You have more patience and perseverance than I do, to tackle this kind of outright misunderstanding (or falsehood). I am exhausted. Facts and narratives intertwine and build on each other, but people hand-waive away the nuance and reach immediately for the easy surface explanation. For example, the glib defense of the Jan6 rioters was that they couldn't ever "take over the government" by merely occupying the Capitol, it's laughable to even believe that. That's not the plan, the plan was to disrupt and delay the electoral vote counting process, and force the election into the House where the Rs have the majority. But, for me to explain this would take 5, 10 minutes of persuasion, and the person has to be open to persuasion, and understand electoral procedure, and there must be mutual good will between me and him. This is not the world I live in, so I just shut up and move on. I wish direct karma is more visible in this world, eg. if you act on your belief in X, the outcome would immediately resolve whether your believed rightly or wrongly.
> "war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select." Judge Holden, Blood Meridian
... instead, we have this state where a disastrously wrong belief occupies the same plane as the right belief in the facts, that is, there is no disincentive to believe the wrong thing, and no incentive to find the right thing. I'm exhausted trying to find ways to explain, and now I don't.
This happens to me frequently, I have an OG gmail account which a bunch of people have associated with their own accounts. The problem is the provider will verify a phone number, and once that's validated, will accept an email address, even if it's wrong. Two financial entities have accepted my email address tied to other people's account: Chime, and Venmo. There's no way to fix this since they all presume I am a customer of theirs, so the path to fix is to do it in their app. It is incredibly frustrating, more so when it's people who handles money do it. They should know better! The "We are not a bank (therefore not covered by banking regulations)" does so much work to cover their shoddy practices.
Same story with Gmail here, and unfortunately over the years it has simply become my primary. I'm still undecided on how I want to handle my own domain+email.
Someone opened a Venmo account using my gmail and immediately started moving thousands of dollars in small transactions, and my only options were to a) take ownership of the thousands of dollars of small transactions that were now associated with my unverified email or b) get my email banned???? Eventually I got an email saying the Venmo was disabled due to suspicious activity, hope that doesn't bite me in the ass in the future.
What if I wanted to sign up for Venmo in the future? Why do I need to create another email address to use their product in the future when they didn't even verify it in the first place? How are they allowed to run their billon dollar business like this?
I'm the recovery account to at least two accounts of real people with the same name (the people are real, despite the uncommon name). Don't bother reporting it via the link in the mails, it does nothing. I'm not even sure this isn't some Google shenanigans either.
What other reasonable choice exist for moving off VMWare for a small to medium size organization? Nutanix and Citrix is just as expensive, and another platform capture. ProxMox is not ready for Enterprise, even as it gains traction from hobbyists. I work with Splunk, and its price is approaching the point of being unaffordable for most organizations. The logging and observability market is consolidating toward BigCo and I'm afraid eventually there's not going to be any choice left, for small consumers and small players. The answer can't be "build your own" for every little adjacent tech you need to run a shop.
Bad because as of Splunk 10.x, Splunk bundles postgres to integrate with their SOAR platform. Parenthetically, this practice of bundling stuff with Splunk is making vuln remediation a real pain. Splunk bundles its own python, mongod, and now postgres, instead of doing dependency checking. They're going to have to keep doing it as long as they release a .tgz and not just an RPM. The most recent postgres vuln is not fixed in Splunk.
I've been here since 2016. I have never, not even once, downvoted any comment on HN. Today I downvoted every single of that person's comment in this thread. That discourse does not deserve to be heard, much less to occupy attention and debate.
Can you please explain to me how it violates HN guidelines in any way? Or how any of it is untrue? For example, do you disagree that 8 U.S. Code § 1357, as cited, empowers ICE to arrest US citizens without a warrant in specific circumstances, specifically relating to obstructing them from doing their original job? Do you disagree that ICE are, contra the public claims of Walz and Frey, LEO? Did you see my submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596055, and can you articulate a problem with it?
I already explained repeatedly: I responded hastily based on priors, and then responded poorly to someone who insulted me.
When I initially said:
> All this stuff about permit cards, the victim's lack of criminal history, etc. is irrelevant. It is not connected to the motivation for the shooting. There is nothing to establish that the shooting was "solely for" that possession, and LEO denies that claim. There is no plausible universe in which the officer says "please show me the permit for that weapon", Pretti says "I don't have it", and the officer shoots. But that's the narrative you appear to be trying to push.
Do you think any of that is incorrect? Which part specifically, and why?
I just vouched for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748563 , which was flagged and killed. Do you think it violates HN guidelines? How exactly? Because I legitimately don't understand.
The W in Santiago, Chile, has a full-length floor-to-ceiling glass window in the shower, with the morning sun shining right in. Your other option is a bathtub set in the middle of the bedroom itself. Mercifully the WC has a door.
The human body lacks the enzyme to digest inulin, it passes through the gut and feeds the gut bacteria, which I guess is why it's labeled a pro-biotic? Jerusalem artichoke (the root of a sunflower, Jerusalem is a corruption of girasole) contains a high concentration of inulin. This tuber is usually found served at upper-end swanky restaurants. One year I found it at a farmer's market, bought a bunch and gleefully carted it home. It was rather delicious. Also, gas that would turn a cow inside out. Beware.
Cumin is an olfactory note in perfumery. When well-paired it adds a lovely and unusual note of spice. Example: The Different Company Rose Poivrée was created by Jean-Claude Ellena, the in-house perfumer for Hermes before the current one. It has notes of coriander and cumin, subtle but distinctively there. If you like it, you like it. Unfortunately for me, after a while it starts smelling like a stinking armpit. Indole is another compound use in perfumery, at intense concentration it smells like poop.
Odysseus is shown stringing his bow in The Return (2024). The challenge was to string the bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axes. I had no idea what this meant so I went looking. In fact, it's to shoot the arrow through the eye of the axes. What's the eye of an axe? It's the hole where the handle attaches to the blade.
From a logging perspective, there is a time when an event happens. The timestamp for that should be absolute. Then there's the interaction with the viewer of the event, the person looking at the log, and where he is. If the timestamp is absolute, the event can be translated to the viewer at his local time. If the event happens in a a different TZ, for example a sysadmin sitting in PST looking at a box at EST, it's easier to translate the sysadmin TZ env, and any other sysadmin's TZ anywhere in the world, than to fiddle with the timestamp of the original event. It's a minor irritation if you run your server in UTC, and you had to add or subtract the offset, eg. if you want your cron to run at 6PM EDT, you have to write the cron for 0 22 * * *. You also had to do this mental arithmetic when you look at your local system logs, activities at 22:00:00 seem suspicious, but are they really? Avoid the headaches and set all your systems to UTC, and throw the logs into a tool that does the time translation for you.
The server does not "know" anything about the time, that is, it's really about the sysadmin knowing what happened and when.
> "war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select." Judge Holden, Blood Meridian
... instead, we have this state where a disastrously wrong belief occupies the same plane as the right belief in the facts, that is, there is no disincentive to believe the wrong thing, and no incentive to find the right thing. I'm exhausted trying to find ways to explain, and now I don't.