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https://youtu.be/I7IHInNJZvE?is=wUbcXXyQtqkbQIPL Very funny Scetch by Kai Lentit. Kinda scary accurate how life as a Sysadmin is. Apparentely every Sysadmin has a similar life and look. submitted by /u/Rare-Plane-7319 [link] [comments]

So far, I have been using Hexnode, but it has become very expensive. I'm currently paying about $500 per month for 95 devices. While they offer a lot of features, I only use it for: 1)Remotely wiping devices. 2) Creating a custom configuration with 2–3 restrictions. 3) Setting a custom wallpaper. Is there another alternative I could use, or could I even self-host or vibe-code something similar? Thank you. submitted by /u/uwualex [link] [comments]

Been out of work for a while now and am transitioning from a trade to it have been studying my CCNA since April also studying az104 will be taking both within the next 8 weeks, I have a fairly good base knowledge of tech from my home lab that I’ve been running with HA proxmox cluster, issue is the job interview I have tomorrow is for a junior sysadmin role with a heavy focus on windows server, I have zero experience with windows server I’ve always used Linux and have no real world production experience with AD or anyother cloud concepts really. Want to know if I’m in over my head or if I’m just having some self doubts. Advice would be appreciated submitted by /u/SnooApples7692 [link] [comments]

A key part of our jobs is making sure we explain technical problems to non-technical people in an easy-to-understand manner. I absolutely SUCK at this. Sure, I could caveman speak it, but then it leaves out a lot of important details and is not professional. But then I add too many details and the person gets lost and loses interest before I even get to making it make sense. What is the middle ground? What do you recommend? Heres an example of a ticket response I wrote to an end user: (Now, this end user is more technically inclined, his position is Technology Manager at this client site. I would NOT send this to, lets say, Sharon in Marketing) but I feel like its just too much. But how do I explain it without going so far? Let me know your tips and tricks and if theres any good resources for in-depth non-technical writing 😂 Hi User, So what ive concluded with this printer issue is that: (this may seem technical, just bear with me, i swear I will explain it simpler further down) - The main subnet is: 10.100.100.0/22 - Typical subnets are /24 - So all that means is that in a /24, the subnet would go from 10.100.100.1 - 10.100.100.254 and stop there. But because its a /22, that carries over to 10.100.101.x and 10.100.102.x and maybe even into 10.100.103.x - The problem is: The printer, when i reset it last fall, I manually assigned it to 10.100.100.0/24, so that means, your computer, and anyone else outside of the 10.100.100.0 subnet will not be able to reach it. For example, if your computer IP is 10.100.101.55, it wont reach the printer because its outside of the 10.100.100.0 subnet and the printer is at 10.100.100.8 or something. I just didnt realize the subnet was a /22 instead of a /24. So to resolve this, all I need to do is remote into the printer and fix the subnet from a /24 to a /22, and that will (hopefully) resolve the printing issues. The next problem is.....the admin credentials we have saved for that printer are not working. So i cant even get into the printer to adjust the network setting. So thats where I stand with this, I need to either find the credentials for it or figure out how to factory reset it without logging into it. edit: fixed quote formatting submitted by /u/AdvancedDrink8920 [link] [comments]

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We are currently with Apple but I am switching to a android device. And trying to convince my with to switch too. I was looking at family cloud for Google. Both my wife and I have Google Photos and Gmail. She has been complaining she is out of space or cloud for Google. If we switch to the family plan I was reading online that once family members use 15gb they will go into the family shared plan. Do that mean my wife and or kids could see what is on my cloud and or can I see what is there cloud ? ie Google Photos, Google Drive ? submitted by /u/Both_Faithlessness_3 [link] [comments]

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Based on the technical breakdown SecurityWeek published July 28 (citing Alibaba's own advisory), here's the architectural impact: Fastjson 1.x treats a u/JSONType annotation as a trust signal during type resolution — combine that with an attacker-controlled resource lookup and you get RCE without AutoType enabled and without a classpath gadget. That's the part that should worry people: the mitigation everyone's been relying on since 2019 (disable AutoType) doesn't touch this variant. Imperva's seeing live exploitation across business, healthcare, financial, and retail targets in the US, plus hits in Singapore/Canada. No official 1.x patch — Alibaba's answer is migrate to 2.x. I wrote up the full chain + a remediation checklist here, with every unverified figure flagged: [link]. For background on the same "default defense has a trust-signal blind spot" pattern in a different ecosystem: [AsyncAPI npm piece]. Anyone running Fastjson 1.x in a fat-jar right now — what's your actual migration blocker to 2.x? API breakage, or just nobody's owned it? https://www.techgines.com/post/fastjson-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-16723 submitted by /u/Expert_Sort7434 [link] [comments]

