Jacob Richard @tryexceptelse
SRE lead-ish. Overly blunt observer, enemy of good enough, questioner of assumptions, yak barber. Chicago, IL Joined August 2014-
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Verifying myself: I am tryexceptelse on Keybase.io. SrLYOAqmLgWaiA65VC0tZUX84ULi8uwf6GaR / keybase.io/tryexceptelse/…
I’m crying right now. Almost forgot what good news felt like.
Understanding uptime: 98.12% - you have a few problems 99.65% - you have no major problems 100.00% - your monitoring is broken
.@ComcastCares My internet access has been out for more than 24 hours and I can't seem to find a way to reach an agent. The phone system just keeps making me reboot my modem, and the chat system is just a bot. Not the greatest customer service...
The future, now: features being remotely removed from a used car, because the new owner didn't pay for it jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely…
Our office has a bank-style safe. I shut the safe because I wanted to see how to open it. Well, friends, I got my answer. The safe does _not_ open, on account it being a safe. Now we're going to spend venture money on ACTUAL SAFE CRACKER. Sorry, @PulumiCorp.
Retweet if you've done that: scp file1 root@serverX rm root@serverX scp file1 root@serverX:
My friend’s entire company is locked out of their WeWork office because an umbrella fell, jamming the door. No one can figure it out. It’s been like this for 2 days.
notice to everyone using their face as a password: due to a data breach we would like to ask you to please reset your face. we apologize for any inconvenience.
First: kudos to @Cloudflare for transparency here and throughout their incident. Next: some thoughts on safety in distributed systems like this. (I don’t know how CF does it, so don’t take this as criticism of their practices, merely some musings from similar experiences) 1/
First: kudos to @Cloudflare for transparency here and throughout their incident. Next: some thoughts on safety in distributed systems like this. (I don’t know how CF does it, so don’t take this as criticism of their practices, merely some musings from similar experiences) 1/
RT if you paid off your student debt and are perfectly fine with everyone else’s being canceled
remember when a gay man made a gay computer and used it to save the world from overwhelming evil and he was rewarded with checks notes chemical torture resulting in his suicide anyway happy #Pride beep boop
"A commander may be forgiven for being defeated, but never for being surprised," as Jeff Cooper wrote. The same applies to SSL cert renewals. If you're not monitoring and alerting on your SSL expiry dates, you're going to be surprised, and not in a good way.
Shout out to those of you who can code on a live stream. My live stream would be 10 minutes of me jamming out to Wu Tang and then five minutes of furious typing followed by lots of expletives. Actually, this might be entertaining. I'm going to set up a Patreon and make that loot.
The Matrix is fundamentally a story about a machine written OS that's still got a bunch of privilege escalation vulnerabilities and that makes me feel much better about our fuckups

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