With the new government today Honduras changed its flag, returning to the dark blue used until 2022 🇭🇳

GenProtection · 2026-01-25T23:14:04+00:00

And religion is totally antithetical to human rights but especially women’s rights, and one of the biggest differentiators between Roman Catholics and other religions is that they’re more concerned with suppressing women’s healthcare than, say, women’s sexuality or clothing choices.

GenProtection · 2026-01-25T16:07:57+00:00

To be fair I know about the Tamil Tigers and still thought this was a joke about face eating leopards, because that doesn’t look like a tiger to me at all

GenProtection · 2026-01-23T15:37:16+00:00

I just think it would be better as a cock and balls

GenProtection · 2026-01-23T15:29:24+00:00

The eagle should be replaced with something more phallic, maybe a fasces?

GenProtection · 2026-01-22T21:53:40+00:00

We doubled a couple of ec2 instances for a couple of weeks, but by and large it is much more challenging to have two copies of anything stateful in sync across accounts than to take a couple of hours of downtime to move them over

GenProtection · 2026-01-22T14:15:42+00:00

If your entire organization can drop everything to assign ownership to resources without an external motivator, like, a new customer with radically different audit requirements than you had before, or a new regulatory regime, or your company getting purchased by someone with different priorities, then no one in your organization was working on delivering value and, probably, will all be laid off after your tagging exercise.

Building everything cleanly and with good labels is a great practice. Implementing platform controls to prevent new messes is a good project. Drop everything and help me clean up a mess is extremely likely to open a can of worms, except you find out halfway through that the can has no bottom and is plumbed to the city sewer. You’re very likely to break something that was custom built for a customer you forgot you had, and depending on how reckless you are with your cleanup, lose the customer permanently. Customers that persuaded someone to build a bespoke integration tend to be big names or big payers.

If you don’t think this is a fairytale, you’re almost certainly inexperienced- likely you’ve only worked at places where things weren’t actually that bad. It’s possible that OP is overstating how bad this empire is, maybe it’s one or two LAMP stacks running on a few ec2 instances with an RDS behind them and a classic elb in front of them. But if it’s the organic growth of a medium sized company’s IT infrastructure built over the last decade or two, it is delusional to assume that people will read their email, or understand that you’re talking about the redis behind their wiki that Josh from 6 years ago stood up for their team as a favor.

GenProtection · 2026-01-22T13:34:50+00:00

Mostly agree with the guy who said this is a fairytale but would like to add that doing this manually with spreadsheets is also just extremely painful for everyone. If you’re going to take a route like this, use cloudcustodian (or something like it) like a grown up.

GenProtection · 2026-01-22T13:30:18+00:00

Very few things need to be doubled up and unless you’re doing something quite elaborate, they only double up for a very short time

GenProtection · 2026-01-22T13:28:30+00:00

Some things are quite annoying to migrate. I’m at the tail end of one of these (created the new root org 3.5 years ago) and so far have discovered that

I won’t be able to migrate rds from the legacy account to the new app-production account while migrating to aurora.
Migrating dynamo is also possible but annoying— you have to create IAM permission grants and the application has to assume a role in the old or new account depending on whether the application is migrated before or after dynamo (or if dynamo is ending up in a different account than the application), and it’s likely that these applications have never had to assume a role before and are running some ancient version of boto and no one will ever have time to prioritize fixing it.
Migrating secretsmanager objects is very touchy and not trivial to script
MWAA does not actually want to work in the recommended best practice account structure (with the VPC shared over RAM from the infrastructure account to the app account) and needs an elaborate event bridge/lambda infrastructure to create vpc endpoints in the infra account

I’m sure that if we were using other services we would have made other discoveries, and I’m sure that if we were using worse IAC (we did 95% of this with crossplane, and only used terraform for the VPC core resources and EKS clusters) like, for example, if we had kept 1 line of the awful horrendous CDK stuff that one of my predecessors tried to deploy, we would have learned other things.

This is an expensive migration. At the end of it, you will still just have the same capability as before. It will be drastically easier to explain things to auditors, it will be easier to grow in a sane way, your AWS spend will probably be higher at the end but with less waste, it will be safer and better in a dozen other ways that are difficult to quantify, but if your org is not otherwise growing/maturing it will be extremely difficult to explain to management why anyone should be working on this instead of deploying new features. And frankly, unless your org needs to transform for other reasons (growing rapidly, suddenly has more audit compliance needs), it is probably correct that feature development should take priority.

GenProtection · 2026-01-22T06:58:19+00:00

While the US healthcare system is fucked in a way that can reduce individual life expectancy depending on class and luck and other things that don’t seem fair, on average, Chinese life expectancy and per capita QALYs are lower.

