tbf IAM is the bastard child of many cloud providers.

It exists to provide CISOs and BROs a level of security that no one person has access to their infrastructure. So if a company decides that system A should no longer have access to system B, they can do that quickly.

IAM is so complex now that it’s a field all in itself.

Tell me you don’t understand how GPL works without telling me how GPL works.

GPL has been battle tested in court and has the most precedence than any other license. Hell I’d even include proprietary licenses.

Core Android and ChromeOS are FOSS because they have to be. But because Linus Torvalds didn’t want to move Linux to GPL3, we have proprietary bootloaders with free software.

THAT’S how we have corporations profiting from GPL. Not because GPL allows anyone to use it.

“Do Not Split”

Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast

But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.

And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.

If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.

It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.

Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.

You say that…like that changes anything.

He’s already declared martial law by sending in military units to cities. He’s already done it.

What the fuck do we have to lose?

The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.

Remember: Shut the Fuck Up

Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.

Do you think he fucking cares? He just wants the gold shiny so he can be like Obama.

In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.

The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.

Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.

There is a chrome addon that will “block” anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.

I’m starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.

I get what you’re going for but this would absolutely wreck privacy. And depending on how those signatures are created, someone could create a virtual camera that would sign images and then we would be back to square one.

I don’t have a better idea though.

It’s no accident that capital is aligned with fascist. Line must go up.

Startpage for the win!

Instead, these searches return a list of traditional web links.

“Oh…oh okay. So you know what that is. Why are unable to provide traditional web links for ALL my searches? Because, I’m gonna be honest with you Google. I never asked for you to ‘summarize’ my web results and the fact that you can turn it off at your discretion tells me that you could turn it off for everyone.”

If anyone has the capital (both political and monetary) and the ability to execute, Narcos certainly do. Assuming they aren’t obsessed with greed, if they made some sort of public announcement saying that they are patriots and would not only boycott US markets but would engage with other producers to stop their own shipments, I would love to see the fall out. I suspect it wouldn’t be visible. After all, I suspect that most cocaine drug users in the US aren’t the most reliable voting contingent.

But it would be fun to see how Trump reacts to it.

It’s almost as if someone figured out that conservatives, in an effort to feel the need to play the victim, will react negatively and thus be more engaged when presented with non-conforming news.

A sort of dissonance…that happens cognitively.

That’s often my reply. “well we haven’t tried it yet. We’ve tried trickle down economics for almost 4 decades. Why don’t we try a wealth tax for 20 years? You know, for science? Just to see how it works. THEN if it doesn’t work, we can roll it back. How does that sound?”

Absolutely. I’m just saying even if we really squint and try to pass off his garbage as something positive, he doesn’t deserve anything from a foreign body, let alone a moment of silence.

Why would Kirk even be eligible for a moment of silence?!

He wasn’t a member of state. He wasn’t even on someone’s staff.

He literally was just some guy. Not even a notable guy. Just some guy that was conservative who, AT BEST, said some controversial things.

I actually did this a few months ago. I switched out my 401k domestic mutual funds for international funds. I did a check on my investments and they are doing great.

I also divested from any federal bonds and only invested in local/state bonds.

It’s not much but it’s the right thing to do.

Exactly. South Korea doesn’t realize that this is Trump’s way of signaling that he needs a kick-back.

He needs money in his pocket in order for the workers to be released. Once they have them back, South Korea should pull out their investments in the US.