Joe

You see, peace in Europe is only maintained through the ability (or illusion thereof) of russia being able to invade and otherwise exert influence over former soviet and warsaw pact states at any point in time with little resistance.

The moment there is the credible threat of resistance, it is a clear provocation and justifies a response, possibly an invasion.

I trust I cleared that up for you.

edit: The sad part is, this is similar to US and Chinese policy. World and regional power politics is closer to schoolyard bully behaviour than we’d like. Vote for your favourite bully today!

Obsidian.md has mobile versions, apparently. Whether there is a free sync feature for the ios version will be a Q.

NFSv3 (udp, stateless) was always as reliable as the network infra under Linux, I found. NFSv4 made things a bit more complicated.

You don’t want any NAT / stateful connection tracking in the network path (anything that could hiccup and forget), and wired connections only for permanent storage mounts, of course.

Locked? Won’t somebody think of the cupcakes?!

Hah. I hadn’t seen that article / heard of the theory, but as far as crackpot theories/hypotheses go, it’s one of the more likely (edit: to come about). I doubt it’s anywhere near the majority yet, personally.

It was already obvious that propaganda news articles (on obscure websites) had orchestrated releases and promotion on social media, in a massive circle jerk, and I assumed machine generated/assisted content was involved. Then ChatGPT hit the headlines and we all had the power.

Whose deepfake influencers do you “trust” more? US, China, russia and a few lesser players are already working to control the information space / spread propaganda (note: not necessarily/always lies, but there is typically a focus or spin) far and wide.

We know people are highly influenced by propaganda (some more than others, but all of us are) and that quantity and repetition plays a role. Since this is now an established battlefield, I’d like our (western) defences to be strong.

It has potential for abuse, certainly. That’s par for the course. There is also the potential for it to be used to debunk fake news, shock people out of false beliefs, and help reconnect people to reality. Let’s see how this plays out. popcorn time

How will running a CA limit access? eg. Do you want to do client side cert validation? That sounds like an overcomplication. Also not ideal to run a CA (have signing keys) on the proxy server.

It’s a trade off. “Free services” typically require more leg work and can come with legal or security risks. I used to have a great XBMC & torrenting setup years ago. I spent significant time customizing it and various plugins, extending scripts etc. I had fun, and took necessary precautions. Millions wouldn’t. Some are happy to pay €9/month to another evil corp for convenience (where it works for them).

Oh, they do have an plan with ads. You can’t really complain about ads if that is what you subscribed to, I guess. The price difference is €6 vs €9/month in Germany, btw.

The no browser support on phones kind of sucks though.

Disney+ has ads? I’m in Germany and I don’t see any. Where are you?

edit: removed comment about browser, as OP meant on the phone

The big Q: Is this to the detriment or benefit of the russian war machine?

If the end result is a more self-sufficient russia and profits going to the war effort … would it have been the right move? Is the symbolism worth it?

It sounds like it was a very orderly process to ensure the ongoing viability of the business.

I’d rather see russian factories dismantled, thousands of jobs lost in russia, and significant supply chain issues. I guess that option never factored into the discussion as it would cost investors more.

For deploying applications and associated infra in one fell swoop (often using higher level AWS compute services), it works well enough. In those cases, the dev teams are the infra and support teams, and it is an integrated part of their deployment pipelines. All good, probably.

Then you have a very typical scenario in larger companies, where you have a mix of centrally managed services (eg. Kubernetes clusters and VPCs/networking) shared by multiple teams and services, custom API gateways, and the dev teams of java/js developers fresh out of college who typically just want to write code and have it talk to a backend DB which they don’t particularly want to support. With services having to be supported for 10+ years, developers will come and go, and sometimes just go, leaving legacy apps and infra that need to be supported by some poor sods in low cost countries, along with CF, TF, Ansible, custom scripts, operators, and manually provisioned infra. In such an organization, you must encourage (and wherever possible enforce) standards.

If CDK is the company standard, and therefore well understood and supported, with guidelines and company standard libraries, then great. If not, it will be another snowflake.

I’m not a fan of CDK as it seems to just introduce more cognitive load for developers and ops (as soon as something goes wrong / gets difficult), often long after the original authors have moved onto new shinier projects.

It’s yet another way to create snowflakes, but it’s not the worst, precisely because it uses CF behind the scenes.

If there were an org-wide (or “platform engineering”) strategy based on CDK, it would be different. The same goes for pretty much any infrastructure management tooling choice.

I don’t know about these days, but I remember making a custom layout for Windows back in 2005 that was US Qwerty keyboard plus AltGR+auose for äüö߀ (German umlauts and euro symbol).

I forget how I did it, as I haven’t used Windows for serious work in years.

Some of us still remember Wise Guys and want that range! ;-)

A supply chain attack of some kind. Perhaps the app was distributed via a private store app where the french authorities had some leverage. I wonder if we’ll find out.

Lots of ideas are patented, especially by large companies. Some ideas are pursued by the company themselves, while others sit in the patent war chest to (maybe) generate passive income and help with future litigation. Very occasionally they are used for prevention.

Regardless, such a system would be a reason for many people to avoid buying a particular car or brand of car.

A nanotube garrote would be the talk of the town.

What filesystem are you using?

My Samsung S90C OLED is pretty good. I spent a lot of time researching TVs and user reviews before I bought it though, and an LG OLED also made the shortlist.