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jajvirta.bsky.social
Ops Engineer at the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yleisradio). Content mostly about platform engineering, software development and related topics.
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 13 days ago • 340 comments

Clarification to all non-Finnish people: we Finns don't go to the sauna and to the hole in the ice ("avanto" in Finnish) in order to get some health benefits. We go to avanto and sauna because it feels good. Before, during and after.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I will be talking at KCD Helsinki about a sticky situation we were in when none of applications could start new Pods on our Kubernetes clusters. I'm so happy that people are organizing a KCD in Finland, for the first time. Thank you people! sessionize.com/view/kn28rz7...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Currently enjoying @guruspod.bsky.social podcast. Somewhat rambly but I think this is what it sounds like when you try to sincerely approach truth. A good example is how they deconstructed Huberman: I now have much better understanding what I found annoying and unsatisfying about Huberman's podcast.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

The most positive feedback you can get in workfile is from off-hand comments that weren't even meant too seriously.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Become 1% smarter every day until you become smart enough to realize that improving 1% at anything every day is impossible.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

It is always a little bit difficult for me to handle when someone whose content you follow is associated with some genuine douchebag.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Two predictive features of the iPhone that are NEVER right: the share link/image thingie and the suggested apps feature. They are astonishingly bad.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

You wake up. It’s 2013. Some language platform has chosen to use an insecure algorithm for its random() function, and HN is blaming the numerous security flaws that resulted from this decision on individual software developers. www.zellic.io/blog/proton-...

submitted 138 days ago • 2 comments

Splitting a task you find disgusting into smaller tasks doesn't make a bit easier: now you just have more tasks you want to avoid.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out neurotypicals have vastly overestimated their ability to detect and interpret emotions in other people. (Our own too, but that's another story.) Who would have guessed.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

One advantage of being a senior engineer is that you are allowed to ask seemingly stupid questions. To which no one usually knows the answer anyhow. Juniors can also ask seemingly stupid questions, but only few of those are the ones to which no one knows the answer.

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

A podcast episode about non-fiction writing starting by mentioning three books & authors that were demolished by @ifbookspod.bsky.social isn't exactly inviting to listen more. It might have been exactly the non-fiction writing tips that lead to publishing utter drivel.

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Dear service providers, don't include the word 'important' in your email subjects. I will decide it myself. Furthermore, 'important email' implies that you also send unimportant emails to me. Please stop doing that. Yes, you too, and especially you, AWS.

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

Is there a movement in cyber security and infosec that resembles the paradigm shift of Safety II vs. Safety I? With some distance to the field, having worked in it for a short period earlier, I think the parallels are obvious. Ie. focusing on what goes right instead of focusing on incidents.

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

Dear Americans, I'll reconsider putting USA in the category of civilized countries once you remove fascists from the leadership positions and start using the metric system. I'll even settle only for the former.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

If you repeatedly tell a colleague some advice and they don't seem to get it or it seems they ignore it, it might be that they just lack the needed context to understand your advice. Once they understand the context, they suddenly become responsive and, in an instant, understand what you were saying

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

While spotting typos and grammar errors in my old skeets, I came back to the idea of monotropic attention tunnels. The point is to create conditions for tunnels to happen, I cannot control them. I _can_ do any task, though sometimes with great struggle, but I'm vastly more productive in a tunnel.

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not harassing you about alt text, man. I just want to be able to read your shit

submitted 153 days ago • 15 comments

My unhealthy attitude towards work has always been that I consider my effort valid if I manage to complete a task. If I don't manage to finish a task, it's as if I hadn't done any work at all and it is not morally justified for me to demand compensation for the hours I've put in.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

The idea that all software developed with taxpayers' money should be open source seems reasonable on the face of it but falls apart if you think about it for more than 15 seconds. 1/

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

A regular reminder that contrary to what some people claim, filtering spam email is NOT a solved problem. Important emails go to spam folder and if you don't want to miss them, you have to go through the spam folder too. At least with gmail.

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

When designing a software system, the best course of action is to acknowledge that you have to make compromises, then decide what compromises you will make and document what are the negative implications of those choices. I know, it's sad, but that's how the world works.

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments