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Just passed LPIC-2. Solid, tough exambut I noticed AI-related certs get way more visibility internally for DevOps even when they’re less technically demanding. Genuinely trying to plan next steps is vendor-neutral Linux cert (LPIC-3, RHCE) still worth it, or does the market reward AI/cloud certs (CKA, AWS, NVIDIA, LLM stuff) more in terms of actual opportunities/salary? submitted by /u/OPORDIT [link] [comments]

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So the other day I posted about how I'm looking for advice to prepare for my phone interview, where Ill be interviewing for the TAM position. But after finally deciding to mainly focus on the technical side of the interview since thats what I found it should be on, and saving the LPs for later I'm starting to have doubt if I can even succeed in the first place honestly. I know TAMs are suppose to be generalists and whatnot, but whenever I do research on interviewing for the position I've seen quite often people saying "You should be an expert in at least 2 domains when interviewing with general knowledge in the rest." When in reality I feel like I can barely claim to have general knowledge in all the domains. My only real experience in AWS so far is how in the past year I decided to take initiative to teach myself AWS and complete certifications like Solutions Architect Associate, along with some side projects I worked on in my own time. But even then, when reviewing for all the potential topics I could be questioned on during the interview I cant help but get the feeling of being overwhelmed and that I could easily mess up. I'm grateful for the opportunity that I made it to this stage, and I know if I didn't have a resume good enough I probably wouldn't have made it here anyways. But again, when I look at all the content I have to recall I cant shake the feeling of doubt at times. Especially with the fact I'm running out of time as I also need to start drafting my STAR stories as well. Am I overthinking this? submitted by /u/CryingBananas23 [link] [comments]

N-Central earlier today reported active exploitation and post exploitation actions of connections and persistence on managed RMM/client devices (cloudflare tunnels being installed on end user devices/servers) status page advisory includes hosted installs. Take your installs offline immediately and threat hunt. Earlier today n-central said servers on the latest release were safe but have updated the advisory to include the latest release and working on a new hotfix, keep an eye on https://uptime.n-able.com/ Current IOCs listed here, also affects hosted instances so monitor accordingly. Community information suggests that a n IOC maybe be if your server is suddenly showing as unlicensed. https://www.n-able.com/blog/n-central-security-update-august-1-2026 submitted by /u/dhuskl [link] [comments]

Windows Server Backup fails with "semaphore timeout" (0x8004245f) I'm using Windows Server 2022. At the beginning, full backups were no problem. Now, the first backup attempt fails with "Unknown error (0x8004245f)" / "The semaphore timeout period has expired." After it fails, if I run the backup again, it completes without any issues. But if I try to run another backup right after that success, it fails again. If I try to back up multiple drives, or do a full server backup, it fails. It only succeeds if I back up one drive at a time and even then, only after a failed attempt in between. I've restarted the server, and vssadmin list writers always shows everything stable. I've also tried backing up to both an external drive and a shared folder same issue either way. Does any one has the same issue? submitted by /u/Altruistic_Use820 [link] [comments]

Our new co-managed MSP recently swapped us to N-Able from our old MSP who used Ninja. After the swap, system performance has degraded significantly on machines. I’m the IT manager so I am keenly aware of the drop in how reliable and stable my system is. Is there any reason this would happen? Any other MSP experienced this before? submitted by /u/Old_Development_8122 [link] [comments]

Went through our subscriptions recently and realized we'd been paying for a couple of seats(zoom) belonging to people who left months ago. Nobody had a thought to cancel them, it just kept quitely billing. For those of you managing this, whats your actual process when someone leaves? A checklist someone remembers to run? something automated?or does it slip through the cracks sometimes too? Trying to figure out if im just disorganized or if this is normal. How do you handle it? submitted by /u/MooseSea6 [link] [comments]

I'm looking for a tool that can help me to track the costs and cost opportunities submitted by /u/eich1 [link] [comments]

