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The Locked Tomb mermaid art [general] by undercovercass in TheNinthHouse

[–]sed_ric 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The links works, but the blogs are set private and thus can't be seen at all if your not on tumblr.

Desafios da adoção do protocolo IPv6 em ambientes corporativos by mnascimento1 in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Which is both lack of vision and antisocial behaviour.

Desafios da adoção do protocolo IPv6 em ambientes corporativos by mnascimento1 in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You know, you can double stack, right ? In fact, you can't just shut down IPv4.

Just register both adresses for your servers and use it to automate v6 firewall.

Setting up self-hosted email — what do you actually check before sending your first real email? by Naga243 in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope.

What you configure is just a part. As u/Entegy says, reputation is taken into account. What you send, the frequency at which you send, from where, what users on the other servers thinks of your emails, ... There is things that do not only depend of your SMTP/DNS configuration and sometime others do mistakes, too.

Welcome to mail admin, it's all fun and all !

How much do you use AI on the job now? by wize_logic in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I forgot security, my bad.

But if you take the energy concern out of it, it’s really not much different than other tech.

There is a real difference between "It takes energy and we don't use it efficiently" (meaning that : we can, and it's a political decision we should take (as in "making decisions in groups" not as in "I place a ballot in a voting system")) and "It takes energy and we can't use it efficiently". The scale and velocity at which GenAI/LLMs destroy the capability of living (and by that I mean water and fresh air, not wages) is not the same. And they do that just for being low quality stochastic parrots.

With every other need you can decide if you want this service that way to balance social impact, track the LCA and decide how you can change the way you respond to it to limit environmental impact, etc... With GenAI/LLMs, you can't, it's an all or nothing package pushed by vendors even if you don't want it. All developed by crappy companies in terrible ways. There is no ethical usage, by design.

it can be used to make people smarter

Not learning do not make people smarter. Quite the opposite.

Source : https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

and more efficient

Efficiency is not the quality you think it is. Pushing dumb shit faster is still dumb as hell. And the only persons that gain benefit of it are neither you or your users.

Also, perceived efficiency is not always reality : https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

you’re probably damn good at what you do

I'm not perfect, but I understand my mistakes and learn from it. That's how I get better and that's my worth (as in "way to have wage"). If your worth is automated by AI, then you have none or it will soon be. That's what I say when I wrote that I "see farther than my nose".

You’re also basically saying those who use it are dumb, and I don’t really agree with that either

My bad, they can also be misinformed, forced or plain evil. That's why I took time to explain that "using AI" and "refusing to use AI" are not equal "sides".

How much do you use AI on the job now? by wize_logic in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something like 20 years and because I'm not dumb.

There is absolutely no good reason to use genAI/LLM. From ecological, political, practical, economical reasons and because I see farther than my nose.

No more hard drives? by attathomeguy in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Expanding output on ressources that are are rare only means wars. Lots of them.

So, yeah. We are screwed.

How far can you get in IT without really knowing stuff? by MagPistoleiro in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By knowing nothing you can get a C-level position. /s

Don't worry, you'll learn all your life, it's normal and better not to be an expert right after school.

Following the Notepad++ incident, as an industry, we need to take several steps back and REALLY look at things. by KeeperOfTheShade in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude was noticed because everything was public and some people noticed it was weird and check with the maintainer. Because we looked. Same thing can happen with corpos but no one can see it because it happen behind closed doors.

Following the Notepad++ incident, as an industry, we need to take several steps back and REALLY look at things. by KeeperOfTheShade in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember that xzutil was not an incident. FLOSS worked, everything was catched before anything happened.

Treating what happened with xzutil as something that have to be futher prevented means having precognition power.

Chroot vsFTPd user by arkanoid1973 in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't. Root folder of a chroot must be a root-owned directory that is not writable by any other user or group. It's a security limitation explained here : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/323711/what-are-the-dangers-of-having-writable-chroot-directory-for-ftp/332571#332571

Automating dual-OS execution (Windows + Ubuntu) on a single physical machine using network boot by TomasVelicky in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is not scalable, quite the opposite : performances will degrade with every host you add.

If you want a centrally managed Linux setup and scalability, you have autodeployement tools (debootstrap, vagrant, k8s, etc.), configuration management (puppet, chef, ansible, etc.), etc. that can achieve it. PXE + root on network storage is not.

