tpolm

there were more than two recent incidents lately:

- YouTube outage this November 2020

- August 2020 outage of Google Suite including Gmail

in both cases no postmortems were published

somehow they managed to build complex systems like gmail, continuously develop new features there and not have massive outages due to "migrations" - suggests that something that they were doing right, they are no longer able to do

it is interesting that is both cases (recent gmail and this one) it was a "migration":

"As part of an ongoing migration of the User ID Service to a new quota system"

"An ongoing migration was in effect to update this underlying configuration system"

it was not a new feature, not a massive hardware failure, it was migrating part of the working product due to some unclear reason of "best practices".

both of those migrations failed with symptoms suggesting that whoever was performing them did not have deep understanding of systems architecture or safety practices and there was no one to stop them from failing. Signs of slow degradation of engineering culture at Google. There will be more to come. Sad.

Thalidomide, anyone?

> But can you name a time US law enforcement or military fucked up and fell for a "cyber false flag" [1], and mistakenly took action against the framed party?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

And how are you going to identify the state/group that did this? Believing "experts"? Oh, that worked just fine previously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

Nice idea, though it did not work for me:

- there is difference between carbs from glycemic load perspective - e.g. white rice vs oatmeal are totally different carbs for the same carb amount. You may think that you eat right amount of calories but your excess fat will not start to get metabolized if your insulin levels are high because of regular fast carbs intake.

- same thing for "fat" - olive oil vs pork - no breakdown of saturated/unsaturated fats - seems important for eating healthy

People are no longer buying EVs when there are no more $7500 tax breaks (they are expiring this year)? Who could have possibly predicted that :)

you are missing the fact the OS that runs the system is already compromised and has government backdoors. No matter if you use Telegram / Whatsapp / whatever. Windows / Andriod / iOS / you name it already have a million ways to be compromised and have a backdoor if needed.

age != years of experience

years of experience != age.

and this is why the software you use to encrypt hard drives should support plausible deniability. You give away the (other) password and the decrypted drive contains nothing but cat pictures.

Opting out of multimeter scans: not even once

2016 follow-up from the same "I regret I did this" person

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2016/01/04/64-bit-vis...

"The one who wants - seeks ways, who does not want - seeks a reason"

Exactly - the scale is different. And where they can, jobs have already migrated from Germany

Because Germany has protectionist tariffs similar to those Trump wants to implement. E.g it is not cheaper to outsource plants to Mexico and import BMW back to Germany.

>Government policies didn't create suburbs

It is exactly the opposite. American suburbs were created by goverment policies (specifically, by certain tax breaks for development industry and by tax breaks for home owners, not to mention housing subsidies)

I believe that captchabot and services alike have already successfully implemented this idea.