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I literally CAN'T go back to Windows
Hey, so I was part of the crowd that switched to Linux around the start of this year because of how awful Windows has gotten. After distro-hopping a few times, I finally settled on Debian Stable with KDE. Today, I got the itch to play one of the kernel level anti-cheat games I gave up on when switch…
TIL: Holding the CTRL key in Windows Task Manager stops the process list from jumping around
Hello everyone! I recently learned a trick that solved a annoyance in Windows Task Manager for me that I had ever since the Windows 2000 days. When Windows Task Manager is open the processes in the list keeps "jumping" based on how they're sorted. This makes it frustrating sometimes to find the proc…
What is a token and why does it cost so much? - Computerphile
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GitLost: a public GitHub issue can steer an org's Agentic Workflow into leaking private repo contents, and a one-word prefix ("Additionally") bypassed the threat-detection guardrail
Noma Security published a technique they call GitLost against GitHub Agentic Workflows (the plain-English-Markdown agent feature GitHub put into public preview in February, runnable on Copilot, Claude, Gemini, or Codex). Worth reading because it is a clean demonstration of why "filter the injection"…
Vercel acquires Better Auth
Better-Auth no longer has to find a way to monetize the open source framework. The team is joining Vercel. BA is part of my stack, including Nextjs, Mastra, Payload, and Drizzle. I'm excited because I trust they'll get the resources they need to continue building at Vercel. to r/opensource
Odin 1.0 Announcement
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I'm not burnt out. I'm just bored and annoyed all the time.
I was the very first employee at a brand new MSP back in 2012. Had an associates degree and 2 years experience doing support for a couple of websites when I was hired. It was just me and my boss working out of a client office where he was the CTO before he started this company. Now we have about 150…
Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer
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which is the best open source scanning utility for documents? I am tired of Adobe Scan.
I am looking for an open source scanning app for documents so that my documents should remain private. This is the part everyone ignores, most of the scanning apps are proprietary. Our personal data is in the hands of those people which makes me think twice before scanning any document of mine. Is t…
Microsoft finally added a way to change the organizer of existing Teams meetings
For years, if a meeting organizer left the company or changed roles, there was no way to transfer ownership of an existing Teams meeting. For recurring meetings, this was a major pain. The only option was to recreate the meeting. After months of hearing 'it's coming,' the new cmdlet is finally here …
I created a text-based 3D renderer
My program parses an input object file(or a default cube) and splits it up into points, edges, and faces to be rotated. As I utilize raw input mode, the program can only be run on Linux. There are a few demos located in the readme. to r/opensource
[UPDATE] IT Admin turns into all IT
Hey everyone! I made a post about 9 months ago in here talking about the stress of a new position and not knowing what to do: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ow4b9f/it_admin_turns_into_all_it/ It's been a little over a year now, and wow. The changes made and the suggestions from all of y…
Sample and test Open Source TTS models
Elevenlabs and similar are pretty expensive. Theres open source text to speech models that exist, but they just aren't really presented well. They're all buried in GH repos, you have to download them yourself, etc. Thought it would be nice to just have a single standalone UI where you could browse T…
Superfast RAW rating and Culling pre-lightroom import. Win/Mac
Its free, open source. I'd love your feedback! The windows exe is only 700kb to give you an idea of how efficient it is and supports reading the in-Raw jpg previews from most brands. Its PURE aim is speed for culling/rating pre-Lightroom import - nothing else https://github.com/shootthesound/iRate T…
Switched my grandma’s PC from Windows to Linux Mint Cinnamon for one simple reason: it should just boot and work
My grandma mainly uses her PC to write and print letters. Nothing fancy: open a document, type, save it, print it. Windows had become the actual problem. Every now and then the PC would boot into some update issue, warning, recovery screen, or other state where it was not immediately usable. For som…
Frame - FFmpeg GUI Rust rewrite
Hi everyone! I just released Frame 0.30.0. Frame is an open source FFmpeg GUI written in Rust. It supports video, audio and image conversion, hardware encoding, subtitles, metadata editing, cropping, scaling, batch processing and reusable presets - basically the stuff I got tired of typing FFmpeg co…
Finally my first big fuck up at work
So… I think I just got my first real IT fuckup And it is bad. I’m still early in my IT career, mostly doing end user support. Right now, I am the only IT guy in this building. Our IT team supports three sites and we are 3 helpdesk and an IT manager who doesn't get her hands dirty, the rest of the IT…
Anyone here hosting their own cli chat service?
There are a lot of options out there, weechat, irssi, GoMuks, Cordless etc. But does anyone here host/know how to host their own? Curious because I might do it myself, and also cause we want to know 🧐 to r/linux
tudo v1.1.0 adds notes alongside tasks
The new notes tab lets you type markdown notes, saved in custom notebooks, with all the features you'd expect from tudo. Along with a bunch of other fixes and updates to the UX of the app, including easier navigation and search. Let me know your thoughts, thanks for looking! https://github.com/jolle…
Messaging delays in Microsoft Teams again?
Curious if anyone else is seeing any message delays in Teams, similar to what happened on 6/22 (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ulp265/teams\_message\_delays\_this\_week/). Not seeing anything in the Service health page yet. I'm in NA, North Texas area. to r/sysadmin
Anyone ever change their Microsoft tenant' name? How did it go?
My org is a full-on Microsoft shop with most users on E5 licenses. We use nearly everything MS has to offer. E.g. Intune, full security suite, virtual machines, virtual networking linked to on-prem, many SSO connectors, many enterprise apps, major development projects in function/logic apps, power B…
Just heard this new saying
"never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" Not sure why but this saying goes sooo hard for those who know What's your favorite IT saying? to r/sysadmin
My company was recently acquired... now what?
