I have the weirdest issue with a (brand-new) rack server: the nvme drives are simply vanishing a couple of days after running. First one drive, then the second one sometime later. Not even visible in BIOS immediately when rebooting. However, if you let it sit for a while, they magically return as if nothing happened.

I'm honestly at a loss for possible explanations. Never seen anything like it. Ideas, anyone?

#sysops #sysadmin

#HEADSUP HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License which might have impacts on future releases of tools you use in businesses like #vagrant, #vault etc.

#dev #ops #sysop #sysops #code #coding #itinfrastructure #infrastructure #pipeline #cicd

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

I'm experiencing some real anxiety around upgrading the background worker for https://combine.social from the current stable worker (written in #TypeScript ) to the new version 2.0 (written in #Rust ).

There are a lot of people expecting this product to be stable and functioning, and what if I break things and disappoint people?

#Anxiety #ImpostorSyndrome #SysOps

I miss the dial-up #BBS :) Glad we can still telnet or SSH to the ones still in operation by those loyal #SysOps!

@carnage4life Using the Unbound "local caching DNS resolver" I point blocked domains (w/ subdomains) at a local Nginx web server which just responds to everything on any domain with a "200 OK, whatever you say" response, and point blocks at it using:

local-zone: "twitter.com" redirect
local-data: "twitter.com A 192.168.2.32"

Ta-da. It and its subdomains no longer exist for me.

#netops #sysops #birdsite #dns

@carnage4life I can just recommend to sysops and netops folks to do what I've done: blacklist the domain and all related domains at the network (i.e. DNS or NAT gateway/firewall) level.

They might not be "federated", but that doesn't mean we can't "de-federate" them at a networking level. That'll also stop drive-by analytics; sites that embed non-toots from that other site.

Sad that'll mostly impact news sites. …but they don't need to embed, either.

#feditips #fediblock #netops #sysops

The OverlayFS vulnerability CVE-2023-0386: Overview, detection, and remediation | Datadog Security Labs https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/overlayfs-cve-2023-0386/ #security #linux #sysops

...and I'm back in v4.1.2~mementomori-social-mods + Mastodon Bird UI. Had to revert because for some reason things didn't work out as they did in development environment.

Does someone know what are the right steps to install nightly on production? #MastoAdmin #SysOps #Mastodon

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/25658

New achievement from Amazon Web Services (AWS)!
Thank you Stéphane Maarek for the certification preparation course.
https://www.credly.com/badges/a45377ea-04e7-46d6-b54f-76564eedac67/public_url
#aws #sysops

My Mastodon server was offline this morning for 2 hours and 2 minutes. The root disk was full for some reason. Reboot cleared 60% of the space. Those damn phantom files again...

Is there anything to do about this or do I just need some regular, timed reboots? How have others solved this? (my db and media are not on the same disk) #MastoAdmin #Servers #SysOps

@jake4480 I used to use WordPress for my blog in the past. But when I restarted it, I went with a super-minimalist Hugo installation.

I almost exclusively blog about #retrocomputing and #sysops stuff at https://fabulous.systems

macOS’ Rapid Security Response: Designed into a Corner https://buff.ly/3ASWDCR #security #apple #macos #sysops

Raivo OTP -- incredibly polished TOTP app https://buff.ly/43MK0X5 #totp #security #sysops

axfr2hosts https://buff.ly/3U7G6nA a silly little tool to download and/or convert a DNS zone to a local hosts file if your DNS is ever unreachable #golang #dns #sysops #networking

@arstechnica Where my #WWIV #sysops at?

#nerd

Monitoring Basics... On the Cheap https://ultramookie.com/2023/03/monitoring-basics #MastoAdmin #SysOps #SysAdmin

A Race to Report a TOCTOU: Analysis of a Bug Collision in Intel SMM https://buff.ly/3mZREwE #security #intel #smm #sysops

The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review https://buff.ly/3Fp2XF2 #backblaze #storage #sysops #sre

"Aegir5 Development is Happening" is very interesting for running multisite with Drupal!

https://consensus.enterprises/blog/aegir5-is-happening/

#Drupal #Aegir5 #DevOps #SysOps

Hrmm, I had Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Live in my #music collection. Modul 11 has me bobbing my head while wearing my #sysops hat today. This is really good, highly recommended if you want some funky horn, piano, and drums trio. Woo it is good!