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by plasticxme 6y ago
These companies all have very clear terms of service, where they reserve the right to remove you for any reason. Using their service is a privilege, not a right. If everyone is “censoring” you, then there must be a good reason why they pref
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by plasticxme 6y ago
Twitter is a private sector business in the US with terms that include reserving the right to remove any content for any reason. They have every right to. If you don’t agree with it, for moral reasons or otherwise, you’re free to provide yo
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by plasticxme 6y ago
CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE is a root privilege, a distinct one provided by kernel capabilities, granted to a process. In order to use it the container must be permitted to allow its processes to elevate their privileges. If the container is runn
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by plasticxme 6y ago
Nginx and the like are starting to provide non-privileged versions of their container images. Running as root is lazy and equals container escape, especially when running on anything other than scratch and read only file system. The only re
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by plasticxme 6y ago
They were not more secure, just more isolated. The challenges are different. Containers are just namespaced processes that share the same kernel as the host. A host has access to all container processes, uids, gids, file systems, and netwo
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by plasticxme 6y ago
Infrastructure should be defined in an easily digestible, human-readable format. Your manifests serve two purposes: define infrastructure and self document. While you can achieve the same infrastructure automation with shell scripts, they’r
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by plasticxme 6y ago
The reason is because object storage is slow and not meant for high performance, which is usually important for large databases. For your S3 example and ignoring IOPS, you are comparing 13ms of latency on local spinning disk versus 10s-100s
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by plasticxme 6y ago
A container is not a VM and should ONLY contain the exact files needed to run your app to run securely. Any additional packages increase the security footprint. Every container is one RCE vulnerability away from being compromised and escape
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by plasticxme 6y ago
No, there is no reason for them to do that. Microsoft has proven otherwise over their entire existence.
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by plasticxme 9y ago
If you read the post, you’d know that you’ve basically summarized it.
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by plasticxme 10y ago
As a whole, we vote for a party. The person on the ballet is that of your riding. They are a Member of Parliament (MP) for your area, and they are affiliated with one of the many parties. The party the receives the most elected MP's a
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by plasticxme 10y ago
Requiring access to your social accounts is laughable. Unless it's directly tied to your job, it's a signal to quickly and politely end the relationship.
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by plasticxme 10y ago
It use to be tracked by radio song requests and sales of singles.
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by plasticxme 11y ago
I envision a future where CEOs don Guy Fawkes masks before doing press releases.
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by plasticxme 11y ago
Mongodb easy; PostreSQL hard. The latter requires extensive planning, which slows you down when features need to go out now.
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by plasticxme 11y ago
Deploying TLS in simple environments isn't overly complicated. It's just cost prohibitive.
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by plasticxme 11y ago
This is an awkward argument. One of my sites documents how to configure servers, for example. What excuse is there that something like that needs to be encrypted? The most legitimate reason I've heard is for privacy. I don't belie
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by plasticxme 11y ago
Tin foil hats a side, I assume it would be an account used only for professional reasons, allowing students to reach out to their teachers. However, if the teacher is incapable of separating personal life from work, there could be repercuss
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by plasticxme 11y ago
This isn't software development. Why reinvent the wheel?
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by plasticxme 11y ago
Some forms of compliance require end-to-end encryption for certain transmissions. PCI is one that comes to mind.
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by plasticxme 11y ago
Slack is terrible for auditing, though. What's wrong with email?
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by plasticxme 11y ago
What!? First, it is highly inappropriate for anyone in any leadership or management position to ask anyone to sit on there lap, no matter what their relationship status. Secondly, making any kind of sexual proposition or advance in the off