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Ask HN: Turning a Sysadmin/Support Team into a DevOps/Project Team?
I've noticed that some DevOps teams struggle with project-oriented concepts, and my theory is that these teams are made up of people whose experience has been in support and systems administration rather than software engineering.

I don't mean to dismiss or insult the support/sysadmin career path or experience, especially since I started out on that track! I've been lucky in that most of my career I've worked closely with developers, R&D, and academia. That has given me exposure to project work concepts such as requirements, acceptance criteria, sprints, etc.

My progression from sysadmin to DevOps took place over more than a decade; how do I help people who haven't had that gradual change embrace the more software development style mindset? One team I am working with is very focused on support tickets and interrupts, and I'd like to help that team switch to a more project-based mindset.

How do I help people whose background is in interrupt-driven work change to working in sprints with requirements, features, etc?

Or do you disagree with my fundamental assumption that people whose experience has been in support have a harder time moving to a project-based workflow?
As I was typing the question I thought “I guess my old phone could do the job?” I’m wondering there is a middle ground option.
I would suggest looking at Lightsail, if your credits stretch that far. The included 1TB+ of bandwidth is the reason for that.
Bridges would typically see much more bursty traffic compared to relays or (especially) exit nodes; this does mean that the burst CPU credits on Lightsail (or the t-series EC2 instances) would pair up nicely.

I'd also suggest running in as many AWS regions as you're able, so that there isn't a lovely block of bridges all in one region.
I use BitWarden for 2FA via their paid plan (£10 per year).

My BitWarden account is secured by Yubikey, of which I have two.
All monitors have DisplayPort and HDMI inputs, using DP<->DP, usb-c<->DP, and usb-c<->HDMI (latter for the 1080p display). Also using DisplayLink Manager to drive the 2nd and 3rd extra displays.
From the fact that nations that fight to the end and survive in myth live on to manifest again while those that give up the fight and surrender save lives but rarely become sovereign again.

Also in the idea of elite troops who it is hopeless to fight against. Myth is incredibly powerful in war and for the long term survival of a nation or state.
> They want status quo ante 1997

They can want whatever they want, doesn't mean they are going to get it.

> They don't fight us, they fight the Ukraine.

They don't fight us, they fight Poland!

This sort of thing doesn't really work.
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They can demand all they want? How will they achieve it? Putin suppresses any opposition political parties who might win over him or whoever will be his chosen successor.
> I live in Turkey and we have a similar state propaganda (though fortunately not war).

So what about Syria? Kurds are another topic you might want to look into (both inside and outside the Turkey). Azerbaijan-Armenia proxy war? It's not as easy as you think.
Russia doesn't need to save itself, it's not under any existential threat. Sanctions will hurt, but they'll live. The ordinary people will suffer worst, and the elite will have to make do without holidays in France and Italian marble counter tops, but their positions depend on maintaining the oppressive state system.
Hi,

These are all valid concerns.

Programatically superimposed usage of the code is problematic for all the same problems as with EXIF manipulation, so the thinking is to recommend using a physical prop (smartphone or paper) that makes it harder to fake the code in later. When combined with rapid distribution (to a news agency, live feed, Telegram or such), there's a period of time where I think it's unfeasible that someone would had tampered with it to future-date an older image.

It is possible to superimpose the code of course, as I noted:

"For example, when uploading photos through a messenger service, the service can sign the photos upon upload date and superimpose the QR Date onto it. Any further uploads to date the photo again would have to either crop the code out or otherwise mangle it so much that it would raise suspicion.

For videos, the QR Date can be superimposed as either moving around in the frame, switch places, or other motion to make it harder to superimpose another code later."

However these would only be indicative, not definite proof, and would need to be combined with other efforts- mainly deduplication, to find doubles.

For key storage and logging, I don't think it's my job to try to convince people to trust me with a private key (or logs) for the purposes of introducing this idea. Frankly I do not want the responsibility. If it ends up being useful, I would be happy to donate the domain to a reputable NGO or journalistic organisation for proper storage of the private key on a hardware device, contracts on how it and logs are handled, etc. In the meanwhile, if you want to trust the site, it's up to you just like with any CA.

