That’s the thing about a war time economy, you produce one tank, and BOOM you’ve added $3.5MM to your GDP. A single SU-35? About 16MM added to GDP.

You can’t eat tanks and jets though, the labor and resources used to maintain a war footing are vast, and must be poached from other areas of the economy. The longer you maintain this posture, the more dramatic the contraction.

Gazprom posted a loss for the first time in decades. They sell one of the most profitable substances ever discovered by man and they still couldn’t turn a profit… despite how little the sanctions are impacting them, no less!

A lot of negativity around Ubiquity in here, which is surprising to me, honestly. I had their USG for years and loved it, recently swapped it out for the Dream Machine and love it. Really don’t understand the complaints about linking it to the cloud. I just didn’t bother, everything works fine. Additionally, I managed to get a Debian container running on it and installed ntopng, it’s been awesome for getting realtime visibility into my network traffic.

E. I should add I have 6 of their switches and 3 access points, one of which is at least 7 years old and still receiving updates.

After spending a few minutes mulling it over, I’ve realized the only right move is for me to sell the cube to someone more clever than myself.

Can I only teleport back to where I teleported in from, or can I teleport out of the cube to anywhere I want?

Why didn’t you stick with 3% peroxide to clean it, out of curiosity? Just none available, or am I the only crazy person who does this from time to time?

Absolute bullshit. Ukrainian losses are far in excess of those in Gaza. Even conservative estimates put their losses deep into six figures.

E. Also it’s not a pissing match, tragedy is tragedy. The are humans losing their lives, this is terrible all around.

It probably has to do with being native ipv6 and needing to ride a 6to4 nat to reach the broader internet.

Start at 1400 and walk the MTU down by ~50 until you find stability, then id creep it back up by 10 to find the ‘perfect’ size, but that part isn’t really needed if you’re impatient. :)

E. I found 1290 was needed for reliable VPN over an ATT nighthawk hotspot.

Your VPN doesn’t have the ability to strip user agent strings on HTTPS requests, this doesn’t seem VPN related imo.

Important bit:

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s move follows Russia’s formal withdrawal from the accord on Tuesday and longstanding Western complaints that Moscow wasn’t honoring the terms of the treaty.

Fwiw, most modern thermostats have an emergency failsafe temp setting that will always turn the heater on when reached, even if inadvertently set lower by mistake. Saved my bacon in a rental once.

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Wow. I’d get the marshmallows out so I don’t have to get roasted alone.

That makes sense! Believe it or not it’s actually easier for an ISP to block a whole country than select websites and services. We actually null route all Russian public IP space where I work, that would absolutely be plausible on a national scale as well.

It’s imperfect, you can get around it, but it catches 99% of normal users, which is the goal.

You are absolutely correct, I should have lead with that. Encrypted client handshake means no one can see what certificate you are trying to request from the remote end of your connection, even your ISP.

However, It’s worth noting though that if I am your ISP and I see you connecting to say public IP 8.8.8.8 over https (443) I don’t need to see the SNI flag to know you’re accessing something at Google.

First, I have a list of IP addresses of known blocked sites, I will just drop any traffic destined to that address, no other magic needed.

Second, if you target an IP that isn’t blocked outright, and I can’t see your SNI flag, I can still try to reverse lookup the IP myself and perform a block on your connection if the returned record matches a restricted pattern, say google.com.

VPN gets around all of these problems, provided you egress somewhere less restrictive.

Hope that helps clarify.

Yeah, even if they miss your DNS request, the ISP can still do a reverse lookup on the destination IP you’re attempting to connect to and just drop the traffic silently. That is pretty rare though, at least in US, mainly because It costs money to enforce restrictions like that at scale, which means blocking things isn’t profitable. However, slurping up your DNS requests can allow them to feed you false error pages, littered with profitable ads, all under the guies of enforcing copyright protections.

Most ISP blocking is pretty superficial, usually just at the DNS level, you should be fine in the vast majority of cases. While parsing for the SNI flag on the client hello is technically possible, it’s computationally expensive at scale, and generally avoided outside of enterprise networks.

With that siad, When in doubt, VPN out. ;)

Is this a good time to mention both Ukraine and Israel have free healthcare?

That’s good info, I appreciate your personal insights on the condition.

Since you mentioned you have ADHD, can you answer a related question?

How do you find functioning with a reduced or missed dose? I’m not familiar with how the medication works, would you find it impacts your day to be given 1/4 your prescribed dose, or is that bullshit?

Further, if there was some impact, would that impact be worsened if you continued to take substantially less than prescribed, say for several weeks, or does it not compound like that?

Thanks in advance!

Don’t worry, we’ll invent a type of plastic immune to this bacteria and start the whole process anew!

As an aside, ‘plastic eating bacteria’ have been ‘discovered’ countless times over the past several decades.