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> one vendor relationship to manage

Anyone that's had to deal with Microsoft will tell you this means nothing

If you can even get attention from someone, you'll be bounced between teams and people who barely know the products they are "supporting"

Don't get me started on the Azure and O365 management portals

The only worse support experience I've had was with Oracle where it could take days just to get the boilerplate "send us your logs" response on a Sev1 issue, despite the logs already being provided in the initial ticket

In both cases, this is while at F100 companies with millions of dollars of licensed software and premium support contracts

Yep, but it was an easy zero-touch MITM vector for billions of devices that's only now being closed down

India has state-mandated spying on network traffic (69B & Telecom Act 2023) so as dumb as this looks, it's possible this could've been purposeful

Every blog post on this site is AI generated and covers bugs and exploits that were uncovered also by AI

So, sort of like fuzzing. There's a scary amount of exploitable stuff like this sitting in every BSD and Linux system out there, including every embedded system running old kernels in routers, cars, plcs, on and on

This doesn't stop the vehicle from recording telemetry, just transmitting it

Take your car to a dealership for service and one of the first things their software does is download all of the data and phone it home

To me, doesn't feel much different than when infra-as-code became popular in the 2010s

It was a huge shift in the world of system administration, gave birth to devops, and, along with the rise of containers & cloud computing, it radically altered how companies ran their infrastructure

Some people leaned into it, others didn't and a huge rift opened up between them

I used to say "automate all the things" - I still do, but I used to too

AI tools are just an acceleration of that mindset and in my world of cloud/devops/sre I'm heavily leaning into AI-driven development and daily workflow

> // Assume everything in the dir is a vaild image file

Yep..

And image files were, and continue to be, a huge exploit attack vector

I've moved from gitlab -> gitea+drone -> forgejo+woodpecker

Works great for small-medium scale

Yep, same here

MAC + Temporary Containers extension is how web browsing should be handled by default imo

No website deserves permanence of any data in my browser unless I so choose

I haven't seen similar functionality in any of the new generation of browsers, nor any of the Firefox spinoffs as-yet

What a surprise, a brand new account that seems to only spew negativity and false information. Reddit might be more your style ;)

I just replaced a 2009 MacPro

It had many hardware upgrades over the years - upgraded CPUs, 128GB RAM, 4TB NVME storage, a modern AMD GPU, USB3/c, thunderbolt, etc

The only reason it got replaced is because it became too much of a PITA to keep modern OSX running on it (via OCLP)

Replaced with an M4 Max Mac Studio, which is a nice and faster machine but with no ability to upgrade anything and much worse hardware resale value on M-series I'll have to replace it in 2-3 years