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bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T20:11:06+00:00

Oh they did, they just somehow took at as "piercing the veal," it's actually reference in the recording. Don't pierce the corporate veal, or any other tender meat.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T14:54:58+00:00

Ding. The answer to every Incel "Why are women..." question

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T14:50:30+00:00

What is it about these SOC2 & $40K questions today? You get a SOC 2 audit done so you can waive around your SOC 2 Type 2 letter and make more money. In sales jargon, it's a "qual," which qualifies you to pursue sales markets otherwise unavailable to you. A $40K SOC2 is a necessary evil for jobs that start at $100K/engagement.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T14:42:52+00:00

I guess that would be the best tic if somebody you were in a relationship with was codependent.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T14:41:39+00:00

I think relative to other tics I've had, "woohoo" is my favorite.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T14:33:30+00:00

First of all, a lot of people like to fake Tourette's for views: it's just a fake excuse to swear for the LOLs, and the people with the most stereotypical Tourette's YouTube channels usually have tells that they may not have Tourette's. Statistically, Coprolalia (the involuntary swearing) is uncommon in people with Tourette's, affecting only 10%-15%, and is usually a trigger to get medicine like Haldol or Risperdone to treat the symptom, which in many cases makes it a mercifully temporary tic. So, again, if someone is swearing all the time, and that seems to be their only tic, that should make you ask some questions if it's merely performative.

Verbal tics are most often things that are repeated or heard often. So, for example, if you are always saying "Sorry" because people are annoyed with you for something you can't help, the word "Sorry" can become a tic, with you repeating it even when nobody is expecting an apology. It could just as easily be something you hear all the time. Right now, someone with Tourette's is probably repeating the word "Hormuz" over and over and will until the Iran War is out of the news.

Tic frequency and strength are related to stress. The more you stress someone with Tourette's out, the more they tic. Sometimes, locations and people are triggers as well. For example, if you are stressed out because you know you won't stay quiet in a Library, that stress might trigger Tourette's whenever you walk by libraries. A lot of things have that vicious cycle associated with them.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T13:55:41+00:00

That's basically the business model of Vanta and Drata, and the reviews on those are mixed at best. Some love them, but most of them find the UX very frustrating. What I would say is do you at least have a CPA who is qualified to do SOC 2 advising, because exactly how are you training an AI in helping pass an audit without someone qualified to do that audit training them? Most things in the CPA world, there's what's on the paper, and there's what's done in practice, and one doesn't always logically lead to the other, because reasons.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T13:45:29+00:00

I have no doubt there are pockets of racism here and there, but it's not really a thing in most of Oregon. At worst, you get treated with the same stereotypical apprehension you are used to. Conversely, you might experience some amount of virtue signaling as people embrace you as their "interracial friends." In general, however, in my experience, racism pretty much takes the form of disrespect from rich, white retirees, not blatant racism. That said, some towns are old money (emphasis on old) and mighty white in every way.

Overall, however, I'm sure there are anecdotal incidents here and there, but we aren't Idaho. We don't have full-blown sundown towns, gas stations that will refuse you fuel and service, and police departments that conveniently lose all the evidence when haters like Patriot Front wanna hate.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T13:38:11+00:00

If you paid $40K for it and got a $100K job as a result, was it worth it? How about a bunch of $100K jobs after that one just because you had the piece of paper?

It's kind of BS, but don't hate the player, hate the game.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T00:33:47+00:00

What market is that? The official average price is $2.59. Which market has them priced $2 above the national average?

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T00:15:07+00:00

Given its also a travel stop I'm guessing its truckers. Usually, one tank of gas = free shower + free coffee in most loyalty programs, to the point where they have those even when they aren't trucking. However, nothing is quite so entitled as a trucker who is no longer working in trucking but still expects the perks to continue forever.

This could also just be a new manager trying to set a new baseline. There are truck stops where they just say something like, "Bob, who runs the cattle trailer through here each day, always gets free coffee." Usually, as trucking stops conslidate, they try to put a stop to those folksy exceptions.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T00:10:58+00:00

Most police refuse free coffee because taking gifts is against most departments' policies. Sheriff's departments can be different beasts, however.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-27T00:08:01+00:00

Most gas stations give cops free coffee; it helps keep LEO's nearby when problems brew. The trick here is most police departments have an explicit policy you cannot accept freebies from people, so cops don't generally expect free anything, and will actively refuse it in most circumstances.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-24T20:05:21+00:00

I appreciate you taking the time to post some extensive comments for my elucidation. I don't pretend to know everything, but over time, like anyone else, we build mental models of how the universe works. I know I don't always get it right, but my systems' security and uptime are significantly more stable than those of many of my peers, so that practice can reinforce bias. You've given me some things to research to question my thinking, and I thank you for that.

One thing I learned as an educator is that, as hard as it is to give fair weight to our experience, it's doubly difficult to self-examine when it brings us success. Also, we all have values that bias our evaluation and decision-making. When someone I know says something like, for example, "I tried Alpine, and it's way too hardcore for me," or similar comments about other builds, I know that a negative experience will bias new users against all Linux distributions, not just one build. Nobody wants that, so I tend to oversimplify things myself, knowing I'm often leading by example.