I don't think a single online centralised authority would be a good idea in any case- it's why I'm trying to also consider situations where it can be used offline and by many organisations that each have their own requirements for trust.
Yeh, 2FA through an authenticator app feels so fragile for the consequences of something going wrong.
Blocking Youtube is an awful idea. It is one of the sources where Russians can get information not from propaganda. If you block Youtube, they will have to turn to government-controlled sites like Vk or RuTube.
I am notice a trend of pro-Russian posters on here using this format of citations..
TOTP is based off of a shared secret, so keeping that secret backed up is possible. I keep all of my TOTP tokens in a keepass database that is synced to my computers. If my keepass database is ever stolen and the encryption defeated then I'd be hosed, but I have a feeling there would be much worse problems in the world on that day.
> What’s the value of signed code

A part of the roadmap to only allowing average users to execute native programs their overlords approve of. We're already sadly most of the way there with the scary dialogs and dark patterns anyone has to navigate to run anything unapproved.
This sounds like a neat arrangement. How do you go about this when you’re on the go? - do you have an app on your phone which support unlocking your password-store using a smart card, or do you just not manage passwords/MFA except on your computer?
Ok, think I need to look at Yubikey as it keeps coming up here. I have a paid LastPass account, maybe there is something in there I can use.
That's what I'm confused about. It seems you were advised to engage in illegal tax evasion or something? If you do your US taxes, which is required until the day you die, those charges will simply come out of completing the forms properly. It's unavoidable.
The reason I clarified about US income is that the way you described it doesn't exist as a concept in tax law. The money amounts you're going to write down on your taxes don't ask where the person who sent you the money was seated in the world.
And from the same article

> Tor executive director Roger Dingledine followed up in a statement to WIRED pointing out that Tor hidden services represent only 2 percent of total traffic over Tor's anonymizing network.

So that's a 80% of 2% of the entire Tor traffic based on 2014 stats. Hardly comparable with stating a question like "Is 80% of internet traffic child pornography imagery?"
Semver isn't designed for this, and this whole idea of automatically updating dependencies is awful. Don't do it. Use discretion when updating anything.
tree-sitter and git: now kith!
There are some great resources here: https://fhe.org/resources
The fhe.org discord community is also of great help for all things FHE.
Oh, it works, it's just cheekier than you think - it won't refresh the page if the URL includes a hash/fragment (such as after you clicked one of the "next" links while browsing comments here).
Reading all these comments on every side (US, UA, RU, etc.) I mostly see the same - people discuss anything except key questions: why did US sanction the military action (what makes them)? Why did Russian Federation changed its course of actions so radically in 2017? Why did RU change its coat of arms on money? Did the SU really cease to exist? What was considered "Russia" during last 100-500 years (and what US)? It's one of a few "countries" that influence the whole world and those processes didn't start a decade or a hundred years ago. And current conflict is a publicly visible link in the long and entangled chain of geopolitical moves. There are great analytics in both US/RU who dug deep to the roots of WW2 and many other wars who are being equally hated by both US and RU governments/deep state. And I sincerely hope there'll be more understanding people. We just need to seriously catch up. Wars are made to cut human population, divide and disperse people. Please don't get dragged into that. I have friends from all around the world, and I WANT to have friends from all around the world, and I will.
(sorry, I'm not in a position to answer those questions directly, I just want people of all nations to think globally, regardless of pen-drawn borders, otherwise, one by one...)
Indeed, Putin is mentally off the rails and a dangerous person to be playing games with. I don't think he would hesitate to launch a westbound ICBM or flip the monopoly board and turn Ukraine into a wasteland if he can't have it.
Isn't TikTok bigger than youtube now?
It is not that simple. Even the Guardian noticed that antivax bots are now silent and have switched to pro-Russian narrative. And many naive people are following them. I used to be tolerant of antivax views on the grounds of the freedom of speech even though personally I am strictly pro-vax. Today I was unpleasantly surprised that they are now quoting all this rubbish how the war in Ukraine is the mistake of the west and globalisation etc. It was from people whom I would expect the least to take pro-Putin stance.

I know they are not bots but how could they have changed their narrative overnight? I guess some people are really so gullible and easily absorb all rubbish whether it is antivax or pro-Putin.

This is even more interesting that the vaccination coverage is Ukraine is really low (less than 50%) and there are many reasons for this, historic problems, distrust in authorities, weak medical system, and also antivax bots. Nevertheless, antivax and Ukraine independence are completely different issues. It does not make sense logically to connect one with another. And yet, a lot of so called contrarians do and it is not due to strong analytical skills.
Multiple people are liking your site, but I shall express a dissenting opinion (with details of specifically what I disliked): yes, it has character, but it was significantly overpowering and I didn’t like the presentation at all. (Its content I genuinely can’t comment on: I’ve been too severely distracted and disconcerted by the presentation.) A big unreadable title (the style of lettering makes it difficult to discern which strokes belong to which letter, and having it 500px tall against a distracting background makes it even harder to read, it’s just so big) with a fixed-attachment background (I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever found a case where I think that was actually warranted); then continual blocks of text in NewEddy, an uppercase-only display serif font that’s simply hard/uncomfortable to read. Body text in a monospace face, which is not good for reading in English (any time I come across blog posts that I actually want to read but where the site is using monospace body text, I nuke that style and breathe a sigh of relief). Then the marquee with parallax at the bottom somehow managed to be enter a class of disconcertion of its own, and that was before I discovered it was supposed to be a video (I have autoplay turned very firmly off, thank you very much), which improves some aspects and makes others worse. And finally I’ll mention the excessively low-contrast header that also collides with what’s underneath it at any given moment, and the footer footnote’s similarly badly low contrast.
Most would not agree with you. From Chomsky to Kissinger, political analysts and historians have been ringing alarm bells for decades on NATO expansion eastward. TL;DR: we had a west-friendly Russian government at the fall of the wall - but pushing east allowed hawks/imperialists to rise to power