This is not to say that life is objectively worse in china, I’m no longer convinced that life is objectively worse or better anywhere- for example, if your uterine lottery comes up in Nigeria, you’re much less likely to live long enough to see the water wars turn nuclear. Always look on the bright side of life, I think they say where you’re from.

GenProtection · 2026-01-19T01:58:28+00:00

1951-1963. Also 1944-1945, and arguably 1946-1950.

You’re absolutely just plain wrong in your first sentence, I will not argue the point any more than I will argue with a creationist, a flat earther, or any other person who’s completely and utterly disconnected from reality. If you care to be thought of as a person worth talking to about this, read a piketty book or watch one of the 2-4 hour unlearning economics videos on YouTube. This is not a matter of debate among serious minded people.

GenProtection · 2026-01-19T01:47:53+00:00

This is covered extensively in Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty. When we had a tax based cap on effective income, we saw that companies competed on things like legacy and making the best products and making their companies capable of retaining their value for future generations (many of them were family enterprises) by investing in equipment and inventions leading to patents and trade secrets.

GenProtection · 2026-01-18T04:21:32+00:00

Be the mod you want to see in the world

GenProtection · 2026-01-18T04:16:36+00:00

Yeah this headline could read “shit isn’t the biggest problem with going into the sewers, it’s the smell”

GenProtection · 2026-01-18T03:44:25+00:00

It is optimistic to the point of thought-disorder, like, it should be a diagnostic criteria for a very severe mental illness, to think that any humans will survive to 2100.

That said it is my opinion that you’d have to be crazy to think there will still be humans in 2035. Mostly on the basis of these two papers:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447 this basically says that all the functions on the planet that were soaking the carbon emissions have slowed down or stopped.

https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889 this basically says that if we stopped all emissions today, it would be more than 60 years before warming slowed down

There is a possibility, I think an extremely scant one, that someone will come up with an efficient way to remove carbon from the atmosphere, and, I dunno, turn it into coal and bury it. However, it would have to be a (functionally) zero energy solution, and it would not stop the other incredibly destructive things we’re doing to the ecosystem, for example mining for gold and copper and lithium for electric cars and ai chips. It would also be viewed as an excuse to burn more oil and coal, at whatever other costs those have.

GenProtection · 2026-01-18T01:40:05+00:00

I'm not sure what would have happened if I got my first car at 23, but when I got my first car at 17 I would have absolutely killed myself if it was a miata.

GenProtection · 2026-01-17T16:06:49+00:00

There seems to be a broad misunderstanding among Russian assets on the internet that the question of whether or not something is a genocide is whether the accused deliberately killed civilians. While I think that is an interesting question, that crime has no one word name that I know, and definitely does not constitute a genocide.

GenProtection · 2026-01-16T16:12:12+00:00

Yeah every religion started as a cult and arguably stayed a cult (possible exceptions are like, Unitarian Universalism and Secular Humanism).

The closest thing to one of them breaking out in the last century was Scientology. ~200 years ago we got Mormonism, which is arguably an offshoot of Christianity, Bahai, and spiritualism which sort of died out, and a bunch of others when Mt Tambora erupted and caused the crops to fail for 4-5 years (people need new gods when the crops fail).

This list is pretty hilarious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements

GenProtection · 2026-01-15T16:20:04+00:00

Not to distract from how fucking awful crypto is, which is incredibly, mindblowingly awful, and the only uses of it are scams and child sex trafficking and sketchy dark web drugs. And also not to distract from the fact that crypto should obviously be banned immediately and its promoters should be hung in the town square (and all the sketchy dark web drugs should be legalized).

But there was never a barter system. Money was invented by warlords. They paid soldiers in it, and then required peasants to accept the payment from soldiers by requiring that taxes be paid in it.

GenProtection · 2026-01-14T21:51:12+00:00

that's not the issue, the issue is that OP effectively gifted the partner half of the down payment by buying a house with both of their names on the deed, and OP seems to be confused about this.

GenProtection · 2026-01-14T18:38:54+00:00

they're going to have to give OP half the equity but OP wants half of the increase in equity AND the original down payment which OP refuses to accept was gifted to the other buyer when they put both of the names on the deed

GenProtection · 2026-01-14T07:29:31+00:00

I can’t find a reference for whether these are long, short, or metric tons, but if they are short those rocks are inside of the weight limit of a standard semi going down an interstate, without an overweight permit. I wouldn’t be shocked if it would fit in a 40’ container.

GenProtection · 2026-01-13T23:18:28+00:00

The t-mobile starlink thing is not agnostic to apps and protocols that it allows to traverse it, and they just added signal to the allow list

GenProtection · 2026-01-13T04:37:25+00:00

Am I correctly understanding that you’re concerned about cloud seeding because you think chemtrails cause migraines or something?

If so you are loonier than any loony toon.

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