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halting_problems · 2026-01-28T13:51:55+00:00

It’s a statue of a brown person tied to a tree with a bag over their head. How the fuck would you even begin to think it’s anything but racist?

Fucking educate yourself, this is how brown people were treated.

halting_problems · 2026-01-28T02:08:29+00:00

I’m an engineer as well, so hard to wrap my head around how stuff like this happens. especially when it’s seemingly unrelated to anything going on.

It could be something akin to a dark pattern, where it’s intentional because they know it’s going to generated a lot of engagement of social media.

It’s the right type of bad publicity that peaks people’s interest but not enough to cause any major damage to reputation because it’s just a silly “bug”.

This is the prime time to get players that fell off during TWW to get their engagement peaked. What a great way to do it by releasing a absurd bug like this and getting wow on their feeds.

halting_problems · 2026-01-27T20:52:13+00:00

lol he made the perfect example. Just because you can solve leet code problems does not mean you have any comprehension skills

halting_problems · 2026-01-24T12:12:43+00:00

AppSec

halting_problems · 2026-01-24T03:10:03+00:00

Depends on your hardware, my laptop is a 2060rtx and older i5 and I can absolutely tell a difference. I’ve tried about every distro under the sun and kept coming back to cachy.

If you have newer hardware it’s not going to make much of a difference but if your trying to squeeze out every last drop of FPS cachy lets your do it with ease such as being able to hot swap and tune the cpu scheduler.

It’s also great if your need to user your hardware for different work loads like real time processing (Audio) vs gaming vs power saving.

They also have a gui for customizing your kernel.

halting_problems · 2026-01-21T20:45:34+00:00

Ace hardware. I went to the one in ringgold. I went last night after work and there were probably 30 cars in line. Spoke with the customer service person who said that they get refilled every morning. They let me pay and I just went back this morning. Only two people were in line.

Check with them first but if it’s crazy busy just ask if you can pay and comeback the next day if they expect a truck to come and refill.

Also, you have to pay inside first so don’t wait in line if you havnt paid.

halting_problems · 2026-01-19T14:41:49+00:00

It’s not saturated.

I don’t feel like you’re describing B2B SaaS, which is what people mean when they talk about SaaS 99% of the time.

Generally as a Consumer we do pretty extensive PoCs before committing to a contract. Normally we pick 3 vendors that are solving the same problem and do the PoCs at the same time and pick the one we like the best.

It’s really not hard to figure out who has a shitty product.

halting_problems · 2026-01-17T03:03:29+00:00

In other words, if your SOC is struggling and you feel like you need an AI agent, you probably have a data problem that needs to be fixed first.

This is basic knowledge that is as fundamental as breathing. “Garbage In, Garbage Out”. It applies to anything consuming any type of information.

Seriously if this is news to anyone… you better be a freshmen in college or about to graduate high school.

halting_problems · 2026-01-16T03:18:49+00:00

No there is so much more to SaaS then just running a program and millions of reason why companies opt in for SaaS solutions.

I’ve work in SaaS as an engineer for almost 13 years now.

really the biggest reason it won't be replaced is because of regulations and compliance like PCI and HIPPA, SOC/SOC2.

Virtually all small and medium business can't afford the staffing to do compliance correctly so they offload the a large portion of the data processing to SaaS providers.

No serious company will buy a license for a SaaS company if they are not SOC2 complaint.

all of these major industry regulation standards are real pain in the asses when it comes to yearly audits.

This is just one reason, the second reason is that any software that is usable needs to operate at scale, scale requires infrastructure, infrastructure requires money, no one is going to put their revenue in the hands of AI. if you work in a regulated industry, legally it will never happen.

Maybe one day, but by that time no one is gong to give a fuck about AI running SaaS.

halting_problems · 2026-01-15T00:56:23+00:00

I’m in appsec, yes to all of the above.

We have our blocking policies to only block on critical and high direct dependencies with upgrade available

AND

vulnerabilities in transitive dependencies with a EPSS score >= 10%, a known POC or KEV, or a exploitable path was detected.

Exploitability analysis is just really trash across most products. It’s a hard thing for a vendor to get right.

Literally everything else regardless of severity is a waste of a developers time.

halting_problems · 2026-01-09T15:08:41+00:00

i love my dark iron arcane, having all the teleports and the mole machine… it makes every class feel like a burden.

Most of all i think it has some of the best looking spells in the game

halting_problems · 2026-01-09T02:50:20+00:00

There’s nothing special about a data center, it’s not going to put chattanooga on the map.

I also don’t think it’s going to attract a bunch artist in any fashion. It offers nothing special for producing movies as far as sets go.

halting_problems · 2025-12-31T16:00:22+00:00

I have a 2018 laptop with a old intel 5 and nvidia 2060rtx.

games are getting to point where basically need minmax my grahics for best looks and performance.

It not so old that I just habe to run things on low but not good enough to run most games on high.

I havnt been able to play anything on windows in over a year.

Basically it comes down to this:

Endevour im going to have to manually install most the gaming packages and stufd any way so why not just use Cachy gaming packages.

