agarzenm

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Do they have metrics on how many free tier accounts actually use the CI/CD feature and of those how many exhaust the former 2000 minute quota?

I am asking because my use is definitely in the minority of the user base which is just slapping projects into a managed git repo that is not owned by Microsoft.

This was before github decided to allow private repos for free.

Comment · 6 years ago

Maybe I am getting less fervent about privacy and data security but I don't see these metrics as PII.

This is a complete whataboutism but you gave Amazon a lot more information when you purchased the kindle from them.

I think the answer is Amazon should add an option to turn this off.

Comment · 6 years ago

From the article.

>My main gripe is that the files under /etc/rc.d/ are immutable scripts.

If the files/config (I know the author argues they aren't config files) are truely immutable why would the system upgrade command modify them? and how would it as if they are immutable in the same way that running chattr +i somefile on Linux will make a file immutable even to root then I don't understand how the upgrade command is modifying them.

Systemd-d is growing on me, partly because it is being forced upon us but also because once you get over the initial carpet pull from beneath you, you don't need to be exposed to the extra bullshit it brings.

If you want to experience pain with System-d, install a fresh copy of Ubuntu and try to setup /etc/resolv.conf, for an extra challenge try setup /etc/resolv.conf using unbound as a stub resolver.

I was amazed at how much effort I had to spend fighting the OS to just say "Stop managing this file, do not load this file, I am going to manage it"

I spend most of my time with Linux systems so I admire the simplicity of the System V approach. It is interesting to see other people discuss this from a BSD perspective as I have very little exposure to BSD like systems.

BSD seems great, I love reading the security.html page of the OpenBSD project, it has so many great ideas + implementations.

https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

Comment · 6 years ago

Apologies for only getting back to you now.

Yeah this is all fine once you have accepted the trade offs and designed your threat model around it. People get extremely zealous around this sort of shit.

One decision for another person does not need to be taken by everyone else just because it makes sense for you.

I, like you am concerned about the use of data but I take a different approach. I don't mind if my data is used for product insight/generation once it is aggregated anonymized data, with the caveat that the website and or service is GDPR compliant.

I give bonus points to any website that lets you nuke your account from the profile page without having to jump through e-mail hoops. I had a recent experience of requesting an account erasure under GDPR via e-mail. I expected the usual "are you sure?", "do you know the implications?", "who are you?" but no they just deleted the account straight away. I only found out it had been done by trying to login to the service again.

10/10

Comment · 6 years ago

It is nice to see these posted. I wonder if the other engineering related sources at AWS get as much attention.

They have (in my opinion) an extremely good library of articles in their so called builders library.

For example these two below articles.

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-fallback-in... https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/leader-election-in-d...

These topics are extremely hard to solve from scratch yet they are distilled pretty well in the above articles and they include a further reading section.

I would implore others to have a gander. I wish the same could be said for their documentation.

Comment · 6 years ago

I like to keep things simple so Tkinter.

Comment · 6 years ago

The use case is in the title. You can use it as a wireless repeater. A more interesting use case would be ethernet over USB and a wireless AP with another interface for client monitoring via airmon.

Comment · 6 years ago

I have seen fastmail mentioned many times on this thread. They seem to be incorporated in Austrailia. Given that you clearly care about the use of your personal data; wouldn't moving something so sacred to a company incorporated in a country that actively tries to backdoor encryption/push easier wire tapping make you concerned?

Have you considered this in your threat model?