With servers, if they have a huge uptime and sysadmins etc are afraid to restart them, then they have "pets" with high liability, requiring Infra as Code https://docs.sadservers.com/blog/destroy-and-deploy-the-joys...
Have you restarted your computer this week?
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Most methods of persisting state have absolutely nothing whatosoever with kernel or modules which are a powerful way to hide malicious activity but far from the only way to persist state including malicious state. The only sane response to being infected with malicious software is to reinstall everything starting with the OS and scan user files AFTER reinstalling. It is possible even plausible that you can disinfect…
If you know for sure you have been infected with malware then it’s better to reinstall. But on iOS/Android and any other OS with strong boot chain security you can proactively reboot your device periodically and wipe out malware you weren’t aware of. It’s borderline impossible to persist malware across reboots on iOS these days.
The topic is computers which is normally casually this means PCs, laptops desktops and other form factors none of which share this character.
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If your boss is not able to back you up for something like this, it's time to change job.
During the compensation calibration meetings, there is no boss in the world that would be able to argue anything to your benefit
If you think so you've only ever worked in a trash org. If my productivity was hurt by things outside my control I'd expect (and have had) managers to fight for me.
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If your boss is not able to back you up for something like this, it's time to change job.
During the compensation calibration meetings, there is no boss in the world that would be able to argue anything to your benefit
There are two critical conversations during this meetings:
Do we promote this guy? Do we fire this guy?
It doesn’t matter what the excuse is or the size of the company, if you don’t have impact for the next level you’re not promoted. Put simply, you’re not getting promoted rebooting your machine.
Maybe your boss can defend you from a conversation, especially if the problem is systematic (impacting the whole team).
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During the compensation calibration meetings, there is no boss in the world that would be able to argue anything to your benefit
This has to be the most depressing comment I've read this week. I assure you, not all places are like this. Especially mid-smalll, but even some pockets inside large-mega.
What company will promote you for rebooting your machine?
Maybe you’re not gonna get fired, but I can’t imagine someone hitting staff level because they spent a third of their week recovering from a weekly reboot
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> Pivotal Labs RIP Pivotal Tracker, and thank you for your involvement! It was a nice piece of software.
Hoping someone will boot-up an open-source version. Linear seems to be the most popular alternative to Pivotal Tracker. What did you like most about Tracker? Thanks for the kind words!
As I recall there wasn't an abundance of notice of Pivotal Tracker's sunset, but I did kind of expect someone to come up with a more 1:1 open-source replacement with a one-step migration tool.
We looked at Linear and other options but ultimately ended up going with Shortcut. We wrote our own small migration script and moved over the old Pivotal IDs to keep as much historical context as we could. Shortcut's been a good tool overall, though I preferred Pivotal's Goldilocks level of compactness as far as the UI was concerned, as well as the general design.
Pivotal's API was tidy and integrated nicely into our development process. We have some git aliases such as `git start ` where the branch name will end with a story ID by convention. The alias would do the work of creating the branch, setting the remote to the dev's fork of our repo, marking the story as started, and assigning the dev as the owner. It saved a lot of manual steps, so thank you for your involvement in the project which allowed such a nice workflow!
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#397I use NixOS and haven't restarted my machines in years. Always on. There are power outages once in a while but everything is set to restart when power is available so it comes back up.
IMO the power of NixOS is at the other extreme. Set it up with Impermanence ( https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Impermanence ) and reboot often. Also worth flagging if you are only ever switching in new configs Kernel patches, firmware, or updates to systemd won’t apply until next boot.
I usually kexec into new kernels, but rarely, I do reboot for firmware updates.
My system is rebooted sometimes due to power, and while it comes back just fine... there's no need to reboot a computer that works.
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> about what getting a computer into a productive state means Why would you do that? Is your OS not running stable? Do you not have tight control over the software that is running? Why are you unable to keep it in a productive state? Greetings from a Computer that only restarts for updates every few days, next to an airgapped machine that has been running for years.
Good questions. For some "work" use-cases, it would be starting up Email, password tool (Bitwarden), team chat (Slack), browser (with a few tabs already open). I am trying to get into a habit of writing/publishing, so I've got my own web-page that pops up at login, along with the code/text editor that allows me to start writing. Every individual will have their own set of "things I click on / open while sipping coffe…
Thank you for putting in the time to produce this answer. Amazing and unorthodox way of using the user system, I haven't even considered that. I can see that being useful.
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yep, and this is the case for both major mobile operating systems fun thing is that graphene had the feature to automatically reboot on a timer after inactivity for a while, but now ios also ships it :D
Huh, interesting. I wanted to see how to enable this on iPhone, and the answer is that it’s built into iOS 18+ and will happen automatically after 3 days of no usage.
Yep, on GrapheneOS you can set it to a very short period (IIRC it is 10 minutes, don't have my phone here). Shorter timeframes than 3 days is useful in a lot of circumstances. I think in most scenarios where some agency uses Cellebrite or alike, they'll just make sure to do it immediately after confiscating a phone and not after three days.
It's another example of iOS security theater. It can be sold as "Apple cares about privacy", but it does not add that much meaningful security. (Just like: iMessage is end-to-end encrypted, but it doesn't really matter because most people don't enable ADP and only have iCloud Backups that are encrypted at rest.)
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Not OP, but the sleep and hibernate states on my desktop are pretty finicky and can't truly be trusted. I'd rather know everything shut down properly than risk it, especially since the thing boots in seconds anyway, and I have to input the encryption password anyway.
> sleep and hibernate states on my desktop are pretty finicky That is not normal... Also, if you're on Windows, unless you disabled Fast Boot, you're not actually shutting it down. It's logging you out and suspending to disk.
It's not unusual to have sleep state issues on Linux, which is what it runs (an Arch derivative).
Could be some faulty hardware somewhere, but it's not a concerning enough issue to spend money replacing things for a machine that gets used for personal projects and video games.