Isn’t there a playbook for the Powell situation? She gets a payout, an extraordinarily generous separation package, signs some documents and agrees to forget about it as she retires or works on her hobbies or whatever. She still is working there, heck, what if there has been other impropriety? Maybe she didn’t get the same raises after the relationship ended..
I don’t think the board are the morality police. I don’t think they care too much but it’s in the news and it shows poor judgment on his part. Not cleaning up the Powell situation and possibly others shows incredibly poor judgment and hubris.
I have a lifetime subscription, I use plex to share the media with the wife and kids on all of our devices, it does the job. I won't bitch about their streaming ambitions, but doing automatic updates and taking security seriously would go far for them.
You can opt-in automatic updates. If you install the non-container package, you can set it to auto upgrade.
With containers it's a questionable/clunky implementation but possible. It only works in one flavor of their official image. On startup it will check if there is an update and download it and replace the application in the container. It breaks the point of containers obviously. It also only runs on startup, so you need to restart the container to get it to run.
Nope, at least not on the platform I'm on. Just get the popup when accessing media when there is an update and can automate it or schedule for evening, but no way to automatically update it.
PGP is special to me, I was a beta user when Phil uploaded it to some Colorado BBSes, way back when. He even made time to talk to teenage me about it on the phone.
What's crazy is when it was concieved, we didn't have trusted strong cryptographic primitives. We did have DES but it wasn't trusted. We did have some of these crazy ideas that we all would have "secrets" and you might put those secrets encrypted on a disk in a vault and you'd not even want the feds to get them. Now we have all sorts of much more vetted crypto primitives, but the idea of actual secrets you'd keep in cold storage is largely dead. You're spot on that modern use cases need different APIs and tools and specialized solutions.
It was about 18 months back, with gitea, I was starting some new projects and went sha256 because I’m a nerd that adopts things early. I could do basic git stuff, but I was stunned by how much didn’t work. A lot of actions, maybe even the entire action runner itself wouldn’t/couldn’t/didn’t work. It’s a deep cutting change and an expensive one that doesn’t have a new feature value. I abandoned that effort and rebuilt my repos.
Intentional attacks and collisions aside, what do you say to the fact that Sha1 had a lifespan at design time? NIST has issued retreating usage guidelines for the last 15 years and they themselves say it should be completely phased out by 2030. It just seems like good hygiene to switch it out. I agree, it will have a long tail and be a big bowl of suck, especially for the not dead but rarely touched code.
I appreciate the intent of “modern” tools with no switches, no ways for devs to make bad security choices because the hash, cipher and encryption mode are fixed vs all the crazy looking asn.1 stuff in tls and openpgp to enable n-degrees of configuration but this very issue is the counter example.
It is a special sensation when you go to your hand rolled backup "solution" to make some simple recoveries and start finding problems. It is a complex mix of not dread but disgust, sick to your stomach, self-anger, and loss. I can only image what that's like with like all of your children's baby pictures being the lost material. Borg and restic are fantastic, it still seems like some sort of dummy proof mode might be desirable, all the features in the world and they have some some reasonably sane policy or something that includes verifications.
On the flip side of that though, really and truly, I've restored a laptop from a timemachine backup and it came back damn nearly identical and that was magical.
I needed to temporarily move off 20TB from my NAS and bought a Hetzner storage box.
I wanted to encrypt the data before sending it so i went with the borg ssh mount. Long story short, borg failed a couple of times due to https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/7672, i resumed it per documentation and got 2gb of silently corrupted data. There was no way to do data integrity checks due to broken pipes and there was no option to resume the job from the previous point either. I couldn't afford to go with the s3, backblaze wasn't an option due to placing trust into their proprietary client doing the encryption and i got majorly screwed in the end.
That issue happens when the repo is corrupted? That's not the cause of the failure then.
Also you must have been unaware of Backblaze B2? It doesn't have a proprietary client, and it launched 11 years ago only a couple months after attic was forked to create borg.
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I'm a father. Best thing I ever did, but it is work, it is hard.
In ways, it really crisped up my time working on work. My wife and I have some bottom lines, we're invovled, we have dinner as a family every day. We go to school events, all of them. We go to sports and activities, all of them (although there have been some times we had to split up and each to a different one.) I'm at the table when my kids have breakfast, every day except when I travel for work which is a week or two per quarter. It's great for the kids, it's great for the family but suddenly it feelds like your day is shorter. Personally, I have tried to find other "thought time" and that has resulted in much better execution when I get to writing code or plans or whatever. I used to sit at the blank editor and start to compose but now I am forced to think more before hand. I've built a few things I honestly don't think I could have built before kids, just out of necessity, I've had to be more efficient and effective.
There are also times of utter exhaustion but I had those before kids. I'll also went through the process of sort of cutting out extras to make time, once your kids are in that 10-11 age, they'll have friends and interests, I've added some of those extras back because they are busy on Sunday afternoons or whenever.
I don’t think the board are the morality police. I don’t think they care too much but it’s in the news and it shows poor judgment on his part. Not cleaning up the Powell situation and possibly others shows incredibly poor judgment and hubris.
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