Separate admin accounts is a good idea. It can be overdone. For example, you might decide you need one account for proxmox admin, one for network devices, a third for your IAM stack and a fourth for apps. I personally think that’s too much.

Every human admin needs a separate admin account. If you’re using AI, each agent needs its own privileged access too.

I recommend having as few privileged accounts as is reasonable. It might make sense to separate network admin from the rest, for example, or some other separation. But it might be fine in your case to have one master-admin account.

Getting the mapping right is the hard part. Most IdP-aware apps have some way to map roles, groups, or whatever privilege management they use.

What makes Apoidea different from other ERP-style software? Does it enforce the strategic unions model? How restrictive would that be to a new (small) business?

There are other open source ERP tools out there, notably OpenERP. While I don’t agree with all of their design decisions, Frappe has a decent framework.

Please don’t take that as me promoting OpenERP or discouraging your work. The ERP space is still wide open. I hope you’ll share some more details about your plans and direction.

I remember the strategic unions conversation. I keep meaning to to back and compare it to successful cooperatives like Mondragon. Has anyone done that thought experiment?

I really don’t think it is.

An unfortunate turn. 1Password has been at the front of the pack in password managers for a long time. There are other options, but 1Password has stood out for features and because “it just works.”

Now I suppose I’ll have to find an alternative. I like Bitwarden’s openness but it isn’t nearly as polished. Maybe this is an opportunity for them or others to rise to the front.

This was the goal all along. If the mail isn’t trustworthy, then there’s no reason to keep it around as a service. So we can get rid of it by transferring it to the highest briber bidder.

Their announcement rubs me the wrong way. It reads as though Linux is the problem. They’re doing Linux “to ensure a safer environment” and to “reinforce a fair competitive environment”

Implying Linux is unsafe, unfair, and anticompetitive (i.e. promotes cheating).

Thank you! I’ve been looking for that for years. I should have thought to check CSPAN.

Does anyone remember (or have video of) Al Gore’s rendition of the Macarena?

Gore: Would you like to see me do the Macarena?

Crowd:

Gore:

Gore: Would you like to see it again?

Charlie Sheen, Ben Vereen, Shrink to the size of a Lima bean!

Now make a file system and shell that plays well with this.