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> But that's not why people use containers. People use containers because they want to deploy random crap from the internet at the press of a button.

No, it really isn't. At all. In fact, your comment is so out of touch it actually reads like a poor attempt at trolling.

People use containers because they offer an easy and very convenient and self-contained platform to build, deploy, configure, and run multiple instances of the same application, regardless of node or platform.

In fact, if you ever manage to get any experience with containerized applications you'll eventually notice that in all containerized apps the bulk of applications, specially microservice-based applications, are comprised of apps developed in-house.

On top of that, there is a wealth of container orchestration systems that provide support for blue-green deployments, autoscaling, system introspection, auditing, and even secrets management, not to mention networking.

Your assertion makes as much sense as claiming that people use Linux distros a because they want to deploy random crap from the internet at the press of a button, just because they provide a package management system.
In some countries legal bases were set for imprisoning people after jokes.

Cassandra Vera Paz, Spanish, aged 22 during the event, was charged in 2016 with "injury to victims of terrorism", in the context of legislation "against the praising of terrorism", after she posted jokes on twitter - the homicide through explosives of Luis Carrero Blanco, ally to General Franco, by the Basque separatist group ETA, was related to a (NASA like) "space programme". She was condemned in 2017 to spend one year in prison (plus a year of "absolute disqualification" from public offices and aid). The ruling was reversed in 2018 by the Supreme Court, which called the jokes socially and morally reprehensible but not sufficient for penal sanction.

Granddaughter Lucia Carrero Blanco reportedly wrote «I’m scared of a society in which freedom of expression, however regrettable it may be, can lead to jail sentences».
I disagree entirely with this, ACID only makes guarantees at the database level itself not the system as a whole; it's possible that using ACID in the database could render the system as a whole more vulnerable than not using it. Take for example MySQL/InnoDB which offers durability (the D in ACID). If you have a write heavy database you could end up in a situation where your server ends up stalling waiting for MySQL to commit the write to disk. In effect, your server ends up building a large buffer of queries to commit to MySQL and sits there waiting for MySQL to become available. If your server or system crashes, all of that data gets lost.

You may have been much better off, both performance and correctness, to relax MySQL's durability from flushing on every write, to flushing/committing every 1 second (using innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit). Doing so improves performance by multiple orders of magnitude (it can be the order of 10-100x) to the point that your server is no longer sitting there queuing up queries for writes to complete. The database loses some guarantees about durability but the system as a whole gains better durability.

I could make similar arguments about the other properties as well, the point is that a competent person should actually know this stuff, understand it, not just memorize an acronym and boil the entire issue down to whether a database has ACID or not. It's not a binary matter, it's more of a continuum where each property can be tuned to various degrees. MySQL and Postgres both offer many options to tune the various ACID guarantees from having complete conformance to relaxing them with various upper bounds. Relaxing guarantees about a local property of the system can improve the guarantees of system as a whole.
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Psychology and medicine are very different things. For instance, a doctor will be made to explain how another doctor screwed up a surgery so bad that it qualifies as "reckless endangerment". This is backed by reproducible studies and academic rigor on a given subject. Psychology lacks both reproducible studies and academic rigor, hence you'd have opinions.

Psychological harm smells to me a lot like "bite mark analysis" which it took quite a long while for us to undo in the United States. It also put countless people in prison for crimes they didn't commit.
ZW is less likely because normally parthenogenesis starts with a haploid egg cell (Z or W) that undergoes meiosis alone, copying its own chromosomes - becoming ZZ if it started as Z and WW if it started as W. WW is normally not viable, just like YY in mammals, so the most likely case of parthenogenesis by far is ZZ, male.
I really wish somebody (or a lot of people) would write a hit movie/book where an innocent person on the run from a stasi-like state in 2035 has to face an interrogator who could read their whatsapp messages and google searches dating back to 2021.

