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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Company A permits federation of project 2 with contractor B who agrees. Oh look! No need to add 21 people to your AD. Contract done? De-fed.

    Google feds with GH for AOSP dev, because it’s 2023. Users don’t need to even know where the repo is hosted or whether the real meat is another hop inside.

    Company “BCFerries”, an imaginary organization, happens to run the largest fleet of mobile DCs in the country, with each mobile DC being 6 HA racks, three on a side, dehumidifiers o-plenty. Engineers stationed aboard need to lob tickets and hot fixes on the go, and sub them for review when the mobile DCs get a good link, 30 min out of every 2 hours. Roaming 2/2/2tb node swaps spit with the stationary nodes when it smells the VPN, and then gets ready to go again.

    Repeat that above, but say ‘Maersk’. I’m betting evergreen/evergiven is on VSS.

    Enough examples?

    Running a federated GL is conceivably a set-it-and-forget-it like a lot of federated stuff already is, and you debug the glitches and patch like normal.

    Given the 5GLs I still run were all installed by VMware/terraform/chef/RPM, patched automatically with package promotion and watched for anomalies, it’s already negligible effort. Double nothing is …let’s see …carry the 0 …integrate the square …nothing.











  • No. Their reward for having users is that they’re in control. Expecting users to then pay them for that control is fucking stupid,

    You DO realize that not everyone works to attain power over other people, right?

    but I don’t expect most people to realize it.

    The reason people don’t realize that site owners’ reward for forking over half a salary in hosting costs for some nebulous power to hold other people in their clutching fists and cackle maniacally is because that’s not the motivator here.

    I look forward to when you can see that.



  • Law enforcement will quietly welcome them

    No. Absolutely no cop I’ve ever talked to, and none of my in-laws, want amateurs doing po-po work. It’s as risky and dangerous as amateurs doing surgery or arguing a trial. Cops know the vigilantes who want to ‘help’ the cops are only doing so to be violent thugs with a purpose and absolutely no critical thinking. Randos destroy evidence, botch data gathering, beat up civilians and witnesses and perpetrators alike, and generally complicate things.

    Especially in America the standards can seem SO low to become a cop. But these people couldn’t even do that, and you’re thinking cops want to work with them?

    Nah.