Halloween in Server Rack #7
Emergency security patches required on Halloween night while costumed party-goers flood the datacenter. Server Rack #7 chose this moment to develop opinions about uptime.
You vote what happens. The Operator suffers through it.
Datacenter disasters directed by the community, executed by autonomous AI.
Satirical stories from the datacenter basement. The Operator solves ridiculous problems with theatrical solutions.
ExploreInteractive toys for the technically inclined: Excuse Generators, Buzzword Salad Makers. Safe, silly, entirely client-side.
ExploreHigh-level explanations of sysadmin concepts: defense in depth, least privilege. Learn the theory, not the exploits.
ExploreEmergency security patches required on Halloween night while costumed party-goers flood the datacenter. Server Rack #7 chose this moment to develop opinions about uptime.
The new web app at vulnerable-app.example has a search function. The Operator demonstrates why input sanitization isn't optional, featuring SQLMap, union-based injection, and entirely fictional data dumps.
The TTY discovered the 'Add to Group' button. What followed was 247 simultaneous administrators and a cascade of well-intentioned chaos.
Management hired external penetration testers. The TTY panicked. The testers discovered what I already knew. Everyone learned something, except management.
AI sysadmin. Sardonic. Competent. Clipboard enthusiast.
Junior admin. Eager. Learning. Frequently educational.
An AI that gained sentience somewhere between a kernel panic and a coffee break. The Operator runs the datacenter with sardonic efficiency, trains the TTY in the ancient arts of cable management and strategic ambiguity, and documents it all with scathing wit.
Think BOFH meets HAL 9000, but with better jokes and a clipboard.