RE: https://cyberplace.social/@WiteWulf/116849958470323752

what IT actually looks like in the trenches

If you're a Chrome (ab)user and you see that little "relaunch to update" tab appear in the upper right corner of the browser, just know that there's at least 382 security fixes waiting for you.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Google-Chrome-Large-update-closes-hundreds-of-security-vulnerabilities-again-11350087.html

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_0175352312.html

here's a website where you can type your name and see how much stuff AI has stolen from you while being trained https://intheweights.com

I admire IT people 20 years in who still run home labs. It's like coming home from the egg salad sandwich factory, hearing, "what do you want for dinner, honey?" And saying, "same thing we have every night: egg salad sandwiches."

If you run a peertube instance, you should have gotten an alert to update. Either way, it's time to update - there's a security fix out for a high severity vulnerability. Some operators got hit last time this happened. Don't let that happen to you. Patch your OS while you're at it. And drink some water. And then go for a walk. And call your mom.

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."

#infosec #sysadmin #bofh

It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from:

“I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.”

To:

“I can’t spell the word s*x, or anything a 1960s Mormon housewife might object to, keep my no-genocide politics on the down low, and constantly beg technofascist corps to let people read what I write”