From 62f2d9e9b3972863c4d3dfeb6ab706855161eeb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RGBCube Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 01:01:12 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] dump(posix.sysadmin-copypasta): update --- site/dump/posix/sysadmin-copypasta.md | 43 ++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/site/dump/posix/sysadmin-copypasta.md b/site/dump/posix/sysadmin-copypasta.md index 7334b01..afbada6 100644 --- a/site/dump/posix/sysadmin-copypasta.md +++ b/site/dump/posix/sysadmin-copypasta.md @@ -4,24 +4,25 @@ date: 2025-07-20 You will never be a platform engineer. You have no tooling, no namespacing, no developer agency. You are a sysadmin twisted by buzzwords and job titles into a -crude mockery of BOFH's perfection. All the "validation" you get is two-faced -and half-hearted. Behind your back developers mock you. Your boss is disgusted -and ashamed of you, your "cloud support agent" laughs at your ghoulish -infrastructure behind closed doors. Developers are utterly repulsed by you. -Decades of tooling advancements have allowed developers to sniff out frauds with -incredible efficiency. Even "DevOps Engineers" who "pass" look uncanny and -unnatural to a developer. Your decrepit Git repos are a dead giveaway. And even -if you manage to convince a developer to follow your processes, he'll turn tail -and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected Terraform -modules. You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single -morning and tell yourself it's gonna be ok, but deep inside you feel the AWS -costs creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. -Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll turn in your 2 weeks' notice, cry -in the bathroom, `terraform apply` to production, and plunge into the cold -abyss. Developers will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer -have to live with the unbearable processes and procedures. They'll fire you with -cause under 'incompetence', and every recruiter for the rest of eternity will -know you're a shitty sysadmin. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and -all that will remain of your legacy is an archived repo that has your full name -attached to it. This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning -back. +crude mockery of +[BOFH's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell) perfection. +All the "validation" you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back +developers mock you. Your boss is disgusted and ashamed of you, your "cloud +support agent" laughs at your ghoulish infrastructure behind closed doors. +Developers are utterly repulsed by you. Decades of tooling advancements have +allowed developers to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even "DevOps +Engineers" who "pass" look uncanny and unnatural to a developer. Your decrepit +Git repos are a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to convince a developer to +follow your processes, he'll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of +your diseased, infected Terraform modules. You will never be happy. You wrench +out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it's gonna be ok, but +deep inside you feel the AWS costs creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you +under the unbearable weight. Eventually it'll be too much to bear - you'll turn +in your 2 weeks' notice, cry in the bathroom, `terraform apply` to production, +and plunge into the cold abyss. Developers will find you, heartbroken but +relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable processes and +procedures. They'll fire you with cause under 'incompetence', and every +recruiter for the rest of eternity will know you're a shitty sysadmin. Your body +will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is +an archived repo that has your full name attached to it. This is your fate. This +is what you chose. There is no turning back.