Background: I'm an engineer in Algeria. My degree is in electrical/automation and I currently work in oil & gas as a data acquisition engineer (well testing, data integrity, reporting, that kind of thing). About a year ago, I decided to pivot into a remote role because I've been facing a health condition where on-site/field and mostly any physically demanding work is no longer an option for me. Cloud/DevOps is the direction I chose because I like the work and it's the most realistic path I found to stable remote work that pays in USD or EUR What I've done so far: Finished my AWS Cloud Practitioner prep, and I'm about to sit the exam ( scored 85-90% on most mocks, been stuck on a dumb payment/booking issue, but it's coming) Linux fundamentals, wrote a few bash scripts and put them on GitHub Hands-on AWS labs in my own account: built VPCs with public/private subnets, security groups vs NACLs, IAM, a two-tier setup with a private RDS MySQL behind an ALB, S3 gateway endpoints, etc. Broke things on purpose to learn how they fail Currently grinding through Terraform. Kubernetes and more Python are next Here's where the doubt kicks in. When I actually read job postings, two things hit me: Almost every "junior" role still wants 1 to 3 years of real experience Basically every remote role is geo-locked. "Remote (US only)," "must be authorized to work in X," no sponsorship, etc. The genuinely hire-from-anywhere jobs feel rare So my question to people actually working in this field: am I chasing something that barely exists for someone in my situation? Or is the hire-from-anywhere market real if you're good enough and know where to look? And if you've done this from outside the US/EU, how did you actually break in? I like the work, that's not the issue. I just don't want to spend another 6 months on a door that won't open. TLDR: Non-US engineer pivoting into cloud. Made decent progress but every remote role wants experience + local presence. Is this realistic or am I fooling myself? submitted by /u/PlateConfident [link] [comments]

So what do you do at companies where you give "customers" free wifi? Do you force them to put in a name and email address then not even bother to validate it? Or just a simple "accept these t&c" and thats it? Had this rant today. At our company, I've turned all that shit off. I'll do a simple accept the t&c and thats it. But in the NHS hospital, they expect patients! Patients that maybe struggle as they are old, don't understand tech or other issues, to put in a fucking name and email address just to use the free wifi. Why bother when they don't even validate so you can put: Bollocks [email protected] And it will accept it. So what is the point. Just make it easy for the patient with a simple accept with a t&c page (we all know noone reads them) submitted by /u/steviefaux [link] [comments]

Hello all, My manager has recently gotten it in their head that we really need a self service portal for IT things. Stuff like allowing users to access a knowledge base and download basic software. I know theres the big ones, like Solarwinds and ServiceNow, but I was wondering what everyone else uses? Our ticketing system, sadly, does not have this included. Any info you have on maybe a cheaper, or cleaner (I haven't used ServiceNow in a long time but I remember it being very cluttered but that could have been on us) service for this would be appreciated. Mostly looking for personal testimonials. Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/bucketman1986 [link] [comments]

What happens when AI goes down, it is like us-east-1 in AWS going down, work literally stops. Time to go outside and play 😅 https://preview.redd.it/fhnowu2r68gh1.png?width=1037&format=png&auto=webp&s=74ab14c6d912255799ec602f182cc4737f062703 https://status.claude.com/ submitted by /u/kiwifellows [link] [comments]

Hello. So we have a 365 hybrid joined domain. For the foreseeable we can't move to cloud only because of dependencies to the on prem domain that can't be removed. I am getting constant friction because we have numerous saas / power app applications that easily integrate to entra to write/update attributes etc. I agree this would make things much easier for app development etc. To keep it simple this would just be for basic user attributes. Name, line manager, email, office location etc. However, with us being hybrid the master AD must be on-prem and so we lose the native entra integration availability. This is quite frustrating and does hold us back a bit. I was wondering how others might have navigated this? Do any 3rd party tools exists etc. Or is powershell all we have? Thanks in advance, any thoughts welcome. submitted by /u/chad-pitt [link] [comments]

Anyone else having issues today with Dell command update? I'm using version 5.7, and I am trying to use it on several devices. It is either running cripplingly slow, or not at all. submitted by /u/mgmaasen [link] [comments]

