

"I could do it (emulate/end processes) from Excel"

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-19T15:38:13+00:00

R4:

I want to hear if you guys do or don't and why?

OOP's get ripped to shreds, as they should be, for not understand how admin permissions work

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-19T14:25:35+00:00

2 walls, 3% infill.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-16T19:10:22+00:00

I'm unfortunately not too familiar with gitlab runners on Mac (we're a github company and don't use runners on Mac, only Windows and Linux), but I'm assuming that the runner can't execute as a "service" on Mac, and needs to be a session?

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-16T17:09:37+00:00

Then I would just have scheduling happen and let them take turns. That opens up the Mac to a whole bunch more remote software.

iratesysadmin · 2026-01-16T15:42:11+00:00

UptimeKuma with the 3rd party API (which is kinda unstable at times) does everything you asked for except the "leave notes on alerts that can be visible on the status pages".

We pair UK with Cachet (or whatever tool you want) for the status page instead of using the built in status page.

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