Disclosure: I'm CTO at Fleet. One of the biggest challenges is the vendor lock-in that results from the way the MDM systems work (particularly on macOS). In typical MDM solutions you don't own the keys and can't manage migrations without direct interaction from every end user. We expect Broadcom to milk this friction while they can.
Readit Newszwass commented on Acquisitions lead to struggles for Windows and Linux device management 9to5mac.com/2024/01/24/fl... · Posted by u/freddier
zwass commented on Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution computerworld.com/article... · Posted by u/freddier
Disclaimer: I'm the CTO
One of my favorite things about this is that we are bringing a GitOps workflow to IT teams. As a software engineer myself, seeing change management and CI coming to other domains within the organization is incredibly exciting!
Source code for Fleet is available at https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet.
zwass commented on Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN? · Posted by u/paulgb
https://github.com/jameslawlor/reddit-playlists
I made a bot last summer to generate and update weekly Spotify playlists from 100 or so music subreddits based on the top submissions of that week. Update operates entirely through a GitHub action so no resource spending.
I don’t often finish my side projects so was pretty happy to have something finally usable and shareable, it’s been fun showing friends!
Super cool! It would be great if the description field had a link to the subreddit and a link to the master list.
zwass commented on Fully automated indoor grower: Grow fresh produce on demand indiegogo.com/projects/gr... · Posted by u/royjulien
This is an interesting looking product. I grew lettuces using the Kratky method in cheap plastic bins and some standard shelving units, which was relatively low effort and had tremendous results at about 25% the cost of this unit (but much less stylish). This looks like a decent intro guide on Kratky: https://www.trees.com/gardening-and-landscaping/the-gratky-m...
zwass commented on Pretend Stanford student lived in dorms for 10 months stanforddaily.com/2022/10... · Posted by u/jaboutboul
There was a similar instance of a fake student living on Stanford campus about 20 years ago. I wonder if this is common among elite schools, or if Stanford has some special draw?
zwass commented on Show HN: Write Words on Your GitHub Contributions Heatmap blog.randombits.host/writ... · Posted by u/conor_f
Fun! I kept thinking about doing this. Love your idea to use the dot-matrix tool. Maybe next a GitHub action to keep it updated and/or change it over time?
Fleet | Remote (Worldwide, Americas Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote | https://fleetdm.com
Fleet is building an open future for device management. Open APIs you can use from anywhere. Transparency for end-users. Trust built on an open-core foundation.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager on our Agent team. This position will be responsible for managing the engineers and strategy for:
- Osquery across Windows, macOS, and Linux. - Fleet's agent update system based on The Update Framework. - Fleet Desktop (Desktop application for user notifications and self-remediation). - MDM features.
Join our team of friendly and competent engineers to expand our 100% source-available (github.com/fleetdm/fleet) endpoint management product. We work closely with the osquery community, and have both paying customers and open-source users from organizations you’ve heard of. We’re backed by CRV and Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab).
This role will report directly to me (CTO), please reach out with any questions: zach[at]fleetdm.com
zwass commented on Show HN: Distributed SQLite on FoundationDB github.com/losfair/mvsqli... · Posted by u/losfair
I love the idea of distributed SQLite but I’m having a hard time understanding which parts of FoundationDB and which parts of SQLite are available in this implementation.
I’m guessing virtual table extensions work with this since you’re just replacing the storage engine? So we could in theory use FTS5 and even OSQuery and other extensions right?
However since this is using FoundationDB I’m also guessing we can’t use this as a serverless embedded DB since since you’ll probably need a foundation db cluster to use this. Is that right?
So if I understand correctly this is a SQLite query engine on top of FoundationDB with distributed transactions and we can theoretically use SQLite ecosystem stuff like FTS5 and datasette on top of it.
(I'm on the osquery steering committee)
In theory osquery is "just" virtual tables, but in practice there's quite a bit more that would probably make attaching it to mvsqlite. If you have a use case in mind I would love to know!
zwass commented on · Posted by u/franciso
For folks who have announced funding rounds, how common have you found these kind of attacks?