InfraScaler

Genuinely hate cyber security teams

Posted by talent_de_tigan@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 385 comments

Why Wrap Luggage in Cling Film?

Posted by roblawton@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 1541 comments

Had a clash with executive over my phishing test methods

Posted by AH_Josh@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 679 comments

shutdown /r /t 0

Posted by oversizedmoosecalf@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 244 comments

CEO gave a new hire admin access to everything on day one because he "trusts him"

Posted by Ok_Detail_3987@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 203 comments

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Mate, some of you get really riled up with the smallest things. If this person can request "more through us" why not just give it already? are you going to run first an interview to qualify them? judgement of personality? measure their morality?

Why is manual root cause analysis still a thing in 2026?

Posted by Heavy_Banana_1360@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 27 comments

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Because we are still in diapers when it comes to understanding how to steer AI to help us. We're used to deterministic outcomes but the AI is probabilistic. Most people say they understand this but they don't. Those who understand it haven't found a surefire solution. We're working on it anyway. The last 4 months I've been head down on this for one of my customers and this is currently my special interest :) if there are any communities or folks in general working on this I'm looking forward to collaborate and build together. My customer is quite particular so even though I can bring in a lot of context engineering expertise I haven't got the resources to work on an RCA assistant for stuff like k8s and similar, which I think would be where we can add a lot of value.

Detection logs show user trying to access porn

Posted by Tee-hee64@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 553 comments

Is it stupid to buy a 128gb MacBook Pro M5 Max if I don’t really know what I’m doing?

Posted by A_Wild_Entei@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 164 comments

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It would be stupid if you needed that money for something else, and even so, once you have the machine, you can only learn and learn and learn and play Cyberpunk 2077 and learn and learn.

Ops engineer who built half our automation just gave notice. Nobody understands the system

Posted by Otherwise-Papaya-105@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 211 comments

so is OpenClaw local or not

Posted by jacek2023@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 312 comments

so is OpenClaw local or not

Posted by jacek2023@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 312 comments

Why are small models (32b) scoring close to frontier models?

Posted by Financial-Cap-8711@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 120 comments

Is it rude to use both lanes?

Posted by No-Ad4423@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 2899 comments

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This is the right answer, but also doing so will get you in some heated discussions 100% of the times, so it is going to depend on your mood for a fight that day vs your mood for queueing longer.

Fired employee downloaded all company files before deactivation we need secure way to prevent this

Posted by Level-Most-2623@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 404 comments

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Man, it's way cheaper to deactivate their account first and communicate the firing later. DLP is an overkill for a company that don't have the time to deactivate people's accounts after they fire them.

Okay, but how do you SSH into 1,000 devices??

Posted by Automatic-Reply-1578@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 446 comments

Okay, but how do you SSH into 1,000 devices??

Posted by Automatic-Reply-1578@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 446 comments

Why do hackers perform huge DDoS attacks on big names like Microsoft?

Posted by marklein@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 94 comments

Email. Isn't. A. File. Transfer. Service.

Posted by livevicarious@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 824 comments

Moving from South America to Europe and back again completely broke my brain about what "luxury" and "poverty" actually mean.

Posted by CoffeeMan392@reddit | expats | View on Reddit | 603 comments

I tested Strix Halo clustering w/ ~50Gig IB to see if networking is really the bottleneck

Posted by Hungry_Elk_3276@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 102 comments

I tested Strix Halo clustering w/ ~50Gig IB to see if networking is really the bottleneck

Posted by Hungry_Elk_3276@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 102 comments

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Hey, this is great stuff, thanks for sharing and for putting in all the work and effort. Did you measure other stuff like how busy CPU, disk, RAM and GPU where in every test? The gains could come from offloads to the MLX5, but this is just a wild guess. I am unfamiliar with these tests (I am a newb here), but I know a bit about infra and scaling, hence my curiosity! Does this traffic use TCP? any chance you could instead use RDMA?

Italy vs Spain. Why Spain is more popular?

Posted by Wunid@reddit | expats | View on Reddit | 274 comments

All work must be done through VM

Posted by Angriestanteater@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 168 comments

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Yeah it's not unheard of. I work mostly on a remote VM around 1500-2000km away and it's mostly good. Your IT people need to make it better for you.

Leadership wants to nuke staging and test everything in prod. am I being paranoid or is this a terrible idea?

Posted by AdvertisingDeep543@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 228 comments

Why do some Westerners act like they’re ‘visiting’ Japan, but everyone else is ‘immigrating’?

Posted by Original-Koala-5192@reddit | expats | View on Reddit | 214 comments

Why do some Westerners act like they’re ‘visiting’ Japan, but everyone else is ‘immigrating’?

Posted by Original-Koala-5192@reddit | expats | View on Reddit | 214 comments

Got a ticket from a director… couldn’t find him because his Teams photo looks AI-generated from 2004

Posted by Lopsided_Ad2784@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 85 comments

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When you work at a big company that's been around forever and you get a ping from someone who's picture looks like from the Windows 95 era you know you're about to talk to a legend.

Greybeards - has it always been like this?

