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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

@me@social.taupehat.com Was a pleasant surprise realising nothing in our homelab is in PHP any more, was expecting at least one thing...

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Loving the way we made this meme based on _one_ of today's dumpster fires and have got "but which one of today's?" reactions from some people. Answer: Quite possibly both. Definitely both if we didn't have Certificate Transparency. Also, in both cases: "You think you patched it all, but did […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

(I'm sure we have some IOT Shit or something running it, but that's why network segmentation exists)

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Turns out after a quick inventory, we apparently have zero PHP apps any more. Nice surprise.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

If you have PHP stuff, this is a "take it down until there's a patch" level clusterfuck.

The Simpsons "worst day of my life" meme.

Bart: This is the worst vulnerability of the decade

Homer: The worst vulnerability of the decade *so far*

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

What about a registry which shows _who_ is using each key? Just so you can notify them if you ever do find it being used.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Worst part is what it *was" "This is the new incident management process you'll all be using in a week or so"

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Achievement unlocked: "It works... once": Have something fail, that would have worked if you _didn't_ test it. Unfortunately the fail was when demoing it in front of half the company.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Achievement unlocked: "It works... once": Have something fail, that would have worked if you _didn't_ test it. Unfortunately the fail was when demoing it in front of half the company.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Specifically, part of what it does is creating a resource... with a deterministic name. And we test ran it this morning. oops. Cue "...and 'I' (the singletsona, ehehehehe) have no idea why that failed... oh, 'I' know exactly why, naming collision" :lolsob: Did manage to show the rest using […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

What's with the weird influx of anti-selfhosting posting today? Did we miss something?

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

We need more suggestions to explore just how far her transfem music taste goes in this next upcoming session, heh. Know a few cis people we've got into one or two transfem artists, but 4 in a row, who she listened to before knowing us, we're still laughing internally at how low the odds have to be.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Extremely distracting advert to put on the back of a bus, at least for certain people.

The back of a CTtransit bus. The advert on the back has a photo, then from floor level of a car, of a woman who is driving while being gripped on one write by a large purple tentacle, attempting to pull her towards a larger mass of tentacles in the floor area. Next to it is the text: "every distraction is a beast, don't be its next victim"

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Have not run through this ourselves, but as infra people, the summary looks solid. If you're wondering how to do the sort of stuff that we do, might well be worth a look as a starting point. RE: kolektiva.social/users/AberdeenLoca…

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

(specifically, the song was Survivor's Guilt, make whatever guesses there, haha)

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

(wonder if she likes Stomach Book, G.L.O.S.S., and Transgressive too, heh)

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Having experienced both, you're right. Rail in the US is _way_ better than the UK, where it exists at all.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

OH: "I think that one time i almost died in a train from heatstroke is a better rail experience than the things you described to me about british rail" (this is accurate btw)

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win Every time we pass through Penn Station we usually see at least 2-3 of them, sometimes even like 6 or 7.

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Silver Spook Games @silverspookgames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Helping androids get housing justice against trillionaire landlords is tough - in Neofeud 2, my #cyberpunk adventure! store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/… Neofeud 1: silverspook.itch.io/neofeud #indie #gamedev #indiedev #scifi […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Process Parsnip @processparsnip.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#trans and #genderNonConforming people in the US and US territories who need financial assistance: A Haven for Us is opening up applications for their next cycle of micro-grants on Oct 1st. They offer up to $500 aid. The application is not up yet. www.ahavenforus.org/get-support

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get support | A Haven for Us

Free, peer-led LGBTQIA+ support groups, financial aid, and a growing resource bank for affirming care, housing, and mental health support.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In happier and more awesome news, in therapy this evening, to describe how we feel, we quoted some Vylet Pony lyrics. Response "I think I know that song" and it turns out our music tastes have a pretty decent sized (and fucking awesome) overlap. Confirmed to include Vylet Pony, Sixwing, Jane […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Need advice from people with experience: Friend had a gmail account compromised and they apparently added their own account as a parent to it, says standard recovery question process isn't working. Is there a known-good recovery flow for this state?

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0x4d6165 (Julie) @0x4d6165.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I've made this post before but: you can fascinate a robotthing with an RFC

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@nytpu@tilde.zone ...and their timed notification profile support is _still_ absolute dogshit. "1 hour", "until 6pm" and "forever" is utterly useless to the point we had to patch signal-cli to get sane options.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Works on phone with mobile data. If this actually reaches someone there with a clue: What about a link to an info page, support contact, etc?

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Is codeberg down/closed-down? 403, "Bye". Happens on and off VPN. Did we miss something huge?

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

"Ran when parked" actually works for code as well as cars. Like "that PR someone opened 18 months and a major version ago, that you now want to merge" in the code sense.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Liveness PR (noun) 1. *From "liveness probe" (Kubernetes, etc).* A pull request with a minor fix or enhancement, submitted to a repository that has been inactive for many months or years, as a test of if there is still a maintainer present who cares about it, and implicitly of whether a repo […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I once flew from Vancouver to Seattle and I swear we spent more time taxiing than in the air, and quite possibly covered more distance too. RE: live.acarsdrama.com/users/acarsdram…

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

(turning our shitpost semi-serious because we have a hot take on this sort of thing) Often people keeping noisy monitors can be one of those cases of people just _needing to be told it's fine_ , that no, they won't get in trouble for having fewer monitors. Go for it, delete it, I'd rather have […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Genuinely, I get why "delete useless monitors" can be scary to people, but this team gets it.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

OH: "This alert, it doesn't page, it flaps most of the day, it's just here to keep our Slack channel noisy, I guess" "Maybe you can use the message rate in the channel as a metric for overall service load? But otherwise yeah, it's useless"

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

The legendary Cliff Stoll gave a delightful talk at DEFCON on Stalking The Wily Hacker (40 Years Later) at DEFCON. It's now online. If you've never seen Cliff, a Klein Bottle, or an overhead projector before, rush over to the youtubes and fix that right now […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

had our groceries bagged by a very cute puppygirl today. Called her a good girl.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud I guess a lot of our personal open source experience is more like "found and fixed these bugs, also, here's a suggestion" or "this is our project and we're the ones making the decision", and, honestly, looking at the amount of overhead needed for a lot of big orgs (hello […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud Not necessarily _a lot about the doer, solely_ so much as "the doer, and/or their situation", I guess. but there's still a difference between 90% politics because it's a busy open source project, and 90% politics because someone's dodging work and playing people off against […]

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Whether you think software development is 90% coding, 90% testing and debugging, or 90% politics says a lot.

@ScarletAstrorum on X:

every creative hobby has its own ‘90% sanding’:

sewing – 90% ironing
baking – 90% measuring
fermentation – 90% waiting.

Quoting @Duderichy:
woodworking sounds really cool until you find out it’s 90% sanding.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Frigate has apparently decided that we're a dog on the object recognition neural net. Seriously. Only us too, no other people.

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

So right now it's between AirVPN and IVPN, both have explicitly good politics. Any experiences with either of the two?

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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Turns out Mullvad is run by a fascist too. Any suggestions on VPNs that aren't funding the far right and don't fail the basic purpose of a VPN? RE: kolektiva.social/users/Voline/statu…

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 16/08/2026

Quick, Bluesky is down, tell your friends about your favorite fediverse server! Don't confuse them with techy jargon, unless they care about that stuff. Just tell them why you picked the server you're on, and that they can sign up and follow and talk to people on other servers […]

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