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The Fury 🐧💻❗️🔥:verified: @thefyuuri@infosec.exchange · Aug 03, 2026
When you've done 17 hours of work, part of which consisting of two outages and it's only Monday. #sysadmin #sysadminlife
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · Jul 31, 2026

Random tip. On a rpm based Linux system like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky, Fedora etc, you can find the rpm package that installed a certain file/binary with rpm -qf /path/to/file. This is an ancient way of doing that, but really fast, as it uses local info from the rpmdb :). I just used it to find out that the /usr/sbin/ether-wake command that I use to switch my homelab machines on via wake-on-LAN (WoL) magic packets lives in the net-tools rpm :)

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Mauricio Teixeira 👨‍💻☁️🐧 @badnetmask@hachyderm.io · Jul 30, 2026
It's funny when someone downloads a 3 GB ISO file, and calls it "live CD". 😄 #HomeLab #SysAdminLife @homelab@fedigroups.social
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Deborah Pickett @futzle@old.mermaid.town · Jul 28, 2026
Replying to @futzle@old.mermaid.town
This is one of the best ideas I have ever had. #SysadminLife #organization #technology
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MacLemon @MacLemon@chaos.social · Jul 27, 2026
The moment you begin using any of the many vibe-coded software projects that are popping up everywhere, you inherit its technical debt and future maintenance. #sysadminlife #sloperator #homelab
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · Jun 26, 2026

Friday is update time for my homelab and public servers. Because, should something fail, I have the weekend to fix it. But, as always, nothing failed. All 9 RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) servers got their dnf update, followed by a reboot. This time the security updates included important nginx fixes, moderate coreutils stuff. Also a emu-kvm bugfix. All is good, machines and services are up and running again. 20 minutes of well invested time. Coffee next :)

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · May 27, 2026
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Testing https://dynip.dev a new dynamic IP service from Sweden with RFC2136 TSIG, DNSSEC, IPv6 etc. Looking good so far. I already created a zone for one of my domains and will now see if I can use this for my homelab to expose public services. #SelfHost #SysAdminLife #ddns @homelab@fedigroups.social
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · May 15, 2026
Just to keep stuff correct. Copyfail and DirtyFrag CVEs are fixed in almost all Linux distribution kernels. As far as I can see there was no widespread damage. The nginx CVE needs a non-default config to be exploitable. So update your machines and relax. And dear tech journalists — please do a bit more work to put things in context instead of shouting FIRE from the rooftops whenever you see smoke. It could also be a hot pile of sh*t that causes that smoke ;) #SelfHost #SysAdminLife @homelab@fedigroups.social
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · May 01, 2026

Friday is dnf update and reboot day for the machines in my homelab and the servers I run on the internet. My machines all run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so I know I am protected against any new threat that comes with a lot of media fanfare, because we at Red Hat stoically fix things and make the updates available. So as on every Friday, I can relax and enjoy the weekend :)

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · Mar 01, 2026
Age verification for the services I run? Solved. I look in my passport, verify that I am 18 years or older, look in the mirror to check that it is really me and after that I install Yet Another Service on my server to become less dependent on big tech :) #SelfHost #SysAdminLife #SarcasmButOnlyHalf
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