kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@rune@mastodon.nzoss.nz @sir

You're not really solving the problem this way. Yes, using Docker you can technically run a packaged application forever.

But as a long-time penetration tester and security engineer I assure, you don't *want* to an application packaged in say 2015 to be anywhere even close to any production environment today due to a whole shitload of critical vulnerabilities that were discovered in libraries packaged along with it since.

@sir

Fully agree, I had a whole presentation on DevOpsStage last year ranting about crappy false sense of security and complexity introduced by #docker

Slides https://www.slideshare.net/kravietz/top-devops-security-failures

Video https://scitech.video/videos/watch/2a754571-5c72-42e6-8fe0-4b71de70674f

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/sputnik-coronavirus-could-be-designed-to-kill-elderly-italians/

#COVID19

@thor Well, I just finished deploying latest code and heading to bed (02:57 here)

@Wetrix Title sounds a bit class B 🙄 I've just watched The Decline (2020), very much matches the current situation 😂

@Wetrix Oh no, the best way to describe weather in the UK is that it's a bit like in mountains - changing frequently, sometimes to the best sometimes to the worst. If it's raining or foggy in the morning, it may be perfectly sunny from the noon on. It has some advantages over weather on the continent, where you can have 2 weeks of non-stop rain or non-stop sun, equally exhausting.

@CyberSocialist

Now I'm genuinely curious about your motives, as you seem to be fiercely defending *lack* of any social reforms in Cuba.

Do you have some business with their government by any chance?

Or are you of those "they are happy and should continue building socialism" Walter Duranty type folks?

@CyberSocialist

Why not start from removing the illegal and immoral restrictions Cubans *can* control themselves in the first place?

Otherwise it really sounds only like a pretext *not* to change the status quo.

@CyberSocialist

Do you know how USSR expands exactly?

@CyberSocialist

Obviously, in 1989 there was tons of whining by party officials (what if everyone leaves?), Western racists (what if we're flooded by these communist savages?) and especially Western intellectuals, my favourite:

"they should stay in their country and build socialism!"

It all settled down, everyone benefited in the end.

@CyberSocialist

Once again, back in 1989 it was a single legal act by then (still) communist government of Poland that decriminalised (!) private trade that resolved all shortages and it happened literally overnight (same for travel).

There's *nothing* preventing Cuban government from saying "hey, from tomorrow you can open private firms, open a newspaper and get a passport for travel abroad".

If they're so "proud of their country" as you say, most of them will come back, won't they?

@CyberSocialist

It's the same level of naivety as people thinking that if we remove sanctions on USSR they will stop brutally killing workers who dared to strike (Novocherkassk '68), occupying Eastern Europe countries and putting people to prison for reading poems or selling home-grown cucumbers to neighbours.

Go, remove sanctions on Kim or Ramzan Kadyrov, so that both can buy more western luxury cars for their collections, but do you really think they will stop enslaving people?

@CyberSocialist

So the problem is not me "refusing to focus on US sanctions", it's you taking them as an exclusive reason for poor life in Cuba.

You're trying to imply that if US removes sanctions against Cuba, the country will suddenly grow decent economy and people will enjoy freedoms.

But... this actually happened! US has softened sanctions on Cuba on numerous occasions (last 2016) and nothing really changed, except for Castro family being able to travel more and buy more US cars.

@CyberSocialist

1. US imposed sanctions for a reason. Cuba ignores them.
2. Sanctions are not absolute. Cuba trades with EU *and* with US.

Now forget sanctions, it's 100% choice of Cuban regime to:

3. Stick to a weird mix of communist-capitalist state-controlled economy
4. Keep political prisoners and thwart opposition
5. Restrict people's right to travel
6. Restrict people's right to do business as they like
7. Protect the businesses of Castro dynasty & their friends

@CyberSocialist

It's not US government that imposes travel ban on Cuban citizens, it's Cuban government.

Same for imposing severe restrictions on private business *inside* Cuba (like a huge set of decrees blocking private entrepreneurship issued in 2018).

It's not US government that made Castros a dynasty.

Yes, they ARE wrong, just like Russians blaming Obama on low pensions or crap hospitals. And yes, both government do blame external parties on what is purely their responsibility.

@CyberSocialist

Because my childhood was impacted I can sympathise with people of Cuba under a regime that prevents them from living decent lives or - if the regime prevents them from it - leave the country.

Apparently for people living in wealthy Western countries it's easier to accept rather twisted view that "the people of Cuba want to live in a prison country because building socialism is more important for them".

I'd argue it's important for *you* as long as it's done with *their* hands