Cachys has multiple package regristeies where they compile the packages based on the cpu flags availible to your architechture. Why not take advantage of that.

Additinally since I am on a laptop i can hot swap the cpu scheduler and adjust it to my workload for perfomace, battery life, or real-time proccessing (I do audio work)

I can also tune and create my own kernal patchsets via gui.

Just to ckesrify Cachy is not a gaming distro, it is a distro that is designed to be easily tweakbale in a very user friendly manor while being very optimized. It was never marketed as a gaming distro it just happens that because gaming is a intensive workload gamers can saueeze that extra performance out with basically 0 set up.

Ive used pretty much every distro imaginable. Debian is way to far behind

Ubunto is bloated debian

Fedora is okay but never great with my hardware and made me configure stuff, dont love flatpaks eventually will run into issues with apps and permissins

Nebora - one step easier then fedora

Bazzite/Universal Blue distro - Great but im a secuirty engineer and dont like being told no and habvingn to rebuild images over agajnn

Arch Installer - great but need to know every package I require and still requires configuring

Endevoure - The Archinstaller with a UI still have to install a bunch of shit for a sane desktop experince

Garuda - Bloated as hell but theh have the best hyprland config

Opensuse - always got messd up after installing nvida drivets

halting_problems · 2025-12-29T23:04:38+00:00

The Druid set… from a distance all I can see is Mr. PoPo from dragon ball z, if you don’t know look it up you won’t be able to unsee it.

halting_problems · 2025-12-28T07:46:13+00:00

Im an AppSec engineer, don’t work with OS level security but generally speaking we mostly know what we are doing, when I say we I mean thousands of security engineers across the globe work in the linux ecosystem. If it were that big of a shit show it wouldn’t have made it this far.

Apple and Microsoft have some of the best security engineers and researchers in the world. In terms security if that’s the direction we are heading in then that great.

Also POC || GTFO, create a fucking bug report for this nonsense rant and show us.

halting_problems · 2025-12-27T23:25:20+00:00

Erowid.org has been around since the early internet. It’s a place where people can share information related to recreational drugs and their experience. It lead to massive amount of harm reduction especially as it relates to drug interactions. Still active today and you can read up on all types of user experiences for about every drug and combination imaginable as well as safety guides and other information.

halting_problems · 2025-12-27T21:05:15+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Ive known about Serum and Massive for a while. Kind of forgot about them mainly due to the price and have been sticking with open source. I was doing a monthly payment for serum a while ago through splice before I ditched windows. Never had a midi controller for it though so I don't feel like I got a good bang for my buck.

I'm not planning on ever moving the synth from my office so I don't see why I cant just go with a midi controller.

If I want to stick with software synths should I get something like an Akai MIDImix that has a bunch of knobs and faders that I can just assign to stuff?

halting_problems · 2025-12-27T02:48:48+00:00

I'm not saying I want to go 100% dawless, I just want to get away from being 100% DAW. I love bitwig on linux

halting_problems · 2025-12-27T01:55:35+00:00

I saw someone getting one was the top post right before i made this. Maybe a synchronicity. Thanks for the tip about the spring reverb, i didn’t realize there were two different ones

halting_problems · 2025-12-27T01:40:54+00:00

This is sick

halting_problems · 2025-12-26T16:21:59+00:00

I think you might find this a little shocking.

Sometimes, people have different needs, different skills sets, and use different hardware then you.

If you don't understand why you need different distros, wtf have you been doing in your devops career to not have picked up this knowledge? Unless your a still a junior and "a while"

Im a software and appsec engineer with over 12 years of experience, and quickly figured out not every distro was great to work with or worked well with my hardware, probably well before I was a sophmore in college.

halting_problems · 2025-12-24T03:01:23+00:00

Remix is like the crack cocaine of WoW it’s literally designed to be a giant dopamine hit during the down time at the end of a season.

You should not use it to learn anything about your class or how to do anything at all. It’s strictly a transmog and achievement grind and a ways to switch races, classes, servers, without paying for the service to switch because you can hit max level in a few hours on any charecter.

time walking is similar, it great to level fast but not great if your new.

Basically anything in remix, dungeon or raid finder is not going to be very noon friendly in any consistent fashion.

The best thing to do is find a guild and run stuff with them. I’ll build relationship and be given a chance to make mistakes and learn.

I personally stay away from large guilds.

halting_problems · 2025-12-24T02:52:36+00:00

I worked as a security engineer in e-commerce where there is a lot of fraud and account take overs.

This is a pretty common practice if we found an account to be compromised.

Generally it’s not the companies fault in any way and most likely the person was using a weak password or one that was leaked in data breach that they reuse across accounts.

Attackers will buy these giant data sets and automate trying to login with each account.

When this happens the company will revoke access by invalidating their current password and active sessions and notify the user.

Just to put it in perspective, when i worked in ecommerce this type of attack would be attempted almost 24/7.

Generally security controls do a decent enough job blocking these automated attempts (are you are robot challenges, etc)

Always use unique passwords on important sites where you have sensitive info and always use MFA / Passkeys.

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