Without art or literature that draws out the terror I don't think most people can really envisage the danger we're all being put in. Without popular consciousness of the problem, it's all the more likely to happen.
What determines if code is "untrusted" or not anyway? It's fine to run postgres or redis (someone else's code! that I have certainly not audited!) on a server, but as soon as you run it in a container that's... less secure?
You just described the effects of gamification (also of rewarding behavior - parents listen up ;)

The reward process becomes the game, measurements get manipulated, the original purpose goes under the bus.

People are not birds or rats, we learn to manipulate the hand feeding us but in the process lose motivation for the original behavior and our relationship with the hand gets reduced to a transactional one.

Really counterproductive and destructive long term.
The one a lot of folks know about was the soft hyphen (U+00AD) to bypass swear filters. I was able to use normalization to create XSS attacks.
For what it's worth. If you own Real Property in England, even if only a Leasehold (Long Lease e.g. 99 years) you can get the Land Registry to email you about activity or, once per year, the lack of activity for your property records.

https://propertyalert.landregistry.gov.uk/

Land Registry records have a sort of poor man's locking. The buyers (or in practice their solicitor) need to first perform a "Search" which would get recorded as activity, some time before they can file paperwork to claim it was sold, and so that gives you considerable time to say "Hey, I'm not selling this, why is there a Search by Honest But Incompetent Solicitors LLC?" and phone up to yell at somebody.
I don't think there's ever been a year without a half dozen privesc holes in the Linux kernel. Linus is also belligerently anti-security because he thinks it always results in worse user outcomes. And containers were never created with security as a top priority, they're just an amalgamation of resource abstractions, so of course it works as well as anything else not designed with security in mind.

The hypervisor isolates guest kernel bugs from the host by nature of strictly controlling resource use from the lowest level. There are of course hypervisor bugs that allow breakouts, but they are a couple orders of magnitude rarer than the typical Linux privesc bug.
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Actually, in this case it should be both. It is a civil matter to get the house back, but obviously there was also some criminal fraud involved. The victim of the fraud though is presumably the land registry rather than the house owner.
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The article says "The Land Registry paid out a total of £3.5m in compensation for fraud last year." which tends to imply they have some liability.
Yeah, I don't have much concrete on the civil side, but it seems likely to be a case of public disclosure of private facts. Where everything contained is a matter of legitimate public interest, that might not apply.
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It is important to understand that as implemented by runtimes such as docker, containerd, cri-o, and podman, containers are absolutely a security device.

These things force the application to run in restricted environments where capabilities are reduced, system calls are filtered, apparmor profiles and selinux labels are applied, among other things.

These are the same sort of things that chrome, for instance, does to make it harder to do bad things from the browser.
They are hardening techniques.
Images are automatically checksummed on download, and for certain things even signatures are checked (more of this soon).

Just because they do not protect you from a kernel exploit (also actually not true, seccomp filters have prevented a number of kernel exploits from inside the container) does not mean they are not added security.

The important thing to know what your attack surface is and what is acceptable risk for the workloads you are running.
And yes, it is important to understand that containers do not isolate you completely from kernel exploits.

It is also important to understand the control plane (runtime up to the orchestrator) is much more likely to introduce security issues than the container itself.
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The worst bit is, and I say this as someone who is and always has been very left wing, that the current left wing culture are actually making this possible.

They've winged and winged about anyone tweeting anything controversial about a perceived 'vulnerable minority' and this has always been the end game. They want people to be punished for causing offense.

I can't believe these morons go around joining groups like antifa, protesting against authoritarianism and yet spend half their energy campaigning for laws that would be an authoritarian governments wet dream.
Is this sarcasm? :)

Flash had GPU acceleration 10 years ago.
It isn't a trade off. That's the falseness of setting it up as two mutually exclusive and exhaustive choices. There are better ways to make a point than hyperbole.
I agree with pretty much all you said except I don’t think coolness is that much of a driving factor for Apple purchases. Maybe Apple marketing layers on the cool hipster videos to make it look that way, but that’s just a surface level understanding of what’s going on. I often hear this as a misunderstanding about why people use Apple products.

