@_elena@mastodon.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe How do I say "I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!" in Italian?
You are the hero I aspire to be!
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@stefano feeling of :xkcd:`705` intensifies 😁
@stefano Sounds like a case of either good design or *very* good luck too that the UPS took the brunt of it.
We can't protect against everything, but we *can* have an idea for what to do when the unimagined happens.
@stefano that advice also applies to monitoring scheduled backup jobs (or any other automated process). I use a service that emails me if I don't hit a specific URL roughly every 24 hours, and I hit that at the end of my backup job if it was successful.
Better than finding out the hard way at some point in the future that something happened with my backup job, preventing it from running for the last month.
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@stefano Only in BSDcafé can you read actual techno thrillers like this.
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@stefano Stefano Jones P.A. a very noir series.
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@stefano @EnigmaRotor Competing with @mwl are we?
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@Dianora @EnigmaRotor @stefano
Spiritual guide? Your spirits are gonna go somewhere pretty dang weird, sir.
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@mwl @EnigmaRotor @stefano Was that an offer to buy us all a round of beers at BSDCan? *whistles innocently*
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@Dianora @mwl @EnigmaRotor @stefano try Gelato, just sayin'
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@Keltounet @mwl @EnigmaRotor @stefano Grand Marnier Gelato!
@Dianora @EnigmaRotor @stefano
beer is too normal...
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@gumnos @mwl @Dianora @stefano Both may, for sure, be present at the table. #devicedrivers
@stefano @Dianora @mwl yep: He Who Must Be Read is obviously untouchable. We have no rights to do that. “touch mwl” would miserably fail, that is.
Also note that Stefano’s story does not mention (yet) an overexcited systemd. I don’t see plagiarism in this. Let’s expect an hommage at some point, in pure Hans Zimmer style. /* insert big brass sound sample here */
@stefano Oh, if genre is horror, then don’t forget to tell the tale of the guy who pronounced “Microsoft” 3 times before his mirror. What happened next, the blue mirror of death, is frightening to the bones.
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I am quite keen to look into Uptime Kuma. Our current monitor is antiquated.
On a side note, you guys are hilarious! I genuinely had a good laugh at your comments.
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@_elena@mastodon.social When you direct the movie, can I star as the legendary @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ?
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@_elena@mastodon.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe How do I say "I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!" in Italian?
@stefano nice story! and, yeah, internal monitoring is a must, but you also need an external one, operated by someone else than yourself.
