I like wood. It is pretty much everything you want for something like this - super durable, very easy to work with, and depending on what you pick, cheap and pretty, too.
Plus, woodworking is very satisfying by itself. And also easy to get started with - for small box-like things like this you only need a few cheap hand tools.
I'm getting people filing tickets for... let's call them complex, medium-large projects that they want implemented. Helpfully, they're including ChatGPT "instructions" for how to do it. I got my first "but ChatGPT said..." argument about why I'm wrong about something just yesterday.
Somewhat more general, but I've pretty much already decided that if I find people using it to talk to me without telling me, I won't be talking to them. Goes for businesses as well as personal things - don't gaslight me, or you will lose the option to do so.
It is as useful at home as it is anywhere else. Failures just cost less at home.
All my switches are bonded to one another, and it was handy when something snapped one of the fiber runs. That side of the house kept connectivity until the weekend when I could crawl around and run a new cable. (Never did figure out why it broke, though. Guessing the house shifted in just the right way.)
It would have hardly been the end of the world if I had to wait, but if your kit can do it, why would you not?
This always has been and always will be the security rabbit hole. (Well, one of them.)
How do you define "know for a fact"? Even if you personally know a person managing an egress node, how do you know they aren't operating on behalf of someone else?
DBAs still have their place. In my shop, we have more DBAs than infrastructure people.
When you have a small team working on a given tool that only really needs to manage its own data, it really doesn't matter. But some point, you do need expert gatekeepers to tell engineers when they're Doing It Wrong when there are many heterogenous clients accessing large datastores for different purposes, complex audit requirements, etc.
> It seems to me databases are uniquely treated this way, as some kind of disposable, simple piece of side equipment
This is exactly right - lots of people are still cargo-culting rules of thumb that no longer make any sense.
This was an artifact of the last generation's commercial DB market. Open source DBs weren't "there" yet; a combination of real limitations and risk-conservatism kept companies shoveling huge amounts of money at vendors for features and stability now provided by `apt-get install postgresql-server`.
If you just lit seven figures on fire for a database license, you're not hungry to do it again, so you wanted all your software to be compatible with whichever vendor you just locked yourself in to. And certain DB vendors are very well known for brass-knuckle negotiation; if you could credibly threaten to migrate to $competition instead of upgrading, it was one of the few actually useful negotiating levers available.
Today, open source DBs are better than the commercial ones in many situations, certainly not worse in general use, and the costs of running a bunch of different ones are far lower. Not to mention, the best way to win a software audit is to run zero instances of something.
Absolutely, which is why configurable knobs are things that exist. I already have to mess with the OOMkiller on my servers; I'm fine with fiddling with knobs on my desktop box too. This is Linux, after all.
Wasn't one of the constant talking points in the war over the Init System That Shall Not Be Named that Linux needs to scale from embedded to big iron?
I, too, wish for a better quality of collective decision-making on the part of humanity, but this seems to be how "we" do these things. "What, me worry?" is probably the central recurring theme of history, if you're inclined to look at things a certain way.
Not the same thing at all, but my local laundromat is also a restaurant/bar, and hosts really terrible standup.
I'll frequently grab a bite while doing my laundry, and the "comedy" is a useful inspiration to get it done earlier in the day, so I don't have to listen to it. (It is really, truly awful.)
Plus, woodworking is very satisfying by itself. And also easy to get started with - for small box-like things like this you only need a few cheap hand tools.