Edit: I see a lot of you really struggling with this idea. The good news is you don't have to take my word for it! Please read analysis from both of the mentioned authors and more. They're much better sources than me and other hackernews posters
Russia is indeed being a bully, the West (and not only) is terrified of this turn of events and the best course of action is to send as much equipment and weapons into Ukraine, apply catastrophic economic sanctions hoping the Russian citizens or oligarchs topple the dictator while officially not being at war.

"A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors which act on the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities. In order for a conflict to be considered a proxy war, there must be a direct, long-term relationship between external actors and the belligerents involved. The aforementioned relationship usually takes the form of funding, military training, arms, or other forms of material assistance which assist a belligerent party in sustaining its war effort." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war
That guarantees WW3, no one is stupid enough to do that.

What happens when some Russian aircraft breachs the no-fly zone? Blow them out of the sky with an F35?

No thanks.
I worked on a shared task (CLPsych [1]) that estimates mental distress severity. So the classification task was to determine how acutely a user message/post on a mental health forum would require moderator intervention. Some people announce their suicides live on the forum for instance. You want to point the moderators to those people asap.

Our research group applied this tech to Belgium's suicide prevention center chat tool, so the workers can prioritize based on severity.

1. https://aclanthology.org/W16-0312/
>Meh. We've set up a deconfliction hotline with Russia so we don't start WW3.

So far Russia has shown they don't care. They will take this war as far as they can, to make the casualties they have already sustained "worth it". A deconfliction hotline is only as good as the parties on either end and Putin isn't exactly arguing or negotiating in good faith.
While de-escalation may have been tried, the parent is pointing out that the attempts have ceased.

But what is the end-game if de-escalation is no longer the goal? Is the West ready to commit to that end-game?
Besides from risk, often it's not a good idea due to the latency introduced by it.

EDIT: this is the official recommendation from Tor. Spare the downvotes for one minute.
You may not have noticed it growing up, but it had a devastating effect on the economy of South Africa - despite natural resources SA is rich in (such as gold) reaching high prices at the same time.
> It's good marketing, but they're essentially lying by omission here.

But so is the "clear Internet", really. Sure there is a high proportion of innocent traffic, but if you think in terms of criminal activities, I am sure it is non-negligible. From copyright infringement to child pornography to revenge porn to harassment to unlawful handling of data. I have no numbers to back it up, but I'm quite sure a lot of crimes are committed on the "clear net".

And yet, it would be very unreasonable to shut the Internet down over this. Punish the person and their actions, not their tools.
So ww3 here we come! I hope you modernized your fallout shelter!
Probably not as revoking would likely break NVIDIA drivers.
None of my machines had any such upgrades and never will :(
Every side commits war crimes pretty much every war. The losers go to Hague for ritual humiliation, the winners don't see any consequences because there is no mechanism to compel them to submit to a trial, otherwise Russia would have already been indicted long before this invasion.
And as far as I know you can only have one device enabled with Google Authenticator at a time?

If it could be on multiple devices then I could set up an old phone and have it as a backup.

Edit: I’m wrong. You can sync two Authenticator apps using the same QR code during setup.
> Code signed with this cert will, in the right conditions, be accepted by Windows even though the certificate has expired.

The right conditions: https://twitter.com/BillDemirkapi/status/1499735326406938625
There is this story by the famous physicist Steven Wolfram who asked the infamous mathematician Grigori Perelman who proved the Poincare conjecture and was awarded, and subsequently declined, both the millennium price and field medal, what axiom set he used in proving the Poincare conjecture, to which Perelman answered, I don't know and I don't care.
They shouldn’t be angry, as that can lead to dark thoughts of envy and that is bad for mental health.

We should be happy for the success of others.
It comes from the desperation of the mind when it’s in a very bad place. It grows bottom up.

Unlike long running state propaganda that runs top down.

