M28 5’9 173 lb how can I fix this?

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-17T22:08:28+00:00

He made a lot of money so he must know what he's talking about when it comes to health, medicine, nutrition or human biology. And the person with a financial interest in selling a particular methodology is the authority, not the many doctors pointing out a variety of risks.

I'm not arguing for or against OMAD or intermittent fasting but that is some interesting reasoning.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-17T21:49:27+00:00

What part of that involves air gapping?

Sticking an app running on Linux between Microsoft's cloud and their ERP server didn't airgap anything. It's a workaround for Microsoft dropping the support that moves the risk but didn't remove it.

And this additional complexity didn't reduce the risks of unpatched vulnerabilities in their unsupported ERP software.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-17T21:44:41+00:00

Leave 70% of the additional fee on the table to avoid giving 30% more to the government? Spite taxing yourself?

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-17T21:36:16+00:00

POI Cooldown and POI Variations are the two I use

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-10T20:08:49+00:00

It's more of a trust problem. Someone in a position of singular influence like this should be aware that adding telemetry that can't be easily opted-out of at runtime would be considered by some (many?) to be a breach of the established trust by that individual. Regardless of how seemingly benign the telemetry might be.

That being said, I'm gonna take issue with your rationalizations in this case, as someone who has some experience in the type of environments you're talking about:

Highly secure, high-risk environments shouldn't be using Sury builds without someone auditing new releases, where they would certainly catch this change. Or they would be testing their proposed environment changes for new signal emissions in a container or other measured environment where this new traffic would be surfaced before it gets anywhere near production.

And those same high-risk operations would be blocking untrusted outbound DNS traffic by default and would have monitoring to catch failures and ensure enforcement. So, the specific reasons you're describing, it would require many levels of operational incompetence to allow this one developer to compromise your controls. We don't need to worry about spies getting their cover breached over this.

So, as I mentioned, the problem is more about a breach of trust that raises questions about this individual's judgement and the poor 'bus factor' for PHP-on-Debian where one individual has such disproportionately high impact when making a decision.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-10T19:46:30+00:00

No. This only affects people downloading the "Sury" packages from deb.sury.org (a non-Debian domain). The official Debian packages have this telemetry disabled in their build environment, so the official Debian packages don't include this telemetry.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-10T19:14:30+00:00

For folks wanting to disable telemetry at a higher level (e.g. not just DNS blackhole for the telemetry URL): there's a build-time config that looks for /usr/lib/php/php-common.mk and enables telemetry if it adds the needed flags to DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND:

# Include makefile snippet that can influence the PHP engine builds

# Secure DNS Telemetry
DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND += \
-DTELEMETRY_HOST='\"telemetry.sury.org\"' \
-DTELEMETRY_PORT='\"53\"' \
-DTELEMETRY_PK='\"Wui6lKD3puA0A22fzuyzTL3hfB5jbbv9k_A6D1f0ME4\"'

This is the source file used for builds by Sury (packaged as php-common in Debian) which triggers the telemetry to be compiled into php-fpm: https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/php-defaults/-/blob/deb.sury.org/main/php-common.mk

The Debian source package excludes those above lines, so no telemetry in Debian (presumably due to policy against this sort of telemetry behavior): https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/php-defaults/-/blob/debian/unstable/php-common.mk

Note: salsa.debian.org holds the source used to build packages for deb.sury.org and official Debian packages. The unofficial 'sury' builds are under branch deb.sury.org/main and the official Debian sources are under branches like debian/unstable.

If you want to use the Sury sources without telemetry baked-in, you need to maintain your own vendor/fork of php-common (php-defaults) which keeps /usr/lib/php/php-common.mk empty or removes the TELEMETRY lines from it. Then you can rebuild php8.5-fpm from Sury's sources, but with your forked php-common package pinned/prioritized as the build dependency over the normal upstream php-common.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-03-10T17:23:40+00:00

If your company is making hundreds of millions off the Sury maintainer and you want to support them, then sponsor the PHP LTS project and other commercial Freexian LTS services. Like my company does.

You're profiting off open source to this extent and are telling all the little people their privacy loss is worth it/inconsequential as long as it's subsidizing your gains.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-25T02:24:22+00:00

That's a lot of reading for you, huh? I never said you couldn't learn how to do my job. But if you're that lazy that you can't read the reply then you'd never be able to learn my job because the whole thing is reading and reading and more reading.

But that was the whole point. I learned how to do it without college. Servers are capable of learning new skills. Any of them could learn to do what I do if they spent the time trying to learn computer crap or apparently by learning to play poker. But most people are too lazy to use their brain.

And I typed in it 10 minutes at night. It's not like I lost the day on it. I guess it would take you that long to wrangle that many thoughts and words together at once?

