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by twistedpair 3y ago
Better than when Planet's DC actually exploded [1]. Restoration is hard when health and safety are in question. Good luck to these ops folks <3 [1] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/
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by twistedpair 4y ago
"recession" talk provides cloud cover for many a company to pare back and prune products, processes, and people in a way that would normally cause more out cry. It's not that such changes aren't needed, but they can pile
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by twistedpair 4y ago
I prefer LastPass' featureset over 1Password, when I've trial them both, but I certainly don't prefer LastPass' opsec.
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by twistedpair 4y ago
A good reason to give engineers PGP keys and turn on the "required code signing" feature on your org. Alas, security and productivity are perpetual odds.
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by twistedpair 4y ago
I'm excited for FGPATs, but they're still in beta and still have a lot of shortcomings at this time.
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by twistedpair 4y ago
IAM on GitHub needs so much <3. So broad, much ow. For example, I trialed major security vendor's enterprise product. They required their app be granted Admin on the GitHub org. All they needed to do was create issues, PRs, and read
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by twistedpair 4y ago
> found more credentials on the internal network ... giving admin access to everything That's my hangup. The fact that admin/root level accounts can be accessed with "credentials" alone, rather than only via SSO/
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by twistedpair 4y ago
I'm still confused. Why did people have username/password logins to the AWS console? Either require SSO login, or require HW tokens to get in as an AWS user. Then it doesn't matter if someone finds the password file, it'
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Ghostery browser on Android is pretty easy to use.
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Depends who the "you" is; someone just getting started with Cloud, or a savvy enterprise operator? GCP has sided with an "easy out of the box experience". For example, a new project has a "default" network with
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Running your whole company cloud off a credit card is OK pre-seed round, but then you should get a proper business account setup w/ ACH payments/invocing. Better still, after you grow a bit, use a GCP reseller (SADA and DoIT are g
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by twistedpair 4y ago
FWIW, BigQuery tables can be configured to require a partition filter clause [0] in the SQL query, so that you cannot shoot yourself in the foot like that. Now if they'd just make an Organization Policy to let you turn it on by default
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by twistedpair 4y ago
This is why I switched to silk floss. Just search for it on your favorite Bezos emporium.
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by twistedpair 4y ago
mabl | Boston, MA | Software Engineer | ONSITE/REMOTE | https://mabl.com/careers We need your help to put our $40MM series C raise to work and keep scaling up. We’re bringing AI and cloud scale to software testing at m
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by twistedpair 4y ago
It's that easy for a lot of managed services. Want GKE to run multi-zone, or Spanner to run multi-region, just check a box (and insert coin).
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Anyone remember back when Glassdoor didn't use TLS for many years? You're employer had a cakewalk seeing what you were posting if you did it from the office. :/
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Just hit "#". That wasn't buried very deep.
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Change for the sake of change. I'm often a power user. I know all the features and shortcuts of the tools I use. All too often, these get removed. I recall being on a feedback call with a UX study, and complaining about a feature I use
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by twistedpair 4y ago
There was a YT preso from several years back where the StackExchange founder explained how it ran off just ~10 servers, and could run on half that many if needed. He stressed the simplicity of their arch, and that their problem space was ma
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by twistedpair 4y ago
I'm not sure where the difference comes from, but it's there. When I visit some public high schools in suburban CT, they look nicer than my college campus. When I visit public schools in rural VA, they're a cluster of trailer
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Here's some real data for you, in a NY college no less. President of my undergrad college made $884K last year [1], but a medical school professor made nearly $2M. 1. https://nonprofitlight.com/ny/rochester/un
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Who needs to buy 15 gallons of gasoline daily (unless in the transit industry or doing a long road trip)? Seems like a mismatch between frequency of earning (days), and car filling. Most people fill their car weekly or less. Heck, since the
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by twistedpair 4y ago
Ever seen Football coach, and college president salaries? For state colleges, they're often some of the highest paid employees in the state. [1] 1. https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/2
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by twistedpair 4y ago
I live in a major US housing market. I want to get a bigger house for my family. Realistically, we're talking $1.2M to do so. That feels so crazy, given I grew up in a $150K house. Suddenly you feel compelled to do whatever it takes to
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by twistedpair 4y ago
> It’s difficult for Enterprise Orgs to ensure only vetted actions are used. You can already to this 1. Visit Settings > Actions > General Actions Permissions > Policies 2. Select "Allow non-org actions and reusable workflo
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by twistedpair 4y ago
This is why I love GCP Cloud Storage. The "colder" tiers are cheaper, and reads simply cost a lot more from there, but they don't slow them down and take days to restore. You pay with dollars, not time for restoring those GCS
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by twistedpair 4y ago
One assumes the backups will rotate out and be discarded after a fixed time, so everything is "truly deleted" for compliance reasons.
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by twistedpair 4y ago
I know plenty of places (small/med startups) with "undelete" and "restore" account/data options built into their admin panels. Engineers shouldn't be flipping bits by hand, under duress. I really wonder wh
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by twistedpair 4y ago
How do you think this happened? The "billable_time" database column was microseconds, not seconds? Seems like things are off by ~6 orders. This is why I always advocate for all variables/dimensions to have the units in the na
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GitHub Actions Bills Wildly Overstated(twitter.com)
40 points by twistedpair 4y ago|8 comments

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