Notices by Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems), page 3
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 06:32:53 JST Pete Wright @encthenet my 12yo was ranting last night that YouTube made him disable ublock origin, only to show him ads about how to disable ads in YouTube 😅
I was like - and now you know why I’m “backing up the internet” on our own server. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 11:26:11 JST Pete Wright @thedarktangent
I had some success with Arista, but that was quite a while ago.
I hear ya on HPE and Aruba tho - I remember that being painful and we were a large customer even… -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 10:07:15 JST Pete Wright @encthenet
that is a great point and had forgotten about that. its another "unfortunate, but understandable" thing.
the last time i remember reading about that was in like 2016 or 2017 and it seemed to be mostly CI related...which again goes back to tooling that is awkward to be cross platform. wonder if thats still the case... -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 09:02:16 JST Pete Wright @penryu
this tracks, and to be fair i've had some interactions with rust projects where they were definitely on the PR's welcome side.
i've also had a few experiences where it was straight up "nope" - which again is *totally* fine, it is their project and they do things as they see fit. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:35:18 JST Pete Wright @ianthetechie
Yea don't get me started on docker 😂
I've probably lost more jobs than I care to admit because I looked at the hoops companies were jumping through just to tick the docker (and k8s frankly) box and asking what benefit that complexity is giving them. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:34:35 JST Pete Wright Honest question for the #rust developers out there. I've observed several pretty high profile OSS projects recently, which are written in rust but are *not* cross platform. Well at least as far as Unix is concerned, it's Linux or nothing.
This is super unfortunate, not only as a #BSD user it locks me out from using these tools...but it also introduces a pretty big blind spot in terms of development which can lead to fragile and/or insecure systems. The whole "monoculture is bad" thing.
So folks hacking on #rust - what do you feel is lacking that makes it easier to write portable code? -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 03:31:36 JST Pete Wright @miah @mcc i had one of the last (only?) nokia devices that ran this OS (N9). it was pretty bad...but i had such high hopes for it. like the hardware was sweet, and the OS certainly felt more open and hackable than android but it had a lot of work to do to overcome the marketing forces google and apple were able to leverage. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 06:37:21 JST Pete Wright @feld lol nice - just let the weather underground be an independent company again. i don't care wtf they due with the rest of the assets! -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 01:32:55 JST Pete Wright @feld
oh i agree - they don't. but like boomers aren't just gonna walk away from power without some incentive. it's wild to think how little relative power Gen X has due to prior generations not getting out of the way. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 05:08:00 JST Pete Wright #uspol warning
We should create like an "old timers" league in the Senate and Congress. Like after you hit some age (say 70) you are allowed to stay in office, but with diminished authority. say you can't vote, but you get to be an advisor for the reps who came after you or something.
After you realize that most of the geriatric people in our congress spent literally their *lives* trying to get where they are, no wonder they have a hard time stepping down. So why not give them an "off ramp" from power in a way where we can save their precious ego from being hurt. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 02:08:05 JST Pete Wright @hacks4pancakes and not to be just a hater about this without providing an alternative, I’ve always felt the better way to get more diverse people into tech would be by funding and supporting guilds and proper mentoring programs for young people.
So much of Sysadmin/OPS work is learned via experience and tribal knowledge. If we can offer alternatives to conferences for sharing that knowledge while also helping people get money in their pocket it seems like that would be an improvement. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 02:07:49 JST Pete Wright @hacks4pancakes tbh - I’m like a stereotypical tech person (some random white guy) and I stopped going to tech and security cons because of how cliquish they are. I can’t imagine how bad it must be for POC and women.
It’s disappointing that we still feel like the best way to get forward and be accepted in tech is via conferences and who you know -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 06:33:20 JST Pete Wright smart: I'll just refresh this documentation while I wait for this 100GB dataset to upload to S3.
smarter: I'm just gonna space out while this thing uploads.
smartest: I'm gonna setup dummynet on this box to throttle bandwidth, then space out while this thing uploads. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 09:34:24 JST Pete Wright @VeilidNetwork @primalmotion
Yea I’m looking forward to the code base shaking out all the linuxisms in there, gonna be an interesting 6months to see how that goes 🤞 -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 23:41:15 JST Pete Wright @raggi @cpli @feld @womble imho I wouldn’t trust their docker images either, I mean if they mess up managing repos this badly I’m not sure I’d trust them to create a Linux container either. That’s a lot of trust to give to a third party 🤷♂️ -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 06:12:51 JST Pete Wright @feld @samwho
interesting, yea we had more issues with STUN than sctp iirc. we owned both ends, the server and games implemented our c++ sdk which probably helped.
i was also under the impression that chrome uses the freebsd sctp implementation for webrtc, at least that is the impression i got from Tom Jones during his QUIC talk at his years bsdcan. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 04:16:43 JST Pete Wright @samwho @feld we specifically used SCTP to deal with unreliable routing on the internet, as well as the horrid state of home routers, for several high profile online FPS games. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:54:17 JST Pete Wright @phrawzty @miah honestly - vault is a piece of software that could arguably have a price associated with it. It’s usually the most critical piece of software which contains your companies secrets, and it wouldn’t be hard to argue that paying for it would help ensure it survives and gets funded to stay secure.
It makes no sense imho what they did with TF, it’s just a templating engine and API wrapper…keep that and packer open to keep good will and the community happy. Then explain you need to fund vault, consul and nomad. Those servers need full time paid engineers to keep them safe and reliable. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 23:41:03 JST Pete Wright @MostlyHarmless @futurebird I used to complain as a kid “why do I need to memorize multiplication tables, I’ll have a calculator when I grow up.”
Wonder if kids do the same but with excel these days heh. -
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Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 08:11:35 JST Pete Wright @chas @feld
there is a flip side to this too. being on the support side of things gives you a unique perspective on the beauty of the KISS principle. i think people underestimate the power of a few well chosen Unix components. it may not get you famous on the conference circuit, but it also seems to help me sleep through the night more frequently.