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A second thought is that open source software rose up in the era when we were trying to build a great interconnected world of business, communications, and more. Now that there is …

This is a shot across the bow of pretty much anyone working on the Linux kernel from outside the G7. Living in Southeast Asia, I will certainly be having plenty of conversations as…

Not reusing passwords at all is pretty impractical. If you really want to depend on a single password manager then you have some other issues. Usually I have settled for rotating, …

People in crisis mode do stupid things. This is why the first thing you should do in a crisis is wait a few seconds. Then calm down and think things through. Evidently they never g…

"Bulls do not win bullfights. People do. People do not win people fights. Lawyers do." -- Norman Augustine, "Augustine's Laws" 1985.

The comment was US-specific. Similar doctrines are found though in Canadian, British, and continental European (though not so much in Scandinavian systems which often do allow tota…

Crowdstrike: Irredeemable just like their vouchers!

It seems to me that this is what happens when you have nobody in leadership who can do crisis management. First thing you do in a crisis? Take a few breaths and calm down. Take the…

This is becoming a larger trend and it will hurt open source generally because of the efforts at pushing American culture war issues globally. I try hard to work with projects whic…

In the UK, traffic accidents don't happen? Of course someone is at fault, though.

This is an outstanding postmortem of this incident. I really did not expect it from Forbes. Accidents will happen. One thing that will be important going forward is a proper operat…

It is truly scary.

I don't know. Hand-written SQL means a bunch of work and you have to know SQL. But it is simple and transparent. ORMs automate a lot of simple and repetitive SQL, but to use them e…

So, really, all we need then is a language sufficiently precise enough to specify what a program needs to do and we can then feed it into a program which can write software that im…

I think the problem of engineering management is that componentization is a hard problem. One needs to recognize that Conway's Law is an inevitability, but it can be a positive as …

I am in Jakarta. was thinking of moving to Bali but that isn't practical. I think you know what "The West" is when you are outside it. If you look at which countries are sanctionin…

I think a more likely scenario is that all countries did what they could and China succeeded better than any other major land country. But then, as victims of their success, the co…

I am an American expat who just moved from Germany to Indonesia about six months ago. One thing I see is that the comments he makes about China echo my views of the West. Where the…

I wonder how the context by which these enter the production environment affect the relevant harm caused by either. For example, drunkenness happens via escallations to those not o…

Over time, if you come to understand the technology, you can fix things a managed service cannot, so you might actually risk less downtime if you prioritize that. At least that's m…

In my experience drunk and unexpectedly called means careful and tired means "screw it, I want to go back to sleep."

Let's imagine a scenario here: On call engineer wakes up to an alert. Realizes there is a major problem developing that he or she is underqualified to handle. Escalates the call. E…

I think there are contextual reasons why drunken incidence response, despite being largely unavoidable (you cannot expect your subject matter experts never to consume alcohol) caus…