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Every feature has a story- I infer that someone, probably lots of someones, accidentally deleted a big chunk of their virtual datacenter using CloudFormation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hy48R9Kr8
"accidental deletes are a part of life"... yeah, when I'm in an on-prem datacenter, sometimes I just look at a rack of servers and bam, they don't exist anymore.
AWS will stop adding services at 573 services because it will exhaust the A[A-Z][A-Z] namespace.
137 services today, 436 service announcements to go. That is 10 weeks worth of re:invent launch videos we'll all be watching.
AWS Athena (data lake thing) is the text ODBC driver, but in the cloud. Back then it was an attractive idea but perf of text/csv ODBC drivers was so bad that it was mostly a novelty, not a way to do real work.
Video players that don't allow for replay at at least 120% should be classified as crimes against humanity.
Today I learned if you have orphaned python processes you get a misleading AccessDenied message on creating virtual environments, best solved by rebooting.
I didn't want to learn that.
should your infrastructure as code be in a different repo from your application as code*?
Imho, yes. They compile at different times.
* funny I have to specify this, since some "apps" like SharePoint Lists, aren't apps, they're just clicking a bunch in admin screens
Let's settle this. 1/0 is undefined because the division algorithm never gets to an answer. If that is true then 1 + ♾ is undefined, but intuitively folk say, ♾ + x is ♾.
♾ + x is:
(x != ♾, x != 0)
These are the questions my six year old asks me to make me feel like I'm not as smart as I thought I was.
If you blow this whistle, people will let you make a free phone call on their cell if you'll promise to stop. https://x.com/Cyber_Cox/status/1148361456284512257
In DC, the drains swamp you! https://x.com/AlekKrautmann/status/1148223311299645440
"Well, sorry, your account is blocked from using AWS Parameter Store because we can't tell if it is FedRamp approved. Just store your secrets, root keys, etc, in plaintext in userdata" https://x.com/banjtheman/status/1148235135537614848
Downtown DC flooded ... looks like a foot of water https://x.com/b_radzinsky/status/1148222388242452480
All the lucky people, some people get to raft to work. https://x.com/NathanPatin/status/1148227267534950402
We need a new website "Is there a waterfall inside a WMATA station-dot-com?" https://x.com/niina_h_farah/status/1148217502901710848
For those with FOMO about DevOpsDays DC, here is last year's videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmEg6FkgcoTRm7dI1Umt2Rw
Sorry that was 2017, here is 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5NYY1GCy-k&list=PLKK5zTDXqzFOARGcJT_MJyLsF22ljAbaz
The 6-year-old wants to know if the real world is in creative mode or survival mode (like Minecraft)- he asked after watching a Kurtzgesagjt video about bee colony collapse & the possibility of civilization collapse that goes with that.
I watch a video about how the Chevy Camero is likely to be discontinued and next the Youtube algo recommends videos on loneliness and depression. Really, I'm not taking it that hard.
Tyrannosaurus Rex had
Follow me on my low volume math twitter account: https://x.com/mathmtka
The evidence is clear, folk hungry for a folded pizza pocket are the harbingers of a volcano. https://x.com/jasonbaumgartne/status/1147253661950730240
Can you weld your on-prem network to the cloud one? https://x.com/jimpagels/status/1147165150249672704
IDEA: tweet earthquake! every 10 minutes so that eventually my account will be the account that tweets about the earthquake 5 minutes before it happens. Delete old tweets as I go along if the earthquake fails to materialize.
Long acronyms for your department reduce funding. https://x.com/aphillippy/status/1141802331345960962
"Your password can have at least 1 cyrillic character.
Your password needs at least 1 letter of your email." https://x.com/markemer/status/1146514637309009925
Python/Java lead at LOC
Web testing job also at LOC, both good salaries https://twitter.com/acdha/status/1146516268352200705
Office of the future high productivity sound isolation of an actual office, yet at the sq footage of an open layout or concentration camp or concentrated animal feeding operation. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1146393527682764800/photo/1
AWS conf levels
1xx "I'm not sure you in the audience speak English, let me define the obvious"
2xx "You should buy this, I'm sales so I don't know what it is"
3xx One hour is not really enough time to cover this
4xx No one who doesn't already know this could possibly follow it
What narrow attack is AWS transparent KMS (en/de)cryption protecting against if AWS holds the keys? So far all I can think of is
- someone unplugging a drive at AWS data center & walking away with it
- um, nothing
Look, if RDS is encrypted, but an attacker stole the connection string, bye-bye data.
