Tetsuo

My best friend recently told me :

“Did you see the image of the original moon landing ? It looks so so fake”

I was shocked. An engineer with supposedly a scientific background was starting to take on conspiracy theories.

I just said that the moon landing was not fake and that it would have been impossible to fake something on this scale and that there was plenty of documentation about the Apollo mission online.

But I feel sad because it’s obvious his social network interactions online are pushing him toward very toxic content.

It shouldn’t have such deep consequences…

Your whole SSN system is absolutely crazy bad and I still can’t believe “security” and SSN should be allowed in the same sentence.

But a wild cat wouldn’t attack a full grown tuna. As any predator in the wild they would go for the baby tuna.

I guess it depends.

For you it might be a blessing. For someone that isn’t comfortable with computers in general that may be very intimidating.

Also this process of going full linux might takes years.

And finally a job is a little more than the tools provided. I worked on linux system in said public administrations and they suffer almost always from very very limited budgets. The cyber security culture is almost non existent. The fear of change is prevalent everywhere. Leadership changes his mind all the time for major IT projects.

So it’s absolutely not rosy.

So for now this is the first step toward sovereignty and much less expensive systems but this will be a very painful process.

Veritasium did a video about credit card payment and NFC payment :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJY3DvnybE

I think it’s a good opportunity to understand the capabilities and weakness of NFC.

I personally think QR codes are not very secure as anybody could replace it by a malicious one.

In what country ?

And he lost the case obviously…

I think you choose a poor example.

When I say long name I wasn’t implying meaningless ones.

Most business with a lot of machines uses long names where everything as a logical meaning.

[Site][service][Rack][User selected 8 chars name]

I mean you dont have to use such obtuse names. But if you have a lot of servers you have to have a long name or you will risk exhausting the available names.

I’m just saying long names dont have to be obtuse or confusing. You can use user selected names as a suffix to a more functional initial prefix. So that people who work this area of the infrastructure can have clear names but at the same time some other sys admin that never worked on it can still know where and who is responsible of the server.

My initial point is just that the namespace and length of hostnames mostly depends on what you want to do. For a homelab you dont need wide namespace. But for a large business using short names wouldn’t be practical either.

In a business with tens of thousands of servers, it makes sense to have long complicated names.

For a homelab ? Not really.