I've been slowly decreasing the allowed screen time on Instagram.
Then I realized I was doom scrolling faster to compensate.
Our brains truly are broken.
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Mr. Crab - Sysadmin from Heck
@CrabbyIT@infosec.exchange
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchGrumpy slacker sysadmin.
Good enough to be useful.
Jack of all trades, master of some.
Petrolhead. Adventurer.
Mostly motivated by spite and your shitty attitude.
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Joined November 08, 2022
>>Remote into someone's computer.
>>ChatGPT is up.
>>"How do I turn on Sony Xperia TV"
This is what we are killing the environment for.
Developer copy pasted a command with an API key into AI.
Now we have to regenerate the key and update a whole bunch of things.
Awesome.
Fun fact: Most CEO's don't give a shit about your opinions on #AI.
Some vendor sold them AI slop over a round of golf and a three martini lunch and now it's your problem.
Push back too hard and you're on the bread line and potentially blacklisted.
What a shit time to be alive.
Dear infosec 'professionals,'
Stop shitting on the IT team when there's an incident because we didn't/couldn't do everything perfectly. How businesses operate in the real world is completely different than your isolated test rooms. We're only human and even with all the tools to monitor and protect our environments there is a lot of ground to cover. Many of us are a one person operation.
Do not belittle my employees because they fell for a nicely executed scam. They already feel like shit. I will call you out on this at every turn and then treat my coworker to ice cream or the treat of their choice and make sure they are okay.
We know we got fucked and we are asking for help while doing internal damage control and mitigating things to the best of our abilities. Do not talk to us like we are computer illiterate cave people. We already know you are good at what you do, that is why you are here. Do not waste billable hours on calls autofelating yourself over how brilliant you are.
In summary, please act like a professional.
Sincerely,
IT Teams Everywhere
Pushed to prod early because I'm about to get in the car for a few hours.
All life is lately, is trying and failing to convince yourself that you're happy and that it will all be okay.
The part that I hate about writing incident reports is feeling like weeks of blood,sweat and tears is completely diminished by condensing it down to three or four management friendly sentences that they don't give a shit about.
In the spirit of America, all the bills from an quick ER visit plus a few followups landed in my email this morning.
Even with "good" insurance I now have close to $10K in medical debt for run of the mill services.
I was in the ER for less than five hours total and had maybe 15 minutes of actual interaction with medical staff.
Are we great yet?
Life tip: Always have a backup way of making coffee.
Even if it's the stainless percolator from your grandmother that hasn't been properly cleaned since 1967.
You and your guests will appreciated it.
Dude just burst into my office requesting all the floppy disks I had and a 40' crossover cable.
He was not having a very good day. Legacy equipment outages are brutal.
Don't underestimate how far a little positive recognition can go.
For a lot of us IT people, it feels like a losing battle lately. Overwhelmed, under budgeted and understaffed. An already burnt out single point of failure. We KNOW there's a shitload of controls we should be rolling out but we're stuck troubleshooting grumpy legacy hardware or Gertrude forgetting her password again. It's a struggle to get resources because $MGMT only sees us as a money pit until the shit hits the fan, then, if we're still here we can get a budget/help/etc.
I'm just tired, dudes.
"Your Security Program is Shit."
We know and we prefer the term 'industry standard.'
Shitty website is trying to redirect me to the app when I'm logging in from a computer. Fuck off.
Europeans will say that A/C is bad for your lungs and them smoke three packs of cigs a day.
Watching regular folks who wanted none of this, step up to a podium to speak their voice against data centers taking over their area is fucking heart breaking.
Guard rails are bullshit and will be abused.
Ban or nothing.
New cybersecurity provider kicks ass. Detailed investigations,, follow through, knowledgeable people.
Outgoing provider literally stopped alerting us a month ago and there were open cases since before the handoff began.
Good riddance!
Feeling more human today so I am back online.
I thought it was my fever brain not comprehending things but nope.
The emails are just that dumb.
Three more senior engineers coming up on retirement this month.
No succession plan in place other than throw the noobies at it with zero training.
It physically hurts me (and the environment) when I ask someone to review something and all they do is throw it in #AI and copy paste it back to me.
Why are all the sentences bullet points?!
Pssst...you do need to have an opinion everything including things that do not directly impact your life.
Kids today don't drink enough gas station malt liquor and do dumb shit and it's terribly detrimental to their mental health.
How are you supposed to recover from burnout when you need your job to live?
Trying not to panic.
One of the huge farms around the bend from me is up for sale. Sale probably means 20 home subdivision, best case scenario.
My county also is next in the sights of the data center builders and the farmers are trying to stand together against politicians.
Are regular people really finding new jobs that are stable/an improvement?
It feels like you have to be some kind of superstar to job hop in this economy.
I booted up my Windows 10 computer so I could run Winamp for my iPod Classic.
It was almost refreshing.
We forget how far and how fast things fell off after Windows 10.
Replacing the radio antenna on your bro truck with a .50 cal shell is peak manliness.
True alpha male behavior.
Real tough guy shit.
PSA if you work from home full time: Make sure you spend time outside of your house interacting with people other than your coworkers.
If you don't you'll become the bad kind of weird.
Manager wants #AI so techs can upload CUSTOMER packet captures for troubleshooting.
Most of the techs can barely comprehend doing a packet capture but sure, let's let them go wild with chatgpt.
Owning a home will be fun they said!
My mower deck, aka Stump Finder 2000, finally got bested by a hidden stump.
Bent the deck, took a chunk out of the blade and launched me into a cluster of poison ivy.
Need to sanitize the deck before I can work on it but it will be a good excuse to dust off the welder and do some Mad Max reinforcements.
Re-watching The Fifth Element and there while it has it's fun moments it really needs an abridged version.
It is not my job to read you the fucking manual.
I spent the better part of a week on a #boat enjoying the sun and the surf.
Port engine left the chat with electrical problems and I came in on one engine.
It took me until dinner Saturday to *start* to feel grounded.
Heading home on Sunday the chest pain and stress knot returned before I even got on the highway.
#mentalhealth #burnout #rum #beach
Having property is great until you find yourself stranded at the furthest point because your tractor threw a belt.
remember when you could feel real happiness?
I am doing something I have never done before.
Contacting my local council members about the incredibly weak #datacenter "guard rails" they are proposing.
These geriatric fucks do not seem to understand what a data center is or care about the communities they will destroy.
They are life long residents but they have since moved out of the po' folks areas that would be directly impacted.
Two small consulting gigs fell into my lap.
1.Convert a bunch of JSON into a searchable database.
2.Build out a mesh network with WAN failover for a farm.
I'm exhausted but why turn down some extra scratch doing things I like?
Site got popped because the network guy chose to ignore a high priority patch.
His defense was a)they don't pay me enough to make that my priority and b)I didn't know that was my responsibility.
$MGMT wanted me in the office for a few days for "reasons."
$MGMT is not even present in the office this week.
Me and the PFY are getting steak and lobster for lunch on their dime because team building.
Took the big bike on a leisurely back road putt.
The only traffic I passed were a tractor and a quad.
Life can be good. #motorcycle #countrylife
If you're an SMB and a Microsoft shop, why bother with a third party #PBX like RingCentral instead of just using Microsoft Teams Phone?