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In the process of trying to document the environment for a small non-profit that I have been supporting for a long time. My time is winding down but I thought I had most things covered, password manager with mulitple MFA options including a hardware yubikey to allow access to vault. But I never thought about doing the same for other sites like M365 or Duo Security etc. I have enabled MFA with the microsoft authenticator but if I was to be hit by a beer truck etc before being able to move accounts over etc, I do not think they would be able to logon etc. I assume m365 allows for hardware tokens in ADDITION to soft tokens and if so I can register the yubikey hardware token and do the same hopefully for Duo. But it had me thinking for small shops how are folks handling secondary MFA authentication methods so a new admin is able to carry on etc...I prefer not to use email as secondary but thought I would ask to see what other options are out there, thanks. submitted by /u/bishoptf [link] [comments]

Hi all, I have created a security tool that automates your day to day tasks and post compromised things as well it really helped me in many things i thought to make it free for everyone this will be a good option or should i enhance it further and make it more efficient and sell to some company. I cant tell you much but it has actually helped me alot. I have 3yoe and in last 2 years because of this i have made my tasks more accurate and complete in less time . Need your thoughts. Cant tell much about it right now. submitted by /u/Original-Success69 [link] [comments]

I use BuyVM on a regular basis but servers are few and far between. Can anyone recommend similar companies that are somewhat takedown resistant. I'm not hosting anything illegal in the US but some groups don't appreciate free speech and put pressure on our hosts and recently cloudflare. Hoping to get a few VPS servers together and use them as a reverse proxy system. Gbit connection and unmetered bandwidth is the main thing and nice to haves would be 40+ Nvme storage. 2 cores and 4GB Ram for $10-15 a month. The less info they ask for the better (not a fan of all this KYC business but it's not a deal killer Thanks in advance

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I've been running this setup for a while and it's one of the more reliable ways to get through the GFW and Russian TSPU filtering right now. Writing it up properly since most existing guides are outdated. Why Xray Reality and not WireGuard/OpenVPN? WireGuard is great but trivially detected — the GFW fingerprints it within seconds. OpenVPN on 443 used to work but is now blocked in most regions of China. VLESS+Reality is different: it doesn't just encrypt traffic, it impersonates a real TLS website. To a firewall doing deep packet inspection, your traffic looks like someone visiting microsoft.com or apple.com. What you need A VPS outside China/Russia — HK, Singapore, or Europe all work. 512MB RAM is enough. No domain required (one of the advantages of Reality over older Xray configs) Root SSH access iOS: Shadowrocket ($2.99) / Android: v2rayNG (free) / Windows: v2rayN (free) Step 1 — Install Xray SSH into your VPS and run the official installer: bash -c "$(curl -L https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-install/raw/main/install-release.sh)" @ install This installs Xray to /usr/local/bin/xray and creates a systemd service. Step 2 — Generate keys xray x25519 Save the output — you get a Private key and a Public key . You need both. Also generate a short ID: openssl rand -hex 8 Save this too. Step 3 — Pick a destination domain This is the site your traffic will "pretend" to be. Pick any popular HTTPS site accessible from your VPS: www.microsoft.com www.apple.com www.lowendtalk.com (meta but works) Verify TLSv1.3 support: curl -v --tlsv1.3 https://www.microsoft.com 2>&1 | grep "TLSv1.3" Step 4 — Write the config Create /usr/local/etc/xray/config.json : { "inbounds": [{ "port": 443, "protocol": "vless", "settings": { "clients": [{ "id": "PASTE-A-UUID-HERE", "flow": "xtls-rprx-vision" }], "decryption": "none" }, "streamSettings": { "network": "tcp", "security": "reality", "realitySettings": { "dest": "www.microsoft.com:443", "serverNames": ["www.microsoft.com"], "privateKey": "YOUR-PRIVATE-KEY", "shortIds": ["YOUR-SHORT-ID"] } } }], "outbounds": [{"protocol": "freedom"}] } Generate a UUID: xray uuid Replace PASTE-A-UUID-HERE , YOUR-PRIVATE-KEY , and YOUR-SHORT-ID with your values. Step 5 — Start Xray systemctl restart xray systemctl status xray Should show active (running) . If not: journalctl -u xray -n 50 Step 6 — Configure your client In Shadowrocket, v2rayN, or v2rayNG, create a new VLESS connection: Field Value Address your VPS IP Port 443 UUID from your config Flow xtls-rprx-vision Transport TCP Security Reality Public Key from Step 2 Short ID from Step 2 SNI www.microsoft.com Step 7 — Split tunneling (optional but recommended) In Shadowrocket set mode to Rule and add: GEOIP,CN,DIRECT — Chinese IPs connect directly GEOIP,RU,DIRECT — Russian IPs connect directly FINAL,PROXY — everything else through VPS This keeps banking apps and local services fast. Full routing guide: https://routeveil.com/blog/does-split-tunneling-matter-xray-shadowrocket Common issues Port 443 already in use: Check if nginx/apache is running. Stop it or change Xray to a different port. Connection refused: Make sure port 443 is open in both the OS firewall and your VPS provider's network panel. Reality handshake fails: The dest domain might not support TLSv1.3, or it may block requests from VPS IPs. Try a different dest domain. Works at home, blocked at office/school: Some networks do SNI filtering. Try a different destination domain. Notes This runs fine on the cheapest VPS you can find — 512MB RAM, 1 vCPU is more than enough. I've been using a $3.50/month VPS for this without issues. Happy to answer questions.

