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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer so take the comment with a grain of salt, but employee's should likely insist on using company devices as well. If the company were to be sued it may open up the personal devices to all sorts of subpoena for the c
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I largely agree, especially with the sentiment that there are two sides to any story. I think one angle I'll nitpick though is this doesn't have to be related to whether or not the employee was a high performer or had particular l
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I've for a long time set my cloud VMs to shutdown on idle. I usually use it to also justify running a much larger VM to cut down on build and test times. Just set a cron to run the shutdown command with a grace period. And then if you&
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
It might be difficult for a 9 year old but there was an interesting series on YouTube or twitch called handmade hero. I didn’t follow it all the way through but the person hosting it did a weekly livestream and just started writing a game a
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I could be wrong, but I sort of think when I learned Oracle back when I was in school (mid-2000s) supported dropping a database on a raw block device. So it's been around a long time, but would be uncommon in some tech circles.
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Managing on-prem hardware may not necessarily be hard, but it can be extremely time consuming. To me, the nice thing about dropping a bunch of hardware in a colo is you get to take a lot of shortcuts and take risks that you cannot buy from
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Absolutely. The real difficulty is tests on PR are by definition remote code execution by an untrusted source, so a full risk analysis and hardening needs to be done. Here's a similar mistake on an OSS repo a company I worked for made:
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
> Not good enough to trust your life to if you’re an Albertan. I believe the heat pumps intended for these climates provided alternatives for those cold days. If you want to stay all electric, it would include a resistive electric heater
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Sorry about the imprecise language, this system rotated both together.
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Yea, I equate it to part of security theater. I worked on a product that rotated the TLS certificate frequently. And it actually showed up a number of times in questions from customers or vendor security questionnaires about whether we rota
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I doubt google needs to use this as a feature for tracking. Even if we argued that this was for tracking purposes, google could keep the cookie for tracking and just deny access to the services until a login flow was completed.
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
> It'd be a big lift (if not impossible) to get projects like cert-manager cilium whatever to adopt the longer release cycle as well. It's a great point which probably should be part of the discussion. Say even if Kubernetes p
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
From my perspective as a former developer on a kubernetes distribution that no longer exists. The model seems to largely be, the CNCF/Kubernetes authors have done a good job of writing clear expectations for the lifetime for their rele
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Yes. And also things like rolling out the update in batches, and then also things like golden images, where if there are two crashes or failures in the first 24 hours of the update, change to the last known good software version.
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
There is a small blurb about it in patio11's year in review. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/12/30/kalzumeus-software-year... I think I might've been the one referred to as submitting the excel file
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
When I worked in telco we used to run into this a lot. We'd demand standard alarms for things like memory leaks / out of memory conditions / high than normal memory usage, as to get 99.999% uptime we want to be paged when pro
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
lol I've had this exact same occur multiple times... basically every time we have staff turnover in our condo office no one knows how to print to pdf... so every year or two I have to show someone how to do it, including up to 2022. My
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
> Truthfully I don't think this is an issue the federal government is in a position to solve any time soon. I agree in general. There is some stuff the federal government can do, which is to return to funding social housing. The Fed
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I think the only good news I heard in this area in the US, is one of the big companies doing this was going bust because they screwed up their calculations for how much to offer when buying homes. So if the companies just can't make th
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I suspect the complexity with this approach, is these "investors" are also the source of the majority of rental inventory in the country. As far as I know we don't build rental buildings anymore, it's all condos with 30-
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
When I was a kid my dad took me to his work a couple of times at the nuclear plant. I remember a little the visitor center and also I think where they did training. So I have a vague memory of being able to pick up and move around pipes sim
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
> In fact, I've never even heard an unreasonable defense. I suspect like many things, there was some logic to the introduction. But it's just gotten to really batshit levels that there is probably nothing to do but stop the pra
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Well, the thing about making security research legal is that the law can outline what is legal and illegal security research, instead of leaving it in a grey area of a policy statement that may change at any time without notice, or from a p
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Another +1, I left a startup over exactly this, all the managers, directors, and VP of engineering were IC engineers maybe 2 years prior. It was a shame, because I really enjoyed my role at that company in general, but ended up opting to le
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Also, I can understand for some the cable being quite annoying. In electronics class in highschool, a few soldering irons got wrecked by students melting the cable insulation and sparks would fly.
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
> You have to view these billionaires as toddlers. They never hear a simple “no”, and when they do they go apoplectic. It doesn't have to be just billionaires, one of the startups I worked in had a leadership culture like this. I en
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
Unless something has changed and I'm out of date, I think a piece of context here is fly postgres isn't really a managed service offering. From what I've seen fly does try to message this, but I think it's still easy for
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
While you are correct, I think this is one of those the user might not care, and a contributor to why being an upstart in this market segment can be so difficult.
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
https://wdkwwdk.com/posts - not much content, most interesting around some 10+ year old outages I investigated. Started writing a bit when I had some free time in 2022, but haven't done a great job of being consistent
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by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
While I'm sure the details are top secret, I think the existence of the monitoring has be known for quite some time. As I recall, a submarine disappeared much further away than the titanic wreck, much closer to Spain, and the recording

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