An accurate title would be "IBM archives the IBM-HashiCorp Boundary Community Edition repo".
That "HashiCorp" in the title is a farce. The "Hashi" of the HashiCorp is far gone. IBM and "Corp" are redundant.
Community Editions don't make sense to the MBAs at IBM unless killing those off would create a global backlash (loss of goodwill for no positive revenue outcome is not good to an MBA. If loss of goodwill however, results in positive revenue, that's a good thing to an MBA. This is a well regarded, well studied and highly respected, revenue boosting MBA concept called "enshittification"). MBAs know that anything that doesn't directly translate into either viral growth or revenue next quarter is a waste of investor dollars. That makes anything else a risk to their own careers.
Boundary is past its viral growth stage, so the MBA needs to see revenue next quarter. Boundary fails the test there, so off with it!
HashiCorp was an innovative company founded by two engineers that built a lot of foundational, transformational infra products. Then, in a growth frenzy based off the traction of these tools they raised tremendous, vast sums of money and subsequently ~lost control of their vision~ hired MBAs, and the company went down the drain as well, or as MBAs call it - got acquired.
What remains of those tools are a BSL that focuses on maintenance operations and feature requests that strictly ride along a highly scrutinized cost-benefit decision matrix of rent seeking behavior off IBM's contracts with organizations that had already embraced those tools.
Billions of tokens have been burned in creating PPTs and Excel sheets, and emails discussing them, about why the Boundary Community Edition should be archived and abandoned.
I feel like I’m seeing a sleeper cell come to life. Your account is 5 years old with a handful of comments. You’ve been lying in wait for years only for today to be the day you get activated to eviscerate big corporate tech culture… and I love it. Billions of tokens writing reports, then another billion summarizing them, then another billion creating a followup, then another billion…
No. Infisical is headed the same direction. Most of the secrets management and PAM bits that matter are not even in the open source repo, you need a paid license to get access.
Infisical was really amazing. It did precisely what I needed and any missing pieces would go in as a PR that would be quickly reviewed and merged. Then came talk about raising more funds, signing up more enterprise customers. Then came refactors to "improve the architecture" and "increase security". All the core pieces I depended on were moved behind an enterprise license.
Want Infisical to support Forgejo logins or runners via keys minted by step-ca? Enterprise license. Special secret cubbys or enclaves? Enterprise license.
Anything outside a toy usecase for a home user - Enterprise license.
A year ago I spent ~3 focused weeks ripping out every piece of Infisical in my infra and replacing it with a mix of Keycloak, Conjur and Age/SOPS. They are ugly, hard to work with, setup and debug - I'm not proud of this monster but I won't have to deal with what's going to happen to Infisical.
Infisical has every right to do this, I'm not complaining about that. I'm simply mentioning that we have seen this movie before, including the company in the title, so at this point, the tells are clear.
They restored access after about 4 hours, but during that window:
- Google Voice disappeared from Takeout, so I could not access my historical data
- I had no option to port my number to another provider
- Incoming text forwarding was disabled, which locked me out of financial, municipal, health, and payroll apps.
When I called some of those providers to update my phone number, they wanted to authenticate me with a one-time code sent to the suspended Google Voice number! They would not accept an email link and the only options were to either visit them in person or by certified letter.
I have been using this number since GrandCentral, before it migrated to Google Voice, and had never had an issue until yesterday.
The suspension was eventually reversed once the error was discovered, but it exposed a serious planning and design failure in Voice. Even if Google believes it needs to block outgoing activity during an abuse investigation, incoming texts should remain available. Removing Takeout access and preventing port-out during a mistaken suspension seems hard to justify.
This doesn't seem to be a one off - I stumbled across https://www.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/ and found that this has been an ongoing issue - I hope atleast one person here can affect some positive changes.
I'm also lucky I wasn't in middle of an emergency myself requiring phone calls during that time - that could have had far more disastrous consequences.
I wouldn't make that claim - it's about the mindset. I've seen plenty of privately owned companies where the owners heavily churn through employees extracting as much as they can from each person and spitting them out.
Their attitude is "I can't pay at or above market, so this employee will eventually leave, so why should I invest in this employee? Let me extract as much as I can while they are here"
> Getting laid off doesn’t just rattle your career; it shakes the very foundation of your life. I've seen friends lose their jobs and go into an existential tailspin. It's not uncommon for them to blame themselves and to feel immense guilt and shame. The experience is especially hard on parents whose families depend on them for income.
What shook me up is when top performing coworkers were "laid off" because, due to recent downmarket conditions, there were slightly less competent candidates available at a heavy discount. These top performing coworkers worked extremely hard, were great at their jobs and often sacrificed personally when the company needed them but they were good negotiators as well and had negotiated good, above market salaries.
Once the project took off, the owners fired them and replaced them with cheaper workers who weren't as good but good enough to maintain and update the product.
It feels to me like the owners gave these people an impression that they would be long term employees, where their short term sacrifices would pay off long term, but effectively used them as flat rate contractors while paying them employee rates (instead of contractor rates).
Are you labor working for capital? If so, you work for someone who will fire you for a less expensive version as long as the quality of work is, even superficially, acceptably similar. That's it. That's the flow chart.
> Calm companies are not exciting. They’re not inspiring. You won’t do your best work there.
