neurotixz (u/neurotixz)

neurotixz commented on Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO cnbc.com/2024/07/23/googl... · Posted by u/uger

thegrizzlyking · a year ago

Most likely reason is FTC. Wiz integrates with big 4 cloud providers. No way FTC is allowing Google to take control. JD Vance's nomination and support for current FTC chair(Lina Khan) doesn't help.

Current FTC is good(personal opinion) from anti trust point of view but maybe bad for startup exits[0].

[0] https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1812978264484552987

neurotixz · a year ago

Wiz has tons of competitors, and Microsoft is one of them, so are Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Crowstrike, SentinelOne, etc... Wiz is definately a leader but are in no way a monopoly, so I do not see this as an FTC play to stop the deal.

neurotixz commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR

0x800838383 · a year ago

CIO here. They are known to be incredibly pushy. In my company we RFP'd for our endpoint & cyber security. Found the CS salesperson went over me to approach our CEO who is completely non-technical to try and seal a contract because I was on leave for 1 week out of service (and this was known to them). When I found out by our CEO informing me of the approach we were happy to sign with SentinelOne

neurotixz · a year ago

I had a very similar experience, I was leading the selection process for our new endpoint security vendor, Crowdstrike people: - verbally attacked/abused a selection team member - were ranting constantly about golf with our execs - were dismissive and just annoying throughout - raised hell with our execs when they learned they were not going to POC, basically went through everyone of them simultaneously - I had to get a rep kicked out of the rfp as he was constantly disrespectful

We did not pick them, and cancelled any other relashionship we had with them, in IR space by example.

neurotixz commented on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement anildash.com//2024/02/06/... · Posted by u/Tomte

WesleyLivesay · 2 years ago

Having been involved in podcasting for almost a decade now, I take a generally pessimistic view of the future the RSS based distribution system of podcasts. It largely only exists because of decisions made by Apple many many years ago that they have not gone back on. They set their APIs to public which allows a podcaster to submit to Apple and then all of the various podcast distribution platforms can pull in that data to allow you to subscribe to the RSS on their platform. Apple's introduction of Podcast Subscriptions was their first move away from this model (with Apple hosting the audio) and I wouldn't be surprised if they moved to get more control in the future.

When Spotify entered the market they paid a lot of money for exclusive content, but for the 99% of podcasters their interaction with the space was the same as Apple, submit your RSS and it serves it from your hosting. However, Spotify also bought two podcast hosting platforms: Anchor and Megaphone which ends up blurring that line a bit. As far as I know the Anchor/Megaphone hosted podcasts are not treated differently by Spotify, but that could change at any time.

The recent change from Google with the retiring of Google Podcasts in favor of Youtube Music is a tremendous step in the opposite direction. Youtube Music does NOT use the RSS based distribution method, with podcasters uploading their files directly to Youtube. Google even offers an RSS import.

From all of the metrics I have seen the above three platforms make up 80%+ or so of the podcast user base. So if they made changes to make things less open podcast creators would be forced to follow. Making it feel like the openness of podcasts is, at least in 2023, more of an illusion or an act of charity than anything else.

neurotixz · 2 years ago

Im running a very small podcast hosting company, and spotify is NOT a good player in this space. They are not respecting the standard in any way. As an example, instead of linking to the source url, they make their own copy and serve that instead in the app, so the hoster does not see any downloads, cannot do statistics, etc. It also add copy protection... They also do not refresh the original URL regularly or the content, so if a change was made to the file , description or image it will not show up on spotify unless you do some custom stuff (breaking other players).

So the break is already happening in this world...

neurotixz commented on Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework github.com/ocsf... · Posted by u/tmikaeld

neurotixz · 3 years ago

In a nutshell (I have been in Cybersecurity for 18 years...) one key aspect of cybersecurity is to centralize all logs of security (and a few other tools) in a central repository and use that data to identify threats through rules, correlation, ML, analytics or any other means (SIEM space). Also compliance requirements...

Basically every vendor has its own formats, fields and the way to centralize this data (syslog still rules...) and parse it in a common way (a source IP is a source IP in all tech) has been a pain point since forever. There is basically a whole industry around it, and a whole bunch of logstash parsers have been scarificed. Even better is that vendors have a tendency to change format once in a while, so even some you have will break way more often then they should. Many vendors dont see that as an issue as it locks their clients in.

This is another attempt at solving this. It does seem to have traction for once, and nobody wants to piss off Amazon, if they make this a prerequesite to be on their marketplace then it will actually work.

neurotixz commented on Okta Outage status.okta.com/... · Posted by u/hunter2_

nickdothutton · 4 years ago

Auth services need to be engineered for at least five nines if not six. System design fail.

neurotixz · 4 years ago

OKTA SLAs and support terms specifically exclude AWS outages, so why would they?

neurotixz commented on Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days under30experiences.com/bl... · Posted by u/Knajjars

jsjsbdkj · 5 years ago

Quebec gets most of its eletric power from hydroelectric sources (95%), while Ontario gets >60% from nuclear and 26% from hydroelectric. It's wild to compare the breakdown compared to western, oil-rich provinces which are basically 50-50 natural gas and coal-powered.

