alanpost

I'm fond our our privacy policy and it has served us quite well.

I've been an owner since late 2016--a mutual friend let me know Luke was interested in selling and I had been a customer for many years at that point. I liked the service and wanted it to continue. Still do.

Today's announcement is my purchasing the remainder of the company. The Acceptable Use Policy, Privacy Policy, and related documents will not be substantively changing.

The comment about diverging ideas and priorities relates to feature development and the product roadmap. Over the years we've received customer requests, suggestions, and feedback that on the one hand have a clear central tendency, but on the other requires difficult choices about where to focus and when. It's a situation better suited to the now simpler ownership structure.

I hope you will continue to recommend Prgmr where you find it appropriate to do so. Details about new features will need to wait for a formal announcement--but I'm happy to answer questions or concerns given that constraint.

lobste.rs sysadmin here. Would you be willing to email me a screenshot or the error message you get accessing lobste.rs and having it blocked by Blue Coat?

We do customer support over IRC, on Freenode and OFTC. Particularly with the availability of web clients on Freenode, casual IRC users can reach us with minimal hassle while long-time users idle and voice when they're highlighted or the discussion interests them.

My experience of Freenode is improved since PIA's involvement. Staff lurk in our channel on-hand to help if something comes up. Last month when services went down a developer put their head in to talk about the outage and share the patch developed from the experience.

I don't think there is another chat platform with that kind of robust community. The tooling for IRC makes the experience more like an auditorium than a parlor. I'm optimistic about this announcement--if IRC has a future I believe it will be due to the social scale at which it is capable of operating.

I visited Weirdstuff earlier this year looking for parts to mount a vertical PDU. I found spare 45U l-brackets and a u-bracket I'm pretty sure was designed for the problem I was solving--I'll miss digging through part bins and wandering down the aisles.

We use Yubikey for our production systems and yes: every operator has two keys that have been configured and registered in our access database.

We decided though not to make our backup keys hot. It's a manual operation to enable it. The risk that everyone could simultaneously lose their key was lower than the risk of a backup key being lost and then used--since a person isn't likely to routinely check on their backup keys the later problem may go undetected for some time, whereas you know the day you lose your primary key and must report that situation anyway.

Correct. It's the ability to share documents and conversation snippets provided by vendors, as well as curating and summarizing the significant amount of information available.

I've never seen an exploit that involves microcode updates, compiler fixes, kernel patches, and KVM/Xen updates all together. The number of moving parts is staggering.

Being able to filter and summarize that across company boundaries has helped me both understand and more effectively work to mitigate this problem.

Prgmr.com has been participating on the Slack channel this article mentions. Being able to share notes gleaned from reaching out to vendors and sort through the information and mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown has been a huge help.

I'm sorry to read this. I've watched the single board computer space slowly lose ethernet; the connector is too large. I'd love a board with two built-in ethernet connectors so I could route traffic. With Soekris exiting the market, what options are now available?

I was told it was to avoid changing my DNS when I spun up a new server. With the load balancer being $50/month; that was the pitch that put me off Rackspace.

They'll make a modest proposal that they can replace the Kansas City Federal Bank. Missouri has too many federal reserve banks anyway.