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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If alcohol consumption fixed declining birth rates, Japan wouldn't have an aging population and Russia wouldn't have been facing a demographic collapse even before the Ukraine invasion.

This isn't about boosting sex, it's about being a conservative policy counterweight to opening the door to legalizing medicines derived from cannabis.

My guess is that it's a result of an internal NJP compromise between center right and hard right factions: only agreeing to allow liberalized medical cannabis policy, if the law also increased the scope of, and penalties for, recreational uses.

But that's just my assumption based on my limited understanding of Japan's post-war uniparty government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, because the barrier to entry for car manufacturing is significant.

If the other major car manufacturers weren't already working a similar advertising system/platform, they've already scheduled multiple meetings to catch up.

This isn't a problem that will be solved by the market and competition, only by regulation.

And I don't consider tech savvy users learning how to hack and disable these features as a resolution, it's just mitigation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unless it's for SMTP only, it's probably a back end sever to some other front facing box, or service, that has IP addresses whitelisted for email.

I'm pretty sure I read one of his comments elsewhere talking about tunneling everything over SSH, so I assume that's what he meant, but I could be mistaken.

Regardless, using an EOL distro as an internet facing SSH server that's 8 years behind on SSH updates, is probably a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

We're not talking about some punch card COBOL machine he jimmy rigged with network access, it's an old Debian Linux box with SSH enabled.

It's not like Metasploit would have a tough time finding unpatched vulnerabilities for it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Generally the elastic or usage/volumetric type billing structures are used on SaaS/cloud products, not on-prem.

Although it's entirely possible that elasticsearch, and other vendors in the space use that pricing model for their on-prem customers.

Regardless, that's even more of a reason why it would be very difficult to give a quote without being first having a presales meeting with a solution architect or knowledgeable rep.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This company may be dogshit, but seat count is the standard licensing structure for most employee facing business software, including on-prem.

Most business software licensing/CRM tools requires that information to generate a quote, as price will be dependent upon several factors, including volume licensing tiers i.e. volume discounts.

Sometimes, licensing structures are simple enough that an employee or rep might be able to give you a quick ballpark without that information, but that would be the exception, not the rule.

And all of that is assuming that pricing is only based on seats, when there could be a whole lot of other variables that would be required even for their system just to generate single quote e.g. core count, support terms, etc.

To be clear, none of that means anyone should trust, or switch back to, elasticsearch. It's just a minor peak into the mundane horrors of business software licensing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, Voice of America is explicitly a state funded propaganda organization used to advance American interests abroad.

I think the confusion most people have is that they incorrectly believe that propaganda means lies , it doesn't.

Propaganda is information published and used to influence opinions and actions. Doesn't matter if it's accurate, or inaccurate, information.

So yeah, VOA is a US government run propaganda outlet. While it doesn't mean that they're some dystopian disinformation factory, they also aren't typically breaking news either, so I would recommend using alternative sources without that baggage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Every home should have an auger, but a plunger will work quicker, easier, and cleaner, 99 out of 100 times.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's way more history and nuance with the current migration crisis facing Europe than I feel like delving into with this comment, so I'm just going to leave you with a quick note about why you're being downvoted:

Intentionally trying to capsizing migrants so they drown isn't the same as "being called racist". Forget whatever opinions or beliefs motivated these actions, this is attempted murder, at best.

So whether or not your commentary would be reasonable on an article discussing immigration policy, it's irrelevant to this article. Which again, is about Spanish police trying to drown migrants by intentionally driving their police boat at, and then over, their small dinghy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everyone hating on that setup are a bunch of morons.

There's a good reason to put your patch panels on a separate rack then all of your switches like that, because eventually you'll have to roll them around. At which point, you're going to need some slack in the lines, like when you're hooking up a tow line to your hitch.

That's all I see here: preparedness. Separate racks for switches and patch panels, and a lot of slack for when you got to roll them around, or some shit I don't know.

I just know that I see foresight and planning when I look at that picture, not sure why everyone else doesn't.

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