Posted by Expensive-Rhubarb267@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 356 comments

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Mate, sometime in 2010-2011 I remember being on-site at night escorting a Cisco team making a change for our local government's infra, then going for dinner with them and talking about how the cloud was a threat to all of us (we were 3 network engineers) because everything would be centralised blabla yadda yadda. Look where we are now. More work than ever, more opportunities than ever.

Can ZTNA really replace VPNs for good?

Posted by beatsbybony@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 146 comments

got fired for screwing up incident response lol

Posted by GroundOld5635@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 301 comments

Should I give away my app to my employer for free?

Posted by RDE_20@reddit | Python | View on Reddit | 282 comments

9yr old son wants to learn to code

Posted by ZNioreGames@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 84 comments

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\+++this is the right answer. My little one has been toying with Scratch for about 4-5 years and he's 9 now. There are countless tutorials and books you two can follow together to make simple games. That'll give your son a sense of accomplishment early while exposing him to concepts like variables and loops.

Review of SSL Checker tool

Posted by Fire_Deadly@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 7 comments

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btw I purposedly clicked a few times on advance check. Review in your logs if that has created many processes in your backend. I think each click cancelled the previous (good!). If it caused noised in the backend, make the operation idempotent by reusing the same key for duplicate requests, or deduplicate jobs in the queue. You can also enforce per-user concurrency limits so only one heavy check runs at a time.

Review of SSL Checker tool

Posted by Fire_Deadly@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 7 comments

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It is indeed very fast! An explanation on each section or what each thing is may be useful. I have also tried the advanced check and it gives me some scores, but it doesn't tell me how those are calculated and what should I do to improve my score (and why!) Congratulations!

If you knew you were getting let go Friday, what would you do?

Posted by GasolineTrampoline@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 700 comments

Sysadmin for 200 people, completely self-taught – now got an offer from an MSP. Would you switch?

Posted by AufderReiseumdieWelt@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 169 comments

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Are you using ChatGPT to translate your messages or something? Man, I really have GPT-PTSD because your comment, to me, reads 100% written by AI.

When 404 turns 200 and you didn't knew

Posted by oppai_silverman@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 9 comments

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Man, a few things here... 1. Low effort AI slop to write the Reddit post. 2. Ditto for the linked article. 3. Wait what, are you suggesting to monitor all possible permutations of these characters [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-2](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-2) in case... some "old panel gets reactivated"? That doesn't make sense, I'm sorry. Terrible use case. If you know which URLs you want to monitor, just take action to remove whatever content you don't want to publish. It's not raccoon science. 4. Thsi is low effort spam for your service. I usually give these a go anyway because I'm a curious cat, but this is so low effort you didn't even think of a good use case to *sell* your tool.

How do you guys real with rude users

Posted by RiBeirO_07@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 264 comments

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Don't take it personally, just ignore the rudeness and stick to procedures. I know it's easier said than done, but you'll eventually get there. Welcome to hell :)

How is your on call compensation?

Posted by lockblack1@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 378 comments

How to encourage L1 and L2 not to be dumb

Posted by Salt-n-Pepper-War@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 84 comments

How to encourage L1 and L2 not to be dumb

Posted by Salt-n-Pepper-War@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 84 comments

How to encourage L1 and L2 not to be dumb

Posted by Salt-n-Pepper-War@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 84 comments

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They get assigned a case, they have to act on it. They could care less if that frustrate's you or not. They're getting paid to do exactly what they're doing.

Company wants to sell an App i wrote for internal use.

Posted by JoeyFromMoonway@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 455 comments

Company wants to sell an App i wrote for internal use.

Posted by JoeyFromMoonway@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 455 comments

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Meh, if it helps giving you any peace of mind, they're going to sell exactly zero units of your software, and if they were to magically sell some it'll be mostly due to some mad sales skills which you do not posses, so at the end of the day you would have nothing either way.

Company wants to sell an App i wrote for internal use.

Posted by JoeyFromMoonway@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 455 comments

IT Contractor - Overpaid

Posted by Few-Dance-855@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 176 comments

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As per Op's, he is not working on the issue because he has many other responsibilities to attend, then after many hours where the contractor hasn't figured out the problem, Op finally has some time and finds the issue.

Mangers how do you deal with sloppy work sysadmins?

Posted by Mysterious_Teach8279@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 159 comments

Traditional firewall rules as a code

Posted by mr_moon_moon_moon@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 49 comments

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I think you're trying to build the house starting from the roof. First, you need to clean up that codebase. IaC will do nothing to help you cleaning up. In order to clean up you'll have to start logging / measuring what rules are hit. It's going to be a PITA and it will involve a lot of human interaction trying to find owners for certain traffic flows. Good luck.

HR denied promotion

Posted by jayxjackson@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 451 comments

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Early in my career I got a job offer to lead a small team in web security. This company told me that as I had no degree I would be earning what basically was 66% of the average salary people in my team were earning. Said no, never looked back, worked at various FAANGs, had fun all around. Go away from arbitrary requirements.

My boss wants to turn off VPN access to people traveling to china

Posted by FewCantaloupe24@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 1009 comments