Pete Wright

BSD and Unix mechanic/malcontent
aka [@nomadlogic@bsd.network](https://bsd.network/@nomadlogic )
Dreaming of a future where there are taco trucks on every corner and no more billionaires.
he/him

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2025-01-09 18:08:30 UTC

In whats i'm sure not be a shock to anyone, but the #fediverse is basically useless in an emergency. There was *some* slightly useful info. But the fact that search is garbage and no one has a coherent way to use hash tags makes it pretty pointless if you are trying to coordinate on a hyper-local level with normal, non tech obsessed people. its fine for other stuff, but certainly not useful when things are really chaotic and time sensitive.
bluesky is garbage too, but it did have a few useful things out there and the search was at least usable even if it was mostly just idiots spreading misinfo.
shockingly instagram seemed to provide the most useful, actionable info for me over the past several days. that and traditional media like TV.
now that the media has entered the "blame game" phase its looking like print media will be the most reliable source of info moving forward.

2024-10-29 19:11:54 UTC

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OK sounds like #Broadcom is royally screwed everyone here. From the salt-users mailing list:
"No, the old infrastructure will disappear at the end of the month. This is something that is being mandated by Broadcom. We were only able to work out the details of what is happening and options available to us this week as it is affecting all of VMware, not just Saltstack.
Sorry for the late notice. We are doing the best we can to handle the pain points. Unfortunately, there will be many changes related to this. Things won't be as pretty as they were before."
RIP developers, I'm not sure how #salt and #saltstack survive this, my team is already starting work to rewrite all of our config mgmt code to use #ansible.

2024-10-29 18:28:20 UTC

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this actually looks ways worse than i first imagined...the docs still haven't been updated, they still refer to the old saltstack domain for installing via packages.
any other #salt #saltstack admins or users out there heard of this cutover before today? i don't remember seeing anything on their mailing list i'm sub'd to until today.

2024-10-29 18:19:31 UTC

holy smokes, #saltstack project dumping this a few days before the end of month on the community:
https://saltproject.io/blog/salt-project-package-repo-migration-and-guidance/
"In order to integrate with Broadcom infrastructure and policies, we are migrating off of AWS public cloud infrastructure and consolidating services used by Salt Project by end of October 2024."
and it was published on...drum roll please:
"by Salt Project Team — Oct 28, 2024"
well played broadcom, i guess if you screw all your users royally they'll leave and you won't have to support them anymore.

2024-10-15 21:03:19 UTC

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The "There is no evidence of cyberattcks" bit is pretty hilarious. This is right after it explains how the logs are used to record information that would let you know there was an attack.
Like why even include that sentence aside from keeping some droid at MSFT happy?

2024-09-07 23:53:32 UTC

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there was a brief window when Darwin and osx first came out that the soho mac store hosted NYC BSD user group meetings (nycbug) in their shiny upstairs theater. I even did a presentation there once. I think they quickly realized we weren’t “on brand” enough for them.
Shortly after Tekserv (and old NYC Mac store) hosted us. There was so much hope that apple was going to fully embrace Unix and BSD in a public way - or failing that in a major financial way. Never really came to pass, but it was fun regardless.

2024-09-04 18:15:08 UTC

Hello, any folks out here looking to pick-up some consulting hours helping my startup do some #AWS account migrations/SAML setup and IAM refactoring?
Looking for someone who can take ownership of the project and is easy to work with. If interested please don't hesitate to send me a DM.
#consulting #cloud #freebsd #bsd #openbsd #fedihired