wrldos

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by wrldos 4y ago
My EE lecturer described Forrest Mims as the single largest source of brain damage in the EE community. Unlearning the abstractions in those books was a common source of problems apparently. Ergo I'm glad I steered around them. My favo
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by wrldos 4y ago
I'm fully aware of those risks. The issue for me is a matter of realism. A combination of the default policy being poor on all AWS services, the shared responsibility model of AWS delegating this risk to clients and the default securit
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by wrldos 4y ago
These are far less likely outcomes than your root account being compromised, an IAM fuck up, dumb assume role configuration or something using an assumed IAM role being compromised and having verbatim access to the bucket. The feature is th
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by wrldos 4y ago
Time is limited. Doing too much detracts from what I do want to do.
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by wrldos 4y ago
Nope. I've got everything I want. It's not a lot. I'm collecting a ton of money now that I don't know what to do with. Promoting wants is the foundation of economics however.
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by wrldos 4y ago
If you want to use a knife analogy, we're using C for prying things open, sawing up timber and opening locks. There are better tools for those jobs that don't end up in blood loss and misery.
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by wrldos 4y ago
Not so sure. I learned commercial Unix back in the late 1990s on discarded SPARC hardware which was available in skips and Yahoo auctions for virtually no money at all. In fact it was generally cheaper than the boxed Linux distributions you
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by wrldos 4y ago
Really not a fan of awk. It really looks nice but I have inherited a lot of it in the past and know how many foot guns there are. Trashing the unix philosophy of using text as a communication protocol, I've seen terrible terrible mista
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by wrldos 4y ago
If you have to think about safety then the technology is unsafe by default, ergo not suitable for security and reliability critical systems. No amount of thinking is going to fix that. I haven't built anything out of choice in a C deri
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by wrldos 4y ago
And no one noticed because no one has read CNET for years.
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by wrldos 4y ago
Indeed they are just ticking a box for your customers.
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by wrldos 4y ago
SOC Type 2 compliance only suggests they have a sit in audit once a year. Basically the produced a lot of paperwork and it doesn't mean that they evidenced stuff honestly to the auditors.