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New comment by houssc in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

houssc — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:48:25 +0000

Yep, a lot of non-technical leaders believe that 'cloud' is synonymous with 'DR strategy' or even 'backup'. "We won't have to worry about being offline if our server goes down if we move to the cloud!" Some of these people fundamentally don't understand what the cloud is, their assumption is cloud means easy button that solves all your infrastructure and uptime problems.

New comment by houssc in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

houssc — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:04:26 +0000

The caveat is always "if you're using the service correctly" which is not necessarily free. Meaning taking advantage of multiple geo zones, building in redundancy to your stack, etc. Like everything he said is possible if your technology stack living in AWS was designed to survive it. Everyone who has ever had the "we lost your data" email from AWS knows at the end of the day the cloud is just someone else's data center with neat provisioning tools and services.

New comment by houssc in "Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him"

houssc — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:48:51 +0000

Was something planted in Stallman's case? Blowing his quotes out of proportion isn't the same thing as planting evidence. I suppose a better analogy is being on your second strike and doing some minor crime to get your third. Some would argue people on two strikes should keep their head down.

Furthermore his quotes are pretty fucking creepy.

New comment by houssc in "Edmunds Tesla Model 3 Long-Term Road Test Update for April"

houssc — Tue, 22 May 2018 06:13:11 +0000

Yea I mentioned that as well in my prior post, that tesla does patch and like I said everyone has a different equation to decide what they want.

New comment by houssc in "Edmunds Tesla Model 3 Long-Term Road Test Update for April"

houssc — Tue, 22 May 2018 05:48:35 +0000

Yea he has the AP2, thanks I forgot what it was called. Sadly that is the kind of thing I'd expect and it completely understandably takes away from the value of their products. Everyone has their own equation for what makes sense and I'm sure some are fine with these issues too. Good thing we have a free market with many options :-).

New comment by houssc in "Edmunds Tesla Model 3 Long-Term Road Test Update for April"

houssc — Tue, 22 May 2018 04:31:58 +0000

It sounds like the key fob did work as others pointed out. However I'm sure there are still lots of unfinished things. When I was out in Chicago with my buddy late last year I got to drive the updated Model S and I noticed the windshield wipers wouldn't come on automatically whenever it rained. After digging through the menu we found a thing that said said something like "feature coming soon" for automatic wipers. Kinda sucks to not have feature a lot of very entry level luxury-ish cars have. Overall the tech is cool and I bet they offer a lot more future functionality through patching. Just feels like they are always in a rush to launch to get some cash in the door and they go with "that will do for now" as the solution.

I hear they got a patch out around last new years to finally address this.

New comment by houssc in "Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen"

houssc — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:13:10 +0000

Seriously dude? People fuck up all the time, it doesn't mean the company doesn't take security seriously. Furthermore taking something seriously and being successful at your serious undertaking are different things.

New comment by houssc in "What is your phone telling your rental car?"

houssc — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:08:05 +0000

I've been doing these security steps every single time since rentals got bluetooth. Every rental unless it's brand new has dozens of people's contacts and other data in it.

New comment by houssc in "Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL"

houssc — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 03:38:14 +0000

You have no idea how many developers I've wanted to hit in the testicles with a baseball bat for crying my ear off to use redis, mongo, etc... anything but mysql. Really you want to take our 99% relational data (billing/invoicing, crm, etc...) and put it in a key store? You're fucking retarded.

What I found is that I can browse the posts here in the AM and then by noon they will be asking me for whatever landed on the front page here. I just laugh and tell them to go back to work.

New comment by houssc in "Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS"

houssc — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 13:52:47 +0000

Fancy!

New comment by houssc in "Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS"

houssc — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:59:06 +0000

What does ZFS have to do with this? This is like any other properly executed backup. You may as well call it "defeating having your day ruined by keeping proper backups". Granted I do like ZFS and I've literally been doing this for ages, backing up my KVM guest images to ZFS SAN the KVM host can access to save the snapshot and the KVM guest can't access at all.

However this can be done a million different ways. It's just a backup not accessible to the affected system... I do the same thing with my bare metal OSX machines (macbook, macpro, etc...) they use time machine to backup to Netatalk shares, those shares are image files which again get backed to the ZFS SAN. So even if the time machine share was encrypted I'd have a copy of the image holding the share from X days ago.

New comment by houssc in "LA is dumping millions of plastic balls into its reservoir to tackle the drought"

houssc — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:02:08 +0000

Repair, weight, suspension and deployment seems like the hardest issues to tackle.

The tarp would ideally need to be reflective, like a white roof on modern buildings. The rain issue is the easiest one to solve, since the tarp could be slightly perforated to allow drainage.

I wonder if a permanent structure over the lake would be easier than a tarp? Like literally building a roof.

Either way the balls seem like a solid approach.