"When people are treated unfairly, for example, when they are not allowed to have input into decisions that will affect them, or when they are not given good explanations of why certain decisions were made, the symbolic message may be that the organization does not think highly enough of them (to provide input or to be given good explanations)."
A concerned manager pointed me to a potential unilateral decision on incident management software about to happen and I am trying to strategize how to intervene on behalf of <<< waves to team not being included on this decision >>>
Interesting side note in the Q&A to Schlomo Shapiro's talk about using a central identity for authentication: Work with smaller service providers whom you can still contact directly (even via snail mail) instead of the big, anonymous ones, to escape the scenario "I can't regain access to my central identity because I lost access to my central identity".
I'd like to find more YouTube channels about software development / engineering / etc but it's like 98% of the same white guy, screaming like a twitch streamer, making almost every video about "this is X killer" "why you should NEVER do that" or "your IDE is shit use X instead". Of course they talk like they are the thing and it's the only truth.
I want to setup a netboot setup that boots into a menu of a lot of OS installers. How would you set that up? Right now, the only thing that seems to do what I want is iVentoy, but I was wondering if I have other options.
I'm Lily, a proud trans lesbian from Denver, a mom of a 13 year old, and a perpetual instance migrator.
I'm a neurodivergent woman in tech working as a Senior SRE at Writer.
I like to run around the farm, hang out with my kiddo, play guitar, snowboard, go camping, play videogames, hang out at the local lesbian bar, and see whatever kind of trouble my wife @deb and I can get into on the weekends.
When I talk to other techies, it's so disturbing how regularly they get paged. They have to sleep on the couch when on-call, figure out how not to scare their children with the sound of PagerDuty, and not be able to go shopping without fear of being paged.
Companies, please fix this, for God's sake! #sre#devops
NixOS caught my attention recently.
I’m so done with traditional software change management. Reproducibility should be the norm, anything else is ephemeral.
If Nix can solve this for me I cannot see myself going back. Ever. #NixOS#SRE#DevOps
#Deciduous got a major glow up and has a bunch of new features.
My fav two are:
✨ CLI support so you can npm install -g deciduous
✨ steganography so you can import a png / svg of a decision tree and derive the YAML for it
This week in my #SysAdmin class, we continue with networking.
We start on our box and strace/ktrace a simple telnet command to see how we even get to the point of #DNS resolution (/etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf), then #tcpdump a simple HTTP request to observe:
#ARP / #NDP calls to find the default route and local resolver
It's week 07 of my #SysAdmin class, high time we talk about the cause of (and solution to) all problems: the #DNS.
We look at the history of the DNS and how we used to copy giant hosts file around, trace DNS packets from resolvers to the root servers and the various authoritative NS using our good friend #tcpdump, talk about #TLDs, fetch the root zone from InterNIC to bootstrap our resolver, look at different RRs, reverse lookups, and touch upon #dnssec.
After this week's Spring Break, we return in my #SysAdmin class to dive into #SMTP.
We start with an overview of the ecosystem consisting of MUAs, MTAs, MDAs, Access Agents, and tcpdump a simple manual SMTP session over telnet. We then talk about STARTTLS, MTA-STS and #DANE, before diving into #spam defenses, including #SPF, #DKIM, and #DMARC, all with practical examples, tracking lookups and traffic on the sender and receiver.
We cover "scripting" vs. "programming" vs. software engineering, choosing the right tool for the job, extol the virtues of #perl's taint checking, lambast "clever" code, and frequently refer to F. Brooks and the Mythical Man-Month. (Yes, we could spend a whole semester on this topic, too.)