Explain more. Also, ensure you're not conflating "calm companies" with "cheap companies" where the owners are focused on spending as little money as possible, including paying people as little money as possible and claim they spend so little in order to "spend responsibly" - those places are depressing and I am curious if there's a way to detect "calm companies" from "cheap companies"
As a candidate, how do you separate this kind of company from one where the owners are cheap and want to pay you as less as possible?
There are a lot of companies that advertise terrific WLB, pictures of their employees and their families laughing only to find out none of those employees work there any longer and the pictures were taken on their once-every-10-years retreat at a cheap hotel in MO or WY.
I think the stereotypical calm company is one with strong financial performance in a stable industry that is somewhat insulated from swings in the macro economy. Think large regional players in insurance, healthcare, finance, banking, etc. It’s large enough to have “professional” managers and a big customer base (so one customer having a problem is not a hair-on-fire emergency).
In my experience you tend to find many more penny pinching owners in the world of small businesses, not at a 1000-person regional life insurance company.
> If you were smart, you would have seen the financial crash of year 2XXX
Makes sense
> If you were smart you'd have seen that a foreign market for X would have opened up draining out all funding in the US and leaving that portion of the job market hollow
Makes sense
> If you were smart you'd have seen that bill that allowed X thousand more people in the country in this job dropping pay rates by half
Makes sense
> And I'm sure you are smart for having been born in a family that was somewhere near middle class and didn't have crippingling addictions or otherwise have issues that would put education somewhere not number 1 on the priority list. I'll clap my hands at how brilliant you are...
Doesn't make sense and then there's unhelpful sarcasm at the end
> But, what we're talking about here is those not born with all these gifts can lift themselves out of a pit of debt or worse a life that would lead to crime, so that all of us live in a better place. You have any suggestions on that. Or are you just going to lock yourself up in a gated community and not worry about that kind of thing?
Providing direct value to society and getting rewarded for doing so has been an evergreen suggestion that has always worked well.
This works well for the Chinese immigrant with literally no money and no grasp of English who starts off selling takeout and grows the business, as it does to the person who starts driving taxi cabs, again, with no money to start off at all and then saves some to lease their first taxi and hire their first employee and then the second taxi and then the second employee.
A morally just society should reward, not punish these people. We need to have more, not less of them and that happens my incentivizing the right behaviors and disincentivizing the wrong behaviors.
It's all about the mindset and taking responsibility for your own future. You can complain and blame your fate or you can give it the middle finger and grow.
But, what are some suggestions you have to lift people out of a pit of debt or crime?
Not really - banks would have made money on something else instead.
The real problem is that universities are making money off selling trash to children not old enough to drink yet.
Before loans were guaranteed, there were some checks and balances for how much trash universities could sell and at what price, but now that politicians have figured out there's nothing stopping them from taking money that's not theirs and paying it off to universities, the only losers are those who consume the trash and destroy their lives and their descendants.
> My biggest issue with these cancellations is that they don't seem to be fixing the underlying issue at all — that you can't default on your student loans
Lenders being selective about student loans is part of a larger feedback loop. That you can't default on your student loans removes a strong signal for a student to realize what they are planning to do isn't deemed productive by society, but that doesn't mean a well educated student won't figure this out on their own even in the lack of this strong signal.
A well educated person shouldn't need a lot of external feedback to figure out if you spend more than you earn, bad things will happen.
The root cause is schools are completely failing at their job of laying good foundations for generations of tomorrow and are not getting the feedback they need to be useful and political tricks like this further distorts the feedback loop.
This means students are not well educated - they might be able to recite Shakespeare or vomit out coding algorithms from a book but most of them lack logical thinking, clarity of mind, decision making that includes knowledge of finances and projections so you can answer the question "out of all the things I can do, what should I be doing right now?"
So they go and land themselves in a mess and then politicians exploit them by digging a deeper hole for them and their children.
That "HashiCorp" in the title is a farce. The "Hashi" of the HashiCorp is far gone. IBM and "Corp" are redundant.
Community Editions don't make sense to the MBAs at IBM unless killing those off would create a global backlash (loss of goodwill for no positive revenue outcome is not good to an MBA. If loss of goodwill however, results in positive revenue, that's a good thing to an MBA. This is a well regarded, well studied and highly respected, revenue boosting MBA concept called "enshittification"). MBAs know that anything that doesn't directly translate into either viral growth or revenue next quarter is a waste of investor dollars. That makes anything else a risk to their own careers.
Boundary is past its viral growth stage, so the MBA needs to see revenue next quarter. Boundary fails the test there, so off with it!
HashiCorp was an innovative company founded by two engineers that built a lot of foundational, transformational infra products. Then, in a growth frenzy based off the traction of these tools they raised tremendous, vast sums of money and subsequently ~lost control of their vision~ hired MBAs, and the company went down the drain as well, or as MBAs call it - got acquired.
What remains of those tools are a BSL that focuses on maintenance operations and feature requests that strictly ride along a highly scrutinized cost-benefit decision matrix of rent seeking behavior off IBM's contracts with organizations that had already embraced those tools.
Billions of tokens have been burned in creating PPTs and Excel sheets, and emails discussing them, about why the Boundary Community Edition should be archived and abandoned.