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The other day my friend Chris pinged me on a Twitter thread. Todd Dailey was making the case that digital signage is a huge industry selling bad products with high subscription fees, and that with a $40 e-ink ESP32 board you could just go build your own conference room signage with AI. Fair point. I’d add that the security posture across the industry …
Most leadership advice assumes the problem is information, that a founder stuck in the same pattern has simply not been told the right thing yet. The more interesting question is …
The encryption underpinning modern civilization was never designed to last forever. It was designed to be computationally hard to break with the machines we had. Google's research …
A few weeks ago I wrote up the bash scripts I use to turn Ubuntu cloud images into Proxmox templates and clone them into VMs. The scripts work, but every time I went to spin something up I found myself re-reading the post to remember which env vars to set, which storage pool I’d picked, and which snippet file was the current “good” one. The …
Containers were never designed to be a security boundary, yet we have spent the last decade treating them like one. I'm joined by Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera, to explore …
I’ve been clicking through the Ubuntu installer on Proxmox since 2019 – I even wrote a note to myself back then about the dance. Partition the disk, pick a locale, wait for packages, reboot, SSH in, install the things I always install. Ten minutes per VM, every time. What finally pushed me to fix it was wanting ephemeral Ubuntu VMs for …
Digital sovereignty is becoming an increasingly hot topic, and people are starting to wake up to just how large the premium is for “cloud” versus simply running a few dedicated servers. For me, this is full circle – not in the technology, but in the operational model. I’ve been managing my own servers since I was running FreeBSD jails …
What happens when cybersecurity stops being an afterthought and becomes a legal obligation? In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, I'm joined by Olle Johansson, CycloneDX …