I haven't touched an HP switch in an age, but a large chunk of the switch market is owned by Broadcom chips, and most of the vendors take the Broadcom reference OS (based on Linux) and just put their branding and spin on it. There's a Cisco IOS-ish CLI, and then some will let you access a little more of the under-the-hood Linux (like the FiberStore datacenter switches I've used recently have some level of python installed although I haven't messed with it).

Realtek has been getting a foothold at the lower end, and I think their reference OS is also Linux based.

Juniper has been moving to Linux over time. They started with a lot of customizations in their FreeBSD that always made it hard for them to rebase to a new upsteam release and to support new hardware (like they had issues with PowerPC CPU SMP support, so the MX80 and MX104 had multiple cores but JUNOS only ever used one).

Instead they've been basing a lot on Linux (Wind River Linux distro IIRC). The move is two-fold: they've been running Linux on the hardware and their FreeBSD-derived JUNOS in a VM on a lot of platforms, plus in parallel they've been porting their whole system to Linux as JUNOS Evolved.

Who knows what HP will do with all of that though... probably have to pay license fees for every new SFP you plug in (and go back to vendor-locking optics).

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

Ugh, thinking about on-hold music brought back the old BellSouth Business Repair (800-247-2020) hold tune. I don't think I've called that number in 25 years (looks like AT&T still uses it for reporting line trouble)... the fact that I still know the number AND CAN HEAR THE TUNE shows just how much time I spent with it in the late 1990s.

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

Building a Linux distribution requires a fair amount of infrastructure, and that's something that's pretty different from distro to distro (and not all make all the necessary tooling public). Changing to a different base distro would most likely require a significant rework, and may be more than someone, especially someone who has mastered the intricacies of one distro's tooling, wants to do.

I see zero evidence of this. I HEAR it all the time in articles like this, but as far as people I work with or code I experiment with myself using AI, AI has proven to be maybe break-even for very simple, limited-domain things (basically the rough equiv of looking up an answer on stackexchange), and far worse than nothing when doing complex system design (during which I spend so much time shaking out the plausible-sounding but ultimately-bullshit answers that I net lose time).

I know I'm just an anecdote and a small sample base, but I do this for a living, and I don't see anything approaching the benefit that such articles spin.

Ask yourself: if it's so easy to use, where are all the apps written by your neighbors, and the local firemen, and the grocery store folks, and so on?

Email, chat, post, and websurf like it will be used against you... whether read aloud in court, used to deny insurance, loans, and jobs, or fed to AI to make the case that you're likely to commit crimes and need to be pre-emptively locked up.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

This is how I've come to understand it. I welcome any and all corrections.

Passkeys are a cryptographic key stored in a Secure Element. This is usually a private key inside a small cryptographic engine. You feed it some plaintext along with the key ID, and it encrypts it using that key. The outer software then decrypts the ciphertext using the public key. If the decrypted text matches the original plaintext, then that proves you're holding a valid private key, and authentication proceeds.

The private key can be written to and erased from the Secure Element, but never read back out. All it can do is perform operations using the secret key to prove that it is indeed holding the correct secret key.

On phones, the Secure Element is in the hardware of your handset. On PCs, this is most often the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip. In both cases, the platform will ask for your PC's/phone's password/fingerprint/whatever before forwarding the request to the Secure Element.

Yubikeys can also serve as a Secure Element for Passkeys; the private key is stored in the Yubikey itself. Further, the Yubikey's stored credentials may be further protected with a PIN, so even if someone steals your Yubikey, they'll still need to know the PIN before it will accept and perform authentication checks. You get eight tries with the PIN; after that, it bricks itself.

The latest series 5 Yubikeys can store up to 100 Passkeys, and Passkeys may be individually deleted when no longer needed. Older series 5 Yubikeys can store only 25 Passkeys, and can only be deleted by erasing all of them.

Theoretically, you can have multiple Passkeys for a given account (one for everyday access; others as emergency backups). Not all sites support creating these, however.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

Incorrect response - some manager will believe that THEIR meeting is SO important that it's worth paying for (and you said it's fine if they pay). Even if they pay time-and-a-half for extra time, it's still almost certainly not worth the intrusion into your life... living a life outside of work is worth more than some extra $$.

Which, that's kind of a privileged point of view, because I've never needed to work more than one office-hours job to survive. I've been on-call, but that's kind of a necessity in my line of work (systems and networks for small ISPs and other Internet companies). I've never worked for a company large enough to have a 24x7 high-level staff (and I probably wouldn't enjoy being in that large of an organization).

It's not all of them. One thing that tends to happen with a major outage is everybody treats downdetector.com as the gospel truth. Then end users try to make their own reports, and don't even know what service they're trying to connect to (like reporting Netflix is down when they try to load Hulu). Then lazy news services just pick up downdetector results and publish stories, which are then picked up and copied by other news services.

What's known: GCP (Google Cloud Platform, not to be confused with Google Actual Cloud Platform) has experienced a major outage. It affected some Google services as well as a lot of customer services. CloudFlare had a significant outage at the same time, although it looks like mostly just that CF's systems got backed up and overloaded trying to talk to the GCP-hosted customers.

I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.