Eventually, I’m going to move many of these apps over to a Talos cluster because it’s quite frankly a waste to maintain a VM when a container will do. That’s neither here nor there, but it’s nice to think about my future goals.
Best part of a pipeline is the nice emails I setup to receive. I’m patching twice a day. I have a pilot group in the morning at 9am and a second group that patches at 6 PM. I also setup a medley of variables I can use to one patch two patch a single or group of hosts just in case
Some parts of the source code for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just leaked, including experiments with a few weapons and enemies, such as the Blobulator and Weaponizer.
It’s pretty insane how VPN companies convinced the average Joe they need one to be safe and secure online. Unless you live in a third world back water like North Korea or Indiana, you probably don’t need one!
Getting Ansible setup to do my bidding and running it through a GitLab pipeline was way easier than I thought. I automated a whole bunch of dirty work with it - including patching and rebooting. Maybe Terraform next!
‼️ A Reddit user has finally switched off the Microsoft Exchange email server he ran in his own home for 27 years.
He started in 1999 on Exchange 5.5 and Windows NT 4, then upgraded through every version up to Exchange 2019.
By the end, it only relayed alerts from his own hardware.
Exchange 2019 lost support in October 2025, and on-premises Exchange is now subscription-only. He replaced it with Postfix, the free open-source mail server.
In the comments, he shared his server from 2003, a motherboard zip-tied to the box it came in.
@therealazzurro I think it will be a typical Bethesda game. Real ones know Skyrim 1.0 was rough around the edges and “properly” fixed in SE. I expect the same for this game and look to the modding community to fill in the gaps with unofficial patches and content.