honestSysAdmin

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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
Some DevOps guys I know are running on Macbook M2 a Gentoo musl+llvm+openrc userland on a Linux that has Asahi patches and https://grsecurity.net patches. The only "downside" is no Windows VMs, but they don't seem
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
"Some things are more important than GDP".
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
Smart.
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
"The government of Columbia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
We have been running RaptorCS servers for years, are evaluating RISC-V based options in a lab, and we are looking at Oxide. . What Purism offers with its Pureboot and hardware security chip that enforces deemed-tolerable ME payload is suffi
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
I want a Surface Pro, that exact hardware as perceived on the outside as a user, sans the ""accidental"" backdoors. I have partial responsibility running a business that administrates high value deployments and many of
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
Always treat hardware you get from someone else as not just untrusted but hostile until proven beyond any reasonable doubt otherwise. Put an OpenBSD machine to act as a router/firewall between supplied devices and your own network to k
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
My immediate questions are: - where can I set machine-owner-key for rEFInd to do secure boot with Linux? - where can I set the *real* machine-owner-key to load only a copy of board firmware compiled from not-license-encumbered source
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
In my experience, to archive effectively you need a physical datacenter footprint, or to rent capacity of someone who does. Over a longer timespan (even just 6 months), having your own footprint is a lower total cost of ownership, provided
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
The pedestrian "right", which I encounter on a day-to-day basis the months I visit client sites a couple hundred miles inland of the Gulf of America, will look at climatelinks.org and say something like: "all I see are foreig
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
Let's make torrents and seed them.
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
A vicious hoax campaign is not merely "getting things wrong" tho.
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
I asked for specific examples of what your concern is. You have still not presented a question of any substance.
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
If fascism means secure borders, an end to the kinetic conflict in Ukraine, an end to social media censorship, and a booming economy, more than half the country will vote for fascism. Promises fulfilled or not aside.
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
Why would the "tent pole" hoax, the "fine people" hoax, be missing? WikiPedia is an unbiased and objective source of information. Totally. 100%. Yep. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-f
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
> as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity. The college educated person -- but not the university educated STEM degree holder -- takes these three things to
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
I could be wrong here, I'm not an expert with databases, but I believe -- this is a belief, please help me disconfirm it if you think it is wrong -- that CitusDB's approach that shards Postgres across redundant mirrors, should suc
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
> From my experience, the vast majority of complications in systems is people not realizing they are asking an OLAP question while wanting parts of OLTP semantics. If you could elaborate on this further, I and others are probably very in
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
> then I'd call that a no-downtime upgrade! It'd be really convenient for me, well not me but others, if we could tell our customers this. However, those of us running DBaaS do have to offer an actual no-downtime upgrade.
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
As far as I know, there is not. I could probably write something up.
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
Zero-downtime Postgres upgrades have been kind of normalized, at least in the environments I have been exposed to, with pgcat https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
There's also lot you can do with not-brand-new server hardware that doesn't cost that much. The hard part is a location to put it where the noise is not bothersome. Though many who are "upper middle class" or on low-cost
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
I do consulting for multiple GPU hosting companies. DeepSeek means more things can be done with less and the demand for access to GPU has only increased. The analysts, analysts who do not code, analysts who don't run GPU clouds, are wr
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
> since they would need very good security As someone with 20+ years experience in IT/DevOps/Cloud/whatever, I disagree. They would simply need to actually use the security that is already there. Data leaks that happen du
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
I have been consulting with startups in the SF Bay Area, many of them are in their B-series and C-series funding rounds ; offices in SF skyscrapers and general SV / San Jose area. In the C-series I have been involved in long enough, I
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/embassy-us-flag-blm-gay-pride.html
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
You're in good hands. https://vanillaos.org/team
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
A good law would be that if a customer's data is leaked, any and all revenue that was made with/through that customer must be returned to the customer. All of a sudden companies will magically remember how to do half-way sober IT
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by honestSysAdmin 2y ago
No JMAP huh.

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