Ontario Cannabis is first past the post for PIPEDA breach disclosure
So Nov 1 the new breach notification requirements came online. I was wondering who would have the honour of the first, and, it seems it might be OCS (wiki). In the CBC story they blame the post office, just like in Friends. Interestingly tho, one can reverse engineer the customer size. In the article they say ‘4500…
Kubernetes volume-mounts with subPath and inotify. Bah humbug
So. I’ve been working on this tool ‘fluent-bit‘. You know the drill. Compile, curse, change, pull-request, repeat. And one of the features I added was to auto-watch its config file and restart on change. This is important in a Kubernetes environment since you supply config via a ‘config map’, and expect it to auto-apply. Great.…
My LED bulb saga: a chart to show the consumption
In 2017 I declared war on my incandescent bulbs. Lets take a look at the progress removing those incandescent and halogen bulbs has done. The ‘peak’ usage (~4700kWh) occurred in a month someone (who shall remain nameless) left the sauna on for several days, so lets ignore that. But, lets take a look later. The…
The election that ended open source?
Curious. Checkout the WhiteHouse github. See how (nearly) all the repo the last commit is in Oct/Nov 2016? The exception seems to be this page turner, containing such gems as: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) to advance the consolidation and optimization of the Federal Government’s inventory of data centers.…
DNS roulette
We’ve all heard of Russian roulette, the game where you take a 6-shooter, put 1 bullet in it, spin it, and point it at your head. I’m hoping this only exists in movies. But what about DNS roulette? Here’s an example. I’m using a web service (Travis) as a CI. And like all good microservices…
Long Strange Trip
