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Apparently Claude shared chat links were publicly available on Google by simply searching for “site:Claude.ai/share” Gonna be a fun Monday for the infosec team. https://cybersecuritynews.com/claude-ai-shared-chats/amp/ to r/sysadmin
PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
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Rusty HLP Viewer: native tool to open native HLP files
Hi, everyone, as you may have noticed, sometimes opening old file formats can be difficult. This can include even HLP files from old games and applications. This is why Rusty HLP viewer was designed: it's the first open source tool to open HLP files natively, without converting them into an intermed…
My Day Finally Arrived - My first Time Bringing the Systems Down
I've been working at my job, starting as a Help Desk Tech, all the way up to System Admin now for about 16 years. Today I finally made my first ever mistake that brought production hard down. Was working on an unrelated but related system with a Vendor for an upgrade to that system. Part of it requi…
T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon all suffer major outages simultaneously
Several ISPs and cell phone carriers are down for hundreds of thousands of users… did we let AI start configuring BGP? https://gvwire.com/2026/07/27/t-mobile-down-for-thousands-of-users-downdetector-reports/ https://downdetector.com to r/sysadmin
Best reading app Android/iPhone/Web, not Readest
I enjoyed using Readest for a short while, however realizing they are charging for hosting using your own hardware I no longer want to continue using/supporting them. Are there any other reading apps that support Android/iPhone/Desktop with *free* self hosted sync? to r/opensource
carta: A reimplementation of pandoc in Rust
Over the past weeks, I've been working on carta, a fast and lightweight reimplementation of pandoc in Rust. It's a universal document converter that takes in some markup and returns it another format. Pandoc is great. It's decades of jgm's experience embedded into an amazing piece of software. Yet, …
Open-source Steam DLC encryption tool (ECDH + AES-256, Unity SDK, MIT)
Been working on this for a few weeks and finally got it to a place where I'm happy with it. It's a Unity SDK + backend for encrypting Steam DLCs. The idea is that instead of just shipping the DLC files with the game (where anyone can grab them), the game requests a decryption key from a server at ru…
FluentTaskScheduler v1.9.0 - open source WinUI 3 frontend for Windows Task Scheduler, task chaining and templates added
Update on a project I maintain, FluentTaskScheduler, an open source frontend for the Windows Task Scheduler API (WinUI 3, .NET 8). Doesnt reimplement Task Scheduler, just sits on top of it, so tasks stay fully interoperable with the native tool and anything else touching them. v1.9.0 adds task chain…
UPS WorldShip 29.0.705 takes 40 to 60 seconds to process shipments before printing FIXED
Posting this in case anyone else runs into it after updating to WorldShip 29.0.705. Every shipment took about 40 to 60 seconds after clicking Process Shipment. WorldShip would freeze, then eventually finish and print the label. The logs showed this error: Cannot create file 'C:\ProgramData\UPS\WSTD\…
PSA for people trying to break into IT: 'soft skills' matter more than you probably think
A quick PSA for anyone trying to land their first help desk / IT support job: Do not sleep on soft skills. Technical knowledge matters, obviously. You need to know how to troubleshoot, understand basic networking, explain hardware/software issues, document tickets, and keep learning. But in entry-le…
How do you guys deal with this kind of pressure?
This has honestly been weighing on me for a while. We're a large company in the legal industry. Management wants me to clean up our M365 environment ASAP.specifically generic mailboxes that are still user mailboxes with sign-in enabled. The problem is I'm doing this mostly on my own, and every mailb…
New vBulletin Vulnerability!
CVE-2026-61511 - a critical vulnerability in vBulletin that allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a remote server. to r/netsec
Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ From Scratch
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No Cellular T-Mobile iPhone
Hey everyone, Any of your staff running into issues with no cellular access on their iPhones? Running into this in upper Manhattan. EDIT #1: 1840 EST coverage seems to be rolling out a bit. to r/sysadmin
Cross department handoffs are killing our IT response time
Struggling to get HR, facilities and dept heads on the same page and it's killing our sla metrics. HR hires someone and forgets to inform IT until the last day experts a full setup laptop by DOJ? It's always the same story and it's not like these diff department people speak to each other or us. We …
Replace Domain Controller - Reuse IP+Name
Hi! we're about to replace 1 of 3 DCs of a single domain. Old OS is 2022, new OS will be 2022. I'm wondering if there's any real downside to reusing the same hostname for the new DC. The plan would be: Transfer any FSMO roles off the old DC Cleanly demote it Verify metadata and DNS records (A/SRV un…
I open-sourced LangPilot — a local keyboard layout switcher for macOS
Hi everyone! I built and open-sourced LangPilot, a native macOS menu-bar utility for multilingual typing. It detects text entered using the wrong keyboard layout and converts it supports RU/EN/DE keyboard layouts.. It also provides local spelling suggestions and learns from manual corrections and un…
An opinionated and streamlined tag-to-release GitHub Action
Throughout my past decade as an open source maintainer, what makes it painful to kick off a new project is setting up the release workflow. I've always been a fan of pushing tags to create releases, and found myself copy-pasting the very same lines of CICD over and over again with some small variati…
Great job HP and 3CX: the discontinued Plantronics Hub works, but its modern replacement does not
I just wasted far too much time discovering something genuinely ridiculous. Setup: - Windows 11 - 3CX PWA - Poly Blackwire 3320 Teams headset - Current Poly Lens software installed Audio and microphone worked, but pressing the call button opened Microsoft Teams instead of answering the incoming 3CX …
Pollard's P-1 Factoring Algorithm in Plain C
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Writing arenas in Rust from scratch
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Intune iOS Pin Requirement Applying to Apple Watch
I’m testing an Intune BYOD config that requires (among other things) iOS devices to have a 6 digit pin. I noticed my Apple Watch now requires a pin as well. From what I can tell, it looks like the watch is simply inheriting the policy from my phone, and there’s no way around this, other than removin…
Is there a way to give unrestricted admin access for a specific program on windows?
