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Yes, but "weev" is also a well-renowned internet "troll". Basically - he appears to take joy out of denigrating, humiliating, insulting and doxxing other people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev

He's also a neo-Nazi and white supremacist. I do believe in free speech, but some of the things he does seem to take it way too far.

And he famously doxed Kathy Sierra, a female technical writer who created the Head First series. I actually quite like some of the books in the series, and it's incredibly sad to hear incidents like this which actively discourage females in tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra

I suspect there's more to the AT&T incident than just, oh, I found a flaw, let me responsible report this to the relevant parties in responsible disclosure.

I'm not sure I buy this (about Canada).

Israel was one of the first to vaccinate most of their population - and they are a tiny country with no domestic manufacturing of the vaccines.

Although Israel quite openly stated they paid a premium to get early access to vaccines. So basically, it was simply a question of commercials, and ponying up the cahs.

Singapore did likewise - basically bought out every vaccine they could on the open market, and rushed to vaccinate their population.

I live in Australia, and it does appear our nation's leaders dragged their feet on the vaccine.

Our Prime Minister even publicly stated "It's not a race", regarding vaccinating the population.

A letter leaked recently, which showed Pfizer's managing director requesting an urgent meeting with our health minister, so we could get millions of doses. Pfizer was then told that the health minister wasn't available to talk with them, it got fobbed to some underlying in his department, then the deal got adragged out for six months after that - in the meantime, the UK and US signed up:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/12/in-hi...

This really does frustrate me - that racism is usually seen in the spectrum of the "whites vs blacks" narrative - but Asian-Americans are usually disregarded, or it's not "real" racism.

Sure, they don't have the same pay disparity as blacks (although there is still inequality within the cohort itself) - however, that's largely been a result of higher educational attainment, and the work ethic of Asians - and ignores the barriers they've had to overcome to get to that level.

However, there is still a level of casual racism - and even in the last year, a lot of anti-Asian assaults across America.

Also, this is an anecdote, in many places I've worked at, it's very common that management and above are mostly white males, but all the Asians are non-management. I've wondered how much of that is due to some cultural issue, versus how much is due to some bias in the system.

One thing I can't figure out with Nebula is - how do you join multiple different networks?

For example, I have a personal laptop - I want to join two different networks, that are for two different purposes, and be able to talk to hosts in each? (But hosts in each should not be able to talk to hosts in the other)

When you say strip the screw - do you mean strip the screw head, by drilling out the head?

That's evil...

(Or do you know some way to strip the thread itself).

> because essentially (not basically) it is acid'

Haha, I see what you did there...lol. Touche, good sir.

I think you're projecting the HN crowd a bit here.

The majority of normal people probably don't care as much about "privacy" as some of the vocal folks here do.

I'm not making a value judgement on that, it's simply how it is.

People want to use services like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram or Google search/Gmail/Google Maps that have the functionality they enjoy.

If those companies can show them targeted ads vs random useless ads, the majority of people seem to be fine with that tradeoff.

I want it to be the year of the Linus desktop for a long while but I've made peace with the fact that's not the majority view. Most people are happy with a proprietary desktop that just works.

You say you don't want your life to depend on a soulless multinational corporation.... but I suspect you might not be aware of how much it does.

Do you see a doctor, or use any healthcare services? Or use any pharmaceutical products or cosmetics that are mass produced? Shampoo? Soap? Hand sanitizer?

Do you wear clothing that you didn't make yourself from raw cotton you made? Or shop at a store like Gap, Cotton On, Target, Zara etc?

Do you drive a car? Or take Uber? Or use something like a bus or car, or other vehicle made by a large multinational engineering company?

Do you eat any fast foods? Or eat at restaurants that use any produce or mass produced raw ingredients? Or use any kitchen utensils or kitchenware? Do you shop at say IKEA?

Or do you use electronics like a laptop, phone or desktop computer?

Or do you keep any of your money at a bank? Or use things like car insurance?

It slightly irks me when people claim they want to stick it to the man, and don't like "those corporations".

We have a Green party politician in Australia who lives off the grid, and grows his own produce. Whilst I don't agree with all his policies - I respect that he lives consistently with his beliefs.

If you're on HN - I'd posit that your life (like mine, and billions of others) is dependent on multinational corporations for our current quality of life.

