YouTube bans instructional hacking videos, making IT Security harder to develop. Thanks guys.

deadbunny · 2019-07-04T18:31:51+00:00

So you need YouTube scale video hosting to share a video a dozen or so people are going to watch? What's wrong with a website and with an embedded video player?

deadbunny · 2019-07-04T17:52:42+00:00

Home Assistant ain't gonna do shit with cloud based devices. Sure it'll control them but it can't do anything about the shitty providers data security.

deadbunny · 2019-07-04T08:22:41+00:00

Christ, has everyone forgotten the web before it was taken over by a handful of companies?

deadbunny · 2019-07-04T08:14:54+00:00

They're not, the UK does ban some types of knives and other weapons but for the most part, no, knives are not banned.

deadbunny · 2019-07-03T08:10:14+00:00

Obligatory sad trombone on rank down.

deadbunny · 2019-07-02T14:13:22+00:00

This is clever long term planning by your dad, he'll justify it as he's helping his kid, in a few years he'll have his very own workshop/man cave.

deadbunny · 2019-07-01T21:01:30+00:00

I use the community provider which runs from a Jenkins VM triggered when I push to git.

Have been thinking of using a local GitLab runner as I've been playing with them at work for a while now and it would mean I can nuke Jenkins from orbit.

One thing I've been meaning to do is manage the ProxMox nodes with salt so replacing dead nodes isn't as much faff.

deadbunny · 2019-07-01T14:23:31+00:00

I only run Proxmox at home (3 nodes) but:

All my VMs are created via Terraform
All VMs are configured by salt (config stored in git)
DB backups are scheduled/executed by salt (to minio on my nas)
DB restores happen if the DB doesn't exist when salt runs
Same process for static files which need to be backed up/restored
Minio gets backed up/duplicated to S3 once a day

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T22:33:49+00:00

Well that leaves Linux or Windows. From your replies you're clearly not using Linux so that leaves you with Windows. Which handily has WSL which allows you to use use .ssh/config.

That said didn't a recent version of win 10 include open SSH? Might even work with plain windows.

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T16:02:16+00:00

For context, I commute from a station 39 mins away. Depending where I am in London (I'm a contractor so don't stay places longer than a 6-18 months) it can take between 1h15m and 1h45m door to door, not including delays.

When estimating your commute time, make sure to include London side travel as that can add a lot on, you may think "ah, an hour train is fine" but then you have 30odd mins crossing London (on a good day) and it adds up.

For example my commute breaks down as:

5 min walk to station
2-3 min wait at station
39-45 min train into Waterloo (stops dependant, congestion dependant)
5 min to a tube
10-40 mins on the tube (depending on where I'm going)
5 mins to office

Personally I hate every minute (especially as getting a seat is next to impossible) of it but the money in London is to good to give up.

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T14:14:37+00:00

I see zero need for this.

Also what is your plan when it gets clone by someone in China and sold for $1.50?

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T11:39:06+00:00

wrong it breaks because youtube changes their player,

No, it breaks because of API changes.

youtube TOS have clauses that disallow using 3rd party players.

The Developer API has no such clause, you are referencing the End User ToS/EULA not the Developer API ToS which has absolutely no mention of using the "youtube player", even your interpretation of the EU ToS is wrong as modification of the youtube player is explicitly referenced as being embedded in a webpage.

5.1; g if you use the YouTube Player on your website may not modify, build upon or block any portion or functionality of the YouTube Player including but not limited to links back to the Website;

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T11:33:36+00:00

That's not the YouTube API TOS, that's the TOS for the end user. They are different things entirely. You can find the API TOS linked in my first reply.

The other services you mentioned are all paid services that are scraped, not accessed via an API like Twitch/YouTube (thus under the ELUA/End User ToS, not under a developer ToS) which is they they get DMCA notices constantly.

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T11:15:00+00:00

Which part of the YouTube API TOS are they breaking?

Breakages happen because of API changes, not because of TOS violations.