I am deathly paranoid that my app might lose my customer's data, whether through a bug in my code or the works of a malicious actor. With RCPs I can easily set up guardrails so that even when I'm logged in as the account root user I can't delete data, even if I wanted to. Well-crafted RCPs (and SCPs) offer tremendous peace of mind. SCPs and RCPs can also help enforce "nothing gets deployed to prod except through CI/CD." If you have data that you absolutely positively cannot afford to use, you really should look into implementing SCPs and RCPs as part of your data protection strategy. And don't give me the "I only have one AWS account" excuse. Creating an additional AWS account and an AWS Organization is free. submitted by /u/ReturnOfNogginboink [link] [comments]

Outlook, mappings, printers, etc etc Join the PC to the domain (System > Rename this PC (advanced) > Change, or Add-Computer -DomainName domain.local -Restart ). Reboot. Run User Profile Wizard on the machine. Select the existing local profile (e.g., C:\Users\jsmith ), enter the domain account it should map to ( DOMAIN\jsmith ), and let it run. It can also do the domain join for you in one pass if you prefer. Log in as the domain user — they land in their exact same profile. submitted by /u/LoveBirdNibbles [link] [comments]

Legal killed the hosted video APIs. Nothing leaves the network. So I got handed the fun project: price out what it would cost to run video generation on our own hardware. License review first. Most of the open-weight models have terms that will not survive legal. Geographic exclusions, MAU thresholds, custom community clauses. Three passed on clean Apache 2.0: Wan 2.2, LingBot-Video-MoE (30B-A3B), and Mochi 1. Then the VRAM. For 1080p the pipeline runs the full weights twice, base then refinement. Base pass peaks at 123.3 GiB. The refinement stage peaks at 175.0 GiB, which is what forces you into a 180 GB card. One B200 handles it. No smaller single-card config has been shown to work. Current street on a B200 is $30K to $50K. Set up a Proxmox cluster to model full TCO: the card, power, cooling, rack, three-year amortization. What I brought back upstairs: per-clip through a hosted API still wins on cost unless volume crosses a level most shops never reach. The compliance mandate is the only thing that justifies the spend. Not the math. Budget request is in someone's inbox. Expecting the "can we do this cheaper" reply any day now. submitted by /u/Competitive_Long509 [link] [comments]

Anybody else having trouble accessing recovery keys from a Microsoft account. Page is stuck in a redirecting infinite loop. These would be easy to access for a work machine but something tripped Bitlocker on my bothers home computer and it wants the recovery key. Anyone else experiencing this. submitted by /u/MindOverMatt [link] [comments]

With AI-generated voice and video becoming much more convincing, it feels like relying on someone's voice or appearance is becoming less reliable for sensitive requests. I'm curious whether this has changed how your team handles things like password resets, wire transfer requests, account changes, or privileged access approvals. Have you updated your verification process because of AI-assisted impersonation, or are your existing procedures still working well? I'd be interested to hear what's actually been effective in real-world environments. submitted by /u/Lovely0Cloud [link] [comments]

Thought I'd share here too given the relevance submitted by /u/Scham2k [link] [comments]

