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Nevertheless, I decided to deploy my own wiki platform in order to record the knowledge that I receive while I am sitting at home. Still, it is very convenient to collect knowledge from all over the Internet in your own place, and after a while there will be a very large collection of different nuances that I have collected for everyone. Perhaps someone can even help me with this, but I need to be careful when issuing rights to strangers.

I will be adding my wiki to the link lists soon so you can click on the link and view my wiki.

It's time to stop your wazuh service.

The reasons for this decision are simple to the point of banality. This service eats up a lot of RAM on my small NAS server and I only used it at 1-5% of the power of this service. Using these heavy services requires time that I don't have. I used it only to automatically scan my computer and laptop for vulnerabilities. But due to the fact that I update my devices constantly, the list of vulnerabilities all this time was empty 99% of the time. Therefore, it no longer makes sense for me to keep this service on my small server.

Let's take the place instead of some kind of wiki that will allow me to record my knowledge and solutions to the problems that I face in life.

FlexAir looks like a history of russian internet.

I have so many problems with HP products that I will never buy any of their products again. I'm already tired of all this.

I now mainly use it as an electronic key holder (to the extent possible with the official firmware and hardware), as a toy with a long operating time, and as a remote control of my computer via Bluetooth.

There is absolutely no point in asking me the question “why do I need this toy?” I will not answer it for you, just as you will not answer the question “why do you need any thing.” If you don’t like a thing or you absolutely don’t understand the meaning of a thing, then you have never in your life found yourself in any situations (even indirectly) in which the thing you are considering could be useful to you and you are in any In any case, you won’t understand if you’re not interested in or don’t know any topic related to this thing.

I celebrated New Year as usual alone at home. During the weekend until about the 5th, I rested quite well (slept, ate, played on the computer), and a little later I decided to assemble the table that I bought more than a year ago and which was still lying in an unopened package in the second room that I I often use it as a warehouse. Now this table is almost complete and is lying upside down right in my room, because I assembled it for two days without sleep and was recovering all this time (only the electronics remain to be attached to the table, but I’m thinking how I can do this without using a lot of screws , because I don’t like to spoil the appearance with holes, if suddenly something needs to be moved to another place in the future).

I also remembered about such a thing as “Flipper Zero” and decided to give myself a gift by buying this device. I decided to buy it for myself only because I had a strong feeling that I would need it more than once and it would be very nice to study it, including third-party firmware. But literally today the outbid seller on ozone returned the money to me because he didn’t want to sell it to me at a price much lower than what outbid dealers usually charge. Well, it’s okay, since during the wait I learned quite a lot of things about where this device is bought and read the official group in the telegram, I decided to order through the official store and at a third cheaper than I would have bought from a reseller. Since he doesn’t want to take the money, then there’s no need.

The last thing I would like to write about is that my Corsair MP600 M.2 SSD died yesterday. This was unexpected, but luckily I started making backups of my computer a couple of days before, which saved me. At the moment I have restored the operating system from my server to a “WD Purple” HDD and will suffer for a couple of weeks from the terribly slow performance of Windows 11 on the HDD hard drives while my SSD is being checked under warranty at the store where I bought it in 2019.

The boss from outside work has gathered people who have never touched the topic of CRM systems (including me), and is trying to push the old style of work related to personal emails and document flow with manual recording into Excel files into the CRM system, trying to make it all work automatically. As a result, not only does the old work scheme only add to the problem of raking in requests and a complete lack of understanding by staff of CRM systems in principle, but all this is also trying to be organized on the boss’s personal email and employees’ personal work emails. Also, no one even tries to read at least a little about CRM systems and how they should work in automatic mode, and when you try to explain to your boss why would you even do this on personal mail, when you do it on behalf of an individual entrepreneur and when you have a whole mail domain for your campaign, then denial begins, refusal to understand how such systems work, silence followed by forgetting of the dialogue and other things.

Now it becomes clear to me why this boss spent so long looking for people to organize the process and why it took him so much time just to gather people. It is almost impossible to explain anything to him and it would be better for me to refuse to work with him, citing a lack of competence in resolving these issues.

I’m not any kind of head of an IT department, I had no experience in setting up infrastructure from scratch, or creating corporate emails for campaigns... But God, please don’t give a damn about what you want to do and at least read the instructions!! ! Or if you hire a person to figure something out for you, then please do not deny or contradict the person you hired. This is not a shitty person, it is you who deny the banal reading of the instructions in understanding something new to you personally! If you have working experience in working with personal emails and Excel, then if you refuse to study new solutions, please stay on the road you have trodden, please do not poke your nose anywhere without realizing that you yourself need to figure this out in order to properly manage processes in your own campaign!

I've been feeling incredibly tired for the last month and I've been especially irritable lately. I feel that I need rest, so that absolutely no one will bother me and I would just sleep all day long and do nothing else except that.

I haven't written anything on my blog for a long time because I feel constantly tired and almost constantly sleepy.

I still don’t see much change in my life, but there are a couple of things I can talk about.

Job

I don’t remember whether I made a post about changes in my work or not, but I transferred to another department where I became more comfortable working and had a little more time for other projects. Yes, I still need to audit the servers, but this time there is at least some old audit and I don’t have to start from scratch. Plus, in the new department they allow me to touch the servers or deploy my virtual machines for some experiments.

Peertube

My Peertube instance began to grow, which I was quite surprised by. If this continues, I will have to figure out something with donations for my server, because my salary at work is not designed to support any services that require a lot of disk space or if anything requires a lot of power from my server. I have now transferred my instance to the alpha 3 state and will soon be updating the rules of conduct and moderation. I introduced the alpha-3 state quite a long time ago, but unfortunately I didn’t have time to immediately update the rules in the instance.

Radio

I recently got the idea again to spin up an Azuracast or Icecast server to stream my music library. At a minimum, I wanted to just test for one month how much Internet I would spend on my phone to check whether it would really reduce traffic consumption (which would allow me to stream music in better quality, and not compressed to 64kbps as at the moment) or whether I shouldn’t bother with this.

Social media

I still don’t see any reason to start deploying my own social networking instances, because the communities I’m a part of and my friends don’t really want it. But I don’t have my own personal community that revolves around me. For these reasons there are no social networks at the moment.

Recent Events

Recently, my work colleagues and I carried out a special operation to rescue a wrecked Lada car. For this we decided to use a radio-controlled small tractor. The decision to use a radio-controlled small tractor had at least 2 reasons: we wanted to check how far this small tractor would go this time and at the same time, if everything worked out successfully, to evacuate this wrecked Lada. It was a lot of fun and we even started evacuating, but for some reason the equipment inside this little tractor burned out and it almost fell into a ditch with sewage. We were unable to restore the electronics on site, so we converted the tractor back to manual control and evacuated the Lada to the end.

That's all I can talk about at the moment.

Finally there have been changes in my work. On November 1, I began working in my friend’s department and I noticed that I had deteriorated quite a lot after working in the previous department.

In my friend’s department, as usual, I will need to understand what he has in terms of servers, write it down and do an audit in the same way as I did in the previous department. Also, since I am allowed to touch the servers, then immediately after the audit I simply have to give my friend centralized management of servers and services in order to relieve his team in terms of at least the number of actions that the team usually does to maintain the servers.

And I need to do an audit at least in Excel, figure out and set up centralized management of Linux servers on Ubuntu (I’m thinking of using Ansible with a web interface for this, but everything can change depending on my knowledge) and coordinate and train my friend’s employees to use these services centralized management.

I hope I will be able to cope with this big task, taking into account the fairly frequent force majeure and rush jobs at the university for 2 departments.