I’m sure the job postings will say, but many dev ops roles are looking for someone with senior experience. Like 8-10 years or the resume is ignored.

Id say the way to beat this is look for tier iii roles for folks that don’t know what they need is dev ops. Explain the value of what you want to do as a sysadmin to bring value. Then just write dev ops on your resume when you wind up doing dev ops.

Holy fucking pretentious douche, batman! Catch my block list.

100% building a home lab and being able to talk about it openly, from memory, in your own words, from experience, is invaluable for interviews.

I might update this. I might not. I have a lot to say but In out drinking.

All I will say now is save this list. You’ll look back at it in 5 years and wonder what half of those things are.

…

Okay a bit more from the bar:

If you want dev sec ops, grafana, elk, build dashboards, get your agents setup in your fleet, get it all secure locally. That alone will impress any interviewer who knows anything.

Dev ops specifically? Focus on building a local GitLab instance. Use grafana to monitor it. Run some app that has a busy db. Grafana dashboards on that. Oh my goodness, what a HOG you are GitLab! Tune it for your env. Purposely misconfigure something to watch, idk, the RAM keep growing because you didn’t setup redis or some shit.

The sea is vast. You’re hungry. Employers will see that once you land interviews.

If you want a ton of dev sec ops ideas, I am a good sounding board. Regular dev ops isn’t my daily grind so I know a bit less. What I do know is if you’re not ready to rebuild a multi node cluster some night after hours, you’re not quite a boss (doesn’t mean you’re not ready). So, emulate that nightmare.

Back to drinking 🍻

Edit: double check your *arr ideas bc afaik most of those were abandoned after a few major vulns were uncovered. That was months ago so that may be old hat.

Or worse, bear-proof robot dogs…

Woah, soulseek

I haven’t used soulseek in literally 20 years… Is it still a relevant place to get music?

Just here to brag that when my dad upgraded to windows 11, he was tricked into making a microsoft365 acct which was promptly compromised.

So I walked him through the process of downloading a Linux mint iso, checking the hash in powershell, downloading rufus, prepping install media, and getting him off windows for the remainder of his life.

I had no eyes on the situation. All over the phone. His browser was giving malware results for everything so no downloads could be trusted.

2 years on his only complaint is occasional printer problems. He’s in his 70s.

This is a crippling reality.

Whenever I explain anything I am constantly evaluating how in depth any given node must be expanded for my audience.

Is it public? Tell them to pound sand.

Is it private? Tell them to pound sand.

lol how do you want your tech team’s security lead to explain to Bill from management in the ohio office that his new hire will continue to be isolated from the network if he downloads isos from his browser to make a VM on his desktop and also tell Shirley in the Texas office that one of her developers sftp users PW has been expired for a week and it’s setting off brute force triggers in your siem?

You ready to hire a fuck ton more IT workers?

Nah just have AI do it. Like a competitor won’t poison that shit to leak company data. 🤙

Pre Vine. Pre tiktok. Pre shorts.

5s films were visionaries.

Hey buddy, those yachts aren’t gonna buy themselves. What do you expect them to do, live on less?

I got snow in my forecast 😁

oh my god

The real problem with this is inaccurate blood pressure readings.

Run a social psych experiment. Tell 100 people to show up and claim a $10 gift card. They must arrive 15 mins early. They will receive their $10 at a specific time.

Randomize the 100 people’s actual receipt time to be somewhere between 5 mins early and 45 mins late.

Come in, explain they just need to do a blood pressure reading first, and then they will receive the $10.

Came here to ask if this was some OCaml joke I didn’t get

https://youtu.be/hJSigHvESRg

My current uptime has survived 2 power outages that lasted about 10 minutes each.

Thanks! I hope it helped.

I’m actually literally in the process of reaching out to my old Computability and Complexity professor who is now cs chair and cyber security lead for my alma mater. Wanna pitch him some ideas for me doing an adjunct in a cyber warfare lab 🤓

If it’s a Linux box, everything over 1023 just needs root.

For Debian flavors,

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range

At least for those I use. Idk for rhel etc.

I can check my boxes with system ctl:

sysctl net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

And tested on a VM, this wide s your ephemeral range:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range=“1024 65535”

Manage persistence in /etc/sysctl.conf

I’ll be honest here, I asked Claude for the windows equiv of that. I haven’t tested. Proceed with caution:

To check:

netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport tcp

To expand ephemeral range:

netsh int ipv4 set dynamicport tcp start=10000 num=55535

Syntax makes enough sense to me, but I repeat I have not vetted this.

HOWEVER,

all moot. You have 65k ports PER CONNECTION, holmes. Sorry I’m drunk now my tones changes and typos = more :)

So you at 10.0.0.1 connect to Google at 8.8.8.8 and cloudflare at 1.1.1.1, you can use 130k connections between the two. So this isn’t as useful as you may think you need it to be (idk what you’re doing lol, load balancer?)

If you’re churning through tons of short connections, you can “run out” of ports even though you have plenty… they’re all just cooling down.

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1

lets the kernel grab them sooner.

Claude says Windows would be

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay

That’s a registry change. Proceed with extreme caution. Use a VM or throw away machine. I have absolutely not vetted the windows version here and registry edits are inherently dangerous. I usually yell at an AI that tells me to use regedit. Probably don’t do this unless the system is backed up and those backups are tested.

Hope this helps your crazy load balancer or whatever :)

Ysk 0*infinity = 0

If you spend no time doing anything that you ought to do (exercise, go outside, eat healthy) the immediately observable effects from any amount of sustained practice is measurable.