Hey #FreeBSD folks!

Ten years ago, disk ID labels (/dev/diskid) were often painfully encoded.

Today, my WD drives show up cleanly. Is that just a WD thing? Do other vendors show up as encoded crud?

If you could look in /dev/diskid and see what you have, I'd appreciate it.

(diskID is disabled in 15, you'd need to uncomment kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" in /boot/loader.conf)

TLDR: can I now recommend diskID labels as reasonable, or am I just lucky in my hard drives? #sysadmin

Hey #FreeBSD folks!

Ten years ago, disk ID labels (/dev/diskid) were often painfully encoded.

Today, my WD drives show up cleanly. Is that just a WD thing? Do other vendors show up as encoded crud?

If you could look in /dev/diskid and see what you have, I'd appreciate it.

(diskID is disabled in 15, you'd need to uncomment kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" in /boot/loader.conf)

TLDR: can I now recommend diskID labels as reasonable, or am I just lucky in my hard drives? #sysadmin

The blog post is written and published.

Sysadmin In The LLM Age

"You cannot vibe code your way into becoming a better sysadmin. Or better anything else for that matter."

https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/05/sysadmin-in-the-llm-age/

Boosts on this post are appreciated, thank you.

#sysadmin

Self-Host Weekly (2026-02-06)

#Jellyfin <3 #Samsung, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Inkheart - a lightweight PDF library, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-02-06/

#selfhost #selfhosting #newsletter #foss #opensource #homelab #security #privacy #devops #sysadmin #smarthome #homeautomation #development #ai #fediverse #plex #notepad

days without #dnssec breaking all thing : 0
#sysadmin

les scripts kiddies se reveillent vers 18:00 pour lancer leur scans...
bon ils servent a rien,mais je me demande coment ils ont récuperés toutes ses urls...
à vrai dire ça m'inquiète un peu...
#sysadmin

2.5 Admins 285: example.com.oops

Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to SATA adapters.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-285/

#podcast #sysadmin

The blog post is written and published.

Sysadmin In The LLM Age

"You cannot vibe code your way into becoming a better sysadmin. Or better anything else for that matter."

https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/05/sysadmin-in-the-llm-age/

Boosts on this post are appreciated, thank you.

#sysadmin

GUIs are very nice yes, but nothing makes you feel quite as powerful as a successfully chained command line pipeline.

For example, taking a massive log file and filtering it through cat | grep | awk | sort | uniq -c to find the exact problem in seconds is a form of wizardry that modern UI simply cannot replicate.

Sometimes I believe the pipe | might be the single greatest invention in computing history lol 😋

#bash #shell #linux #terminal #cli #grep #tui #sysadmin #curl #debian #arch #nixos #ubuntu #linuxmint #fedora

Is anyone in the #Canadian #sysadmin or #accounting communities having discussions about how QuickBooks Online is compromised by the CLOUD Act, and identifying real alternatives?

Even alt providers in #Canada are still mostly using AWS, Google, Azure to host their cloud stack, which doesn't really solve the problem.

I'm genuinely curious if anyone else has come to any conclusions here. I'm happy to discuss in private convo, feel free to hit me up on Signal (contact info attached).

Is anyone in the #Canadian #sysadmin or #accounting communities having discussions about how QuickBooks Online is compromised by the CLOUD Act, and identifying real alternatives?

Even alt providers in #Canada are still mostly using AWS, Google, Azure to host their cloud stack, which doesn't really solve the problem.

I'm genuinely curious if anyone else has come to any conclusions here. I'm happy to discuss in private convo, feel free to hit me up on Signal (contact info attached).

I am writing a post on rise of software that help bring back sanity to the web. Please help me expand the list 😎✨

https://thatshubham.com/blog/2026

#indieweb #distraction #enshittification #technology #internet #socialmedia #adhd #depression #mentalhealth #sysadmin #retro #youtube #facebook #google #firefox #chrome

It appears Linux root-on-ZFS is a mess. No standard way to do it. Kernel updates require recompiling ZFS. Boot environments are a cornucopia of constantly evolving hacks.

If you're actually using #ZFS on root, on #Debian, what's your preferred hack to make that happen? #sysadmin

I suspect #openzfsmastery might need to assume root on extFS and data on ZFS, leaving root-on-ZFS for the advanced user or a terminal chapter.

Not only are workloads increasing, by hollowing out their junior ranks, businesses are putting themselves squarely in the path of a slow-burning demographic time bomb as seniors begin to retire in record numbers.

"There won’t be an endless supply of experienced hires to fall back on, so everyone will be fighting for the limited, increasingly expensive talent with domain expertise"

What exactly is the tech-industry's endgame here?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91483431/companies-replaced-entry-level-workers-with-ai

#noai #techbros #ai #llm #technology #programming #sysadmin #linux #indieweb #capitalism #reading #art #adhd