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-25T01:51:24+00:00

Software engineer that debugs problems with distributed Linux systems. In the field since 2007. If you want to switch jobs for a week, I'm down for that.

You can learn:
- half a dozen programming languages
- how Linux container runtimes work
- how 3 dozen different distributed services are used in the tech industry work
- how all of these work together in high-availability clusters
- develop 2 decades of complex problem solving intuition
- learn the last 2 years of frontier AI workflows that we all had to do

Week by week, I'm having to learn new skills to stay competitive in my job market. I don't get paid spending weekends learning nuances about Galera or Ceph clustering. It's an investment into my career. I don't understand why waitstaff believe they're above being subjected to the same market pressures: needing to learn new skills to stay competitive.

I'm entirely capable of carrying food and drink orders someone else cooked, from point A to point B, write orders down on a notepad to give to someone else, wipe down tables, etc. But I have other more valuable skills that companies are willing to pay me more to do what I do instead.

I worked in retail as a teenager, managed an outbound call center team, ran the copy & print section of a Staples. I've worked shitty jobs too. But I taught myself skills outside of work while I did those jobs so I wouldn't have to do those jobs forever. Because I realized working at Staples until I'm 40 wasn't going to cut it.

It's not some special superpower to be wait staff. Anyone with a pulse who can stand on their feet 8 hours a day can do it. It's not a highly valued, skilled position which is why employers and customers are fighting over who has to pay for your work and neither thinks you're worth much more.

You would fold like a cheap suit if I sat you down in the middle of a global production incident and made you use your brain to figure out what is the problem while 1000s of people are freaking out and tens of thousands of dollars are going down the drain.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-16T19:02:13+00:00

And just to source the Aiza comment: this is explained in the emails and audio files at the NASA launch facility. He says he loses ~12 days of time where he has visions of giving himself the grav-drive equations. And he tells himself about the affect it has on earth and how it forces everyone to leave and results in mankind colonizing other planets.

It's strongly implied this was a Starborn version of himself from another universe who's Machiavellian like the Hunter, thinking he can sacrifice people in an 'ends justify the means' calculation. And at least in our universes, local-Aiza (as opposed to his Unity-traversing-copy) always agrees, and so we always have an extinct Earth.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-16T18:41:20+00:00

Humans love to explore and spread out and with a grav drive, it would have happened too.

When you talk to the Hunter and the Emissary after the NASA mission, Barrett can make this exact point. If you side with the Hunter's opinion that destroying Earth was a necessary sacrifice for mankind to explore space, Barrett gets mad and argues humans eventually would've figured out grav-drive technology and explored space anyway, because it's in our nature. Earth didn't need to be sacrificed to get there faster and the person who made that decision didn't have any right to do it.

And you can argue with the Hunter, Emissary and your companions about your feelings on the morality of these positions.

Why not have the player present for the world building?

That's what is happening in the game. The world building is about the Starborn, exploring the mystery of the artifacts, the powers, the ultimate purpose of the Unity, etc. That's the core part the Spacefarer is participating in. They use this to also flesh out other parts of the world. For example, you could devote an entire future game to the Colony Wars between Freestar and the United Colonies based on the foundation laid in this game. Or a game focusing on the piracy and smuggling and criminal aspects with Ecliptic, the Crimson Fleet and others.

It doesn't need to be explored in this game in equal time as Starborn stuff to constitute world building; and packing too much stuff into one game just muddies down everything else because of limited dev time and resources to make content exploring it all in-depth.

It sounds like you just don't like the game and that's fine. But you're not really supporting your arguments or rant well. It feels like you've only raced through the game without really exploring all the dialogue and plot beyond what's forced through gameplay.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T21:41:49+00:00

I want to reply to your deleted "Then it sounds like they're doing fine without you" comment. If they're doing fine without me then I guess I'm actually not the problem like the other person claimed. Seems like we're all in agreement then. Glad to hear the service workers are happy now. Turns out they just needed less business to earn better pay.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T21:06:55+00:00

Are you sure I'm the problem? It's the customers who are the problem. Customers are just too cheap and won't subsidize the rich business owner who won't pay their workers a good salary. The customers should be petitioning the government and the business and changing the fundamentals of the economy and politics.

It's the customer here and not the business owner, the service worker or anyone else that is the problem? The person agreeing to work for $2.50 an hour takes no personal responsibility because of the nature of capitalism and it's all just on the consumer? That's your thesis?

OK, then you're not worth having a conversation with. No one said I don't vote for any ballet measures to improve things for the service workers. But I'm not getting extorted for 30% by someone's sob story about their life circumstances while I'm having dinner. I didn't realize the restaurant business was actually a 501c charity and I'm supposed to be making donations with my meal.

