Man based on the recruiter mails I get it is *astonishing* how many AI companies are looking for someone to secure their bare metal servers a significant period of time after they started selling product on them

[mjg59@nondeterministic.computer]

(I have a surprising number of commits to the Linux IPMI code and that shit is apparently catnip to a certain set of recruiters right now)

[freya@social.highenergymagic.net]

@mjg59 fucking hell, where are all these companies, because fucking hell do I need a job. but hahahahaha, employing a blind tranny with no work experience? not. happpening

[creepy_owlet@mastodon.online]

@mjg59 they're in the "break things" phase of "move fast, break things"

[mjg59@nondeterministic.computer]

Seriously this is a market in which you can easily earn over $300k cash and more than $1 million in RSUs that may never be worth anything simply by virtue of understanding anything that happens below the OS, if you have any comprehension of confidential compute those numbers will go up a bunch

[mjg59@nondeterministic.computer]

@freya Largely in the bay area, shockingly (although actually also a bunch in New York that are aiming for financial markets)

[dymaxion@infosec.exchange]

@mjg59
I am not remotely surprised.

[freya@social.highenergymagic.net]

@mjg59 gods, fuck, any of them need a Unix admin or some shit? because fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, living off NZ$293 a week is...... getting a bit much

[freya@social.highenergymagic.net]

@mjg59 I've flatly given up on applying via job application websites...

[mjg59@nondeterministic.computer]

@mxshift Oh yeah to their credit everyone I've talked to here is absolutely fine with swapping out what the management plane looks like

[mjg59@nondeterministic.computer]

@Darius "We should not poll at 1KHz when the BMC has told us it can send an IRQ when there's something we should care about" is not a heavy lift

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@mjg59

Does the data centre have power yet?

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@mjg59
I might be in comfortable enough unemployment to say “lol, eat shit and die” to such offers.

[hughsie@mastodon.social]

@mxshift @mjg59 I've started calling it "redfish" as it seems like a very leaky abstraction from a fwupd point-of-view... every vendor has some slightly different quirk it seems.

[penguin42@mastodon.org.uk]

@mjg59 I bet AIs just love walking around IPMI connections when they're frustrated at not being able to get their data the obvious way.

[aura@social.problematic.solutions]

@mjg59 ah, my favorite meeting i was accidentally in: managed kubernetes cluster broke on large hyperscaler, we get called into a meeting way outside our (EU) timezone, "sorry our confidential compute toggle didn't work 6 months ago and we killed your cluster trying to [silently] fix it. by the way did you know you signed an NDA with us?"

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@mjg59 @freya I got a cold email from SpaceX last month because I won a CTF a few years ago

[barometz@social.treehouse.systems]

@creepy_owlet @mjg59 move fast, things broken?? mods??

[idlestate@toot.cat]

@mjg59

(me, looking at the Nth iteration of "this one trick will replace/fix the problem with passwords.")

I don't know why this would be different than myriad previous Internet businesses that ask us to entrust important parts of our lives to tremendous piles of jank.

[amarioguy@social.treehouse.systems]

@mxshift @mjg59 mildly curious, wonder what the “gold standard” of BMC interfaces should be?

Legit question, i’ve only ever seen enterprise systems with IPMI, so i have no idea what makes a BMC interface good or not

asking so that i have an actual frame of reference for what BMC management interfaces should be striving for in practice

[nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems]

@mjg59 why don't they simply make the AI secure the servers smh