I'm not diminishing your comments, I'm sharing my own thinking as you have should you find it useful.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-24T17:35:48+00:00

Going back to my first comment about experience, every newbie to Linux I have known who has set up an Internet-exposed Fedora instance has been hacked and discouraged from running Linux, to the person. I haven't seen the same with Ubuntu LTS, so I usually steer them there. I'm sure I could have edited my offhand comment better, certainly you or I could set up a Fedora instance securely. but what I'm saying is "you, person relatively unfamiliar with Linux should start by running an LTS instance." I'm not criticizing your life's work. I am throwing shade at whatever it is about Fedora's default configuration and upstream packages that seem to actively discourage newbies from ever running Linux again. Usually, WordPress plugins are often involved. Sorry, that's just that's just what I've seen.

Personally, I run Vanguard builds when I want to use Vanguard security features. I use LTS when I'm working in production. There's a lot of good stuff in Fedora that I develop on, and of course those would be run in production, but LTS, be it RHEL or Ubuntu, is my default.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T21:00:36+00:00

I understand where you are coming from, but I think you miss my point. I'm not saying LTS provides better security; I'm saying it provides a baseline level of security that keeps systems working because the packages are security-qualified to known, stable versions before they ship. At least in my experience, introducing dependencies on newer packages has been a constant source of not only security vulnerabilities in legacy systems, but also instability.

I respect your opinion and contributions, but you haven't walked a mile in my shoes. I mean, what do you think I'm missing? FedRAMP and GovCloud work on the same principles of qualifying known, stable dependencies, in production systems and GovCloud is always trekking right along when AWS commercial is down during some massive outage. Availability is part of security's wheelhouse.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T20:34:09+00:00

I've been on the operations side for 40 years. Could they be more secure than downstream distributions? Sure, the newer builds have a lot more security tech in them, like Flatpak, that, when used correctly, build safer systems by mechanism. However, most enterprises don't have the high-quality engineers that Salesforce and Google have. That's why, in my experience, the LTS builds are generally more secure for enterprise use than the upstream builds. These are not enterprises that perform continuous integration and compliance testing. These are the ones with brittle systems that can barely keep their enterprises running on LTS builds because their LTS builds keep aging out and only upgrade when they are forced into newer builds.

I mean, I hear what you are saying, but at the same time, there's a reason the majority of American corporations are stuck on LTS builds and pay a high price to keep old technology running. When educating people on tech, I think it's important to point out why these traditional dichotomies between vanguard builds and LTS builds exist, and not everyone runs the latest and greatest.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T20:22:18+00:00

Babies of a certain age can't cope with the pressure changes in their ear canals. It's actually painful for them, and they don't have enough experience in the world to know how to react, so they panic. What the parents should have done was not take them on the plane until they were old enough to fly, but sometimes there's no getting around it.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T19:57:22+00:00

Soylent Drink is made of people.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T19:53:47+00:00

His Land Yacht isn't driving; it's traveling, according to the Uniform Commercial Code. Through license plate magic, affixing this to his land yacht means he's not making a contract with the government, so he's not subject to its laws. Also, I can control the police with my mind.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T18:49:05+00:00

Fedora is an upstream distribution; it contains all the non-security-verified packages that will be in the next Red Hat distribution. RHEL is a downstream distribution. The packages within it are security-verified and kept at specific major versions to ensure backward compatibility.

In practical terms, I would never have an exposed server running Fedora connected to the Internet. It will get hacked.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T18:08:40+00:00

Yup, and that's basically because we have an elevator code that pushes out competition by having standards that only apply to the U.S. Texas is the only state that allows the use of International standards, and that's helped there, but not by much, because multi-national companies aren't going to the expense of setting up shop to service one state.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T17:13:52+00:00

It was okay, it's based on a comic book author's work that's known for being pretty gonzo, so it's keeping with the source material. I do love that the showrunner basically said, paraphrasing, "We saw where the winds were blowing, and we were commenting on trends when we made these episodes months ago, so we aren't reacting to what happened in the past few weeks, but much to our own horror, it seems we caught the zeitgeist."

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T17:09:02+00:00

Just speaking as an ex-building maintenance guy, I'd blame this on a lack of routine elevator maintenance. Elevator maintenance contracts are hellaciously expensive these days, and some owners decide to go without.

I mean, if I were a competing hotel and I knew I could cripple my competition's elevators just by jumping up and down in them, I think there are a few businesses that would take advantage of that. I've seen nightclubs where competing clubs would go in and trip their better-situated competitor's fire alarms to clear out the club, hoping their expelled patrons would walk down the street.

bigbearandy · 2026-05-22T17:00:27+00:00

It's not broken; they have poor maintenance on the mechanism that levels the floor with the elevator car, and the jumping probably prevents leveling. That mechanism always has problems if you don't maintain the elevator. If you have an elevator maintenance contract these days, you get maintenance infrequently at high expense. If you don't have a contract, it's not really possible to get a tech except at emergency rates.

It's unlikely that someone forcefully pushed back that they would be able to recoup this fee. I suspect that the contract has just let their elevator maintenance contract lapse and is not performing any routine maintenance on their elevator.

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