I have received some more nice notes about #TheCrux. Do tell people that you liked their stuff. Not many people do that, but it's really nice to hear.
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well said @daedalus #TheCrux :toot: 🫂
"Enjoying the people you work with, and the thing you're doing together, outweighs almost everything else.
It doesn't need to be a world-changing mission... It's fine and good to make shoes for people, or do their taxes, or to tend gardens or build houses or any of the zillions of mundane, ordinary things that need to get done for modern society to exist."
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#TheCrux so well said @daedalus 👏😆
"*Please leave me behind*
I am perplexed by the notion of being “left behind”. It comes, I suppose, from the idea that the tech industry is new and modern and that being new and modern is somehow inherently good despite all available evidence to the contrary.But look around. I'm not thrilled about [...] having to show government ID to use a website in the UK because social media companies are somehow immune to competition and privacy law. Or the stochastic plagiarism machines getting shoved into everything, over everything, and generally getting in the way while I am trying to do something they keep trying to fuck up.
The thing about being left behind is that it implies that you will actually, you know, leave. I just don't see any of the tedious blowhards threatening to leave me behind actually going anywhere. They seem to be staying quite close by, and being rather noisy and obnoxious about it the whole time. So noisy and obnoxious, in fact, that the prospect of going anywhere that they might also remain nearby isn't nearly as big a selling point as they seem to imagine.
I've had a good think about it, and I've decided that actually I would quite like to be left behind if there's a chance that you people will fuck off to somewhere else and leave me alone. I just wish you’d get on with it instead of staying here talking about it so very much. I have stuff to do."
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I have had other commitments so I will not be writing #TheCrux tonight and will do it tomorrow evening.
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I have ranted at subscribers to #TheCrux but also talked a bit about email. It is amazing how resilient email is, really.
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Reference to "blameless postmortems" in #thecrux today:
An ex colleague went off to work for an old neolithic Serious Enterprise, and one of the things he tried to do when he was there was introduce an SRE discipline.
SRE is often thought to be devops, but at organizations of scale it's a bit more than that, performing analysis, projects to improve reliability and scalability. SWEs with a mission and a pager.
Anyway, part of SRE is blameless postmortems, because when shit's fucked up you want to know why so you can fix it. It doesn't much matter who triggered an outage, because the system is supposed to be robust enough to have protections in place that prevent sticky fingers from tearing it down, and ofttimes a blameless postmortem will spend more time interrogating the rigour of those protections than anything else.
So my ex colleague had been doing the SRE thing, building up a team, building up operational experience, getting them embedded into parts of the org that needed them. All going great.
Then he got up to the bit where he was going to introduce blameless postmortems to the Enterprise, and HR popped up, slowly stroked the chin, and, with an eyebrow raised, asked, "What do you mean by `blameless'?"
If shit went sideways, they wanted to be able to blame someone.
After that, ol'mate's organizational support for what he wanted to do virtually evaporated overnight, and there was no more talk of growing an SRE discipline.
And so he left. The end.
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This morning I needed a simple S3-compatible object store to test something. I did some quick searches to see what was handy and useful in that space right now, eventually found SeaweedFS, and it did exactly what I needed ...
And *then* I opened today's issue of The Crux by @daedalus which would have given me this exact answer immediately and saved me a lot of time.
Don't repeat my mistake. Always read The Crux with your morning coffee before you attempt any other work.
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@daedalus Yes, but what a wild set of security holes & leaks you reported in #TheCrux this week.
My favorites:
Microsoft never heard of memory overrun leaks, like Citrix Bleed, so put all saved passwords into clear text in Edge browser at startup.
Japanese hotel check in system put 1 million photos of passports & drivers licences into cloud storage apparently actively made publicly visible. -
I didn't have much to say for #TheCrux this week, so I wrote a silly thing about yak shaving.
