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The case of the inconsistent SSL: AES-NI broken? Bad CPU?
New modest-power desktop for the office. And, getting once in a while intermittent encryption errors (e.g. SSL, SSH). See an example: $ docker pull ubuntu:18.04 18.04: Pulling from library/ubuntu Digest: sha256:5f4bdc3467537cbbe563e80db2c3ec95d548a9145d64453b06939c4592d67b6d Status: Image is up to date for ubuntu:18.04 $ docker pull ubuntu:18.04 Error response from daemon: Get https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/: x509: certificate signed by unknown…
Cloud billing and bugs: log ingestion
So I’m using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Its not a big deployment (3 instances of 4VCPU/7.5GB RAM), but is now up to about $320/month. And I’m looking at the log ingestion feature. You pay for the bytes, api calls, ingestion, retrieval. See the model here. Feature Price1 Free allotment per…
DTS-HA MA and devices that don’t support
Sometimes you have a video that has DTS-HD MA as the audio codec, and you have a device that misbehaves. You could transcode it, but, well, here’s a better way. It copies it through (so no loss) and adds an AAC version (in same number of channels). #!/usr/bin/env python3 # Add an aac track alongside…
Blockchain vs GDPR: fight?
OK here’s a puzzle for you. Blockchain. Its immutable, for all time. And that’s the point, its not a side-affect. So, that pizza you bought a few years ago with Bitcoin, someday digital archaeologists will puzzle over why you felt anchovies were the right choice for that topping. And yes it will be you, its…
Moving into a new (cloud) neighbourhood? Check its reputation!
When you move to a new neighbourhood, you do some research. Are the schools good? The neighbours cooking the finest meth? That sort of thing. Its a reputation associated with that neighbourhood. In the cloud, that neighbourhood is two things: the IaaS provider itself, and, who had that public IP last. And, well, cloud instances…
