PinnedSiddharth DeshpandeEmotion is biological — AI can fake it but not make itBlake Lemoine, the Google engineer and ethicist who claims a Google AI called LaMDA has become sentient and wonders about the ethics of…Jul 8, 20221Jul 8, 20221
Siddharth DeshpandeDisabling MFA delete on an AWS S3 BucketThe title of this post might make a zealous cyber-security crusader or Administrative Fascist bristle with indignation and scream “Why…Aug 16Aug 16
Siddharth DeshpandeAWS IAM MalformedPolicyDocument: Policy document should not specify a principalI’m still a bit lost when it comes to understanding the nitty-gritty of IAM and I was a little stumped when I encountered this error…Sep 30, 20204Sep 30, 20204
Siddharth DeshpandeDelete AWS CloudWatch Log Groups Matching PatternAs of this writing, the AWS web console CloudWatch interface does not provide a way to delete multiple log groups at once, since it uses…Apr 16, 20201Apr 16, 20201
Siddharth DeshpandeConfiguration Management with Salt Formulas and PillarI’ve just started implementing a comprehensive configuration management solution at my workplace using Salt. The use-case is not…Jun 19, 20181Jun 19, 20181
Siddharth DeshpandeExtract All Syslog Tags From LogfileIf you’ve worked with any UNIX-like system, you most probably know about the system log file. On Linux, the exact file name might vary…Dec 27, 2017Dec 27, 2017
Siddharth DeshpandeinDevCloud BlogSetting Up A LogRhythm Agent Through PuppetLogRhythm provides a useful suite of threat analysis products that can require you to have agents running on all the machines you want to…Sep 13, 2017Sep 13, 2017
Siddharth DeshpandeinDevCloud BlogConfiguring nginx for quickly switching to maintenance modeEnable/disable a proper maintenance page for your site with a single commandSep 4, 20175Sep 4, 20175
Siddharth DeshpandeinDevCloud BlogSecuring SSH On Linux with Puppet and HieraOpenSSH Server HardeningAug 30, 20171Aug 30, 20171
Siddharth DeshpandeinDevCloud BlogSecuring haproxy and nginx via HTTP HeadersEnvironmentAug 23, 2017Aug 23, 2017