Does anyone have Zebra Device Gaurdian Access Manager Cabinet and Portal in operation? Literaly, looking for someone else in this space. B submitted by /u/Brazel [link] [comments]

bought an expired domain name and set up google search console. as soon as i verified it google showed me years of owner verification history. full unredacted email addresses. exact dates and times of every single person who ever verified to work on the domain. i saw all the previous owners. i saw the freelancers and agencies they hired years ago. Am I overracting to think this is a privacy nightmare and a security risk. Lets say you sell a domain or let one expire a direct competitor buys it. now they instantly know your personal emails. they know your internal staff emails. they know exactly what agency you used and when they worked for you. i checked how to wipe this history. you cant. google keeps it stuck to the domain forever. even if you delete the property and clear your dns records it stays there for the next buyer to see. Please someone tell me I'm wrong and there's some way to wipe out that sensitive, trade secret data before letting go of a domain? submitted by /u/Then-Personality8587 [link] [comments]

Hello everyone, I am struggling to narrow down what is causing an RDP host to require authentication. I have two test machines. Both are Win 11 25H2. I was tasked with figuring out how to stop an RDP host from prompting for authentication and allow the RDP client to pass the delegated credentials. So on machine A, it prompts me every single time to login once I have authenticated to the client already. On machine B, I can rdp without being prompted on the host. I have looked at possibly every GPO and registry setting involved and compared the two machines using Chatgpt to help guide me. I have been able to narrow it down to machine A having the Microsoft Security Baseline configured on it while machine B has not. I've looked through the baseline documentation and still do not see what the difference is. I thought I would post here in the hope someone has seen this before. Thanks! submitted by /u/Dragon45801 [link] [comments]

Application version manager ABC is on a sprint spree and their development team is continuously rolling out new features and fixing bugs. The DevOps team now needs to ensure that the app updates are installed correctly for every user. Write a bash script that takes in the user’s current version preferably as a parameter, fetches all the versions which have database updates serially from a separate text file, and lists out the versions which need to be updated. Version format: major.minor.patch (eg- 2.5.23) Part 1 Write a bash script where the current version and the latest version do not have a major update. Only minor versions or patch may vary. Eq- current version is 2.5.23, and latest version is 2.6.0 Part 2 In the same bash script file as for part 1 of the question, include changes so that it identifies changes in major version if any. Eq- current version is 2.5.23, and latest version is 3.1.2 Input versions.txt (see filetree) Output If current version is 3.1.1 3.1.6 3.1.13 If current version is 3.1.2 3.1.6 3.1.13 If current version is 2.1.9 2.1.10 2.1.11 2.1.18 2.2.0 2.2.10 2.2.20 2.4.5 3.1.0 3.1.1 3.1.6 3.1.13 submitted by /u/Glittering-Ear9274 [link] [comments]

But it's mostly my fault. TL;DR even if you're a 15 year veteran of IT support, ask the user WTF they're talking about and ask for a screenshot or error. Someone puts in a ticket, says they can't open an excel doc. It was someone from the same department and same day as a read-only expired Sharepoint issue so I assumed it was there and pointed them to the directory where we moved everything from that Sharepoint/Onedrive. Nope, unrelated. It's on the file server under accounting. So after getting the file path, I notice she's not in a permissions group that has access. So I grant her access and instruct to log out and back in to get the permission token. Nope, that wasn't the problem. Still reporting as "locked." So I thought oh, it's the "another user is editing this" lock thing because that happens sometimes there on network drives. So I clone it, open in Libre, convert it to ODS then back to XLSX, and delete the original. Nope, still reporting that it's locked. This user is impossible to contact by any method invented by mankind. Only way is to set one of those cartoon cargo net traps outside their office and snag them in it. So I request a screenshot via email, the only communication method they use. She finally sends back a shot of "this one specific third sheet inside the file is locked/write-protected. You need a password to unlock it." I use one of two known tricks to unlock that one sheet without the password. It works. Finally closing the 1.5 week old ticket. Btw the sheet has in cell D1 in huge letters with colored highlight "This is the password to edit this sheet:" followed by the password in the next cell. I guess that missed that. submitted by /u/CeC-P [link] [comments]

I am the sole IT tech at a small non-profit (roughly 80 person staff), where their ticketing system is a bit convoluted. Specifically, in order to submit an IT request, someone needs to contact their department head and have them submit one. I've tried to suggest adjustments to this system, to no luck. I'm trying to do my best to make this system easier for my coworkers, and want to write up a handful of articles with info and torubleshooting steps for common issues. I've thought of a few, but I'm hoping that folks here will give me more ideas on what to add. If it helps, most people use laptops from multiple different brands (HP, Lenovo, Dell of various product lineups), and we use Active Directory for accounts. We are also a Microsoft environment, with most people using Microsoft online. Most people work in office. A lot of these docs are going to be specific to my org and 100% up to me, but anything general that I'm not thinking of would be super helpful. Thx! submitted by /u/shac15 [link] [comments]