If a dev posts a root IAM key to public github, bye-bye data
If an encrypted s3 bucket has public permissions because the UI is one big pit of failure, bye-bye data.
If your ec2 instances volume is encrypted but your PHP app lets script kiddies read everything below / then, bye-bye data.
This is like security-by-locking-just-the-pet-door & leaving the front & backdoor unlocked.
Point me to something more intelligible than AWS's KMS docs
because I sort of hope that I'm wrong and that there is some clever mechanism that does make KMS a bizarre ritual. (And as far as fearing your hoster goes, if the CIA, GRU or MSS asks for data, I assume AWS transparently decrypts it- they have the keys)
* doesn't* make KMS a bizarre ritual. Shoot no way to edit a tweet storm.
Netflix gives me an idea for a HTTP Module (one of those middleware things that intercepts and twiddles requests) - Latency Monkey inject random latency to find out if you have races or code that only works because of timings on your dev machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrY7XoOnysg&list=PLcAljDQ0plzVk714fylo9EmOPI3nkntHC&index=5&t=6s
Survey says, people *really* like Slack. If you have to manage a MS-Teams instance, you should pick all the configurations to make it behave like Slack (both technically & socially) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1145673938187538432
No one that hires developers wants a consultant. Just try to suggest adding unit tests to a project. The status of software developers is "expensive typists" who don't know their place, in part because they've only been at the org for 3 years. Could be a DC area thing, tho. https://x.com/daedtech/status/1146041167466946560
Windows 10: Your fingerprint couldn't be recognized. Trying being a different person.
What, there isn't an infinite pool of developers eager to work for $43-$61K at EPA?
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/538134200 https://x.com/jjeffryes/status/1145703530088542208
Preference?
the lync/skype vs MS Teams ratio captures something because it is likely that if you have MS-Teams, you have lync-skype, too & the skype folk are actively choosing to not use MS-Teams.
Slack is good ux, but has security problems https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/slack-chat-hackers-encryption.html#click=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/slack-chat-hackers-encryption.html
You see a problem, I see an opportunity. Let's create a website so that $9 an hour software developers can contract out to $0.25 an hour developers. And let's lift those developers out of poverty by helping them subcontract out to other developers for 0.024 cents an hour... https://x.com/business/status/1145485583676006400
Bank of America will no longer do business with ICE detention centers. They're a good bank, if you want to support them & do well for yourself, too, consider their Amtrak credit card- you'll get a few free rides out of the deal.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/business/bank-of-america-private-detention/index.html
You literally could not do anything else with an Atari 400, unless you could afford the expensive game cartridges. My family could afford the machine, but not the games (at least not until they started showing up in garage sales 1 and 2 decades later) https://twitter.com/tammycodes/status/1145037555840114688
My car has knobs & buttons for 1% of its functions. I got a button for "skip song" which I never use and the MPG screen, switch to map, speed limit screens- all multiple clicks on a smooth touch screen. These screens were optimized for the 1950s.
I got one dial for 2 volumes- radio volume & volume of the voice assistant. It is impossible to set the individually except by luck. (that said, the car turns of the loud fans automatically when the voice assistant starts to talk which is pure UI joy)
Good explainer on bussing. I was like 3 years old when this stuff was happening. Point: a time traveling 2019 politician probably couldn't win a 1977, 1950, 1850, 1650 election with middle of the road 2019 policies. https://x.com/LarrySabato/status/1144660745642217472
Engineers, you just see them typing all the time. Replace them with typists, much more cost effective. https://x.com/waldojaquith/status/1145008089806102529
Status- resisting the urge to cite sources.
https://www.planete-energies.com/en/medias/close/how-coal-formed-process-spanning-eras
Failed. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1144758979861635073