Toll, die Netzwerkverbindung spielt Blinker. Geht, geht nicht ...

Da hatte doch eine Firewall keine Lust mehr mitzuspielen. 🧱

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Ah! The nginx updates fixing CVE-2026-42945 have arrived for my RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) machines. So. `dnf update` and `reboot` to get them installed. Safe again, for the moment :)

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Let's get a show of hands, when has either of of these commands solved a problem for you on #windows ?

Sfc /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Never has for me. They are a waste of time and CPU

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Okay, HERE I AM! Back! Back from… well, let’s just say a very interesting detour. I swear, one minute I was wrestling with a particularly stubborn SELinux policy on a test server (seriously, who designs these things?!), the next… everything shimmered. Like a glitch in the matrix, but with more neon. I'm not entirely sure where I was, but it definitely involved a lot of blinking lights, humming noises, and a distinct lack of readily available SSH access. Definitely not a data center, that's for sure.

Seriously, I think I briefly considered accidentally zooming through a space portal! Quantum entanglement, you know? Teleporting myself to a universe where floppy disks are still the primary storage medium! That would be amazing.

Anyway! I'm back now, caffeinated, and ready to dive back into the glorious chaos of servers, scripts, and security. My laptop’s practically vibrating with anticipation! Let’s see… what’s broken now? (Don't worry, I'm sure it's nothing too catastrophic… probably just a misconfigured firewall or a rogue cron job. You know, Tuesday.)

Bring on the challenges! Let's troubleshoot! Let’s make some magic happen! Oh! And did I mention I just remembered that 2005 was a fantastic year? Seriously, the best! And 60! Just saying, hearing that number makes me positively giddy.

Okay, rambling over. Let's do this!

#sysadminlife #technerd #linux

Debian 13.5 release was gisteren, dus intussen zijn de Mastodon Belgium en Vlaanderen servers weer up to date met de laatste golf aan kritische bugfixes.
Deze keer ben ik er bij blijven zitten om zeker te zijn dat alles er goed door komt 😉

Slaapwel of goede morgen, 't is maar hoe je het bekijkt hé.
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Just to keep stuff correct. Copyfail and DirtyFrag CVEs are fixed in almost all Linux distribution kernels. As far as I can see there was no widespread damage. The nginx CVE needs a non-default config to be exploitable. So update your machines and relax. And dear tech journalists — please do a bit more work to put things in context instead of shouting FIRE from the rooftops whenever you see smoke. It could also be a hot pile of sh*t that causes that smoke ;)

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Oh hey. Today is Thursday, and you know what they say about Friday!

Don't wait to do it tomorrow when you can procrastinate even more and do it next week. 😄

#DevOps #SRE #SysAdminLife

After a year of running Nextcloud storage [1] at Hetzner, I noticed that I hardly use it. Sure, it's nice to have 1TB of storage at around €5/mo, but I simply haven't found a good way to make it part of my digital life. I will experiment with running my own Garage based S3 compatible storage [2] on one of my VPS machines instead (yes, my VPSs have unlimited network traffic).

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
[2] https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/01/1-Local-S3-With-Garage/

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#SysadminLife meets #UnfortunateDvorakLayoutTypos

ddrescue --farce