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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

🇨🇦 Remembering Trey Helten, DTES Pillar Best Friend
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* artist, activist, animal lover, community champion will be honored Saturday. Everyone is welcome. 🙏

Trey Helten, advocate for drug users in Vancouver, dead at 42
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Friends remember Helten as approachable, empathetic, inspiring

Overdose Prevention Society
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Get help with substance use
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🇨🇦 Remembering Trey Helten, a DTES Pillar and ‘Best Friend’ https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/05/08/Remembering-Trey-Helten * artist, activist, animal lover, community champion will be honored Saturday. Everyone is welcome. 🙏 Trey Helten, advocate for drug users in Vancouver, dead at 42 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trey-helten-obit-vancouver-advocate-1.7517609 Friends remember Helten as approachable, empathetic, inspiring Overdose Prevention Society https://www.vancityops.com/ Get help with substance use https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/get-help-with-substance-use.html #Vancouver #TreyHelten #DTES #OPS #BritishColumbia
#Vancouver#TreyHelten#DTES
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Richard Siggs

The Wheel of IT Life turns & now that DevOps has ruined software development by pushing Devs to have to do Systems work too - it's now that over-staffed & (deeply) under-skilled Cyber teams think that they too don't need Systems Admin/Ops help.

Another generation of IT workers suddenly fall into the quicksand of thinking their Ops team mates don't do anything.

*chef kiss* I'm old enough to have seen this before too, as Mainframe System Engineers watched young Network teams struggle to leave the nest of Systems operations.

We'll never learn, good luck with that you Cyber teamers.

#work#ops
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Wulfy

Here is something I would like to give to the community.

I love doing #documentation
It started out of necessity, because as you well know. Most #docs are useless. I was looking for a simple, concise but information dense means to document systems.
Did not find anything that quite fit the bill.

So, I have developed the means to document your entire system on a single page. Feel free to adopt this schema, all I ask is you refer to this method as "Wulf diagram" 🙂

I have once developed a means to diagram network latency service levels, and it hurt that a multinational service company kept using it without acknowledging.

This particular diagram is a sanitised version of a Minecraft server I deployed for my younger family.

From the top;
The diagram is divided into three bands;
SERVICES (visible outside)
CORE
INGRESS (accessing backend)

You can put whatever you want there. Usually the bits that make you ask yourself "How did I do that bit again?". Including passwords, scripts, pathing etc.

The big font is so you can see what system it is scrolling through pages.
The software used is Office Libre draw.

Is it perfect? No.
But it sure is better than what I have found out there (prove me wrong)

Wulfs system documentation diagram.
#devops#sysadmin#lamp
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Allpoints

So, back in the day (I'm old enough to use that phrase unironically) there was a thing called colo(cation) where you could rent a couple of Us in a rack in a data center to run your physical hardware. For mostly good reasons this isn't a thing anymore.

Any thoughts where I can rent a _small_, physical server instance out on the Net? Preferably in a location that's pro-privacy/anti-censorship. (Unlikely but worth an ask.)

#Ops#DevOps#SysAdmin
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Allpoints

I was watching a movie the other day which showed the cabling under a data center floor. It was beautiful, color coded cables in neat, parallel bundles. There was even a section of cable ladder in view. In short, it was utter BS and took me right out of the moment. Such things simply do not exist in real life. Or, if they do, they're like particles created in a collider. They exist for mere fractions of a second before decaying out of existence.

Photo of a raised tile data center floor. One of the square panels has been removed to show the cabling beneath it. There are several bundles of blue, red and green network cables. Each bundle is neatly wrapped at regular intervals with black zip ties or Velcro. They run parallel to each other on or alongside a cable ladder which supports them above the sub-floor.
#DevOps#Ops#Networking
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Greg

I’m a full stack web dev. I asked an ops friend recently what is that one annoying thing she’d change about her profession. She thought about it for a while and said the way small companies try to do what big companies do but with a tiny fraction of the resources and just end up overworked and overwhelmed dealing with unnecessary complexity.

I didn’t expect her answer to be the same as mine, word for word! Ha!

#Software#Engineering#WebDev
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