If you don't agree with one of them, that fine, but often it's less to do with principles and more "their customer service is terrible" or "they didn't fix this one issue that is very important to me", or "I read on Reddit/FB/Techcrunch this terrible fact about them"

For the routing/firewall side, I would encourage looking at either pfSense (as others here have suggested), or possibly VyOS.

I used to have several Ubiquit USG devices as well as their EdgeRouter.

I moved to pfSense as it's open-source, more stable, and gives you much better control/configurability on your hardware. There's a great ecosystem of packages on pfSense, that you can install via the web UI - making it a really feature-packed for a homelab.

However, recently I've been moving to VyOS to pfSense, which is basically a stripped-down Linux distro, with a heavily tuned FRR routing stack built on top of it.

VyOS is an open-source fork of Vyatta, which was previously owned/released by Brocade networks.

It operates with a CLI, like many enterprise/commercial routing products. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's really great to use in practice, and makes it easy to diff configurations, or rollback changes, or copy the same configuration across multiple devices.

And of course, it implements with config-management software like SaltStack/Ansible (via Napalm), which is something that pfSense. If you have multiple pfSense devices, you basically need to point/click via the web UI on each one.

For APs - Ruckus is great, as is HPE/Aruba (they have a new low-cost line that's targeting the Prosumer market) - they have both been leaders in the wifi field for ages, and have things like AP handover, RF tuning/optimisation, adaptive antennas etc down pat.

One limitation of their approach seems to be that it must be published in a public Github repo - it can't be a private repo.

This means it might not be so suitable for internal, or local apps - only public facing websites.

I wonder how difficult it'd be to make a mode for Upptime, that used say, local agents, and posted the results to a local webserver, rather than to public Github Pages.

I'm not from the US, but from the excerpted letter, it appears to be related to COVID-19.

In Australia, we did the same thing - a lot of universities went remote-only, so that we could eradicate the virus.

It seems to have succeeded - COVID-19 seems to be under control in Australia (along with many other countries like NZ, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan etc) - however, the US/Europe seems to have really struggled to get it under control. I hope they succeed soon.

I get the sense that a lot of people here (I assume from the US) are worried about their rights being infringed, as part of trying to protect people from getting sick. I'm not saying there doesn't need to be a discussion, or there isn't a balance - but it does come across as a bit churlish and petty, to try to openly defy public health measures in the name of defending human rights in the midst of a global pandemic.

Sorry, I might have missed some context here - but which Justin are you referring to?

Second this!

CloudFlare Access allows this, using the cloudflared daemon, which acts as a reverse proxy. It essentially means the endpoint can be closed off to incoming connections from the internet, and you don't need to maintain various firewall whitelist (and hope they don't go out of sync)

Is something like this on the roadmap for Boundary?

Whilst I agree the wording could have been better, I think the parent has a point.

I did a double-degree in Commerce (Finance and Economics), and Computer Engineering at Sydney Uni.

English is my first language, and I've always liked economics/finance. However, I found the commerce side of things much easier to cruise through (I was working full-time as well). The material was easier, contact hours were much less, you could fluff your way through essays (to a degree), and it was obvious many of the students there (i.e. international students) just wanted to finish, and get their degree (nothing wrong with that in itself). Many people didn't bother showing up, and just studied online, and sat the final exam.

Engineering...oh man. The material was tough, the maths was tricky, and there was many mandatory contact hours or mandatory tutorials (> 20 a week). If you didn't show up to weekly classes, you got marked down, which is basically a fail. And while you can fudge an essay in commerce (assuming some basic grasp of first principles), try fudging an answer on Fourier transforms, or gradient-descents. However, many people genuinely had a passion for the subject, and the lecturers/tutors really did push you hard.

Also - look at the dropouts rates for fields - a lot more people dropped out of engineering degrees by year 2/3 versus say, Commerce. I can't speak to other fields/areas.

This experience may not apply to everybody - but as somebody who did a degree in both fields, I think it's telling.

Also - I should mention - it's the job of governments to guide their people through these sorts of pandemics, natural disasters etc.

This is why government are engaging in stimulus spending, or increasing their social support programs.

This is why they exist.

I hear these sorts of sentiments from the USA a lot - where apparently people are actively rioting and protesting against the health lockdown.

I'm from Australia - where while we've had some grumblings about the health measures, on the whole, we've been pretty lucky. Our death toll is 104 people - which even though (comparative) low is still a tragedy.

