Bad because as of Splunk 10.x, Splunk bundles postgres to integrate with their SOAR platform. Parenthetically, this practice of bundling stuff with Splunk is making vuln remediation a real pain. Splunk bundles its own python, mongod, and now postgres, instead of doing dependency checking. They're going to have to keep doing it as long as they release a .tgz and not just an RPM. The most recent postgres vuln is not fixed in Splunk.

https://www.sylvaspoon.com/blog/2020/1/16/anatomy-of-an-axe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45791210

Points: 2

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The server does not "know" anything about the time, that is, it's really about the sysadmin knowing what happened and when.

I'm a Splunk Certified Architect with 20 years experience with OS, platform, HPC and adjacent technologies, looking for short-term engagements. I currently run a multi-clustered Splunk infrastructure built by me, in AWS and on-prem, with 15TB per day ingest by volume.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjaIKN8WAPcpWOFqB3RR2MZmhH4... Email: in my CV and HN profile

Sometimes a hot stove must be touched. If I were the son, I would ask the father to double down for another $10K, or even $20K. I believe that somewhere deep inside the father, there is a ghost of an understanding where the line of reality exists. He's just so deep into his world that he can't see where he mixes up the hope that these things will happen, vs the belief that these things will happen. But if you ask him to put real stakes on the line, say, even $100K if he has it, he will not be so unwavering in his belief.

Every time I go into a Joanne's it's more and more like a junk hobby shop, and not a nice one. Aisles are dimly lit, you can't see the merchandise, fabrics are stashed in disorderly piles, marked down things at the front; the people who work there aren't sewists and so can't really answer when to use this thing instead of that thing for a particular application. It's never a nice shopping experience. I would rather they had a third of the inventory, but better quality, and the option of buying stuff to get it delivered there.

I'm sad that we're no longer a maker society, there's so much skills and craft that are being lost, perhaps irrevocably. Seems like anytime I go in search for how to do a thing, the first thing I find is something to buy.

> If you hire a driver, or use a taxi, offer to pay the driver to take you to visit their mother. They will ordinarily jump at the chance.

This is deluded.

> They fulfill their filial duty and you will get easy entry into a local’s home, and a very high chance to taste some home cooking.

Oh I see, he's probably traveling in a very poor country.

> Crash a wedding.

What? No. That's rude.

> You are not a nuisance; you are the celebrity guest!

Oh I see, probably a white person from a rich country traveling in a poor country.

> They will usually feel honored.

I stopped reading and CTRF-F for primae noctis. Disappointed. He had me going.

Just like people who ask, how can you forget your baby/pet in the backseat of a car. It sounds outlandish but it happens, to all kinds of smart people. How can you give ten thousand dollars to someone on the internet, who you've chatted with but never met? And yet it happens and continues to happen. My takeaway of the comment elements for victims: loneliness (and neediness) and a tiny big of greed. This is not a condemnation, we are all greedy in some dimension. The scammers were successful because they presented a picture of readily available affluence, everyone is swimming in it, it seems so easy, why not me. Another vector of why social media is poison. I found this series fascinating!

Kansas banker sentenced to prison https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/08/20/kansas-...

Shwe Kokko https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04nx1vnw17o

Thailand Cuts Electricity to Scam Sanctuaries Across Myanmar Border https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/thailand-cuts-electricity-to...

What is a pig-butchering scam https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-pig-butchering-scam/

HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971059

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778486

I'm a Splunk Certified Architect with 20 years experience with OS, platform, HPC and adjacent technologies, looking for short-term engagements.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjaIKN8WAPcpWOFqB3RR2MZmhH4... Email: in my CV and HN profile

(The Lamy does OK with a very wet ink and cheap printer paper. I use it to doodle, so all is not lost.)

Have you inherited a giant Splunk cluster operating on hundreds of TBs of data, and you're not sure what's in it, or how to leverage what's in it for Business and Operational Intelligence?

Do you have more than one Splunk instance, in cloud, on-prem, a hodge-podge of Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, and you need to combine their operations across network enclaves?

Do you have logs from devices running not-an-OS? Does rsyslog configuration fill you with dread? It does for me too, but I've written lots of them and integrated them with Splunk.

Do you have data for which you need to enforce compliance, but you're not sure how?

Do you need to build a Splunk cluster from scratch? In a week? Do you have a derelict cluster that needs optimizing, cleanup, a multi-version upgrade?

I'm a Splunk Certified Architect who have worked with Splunk since 2008. I manage multiple clusters of +10TB/day by volume. How can I help?

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjaIKN8WAPcpWOFqB3RR2MZmhH4...

Email: in my CV and HN profile