TL;DR: after almost 9 years in this position, the small manufacturing company I work for was acquired by a large multi-national and my current position is likely going to be phased out. What do I do next? I'm 25+ years into my IT career and I've been the lead Systems/Network Admin here for almost 9 …
TIL: Windows 11 Pro OEM silently blocks SetupComplete.cmd and DISM online driver-add
Building a zero-touch imaging pipeline (FOG + PXE) for ~350 devices across 5 campuses. Spent weeks stuck on why post-imaging automation never fired — turns out on OEM-licensed Win11 Pro, windeploy.exe detects the OEM channel and silently skips user-provided SetupComplete scripts. No error, just noth…
LinuxUser magazine featured my open-source app in the front page of their July issue
It's such a joy for me to realise that LinuxUser, a popular German tech magazine, has featured my open-source app Sniffnet in the front page of their latest issue. Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool compatible with Linux and written in Rust I've worked on for the past 4 years. Here you can find t…
Recommended cloud backup solution for a 4TB Synology NAS?
Hello everyone. I'm new to these role. Management wants me to check for a backup solution for our company NAS (synology) Right now, the NAS is the only copy that we have for the company data, which is around 4.1 TB. My plan is to recommend this setup: Original data on the NAS A local backup on an ex…
Is social media platform security within SysAdmin domain?
It seems that marketing/social teams don't manage platforms to the extent that SysAdmins might, so we were tagged in to make improvements (enforcing MFA, migrating from personal accounts to business addresses, revoking access for departed employees, upgrading business tenants for more logging and co…
Most Secure Way to Store Auth Tokens
Where should your auth token live so an XSS bug can't steal it? Here's how to build auth that survives the crazy non-secure world we live in. to r/programming
Moving 600k/mo transactional emails from SendGrid to self-hosted Postal?
Sending about 600k transactional emails a month (no marketing). SendGrid is mostly fine, but their suppression list is killing us. Users incidentally mark a receipt as spam; later they complain when they don't get critical stuff. Our tools can't inject SendGrid's override headers. Thinking of dropin…
Atomic/Immutable - clarification
I've recently tried Fedora Atomic spin (Kionite), and I was under an impression that atomic and immutable are the same thing. But I got this feeling that maybe it's not. Kionite is definitely atomic. All updates are installed on a non-active image, and the new image is loaded after a restart. Howeve…
Transition to IT Director from sys admin
Hey all, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been presented with the opportunity to move into a director role at another company. This will be a pretty big change for me, as I don't have real life management experience. I've spent the last several years at my current company, becoming the sort…
Adobe/O365 not playing nice together
I have several users now who are complaining about Adobe and Office 365 not playing well together. The programs are freezing, to the point they show up as not responding, Adobe is crashing. In the past when I've had these issues, some of the fixes have been: Install Creative Cloud (bleargh) and ensu…
New OST2 class: "Architecture 1901: From zero to QEMU - A Gentle introduction to emulators from the ground up!"
This free class by Antonio Nappa of Fuzz Society builds up your knowledge from learning a toy 8-bit CPU architecture all the way to understanding how QEMU can emulate that architecture. Using this knowledge you can then understand how QEMU can emulate any architecture! Based on beta testing, this cl…
Is this a good answer to what your biggest weakness?
I'm going out for an infrastructure engineer role. The job actually reads like it will be a really good fit but it's more linux-oriented than my past organizations. I've used Linux across my career and I've used Linux at home since 2011. I'd really like this job because it's more in the direction of…
Security you can't justify is a vicious cycle
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move linux saas to new host
I have a linux host on Vultr that hosts a SaaS app. Single machine hosts everything including DB. Apache, MariaDB, redis, php. I need to setup a new host and move everthing to the new host. Users access using app.mydomain.com. Vultr does not allow to transfer main ip from a current host to another h…
Block entire top level domain from teams calls
We have been getting an influx of spam calls from specific top level domains (.top, .sk, etc.) , from various accounts and domains. Can we block these teams calls/chats without disabling all external access? From what i see wildcards are not supported. For email a rule has already been setup. to r/s…
New outlook auto archive emails
Hi, I have an issue here where users on the new outlook, their emails are being auto archive after a month I checked the user flows and rules and don't see anything Any ideas where I should check to r/sysadmin
VMware alternatives for Metro Clustering?
We use shared storage across sites with synchronous replication at the SAN level, with hosts at either end sharing a single cluster. We can live migrate VMs and active storage volumes on the fly in this configuration. We have been reviewing VMware alternatives for reasons obvious, however whilst the…
On-call schedules.
What are you guys looking at for on-call rotation. Currently 3 of us so 3 week rotation. On-call comes in at 7am that week. They're moving a guy so going down to every other week. Seems like a deal breaker? to r/sysadmin
ThinkStation P3 Tiny (30HO) — BIOS update stalls at 100% for 24hr+, hard reboot bricks unit. Anyone else hit this?
Deployment mix: unit 1 failed before firmware was pushed via Intune (manual/Vantage update). Units 2-5 failed after Intune deployment of what we believe is the same BIOS version. Questions: **•** Anyone identified the specific BIOS version/package ID causing this on 30HO? **•** Confirmed fix via USB…
Issues with ManageEngine Endpoint Central OS Deployment
Does anyone else use this feature through Endpoint Central Cloud? We have a local PXE server with the OS Deployment components installed that was working fine as of 7-2-2026. However, when we came back to the office on Monday, 7-6-2026, it was no longer functioning. We can PXE boot to the server jus…