Wow TIL about the use of underscore in an interactive session.

Also this bit from The Simpsons

Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but I’d say the mystery of the dead bear cub in central park 10 years ago. This was minor news back then and basically was forgotten about, until RFK Jr. (former third party presidential candidate) admitted to being the person behind it, confessing it to a confused Roseanne Barr.

Not sure the genre or trope, but Poker Face (and 6 Feet Under), the additional subgenre for me is “who’s gonna die in the first scene”.

The TSA press office said in a statement that this vulnerability could not be used to access a KCM checkpoint because the TSA initiates a vetting process before issuing a KCM barcode to a new member. However, a KCM barcode is not required to use KCM checkpoints, as the TSO can enter an airline employee ID manually. After we informed the TSA of this, they deleted the section of their website that mentions manually entering an employee ID, and did not respond to our correction. We have confirmed that the interface used by TSOs still allows manual input of employee IDs.

TSA: lalala i can’t hear you, everything is fine, no issue here

That’s Tammy, Trey’s ex-girlfriend. This is classic Tammy. Trey broke up with Tammy because Maureen Kanallen said that she saw Tammy flirting with Walt Timny at a party, but she was only doing it to make Trey jealous because you know, she thought that Trey secretly liked Erin Henebry, but he doesn’t like Erin Henebry, it was all a bunch of bull.

Say you don’t know how the US electoral college works without saying you don’t know how the US electoral college works.

FWIW, if all you have is a truly static website (html, css, and js), then GitHub Pages is free and you can point a custom domain there from your registrar, and don’t have to worry about backups or server uptime.

You eat pieces of shit for breakfast, you piece of shit?

Good point, I’m not against the transparent salary, my company lists a salary range, and knowing I’m at the top of my range for my position is rewarding.

If it’s working for them, that’s great. I wonder how they deal with resentment if someone is not contributing as much as everyone else. Knowing compensation is equal for differing level of work could result in higher performers reducing their effort, leading to an overall decline in the work the team is doing.

This. For example, if you have a DNS entry for your DB and the TTL is set to 1 hour, an hour before you intend to make the changes, just lower the TTL of the record to a minute. This allows all clients to be told to only cache for a minute and to do lookups every minute. Then after an hour, make the necessary changes to the record. Within a minute of the changes, the clients should all be using the new record. Once you’ve confirmed that everything is good, you can then raise TTL to 1 hour again.

This approach does require some more planning and two or three updates to DNS, but minimizes downtime. The reason you may need to keep TTL high is if you have thousands of clients and you know the DNS won’t be updated often. Since most providers charge per thousand or million lookups, that adds up quickly when you have thousands of clients who would be doing unnecessary lookups often. Also a larger TTL would minimize the impact of a loss of DNS servers.

??? Is when the underwear gnomes send you a massive bill because you’re paying per 1k lookups. They profit, you don’t

I have a coworker who always forgets TTL is a thing, and never plans ahead. On multiple occasions they’ve moved a database, updated DNS to reflect the change, and are confused why everything is broken for 10-20 minutes.

I really wish the first time they learned, but every once and a while they come to me to troubleshoot the same issue.

Is it normal to use white vinegar as ear drops?

https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-synagogue-chabad-tunnel-2c03a40c9150bdf6d9d899436789d8cf

Which came first, the chicken or the queen?

Those temperatures are pretty cold. It’s literally illegal where I live for landlords to not provide at least 68 during the winter when the temperature is below 55 outside.

I’m always suspicious of apps which setup a local web server to accomplish some basic task. When Zoom did this, it was a security nightmare.

Just based on the screenshots, DroidCamX sets up a local webserver on the phone, and then the video is accessible on the local network (for example: http://192.168.0.17:4747/video). This means anyone on the local network can access the webcam, which in an office or school setting, might be disastrous. If a coworker were in a conference room using this app, a malicious coworker could use this to spy on the meeting surreptitiously.

However it’s implemented in the OS, a basic requirement is that there is some authentication to link the phone’s camera to the computer, and that the video is encrypted in transit, to avoid man in the middle attacks.

without any sketchy apps installed

How do you do it without an app?