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Written by ctrl-k x on 2025-01-13 at 14:00

And this is why stuff never gets cleaned up. It's never a priority. "We're too busy to clean up." Then something critical happens and it takes three times as long to figure out what the fuck happened, because you're having to eliminate 1000 things that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2025-01-13 at 13:52

Technical Manager: Nobody ever does cleanup on ACLs and permissions.

Me: Yeah, I know, that sucks. By the way, this ticket we approved, you should remove that permissions grant after a year.

TM: Am I supposed to set a calendar reminder? This is going to stay in forever.

Me: Um... well, yes, but I suppose I can set a calendar reminder to remind you.

TM: That works for me.

I'm sure it does.

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2025-01-09 at 18:46

I have done it, I have done the thing. Somebody asked me about something, and I said "I wrote a presentation on that 15 years ago, here"

Am I... am I a THOUGHT LEADER?!

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2024-11-19 at 23:19

Just verified a live ssh banner in our environment against a test Ubuntu 10.10 instance, how's your evening

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2024-10-25 at 19:27

Last boost: Haven't watched it all the way through yet, but the first 10 minutes are stellar. In higher ed we do have to think about nation states as well, but agreed our biggest risks are still "standard" cybercrime, especially BEC and the more prosaic "I'm in a meeting, I need you to buy me some gift cards."

@selenalarson

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2024-10-22 at 00:18

lb about the only one I know from memory is openssl x509 -noout -text -in glorp.crt

but boy have I typed that one a lot

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2024-03-27 at 21:47

So glad I didn't let them take my photo for that story.

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2024-03-27 at 21:46

A few weeks ago, tired of telling people that when we talk about "we need to make systemic change" that doesn't mean "everybody but YOU," I made a bookmark shortcut called "A TOADA SO" that linked to a news story about me, um, "springing into action" in response to an attempted ransomware attack.

Today I decided that's just going to be my bookmark tag for other HEs getting rocked. "This was only not us because we got lucky now quit it!"

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2024-03-24 at 21:26

@pancakescon This is my second PancakesCon and they've both been amazing, btw. So many smarties and such a great community.

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2023-11-17 at 20:59

Me to a guest I'm helping to host: our vacation is pretty generous, people start with 15 days, when you've been around as long as me it's closer to 30

Her: some staff at my institution start at 50, in my grade you actually only start with 40 though.

Her grade is higher than the ones who start with more, even.

North American work culture is whack.

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2023-11-13 at 14:33

And now I'm wondering about how good a survey with some open-ended responses limited to 500 words can be.

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2023-11-13 at 13:30

Time elapsed between an engagement survey landing in my inbox and our first phishing report about it: 7 minutes

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2023-10-23 at 13:27

Sysadmins: when I switch from talking about "endpoint management" to "asset management," that word change is not because I'm confused or the two terms are interchangeable. They are not, although assuring the former is nearly impossible without the latter.

For my next miracle, I will produce a reliable asset management system that is completely independent of any human input.

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Written by ctrl-k x on 2022-12-14 at 18:13

Hello post: You might know the userid from other places. My semi-pro account, this isn't my only Mastodon account, but it's the one I don't talk sports or shitpost from.

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