SysAdmin1138 Explains

It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work.

There's lots of history for people to draw analogies from, but people have been doing so poorly.

Nikhil Suresh of Hermit-Tech posted a critique of AI and how it affects decision-making today, and he brings up some points I want to highlight.

I've talked about this one to various managers over the years when the topic of work-scheduling humans comes up.

This BlueSky thread from Cat Hicks is on the money.

It is no secret I'm a long time now-former Windows system administrator.

On Fediverse, Paul Cantrell, CompSci professor at Macalester in St.

For the maybe three of you still there, the StackExchange sites have been experiencing a multi-month spam wave from a certain group of spammers who've built automation for our sites.

I wrote a weird little book.

A sentiment just crossed Fediverse recently, which is in the vein of "RSS was peak social media, change my mind".

The Department of Government Efficiency, Musk's vehicle. made news by "discovering" the General Services Administration uses tapes, and plans to save $1M by switching to something else (disks, or cloud-based storage).

I've been in the tech industry for an uncomfortable amount of time, but I've been doing resilience planning the whole time.

Thanks to Ben Cotton for sharing.

Back in November I posted about how to categorize your incidents using the pick-one list common across incident automation platforms.

"Columnar databases store data in columns, not rows," says the definition.

Honeycomb had a nice post where they describe dropping a priority list of incident severities in favor of an attribute list.