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It’s the Thundering Herd Problem.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

In short, if it’s all at the same schedule you’ll end up with surges of requests followed by lulls. You want that evened out to reduce stress on the server end.

Special shout out to the No One Lives Forever (NOLF) series of Spy-parody FPS. Stuck in rights purgatory for 25 years now.

https://www.thegamer.com/no-one-lives-forever-the-operative-...

> many consumer devices suck wrt to wifi. For example, there seem to me ZERO soundbars with wired subwoofers. They all incorporate wifi.

Sonos has its issues, but I do need to point out that their subs (and the rest) all have Ethernet ports in addition to WiFi.

It’s been years but I’ve likely used NAT to redirect ICMP pings so the local firewall responds rather than whatever boat they were trying to reach.

Systems change - a server that once used to respond to pings may no longer do so, but client software may not be updated to stop doing pings before connecting to the actual service on the server. In an ideal world the client code would be updated, in practice: hello firewall.

I am sure someone will find a way to exfiltrate data using any ICMP type. How good are firewalls at validating the packets are legit?

Why would one choose this over the original?

What about paper bags? In the UK retailers have to charge for single use plastic bags. Clothes retailers hand out strong paper bags for free, and charge for plastic.

Supermarkets charge for plastic bags. Paper bags for fruit and veg work well. They also provide quality reusable bags that cost a small amount (£1 or so), and people actually reuse them.

Can’t the cat just sit directly beside the fish tank and watch?

It’s been decades, why doesn’t getaddrinfo have a standardised way to specify a timeout? Set a timeout to 10 seconds and life becomes a lot easier.

Yes I know in Linux you can set the timeout in a config file.

But really the dns setting should be configurable by the calling code. Some code requires fast lookups and doesn’t mind failing which, while others won’t mind waiting longer. It’s not a one size fits all thing.

You can have a strong parent-child relationship while still using daycare.

Also people work due to other reasons unrelated to providing for their family. Individuals are allowed to have lives outside their kids.

Kids are social and like playing and learning from other kids. Daycare lets them do just that. It’s a great thing and every toddler I’ve met who wasn’t in daycare was behind in something. Especially verbal skills.

Plus daycare allows women to continue their career progression. It’s soo important. Not every woman wants to end their career as a mother to a young kid. Daycare enables successful women to thrive and still have families.

Sounds like they are outliers. None of my banks are like this. Multiple countries and continents.

Can’t you do banking on the web via your phone? Same as desktop users?

Kill, not murder. If the country ends your life they are doing it under their authority, not outside their authority.

I’m fairly sure the modem firmware on the Pixels was never open. There’s some hardware that will never have open firmware to it. Especially when that firmware deals with regulated airwaves like cell signals.

Seems like the solution is to bus in new residents if such a trial was needed.

CCTV doesn’t need rights management. Nor do advertising billboards.

The device doing the decryption may not be the same device that does the decompression.

Eg a small edge gateway could be doing the VPN, while the end device is decoding the video.

Security standards can move extremely slowly when the security of the incumbent algorithm hasn’t been sufficiently compromised, despite better (faster, smaller) alternatives.

Tech Politics comes into it.

Sounds about right.

Plus when it’s time to go Mutually Assured Destruction, ie to those capable of attacking the US mainland, I’m going to assume they would be doing all this from whatever the successor to Mt Weather is.

The pain of merging acquired company networks cannot be overstated!

IPv6 can help, but in my experience there's just soo much old IPv4 tech that no one is prepared to migrate to IPv6.

In my experience, the top level exception handler will catch all incl Throwable, and then inspect the exception class and any nested exception classes for things like SQL error or MyPermissionsException etc and return the politically correct error to the end user. And if the exception isn’t in a whitelist of ones we don’t need to log, we log it to our application log.

240/4 can be hijacked/used as private IP space currently by a lot of devices. I think Windows might be the hold out. But for internal routing and IoT it’s very useful. Can never be used as publicly routable space.

I’d like to see it added to the official list of private space alongside RFC1918.

The reasoning I’ve heard is: it didn’t matter anymore, the damage was already done and there was no way any attempts at recovering from it would have been successful.

Would adoption of the new name been easier if the version started at TLS 3.0/matched the SSL version it originated from?

It’s always interesting to hear other people’s approaches- Thanks for the insights!

Presumably at some point in your environment you are doing MFA? Just not at every step?

Ie If someone broke into your office, opened computer, inserted the hardware security key, would they get in? Or is there something else non-physical going on? Like the initial login is password + security key, and you can demonstrate the ssh keys never leave the secured PCs etc.

Not if they ask for the current password at the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265372

PCI requires multi-factor auth these days, so you’ll likely find now the ssh password will be your password plus a OTP at the end.

Yeah your original post didn’t state citizens.

It’s common for residents to receive free primary education for their children in most countries. Eg UK, AU, NZ, Canada all do. Work visa or permanent resident visa.