At some point Ukrainian propaganda will start to cost them and they’ll need to hit the brakes. I hope they’ll be in a position where that’s a priority.
I wouldn't trust closed source services for something this simple. Authy wants your phone number and Google wants anything it can get its hands on. There are plenty of open source options with backup options.
Yes. It's not 2FA anymore but it still protects you when your password gets leaked.
What percent of the general public would be interested in ransacking corporations? and by this we mean taking money specifically,
not just damaging their reputations, nor necessarily locking them up for their crimes.

Generally the law makers have made laws against Free agents (ie competitors) from colluding.
> and then try to make sure they don't achieve much more power later on

Which unfortunately, has almost always failed.

This time it is also important to remember, that these are not some separate insurgents, these are entities entangled with government, which normalizes it.
Kicking some states out of NATO has been officially requested by Russia.

NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg press conference a few days ago:

From correct time: https://youtu.be/JvxqTGrZxwQ?t=64

Partial quote as of time above:

"...The Kremlin objectives are not limited to Ukraine. Russia has demanded legal binding agreements to renounce further NATO enlargement. And remove troops and infrastructure from allies that joined after 1997..."
NATO’s cluster bombing of dual-use targets (of “potential use” to military) resulted in deaths of more than a thousand civilians, according to Yugoslav government.

The anecdata I am receiving from first-hand observers on the ground in Ukraine is remarkably similar. Invaders fire at military targets or when they are fired upon, and tall buildings get under fire because how else can it go in a city. This creates an impression that both sides are disseminating misinformation using mass and social media to further their respective agendas. I can see why Balkan people are not particularly taken by Western media coverage of this either.
The cancelling of Russian-language reading hours in Sweden was not due to the war. That was fake news. Please be more careful about spreading misinformation in the future.
> every single coworker of mine is dying to go back to at least partial in-office

That's a decent reason, if that is true for folks at your company.

Where I work offices have been back open for months but they're ghost towns.

My only point is that we can't assume that CFO offices are pushing for something unpopular just because there happens to be a lease with a few years left. Note, this would also imply that once that lease is up they would not renew and send everyone home again...which I think we can all agree is not on anyone's roadmap.
By sharing it over a trusted channel (like their website, a well-known social media profile, or an AFK interaction) or cryptographically signed with a trusted key.

Certainly not by sending it in unsolicited emails or DMs.
I loved mine and learned BASIC with it. Unfortunately the RAM expansion had this undesirable auto-reset feature. If I only had known that the defect RAM expansion could be fixed with a bit of tape...
> Regarding the shopping mall they found the CA state constitution

Where is YouTube headquartered?
I'm not sure changing labels and regulations will affect things much. Level 5 is basically tell the car anywhere you want to go and then have a snooze while it drives. Either that works or not, subject to some safety level, say less crashes than human.
Eh, if your 1password account is breached it’s pretty much a game over scenario anyway for most users.
War makes strange bed fellows
There is the OTP extension[1] for Password Store[2], although it kind of defeats the point of 2FA to have OTP tokens stored alongside passwords. Might be best used as a backup?

[1] https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp

[2] https://www.passwordstore.org
the tech is there either way
Good analysis!

But you should consider another quite radical hypothesis: people can freely have political opinion different from yours, and they are not being paid by some evil puppet-master!

I know, it’s not easy!
By the way, for watching games the “Redman Reviews” series by the AGA is great: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqpN3-2FP-kJcwdyujD8WKCin...
The irony here is that we got both: Since grandpa's day job was as a factory worker at Oldsmobile, well....

We're Michiganders.
Terrified?

I see much more cooperation now to say: "it's enough." Merkel led Germany always preferred trade before blaming. Increase trade with a malicious actor and it will work out in the end.

There's a huge shift currently happening and if you didn't realize it yet. The position of Putin was one of weakness, not of strength and the west knows this.

And it's not a proxy war, Russia is literally invading a country.

Ukraine doesn't prefer the Russian model to keep people poor and stupid, so they wouldn't protest.
I am notice (sic) a trend of anything not pro-Ukrainian everywhere immediately labeled as pro-Russian.

QED
GPL *protects* against tivoization, proprietarization and patent trolling. It partially protects from SaaS.

These are all things that currently threaten the freedom of users and developers.

Ramblings about impossible alternative universes adds very little.
yep, I grew up with the birth of the Internet and total free speech ideology but agree with you now.
I have two of the DEGEN DE-13 solar/hand crank multiband radios, and I gave several away to relatives and friends.

They sit on my window sill in the sun all year, for the situation that hopefully never comes.
Factual evidence that right wing movement are involved in the army of the whole world, can be found anywhere https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/russia-is-...

The whole soccer hooligans scene in Russia tends to be right wing, nazi, or something in between..

The only thing that matters now is: since 2013 a pacifist country is being invaded by another that deny its own rights to exist. Only one country is under heavy attacks. All the other topics are irrelevant now.