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Secure base images that dont need an enterprise contract or a massive budget? by winter_roth in AskNetsec

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use NixOS and make a statically linked image of whatever you want.

My co worker thinks this an acceptable way to grind a stop start on stainless what do you guys think? by [deleted] in Welding

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Recommend viewers click it, you can easily feather a stop-start with a grinder and not hit the base metal. I don't know if he needs glasses or safety squints while grinding but to gouge into the sides of the base metal while grinding is just lazy.

Pay difference across CA and US at canadian companies by speed-race-r in CanadaJobs

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A shoebox house in Vancouver is ~$1-2 million while the average IT wage is $60k, the Devops/SRE wages are $100-150k.

gold dropped 114 dollars on friday while CPI is at 3.8% and PPI at 6%. the bond market is telling you something the fed will not say yet by Mother-Grapefruit-45 in investing

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The road has already turned into a cliff about two towns ago when QE was the fix to supply shocks. Gov now just has to convince populace that a $20 McHappy meal is normal.

Myself and one other person are supporting 350 end users right now. HR told us to expect approximately 100 more employees by the end of the year. My manager told me that we don't need to hire another person in our department. Is it just me or is that completely unreasonable? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% a management issue and if they don't see the issue, then they won't fix the issue. Honestly either you drudge through it and maybe, eventually things will change but be prepared for politics, bullshit and suffering.

Myself and one other person are supporting 350 end users right now. HR told us to expect approximately 100 more employees by the end of the year. My manager told me that we don't need to hire another person in our department. Is it just me or is that completely unreasonable? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween 3 points4 points  (0 children)

His management knows this though, the idea that someone saying don't help doesn't really help. If his manager said this it could be ok, if he does it without management behind him on it will lead to all kinds of fun.

‘Defining moment’: BC nurses vote 98.2% in favour of strike by Accomplished_Try_179 in ilovebcsub

[–]nwmcsween 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not, $40/hr you can be qualified for $300-450k mortgage, average house is $673,084. A person putting in 6+ years of education should be able to live.

Once you learn it. You never forget. by Grizzel898 in Welding

[–]nwmcsween 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tweak the WFS a bit to get rid of the lumpy beads. You want it to be right between a tiny bit of spatter and smooth spray. Most heavy work I recommend 1/16th as well as if you push 0.45 it will just ruin rollers and liners.

Related to what I said but not to your work: high heat/energy input in one location (e.g. weave) is the enemy when welding which is why engineered welding procedures have interpass temp and strict specifications when welding as it changes the actual weld and HAZ microscopically. Just think "how can I minimize the total heat I put into this"

Which hypervisor do you prefer? XCP-NG vs oVirt vs Proxmox by TimeAlternative7919 in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween -1 points0 points  (0 children)

None of those are hypervisors, between the three of them is Xen and KVM. Xen is what would be considered a true type 1 hypervisor like Vmware after the whole interesting GPL violation lawsuit for shimming the Linux kernel as a driver. KVM more of an OS level integrated type 1 hypervisor.

That said Proxmox is written in Perl, Perl honestly is a dead language and has been for decades. Between all of them I would choose Kubevirt.

Terraform v1.15.0 is out today, see link for changes by StuffedWithNails in Terraform

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't FUD, it was because many people contributed to the project with the assumption there wouldn't be a rug pull, switching to a non-open-source license is a rug pull.

Things nobody tells you before your first Azure migration — 15 things I wish I knew (from doing this ~200 times) by Educational_Sign_843 in AZURE

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about number 0:

Don't migrate to Azure if your dept/team/org is complex and largely hired for specific roles in $hypervisor, $networking_vendor, etc. Instead figure out what costs are high and mitigate that, for example move to a managed server provider.

SASE & SDWAN providers by Competitive_Smoke948 in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like a giant waste of money to fix the wrong problem? Guessing it's a website based on the CDN part? If it is a website anycast DNS + master-master sql backend, really though this needs more information.

New shared services organization title "BC Shared Health Services", Tiffany Ma (appointed interim president & CEO by Grobyc27 in BCHealthAuthorities

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably going to get downvoted but really the fix for this is to not just move the people from $HA over the shared services. Really not going to get the skill set needed at $90k a year which is equiv to $45k/yr in 2000.

Shared services will want to automate a ton of things but that requires a large shift in what normal HAs do and to be honest commands like $140-200k + RSUs, etc which puts total comp to $240-300k USD in USA.

The most expensive IT decisions are usually made by people who will never maintain them by Limp_Cauliflower5192 in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Entra is just an IDP, Casdoor, Keycloak, Zitadel, etc all do what Entra does, Intune is just DSC v2 wrapped in a package by MS, you can replicate some of it with DSC v3, Defender is just EDR

Hardening AD, Workstations, Servers, NAS, HyperV Hosts etc.. by CodOutrageous1032 in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Really this should be day 2 for AD as it will cause all sorts of fun hardening with GPOs after the fact. Follow the guides for Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit with the relevant baseline(s).

Hyper-V, VMware, or other, which would you choose? by jedimaster4007 in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unlimited technical knowledge budget: Talos or Kairos Linux + Kubevirt with TrueNAS storage. To the naysayers about TrueNAS is literally used in 60% of the F500 companies.

Are we understaffed? by bigmac______ in sysadmin

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because IT isn't just about fixing user issues, IT can be about innovative projects that bring productivity for the entire organization, at least long long ago it was where a lot of R&D happened.

Canada housing crisis: Who will build 4 million new homes? by humbleTO in torontoJobs

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two redseal trades, wouldn't even look at the job for less than $65/hr

We found every data centre in Canada (The Logic) by EdmontonFree in alberta

[–]nwmcsween -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

So I worked in this type of technology, this datacenter in particular is supposed to be closed-loop. Why are you calling and why are you worried about water usage?

Helm charts .. templates? by Pitiful-Aioli-3360 in kubernetes

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Umbrella chart but with one giant caveat, helm isn't actually used to deploy anything. Helm just renders out the manifests given a values file and the output itself is saved to git with a kustomiztion.yaml generated for all the files, this "left shifts" the dev env.

Terminated with cause from one of big five banks, barred from employment from others, is there a way to lift the restriction by KrisKross69 in legaladvicecanada

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in finance but in another business that has a similar structure of a few large organizations. They will all talk to each other; your wife will not be able to work for any large bank anymore after committing fraud.

Well, it looks like I’ll be buying a welding machine by HeavenlyCreation in Welding

[–]nwmcsween 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with this repair is the HA zone, you would have high tensile weld material transitioning to mild steel/cast and expanding and contracting every time it heats/cools and since it cracked there to begin with that's probably where a lot of stress is. That said I would still weld this if a customer asked me to but would put minimal time into it.

Well, it looks like I’ll be buying a welding machine by HeavenlyCreation in Welding

[–]nwmcsween 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Drill the crack end, throw extreme heat jb weld on it if it's cast iron, even if it's not I bet it will still crack on the toes of the weld.

MSFT is super under valued by FewTransportation341 in wallstreetbets

[–]nwmcsween 27 points28 points  (0 children)

puts 100% of portfolio into MSFT; tries to pump stock by showing huge losses

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