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Corporate Slack instances are probably not a great place to discuss such things. One could in a pinch fire up one of the ssh chat daemons [1] on an EC2 assumin
by LinuxBender 3y ago
Corporate Slack instances are probably not a great place to discuss such things. One could in a pinch fire up one of the ssh chat daemons [1] on an EC2 assuming that most of the employees are familiar with using SSH. There is a demo documented in that git repo. People can ssh under a pseudonym rather than using a real name. The daemon uses private keys to track identity so make a new SSH key specific to that server. Not my repo but the maintainer is here on HN.
# append to ~/.ssh/config
# ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N "" -C "chat" -f ~/.ssh/ssh-chat
Host chat
Hostname some-ec2-ip
Port 22
User some-username
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ssh-chat
# Go's ssh lib is old
HostkeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa
Another quick, lightweight and simple option is uMurmur but it would require people installing Mumble on their laptop or Mumla on their phone so that's extra friction.
[1] - https://github.com/quackduck/devzat https://github.com/quackduck/devzat
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://slack.com/pricing/free https://slack.com/pricing/free for expediency, https://mattermost.com/ https://mattermost.com/ as you scale. Make it easy to onboard folks in the org from their personal devices, no corp devices.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoI have no clue why anybody would use work slack for anything more than friendly conversation. The idea of using company-monitored communications to discuss dissatisfaction with your jobs is insane to me
- pavel_lishin 3y ago> One could in a pinch fire up one of the ssh chat daemons [1] on an EC2 assuming that most of the employees are familiar with using SSH. If you want any non-engineers in on your conversation, you absolutely should not assume that.
- scarface_74 3y agoYep, they could just fire up an EC2 instance after creating an AWS account on Isengard and go ham. /s
- chpatrick 3y agoOr you know, Discord.
- quackduck 3y agoOh btw the go SSH lib being old thing has been fixed for a while now.