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  • Depends where you live but it's usually always best for you to wait for the company to terminate you. But definitely start lining up other options and if something feels good, go for it.

    In my country you get severance pay which will keep you going for 3 to 6 months until you find a new job.

  • We are made of star stuff, just like rocks, but we are curious and can learn. We are a way for the universe to know itself. We process matter with our industry and our digestive systems.

    Just like a spider knows how to spin a web without being taught, we carry instinctual knowledge, but we also carry cultural knowledge from our life experiences. We are like organic computers. Emotions are a different way to solve problems when our logic fails.

  • Our problems with VMs on Azure were:

    • The Azure Linux Agent incrementing versions and breaking stuff.
    • The availability zone becoming over utilized and our non reserved VM clusters fail to start up.
    • Changes to Azure automation runbooks breaking scripts and schedules. (unrelated to the stuff they warned about)
    • Azure invisible proxy terminating ssh sessions as inactive while doing long running tasks and having to use the awful serial console.
  • We take a cloud agnostic approach to systems development so we have flexibility. Our team is quite small and we use Manageengine for patching servers and Atera for patching users systems. We only use a few cloud native services like AWS event bridge, load balancers, S3, Lambda, Azure DNS, Azure storage, Azure App service. But if needed we could pull any one of those and move to an open source solution without too much fuss. The red tape comes from exec level and their appetite for risk. For some reason they think cloud is more stable than our own servers. But we had to move VMs off Azure because of instability!

  • Yeah we were hit hard by the cost projections. It really sucks. But HCI stack from MS remains even more expensive. We have decided to bring as much as we can in house and only put the workloads that have strict contractual uptime agreements on our VMware or HCI stack. The rest of the stuff goes on KVM or bare metal to save costs.

  • IMO if you are using a companies VPN then the larger the company, the more chance it's data is being exfiltrated. Looking at you Nord.

    If you know how to host your own then your risk goes dramatically down. Although for anonymity you should choose a cloud that you don't need to give your personal info to. Good luck with that.

    This is why criminals rely on hacked devices. No credit card needed.

    If you are simply torrenting some media then no one is looking at you anyway. Pretty much any VPN or location would be fine for that.

    Your security posture should relate to your risk.