Yet the USA death toll is over 130,000 people - that is a terrible thing =(. I do not get how the USA can be so blase about it.

And that is with measures in place (although I'm sure there are breaches). Imagine if you simply let it run rampant, and let the health system get overhwelmed? (See Italy).

It does seem like its overwhelming the young who are very laid back about COVID-19, and chaff the most at restrictions.

To be frank - that seems very selfish.

Imagine if the virus had a 30% mortality rate in your cohort? You'd be terrified.

(I'm young, with two young kids under 5. My parents refused to see me or our kids for a couple of months, out of fear they might catch it from us - I missed them as did their grandkids, but I understand why - it must have been scary for them).

And even that aside - have you considered that a lot of the economic downturn isn't from the actual health measures in place - but from the uncertainty, doubt and fear caused by a virus pandemic? People are scared, and that's naturally going to curb some spending. We are a interlinked global economy, and you cannot escape that.

I hope that we'll have a vaccine soon, so we can go back to normal - but in lieu of that, trying to stamp out the virus or contain it isn't a bad goal.

So wait - you're saying it's ok to engage in risky behaviour - as long as it doesn't result in maiming/killing somebody?

Surely you can see that's a recipe for disaster?

People are very bad at judging risks - and everybody things they're cleverer/more careful/better than the average.

That's exactly why no government that I'm aware of has ever enacted what you dscribed.

Ok - so you make it that driving whilst drunk is OK - and you will only be charged if you kill/maim somebody. You will soon get a whole bunch of young 20 year old males, who think they are invincible (or that they can hold their liquor like Captain America) who end up destroying families in completely preventable MVAs.

Everybody thinks they're a "better driver than the average" - or that "their reflexes are really good". Unfortunately, the average is exactly that - the average.

Sure, according to you - you can now charge them after having killed a mum and her kid walking across the road - but what about the fact that you've essentially encouraged this behaviour, and raised the probability of such things happening?

Similar logic applies to any risk taking behaviour - yes, there are certainly grey areas - but there's a reason handguns are a restricted item and not anybody can buy them at any corner store. Having a gun in and of itself doesn't "harm somebody", as you say - but having more handguns distributed among the population, without any attempt to reduce the risk (e.g. background checks, safety checks, licensing checks) will increase the risk that something bad will happen.

Likewise drugs are a controlled item.

And with public health directives like this - the aim is to force people to take sensible precautions to protect those vulnerable among the population. I hate to say this, but people are sometimes selfish and only think of themselves (we all do this). So sometime you need somebody to look out for society as a whole.

You're correct that historically, there have been other illnesses hundreds of years ago that killed more people.

And in many developing countries, there are tragically many deaths caused by poor sanitation or healthcare.

However, this is a disease that has - even with incredibly draconian lockdowns and a global effort from every country to combat it - tragically killed nearly 350,000 people in a matter of months. And this is often in countries with state of the art healthcare systems, and every effort made to keep those people alive.

And as another commenter pointed out, this is often in countries not used to such scale of health disasters, as they have healthcare and good sanitation. Ironically, I read that things like air travel and holidays actually worsened illnesses like this.

Imagine if we'd simply let the diseases run its course.

The thing that baffles me is the US - advanced Western nation - with a death toll of nearly 100,000 people. How is that even possible?

I am hoping we've seen the worst of it.

Driving whilst intoxicated (or under the influence of drugs) is straight-up illegal in basically every single civilised country I'm aware of.

This is because alcohol impairs your judgement and reflexes - and when you're driving a 1 tonne piece of metal that can maim and kill, you want your wits about you.

I confess I find this kind of reasoning very bizarre - I truly do admire the US, and all the freedoms, literature, and amazing critical thought it's given to us. But I still don't understand the strange logic that seems to emanate from certain circles - where people will sincerely claim it's their God-given right to drive over the speed limit and kill people, to take drugs and kill people, to shoot guns and kill people, and other such things.

It's also in this context I hear people from the US complaining a lot about the "nanny-state".

Or that somehow, if the government provides any modicum of healthcare, you are infringing on their God-given right to make really poor healthcare spending decisions.

I get it there's happy medium between the two - and I apologise if there's hyperbole in the above - but as an outsider looking at how the US has handled the COVID-19 pandemic - it's heart-wrenching.

As a country, you have nearly 100,000 people dead (the worst in the world I think?) - and people are still talking about how "mask wearing is oppression", or "lockdowns are trampling on our rights!".

