Jesse Reynolds
jessereynolds.bsky.social
Jesse Reynolds
@jessereynolds.bsky.social
On Boon Wurrung land.
Parent, infrastructure as code, automation, people manager, small sailing boats.
Previously: Puppet, Virtual Artists, Evalue8 Sustainability, Bulletproof, ANAT
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
“With the recent increase of supply chain attacks we decided to do one of our own”
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
OMG yes
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
This is very helpful: hostile takeover of the state’s own critical infrastructure, in ways hard to explain and make visible.
Now up on @lawfare.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/elon... "Musk is seemingly doing to the U.S. government what the U.S. government once did to the rest of the world: refashioning the plumbing ... into a political weapon against his adversaries. "
Elon Musk Weaponizes the Government
The billionaire is turning the U.S. government’s own strategy against itself.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
I'm 100% confident that everyone I know at NOAA and the National Weather Service would rather be fired than jeopardize the safety and well-being of their queer, POC, and women colleagues.

And it seems those firings are happening. A tragic, shameful, unforgivable development.
February 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50
Doing a DeepSeek.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
that's the plan. We have an agreement with them to phase out the command line name in a staged way that lets us avoid unnecessary community grief. We'll be moving to `vox` and `voxd`
January 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
The very first release of #OpenVox has been released! It’s a drop in replacement for #Puppet & is ready for evaluation. Here’s a link to more details via #HackerNews in hopes you’ll help vote it is so that even more people know what #VoxPupili has accomplished 😁

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4278...
The first release of OpenVox is hot off the presses | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
a lot of really important sci fi (especially cyberpunk) now seems extremely trite, predictable and irritating because four thousand barely literate startup founders patterned their entire personality after the most annoying character in any given book
January 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
There has been a bunch of faff about Puppet licensing - essentially a "soft" relicensing of code and restricting access to built binaries etc www.puppet.com/blog/open-so...
Our Plans for Open Source Puppet in 2025 | Puppet by Perforce
In early 2025, Puppet will ship new binaries & packages developed by our team to a private repository. Read on for details & insight on this important change.
www.puppet.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
"not to limit community access to Puppet source code, but address the growing risk of vulnerabilities across ... while continuing to provide the security, support, and stability our customers deserve."

www.puppet.com/blog/open-so...

Uh huh. That sounds credible. 🙄 #puppet #puppetize
Our Plans for Open Source Puppet in 2025 | Puppet by Perforce
In early 2025, Puppet will ship new binaries & packages developed by our team to a private repository. Read on for details & insight on this important change.
www.puppet.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Reposted by Jesse Reynolds
ICYMI: turns out that Drax, the UK's biggest biomass plant and the country's single largest source of CO2 emissions, and which has denied burning old-growth forests, has indeed been burning old-growth forests.
UK power stations burnt wood from old forest areas, Drax emails show
Internal review acknowledges pellets ‘highly likely’ to have come from ecologically important areas in Canada
www.ft.com
October 18, 2024 at 2:36 AM