Victor Allen

Ramblin' Wreck. Soft power advocate. Solutions provider @OracleCloud, former @IBM, @CioxHealth, @PublicDiplomacy. @MilWritersGuild member. he/him/they

[Linus @thesephist]

Made a little CLI that just pipes my programming questions to GPT-3, so I now can ask it stuff when I'm in the command line!

LLMs are better than Stack Overflow now — I just ask it, and it gives me a comprehensive answer in one shot, right there in my terminal, in a couple secs.

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

HOLY DIVAH

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

Next up, @oraclecloud. They changed quadrants!

The first strength is their improvement to the model. I agree; dedicated regions on customer premises? Genius approach.

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

@istram @QuinnyPig @awscloud @googlecloud @Azure @OracleCloud quite real - run any db you like!

[Kyleanne Hunter, PhD @KyleanneHunter]

Please consider participating!

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

Big Blue gonna Big Blue

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

I'm still stunned in 2022 at just how completely and effectively @RedHat removed themselves from the Linux in the Cloud conversation by rugpulling CentOS's support lifetime.

https://t.co/YFN6l2Ofuz

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

Coming soon: cloud atomization

[Todd Hoff @[email protected] @toddhoffious]

Is there anything new in the cloud? I finished Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 in 2017. It has over 390 reviews and I've wanted to update it, but I don't think anything has really changed that much in 5 years. At least for beginners. Is that wrong?

[Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza]

Microsoft and other companies should stop hiring in Texas and assist folks to relocate elsewhere.

[Jérôme Petazzoni @jpetazzo]

I predict that in the near future, there will be a significant uptick in market adoption for Oracle Cloud.

Why?

Because @badtux_ and @LINUXtipsBR run #BondeDoOCI, a free series of conferences/courses/streams to teach Oracle Cloud using their generous free tier.

...So what?
👇🏻

[Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD]

October: White House ditches plan to send everyone covid tests
Dec 7: Psaki “Should we just send one to every American?”
Dec 21: Biden "We’ll be getting these tests to Americans for free."
Jan 18: https://t.co/IfYVISLfRl, provided no one else at your building has ordered yet

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

Cc @datrnq et al

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

You realize your IT department is depriving thousands of people of their limited lifetimes in short increments every moment of every day they try to do anything for your firm. You're stabbing them in the back and you're stabbing yourself in the face. It's bad, isn't it. Yeah.

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

Always the right move.

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

Google moving its own products to Google Cloud is *extremely* good news for @googlecloud customers. Really interested to see this unfold.

[Oracle Cloud @OracleCloud]

#OCI enthusiasts, we’re extending the free #certification offer until February 28! https://t.co/JnNGq45dyv

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

I'm now actively concerned about how Googlers pronounce "SIEM" internally.

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

*everyone else’s regional approach

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

"Summary: Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking" This is *exactly* what I mean when I call out Google's global control plane (vs. AWS's regional approach) as a potential liability, despite some Very Smart People arguing the point.

https://t.co/aJal9EVqaC

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

If you’re thinking about activating the plan, you should activate the plan.

Tripwires help here.

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

"If an outage lasts more than ten minutes, it's likely to last for hours." Yup. Usually related to electric power, but this is a good rule of thumb for "do we activate our DR plan" decisions.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Wet Ass Firewall

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

@inatamiima @QuinnyPig OCI free tier ain’t bad, won’t charge you

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

@JECurtis_WA We’re adopting, so not directly, but yeah - she’s coming home with us tomorrow.

[Victor Allen @TheVictorAllen]

Good morning