There are plenty of ways to be cool. And people young and old understand that trying to be cool is not cool,
and they don’t buy Apple to be cool. They buy Apple stuff for other reasons.

If I was trying super hard (not cool) to be cool, I would use a flip phone or some oddball Android phone with an innovative shape and look from China. And a nice looking watch, not a square of glass.

People use Apple for the convenience (just works), quality, and privacy. People interested primarily in coolness over these factors use other products.
If I could put on my conspiracy hat... Perhaps this is related to Canada's detention of he Huawei executive. Someone put their foot down and said Chinese hardware is spying on us, and perhaps they forced China to give up how.

At it's core, the world absolutely cannot trust China. Because Huawei is a de facto company owned by the Chinese government, it stands to reason that the distrust must be extended to Huawei. The product may be good, but China has very little credibility anymore, and should absolutely not be trusted.
maybe we can start with journalists from cnn and fox using social media or members from the ccp using social media to cause a culture way between the two ruling parties in the us
> Even if Musk rejected the data

Even If seems a little strong here. Musk's phrasing doesn't indicate that 'he really wants to be part of helping solve world hunger and that he just needs the data to make it happen'.

'How Dare You' is a better match.
Yes, it is unclear why the police told him it was civil since fraud is "misrepresentation for a gain", which the fraudulent seller presumably did.

Maybe the argument is that without proof that the fraudulent seller made a gain, it is merely a Tort and not Fraud?
But how then verbal intimidation was proven in an age before audio-recording?
I've recently been collaborating with the Foxglove team and highly recommend working with them!
I'd also suggest trying to harness the "what if I am wrong" so you can use it to your advantage - it sounds like the kind of attitude that could make you excellent at testing.
If you turn it into a curious question instead of a self-judgment, it may help identify ways to test something that would give you full confidence that it works. Which is a very valuable skill to have.
> being a reviewer is also [... a] required—part of an academic's career.

Everyone says this. But does reviewing actually count toward your evaluation? Everyone says not.
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Speaking as a person confident that I could point out Argentina on a map, why is geographic trivia a very important topic? I'd rather have a population with a good understanding of means and medians, thermodynamics, and the relationship between rates and accumulations, than one that can readily tell me the year that William the Conqueror invaded England.
Quite the opposite at least where I did it a few years ago. Your notes are not allowed to leave the court. If you use your own notebook then you will have to say goodbye to it after the trial. Our court provided writing material to all jurors, we didn't have to ask for it, and we were encouraged to take notes.

All notes have to stay in the court room or deliberation room, this is to protect the privacy of the jury deliberations - jurors are sworn to a lifetime of secrecy over deliberations, and are not allowed to discuss the case outside of court while it is ongoing.
Ha, no. Higher CO2 contentrations make food less nutritious (sibling comment has sources https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067855 )
Refurbished by Apple or by Best Buy etc?
Another reason to use an anonymous LLC/entity. The owning entity gets a new state identification number which won't have appeared in as many leaks to be impersonated. While the individual owner of the LLC isn't known to impersonate.
I agree with this -- however, for bigger purchases, keep in mind that warranties are not always "transferable", and may not apply to used products.
Nobody cares what Canada fears or not.

Simple fact is that there's no Chinese hegemony now and there won't be one in foreseeable future because there's existing hegemon that won't just give up.

btw one man's whataboutism is another man's uncovering of hypocrisy.
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Serious question, does anyone have any insight into how we got into this mess? It seems like the past few years has seen a whirlwind of anti-democratic rule at almost every level of government - state, local, and federal.
Probably will only affect cost, the US already has high costs for fiber and cellular internet. (Cellular is about 3 USD/GB in the US vs less than 2 USD/GB in most of Europe and Asia according to https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/)