Month: December 2018
Are you tech enough for marketing?
At my previous gig i had some oversight of marketing. And the marketing folks often complained that there was an unfair level of technical depth needed. I would usually tell them “suck it up princess, get back to that vi + shell” or “the beatings will continue until morale improves”. Well, one of those folks…
Never SSL
So you are in some random location you don’t frequent. They have wifi. You’ve ignored all my previous posts about security and want to connect. You connect, but nothing works. What should you do? Well, try opening http://neverssl.com/. You might be hitting a combination of ‘too much ssl’ and ‘captive portal’. I know, you can never…
When managed software goes bad… A cloud tale
So the other day I wrote of my experience with the first ‘critical’ kubernetes bug, and how the mitigation took down my Google Kubernetes (GKE). In that case, Google pushed an upgrade, and missed something with the Calico migration (Calico had been installed by them as well, nothing had been changed by me). Ooops. Today,…
Canadian National Cyber Threat Assessment
Or perhaps you were too busy buying i-Tunes cards to pay off that CRA debt you didn’t know you had? (hint: there is never a reason to do this!) I’m a bit focused these days on p19 (supply chain process), but you might be more interested in p22 (critical infrastructure). But I’m intrigued by the…
The studs on bike in snow verdict: great success!
Today we had our first snow post installation of the ‘snow studs‘. And wow are they loud when on pavement. Think of a radial-engine aircraft, a swarm of wasps with vacuum cleaners. But… and this is early because we didn’t have a ton of snow and it was only modestly icy… Great success! The tires…
