I have come to realization that is it time to start writing the next chapter of my professional life. The new CEO and his court seem[1] to be moving the company in a direction I don't like.
I am a Unix System engineer and software developer. I would like to move into more of a SRE type role.
I don't really know how to proceed.
1: I hear differing rhetoric from different levels, which is an issue in and of itself.
The lisp curse. http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
So here's a fun thing:
CISA (the US gov's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) just literally pulled a CVE that's actively being exploited with 0-days, because Microsoft's monthly patch for it was presumably worse.
I don't know if a CVE has ever been unpublished like this before?
And in the middle of a literal shooting war in Europe (that's also a hot global cyberwar) too.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so terrifying.
RT @SteveALee@twitter.com
Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SteveALee/status/1523229882112651265
I've personally implemented software from scratch using RFC as a guide, in several different areas.
But a web browser engine? Forget it!
The "standards" now are nothing more than Chromium, WebKit, Gecko, and their individual quirks. How can there be a new engine?
7/8
The web is not "open" if nobody new can write a web browser engine. It's the illusion of openness.
8/8 Fin!
Imagine a small company trying to write their own web browser from scratch nowadays. It's just not possible! The web is so complex, there's no choice but to adopt one of the few existing browser engines: Chromium, WebKit, Gecko. That's it. The competitive landscape is bleak.
4/8
"Everyone has to adopt Chromium" is exactly Google's plan.
Who controls the dominant browser engine controls the web.
5/8
- a microSD card weighs somewhere around 0.4g
- the highest capacity microSD that's easily available is 256GB
- a trebuchet can throw a 90kg projectile over 300m
90kg worth of microSD cards is 225,000 of them
Therefore a trebuchet can throw 57.6PB of data over 300m
This would have the highest throughput of any telecommunications network ever created
Hey, so this is super cool.
Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf
C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore - https://gankra.github.io/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
Anyone have experience with grand designs solitide 390rk?
We (wife, myself, and 2 German Shepherds) are looking at moving into one.
It is 41.5 ft long. I'm concerned the length may keep us out of some campgrounds.
I miss the times where one could log in to a workstation and just type startx to get xwindows.
My workstation display manager is comsuming 100% or a core. Gnome shell 100% of another core.
All I really want to do is run #stumpwm, #emacs, #icecat, and perhaps a rxvt termimal.
I am the only one on this box. I fail to see the utility of a display manager.
Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.
Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.
Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.
i have discovered a truly incredible wikipedia list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_concerts_with_an_unruly_audience_response
I am a nerd, or should that be geek?
I am curious, about most things.
I am a Free Software Advocate.
By day I engineer software, automation, and tools for a GNU/Linux infrastructure (primarily Ubuntu).
I run #guix on all of my personal equipment and in the cloud. I am going back to #debian for my daily driver.
I am open to new opportunities.