Nginx was developed to scale a lot of Russian sites, starting with Rambler. As a second point, Envoy was made by Lyft. A lot of web server OSS goes back to big (at the time) corps.
The absolute wild opposite (for cybersecurity) to this is that higher level individuals are in such insane demand that if you are underpaid even during the current wage suppression, going to over market should be almost completely trivial.
The people you know who love it, love it. How many times have you seen a retired age person working? It’s not always because they require it financially. I worked with a gentleman from Bulgaria when I was young who worked 70 hours a week because he was immensely bored otherwise and work brought him purpose. When you become adjusted to working all the time, the work becomes the purpose, and not working becomes death. I watched this happen with one of my grandparents. He retired and died of a heart attack within a year. All signs pointed to him living longer had he not retired. My point is that freedom to some people is work, because work is their purpose and having a purpose provides freedom to enjoy other things.
We’ve developed incredibly strict and comprehensive clippy rules and found that to drastically improve the quality of the code as the LLM now should pass all clippy checks. You can add a clippy skill as well to attempt to turn “should” into “must.”
I use mistral-medium-3.1 for a lot of random daily tasks, along with the vibe cli. I'd state from my personal opinion that mistral is my preferred 'model vendor' by far at this point. They're extremely consistent between releases while each of them just feels better. I also have a strong personal preference to the output.
I actively use gemini-3.1-pro-preview, claude-4.6-opus-high, and gpt-5.3-codex as well. I prefer them all for different reasons, however I usually _start_ with mistral if it's an option.
I understand where you’re coming from but early systemd with both ubuntu and centos was a fucking mess. It’s good now but goddamn it was painful and the hate is 100% justified.
All shoe sizes should only be small, medium, and large. He really did have a lot of very ridiculous ideas. He also had a lot of extremely good ideas and incredible understanding of socioeconomic conditions.
His book “United We Stand” with modern context is quite amazing considering it came out in the early 90s.
This isn’t explicitly called out in any of the other comments in my opinion so I’ll state this. Valve as a company is incredibly focused internally on its business. Its business is games, game hardware, and game delivery. For anything outside of that purview instead of trying to build a huge internal team they contract out. I’m genuinely curious why other companies don’t do this style more often because it seems incredibly cost effective. They hire top level contractors to do top tier work on hyper specific areas and everyone benefits. I think this kind of work is why Valve gets a free pass to do some real heinous shit (all the gambling stuff) and maintain incredible good will. They’re a true “take the good with the bad” kind of company. I certainly don’t condone all the bad they’ve put out, and I also have to recognize all the good they’ve done at the same time.
Back to the root point. Small company focused on core business competencies, extremely effective at contracting non-core business functions. I wish more businesses functioned this way.
There are 'best to brush' timelines around eating/drinking. Usually you want to either:
- Brush no less than 15m before eating
- Do not brush until 45m+ after eating
I don't fully understand the science, as I'm not a dentist, but it's something related to the way that things stick to/are absorbed by enamel and dentin.
I believe water is the exception here, you can drink water and then immediately brush. You should not brush and then immediately drink water though. You want the toothpaste to stick around and form a barrier.
From my literal conversation I'm having right now, 'try to run one big cluster to capture everything' is our active state. I've brought up federation a bunch of times and it's fallen on deaf ears. :)
We are probably past the size of the entirety of fly.io for reference, and maintenance is very painful. It works because we are doing really strange things with Consul (batch txn cross-cluster updates of static entries) on really, really big servers (4gbps+ filesystems, 1tb memory, 100s of big and fast cores, etc).
Back of napkin math I’ve done previously, it breaks down around 2 million members with Hashicorps defaults. The defaults are quite aggressive though and if you can tolerate seconds of latency (called out in the article) you could reach billions without a lot of trouble.
I used this when it was brand new for a bit and it was so incredibly smooth and worked so well. It solved the problem of controlling systemd units remotely so well. I'm pretty sure the only reason it never actually took off was kubernetes and coreos's acquisition, however it actively solves the 'other half' of the k8s problem which is managing the state of the host itself.
I believe the context is that the CVE is that this bypasses the sandbox entirely; so in this specific case this is a real, full-blown RCE. Your comment makes it seem at a glance that you're saying it's a DOS at worse.
The CEO would've found it very easy to remove the blocker in that case (me). This is the life of small tech businesses. Also, they were modifying configuration files (php-fpm configurations iirc) and not code.
FIM is very useful for catching things like folks mucking about with users/groups because you typically watch things like /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd, or new directories created under /home, or contents of /var/spool/mail to find out if you're suddenly spamming everyone.
I've used FIM in the past to catch a CEO modifying files in real-time at a small business so I could ping him and ask him to kindly stop. It's not just about BS _processes_. :D