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Wow, what layer of abstraction do you have that allows for that? Even with typical IaC, Terraform, it's going to be a rewrite. If you're leveraging anything beyond load balancers, compute, and containers I don't see how that approaches zero. Some of the services could end up with you having to build/run your own to get any equivalence.


Why is it so hard time for some of this site to understand that some of us are principled when it comes to choosing technologies? Or you know, actually learned from past trauma and make choice to avoid getting burned in the future.


Not all of us are enlightened. Wouldn't you mind telling us what those technologies are?


Ansible comes to mind. Used it to orchestrate hundreds of servers with migrations. Could also simply set up proxmox services beforehand if you're truly motivated, then just replicate the server to another instance.


And all networking configuration and everything else is transferred with close to zero effort?


You could roll your own SDN with the likes of wireguard.


Hello, may I interest you in NixOS? All your config, in one place, build it again and you got a copy. :)


Their username says it all: https://landscape.cncf.io/


Since the "vet" maybe didnt give it away, 95% of the cncf landscape is a trashfire joke of hodge podgey vc funded golang crap.

This site is so damn funny. I reply to a burner account in a day old thread, and then my comment is downmodded less than 60 seconds later. Points to some shockingly pathetic behavior, dang maybe you could check the IP on that alt account, might be interesting.


Exactly. At the startup I work for, we built from the old methods of bare metal, and integrate cloud services as needed. At any time though, if we are not satisfied with sed service, we're able to jump ship without headache pretty easily. As simple as spinning up a new container cluster elsewhere, migrating data, and ramping down the old. The founders were very clear on never being entrenched into a singular provider.


Probably because most employees don't get to pick and choose the tech stacks? You're either being incredibly obtuse or I'm missing your point.


Uh, I not implying or saying anything about who has the power. My comment is kinda hard to read in any other way than directed at the people who chose to intimately tie their product up with a proprietary price-gouging, lock-in platform.

Idk, I guess if I take the less charitable read of your comment, ... if you're sitting here blaming your circumstances for not knowing anything other than how to spin up overpriced Amazon serives idk what to tell you.


Ford was in early enough that RFC 1918 wasn't a thing, and those address were used internally, using something else would have be rouge. If I recall Ford also had 20/0.0.0 at one point in time as a dev/staging network. Source: working at ford in 96 and they had been on IP networking long before I arrived.

Same with General Electric and the 3.x. It was sold it to AWS a few years back, introducing the burden of internal re-addressing.

Before cloud providers/FANG behemoths, these were some of the largest networks around.


Searched but couldn't find anything that seemed contextually relevant, what is mass interpersonal violence? Seems like it must be a code word for something I'm not familiar with. All references I see for interpersonal violence seem to be synonymous with domestic violence.


Basically I'm referring to weaponized mob violence, the kinds of things that have occurred in Ethiopia or Myanmar recently but also elsewhere.


I use a pattern of somecompany@mydomain.example for everyone I deal with.

Never made any effort to determine if they were leaks or sold, but here are the ones I've had to send to /dev/null over the years due to obvious spam.

adobe, godaddy, ebay, sirius, vonage, dzone, snapfish, walgreens, US postal service;they just continued their model of selling physical address data into the online space. Seems to have been sold to typical catalog vendors, JC penny, crate and barrel, etc.


I was suspecting this was webex, I use an external audio device (plantronics/polycom Calisto 7200) that has an indicator when the microphone is active. It's only anecdotal, but for me when the webex ultrasound features is activated, the microphone is constantly active as long as webex chat is running. When the ultrasound detection is disabled, the microphone is disabled when not in a meeting. As an aside, this setting was reset recently, but that just seems like the ongoing dark pattern/incompetence of "forgetting" privacy settings between software releases.


My understanding is that it activates when you make the Webex Teams/Meeting the application with focus, and should turn off some time after it is no longer the active application, I think ~60 seconds.

It is doing this for the ultrasonic room detection feature, which can be turned off.


We've had a year at this point to prepare. Was there any effort to ramp up additional temporary facilities? Is it ICU beds, equipment or healthcare workers where we are falling short? From what I've read, the need for ventilator seems to be non-issue due to early stage hospitalization protocol changes. Maybe it's not publicized, but it seems stay home was the only step A, with no step B. The time that bought us seems to have been wasted.


