If your job is to make sure your file system and your database—SQLite, Pg, My/MariDB, etc—are tuned together, and you don't tune it, then you should be called into a meeting. Or at least the no-fault RCA should bring up remediation methods to make sure it's part of the SOP so that it won't happen again.

The alternative the GP suggests is using Btrfs, which I find even more irresponsible than your non-tuning situation. (Heck, if someone on my sysadmin team suggested we start using Btrfs for anything I would think they were going senile.)

Really? Because:

> During Donald Trump's 2025 speech to a joint session of Congress, the president asked House Speaker Mike Johnson to “get rid” of the subject act.[190]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Subseque...

Which you can do on a per dataset ('directory') basis very easily:

    zfs set sync=disabled mydata/mydb001

Meanwhile all the rest of your pools / datasets can keep the default POSIX behaviour.

    zfs set sync=disabled mydata/mydb001

Large organizations have moved to IPv6 because they, and everyone else, are using 10/8, and so when mergers and acquisitions happen trying to connect the networks together becomes a nightmare.

See this talk from Wells Fargo as an example:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzTWjNUb4H4

Highly recommend that book. Haven't gotten to his most recent Who Is Government?:

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/788713/who-is-govern...

But from the interviews it sounds interesting as well. Colbert interview from April 2025:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T30BF32qPgg

> "The Pentagon ... announced that we are eliminating woke climate change programs and initiatives inconsistent with our core warfighting mission," [Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell] said.

* https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/41...

See also "Pentagon Starts Purging Climate Change Measures":

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-pentagon-pu...

But from 2021 (during Biden), "Climate change is a risk to national security, the Pentagon says"

* https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049222045/the-pentagon-says-...

John Oliver did an episode on this during Trump 1.0:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11110660/

* s06e26: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with...

* https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/dhmo0c/weather_...

Well previously the Chinese were not able to, but that was changed recently:

* https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wins-ok-to-resume-sales-of-a...

* https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/22/nvidia-chip-deal-us-chi...

* Touch of Evil, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052311/quotes/?item=qt0321627

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Evil

See:

> Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience. Epistemologists study the concepts of belief, truth, and justification to understand the nature of knowledge. To discover how knowledge arises, they investigate sources of justification, such as perception, introspection, memory, reason, and testimony.

> The school of skepticism questions the human ability to attain knowledge, while fallibilism says that knowledge is never certain. Empiricists hold that all knowledge comes from sense experience, whereas rationalists believe that some knowledge does not depend on it. Coherentists argue that a belief is justified if it coheres with other beliefs. Foundationalists, by contrast, maintain that the justification of basic beliefs does not depend on other beliefs. Internalism and externalism debate whether justification is determined solely by mental states or also by external circumstances.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

A philosophy joke:

> When I talk to Philosophers on zoom my screen background is an exact replica of my actual background just so I can trick them into having a justified true belief that is not actually knowledge.

* Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, https://old.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyMemes/comments/gggqkv/get...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem

Depends on the problem you're trying to solve.

Perhaps it's "how can I get more for myself?" versus "how I improve the lives of humanity?".

Someone observed a lot of stuff that Trump is doing is through Executive Orders because he really can't do deals. Of course when (some of) his desires overlap with (some of) others', we get:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

which is mostly about implementing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

> […] so there is plenty of time to chicken out.

TACO:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/02/dona...

(Being reliant on TACO may backfire at some point.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Modeling_World_Cup

* https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/2024-excel-world-champi...

Can't wait for this to start having 'e-sports' tournaments. :)

How about:

> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries.

[…]

> “The white man stands for innovation, grit and not bending to PC nonsense,” Grok said in a subsequent post.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...

Or:

> In a series of posts – often picking up language from users or responding to their goading – Grok repeatedly abused [Polish PM] Tusk as “a fucking traitor”, “a ginger whore” and said the former European Council president was “an opportunist who sells sovereignty for EU jobs”.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/musks-gro...

Or last month's

> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok had been repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...

From another comment that found the statute (in French):

* https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000006149839

* https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/07/11/france-p...

* https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/france-is-investigating-x-...

* FR: https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files...

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Manufacturers should print on the sleeve "fibre optic only. no copper". :)

> [Buried pros:] Drunk drivers are no concern, and so are cable thieves or terrorists.

Except for that one old lady who took the country of Armenia off the air:

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman...