Andy Syrewicze

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Passionate Storyteller | Public Speaker | SysAdmin turned security professional | Security Evangelist for Hornetsecurity | Microsoft CDM MVP | Addicted Gamer | Neutral Good | Crazy Golden Doodle Dad

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We asked some heavy questions in last week’s SysAdmin Weekly newsletter > “What happens when access to high-performance compute becomes a subscription privilege instead of an owned capability?”

#ai #aws #azure

https://open.substack.com/pub/sysadminweekly/p/sysadmin-weekly-21-the-great-compute?r=fzto6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Make a passport a requirement to vote. Then block the issuing of new passports. Magats in action.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nonprofit-libraries-ordered-by-state-department-to-stop-processing-passport-applications

Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications

The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Facility program as of Friday.

PBS News
A little bit of #Kubernetes al a #K3s to start a Saturday morning. Getting ready to down a node for installation of a GPU for hosted LLM workloads. What is the weekend #homelab project for you this week?

Software didn’t suddenly get more complex it just seemingly got more careless.

In this week's edition of SysAdmin Weekly I’m digging into “craft vs. shovelware,” silent failures, undocumented limits, and why SysAdmins keep absorbing the blast radius of “good enough” software decisions.

We've changed the format as well! Less link-dump. More real-world talk.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sysadminweekly/p/sysadmin-weekly-18-craft-shovelware?r=fzto6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#SysAdmin #ITOps #SoftwareQuality

We need to normalize declaring software as finished. Not everything needs continuous updates to function. In fact, a minority of software needs this. Most software works as it is written. The code does not run out of date. I want more projects that are actually just finished, without the need to be continuously mutated and complexified ad infinitum.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again.... It's ALWAYS DNS...

"Best practices” are just guidelines vendors erase when you’re not looking. This week’s SysAdmin Weekly: Broadcom nukes VMware licensing, Hyper-V management drama, Linux stress-testing revival, and security hits (RDP scans + Android malware).

Read → https://newsletter.sysadminweekly.com/p/sysadmin-weekly-13-former-best-practices

Troubleshooting in IT is more than skill, it’s art. We break down decades of hard-learned lessons on this week’s SysAdmin Weekly podcast. 🎧

https://youtu.be/Tx4VITDb5e4?si=3-bvgqMu46HH02WE

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#SysAdmin #ITPro #Troubleshooting

Random Friday evening thoughts……. You guys remember NFTs? The craze, how it was gonna be the next BIG web 3 thing?
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