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by xorcist 2y ago
People keep repeating this as if it was true. The Chinese and American battery manufacturers have received enormous subsidies. This factory is mostly financed on the private market, and some bonds from the EU investment bank, but comparably
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by xorcist 2y ago
You could say the same thing about Ansible or Vagrant or Nomad or Salt or anything else. I can say with complete confidence however, that if you are running Kubernetes and not thinking about ops, you are simply not operating it yourself. Yo
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by xorcist 2y ago
Every item on that list is "boring" tech. Approximately everyone have used load balancers, test environments and monitoring since the 90s just fine. What is it that you think make Kubernetes especially suited for this compared to
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by xorcist 2y ago
If the system is backdoored, do none of these things. Boot from rescue media. Save only non-executable files and wipe the rest. Do not trust key material, sensitive data or remote logins that the backdoored system have had control over. Rep
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by xorcist 2y ago
Obviously you can't check for the presence of a rootkit while under a rootkit, in the general case. Checking environment variables wasn't part of the challenge. The challenge was likely not intended to check for rootkits, because
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by xorcist 2y ago
Challenge accepted. "All files loaded" is probably not what you want to do however. It is much easier to just ask rpm directly which files under your library directory has been modified, and treat any files outside known library d
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by xorcist 2y ago
Both, but also a lot of original research. They are public about this.
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by xorcist 2y ago
How do you validate any certificate? You'd have to trust the registrar, presumably like you trust any one CA today. The web browsers do a decent job keeping up to date with this and new top domains aren't added on a daily basis
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by xorcist 2y ago
> Are there any alternatives? The obvious alternative would be a model where domain validated certificates are issued by the registrar and the registrar only. Certificates should reflect domain ownership as that is the way they are used
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by xorcist 2y ago
"Email sequences"? Can we no longer call a spade a spade? Only 20 years ago people who did email marketing had their own forums where they traded their craft.
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by xorcist 2y ago
> change management system That's an unusual way to spell "git". But that's not the point. The point is that change management is useless unless you know why you are doing it. That's why all commit messages shoul
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by xorcist 2y ago
Knobs exist for a reason. If there was no reason for it it shouldn't exist. Turning knobs automatically is one of two things: It's either an awfully bad idea, or should be turned into an upstream patch. Speaking from practice, it&
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by xorcist 2y ago
Dokuwiki has been my go-to solution for docs everywhere I've been for the past ten years or so unless they already have a (usable) wiki in place. Trivial to set up. Trivial to migrate to, and from (should you ever need to). Doesn'
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by xorcist 2y ago
Roll it up, just like you would roll back toilet paper on its roll, or sewing thread. Then you can roll them around your hand with no tangling issues. Just like you would with a garden hose, or a rope on a sailing boat. Tangled ropes is a p
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by xorcist 2y ago
Compared to what? Compared to IRC, yes, but it's not really comparable. The closest comparison is probably Matrix and that is a pretty complex protocol too.
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by xorcist 2y ago
So, configuration?
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by xorcist 2y ago
Yes, there are numerous other ways to run remote commands than ssh, all of them less secure. (Running commands via your monitoring system can even be a very handy back door in a pinch.) The argument here was that remote commands was less us
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by xorcist 2y ago
Even if the three letter acronym space is a bit thin, perhaps best to avoid overloading the name of any one of the ten most used protocols out there?
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by xorcist 2y ago
> at Netflix type scale that nobody is sshing into individual instances to troubleshoot Have you worked at Netflix? I haven't, but I have worked with large scale operations, and I wouldn't hesitate to say that the ability to ss
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by xorcist 2y ago
> you probably want your docs updates to be coordinated with your product releases People keep saying that but I can't help to wonder if they're every on the receiving end of documentation. Documentation isn't code. It may
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by xorcist 2y ago
They could very well literally be . That's the real AI revolution. Not in manufacturing content for the masses, but how to sell ads when the vast majority of consumers could be suspected to be bots.
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by xorcist 2y ago
BBSes was such a huge part of being into computers in the 80s and 90s. I really wish this culture could be understood by future generations. Yes, we have the BBS Documentary movie but we need so much more. Everything non-US is underdocument
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by xorcist 2y ago
So you intentionally make code harder to read for most of the humans on this planet, so satisfy a desire to use longer identifiers?
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by xorcist 2y ago
Valid reasons for backwards incompatible changes to language syntax: 1. The language guarantees have become inconsistent, and the syntax breaks security boundaries or realtime guarantees that the language explicitly promises, and it is unfi
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by xorcist 2y ago
XDG is so bad. There was actually a working best practice before those people came around. Not only did they fragment the ecosystem with their self-defined standards, their standard contains a whole search path with the priority hierarchy b
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by xorcist 2y ago
While I share your sentiment of not putting too much trust in a single source, I find that particular story complete believable. It is common display of power, to force everyone to have to accept a post facto explanation for something eithe
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by xorcist 2y ago
There was this thing called the Jargon File. Then it was taken over by a rogue person who removed some things which didn't fit his personal liking and put in some other things. There was a lot of drama, but the end result was a skewed
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by xorcist 2y ago
dmy=$(date +%d/%m/%Y)
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by xorcist 2y ago
It also doesn't strike me as very fair. If you smoke, should you not receive cancer care because you took unnecessary risk? I can see how you could arrive at similar conclusions from a risk management perspective, but it's not a m
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by xorcist 2y ago
How is that different from gold? I believe central banks keeps that around for precisely that reason. Or, for that matter, the difference from paper cash or luxury yachts? All you need is to find a buyer. Which might not be easy for yachts,

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