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One for you maybe @dgerard that I've including in this week's issue of #TheCrux: some Bitcoin mining outfit called IREN (based in Sydney apparently) just bought OpenStack/Kubernetes/Docker veteran Mirantis: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/infrastructure/iren-buys-mirantis-for-625m-to-unlock-ai-compute-utilization
They have SEC filings https://iren.com/investors/sec-filings showing they mostly lose money mining Bitcoin but have done a pivot to AI because of course they have.
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Writing this week's issue of #TheCrux newsletter, and I think I might start giving out a Security Bandage Award.
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more good news from #TheCrux
"NASA has released the original source code for the #Apollo11 Guidance Computer into the public domain. Now we can all be humbled by what #MargaretHamilton managed to do with less #RAM than a modern USB keyboard."
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#TheCrux - "#France already runs a version of #Ubuntu, called GendBuntu, for its police (Gendarmerie Nationale), and has since 2005."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/
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😆 this is excellent #TheCrux @daedalus
"We take security seriously!!
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from #TheCrux
"I am reminded, once again, of the value of seeking out original texts and reading them. Far too often, the received wisdom of second-hand summaries is frustratingly misleading, if not downright incorrect, and looking up what an author actually wrote is well worth the effort."
just how true is that @daedalus
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"Please enjoy https://100jumps.org" :mylittlepony: thanks @daedalus via #TheCrux ☺️
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from #TheCrux
"Three day weekends are excellent and I think we should have more of them. I am far from alone.
A trial across multiple countries found a four-day work week reduces burnout. The World Economic Forum found four-day work weeks to be good in 2022. There’s also groups that run training courses on how to move your company to a four-day work week and they have a bunch of research also.
Since we’re all about data-driven decision making these days, I guess we’re all moving to adopt four-day work weeks as fast as we can, right? Given all the benefits and the research showing it’s a good thing to do? No?
Apparently it takes around 20 years for research to fight its way out of the dry prose of academic journals and into the wider populace.
A four-day work weeks seems weird only because we’re used to five, but there’s nothing natural about a two-day weekend. It’s remarkable how quickly people adjust to sudden changes in timekeeping, after all. Weeks aren’t real in the way that days are, and yet we make weird and arbitrary changes to how long a day is all the time and call it #daylightsaving.
Maybe we could start calling #fourdayweeks “#weekend saving” and start doing it for six months at a time to get people used to the idea. Once the people closer to the equator figure out what to do with their curtains and cows for half a year, we could suggest that this changing of the week twice a year is silly and we should just move to a permanent four day work week.
Then we can move on to the next goal: the three day work week.
Who’s with me?"
🖐️ man being already a #4dayweek practitioner i am *SO* with you on this @daedalus
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-22/four-day-work-week-health-burnout/105555392
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also from #TheCrux - "NASA released the Starliner Propulsion System Anomalies during the Crewed Flight Test - investigation report last week. It has redactions, but there’s a lot left in.
As reported in #SpaceNews, #NASA Administrator Jared #Isaacman had some blunt words to share during a press conference:
“#Starliner has design and engineering deficiencies that must be corrected, but the most troubling failure revealed by this investigation is not hardware. It’s decision-making and leadership that, if left unchecked, could create a culture incompatible with human spaceflight.”
Politely phrased, but big oof.
agreed @daedalushttps://spacenews.com/starliner-investigation-identifies-flawed-nasa-decision-making
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from this week's #TheCrux
"Samsung TVs will stop spying on people in Texas without their consent. Allegedly.
It is entirely possible for a TV to not spy on you. This used to be a feature of all TVs, in fact, for those too young to recall a time when surveillance of everything everyone was doing all the time was something only repressive authoritarian regimes did. Oh wait.." 😆 @daedalus
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lol thanks #TheCrux @daedalus :skeletonlaugh:
"#Windows11 users (I'm sorry) may like to use this script that removes all the AI features. Well, it tries to, as best as it can, since Microsoft keeps finding new ways to override what you, the purchaser of the product, want the product to do."
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