At my current workplace, we previously had a whole office that used macOS, but we're now transiting to Windows 11. My problem right now is that those macs are pretty old, and they use some specific software that the users require to have on their new pcs. So as you can imagine, it has been a little …
A simple clustering algorithm for lists
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Need advice on handling a user base without leadership support
I'm in a rough spot. We got a tooth to tail ratio of 1: 229 and a user to ticket ratio of 1: 1.08. On top of this I have projects (because we lost our technicians I'm pulling double duty with another person as both "systems engineer" and service desk) and more responsibilities on the way from the de…
Keeping wasps off of outdoor access points?
Hello all, What is everyone doing to keep wasps from building nests on outdoor access points? My org is located in the southeastern USA, and we're using Meraki MR76 units with all antenna ports populated. twisted-pair cable is run throuhg a water-tight flexible conduit that terminates with cable gla…
Reliable tools for S3 bucket backup and replication?
I have a client thats fully cloud based with a large amount of data stored on Cloudflare R2. they want a separate backup(not tied to Cloudflare) ideally to another S3 compatible storage so we an quickly access or restore it if needed. Are there any reliable tools or services that can sync S3 buckets…
Papercut MF SFP license and support cost?
We have Papercut MF deployed with perpetual licenses we got some years ago. We are looking into adding some SFP and trying to figure out license and support costs per year. Quick search shows this to be between $50 and $150 per year, per device for both the license and support. Is this indeed the ca…
Anyone seeing issues with ASK/FILLIN pop-ups in Word after updating to Office Version 2607 (Build 20228.20110)
Hello, We have something which opens Word Docs with ASK/FILLIN fields. Since the update to 2607, ASK/FILLIN fields stop functioning. I 100% know the change is from Version 2606: July 14 Version 2606 (Build 20131.20154) to Version 2607: July 23 Version 2607 (Build 20228.20110). I've done the testing …
Fooyin v0.12.0 release notes discussion thread (in the crossposted post)
If you don't know what it is, it is basically a music player that is very similar to Foobar2000 (which is available on Windows and the dev doesn't want to make a native build for Linux and refers you to use Proton or Wine to run it on Linux). This is a crosspost of the discussion post that is made o…
Why Redis wasn't enough to survive a traffic spike, and what actually was
Postmortem after several rounds of performance work on a Laravel site, trying to push concurrent user capacity up. Ended up putting Varnish in front of Nginx. to r/programming
How we make Luau fast
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Peek - Open social media links without distraction
As someone who doesnt use Instagram but get tons of reels/post shared on whatsapp, I got tired of instagram's public webview which constantly asks for login with annoying popups So I vibed a clean android app - Peek which resolves Instagram links and loads them in a clean viewer. Goal is to support …
Gosuki v1.4.2: a cloudless, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager with multi-device sync
Hi All, I just released a new version of Gosuki, an extension free, multi-browser real time bookmark manager that aggregates your bookmarks in real time across all browsers and even external APIs such as Reddit and Github. Github: https://github.com/blob42/gosuki Documentation: https://gosuki.net I …
Help Desk Guy seeking guidance on becoming Tier 2/System Administrator
Good morning r/sysadmin, I’m a long time lurker who has benefitted significantly from the discussions held here on r/sysadmin, thank you for being a reliable source of all things IT. I have a common question: How do I efficiently drive my career from help desk to system administrator? I work at a de…
Free Spotify Alternative
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Dell BOSS card as the only storage
Morning, Probably an easy answer for anybody that knows Dell but I've only ever worked with HPE and Lenovo. Small company has new owners and know they need a new server. The owners dad is a long time Dell employee, no idea what he does, but says they can get a server for a good price and short deliv…
Lenovo X1 carbon gen14 laptop - Bitlocker/Secure boot error 2016345708(Syncml(404): The requested target was not found
I'm running into an Intune compliance issue and was wondering if anyone has seen this before. I have several Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptops that are Microsoft Entra ID joined with an Intune compliance policy that requires BitLocker and Secure Boot using device health compliance checks. The strange …
Should I leave a stable IT support role for a risky Linux/cloud role to keep my career aligned with DevOps?
I need an objective opinion because I keep going back and forth between staying in my current company and accepting another offer. I have around three years of experience in IT infrastructure, hosting support, website and email migrations, networking, Windows/Linux basics, Microsoft 365/Google Works…
V2V of Domain Controllers - pitfalls?
Hi! We're moving to Proxmox; three Windows DCs are left. Plan: shut down cleanly, convert the disk, import into Proxmox, keep the NIC disconnected on first boot, set the old static IP via console, then connect and verify replication (dcdiag/repadmin) before doing the next one. VirtIO drivers install…
AOVPN/RRAS Failover options
What failover options are currently available without pushing multiple vpn profiles to the users ? Basically VPN1 and VPN2 each in different datacenter locations. VPN1 should be used all the times and VPN2 as failover only. I see Microsoft is discontinuing NLB that was used as part of the cluster se…
Windows Autopatch Says Intune-Managed Devices Are “Not Registered”
I’m configuring Windows Autopatch for the first time. After assigning my device group to an Autopatch group, several devices fail the prerequisite check with: Not registered — Intune or Cloud-Attached Devices must be managed by either Intune or co-management. The affected devices appear correctly in…