You don't seem to understand what you're talking about

The problem with practically every climate denier out there is you only see things from a very narrow local perspective. Skipping horrible weather in one area doesn’t mean the rest of the world is ok.

Climate scientists, in fact, predicted that there would be fewer hurricanes than normal this year because of El Niño. (https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/how-does-el-nino-impact-atlantic-h...)

I think it would be fucking foolish to look at a system as complicated as the climate on planet earth and think “hm, I think warming by a couple degrees has barely any impact on the weather.” In fact, El Niño is an amazing example that localized warmth in one specific area can completely halt the hurricane season.

But while that’s great, for now, it’d be extremely short sighted to think that a system which can do that is always going to act in your favor.

In fact, a complete lack of weather systems at all is a bad thing if it means your region doesn’t get rain anymore. Which is currently happening in Indonesia, because of El Niño, and is devastating (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-fuels-wil...).

So what will likely follow is a 'takings clause' case by the owner, who can no longer use their property the way they want.

Article reminded me of this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/microsoft-outlook-bill-gat...

I've got a 65" LG C2 OLED TV (from 2022) that I hacked with https://rootmy.tv shortly after I purchased it (and before LG updated the firmware to prevent the hack).

It seems pretty safe. When it's on, I can ssh into it. When it's off, it doesn't reply to ICMP pings, and doesn't appear to be using much power.

I guess the newer LG TVs have gone to shit.

Under Proposition 19, some people can still move without penalty, as long as they're over age 55, and move to a new property located in California.

https://www.ocassessor.gov/tax-saving-programs/savings-senio...

So the Linux qemu-img tool can still convert VM disk images from .vmdk into formats compatible with all the other hypervisors. Is there something more to the process of VM migration from VMWare than just using this tool (and manually creating the proper virtual hardware profile in the new hypervisor)?

Obviously the types of supported virtual hardware will be different between hypervisor types, but that's usually something that can be dealt with separately.

> Is there something more to the process of VM migration from VMWare than just using this tool (and manually creating the proper virtual hardware profile in the new hypervisor)?

Yes? Do that for the hundreds of VMs, with a minimal downtime, bonus points for a dumb C-level on your neck.

You would quickly learn what "just converting disk images" is not enough for moving between hypervisors.

Just as an example: last year I moved a company with two Proxmox servers to ESXi. It took a 3 months and another server as a staging point. A minuscule in modern times 1TB+ VM took a whole weekend to be moved. Of course it didn't work in that time.

>A minuscule in modern times 1TB+ VM took a whole weekend to be moved

Why?

Because it involved a full backup - which wasn't anywhere fast on Proxmox, reinstalling the host, a full restore and then tinkering with the famous "runs everywhere (and not Java!)" boot shenaningans of that flavour of Linux OS.

And that was with the help of a backup-recovery solution which did support Proxmox, mere 6 months before that I would had stuck with an agent P2V migration of a VM to VM - which would had involved way more moving parts (can't P2V/V2V to a hypervisor which is not even installed yet) and more pain.

The problem is how you access the disks that are sitting on a VMware server. VDDK allows you to connect and read them (in raw format, in fact) at a reasonable speed, and also understands sparseness and change block tracking.

I suspect the bigger problem is simply the fact that VDDK workflows are already defined and integrated into migration software packages. Otherwise, there are other options to copy virtual disks from ESXi hosts to other destinations that preserve sparseness and don't require shutting detaching or shutting down hosts using the disks, e.g., cloning a snapshot to an NFS server that supports sparse files.

Exactly. Either everyone is confused, or something is missing from the article.

Doing export manually vs automating it using their libs

Laws based upon speculation that you may act dishonestly are wrong. I've seen lots of police statements about arrests and detentions where the officer basically says, "We didn't know that he was not going to do something illegal."

Putting somebody in a position where they have to prove a negative is plain wrong. The prosecution needs to prove a positive, unless you're in Plymouth, Massachusetts where the prosecutor is required to disprove all defense assertions about mental illness, or the jury will acquit.

I read about this story on Reason.com a few days ago. The mother is getting her law license and is now worried about the repercussions of her having a criminal record.

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-susp...

I believe that most people are in favor of fixing the problems caused by the improper allocation of additional congressional representation to areas with larger populations of non-citizens. This piece complains about the upcoming changes without going into any depth on the problems these proposed changes will resolve.

I think the burden of proof's on you to show that the "changes" mentioned by TFA will do the "resolution" you want. For now -- as a working statistician who uses Census products -- we have a lot of collateral damage that impacts our ability to reliably represent the status of the United States. As well as a sh*t publication with no one's name on it, and the expectation that the Census will publish fewer and slower going forwards.

Do you believe that? Do you also believe most people are in favor of ending prison gerrymandering?

Maybe they are. But that doesn't mean it will get ended.

If "improper allocation" problems are selectively addressed, expect division on partisan lines.

If people are in favor of changing the law they can vote for folks to change it. Until then, the government needs to follow the law - especially the highest in the land.

