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wow i dislike docker so much i just accidentally typed out docker instead of dropbox. i think my brain needs a vacation

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More companies are shifting workers to passwordless authentication

Both workers and business leaders are tired of device passwords. More companies are doing away with them and, in the process, improving cybersecurity.

i love that nobody acknowledges that 'the old ways were better', favoring platforms with publicly exposed apis, that customers cant secure, introspect or get logs from, because 'someone else gets to deal with the equipment'. "i would rather get my shit rocked every day and be putting out fires every day than hire two or three sysadmins and run shit in house" is certainly a take.

okay so like a month ago @npub1k4x6...55ng sent me one of those 'spycam finder' doodads that you see going for like 80-100 dollars online that supposedly 'find spy cameras and gps trackers'. I've always been curious if they actually work or whats inside. So I just tore the thing open and this is what I found:

it will never stop being amusing that you can 'do a bunch of stuff on one server. all of it. in one place' and some folks will scream and do backflips, or you can do the same bunch of stuff across several thousand servers in 3-5 different clouds, costing 100x as much and the same people will stop screaming and beam about "going serverless"

go to the cloud they said it'll be fine they said

One bad click sent AWS bill into the stratosphere

Who, Me?: Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation

you know, this weeks @npub1gykd...l0ef distinctly makes me think about all this 'shove ai everywhere' nonsense we've been treading water in