Friday Links

Friday, November 18, 2022

  • Thomas A. Limoncelli has an article advising managers to split their overwhelmed teams, and talks about how what might seem initially counterintuitive actually makes sense. It’s aimed at technical teams—the article was published in Queue, the magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery—but I think it’s broadly applicable.
  • “vermaden” has written up how to set up FreeBSD to use FreeIPA for authentication. Back a couple years ago when I was running a couple FreeBSD machines, knew this should have been possible—all the pieces were there—but it wasn’t particularly documented and there was a bug I was following which for some reason (I forget the details) was a showstopper.
  • Turns out it’s hard to find people who want to work as a prison guard. Mississippi Today has a report that the state auditor is demanding a private prison pay back about $2 million in worker shifts it billed the state for, but didn’t actually have someone to work.