Good morning, I am looking for some assistance to see if anyone else has figured out this issue. We're a GCC tenant currently getting sensitivity labels and MPIP set up. So far, things have been implemented okay minus a few snags. M365 products are working as intended, but the real stickler is Adobe. The initial issue was that any encrypted label we tried to apply or even switch to, it would not work. I found this Reddit post that called for enabling some registry keys . Things like adding bMIPLabelling, bMIPExternalAuthAdmin, bSilentAuth, iMIPCloud = 6, etc. However, that did not seem to allow us to add an encrypted label or even switch to one. Even forgetting the Purview information inside of the Adobe settings did not help. What I believe started helping was three or four things. Clearing the Purview information inside of Adobe, deleting the generic Adobe credentials, deleting the contents of %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\RMSLocalStorage\mip, and running icacls "%localappdata%\...\LocalLow\Microsoft\RMSLocalStorage" /setintegritylevel L. Seemed like that combination worked and I finally was able to authenticate through on a PDF, it grabbed my info, and allowed me to change to an encrypted label. However, the next document, it did not work. I was able to finagle the same steps above and it let me through on that one. So at this point, I'm trying to figure out how to prevent this from happening on every PDF instance. Logs have shown me that it likes to run MipContextImpl as configured for offline-only mode or tell me my cloud type is invalid. In Event viewer I see things like Token broker operation failed with AADST65002 error, or an OAuth response error: invalid_resource, service principal for resource 'urn:p2p_cert' is disabled. So at this point in time, I'm kind of stumped. I have a ticket to Adobe about this, but kind of unsure where to look next to keep this MPIP stable in each Adobe instance. The few that are good remain good and can be changed from secure to unsecure labels, but anybody have any clues on where I can look next? Thanks, all! submitted by /u/Popensquat01 [link] [comments]

Hi, I want to confirm that what I must know about networking that will help me in cloud, also if you can share a useful course or a document that covers it all, Kindly share it submitted by /u/Hassan_121 [link] [comments]

Altho I’m an active lurker here, I’ve recently started using X to try and connect with people working in infra, platform engineering, and devops, but I’m finding it surprisingly difficult to discover that side of the community. But my feed is still mostly AI hype and general tech content, while I’m more interested in more informal discussions around k8s, ai & cloud infra, observability, networking, platform engineering, etc. For those of you who are active outside of Reddit, where do you usually discover good infra content or interact with other engineers? submitted by /u/sayori_hunter [link] [comments]

Was trying to better understand how state works in Terraform and OpenTofu, so I put together this short post on idempotency in IaC. I would love to hear your opinions submitted by /u/ogathrow [link] [comments]

I work across several Windows and Linux machines and often leave long-running CLI tools or coding agents active while away from the desk. I built PhoneCMD as a mobile control layer for this workflow. It connects to the terminals running on the machines themselves rather than creating a separate cloud environment. Current capabilities: View and control persistent terminal sessions Reconnect to sessions already running on a machine Run PowerShell, CMD, Bash, SSH and other CLI tools Control Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and similar terminal agents Switch between multiple computers Send commands and view live output Browse and edit files Connect over LAN or encrypted remote access Continue after the phone disconnects or changes networks The desktop machine remains responsible for execution, permissions and CLI configuration. PhoneCMD acts only as the remote interface. I currently use it instead of remote desktop when I only need terminal access, because typing and reading output is much easier on a phone than navigating a full desktop UI. Disclosure: I built the application. PhoneCMD website PhoneCMD App For those managing several machines, what do you currently use for persistent remote terminal access: SSH with tmux, VPN, remote desktop, or something else? submitted by /u/vscoderCopilot [link] [comments]

I've been spending too much time manually comparing AWS, Azure, GCP, OVHcloud and Hetzner for different client projects before even starting the Terraform. So I built something to speed that up. It scores 13 providers against your actual constraints (budget, region, Kubernetes, GDPR, availability) and generates a Terraform/OpenTofu scaffold. A few things that might be interesting to this community: \- Cost breakdown per component (GKE, Cloud SQL, Redis, WAF, etc.) not just a total \- Lock-in score + exit strategy per provider with concrete migration steps \- Cost projection at 1x / 5x / 10x traffic \- Works without an account if you just want to see the output For a typical EU Kubernetes SaaS at €1,500/month, Hetzner comes out cheapest (614€) with the lowest lock-in, Scaleway scores highest overall (77/100), AWS comes last on cost and lock-in. The Terraform output is still a scaffold (terraform\_data placeholders for now, not full provider resources yet) — being transparent about that since someone called it out last time I posted. Happy to hear what's wrong with the scoring logic or the approach. submitted by /u/Character-Ring5785 [link] [comments]