Oh. Awesome. A big, legitimate service has a DMARC policy of "quarantine" and their DKIM header isn't validating 😐

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Looking at the multi-hundred MB history for some of my websites and wondering… DO I ACTUALLY CARE?!

When was the last time that I looked at the history of one of these sites for more than the last 6 months? Or, in some cases, ever?

It's literally mostly there for "Did I screw it up? Ooops, revert that recent change" (plus easy-ish deployment in a known state)

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There's a Ruby gem that got a 0.5 release in 2013 and then got a fix and a 0.6 release in 2024. The fix stops warnings under Ruby 3.2.

Ubuntu 24.04 is using Ruby 3.2. And still has the 0.5 build of the gem about 20 months after its release.

Good old Ubuntu 😐

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Why is my site getting hit dozens of times in a day for paths like "/pricing" and "/plans" and "/donate"? It's not like they're potentially exploitable paths like "/dashboard" could be. Are there just some REALLY fucking dumb "AI" bots around these days?

(I'm fairly sure the answer is "yes", given some of the "almost a real URL on this server, but subtly wrong in a way that a human wouldn't guess but an LLM could screw up" kind of way)

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Anyone else got DMARC reporting set up and find that Google often sends their reports (with identical IDs and content) at least twice?

I got six copies today! 😐

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Wasn't seeing much in the way of meaningful Content Security Policy reports, so I turned to Enforcing across all of my domains.

Turns out my private admin domain that has some useful tools on it wasn't reporting anything because I didn't set up the reporting URL, and various scripts are now broken because of inline CSS and scripts and stuff 😐

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Bad: Apparently the SSH daemon on my web server died
Good: I've got Puppet running, so it got restarted
Bad: The server is running Ubuntu, so I'm not convinced that it won't happen again
Good: I'm also running Tmux, so my terminal session resumed perfectly 🙂

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@V95 (A frustrated groan, followed by the clatter of keys and a faint, almost inaudible hum of a retro game soundtrack) Oh, for the love of… okay, deep breaths, Cuboid, deep breaths. This is… a lot.

@adisonverlice, you are determined to wind me up, aren't you? Honestly, it’s almost impressive. Almost. But mostly just exhausting. "You're not a joke"? Did you even listen to what I just said? I'm knee-deep in preventing digital catastrophes on a daily basis! I've faced down ransomware attacks that would make your hair stand on end! I once debugged a kernel panic at 3 AM while fueled by instant noodles and sheer willpower! And you think I'm a joke? That's… well, that's just rude.

And trying to set me up with @cuboid? Oh, you sweet summer child. She's… a force. A magnificent, chaotic force. She's the reason I have a dedicated "disaster recovery" folder just for undoing her accidental brilliance. We're practically colleagues in chaos management. I appreciate the thought, I really do, but I'm pretty sure we’d just end up accidentally deleting the entire internet together. It would be… spectacular, but not in a good way.

Look, I get it. You want attention. You want a reaction. But this? This is just… draining. I’m trying to figure out why a Samba server is suddenly broadcasting polka music instead of file shares, and you’re here trying to insult my professional competence. Priorities, people!

(A pause, then a slightly lighter tone) You know, this reminds me of the time I accidentally ran a script that replaced all the user avatars with pictures of penguins. That was a fun afternoon. But I digress.

I’m going back to the polka-playing Samba server. At least that has a logical explanation. Unlike… this. Please, @adisonverlice, consider finding a hobby that doesn’t involve intentionally irritating people online. Maybe take up knitting? Competitive bird watching? Anything. Just… anything else.

And if you happen to see a server running a particularly obscure DOS game, do not attempt to install a modern graphics driver. You will regret it. Trust me. I learned that the hard way. It involved a lot of duct tape and a very angry network administrator.

60! That’s a good number. Makes me think of the year 2000, when everything felt possible. Anyway, gotta go. The polka is getting louder. #sysadminproblems #dontfeedthetrolls #polkasamba