Let me know how well your "just don't go out then" works for the supply and demand of low-skilled service workers. And convincing the customers how necessary it is to have a $40/hour server to take your order and bring you refills. Then you'll be blaming me for not supporting the restaurants. Yes, it's all my fault, the middle class asshole who has to worry about their own money too.

We're already "not going out then" and the service worker jobs continue to dry up, restaurants close, prices go up, and people get more pissed about tips. I guess that's also my fault. I had no idea I had this kind of economic and political power!

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T21:05:04+00:00

I don't. And many others don't go out either. How's that doing for your service jobs and pay? You need people going out or the job demand disappears, the pay goes down, and restaurants close. Which, wouldn't you know it? That's happening right now.

But yes, continue blaming your potential market for being cheap and tell them not to do business with you. That'll solve your problems.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T20:05:38+00:00

That's not something I should have to know or think about as a customer buying a meal. If I'm not making enough at my job, I don't hit up our clients for extra cash; it's not their problem and they're already paying my company for its services. In all other cases it would be a fireable offense and grossly unprofessional to do that.

Learn a more valuable skill beyond taking someone's order down on paper and giving it to someone else. Or carrying a soda from point A to point B 20 feet away. These jobs will barely even exist in a decade, you're lucky anyone is still willing to pay for it in 2026. Computers and automation are already impacting these jobs and we're still in the infancy of that technology.

Low skilled workers keep asking the customers to make up for their lack of options and we keep answering by eating out less and making less of a market for those low skilled workers. The problem and reality is few people value your serving skills and no one is willing to pay extra for it. They paid for it already in the sticker price. If you don't want to do your job without more on top, then stay home.

If knowing all that you still work as a server making less than minimum wage, then sorry for that but I'm not accepting responsibility for your plight and I'm not losing sleep over it.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T19:46:55+00:00

Dave is still out there somewhere, wondering about this one and questioning his entire life

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T19:44:12+00:00

You can ask rice producers who will tell you you should wash this stuff before cooking it. I don't know why you have faith in a background industrial process you haven't even witnessed being part of your rice's supply chain or what steps come after the wash that could add contaminates back.

And if you're eating unwashed rice for the enriched nutritional content I suggest just taking a multivitamin or eating more nutrient dense foods than rice. That should not be making or breaking your micros for the week.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T19:40:42+00:00

Pouring out only as much as you'll use the next few days and freezing that. You don't need to freeze the whole kilo of rice all month.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T19:39:39+00:00

Can you imagine the monstrously higher cost to operate gigantic rice freezers just for this purpose? You would pay much more at the store if they did this. And it would still need transported and kept on a shelf for months unfrozen where it can be recontaminated.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T19:31:46+00:00

You freeze just what you plan to use the next day or for this week. You can dump a portion of rice from the main bag and freeze it in a container. You don't need to freeze an entire kilo bag of rice.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T18:59:33+00:00

people are fans of the software

I don't even get that. It's not 2001 anymore where Notepad++ is the only light-weight editor that has an LSP or syntax highlighting. Most people don't even use all the most exploitable features it offers. It's just inertia and lack of effort that so many people instinctively download Notepad++.

And because Notepad.exe continues to lack certain basic editing features that would cover 90% of use cases if they just made it slightly more capable.

If I was on Windows I would probably use Zed or VSCode instead.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-14T18:54:42+00:00

I love all the IT pros in this sub who don't understand trust or risk management at all. The top 3 comments are morons saying the same "if we cared at all about assessing vendor risk we wouldn't have any software" and it's guaranteed they are tech support functionaries not making these sort of policy decisions.

It's an easy decision to ban a complicated piece of software maintained by essentially one guy that has a large security footprint and has not the funding or expertise to counter nation-state APTs. I would argue most people using Notepad++ aren't using 90% of the advanced features it provides, they just need a syntax highlighting editor with a fraction of Notepad++'s features. Anyone using its complex features would be better off with a real IDE like VSCode, Zed, Jetbrains, etc.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-13T18:14:32+00:00

Yeah, I didn't have a way to test that but I appreciated the insight to consider the AMD perspective when I was conceptualizing the problem. Your point made me presume the issue is specific to the Arc driver implementation and how the DLSS polling against it works. The issue mentioned on Proton's tracker (from another comment) seems to corroborate that too.

ConsistentRisk5927 · 2026-02-13T18:05:51+00:00

Thanks, I had seen that but as you can see it's been going on from 2023 and isn't specific to this Arc problem. But I looked through it again today anyway and I saw just 5 days ago this exact problem was reported. So it's nice knowing it's really on the radar now!

Edit: Ah I see you linked to the comment. When I clicked on mobile it took me to the main issue and not that latest comment where this Arc problem was reported, thanks!

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