It's also depressing to see how electricity is a distant third to gas and other petroleum products in terms of energy demand - even though the eletric supply is almost 100% renewabe, all those transport trucks and cars far outweigh it.

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr...

neurotixz · 5 years ago

Based on this page, Quebec is 99.8% renewable.

I can confirm that we have no brown-outs. Also - We have a mix of very cold and warm weather, so are consuming lots of energy for heating in winter. - Hydro-Quebec, state-owned utility has a stellar record for maintenance, coverage and capacity management. It also send money back to the gov to support social programs. - Even with all that our electriciyy cost for consumers,,entre rpsies, and industrial is one of the lowest in the world.

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commoditie...

neurotixz commented on Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022 oxide.computer... · Posted by u/ykl

boulos · 5 years ago

First, congrats!

But second, I'd love to understand the compute vs storage tradeoff chosen here. Looking at the (pretty!) picture [1], I was shocked to see "Wow, it's mostly storage?". Is that from going all flash?

Heading to https://oxide.computer/product for more details, lists:

- 2048 cores

- 30 TB of memory

- 1024 TB of flash (1 PiB)

Given how much of the rack is storage, I'm not sure which Milan was chosen (and so whether that's 2048 threads or 4196 [edit: real cores, 4196 threads]), but it seems like visually 4U is compute? [edit: nope] Is that a mistake on my part, because dual-socket Milan at 128 threads per socket is 256 threads per server, so you need at least 8 servers to hit 2048 "somethings", or do the storage nodes also have Milans [would make sense] and their compute is included [also fine!] -- and so similarly that's how you get a funky 30 TiB of memory?

[Top-level edit from below: the green stuff are the nodes, including the compute. The 4U near the middle is the fiber]

P.S.: the "NETWORK SPEED 100 GB/S" in all caps / CSS loses the presumably 100 Gbps (though the value in the HTML is 100 gb/s which is also unclear).

[1] https://oxide.computer/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Frenders%2...

neurotixz · 5 years ago

Power footprint also confirms that the compute density is pretty low.

We built a few racks of Supermicro AMD servers (4 X computes in 2U), and we load tested it to 23kva peak usage (about 1/2 full with nthat type of nodes only, our DC would let us go further)

Were also over 1 PB of disks (unclear how much of this is redundancy), also in NVMe (15.36 TB x 24 in 2U is a lot of storage...)

Other then that not a bad concept, not sure of a premium they will charge or what will be comparable on price.

neurotixz commented on IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources coindesk.com/ibm-blockcha... · Posted by u/walterbell

zzzeek · 5 years ago

Red Hat employee here. Contrary to your "inserts a bunch of people" characterization, IBM wanted to get into hybrid cloud so they acquired Red Hat in one of the largest tech acquisitions in history, and we create hybrid clouds for our customers. As we are part of IBM now, IBM is in fact providing hybrid cloud to its customers from start to finish in a substantive way. So there's really no comparison to be made to technologies for which IBM has not made substantive investment.

neurotixz · 5 years ago

I'm working on many projects with RedHat, and have heavily dealt with IBM in the past.

I can definitely confirm that the IBM statement is true. Execs signed on many projects, and we were always stuck with a blue pile of unusable garbage at the end. For twice the price orginally agreed to...

Working with RedHat as of today is still, well, working with RedHat. Highly competent people building things that will run well for a long time, and (so far) still at a reasonable cost. I do start to see some changes on pricing (high increases are on the horizon...), and more red tape around things that don't fit in the standard boxes. So i'm trying to decouple some areas from being fully dependant to more standardized/vendor agnostic models to keep options opened (mainly in container space).

neurotixz commented on AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only anandtech.com/show/15910/... · Posted by u/pulse7

tiffanyh · 5 years ago

I firmly believe that TR (with their higher base freq) + ECC would be the ultimate SERVER.

The TR 3970x in particular is amazing for a server. It's 32 core, all running at a base freq of 3.7Ghz. It's amazing to have that kind of high clock with so many cores.

neurotixz · 5 years ago

This is probably part of the reason why it's OEM-only. That way AMD can control where it's used, avoiding it competing with it's own EPYC server chips.

neurotixz commented on CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 for $34B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/waqasaday

dsr_ · 9 years ago

Fiber links are valuable long-term assets, and remaining competitors will generally be happy to buy them from a distressed company.

neurotixz · 9 years ago

Happened here in Canada with Teleglobe. All their assets (mainly buried fiber links) were purchased for cheap by Tata Communication, which has been growing since.