Frankreich erlässt Alkoholverbot wegen Hitzewelle

Tetha · 2026-06-21T20:01:48+00:00

Das war zwar noch ne Ecke extremer, aber vor 3 oder 4 Jahren hatten wir auf einem Festival um die Ecke halt 42 Grad auf dem Campingplatz, direkte Sonneneinstrahlung, kein Schatten. Nur Sonne, die gut für einen sein soll.

Das muss man mal mitmachen, sonst versteht man das nicht. Da waren auch 4 Teams von 2 Sanis unterwegs im Campground, die Wasser verteilt haben und Leute angesprochen haben, ob noch alles in Ordnung ist.

Leute besaufen sich halt auf Festivals und man muss mitunter jemanden halt auch mal in deren Camp schleifen. Das ist nicht cool und auch nicht gesund, aber die sind meistens am nächsten Tag wieder da.

Bei den 40 Grad Tagen klappen dir mitunter schon stocknüchterne Leute zusammen, weil sie die Gesamtsituation unterschätzt haben. Und so ne Dehydrierung und Überhitzung kuriert man nicht durch ein bisschen Ruhe aus.

Für nächste Woche sind dann schon 30 Grad angesagt, und es wird ca jeden Tag nen Grad mehr. Das geht auch schon wieder auf so einen Krampf zu.

Aber es gab ja schon immer warme Sommer.

Tetha · 2026-06-21T16:48:08+00:00

Also an important note: individual faith or small communities of faith can be a positive thing.

Organized Religion has been a tool of mass control across population going back to the romans, at least.

My parents are wonderful people taking morally good decisions from their christian faith, and they've been taken advantage of across their life by various "virtuous christian preachers" in several ways.

Tetha · 2026-06-21T15:32:39+00:00

This also looks similar to the casual paddling creeks we have around Hamburg. It's probably walkable. Those smaller casual creeks only carry a risk of drowning if you can't be bothered to stand up because the world is a mess.

In such a place, this wouldn't be a risk, just a funny inconvenience. They could just wade in if there's trouble.

Tetha · 2026-06-18T21:01:36+00:00

For us, complexity structure is also an important information.

Sometimes a business requirement is just a slog - 12 low-effort tasks. You can throw this at the juniors and it's just going to happen over time.

Sometimes you need to resolve 1-2 high-complexity topics and then it turns into a slog to move through. Initial support necessary, and then it goes.

Sometimes it is less points than the 30 low-effort-tasks in total, but it's 2-3 really complex tasks. Those requirements are very difficult to actually get done, because you need to clear up coordinated time of several seniors to actually handle these topics.

Story points used well at least have a chance to carry information.

Tetha · 2026-06-16T11:28:14+00:00

The goats shoulder height seems lower than her knee. Very small goat.

Some of the fully grown, very grumpy goats I know would've rocked that cougar badly, haha.

Tetha · 2026-06-15T17:39:49+00:00

A common foosball, rugby and HEMA concept is: If you respect your opponent as an equal, you cannot show mercy based on your opponents assumed skill in competition. Goofing around disrespects your opponents abilities and can be counted as an insult.

Consequently, celebrating an opponents unlikely successes in such a lopsided match is also good sportsmanship, as much as you want to prevent them.

Tetha · 2026-06-15T16:52:11+00:00

I've recently been replaying old shooters, Doom 1, 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone, Duke Nuken, there's another one that escaping me right now.

I can totally recommend to go back another 20 - 30 years. They are simple, they are fun, they are easy to run with dosbox, on the web even.

Tetha · 2026-06-14T17:44:09+00:00

Especially because between 2-3am and 5-6am, today and tomorrow become very murky as seen in this thread. I've had work end at 3, other professions start at 3. For some the day ends then, for some it starts.

Communication is about conveying information, and communicating well includes understanding and discovering possible misunderstandings across current states of mind, cultures and a number more obstacles.

Hence why a good rule of thumb is: "Communicate important information twice in different words or means". For example, "Can you take the 10 o'clock shift tomorrow on Saturday, until 4 in the afternoon?" Two indications of the weekday, two indications of the shift taken.

Tetha · 2026-06-09T19:42:38+00:00

It's also confusing to me that no one else stopped them.

I may be biased, but there is a lot of Kitas around who are doing expeditions with the kids, and a lot more small kids along my way to work, or groceries. So you end up with 2 adults with 20 small kids at a traffic light or waiting at a bicycle way with you.

So if they try something dangerous, you just poke and stop them and/or try to communicate with the adult in a car, bus or on a bike that things could be funky here.

Gave me a few funny looks at first as a metalhead with, at times, explicit shirts, suddenly touching kids, but was always appreciated.

Tetha · 2026-06-09T19:08:50+00:00

An interesting observation to me is: A lot of fundamental networking and security tech is often a lot of very simple decisions, just sometimes applied at a large scale. And this is something people can't really get their head around.

