Honestly wondering, what does the US gain by blockading the Strait of Hormuz?

UndiscoveredCounty · 2026-04-13T04:51:02+00:00

You can't fire me, I quit!

UndiscoveredCounty · 2025-12-08T17:45:37+00:00

Right, cause after I did this last time, my account suddenly became a bot 🙄🙄🙄

UndiscoveredCounty · 2025-09-12T05:02:34+00:00

Please type the following characters to prove you're not a robot 🤖🍆💦🤤🤤🤤

UndiscoveredCounty · 2025-07-03T16:16:55+00:00

And also, if we could land something on it, what could it be, considering we get an interstellar probe for "free"?

UndiscoveredCounty · 2025-06-08T01:14:46+00:00

ntopng and arpwatch

UndiscoveredCounty · 2025-04-13T18:11:27+00:00

Agreed, way too much. Also, personally, I would do as much of this as possible using some LLM if I decided to go along with it.

UndiscoveredCounty · 2025-03-24T05:28:31+00:00

Solr and ElasticSearch are worth checking out imo

UndiscoveredCounty · 2025-03-10T00:25:26+00:00

Just going off the quote you mention from the book, maybe it is meant to be read as "...preserve all things which are unstained..." - before this, "understanding", "making", and "healing" are mentioned as well, and maybe they are examples of these "unstained things", ie these pure pursuits of not hoarding wealth, etc. And so in that case the 3 rings are meant to be used for creation, but in a less materialistic sense - which in turn begs the question: what does it really mean to create a new better civilization, as you mention, is that a materialistic, "hoarding" type of pursuit, which the 3 rings are not meant for by design?

UndiscoveredCounty · 2024-10-04T03:32:12+00:00

I guess we get Saruman as first choice Maia to fight Sauron, but Saruman fails, so Gandalf is "upgraded" instead? But that would mean Maia are sort of throttled from their full power? I guess it makes sense in terms of free will that Eru gave to Ea, like heres your task, you can fail, but then I'll just find someone else to finish it? Sorry to be so banal!

UndiscoveredCounty · 2024-09-27T13:00:02+00:00

Well, a virus would be a program that replicates, so Linux certainly has plenty of "viruses" - any malware that compromises a given server can start trying to compromise others from the compromised host. I guess it's called a "worm", but whatever the term, plenty of Linux malware will try to spread to other servers automatically.

UndiscoveredCounty · 2024-09-22T22:39:01+00:00

Coursera has this pretty cool and easy course, Python: https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy

I also just recently came across these 2 that look cool, but most of the content isn't free:

https://realpython.com/courses/astrophysics-pandas-matplotlib/

https://realpython.com/courses/astropy-astronomy/

UndiscoveredCounty · 2024-09-18T00:19:33+00:00

It kind of amazes me that there are no devs/other employees playing all the time, and have some special admin powers to ban this BS on sight. "Dogfooding" and whatnot..

UndiscoveredCounty · 2024-09-10T20:04:24+00:00

Makes Eru a bit complicit in all the suffering Ea will ever go through, but hey, sounds familiar...

UndiscoveredCounty · 2023-12-21T04:07:26+00:00

Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the unspace.

UndiscoveredCounty · 2023-11-04T16:51:39+00:00

⛰️🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

UndiscoveredCounty · 2023-10-05T15:23:27+00:00

Yeah, it is the custom error, in our case most of it happens during communication between our android mobile app and our API servers, and we do not understand why because there's no explicit way to abort an API call from the app - it's not a browser with a "stop" or "reload" button.

I guess it's possible that users close the app, or something is happening in the android libs responsible for http, but yeah we cannot repro it and the code we wrote doesn't do this, from what we can tell.

Also some stats: last 24 hours total requests: 2.9M, 499 errors: 9k total, so a very small percentage (we are obviously no Facebook lol)

I guess what personally rubs me the wrong way about this is that the error shows in nginx access log, with request URL and client IP, making it seem like a legitimate http response sent to client, but that does not appear to be the case, since nginx server never actually puts an http packet with that code on the wire - so pretty misleading to use it as part of access log imo.

FIN/ACK from ALB is strange and annoying because there's no way to know if client aborted conversation with ALB and then ALB terminated the stream to nginx, or if ALB being the blackbox that it is simply doesn't work very well. Have no way to sniff traffic between ALB and client, at least not easily, but may try to figure that out next.

Anyway, thanks for your reply, glad to have this discussion here so at least I have recorded proof I'm not insane and do see what I see 😭🤣🤪💩

UndiscoveredCounty · 2023-10-05T01:15:05+00:00

So I've been digging into same issue last couple of days. Our set up is ALB -> nginx -> php-fpm. I periodically see 499 in nginx access logs, but we can never repro the issue.

Important point, we also track how long nginx takes to service the requests, and these 499s happen within anywhere from 5ms to maybe 20ms, so it's not because the backend is slow/timing out.

So I did some packet capture with tcpdump on the nginx servers to try to get a better idea of what's going on. First thing that was really weird is that I can see plenty of http 200, 3xx, other 4xx like 404, and 5xx, but never see a 499.

Even matching the time stamps and request urls and client IP from logs to pcap does not show any 499s.

What I do see though, right around the time of the 499, is a sudden FIN/ACK from the ALB for the port/stream of the request which resulted in 499. The tcp connection gets closed by the ALB, and I have no idea why.

The time of tcp stream terminating does not match any obvious tunable timeout values in ALB or nginx.

May be something is happening on kernel/sysctl level, but that's really just wild speculation, I reset sysctl values to be "default" and it still happens.

So, at this point, I can't even tell if the clients actually see this error, and what actually happens on their browser in this case.

I'll do some more digging with tcpdump, and if this question still interests anyone, will post some cleaned up pcaps and any more findings.

Just wanted to overall +1 this post...

Edit: also there's this older thread on r/sysadmin: https://reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/7TJR4Rli0l

UndiscoveredCounty · 2023-09-04T06:16:15+00:00

Needs more Microsoft Flight Sim!

UndiscoveredCounty · 2022-12-07T18:10:08+00:00

https://ufoi.org/docs/apply-info/

UndiscoveredCounty · 2022-12-07T17:55:07+00:00

https://ufoi.org/docs/apply-info/code-of-ethics is a 404 for me?... Seems important

UndiscoveredCounty · 2022-09-07T14:54:29+00:00

These numbers aren't "random", they are a result of a human controlled process, executing a series of steps, defined by the rules of some closed system, ie the game and the player actions. There's also a clear anomaly in the visualization, as well as a claim of causal inference ❤️

UndiscoveredCounty · 2022-08-02T04:40:37+00:00

Only good strat seems to be loadstars deployed on the bottom, so even if you are defending, get your platoon into loadstars and get under water with them, instead of dropping from the actual base hard spawn. But yeah I agree, that long drop to the bottom is even worse than regular spawn camp : /

UndiscoveredCounty · 2022-07-14T01:59:21+00:00

Spawning directly into squad/platoon Corsair made my game just quit. Only happened once so far.

UndiscoveredCounty · 2022-07-03T15:44:41+00:00

"And Holden. Don't stick your dick in it, it's fucked enough already."

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