Nice, this is like SadServers with a twist, excellent :-)
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Suerte! Unrelated, growing up in Spain it always baffled me that identification was based on a photo on your DNI. Stories of siblings or even friends that had a passing resemblance to each other sharing DNIs was a common story.
This is not a new or novel idea. I proposed such a thing at the start of my career in tech, and repeatedly propose it when I feel I have ears willing to listen.
The problem - and I do mean the problem, the only problem - is the threat this poses to power dynamics in the organization.
Compliance people do not benefit from their outputs being readily searchable and indexed like this, because it means there’s less need for them. Executives and leaders do not benefit from this, because they’re increasingly hired specifically because of their knowledge of various compliance frameworks. The people whose power derives from this knowledge and expertise are overwhelmingly the people in charge of the company and its operations, and they benefit more from blocking it outright than implementing it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love this idea. I love transparency in organizations, because it makes it infinitely easier to identify and remediate problems beyond silo walls. It’s peak cooperation, and I am all for it.
I also do not see it happening at scale while competition is considered the default operating mode of society at large. That said, I would love to work for an organization placing importance on this degree of internal cooperation. I suspect I’d thrive there.
> This is not a new or novel idea
Without sharing too many spoilers... I solved the challenge but the check script was unhappy. The curl commands in the script worked fine, the earlier parts of the script failed, i.e. it didn't like how I'd decided to make that work.
This kind of thing annoys me. This is why CTFs are great, where the goal is to get the flag string. Obviously harder to do for sysadmin, but expecting a particular configuration when I managed to make it work without doing things exactly as they wanted is no better than a poorly written exam.
hello, thanks for the feedback. Just deployed a new image that only checks for the objective, not at what docker network somebody uses.
It is hard to have a checker that eliminates both false positives and false negatives in general, but we always try to minimize false negatives and we failed initially here.
I wonder if we could get something like that for k8s, docker and other container ecosystem
Hello, SadServers guy here.
We have scenarios running on k8s, both on single VMs (the ones you can see in the scenario list) and we also have a beta/PoC k8s cluster where we currently run a couple of scenarios as single pod (a docker container) or as a full system (the "kubernetes playgrounds", which is kind of hidden while we test it).
Is this what you were wondering? we do have pending to introduce podman scenarios as well
I absolutely love the sadservers. Can’t wait for windows version.
(Creator here) thanks! and we may at some point get into Windows :-)
It would be cool if we could SSH into the temporary host (I'm guessing these hosts currently aren't internet connected to avoid abuse so might not be possible or require some super careful firewalling)
Hello, SadServers guy here. Free VMs are sandboxed (no way in or out other than coming in through the proxy) for security reasons. Paid accounts have VMs with internet access and SSH access (and your pub key is added to all VMs for convenience)
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Checking out how the platform works was two clicks away: home -> give me a server.
I don't know of any other SaaS which gives you a VM with one click without any registration but we do it.
In any case thanks for the feedback, I've put a button on this /advent page for clarity, cheers
imagine typing in a terminal...
you want to delete the previous word so press ctrl+w...
actually you're in a browser; the window closes...
hello, creator here, sorry about that. In this case you can click again on the "Open the Server Terminal in a New Window" button