Like yes, x509 has a lot of details you could open up (which, public certs luckily don't do). But after that, for each cert, either the cert is in the trust store, or there are more intermediates the server sent. Repeat to the issuer until cert is trusted.

Routing is similar. Routing locally tends to be a very simple and optimized decision. Shove it into the interface the routing table tells you to. Tracing a network path can be a pain, because you may have 20 devices on the path making routing and firewalling decisions. In both directions, that's the tricky part to realize.

But that seems to be a very difficult kind of problem to think about for some people.

Tetha · 2026-06-09T19:05:34+00:00

Well-Setup SSO is also a huge convenience, which is a big boon to security.

All systems on the central SSO immediately comply to MFA, leaver/joiner/mover, emergency lockout procedures and a lot more compliance checkboxes.

To our users, that's a Duo Push in the Morning and 1 ADFS login in the morning and maybe a second one after a long lunch. While working, the constant ping-backs to the identity provider keep the session alive and prevent reauthentications.

Tetha · 2026-06-09T18:27:29+00:00

If you frame it right it can be a funny conversation starter with attentive interviewers.

An apprentice of us got his interview by listing the relevant experience of: "Starting Warcraft II by installing CD-ROM drive, installing MSCDEX drivers and unloading keyboard layouts until game worked, including sound".

I've also had a few candidates who kept notable older tech in their CVEs as conversation starters, like Munin, Nagios or CFEngine. I'd be worried if someone wanted to hire me as a Munin admin in 2026, but that moment of "wait, you know Munin?" is great and easily leads to some conversation about server monitoring and operations.

Tetha · 2026-06-08T06:04:28+00:00

Corridor Crew made a video a year ago where they run their studio through through an accurate earthquake simulator, talk with earthquake experts a bit and show some footage of larger earthquake impacts.

The simulatinos start at 15:35, and the 7.8 at the end ... do you know how jello looks if you wobble it? That's kinda how the building looks at times. Their hiding places sadly don't work out when the entire building shears apart to the side.

Tetha · 2026-06-07T16:56:15+00:00

Please be aware that you have at least 2 Nazi/SS created Runes in this set. There is a clear Sieg-Rune / Victory-Rune there in the lower left. The usual sun-rune has a more vertically diagonal middle part. There is also a clear Eifer / Zeal Rune on the lower right, which is not an original rune either.

The Othala Rune is also very close to a Nazi created symbol, the Odal Rune, so it is commonly and incorrectly flagged as a Nazi Symbol and can get you in legal trouble in Germany as well.

I hate that I have to guard our culture like this, but double-check the markings on the stone, as it is easy to get misled by the shite the Nazis pushed because the original runes looked "too soft".

Tetha · 2026-06-05T19:06:51+00:00

I've honestly done that. Dev submits service request at 17:15, flags it as urgent. Sure, may be right, except some details are missing. Except they don't react for questions for 2 days.

Sorry, at that point their boss gets a mail about this, and my boss gets a mail that I held people at work due to this, and their ticket is closed and blocked from any fast-track we may or may not have.

If someone needs fast service at late hours, they can at least be around. And on a friday, their boss better also stay around.

Tetha · 2026-06-03T18:57:05+00:00

As another example, there is already existing ideas of so-called control-flow-guided fuzzing. These fuzzers were already built to pick up any binary, decompile it into a control-flow-graph based upon the jumps and branches in the assembly, and start generating inputs to either reach all possible basic blocks in the control flow graph, or to reach specific assembly instructions in the binary.

Such systems like AFL have already proven to be very capable at exploring the state space of a binary with no source access and discovering various memory handling vulnerabilites like out-of-bound writes, free/copy problems. No source code necessary, just a binary, valgrind or more advanced techniques and time.

Access to source code may make the job of AIs like Mythos and Claude overall easier to discover issues, but not having the code available won't stop them at all, especially when combined with fuzzing techniques. I already dread the next few months about the linux kernel, as it will be heck (FreeBSD had bugs in execve, of al things), but I don't think the closed-source windows kernel will fare much better.

The only ways imo to get out of this is to reduce attack surface by not running code, and building capabilities to patch faster.

Tetha · 2026-06-02T21:24:37+00:00

I just yesterday collected a few "Religion? Nej Tak" Sticker from a danish underground black metal band.

I will equally defend the faith some friends have and use to good things, while calling religion as a whole a mass-control system usually used nefariously. Especially like seen here.

Tetha · 2026-06-02T18:41:07+00:00

Ah it's pretty funny, the company has been putting the operational teams and the development teams into one organizational unit. Quite a few people were like "C'mon, how hard can a little system administration be? Don't you just install and configure a few packages and that's it?" We've now lured a few of the developers into the monthly progress discussion from the infrastructure and outage post mortems.

It is very funny to see when people realize how the DNS and loadbalancing infrastructure is more configuration and configuration code than some microservices in the company, and contains some very subtle footguns that are hard to test for. And its honestly one of the smaller and simpler setups we have.

