<![CDATA[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]]>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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/1b95802c-f82c-436c-b278-55185cb55108/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-themRSS for NodeMon, 05 Oct 2026 13:34:39 GMTTue, 29 Sep 2026 08:36:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:54:52 GMT]]>@mjg59 can't their AI do it for them, thought it was the solution to everything.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/patterfloof/statuses/117355137734052048https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/patterfloof/statuses/117355137734052048Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:54:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:44:55 GMT]]>@mjg59 why don't they simply make the AI secure the servers smh

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/nicolas17/statuses/117354862682599113https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/nicolas17/statuses/117354862682599113Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:44:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:46:36 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/amarioguy/statuses/117354397455161660https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/amarioguy/statuses/117354397455161660Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:46:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:45:01 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/idlestate/statuses/117354391214933275https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/idlestate/statuses/117354391214933275Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:45:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:27:41 GMT]]>@creepy_owlet @mjg59 move fast, things broken?? mods??

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/barometz/statuses/117354323098302306https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/barometz/statuses/117354323098302306Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:27:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:36 GMT]]>@mjg59 @freya I got a cold email from SpaceX last month because I won a CTF a few years ago

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/users/artemist/statuses/117354216616724807https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/users/artemist/statuses/117354216616724807Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:43:51 GMT]]>@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?"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.problematic.solutions/ap/users/117214515675820935/statuses/117354150728166080https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.problematic.solutions/ap/users/117214515675820935/statuses/117354150728166080Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:43:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:43:26 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/penguin42/statuses/117354149058418026https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/penguin42/statuses/117354149058418026Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:43:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:42:40 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/hughsie/statuses/117353674242212977https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/hughsie/statuses/117353674242212977Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:42:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:23:45 GMT]]>@mjg59
I might be in comfortable enough unemployment to say “lol, eat shit and die” to such offers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dzwiedziu/statuses/117353599833908080https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dzwiedziu/statuses/117353599833908080Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:23:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:12:14 GMT]]>@mjg59

Does the data centre have power yet?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SpaceLifeForm/statuses/117353554572967714https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SpaceLifeForm/statuses/117353554572967714Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:12:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:55:00 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353486766601392https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353486766601392Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:55:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:53:50 GMT]]>@mxshift Oh yeah to their credit everyone I've talked to here is absolutely fine with swapping out what the management plane looks like

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353482221334331https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353482221334331Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:53:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:51:47 GMT]]>@mjg59 I've flatly given up on applying via job application websites...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/117353474151821250https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/117353474151821250Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:51:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:51:30 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/117353472984613565https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/117353472984613565Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:51:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:45:32 GMT]]>@mjg59
I am not remotely surprised.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/dymaxion/statuses/117353449530983105https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/dymaxion/statuses/117353449530983105Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:45:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:40:39 GMT]]>@freya Largely in the bay area, shockingly (although actually also a bunch in New York that are aiming for financial markets)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353430343093445https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353430343093445Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:40:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:39:50 GMT]]>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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353427132038728https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353427132038728Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:39:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:39:02 GMT]]>@mjg59 they're in the "break things" phase of "move fast, break things"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/creepy_owlet/statuses/117353424004656997https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/creepy_owlet/statuses/117353424004656997Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:39:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:38:37 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/117353422331512377https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.highenergymagic.net/ap/users/116201069828972775/statuses/117353422331512377Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:38:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:37:26 GMT]]>(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)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353417679695343https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nondeterministic.computer/users/mjg59/statuses/117353417679695343Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:37:26 GMT