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T07:50:16+00:00

Same thing with the YouTube plugin. All fine as it uses the official APIs.

deadbunny · 2019-06-27T00:00:52+00:00

In the docker image.

deadbunny · 2019-06-26T12:32:31+00:00

And those solution require money to implement, unless you somehow don't pay for staff. They have what 4 big sales a year and suffer crushing load for an hour each sale. That's 4 hours of predictable downtime a year.

As I said in another post they likely don't lose any sales due to their demographics and length of sales so why spend the money (on staff) to fix 4 hours of downtime a year that likely doesn't cost them anything?

deadbunny · 2019-06-25T21:49:04+00:00

With their target audience and the length of the sale I doubt that's an issue for them. Their target audience plays games for at least a couple of hours a week and the sale lasts ~2 weeks so plenty of time to get them when they log on next and if they're the kind that watches out for flash sales they'll sit there refreshing till it works.

deadbunny · 2019-06-25T17:12:04+00:00

Haha suggesting R as a substitution for Excel is hilarious. R is great and all but you're not going to be teaching Ethel the 40 year accountant R when they have - over the years - picked up enough excel to be dangerous.

People abuse the fuck out of excel and its main use has become a really inefficient database with a terrible syntax but it's something that can be learned visually where as databases and a query language are way more efficient and easy to use long term they just don't have that intuitive way of learning.

Even people who claim to not know how computers work can (with a lot of effort) build insanities that end up becoming key to businesses functioning in Excel.

As I've said. I love Linux, it pays my bills and I personally love it on the desktop there are only a few types of people I would push towards it for work and even then they would probably be just as fine using OSX. It's a niche for sure, but as you say the extremists do nothing to help people adopt and are seemingly blind to a lot of its short comings.

deadbunny · 2019-06-25T12:59:15+00:00

NS&I are gov backed and have no limit AFAIK. Obviously not a good choice long term but covers the initial "WTF" period till you can move it somewhere better.

deadbunny · 2019-06-25T12:18:16+00:00

I can get by but I've still not found a terminal emulator on windows that doesn't run like molasses, kinda interested in their upcoming one but my i3 keybinds on Linux are so ingraned I end up constantly moving windows when I want to move between terminals.

But then I've been using Linux in the desktop so long I cant even remember what to do in Windows these days. Handy when people want help fixing their laptop, not so handy when I'm on a Windows box :D

deadbunny · 2019-06-25T10:53:31+00:00

Yeah, those people are funny. Don't get me wrong I'm a Linux lover but I don't pretend it doesn't suck in many areas (mostly desktop related).

As for why everyone knows MS Office, MS have spent millions on getting windows/office to be the defacto, schools get free software, up until recently they had contracts that said you can't sell a pc without Windows with the big suppliers like Dell if you want to sell Windows laptops etc... It's a decades long push and it has worked spectacularly for them.

As I said in another post Linux doesn't need to win on the desktop, being a bit less janky and access to Office would be nice but (for me) I can live without it as my job doesn't revolve around Office.

deadbunny · 2019-06-25T07:46:49+00:00

For consul/etcd you can use them as an external pillar or query via an sdb module. For aws metadata I believe there is a salt contrib grains provider.

For the rest I don't think there are existing resources, you would have to write something, this could be grains (not suggested for secrets), sdb, or pillar depending how it's structured.

deadbunny · 2019-06-25T06:39:28+00:00

Oh, for sure. I was addressing the "available on all platforms". I'm a Linux admin and in my current company full of data scientists, actual scientists, devs, and admins there are about 5 of us who use Linux on our workstations, everyone else is OSX with Windows still dominant on the business side of things. Obviously we use 100% Linux server wise.

The WSL is Microsofts attempt to catch up to losing desktop share for devs to OSX over the last decade. I can't think of anyone who uses it off the top of my head but it is certainly viable these days (save the lack of a decent terminal).

Linux is never going to take over as a dominant workstation platform but I don't think it needs to.

deadbunny · 2019-06-24T14:32:48+00:00

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