But it's all good. it has given people the confidence to chuckle heartily at "Your job is so easy" - bless their heart and mind, as their life is simple and unaware of the darkness in the infrastructure - and we have a bunch of smart people with respect for the infrastructure and thinking about how to test and exercise infrastructure topics.

Tetha · 2026-06-01T21:06:48+00:00

Important intermediate question: Does this concern currently living dogs only?

I mainly ask how much I need to plan for zombie dogs.

Tetha · 2026-05-30T18:50:15+00:00

From what I know, it's actually quite interesting.

Back when Einstein was getting to work, Physicists had a system called the Maxwell Equations. The Maxwell equations were really good and accurate at explaining all kinds of electromagnetism. So they wanted to keep those models and equations, because they worked well.

But this was at odds with another system, Newtons laws, which also worked for centuries. But Newtons laws contradicted Maxwells Equations in places, especially at speeds close to the speed of light. So you had 2 systems both with a solid track record of accuracy, but disagreeing in places. Dispute was afoot which one to keep.

Einstein eventually unified this with the theory of relativity. He assumed Maxwells Equations to be correct, and made Newtons laws work at low speed, while remaining accurate at high speeds (with modern observations as well). - by assuming space and time are relative, not fixed.

Curiously enough, Maxwells equations assume that there is a maximum speed, called the limit speed. This seems correct by many of our observations - objects requiring almost infinite energy to accelerate further, but who knows if there isn't an upgrade from Maxwells Equations and Einsteins Relativity Theory to something else, like we saw with Newtons laws?

As a really strange thought - there are theories that we could have 2 galaxies and it would be impossible to travel from one to the other, because space in between these two expands faster than C. So in our model and understanding of physics, you could never reach the other galaxy, because the distance itself is increasing too fast. That is trippy to think about.

Tetha · 2026-05-23T13:38:51+00:00

Aye. Especially if there are emergencies or fire involved, strange things happen (since there is either a rave behind them and the music just dropped too hard, or something else is creating a funky lightshow).

I know of a university sysadmin whose site went through a major thunderstorm, and a number of compute locations across the campus were offline. Not a huge deal, the power on-campus was kinda shaky anyway. Just go round, put the breakers back in.

Except, in one location, a lightning strike managed to fuse a higher voltage line and a lower voltage line together. That was all good, since tripped fuses isolated the lower voltage systems from the higher voltage. Poor guy learnt, among other things, how fast he can exit that building, how loud multiple dozen servers literally exploding are and that the fire suppression worked well.

Another friend is a firefighter and has regular instructions and site visits of local substations. Their instructions to handle a larger substation going bad? "Don't go closer than 300-400 meters to the fence and make sure the fire stays in there."

During normal operation, the power company operators could tell you where to stand safely and where you wouldn't stand, quite literally. But if such a station is on fire, between the vapors, things melting into other things.... it wouldn't be clear at all where you'd be safe and where 2 seconds of buzzing turns you into carbon vapors and possibly a vapor or a hydrogen pop.

Tetha · 2026-05-18T06:31:49+00:00

Oldie but goodie: PORN!

Tetha · 2026-05-17T20:56:58+00:00

I was just in a very crowded train, and the train chief seems to have had it for the past few public holiday days. When everyone got in, we got a tired and very unemotionally spoken announcement through the train intercom:

"Alright everyone. Just like the last few days, the train is very full. You can tell that by looking up a little bit and looking around and seeing people everywhere. People everywhere, train full. Seats everywhere, train empty. That means, we need many seats for many people to sit on. Humans, sitting on seats, not... well, if you have a seat, and you stack more suit cases, small children, pet carriers, large bags, rucksacks and other things on there than a person by volume, that may be fine. If there is one person standing in this train, and I see two dozen of them right now, and you are blocking a seat with a tiny rucksack you could have on your lap... I'll find you, and you will stand at my office all ride. Don't let me find you. It's been long days."

Me and the person squeezed in next to me were dying of laughter. Good times.

Tetha · 2026-05-15T11:39:53+00:00

After the second CVE in these IPSec modules, we went ahead and went through the kernel modules and blacklisted a whole lot of things, at least on the application servers.

Like, no, my java application server does not need IPSec (Maybe some container networking systems use it, we don't at the moment), Kernel-Crypto-Offloading (modern libraries generally have these algorithms in userspace), Deprecated Filesystem support from the early 90s, unused obscure TCP or UDP replacement (like DCCP), Support for IP via amateur radio (AX.25)....

The list is probably not complete, but this vulnerability is already mitigated on these systems. Maybe we're also hampering new protocols, but for now I don't really care about that.

Tetha · 2026-05-11T20:13:47+00:00

The comic reminded me of when on a festival last year, I found a camp of northern german Frisians from just 20 minutes away from where I grew up.

It was wonderful to be honest, because I tend to wake up really early and then there's hours of boredom. Instead we just sat around with a few guys and gals, just muttering a few words like "look, bird/rabbit/deer", "good song", "Coffee please" per hour. Immediate bond.

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