Luna's 80% price cut landed this week so I ran the numbers on my PR review bot. A real review of a ~180-line PR: about 2,300 tokens in, 590 visible out, which works out around $0.001 The dashboard total for my whole billing window, 15 requests including three full reviews, is 6,244 tokens and $0.00. Screenshots and links to example code review PR: https://codylabs.uk/blog/ai-code-review-cost/ https://preview.redd.it/3kl6us18bzgh1.png?width=2340&format=png&auto=webp&s=d85a0f590b9dc7f7d4ffa7300c77c128505c8361 submitted by /u/Due-Calligrapher-369 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm a CS student, and I realized something recently. In college, we're taught how to write code, debug it, maybe deploy it once, and then we move on to the next assignment. But I keep reading incident reports from companies like GitHub and Cloudflare, and it feels like the real engineering work actually starts after deployment. I'm curious because I honestly have no idea what that world looks like. When something breaks in production at 2 AM, what actually happens? Do you immediately know what's wrong, or is it more like putting together pieces of a puzzle? What's usually the most frustrating part of the whole process? Also, what's one thing about running software in production that you wish every CS student knew before joining the industry? I'm not building anything or looking for textbook answers—I just want to understand what the job is really like beyond what we learn in college. I'd love to hear your stories, even if it's just one incident that taught you something you'll never forget. submitted by /u/No_Comfortable9746 [link] [comments]

the cloudfront outage on the 16th is still bugging me. the fleet that manages connections to private vpc origins couldn't load updated config, traced back to one frankfurt AZ, and it served 5xx on vpc origin traffic for about three and a half hours. hugging face, tailscale and ubiquiti were among the ones down. bad timing, because i was in the middle of moving four services off public alb origins onto vpc origins. to hit a compliance date i ran the migrations in parallel instead of one clean cutover at a time. the outage wasn't the hard part. all four workstreams were editing the same terraform repo and the same shared network module. one branch tightened a security group, another assumed the old rule was still there, and a third rebased on both and quietly reverted half of it. i spent more time untangling my own branches than dealing with aws. what kept it sane was isolating each migration so the changes didn't collide. i run each one as its own task in verdent, parallel lines of work in the same codebase without branches stepping on each other. at least i had a clean diff per service to reason about. the ugly part: the agent's config for one service moved the origin to vpc origins but left the alb's public security group open to 0.0.0.0/0. on paper we were private, in reality the load balancer was still reachable from the internet, which is the whole reason we were migrating. i only caught it because the diff on the shared module looked off. what i still haven't solved is sequencing. running four in parallel meant that during the actual outage, two services were on vpc origins and degraded while two were still public and fine, and my runbook assumed one uniform state. my only fix is a per-service origin flag and a single cutover window, which just trades the messy middle for a concentrated blast radius. submitted by /u/Appropriate-Carry557 [link] [comments]

Every time I touch a workflow file it's the same loop, small change, push, wait for the runner, watch it fail on some tiny thing, tweak, push again. Ten commits later it finally goes green. No real way to test it before it runs, so I'm just push-and-praying. Do you hit the same thing? Or is there some other part of CI/Actions that drives you nuts? What you'll guys actually dealing with? submitted by /u/aizyn_ [link] [comments]

Hypothetical, but I want a realistic answer rather than an optimistic one. Say there was a tool that ran batch jobs on engineering workstations after hours, inside your own network, releasing the machine the moment someone touched it. Nothing leaves the building. Does that get past your security review, or is unattended execution on an endpoint a hard no regardless of how it works? And if it is a no, is that policy or is it the review process being long enough that nobody bothers? Also curious whether anyone has already tried this and given up, and why. submitted by /u/Rare_Piano_1369 [link] [comments]

Well, this was not on my bingo list. They're really redesigning Print Mnaagement app for Windows https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/02/windows-11s-winui-3-modernization-just-reached-one-of-its-oldest-legacy-tools-meet-the-new-print-management/ submitted by /u/WPHero [link] [comments]

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]

Recommend some for me,PLEASE~ Just to meet my Usenet downloading needs. Newshosting’s direct connection speed in China is only 800k/s. Although I have 1G of bandwidth, because of the direct connection, the network I’ve joined isn’t able to run at full speed.

