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Oh, so they are going the Chef-route?! :(

I do hope a community fork works out - I wouldn't even know where to migrate to for managing full VMs in such a nice way(puppetserver/puppetdb/bolt)...


My go-to tool for this is CFEngine Enterprise + Ansible. CFEngine Enterprise includes a data warehouse component to support reporting/querying, and Ansible is handy for ad-hoc tasks on a smaller scale. With federated reporting[1] your infrastructure can scale to hundreds of thousands of hosts.

[1] https://docs.cfengine.com/latest/web-ui-federated-reporting....


This feels like an ai generated ad


It certainly feels like an ad.

Ansible also has a server backend option with AWX (and it’s Red Hat downstream). Although speaking as a user and lover of Ansible, reporting on the data in its database is not a strong suit.


Sure. Reporting with CFEngine is incredibly powerful. Forgive my enthusiasm, my team (at Vertical Sysadmin) developed an ETL pipeline to aggregate data from CFEngine hubs into a "superhub" which later inspired Federated Reporting in CFEngine Enterprise. It's actually incredibly useful. We'd drop into the Postgres database (CFEngine Enterprise uses Postgres under the hood) and use raw SQL to slice and dice the data. We supported tens of thousands of servers across multiple divisions and organizational silos.

I was answering the OP, "I wouldn't even know where to migrate to for managing full VMs in such a nice way(puppetserver/puppetdb/bolt)", and offering a potential solution for managing full VMs.

I am actually going to try AWX this week. Thanks!


oh hey, a phishing website.


I don't want to spread negative vibes, but this feels like a phishing test website.

The only real details about the app/product it that it cost 3$ for 250 in-game tokens. It's not even clear how long they last.

I guess it is on purpose, so people just click the app-store button... but the lack of details is astonishing.

The landing page claims "all your data remains locally on your phone, without compromise." but the about pages mentions OpenAI... so it's a wrapper for a custom GPT that gets fed anonymized chats?

Anyway, for fellow windows and android users you get Screenshots here: https://www.fnd.io/#/us/iphone-app/6474674651-hiccup-ai-by-o...


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Looks like there is something wrong with your domain :(

- docsplus.co gets redirected to www.docsplus.co

- this shows a godaddy parking site

- plus the cert is only valid for docsplus.co


Whats the point of that without having arguments against each excuse or offering solutions?

or is this just and "you're an idiot for thinking that" sign?


Weird choice of this site to mention their sources, but not linking them.

- Heise reported this originally: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Fritzboxen-AVM-verliert-Pat...

- Golem basically summarized the Heise article: https://www.golem.de/news/patentklagen-avm-droht-vertriebsve...


Also the first title in the body is nonsense:

> AVM threatens to ban the sale of Fritzbox routers

So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

This looks like some SEO spam site with AI generated crap sprinkled on top.


>So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

I assume they have a huge captive domestic market that such threats are effective. Imagine VW threatening to ban the sale of the Golf


In this case, the Heise article is pretty clear that AVM is threatened with a sales ban, not that AVM itself is threatening one.


And the article seems to be a stolen version of this German one:

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Internet-Thema-34041/News/AVM...


Yeah @dang maybe possible to replace the submission link with the original article passed through translate, e.g. https://www-pcgameshardware-de.translate.goog/Internet-Thema... ?


That would explain the wonky headline: "AVM droht ..." means "AVM is threatened with ..." but could be misread as "AVM threatens ..." ("AVM droht mit ..." or "AVM droht: ..."), especially in a cheap/automated translation.


The PCGH article references the golem article which references the heise article.


Appreciate the links. Although one is in German and the other is also in German and seems to be behind a paywall.

As an aside, it is common for news sites to only provide links back to their own earlier articles (even when the connection to the present story is tenuous at best), never to sources or extra information outside of their web property. Unfortunately it is not a weird choice, it's an industry-wide standard practice.


See my sibling comment - you can also click the left button ("Akzeptieren und weiter"), which just is your consent to see advertisement, it's a soft paywall (paying makes ads go away).


You have to consent to invasive tracking cookies or pay (isn't that against the GDPR?)


> isn't that against the GDPR?

It is.


And ALF in 1987 S02E05


I want to believe that you just remembered that, like if the top of your head.

The idea that some die hard Alf fan just made they way past my post on hacker news really puts a smile on my face.


This also happens with work-related messengers and calls.

After transitioning to remote work during lockdown, chat&calls suddenly become mandatory to look at ASAP. Now I sometimes get multiple urgend messages while beeing on a surprising call. In the office, these people would see that I'm busy and wait. Now I have to line them up and prioritize them myself..

It took me a while to figure out that a few hours of this process could ruin a full day of productivity + requires much more mental work to regenerate after.

I do have ADHD though - so this is one of my biggest issues even under normal circumstances.


No need for using the term "fake news". Noone posted any news, nor are they fake.

It's not about possible access of classified information, but the now unknown state of the devices and systems.

Physical barriers, like a guarded entry, produce a zone of trust. People are searched for weapons on entries to somewhat guarantee that no weapons are inside. Once the entry is un-guarded, the trust level is 0% and needs to rebuild.


There's a notion being presented that having access to physical offices is somehow tantamount to having access to a SCIF. That is the misinformation/hyperbole/fake news part. If you post on Twitter and your tweet goes viral, it is now news.

Those networks will assuredly have to be rebuilt from the ground up. He's definitely right on a number of things but fueling speculation like this, especially when it's already been acknowledged the SCIFs were not breached, is equally dangerous.

This stuff is a matter of open record: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/politics/what-is-a-scif/index...


I've seen "just WIN+L" on Twitter a lot...

Relying on humans locking their PC in event of a terrorist attack isn't a IT-Security concept.

Security consists of a threat model and many layers of security measures. Many many outer layers have failed here. I wouldn't blame an individual nor a department here. It's one of those events that probably wasn't in the scope. Additionally, roles/security clearance levels etc. still work regardless of the account beeing open to anyone.

Things like Smartcards, Yubikeys, auto-lockscreen could have failed the same way. Maybe a GPO failed, or a windows update broke the auto-lock.... that's why all these many layers exist.


It's kinda ridiculous that protest turns to riot and they break in wouldn't be in scope for a place with constant protests outside


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