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Viktor Petersson
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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 …
Leadership Coaching for Founders: Why Knowing Better Is Not Enough with Ed Ley
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 …
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Rethinking Trust Before the Clock Runs Out with David Pollak
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 …
proxmox-imgctl: A Single Rust Binary for Proxmox Cloud Image Templates
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 …
Container Security Runtime: Rethinking Isolation with Alex Zenla
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 …
Ubuntu Cloud Images on Proxmox
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 …
Leaving the Cloud (Again)
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 …
SBOMs & CRA Compliance with Olle Johansson and Anthony Harrison
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 …