I realize this is unlikely to yield any results, but I figured it couldn't hurt asking: does anyone have a VPS (~1G, 1CPU, nothing too beefy, just for VPN hopping) that is physically in Germany but appears to be geo-located in the UK? I realize this is unlikely, and even more unlikely to remain post-reboot, but I'm looking to exit from Germany but look like I'm in the UK and I know I've had issues the opposite way with Ionos (in the UK but geo-locating in DE).

Looking for a custom VDS 6/8 dedicated cores AMD Ryzen or EPYC (Please state exact model) 3GB RAM DDR5 10 Gb Port Unmetered BW FUP or > 70TB per month (Unlimited incoming works too as my outgoing is low, 5 TB at most) 30 GB NVMe Please provide looking glass details. Budget $10-15 per month Crypto payment providers preferred

Hello everyone, I'm planning to transfer this machine since I have no use for it anymore, specs as below. E5 NVMe Promo 8 CPU Cores 2 Storage 40.00 GB RAM 8.00 GiB Bandwidth 1.00 TB Yabs: root@sadan:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## Yet-Another-Bench-Script v2026-05-11 https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## Fri Jun 26 07:55:58 UTC 2026 Basic System Information: Uptime : 0 days, 14 hours, 25 minutes Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz CPU cores : 2 @ 2999.998 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled RAM : 7.8 GiB Swap : 0.0 KiB Disk : 36.1 GiB Distro : Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Kernel : 7.0.0-14-generic VM Type : KVM IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online IPv6 Network Information: ISP : HostHatch ASN : AS63473 HostHatch, LLC Host : HostHatch, LLC Location : Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung District (NSK) Country : Hong Kong fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1): Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS) Read 79.85 MB/s (19.9k) 721.00 MB/s (11.2k) Write 80.06 MB/s (20.0k) 724.80 MB/s (11.3k) Total 159.91 MB/s (39.9k) 1.44 GB/s (22.5k) Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS) ------ --- ---- ---- ---- Read 1.07 GB/s (2.0k) 1.11 GB/s (1.0k) Write 1.12 GB/s (2.2k) 1.18 GB/s (1.1k) Total 2.19 GB/s (4.2k) 2.30 GB/s (2.2k) iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): Provider Location (Link) Send Speed Recv Speed Ping Clouvider London, UK (10G) 799 Mbits/sec 1.17 Gbits/sec 183 ms Eranium Amsterdam, NL (100G) 776 Mbits/sec 5.62 Gbits/sec 194 ms Uztelecom Tashkent, UZ (10G) 975 Mbits/sec 3.95 Gbits/sec 226 ms Leaseweb Singapore, SG (10G) 5.30 Gbits/sec 5.80 Gbits/sec 38.0 ms Clouvider Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) 749 Mbits/sec 1.52 Gbits/sec 144 ms Leaseweb NYC, NY, US (10G) 663 Mbits/sec 5.25 Gbits/sec 219 ms Edgoo Sao Paulo, BR (1G) 406 Mbits/sec 2.37 Gbits/sec 306 ms iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6): Provider Location (Link) Send Speed Recv Speed Ping Clouvider London, UK (10G) busy busy 183 ms Eranium Amsterdam, NL (100G) 802 Mbits/sec 5.94 Gbits/sec 194 ms Uztelecom Tashkent, UZ (10G) busy 1.16 Gbits/sec 209 ms Leaseweb Singapore, SG (10G) 5.18 Gbits/sec 6.49 Gbits/sec 38.2 ms Clouvider Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) 788 Mbits/sec 1.53 Gbits/sec 144 ms Leaseweb NYC, NY, US (10G) 668 Mbits/sec 5.03 Gbits/sec 219 ms Edgoo Sao Paulo, BR (1G) 402 Mbits/sec 2.08 Gbits/sec 306 ms Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test: Test | Value | Single Core | Multi Core | Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18488484 Next payment is due on 2027-01-02 for a total of $30.00. asking price: $20+$10 HostHatch transfer fee = $30 (only accept paypal)

Got a maintenance notice on Friday at 0200 saying they were taking everything down and it would be back by the end of the day on Friday. Still down today. Website is down. Hopefully this isn't the end.

Godot Google Play Billing ( I'm getting this result -> [IAP] Product not cached: coins_0.99 ) I already implemented the logic for the in app purchases but, it appears it's not being processed at all... here is the code for my app. Is something wrong with my code? I already have my product ids set up and they are active in the play console and when I click on a button to purchase some coins it calls the "_buy_coins_10k() " function. But nothing shows, no purchase window for $0.99 for the 10k Coins