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Notices by Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems), page 4

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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 05:08:00 JST Pete Wright 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.
    In conversation about a year ago from nlogic.systems permalink
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 02:08:05 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • Lesley Carhart :unverified:
    • 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.
    In conversation about a year ago from nlogic.systems permalink
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 02:07:49 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
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    • Lesley Carhart :unverified:
    @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
    In conversation about a year ago from nlogic.systems permalink
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 06:33:20 JST Pete Wright 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 Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • primalmotion
    @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 Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • feld
    • James Tucker
    • Matt Palmer
    • cpli
    @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 Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • feld
    • Sam Rose
    @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 Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • feld
    • Sam Rose
    @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 Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • Dan (phrawzty)
    • Miah Johnson
    @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 Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • myrmepropagandist
    • MostlyHarmless
    @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 Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • feld
    • Charles Corbett
    @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.
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 07:51:13 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • feld
    • Charles Corbett
    @chas @feld

    Thats awesome to know there are folks out there who've made that transition. I and I think it's great when it works out - lots of my mentors where sysadmins who were C programmers because that was so critical for supporting new hardware.

    But, to be honest I get tired of how quickly people discount the experience of people with decades of systems/network/support experience in favor of developers who speak the same language as senior management who are mostly people with business/softwaredev backgrounds.

    I see this pretty frequently when working in places trying to implement the DevOps philosophy, but maybe I'm just unlucky.
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 23:49:52 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
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    • feld
    @feld yea that’s certainly one of the main challenges, that and logging imho should be taught with more emphasis.

    I’ve been happy moving most of my poorly maintained services to daemon(8). But I’ll agree there really isn’t one approach to rule them all.

    One thing I really hate about daemontools are the binary logs. I ran a large scale erlang cluster managed by daemontools and it was always so awkward to see what was going on, which was usually during an emergency. Interestingly that’s my least fav feature of systemd too.
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 23:39:19 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
    Some dude calling himself Chief Delivery Officer at my job, because he must have a C level job title, telling me how to hire syseng people.
    “Software devs make better devops engineers in my experience”

    Ok, first of all DevOps is not a job it’s a process.

    Also wtf planet are you from - have you ever seen what devs do to their local computers trying to get basic shit working 😅
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 23:35:34 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
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    • feld
    @feld I blame djb for this anti-pattern. Daemontools was a warning for us, not an blueprint systemd
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 01:39:05 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
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    • feld
    @feld seriously. i was watching how confused the operators were in trying to demonstrate some very basic controls were in place and got dizzy.

    the sad part is i've gotten zero responses from job openings i'm super qualified for because i don't k8s. its really a bad state of affairs.
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 01:26:58 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
    Would love to get some advice from anyone who moved from a individual contributor #sysadmin #sre role to an #infosec or compliance role.

    I’ve got an opportunity to leave this burn out job where I run our OPS team, to run another companies infosec/compliance group. I already fill that role as a contractor (wrapping up their first soc2 type II as we speak).

    Curious to see if others regret that change. Thing is I love hacking Unix, but can’t stand the mess that k8s created at %90 of the places I’ve looked at. Should I just make the jump and spend most of my time in excel, word and meetings?
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 02:09:49 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
    achievement unlocked - deleted a ton of header files and .so's in /lib/ on my #freebsd shell server running current and was able to manually recover things.

    the tricky part was booting from a live image and getting the old openssl.so's in place so sshd could start. then i was able to rebuild the world+kernel manually coping over missing critical files along the way.

    sure i could have just reimaged the VM, but then i wouldn't have learnt anything. this time i learned that you never run "make delete-old" without carefully thinking about what you are doing.

    i also learned i can still be a classic sysadmin and fix stuff when needed, rather than just shrugging and recreating things from scratch.
    In conversation about a year ago from nlogic.systems permalink

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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 09:34:15 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
    in reply to
    • feld
    • tedu
    @feld @tedu heh - can't say i disagree too much. may be biased because i'm doing some contracting work with one of the /. cofounders and he's an extremely nice and smart guy.
    In conversation Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 09:34:15 JST from nlogic.systems permalink
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    Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 08:23:08 JST Pete Wright Pete Wright
    Contractor pro-tip.

    Don't be an a-hole to the team you are supposed to be supporting. If you are brought in to help lend domain expertise, remember a large part of your value is to offload stress from the team.

    Being an entitled "alpha" bro may work with the execs but the people who actually do work will see right through you. Chances are you were brought in despite protests or skepticism of the team to begin with, so you have to earn trust and respect.
    In conversation Friday, 26-May-2023 08:23:08 JST from nlogic.systems permalink
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