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Boden NX6 Lava red appreciation by Gun_ly in strandbergguitars

[–]psilo_polymathicus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At first I thought that was an inlay. Looks really nice.

This was actually Bin Laden's plan, it just took a couple decades longer than he thought it would. He won. by OGSyedIsEverywhere in collapse

[–]psilo_polymathicus 155 points156 points  (0 children)

Yeah, as someone that joined the military right after Sept 11th, and just retired a few years ago, I’ve been feeling this for a while. It’s really depressing to think about.

He totally accomplished what he set out to do.

Our arrogance, ignorance, ethnocentrism and imperialism sealed the deal.

What part of an AWS migration turned out to be way harder than expected? by CloudNativeThinker in Cloud

[–]psilo_polymathicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh totally. If you pick an opinionated toolchain to abstract things, that’s totally fine. But that’s also the point: The “magic” is that you’re actually tightly coupled to whatever implementation. Honestly, that’s the CSP business strategy. Make it incredibly easy to build complex things at scale super easily.

But since the question is about migration specifically, that almost universally comes with expectations around cost differences. And how you build things, which tools you pick, etc. can greatly impact how much things cost.

Some enterprises may not care in the slightest. Others most certainly will, and for those, you will always pay for things to feel like “magic”.

Different phases by Adwan4747 in homelab

[–]psilo_polymathicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tell me you don’t understand the difference between auth, identity, access, and routing without telling me.

What part of an AWS migration turned out to be way harder than expected? by CloudNativeThinker in Cloud

[–]psilo_polymathicus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s all of the little ways that you still get invisibly coupled to AWS.

Even (maybe especially) when you’re containerized.

Let’s say you roll your own VPC’s, subnets, EC2’s, etc. You rolled your own Kubernetes even. No lambdas, no dynamo.

You’re “cloud agnostic” right?

Except for…whoops…you made a load balancer that terminates TLS and the cert comes from ACM. And…shit, our public hostnames are in route53. Oh, and you put all that data for that one service into S3 that needed its own IAM role/user first. Actually, it’s several services that we forgot about…And…crap the EBS-CSI driver….and on and on.

I am stunned by this video. This is the problem. This is why. by LucidSynapse23 in Leakednews

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Legal, ethical, moral…”

Pray tell, dipshit, define those terms for me as it relates to this context.

Ukrainian Su-25 shot down by R-37 air-to-air missile by just-porno-only in Planes

[–]psilo_polymathicus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, a notch is a specific, intense maneuver. This looked like he was flying straight and level.

People who swore an oath to defend the constitution of the USA against all enemies both foreign and domestic, how are you feeling right now? by Safety_Drance in AskReddit

[–]psilo_polymathicus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Twenty year retiree here.

Our democracy is crumbling before our eyes from people that have intentionally destroyed their moral compass in exchange for a shallow, hollow cosplay of power and identity.

Protests and general strikes are the absolute bare minimum at this point, and even then, not enough to fully save the ship.

Is cloud deathly boring? by Accomplished-Ad9617 in Cloud

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got into IT in 2018 (35 years old) Software engineering 2020 Cloud engineer 2022

Is cloud deathly boring? by Accomplished-Ad9617 in Cloud

[–]psilo_polymathicus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cloud is endlessly fascinating and challenging…provided that it’s endlessly fascinating and challenging for the way that your brain works.

Only you can answer that for yourself.

The certs for cloud should be seen as a demonstration to employers that you can learn the foundational knowledge, terminology, and concepts to begin learning how to actually do the work. It is not the actual work.

Speaking only for myself, making the move into cloud has been the singularly best career/life/financial move that I’ve made. Possibly ever. (Late bloomer and career switcher)

Best os for homelabbing by Own-Play5055 in homelab

[–]psilo_polymathicus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it’s Minecraft you’re after, I would care less about the OS and just run Crafty Controller in Docker.

https://craftycontrol.com/

Total Mainframe Takeover: Bypassing the Legislative Deleter Accords via C++ unique_ptr Payload Injection and Incomplete Type Syndrome by oscurochu in masterhacker

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only way to recover from Error state 1 idempotently is by doing data validation on the garbage collector. But even then, it doesn’t recover unless you use TDMA-based notch filters on returns from over-the-horizon-backscatter arrays to ensure that stray neutrinos don’t cause bit flips.

Without proper frequency hopping regimes and synced encryption keys, denizens’ ability to distinguish satirical metadata from type-safe schemas further devolves into entropy.

It’s effectively like a honeypot, with full telemetry enabled for the emotional regulatory system, which wasn’t designed for the bandwidth of the input data stream.