That change really requires a constitutional amendment, since the relevant article talks about counting persons, not citizens.

So what do you make of the phrase in Amendment 14 section two; "excluding Indians not taxed."? Do you suppose maybe they were trying to limit the representation to citizens?

Citizens? Surely you mean taxpayers?

And through some impressive legal magic perversity, illegal immigrants in the US pay plenty of taxes. "No taxation without representation", wasn't that a phrase?

The illegal immigrants do pay plenty of taxes, but how many of them pay Federal Income Tax? It's not something that you can do without a SSN.

Maybe they were but the compromise they accepted was Indians not taxed, so unless there’s some pretty surprising evidence…

Well, at the time, Indians (Native Americans) were the largest populaton of non-citizens residing in the country. That is no longer the case today. (There are 10 times more non-citizens than non-citizen Native Americans today.)

Ok. So? Still need an amendment.

You mean the pigheaded interpretation of the constitution?

Ignorance supports itself i guess.

This new service is provided free to people who already have TSA Precheck. What I would like to know is if it's also available to those who have Global Entry. I let my TSA Precheck lapse after getting Global Entry because I saw no benefit to keeping it.

It is. With Global Entry, you have a KTN.

> Who is Eligible

> TSA PreCheck members and those with Known Traveler Numbers (KTNs).

It says “to those with Known Traveler Numbers”

Just one more reason to never use Chrome. Their removal of MV2 to prevent UBlock Origin from working is another.

Chrome product management is horrible. Chrome software engineering is some of the best ever done.

(And no, I don't use it except for testing).

I don’t disagree, two or more things can be true at once.

That said I still use Firefox for other reasons.

I simply don’t trust google, I don’t trust Mozilla either but I do trust them more than Google and you do kinda have to have a browser to function in the modern world.

Which browser has a better security track record?

Despite what people are saying here, chrome has a really excellent track record. Nobody is perfect. Switching just because chrome got exploited one time will likely result in you switching to something worse.

If you're paranoid, disable JIT.

Or disable JS altogether, and enjoy many sites working much quicker. Many others fail & need to be selectively allowed, but it's been worth it.

If by quicker you mean blank content, I'll agree, it is worth it.

Actually thinking back, I get _more_ content, because there's a notable number of access screens that just don't function with JS off, leaving the whole article available.

Somehow I don't think you've tried, if you think all I get is blank content.

It's not about switching because chrome got exploited one time, it's about switching not to reward unethical behavior.

well one someone posts on an article about an exploit in chrome saying that the exploit is a reason to switch, i think its fair to say its not about "not reward[ing] unethical behaviour"

Firefox with uBlock Origin. It’s astonishing how many exploits uBO stops before they ever reach your browser engine. It’s the antivirus of the 2020s.

Brave would be a much better option if you want security and good adblocking.

Brave is just a wrapper on top of Chromium. Just like the many other “browsers” you can think of recommending.

Yes but I was responding to someone who wanted good ad blocking which could be helpful for the security of non-technical users at the minimum.

I suggest Zen browser (fork of FF), it feels closer to chrome.

I hear about Zen. Random q:

It can’t trick Canva into letting you use the color picker, or otherwise enable it, can it - if someone happens to know?

(What a dumb feature to be locked to the Googlesphere.)

I don’t know honestly.

What does it mean "closer to chrome"?

I should have been more specific. I meant the aesthetics. Zen mimics Arc Browser with vertical tabs and a hidden sidebar to maximize screen space.

In a good way?

Yes, in my opinion. I know a couple of people who actually jumped from Chrome to Zen because of it. In their mind, Firefox is something from the past and rough around the edges. Zen gave new attraction to FF. I am all for any opportunity to disrupt the Chrome monopoly we currently have.

uBlock Origin won't help with this kind of targeted exploit, and Firefox has a much worse security track record.

It absolutely does help, because it blocks hundreds of thousands of shady origins.

That blocks all sorts of abuse, but a targeted exploit would be delivered on a clean domain.

uBO stops exploits? Source?

malvertising is really a method of delivering exploits, but there is no reason to think its relavent to this situation.

For non technical users, scam adverts are probably the biggest threat.

So i agree ubo is an important security technology, but its probably irrelavent to the topic at hand.

It blocks many shady domains, which stops many exploits before they ever reach your browser.

Vanadium makes improvements on Chromium. https://grapheneos.org/features#vanadium

Most of those are just changing flags, not really unique development. Like "disable JIT" is a Chromium flag. "Zero-init everything" is a Clang flag.

It's not even a build flag, it's a setting that you can just go and enable in Chrome's own settings menu (chrome://settings/content/v8).

Right, but it's value-add on a derivative, not its own standalone engine.

Of all the reasons to use non-Chromium browsers whenever possible(!), this isn’t really on the list.

This is like saying never use seatbelts because people still die in car accidents.

Chromium is still far superior on the security front than any other browser.

Oh, right, because other browsers never have bugs.

If we needed any more.

chrome has more bugs, not necessarily because it's less secure, but its popularity makes it a bigger target, so more bugs are found