One of the startups I worked for did business with Ford. We needed info about their networks to get them connected to our service in AWS, and in the process we learned that they still use public IPs for everything. Every workstation, server, router, etc. connected to the internet from a public IP, no NAT and only protected by extremely complicated firewall rules. Their IT team must be in constant distress, or super defensive about their architecture haha

This is so stupid. 10/10 would watch forever.

Portal and Portal 2 are natural follow-ups to Stanley Parable if you haven't played them yet.

I also found the bone dry and character driven humor of Tactical Breach Wizards to be very entertaining, on top of it being an incredible game mechanically as well. 10/10.

I had almost the reverse with coffee. I always liked the smell of coffee but not really the taste. Then my family bought a Nespresso machine when i was in high school, and i started adding espresso shots to hot chocolate. Then i started occasionally making espresso shots and drinking them straight. Then several years later i found myself in a hotel for work, at 6am before a shift, and they automatically brought me black coffee. I took one sip and was like "oh i guess i like coffee now" and never looked back. Yep, regular old hotel breakfast coffee got me hooked.

I'd diagnose this response as 10% the effect of mushrooms and 90% the effect of watching Ex Machina alone. I walked out of my room at 1am shell shocked from that movie and had a quick conversation with my roommate in the kitchen that i remember nothing about except how reassured i felt that she wasn't a robot. Excellent movie.

Great video on the subject https://youtu.be/1EJSAm6OFOs

Interesting, I'm of the opposite mind: I think it's inevitable that we will inhabit places outside earth. Time is long, technology keeps getting better, space on earth keeps getting smaller, and there's only one way we escape the consumption of earth by the eventual expansion of the sun. We just have to make sure not to destroy ourselves here first (a tall order, it seems as of lately).

People with far more knowledge about this: when a data center "uses" water, what happens to it? Does the act of cooling servers with water "use up" the water or can it be cycled back into the water system? And if it is theoretically possible for it to be cycled back into the system as opposed to being dumped like sewer water, why isn't it?

I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer, you seem to know your security needs but i'll ask anyway: what are you securing against and why? You listed your security goals, but not exactly why you need them and what you are defending against. Fair enough, but without knowing more details, I'd suggest looking at QubesOS, which specifically isolates apps into different virtual machines. You could also go with security-by-minimality, and roll your own environment with Arch or Alpine (even Gentoo if you really wanna go down the rabbit hole)

Talk to a financial advisor. The moment I was making more money than i knew how to confidently manage myself, i talked to a financial advisor and it was one of the better decisions i've made. Now i know exactly what i can spend on what and still be saving what i need to.

Agreed, this is good advice. At one time I had three of these, they're great, small, versatile, well built. All around a great machine.

Security wasn't the main concern in this particular case, the headache came from the fact that they were working in IP classes, and we were working in CIDRs (EC2 security groups, for example)

Really? Interesting. I think the version on Alive 2007 combined with Alive and Prime Time of Your Life is like the pinnacle of that album.

Great use of 4x5, love the texture

Malware in the traditional sense, as in a malicious program that sneaks its way onto your machine and runs a dangerous payload, is far far more common on Linux machines with open ports acting as servers on the internet. And even then, I'd wager that's less than 1% of the malware out there that specifically targets Windows simply due to market share. With that in mind, plain old Fedora will do just fine, especially if you leave SELinux enabled; many tutorials have you disable it if it interferes with apps/services you want to run, but they're simply being lazy, working around SELinux can be obscure at times, but it's still worth doing, and keeping it running rather than disabling it.

Malicious webpages and phishing attempts are more likely to cause you trouble on Linux, and the OS can only do so much to protect you there. Securing against those is more about vigilance and wisdom, which it sounds like you've got covered honestly!

Pleasantly surprised to see Paprika in someone's list, no one i know has ever even heard of it. Such a good weird movie.

Your photos have such a nice aesthetic, care to share any of your editing tips?

Thanks for posting this, love hearing some "inside baseball" about this kind of stuff and good to know there are some tools out there to help fix things.

Last book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Current book: Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Never Let Me Go was not my favorite book, but not a waste of time either. The story had some good highs and lows but it did not resonate with me personally.

Hyperion is excellent so far, I'm about halfway through and Simmons gives just enough information at the right time and pace to build the world out slowly and thoroughly, and each short story so far has left me contemplating for hours afterward. Definitely enjoying the journey so far but I have been warned not to expect definitive answers towards the end, so we'll see.