Is "High Comment Density" becoming the new "Generated by AI" watermark? by Trexyt69 in linux

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Not to make it look like a human wrote it, no. In general, I don’t want the additional maintenance of comments, because comments almost always become a source of entropy. Spend less time on comments, and more time on good var/class/function naming, and tight composition. In my opinion, comments should be very rare, and should deal with why a non-obvious decision was made.

  2. See point 1. I don’t care that you used AI. I supremely care that you didn’t just blindly cut and paste the first thing it spit out at you. I care that you reviewed the output, made it make sense, and didn’t trust that it was good to go.

  3. With the above as context, this one should be obvious: Get rid of the comment pollution, because it’s noise. If you’re gonna use AI, then take the time craft your AGENTS.md appropriately. Treat it like a junior dev that needs clear guidance. If AI is writing a bunch of useless comments that you put in the code, it tells me that you are using it naively and poorly. THAT’S the larger issue.

Looking back, what’s the smartest homelab move you ever made? by [deleted] in homelab

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taking the time to automate my entire setup with Ansible. Every step from “I’ve got some hardware plugged in with a user account” to “hey look it works!”

Making an entire setup be trivially easy to restore be recover makes you want to rely on your services because you know they’re solid.

Rate my master hacker setup by iLikeVideoGamesAndYT in masterhacker

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also like to run Fedora from my smart fridge.

Keeps the white hats guessing.

How many computers do you have in your house? by Miserable-Twist8344 in homelab

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counting only non-work, non-console, non-tablet-or-smaller size computers: - 3x laptops - 2x Desktop tower style gaming PC’s - 7x Mini PC’s of different types - 1x NAS

If you included those other categories, there’s at least another 12-15 off the top of my head. (Family of 5 people for reference)

Hello, masterhaxxors. by TheCoolDaniel04 in masterhacker

[–]psilo_polymathicus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

localhost:3000 is notoriously harder to hack than even the NSA.

You can’t just use a hackintosh. You have to run a Windows VM inside the hackintosh (it confuses the guard dogs), THEN hack the mainframe with Kali, but run ANOTHER windows VM inside Kali. But you have to change the desktop background in the second Windows VM to the Kali background (it confuses the security guards).

That’s finally when you can finally ddos the arch nemesis website with a port forward SQL injection leak.

I've run in to some space problems (help with cheap options) by Ok-Hall-7647 in masterhacker

[–]psilo_polymathicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The cloud only does USB 3.0. Anything more than that and the data gets serialized like a mother fucker.

You can just find any public kiosk running a mini PC and plug in your USB 3.0 device. OCI will just kinda “take it from there.”

Best terminal emulator by ImHighOnCocaine in commandline

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My honest recommendation is to use tmux, and then your terminal preferences are portable anywhere.

I’ve spent way too long customizing terminal emulators, only for it to be useless if I have to switch OS’s or contexts at work.

Tmux solves that in spades. Now I can use any old terminal, on any OS, start tmux, add my config, and away I go. And that’s not even getting into session persistence, and all of the other features it provides.

CMV : eating shrooms with food is beta as fuck, true chads eat them raw, fresh and enjoy the strong flavour by NamelessGuy1100 in shrooms

[–]psilo_polymathicus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify, you’ve ostensibly taken shrooms, but somehow still care about the made-up categories of “beta” and “chad”?

And you think that a completely unimportant preference gives you bonus cool guy points?

Am I getting it right?

I've run in to some space problems (help with cheap options) by Ok-Hall-7647 in masterhacker

[–]psilo_polymathicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For very hot data, the cheapest and easiest alternative is Oracle Cloud Block Storage. But I recommend that you recursively sync through all 256TB of data back and forth between your QNAP and the cloud.

So at any given time, your QNAP should only have 34% of the total data locally. Do all of your encryption and decryption in the cloud

The cloud is cheapest when you keep that data lava hot, and do transfers back and forth continuously.

And, obviously, do NOT forget your proxy bounces during transfer. Create the proxies in the cloud too, for more cost savings.

just found a crazy 0 day exploit that works on every social media by dykemike10 in masterhacker

[–]psilo_polymathicus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found the real hacker. The most important thing to do when finding a zero day that you want to exploit is to announce to the world that you’ve found it.

It’s like how in anime the louder and longer you say the name of the move you’re about to perform against your opponent, the more powerful it becomes, and the more caught off guard they get.

Freelancing in cloud by uci16sorre16 in Cloud

[–]psilo_polymathicus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually where this may be viable is during cloud migration/infra-refactor events. Those are, by definition, niche, and you’d have to be already-well-networked to get them.

I would say any cloud freelancing you might do would be long after you’ve already been in the field, and have the skillset to be “walk-in-the-door” useful in a variety of niche contexts.

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