Guess I was wrong about the fridges being hacked earlier this week — looks like Sainsbury rolled out some new self-serve tills instead
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Someone Turned Europe’s Supermarket Freezers Up to 50°C
Overnight into Monday 2 November, someone went into the refrigeration controls of supermarkets across Europe and turned the cold off. Stores in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia and several other countries were hit, with individual chains reporting anything from a single site to several dozen. Some pulled chilled and frozen stock from shelves; others threw it away.
This morning on the way into work, the Sainsbury’s in the station near where I work had its doors closed and a sign saying “due to technical issues we will be open at 07:30”. I wonder whether it is related to this.
Source: The Hacker News — New Wave of Refrigeration Cyberattacks Hits Supermarkets Across Europe.
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LearJet
Wow, didn’t think I’d see this. A plane crashes into the ground like a missile, doing 20,000 feet per minute speed.
Word of warning before watching, it contains the last words of the pilot on the plane. It makes for uncomfortable watching (and listening)
VASAviation who do animations overlaid with ATC audio pieced together the final minutes of this crash and you can see how quickly things changed.
A podcast episode from the NTSB News Talk podcast was also released:
EDIT: 2nd Nov. VASAviation put another video up showing the same plane in May landing at Teterboro in Severe Turbulence
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Terraform and Tofu
The fallout continues.
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Terra-fork
Okay, so I swiped the headline from the video, but it’s pretty much a given.
Further to my previous blog entry about Hashicorp’s decision to change Terraform’s license, I mentioned how the OpenTF Initiative put a choice to Hashicorp: change the license back or we will fork Terraform.
Unsurprisingly, Hashicorp didn’t comply, so now Terraform has (or will be) forked as OpenTF at https://github.com/opentffoundation
This story has been covered in several places including The Register and several videos on YouTube including a nice short summary by Fireship
If the fork goes ahead, I’m curious as to whether Hashicorp sees it as a competition and goes after the foundation, but if it does, what little reputation Hashicorp has left in the OSS community will be nigh on destroyed.
Meanwhile, I’m going to continue playing with Pulumi in case the OpenTF doesn’t work, gets blocked or if we need another alternative.
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Google Domains and Terraform
Two major updates recently
Firstly, as suspected, I finally got the notification saying that Google Domains’ registrations would be acquired by SquareSpace so all my registrations would be transferred over them should I not do anything. Obviously, I didn’t want that, so I transferred them over to AWS (Route 53) so now my domains are registered with AWS, but are DNS managed by Cloud DNS. I had some weirdness when trying to migrate all my domains in bulk, with respect to the auth code not being accepted on one of the domains when doing the bulk migration, but it was accepted when I did the migration on that one domain alone, so… go figure.
Next update is Terraform. In case you didn’t know, Hashicorp has changed the Terraform license and essentially made it no longer open source. This behaviour is similar to what Red Hat did with its RHEL offering and the backlash is just as bad.
Immediately I knew someone would fork it, and already, there’s the OpenTF Initiative and this is the key part:
Our request to HashiCorp: switch Terraform back to an open source license.
We ask HashiCorp to do the right thing by the community: instead of going forward with the BUSL license change, switch Terraform back to a truly open source license, and commit to keeping it that way forever going forward. That way, instead of fracturing the community, we end up with a single, impartial, reliable home for Terraform where the whole community can unite to keep building this amazing ecosystem.
Our fallback plan: fork Terraform into a foundation.
If HashiCorp is unwilling to switch Terraform back to an open source license, we propose to fork the legacy MPL-licensed Terraform and maintain the fork in the foundation. This is similar to how Linux and Kubernetes are managed by foundations (the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, respectively), which are run by multiple companies, ensuring the tool stays truly open source and neutral, and not at the whim of any one company.
OpenTF Initiative (https://opentf.org/)
Essentially, make Terraform open source again, or a fork from the MPL version will be made and maintained separately from Hashicorp’s version. This will essentially lead to two, potentially diverging versions of Terraform, one BUSL and one MPL licensed
I’m already looking at alternatives and the two currently that I’m looking at are Ansible and Pulumi
Ansible I’ve had experience in , but there’s two main issues with it:
- It’s underused compared to Terraform and the providers are woefully undersupported and undermaintained
- It’s Red Hat
Pulumi I’ve heard lots of good things about, but its a new technology, and I don’t know if it is can “Import” existing infrastructure.
Guess a “spike” is worth doing for it.
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Coronation and Linux
This weekend was the coronation of King Charles III, the first new monarch for most of the people in the UK. Some may have been alive for the late Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation but the are few now.
I was working coronation support cover on the Saturday from around 6:30am to about 3pm. Fortunately no major issues. One alert towards the tail end of the day, but that was about it.
Sunday were the street parties. Our local one was relatively small compared to the one during the Jubilee celebrations. Was great for the local kids though, and the weather was perfect for it.
Monday is a Bank Holiday so no-one was working in the London office, although the other offices were still working.
I chose today to retry doing my Manjaro file copy, and again it failed with checksum errors when I tried to back it up (even the btrfs check didn’t manage to fix it)
I guess I’ll have to restart my Manjaro attempts and not use btrfs — probably return to using ext4 and lvm.
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Poor Article Wording
This article popped up on my Google News feed and the first thing that caught my eye was the fact the headline mentions they were sacked, but the subheading says “affected due to layoffs”
Laying someone off is not the same as sacking them. As someone at work explained: sacking someone is when you keep the role but do away with the person; layoff is when you do away with the role, but (sometimes) keep the person. These workers were laid off since they also got severance pay. Something you’d never get if you were fired.
In fact, this article may get the writer and the publication in trouble. Being fired has a far more negative impact on your career than being laid off so anyone of those 140 workers trying to get jobs elsewhere may find it harder to get a new job if their prospective employers do a basic internet search and find this article that implies (incorrectly) that they got sacked.
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Twitter, TFL and Dilbert
It’s been a while so here’s a few updates in the meantime
It’s coming up to a year since I moved house and only now have the pile of construction rubbish been moved from outside my old flat. Dumping of rubbish by the neighbours in the adjoining block of flats into the garage is still happening.
Conservatives lost control of the area to Labour but I’m seeing absolutely no change
We went through a period of very cold weather (-6degC) and this was costing us £10-£15 per day in gas usage.
Moving onto other updates. As posted previously, I went into hospital to remove a lump from my mouth. I’ll soon get a follow up call from the doctor to check how I’m doing. Stitches took about 10 days to dissolve. I just have a small white patch there now where the lump was removed and the doctor cauterised the wound.
Twitter has descended into a real s**thole since Elon took over. First killing all third-party clients and then indicating it may start charging for API usage.
The third-party client purge I can tolerate — it was originally started during the Jack era, but charging for API usage, or even limiting tweets per day is not something many people will accept.
I started working on stripping out twitter functionality from my TFL updates bot and that’s near enough done now. It now tweets (or should that be toots) into a Mastodon account at https://mastodon.xyz/users/updatesbf
RSS feed functionality should still work, but it is not enabled yet, until I can get Keda to work.
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Australia to require social media to ‘unmask trolls’ • The Register
A step in the right direction
Australia to require social media to ‘unmask trolls’ • The Register
