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balex··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
And the shirt in Vietnam is exponentially cheaper than in the West. The price difference is pure segmentation. I fail to see how this is suppression.
balex··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
> Do we have better imaginations?

Pantheon.

balex··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
It comes back to communication. If management acknowledges the issue but redirects budget elsewhere due to priorities, it's legit. Communicating it in a way IT personnel understand and accept isn't necessarily easy. Sometimes there's also incentive for management to avoid it altogether (we need to focus elsewhere and this could burn you out, but you're an acceptable loss).

That said, management needs to know there's pain and in a language it speaks - risk. Cost, legal, whatever. Preferably quantified without drowning them in numbers or fear mongering. That's what pain is all about.

balex··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
Agreed. The whole intensity discussion is pointless.
balex··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
I wasn't talking about Israel. I pointed out the antisemitic metaphor. Like it or not, that's the same language. I find the sarcasm of the parent taking sides and crossing into that territory telling. It's further strengthened by their response after being called out.

There, now you know. Hope you feel safe behind the throwaway account. Karma's tough, right?

balex··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
As is the US. Go watch same interviews.
balex··on Ti-84 Evo
Now that's a tattoo right there. Never forget.
balex··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
I read this and felt like I was reading a moltbook post.

Am I an agent? Are you?

Is Claude... God?

balex··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
And who dies when GI Joe bets on the the date of an operation?

And if nobody dies, is it okay?

balex··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
Sounds exactly the same to me. Maybe it's you who's pretending?
balex··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Of course not. There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
balex··on Go ahead, self-host Postgres
JFrog, is that you?
balex··on US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
Atlas shrugged
balex··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Oh whew, I thought he was using hunter2 as his password too.
balex··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
He's talking about the military filtering process. Who the military considers as "the best" depends on its needs. Simply put, if needs more fighting bodies, so that takes precedence. The Knesset is fighting over public opinion - who gets conscripted in the first place. It's who gets put through the funnel in the first place.
balex··on Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
And this description is based on what?
balex··on Why we use our own hardware
Or buy colo space and they do it for you. It's not all cloud vs owning a datacenter - There's a thousand shades of ltgrey
balex··on Why we use our own hardware
I've done it. It's nowhere as complicated as you make it seem. It definitely doesn't kill - no more than failing to manage your software tech debt. In fact, the latter is both harder keep up with and more risky, because it changes faster than the low level stuff, to support business needs.

With the cloud you have IT/DevOps deal only with scaling the software components of the infra. When doing on-prem they take on the physical layer as well. Do you have enough trust in them to scale the physical part where needed?

balex··on Why we use our own hardware
Cross region from on-prem to the cloud for a website is easy. In fact, as long as you don't buy into "cloud native" ("cloud lock-in"?), it's probably more cost effective than two on-prem regions or two cloud regions.
balex··on Why we use our own hardware
When there's little trust between the business and IT, both are incentivized to move to the cloud.

It's harder to build trust than the opposite.

balex··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
Source? And what are these consensus opinions? (Honest questions)
balex··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Admin: We should turn off the AV auto update in prod and test it in staging first.

Manager/CISO: That would increase our exposure time on zero day vulnerabilities. Overruled.

balex··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
Those are not mutually exclusive.
balex··on Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
"Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind."

The first sentence in the article actually highlights a nice "side effect" of the very thing it complains about. Covering "Authentication" and "Authorization" with a single "auth". Convenient for those who understand the concepts and don't need the distinction. Especially since these terms are strongly related and often come together.

balex··on Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
So essentially you order off the menu based on your surroundings?
balex··on We're ending our Samsung collaboration
I'm on a OnePlus 11 (upgraded from a OnePlus 6T) and it's great. My only issue is that there's a small selection of cases for it, especially if you want one that's magsafe compatible.
balex··on I Lost Faith in Kagi
This was difficult to read. Not a hint of empathy on that thread.
balex··on Alexei Navalny has died
Lenin, Stalin, Putin...

"There's this new guy, Flapin. Good strong name, let's make him our leader! What could possibly go wrong?"

balex··on Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"
Obviously he did. I guess you wanted to say "I disagree" but phrase it more aggressively?
balex··on 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
Alternatively, it could be viewed as the whole purpose behind the attack.
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