Notices by Bob Thomson (bobthomson70@mastodon.social), page 2

@arstechnica someone got a cease and desist letter.

@nixCraft last gig I had they did use podman (A finance industry client).

@nixCraft one of the biggest challenges in k8s, just keeping all those base image versions updated and software supply chain security generally. A real pain point.

@nixCraft their password is always ‘xxxxxxxxxx’

@nixCraft Sponsored by [This year’s spoksor] OS.

@nixCraft Dictating over the phone a simple ksh and awl loop to kill a bunch of processes from my rented room to an operator in the NOC of a bank in the mid 90s.

@nixCraft always funny given us Glasgow folks’ predilection for shortening bastard to ‘bas’, “reboot ya bas” etc.

@nixCraft it’s that whole Bay Area - tech first,
Profits second no sustainable business model, no problem
- attitude. The only way they’ve found to make money is ads and selling data.

@nixCraft ffs

@nixCraft can hear the noise looking at that. They would seem so so slow now but coming from an 8 bit micro and cassettes they were amazing.

@nixCraft toilet cleaning.

@nixCraft crypto at least folks were interested in the idea they could make a profit :)

@nixCraft The oncoming storm :)

@nixCraft I never consider myself an expert in anything either. Too much shite to know about now to be expert in anything anyway.

@nixCraft 30 years in IT for me next month. Many job titles and roles in that time. Sysadmin was 1996-2016 20 year spell. Cloudy devops since.

@nixCraft Buy a second hand/reconditions laser printer, it will change your life.

@nixCraft does ZX BASIC count as an OS? If not it’s MacOS on a classic Mac then VMS on a uni VAX cluster.

@nixCraft the devops version is they there are loads of test environments but no environment to test out devops stuff like IaC and pipelines.

@nixCraft Making electronic music of some sort.

@nixCraft “The biggest skills shortage in IT is pragmatism”, me, every day since about 2010.