placardloop

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by placardloop 11mo ago
The title makes it seem like this is a major or systemic issue, but the article content essentially says this was a one-off, potentially a mistaken omission that was fixed within 24 hours. The article itself even states that the Post routin
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by placardloop 11mo ago
This is Amazon we’re talking about, it was probably Perl.
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by placardloop 11mo ago
There is nothing in that article that mentions either devops or 40% of any team or role being cut. It doesn’t corroborate anything.
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by placardloop 11mo ago
Within AWS this role falls under the Systems Engineer job family. It is not a devops role, and its involvement in events like today would be the same involvement as every other SWE at Amazon. Just do a quick google search for that “40% of d
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by placardloop 11mo ago
Misunderstanding the things you are linking does not mean you proved anyone wrong.
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by placardloop 11mo ago
AWS does not have dedicated devops roles. All AWS SWEs are expected to take oncall shifts and respond to incidents, manage build pipelines, etc rather than having specific devops people to do it for them. The article you linked claiming 40%
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by placardloop 11mo ago
AWS doesn’t even have a “devops team” nor even any devops job roles. AWS also does not use Terraform (which is what the article says everyone was replaced with) at any significant scale, so this article is similar junk.
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by placardloop 11mo ago
> One of the benefits of Litestream 0.5.0 is that there’s now an official litestream Docker image. All of my previous Docker containers required a lot of boilerplate to download the correct version of Litestream and make it available in
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by placardloop 11mo ago
Homelabbing is a hobby for most people involved in it, and like other hobbies, some people dip their toes in it while others go diving in the deep end. But would you say it’s “overkill” for a hobbyist fisher to have multiple fishing poles?
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by placardloop 11mo ago
Ahh you’re right, there are some that just initiate a connection via something like Session Manager, but those connections where AWS initiates the connection for you are logged in CloudTrail, even without data events, and root doesn’t give
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by placardloop 11mo ago
SSH is totally irrelevant here. Having AWS root account access doesn’t give you any ability to SSH to or otherwise access running instances. You could access data on those instances by cloning the EBS volumes or modifying build pipelines or
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by placardloop 11mo ago
CloudTrail logs for the last 90 days are enabled by default, cannot be turned off, and are immutable, even by root. If you view this “event” as starting when Arko was supposed to have their access terminated, that’s within the 90 day window
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by placardloop 1y ago
You can still generate the QR code in the desktop and scan it with your phone camera. The device receiving the file does not have to be the device that scans the code.
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by placardloop 1y ago
Of the big three cloud providers, only GCP uses containers for customer isolation, and they do so with the supervision of gVisor. It’s certainly possible to do container isolation securely, but it takes extra steps and know-how, and I don’t
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by placardloop 1y ago
The public land situation in the western US is vastly, vastly different from the situation in the east. Just like you’re saying comparing the US to the UK are two different situations, you also have to treat parts of the US separately. Almo
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by placardloop 1y ago
Again, this isn’t at all in the scope of restic’s docs. If you’re using S3 as the storage, it’s on you to understand how S3 works and what permissions are needed, just like it’s on you to understand how your local file system works and file
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by placardloop 1y ago
That’s because restic is not opinionated about where and how you store your backups. Restic provides a nice interface to create the backups, and then lets you choose where you want to store them (and how access to them is managed), be it lo
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by placardloop 1y ago
The pricing isn’t due to AWS. Even if you used standard S3 and paid for data retrieval for your entire backup every single month, tarsnap is over 3x the price of just using S3 yourself. The markup on tarsnap is wild. Using something like re
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by placardloop 1y ago
Your condescending appeal to emotion does nothing to change the facts. My family and I too lived through the winter storm, going multiple days without power. It doesn’t change anything about what I said. The national-vs-local-grid topic is
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by placardloop 1y ago
One of Rick Perry’s signature accomplishments as governor of Texas was that he implemented a few policies mandating the expansion of renewable energy, and also a massive initiative called the Competitive Renewable Energy Zone that funded bu
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by placardloop 1y ago
Every single state surrounding Texas was also suffering from power outages due to the winter storm in 2021, despite all of those states being part of the non-Texas interconnections. The outages in those states weren’t as bad, but even if Te
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by placardloop 1y ago
Nearly 15% of Irelands population was without power for multiple days earlier this year due to a storm. And the Iberian peninsula blackout that happened just in April was one of the biggest power blackouts in the history of the world. And t
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by placardloop 1y ago
This feels like you’re applying absolutes to a massive industry with wildly varying standards for peer review and work product. I was a consultant for years at a Big4 and I can personally attest to a lot of the stuff I was producing as a 22
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by placardloop 1y ago
This is true for the act of launching VMs, but it’s pretty reductive towards the entire suite of important features that Proxmox provides like clustering, high availability, integration with various storage backends, backups, and more that
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by placardloop 1y ago
If you’re on iOS, the app “Strong” is a really simple but great tracking app. On Android there is “FitNotes” which is a little bit more barebones, but still really functional. I have tried Jefit a few times and think it’s great but ended up
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by placardloop 1y ago
AWS really shot themselves in the foot with naming everything “Amazon Q <insert suffix here>”. The Q that’s in the console is completely and entirely different from the “Q Developer” and other AI products that AWS is launching. The Q
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by placardloop 1y ago
Which is kind of ironic since the Amazon Q Developer CLI (which is essentially Claude Code with a slightly different wrapper) was released long before Claude Code and seems to mostly be flying under the radar.
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by placardloop 1y ago
These AI reports are just an acceleration of the slop created by similar human “researchers”. The real root cause of this is that most security “professionals” have been trained to do the bare minimum of work and expect a payday from it. Th
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by placardloop 1y ago
This is like someone in 1800 saying “at the end of the day you still have transportation needs and it’s hard if not impossible to beat horses and carriages in terms of cost”. Literally just do a google search. There are advancements every
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by placardloop 1y ago
This particular site is being built basically in the parking lot/backyard of a steel mill, so it sort of is brownfield. I have a hunch that “empty cornfield” is just the author using some artistic freedom instead of saying “an empty fi

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