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Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by red-iron-pine »

tedivm wrote: post #70
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless there’s a security concern they should just let the employee keep the machine. The company I work for that did layoffs this year did that. It’s just easier for everyone involved and I imagine makes the layoff slightly less shitty for the employee.

When Kenna was bought by Cisco I never got a box to ship my laptop back (despite asking repeatedly). Instead the Cisco team bricked all of the laptops remotely. I had only worked there for two months, so this brand new rather expensive laptop was turned into a paperweight for no reason other than to spite as far as I can tell. I still have it in my closet in case they decide we need to return it still (despite it bei…

Bricked like fried? or just can't log-in / OS scrambled / reinstall the OS?

Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by red-iron-pine »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #64
plugger wrote: post #57

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I can't speak to FileVault, but Bitlocker and TPM can be quite easily defeated through sniffing the bitlocker key as it's transmitted from the TPM chip to the CPU to decrypt the drive on boot over the LPC, I2C, or SPI bus. Unless you enable TPM+pin for preboot auth you can't easily protect the data on a Windows PC, even with FDE.

Pretty much every company does preboot auth nowadays for Windows laptops. And remote wipe is also possible, as the side comment says. Letting the former employee keep the laptop is the default, IMO. Although, frankly, I am not sure I would want to keep mine... sitting on a pile of a dozen laptops accumulated over the years. And everyone watches porn on their on own devices anyway.

> sitting on a pile of a dozen laptops accumulated over the years.

low power consumption and can probably run a couple of VMs, albeit not super well but well enough

Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by red-iron-pine »

jstx1 wrote: post #11
candiddevmike wrote: post #8

Hopefully they realize their products are too expensive for the value they provide beyond the open core offering. The recent Terraform Cloud pricing changes are not going in the right direction, please hire folks who understand how to price and capture value for your customers appropriately.

Terraform is open source. What are people paying for?

The cloud version & enterprise support.

At every F500 or other large Enterprise I've been at you need to have some sort of support and escalation model. Lotta pushes to SaaS offerings too, esp. turnkey ones where it's their cloud and you pay an all-in price for software+infra+support.

Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by trilobyte »

gtirloni wrote: post #69
PheonixPharts wrote: post #38

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HCP Operating Incomes (in thousands of dollars) - 1/31/2020: -56,217 - 1/31/2021: -84,009 - 1/31/2022: -289,314 - 1/31/2023: -297,287 This line seems to heading in a direction which is never making profit. Nearly all of the tech IPOs over the last few years share the same story. These are companies that have never been shown to make a profit, with no clear model how to. Finally these companies need to prove this is p…

> This line seems to heading in a direction which is never making profit They are growing and the cash burning each year is stabilizing. Isn't that the road to eventual profit?

If their operating income is accurately reflected above, there is no indication they are going in the right direction. There is a period of several years where a company is in innovation mode and they will burn through investment, but there must be an inflection point where Operating Income starts increasing YoY, even if they are still operating at a loss. Hashicorp has gone too far in the wrong direction.

Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by sacnoradhq »

kredd wrote: post #61
sacnoradhq wrote: post #45

Layoffs are largely avoidable: stay profitable, avoid expanding too fast, treat employees well, and (time vested) worker-owned co-op.

Argument can be made, the workers that are losing their jobs wouldn’t have these jobs at all if they didn’t expand, IPO out and etc.

You appear to be making workers out to be helpless and dependent and should be thankful for the "benevolent generosity" of corporate greed and mismanagement. Advocating Amazon is generous for giving workers the privilege of urinating in bottles doesn't have a good ring to it.

Perhaps workers should change the structures of where they work with fractional ownership and a cut of the value they helped to create?

Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by firesteelrain »

pknomad wrote: post #43
jstx1 wrote: post #11

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Terraform is open source. What are people paying for?

Terraform Core is open source and free. TFE and Terraform Cloud (aside from the capped free version) are not. Terraform still needs bit of help when you want to run production grade: state-locking (dynamodb) state-storing (s3) workspace/template management CI/CD functions (atlantis) secret management (vault) and TFE gives you these right out of the box in a neatly packaged way. Of course, you can come up with differe…

Azure has its own Key Vault so no need for the Vault product. As far as state, you can remotely store states in an Azure storage account. Storage container provides locking via the lease mechanism.

Terraform as a product is awesome and the azurerm backend plus azurestack provider is great. I hate Bicep and Terraform simplifies it all.

Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by firesteelrain »

freedomben wrote: post #28
jstx1 wrote: post #11

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Terraform is open source. What are people paying for?

Support is a big part of what you get. Red Hat uses a similar model. You also get some niceties like state management/locking in the cloud. I'd be paying but it's too expensive for what you get. Cost prohibitive for a small shop.

State management and locking is free with Azure and azurerm backend. AWS can use a S3 as a remote backend for free as far as Terraform is concerned.

Re: Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #71
tedivm wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When Kenna was bought by Cisco I never got a box to ship my laptop back (despite asking repeatedly). Instead the Cisco team bricked all of the laptops remotely. I had only worked there for two months, so this brand new rather expensive laptop was turned into a paperweight for no reason other than to spite as far as I can tell. I still have it in my closet in case they decide we need to return it still (despite it bei…

Bricked like fried? or just can't log-in / OS scrambled / reinstall the OS?

One way to brick if it’s an Apple product is to do an MDM wipe and not disable the activation lock. It would be kind of shitty to just turn the laptops into e waste by not disabling the lock but this is Cisco that the OP mentioned so I could absolutely see that as a reality. After you wipe there’s literally no reason to not unlock the device except spite (if the device is stolen, you obviously don’t want people to be able to sell or use it again so it makes perfect sense not to unlock it). But if it was legitimately used as an employee device then the employer gains nothing but forcing the employee to deal with junk by not unbricking the device
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