Even your leaders - if the press can be believed - apparently see wearing a mask as a sign of weakness. Yet other governments (e.g. UK, Australia, Scotland) have sacked high-level ministers, simply because they breached the health lockdown rules. It's the complete opposite - those governments are taking it seriously (or at least trying to be seen to be).

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-52553229 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/10/nsw-m... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-52177171

Well, in general - would you use your personal email account for work?

So for example - say I have a personal Gmail account (e.g. cute-boy-88@gmail.com)

But if I was working for a company that had spun up GCP infrastructure - my work would likely provide me with a work email address (e.g. trevor.jacobs@bankofengland.co.uk) - which I would use, rather than cute-boy-88@gmail.com.

This also covers the use-case that for example, you leave the company (in which case the company still controls those accounts), or an employee goes rogue and tries to takeover their work account.

In general, you would try to keep your work/personal accounts separate - you're not going to put your personal account as the recovery email for your work account for example. Your system administrator (or IT team at work) is going to be the one who resets your password, or recovers your account - and they're not going to send private work passwords to a personal email account (or they shouldn't).

Hopefully the above helps.

Well, it seems to have worked out well for some of the Asian countries (and countries like Australia/NZ) which have gotten COVID-19 under control. The US still ha a major problem with deaths in the tens of thousands, as do many of the European countries.

I take your point that there will be economic paint - but I think you're being a bit hyperbolic about "tearing society apart" and "resulting in far more deaths and misery". This is the sort of rhetoric that Trump has been using - whilst I agree in principle there is economic pain - please don't treat people's lives as meaningless, or that the almighty dollar is all that matters. It's the job of governments to guide the country through these crises - this is where government stimulus and spending should be used - not just letting people die needlessly.

COVID-19 is a new and novel disease that's highly spreadable, has no known vaccine, and is killing an unprecedented number of people.

And we're not just talking about yourself - perhaps you're young/healthy and are prepared to contract COVID-19 and roll the dice.

However, those around you - family, or friends - may not be so lucky, or it could be a potentially life-threatening condition. Please think about people around you.

The US death toll is nearly 100,000....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-24/coronavirus-update-co...

That is absolutely heartbreaking.

That is over 30x the death toll from the 9/11 plane attacks - and look what lengths the government went to combat that?

I just got my second COVID-19 test (fortunately came back negative) - my parents (who are older and vulnerable) are paranoid I'll give it to them. So when I got a sore throat, I went to get the test. And a few weeks back, my son had a cough, so I got myself tested.

Our government (Australia) is encouraging people with any symptoms to get tested - and I think that's a good thing, towards eradicating this illness.

GCP most certainly does have support engineers available!

https://cloud.google.com/support

There's a variety of different tiers to suit your required level of support, and some products (e.g. G Suite) come with free in-built support.

(I work as part of Google Cloud support organisation).

If you're referring to the recent controversy around Pushbullet - I thought that was revealed to be them asking for all access to any HTTP/HTTPS websites you viewed...which is a major security breach.

They removed that permission to limit it to only Pushbullet, and then were able to get back on.

I'm not saying there couldn't have been more hand-holding - but it wasn't exactly like it wasn't for a fairly egregious security breach.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not in any Chrome/Android/Store team, or anything even vaguely related to that - this is purely my own opinion).

This is amazing.

This is why I come to read HN =) - interesting content like this, or esoteric/cool facts, or awesomely deep tech discussions.

Out of curiosity - do you have a background in this kind of thing (linguistics), or its just an interest topic for you?

(As a side-note, this whole SJW crusade does irk me somewhat, but hey, I guess it resulted in gems like this).

What you described is a Ponzi scheme.

In Australia, we call it the population (or migration) Ponzi.

Another way to look at it is - you're essentially borrowing from your future generations, in order to fund your current lifestyle.

Those future generations are going to be the ones looking after you in your old age (through being taxpayers to provide services - or in some cultures maybe even literally being the ones to house/care for your), and also because that's how your culture/society continues. Society/culture is more than just a input/output machine that eats, s*hits and sleeps.

I don't particularly like the arts, but I understand that as a whole, our government funds things like that for the betterment of society.

I am fortunate I don't have any major disabilities - but if I did, I know my society looks after those less fortunate (or I hope they do).

I'm going to guess that you:

1. Don't have kids 2. Are a male (I'm male as well)

Having kids is a big decision. (I'm lucky enough to have two so far).