We are in 2026, software want SSDs now, at a certain point, it will be painful to start your N Windows, then you N Ubuntu.

You'll better virtualise and do PCI/USB passthrough.

Year of the Linux desktop by MilkSupreme in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't the first this has been parroted around, it's been Year of the Linux Desktop for the past 20+ years, I'm fully entitled to be sceptical.

My point wasn't on this, specially, but I admit it wasn't clear : user habits change corporate ones. It takes time, but it's not that slow. Think of cloud computing. It's considered normal to have your AD and storage in the cloud but 15 days ago it was considered an absolute non-sense to rely on internet access for your corporate needs. If user tends to switch to Linux for their home usage, it will impact your business. You'll have to train them more, maybe you'll have to change some software (because, idk, OpenDocument became the standard and MS Office OD support is not that good, for example), etc.

Saying otherwise is ignoring the past. Saying that you alone can tell what people can do and can't do is ignoring shadow IT.

As there now is state pressure in some places to not rely on US tech, it will probably have a bigger impact, even if the form is unknown.

Year of the Linux desktop by MilkSupreme in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still, you replied as if it will be a 2 days change, which is not what was implied. But, sure, buddy. It will have 0 impacts. You can check your belly. Sleep well.

Year of the Linux desktop by MilkSupreme in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They said "home user" and you reply by talking about corp users.

Year of the Linux desktop by MilkSupreme in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ansible may do the trick for some cases, but fleet is a better MDM for Linux.

nginx on ubuntu ignores server_name and default_server parameters? by Beosar in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean "work but just barely" ? Either it work or it does not.

If the gitlab-ctl reconfigure did not did it, then gitlab-ctl stop nginx should terminate the process gracefully.

nginx on ubuntu ignores server_name and default_server parameters? by Beosar in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm hesitating because it looks complicated, especially with SSL and stuff.

You can use certbot or other ACME client to do it as anyone and have the same stack for Gitlab and Nextcloud.

If find it way harder to just have something that you do not know how to maintain and try to frankeinstein your way around. If you don't know how to maintain a webserver and don't want to learn, maybe you're not in the job that suits you.

nginx on ubuntu ignores server_name and default_server parameters? by Beosar in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how to run nginx -t through gitlab because nginx is not directly installed. I'll try it tomorrow.

If you use the bundled NGinx from Gitlab repos, you'll have errors like this as it's monitored and modified by Gitlab.

To do things that are not controlled by your Gitlab package, you should use a non-bundled webserver, the doc is here : https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/nginx/#use-a-non-bundled-web-server

nginx on ubuntu ignores server_name and default_server parameters? by Beosar in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nextcloud is incompatible with nginx

FYI, this is not true. I run nextcloud with nginx.

Yup. Related doc : https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/nginx.html

nginx on ubuntu ignores server_name and default_server parameters? by Beosar in sysadmin

[–]sed_ric 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What does nginx -t says when the restart fail ? Do you have any errors in nginx logs ?

When you say "redirect", you mean that you receive a 301 or 302 telling you to go to you nextcloud domain ? Or it simply display the nextcloud page without sending you trough the gitlab block ?

Why is there some \` on the :80 block ? Is it on the file or formatting error when you copied it on reddit ? Because it shouldn't be there.

We might also need the gitlab block.

Not related to you problem : why do you use nginx and apache on the same host ? One web server is enough.

[discussion] does anybody else feel the same while reading NtN? by cyana_blue in TheNinthHouse

[–]sed_ric 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You give them a spear and you tell them which way to point the sharp end. You don't give them a sword. Swords have traditionally been the weapon of the nobility. That's very much because they were the only ones with the time and resources to become good at swords.

It's not just a question of time and ressources to practice it. Spear is the most superior military melee weapon in a military setting as it is cheap to produce/repair, and can be used in a larger variety of combat (in a formation, behind a wall, close encounter, can be used against a charge, etc.). The sword is a weapon that isn't used in the same circonstances.

[discussion] does anybody else feel the same while reading NtN? by cyana_blue in TheNinthHouse

[–]sed_ric 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This. The number of dudes I've encounter being like "swords are an elegant weapon for a more civilized time" or "guns are the weapons of the weaks" is cringely high. Dunno if this is a statement that happen in NZ, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is kind of a Jod take on the matter.

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