I'm totally with the text folks on the 5 hour Fossdem sessions, though. Give me an accurate transcript I can grep or don't even bother.

Ok, maybe I'm being a bit cynical. Stories about bikeable cities are welcome too. And wasn't Soylent popular for a hot minute back in the day?

I had a relative with a different story in the same theme. It sucks and I want to see this technology do something truly beneficial for a change....

You take too much and it can give you a fever, which might entice you to take more aspirin. Nasty.

Obligatory Reye's mention:

https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/reyes-syndrome-a-rare-b...

and my own editorializing -- this is not just a problem for little kids. As various articles explain, if you've had flu-like symptoms (from whatever cause) you should be wary of aspirin. Will one standard dosage kill you? Unlikely. But if you've got better options, particularly pre-loading NAC before Tylenol, why not consider them first?

Further reading:

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/low-dose-aspirin/who-can-and-ca...

And for those of you with kids: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/kawasaki-disease/

Of course it's not all bad. There's even some discussion of anti-cancer potential. How might this work? One hypothesis: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45184

This topic is a bit personal for me and I'm glad it's getting some attention here. Bravo, hackers.

I presume your protein intake was adequate and diverse prior to this misadventure....

Also, loved your TV show back in the day. :-)

> Frozen: Alien can only monitor it. Created once during setup, then Alien has no permissions to modify or delete it. > Live: Alien can manage it from your cloud. Push code updates, roll config changes, redeploy — without the customer's involvement.

Is that really all? What about something like "Alien can run these 37 maintenance and debugging commands but cannot touch the firewall or modify routes or change any other access methods to internal resources"?

(I'm looking at https://www.alien.dev/docs/how-alien-works here.)

Meta: I presume youngish accounts like mine (who can't downvote yet) have no role to play in policing astroturfing like this, correct?

One person replies "yes". Another replies "no".

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There was a scifi story about a guy who gradually falls through the cracks of a dystopian future society in which McDonalds managers are replaced by AI that talks to workers through their headsets.

At first it's quite benign, like: "Hello, John. In 5 minutes it will be time to inspect the washrooms and perform any necessary cleaning."

Before long it's firing people who don't smile enough and don't have the correct attitude.

(Of course, to keep readers from becoming despondent and killing themselves, the story takes a hard left turn towards a post-scarcity economy and everyone lives happily ever after. But when one reflects on it at the end, 90% of humanity doesn't have that post-scarcity life. And those who get left behind are far from content with their futures....)

In other words, everybody but economists and certain philosophers. :-)

Nick Hanauer understood this fourteen years ago. Very few others did. And despite him spending his own time and money to explain it in simple English, nobody in his peer group wanted to hear it -- his TED talk on the subject ... took several years before it was published. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

FA (for a decade or so) FO, I guess?

https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocr...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8ns than humans, and more potentially unemployed white collar workers than the police, military and national guard combined.

There are serious financial penalties for robocallers who violate the Do Not Call list (in America, at least). Let's update those laws for the 21st century, shall we?

Giving you the benefit of the doubt and accepting your claim, doesn't that make you one of the people at least second-order responsible for the current state of affairs in email blocking? It would seem that your company, by dint of your volume, navigates roadblocks that the rest of us (ie. the 99.999% of Internet email servers and their admins), who aren't FAANG et al[1], have to deal with to get our users' legitimate email delivered.

If so, could you perhaps give us a brief explanation as to why an otherwise competent engineer can "follow all the best practices" with their server which has no known compromises[2], on an IP address they have controlled for, oh, let's say a full calendar year, and yet still can't get off those FAANG et al default-deny blocklists, but you can?[3]

A cynic might say that your service had a vested interest in paying for unimpeded access to those FAANG et al companies to get over the bar that the rest of us are unable to vault. A cynic might also say that those biggest of the big email services like it that way, because it drives more users to them at the expense of the rest of us 99.999%.

I'll try to remain open to the possibility that there are aspects of the industry I've not yet had any exposure to, and refrain from chimping out over having my users blocked through no fault of their own.

[1] Yes, I know, Facebook doesn't receive anywhere near as much email as they send, and Hotmail = Microsoft, etc. If I used an accurate acronym I could pat myself on the back for being Technically Correct, while nobody would know what the heck I was talking about.

[2] We shan't digress into a discussion of hardware/firmware/OS/application backdoors nor Snowden disclosures. It's not that hard to auto-install security updates and run a reasonably tight ship with no unnecessary attack surfaces.

[3] Or perhaps there aren't any default-deny blocklists at all, but in fact only much smaller default-allow whitelists? That would be cynical indeed.