We (wife and I) have had to make a lot of sacrifices, both financially and at a family/career/personal level. We are lucky that we both have reasonably good jobs.

However, being pregnant is an absolute b*tch, and seeing what my wife went through, and what some of the other mums in our parents group went through - I am very dubious anybody intentionally gets pregnant only to get a few extra weeks/months of leave.

If you're a guy I suspect we probably can't know how bad it is. Let's just say that tearing or being cut down there isn't fun, and for many women it can have lasting impact on your body.

For both of you it upends your entire life - and you're on the hook for the next 18 years (at least). And not just financially, but you need to actually spend time with them - feeding them, changing nappies, reading books, playing games, looking after them when they're sick, taking then to school every day, teaching them, ferrying them to activities etc.

I have zero regrets - but it really irks me when immature people start commenting about how providing things like parental leave will encourage people to "abuse the system".

Those people were likely already going to have kids anyway, so I don't see why we as a society shouldn't support them - unless we want to deal with the demographic and sociological implications that comes with a rapidly aging population and no young people.

If you follow your logic through to completion, you will see it leads to multiple issues.

I'm not saying that immigration is bad.

However, having a country advocate zero childbirths - and trying to keep population up entirely foreign migration is a recipe for disaster.

I think your arguments are a little disingenuous, to put it mildly.

1. You compare an adult person selling nude photos of themselves to somebody attending a white supremacist rally....

Surely you can see the difference here?

One is perhaps amoral, by traditional Christian/religious values, but not illegal - just like blasphemy or swearing is no longer illegal in most parts of the world. And religious points aside, an adult selling photos of themselves without clothes on doesn't hurt anybody.

White supremacy on the other hand is closely entwined with racial discrimination - which is illegal, and does hurt people.

2. You say that it could negatively impact coworkers performance, as it might distract them.

Assuming that the videos are made on personal time, and not during work hours or during work time - I fail to see how this is the person's fault.

This is victim blaming - which is a terrible thing.

It's like saying a girl is "asking for it" based on the clothing she wears (which people have used in parts of the world to justify rape) - except in this case, it's what she wears at home, away from you.

3. Sexual harassment

I'm not going to weigh in here - this is a seriously nuanced topic with a lot of emotional content that can trigger people, and I'd make a mess of it.

All this being said - I always find it funny how Americans seem perfectly fine with insane amounts of bloody, gore and violence in television, film and games - but any hint of sexual impropriety or nudity immediately triggers them.

Oh, you can to show somebody getting decapitated, or having their fingernails torn off? Sure, that's fine, that's a normal action film.

Aha, you want to show a nude man from the front? Nope, can't do that. Oh, you want to show a woman's cleavage? Err, you're not going to get a M rating.

From what I've seen, the Europeans don't seem to have the same hangups about nudity or the human form.

I'm not a historian - but I wonder if perhaps it's the American Protestant heritage?

Has anybody tried getting this to work under Proxmox (specifically) or KVM?

I previously used to use this guide for Proxmox - which uses Clover:

https://www.nicksherlock.com/2019/10/installing-macos-catali...

However, it seems like OC might be easier.

Somebody there suggested this (apparently non-open-source) EFI making script:

https://www.macos86.it/files/file/20-opencore-efi-maker/

but I can't even seem to get that working.

Another poster on this thread suggested

https://github.com/Leoyzen/KVM-Opencore

which seems like it could work - curious if other people have tried it and what their experiences are?

It proobably depends on the company, and the type of role.

Also, the fact that you describe it as a restriction probably reveals a bit about your age =). (I don't meant that in a bad way).

I think a lot of it comes down to life stage.

If you're 24, with no family or commitments, life is easy and you can stay at work late, or code till 3am if you want to - the worst is your room-mate (or parents) might complain about the noise.

Hypothetically, if you're older, and have a wife and 3 kids...well, those things are going to take priority (and they should). Of course, they can provide an immense amount of joy and fulfilment - at least for me, far more than my work can (although I do really enjoy my work as well).

I have worked in IB, algo-trading, and now in tech - and none of them compared to the pure ecstatic joy I get from coming home, and making dinner for the kids, or reading to them, or helping them brush their teeth.

I do still code in my spare time - but honestly, with a family, there may not be that much free time (assuming you still want to keep other hobbies and pursuits as well).