It is nurses and doctors that are the limiting resource. That pipe cannot be increased easily.


I keep wondering where are the hospital ships? The military doctors and nurses?

Looks like it’s been in Portland since July: https://www.myshiptracking.com/vessels/usns-mercy-mmsi-36781...

Yet Oregon doesn’t seem to be in such dire straights as CA: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/12/coronavirus-in-orego...


A lot of "civilian" doctors and nurses are the military doctors and nurses, in the reserves.


>We've had a year at this point to prepare. Was there any effort to ramp up additional temporary facilities? [...] Maybe it's not publicized, but it seems stay home was the only step A, with no step B. The time that bought us seems to have been wasted.

That was the plan? As in, do lockdown, prepare hospitals, then lift lockdown and let the disease sweep through the country until we reach herd immunity? That would have resulted in hundreds of thousands or even millions of deaths. I always thought the plan was: lock down, wait until vaccine, get everyone vaccinated, then lift lock down.


The plan was always iterative lockdowns, followed by loosening of restrictions, as the virus is much more deadly when hospitals are overwhelmed. The earliest studies and models clearly recommend this as widespread natural immunity is a guaranteed way though and a successful vaccine is not.

Human nature and politics have played their role, from both directions, for better or worse. So we’re all just betting on a vaccine, now.


> I always thought the plan was: lock down, wait until vaccine, get everyone vaccinated, then lift lock down.

"Lockdown" were always sold as in "flattening the curve, not "wait for a vaccine".


And this is an entirely reasonable position to adopt when you do not yet know, as was the case in early 2020, how long a vaccine will take to develop, or if one can be developed at all.


Perhaps the issue is that there is simply no money left.


GE lighting(for consumers) died a slow death starting with the elimination incandescent bulbs. The twisty florescent were made in China on non-exclusive contract, Walmart and whoever else wanted, bought the exact same bulb. What it did achieve was elimination of a US workforce that was a growing financial burden with retirement and medical benefits. Make no mistake, they architected legislation to eliminate the incandescent. The price of the 60w equivalent CF was four times it's incandescent counterpart, and bulbs that still failed on a regular basis due to power supply design. This was the transformation to a marketing/design company, similar to most companies that put their mark on products today. With no differentiation, or passionate brand loyalty(for light bulbs!?), it's a race to the bottom..


Don't forget the CF bulbs are a low tier of hazardous waste because of the mercury within.


I'm a little confused, because I'm typing this underneath a GE incandescent bulb, which is also the only type of bulb I use. Has this "elimination" not happened yet?



They have all the data from the uninformed, ambivalent or defeated already. We develop things to crush the remaining resistance. Walled garden devices, cert pinning, signed applications, DNS over HTTPS, yes they are all more secure, but not for you. If well implemented, these serve as tools to make sure the privacy policy is the only thing informing you of collection.


I'm not perfectly okay with what you are suggesting (and that's okay of course).

But essentially, coming from a 3rd world country where censorship was the norm before Internet came along, and seeing how TLS and DoH is giving similar states like China a headache, I have to say that I am extremely happy, but concerned.

I believe it is a regulatory problem. In essense, make collecting data punishable but personally (i.e. Person X signed on decision to collect data, person X gets jail time)

I know that's probably not even remotely possible because employees "operate on behalf on the company" but removing that shield will effectively eliminate this. The same way dumping stock at a company means the FTC/SEC/FBI will have you ass on a platter, personally.


It's amazing they are able to use local browser technology(via the popup login) to allow for using a public network as though it were private, virtually of course.


I worked 13 years under Immelts mediocre reign. Jeff tried to push rope, desperate knee-jerk reactions to stock analysts opinions, superficial restructuring with no real change to the company. GE leadership/management was vastly overvalued. Tech, and technical talent was a completely unvalued commodity, outsource to the lowest bidder in India. When he understood that software eats the world(via some SV guru whisperer) he tried to coin some "industrial internet" mumbo jumbo that was going to be a trillion dollar business. Out of touch like an unfrozen Dr. Evil.


Not sure how it's played out in practice but I've heard a lot about GE Predix. It's something like an IoT PaaS "Heroku for factories".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predix_(software)


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