dudeism_est_03

I watched a documentary about this a few years ago and they spoke about this. At least this is what I seem to remember. The wall came down quickly and caught the Stasi out. Not sure if it was surprise or a desperate hope of holding onto their cushy spy jobs. Anyway, when they realised the consequences of all of their activities becoming public they started to panic. That’s the downside of spying on an entire country in such detail - they had enormous archives. Of course they had a process for deatroying documents but I think most of their business was hording :) All Stasi workers basically tried to destroy as much as possible and as quickly as they could. They specifically mentioned burning (I am fairly confident) - the Stasi people worried that the smoke would give their secret locations away and that the same people pulling down the wall would come for them too. That’s also the same reason they couldn’t drive all the documents away.

No references - this is just what I remember from that documentary.

I personally doubt very much that this range is required. Charging infrastructure is definitely a lot more important.

I still drive a diesel because I drive across Europe a lot. My usual journey is 700km, which I can do with ca. 40L. The total my 65L tank would give me is about 1000km depending on the conditions. Anyway, those 700km take about 8 hours with a couple of short stops. If I were to drive 2000km I would definitely need a long break in which I could easily charge. I am not really aware of any ICE having a greater range than that, never mind 2000Km. I’ve once driven the Plugin-Hybrid Kuga and it got very close to the diesel range. It almost made the entire 700km journey with the 40l petrol tank. But these long journeys only happen a few times a year and I think it would be silly to drive a huge battery around for the off chance I am driving across an entire continent.

My main work machine is also a Mac and I found the accessibility zoom a really useful and quick feature. I simply share my entire screen or a window in whatever meeting/share app and then use a 3-finger gesture and Cmd+ or Cmd- to zoom in and out. That zoom level is fully passed on by the screen share.

Obviously this feature has to be enabled and wasn’t intended for this purpose but it works perfectly!

This is the bit I am still trying to understand. On CrowdStrike you can define how many updates a host is behind. I.e. n (latest), n-1 (one behind) or n-2 etc. This update was applied to a 'latest' policy hosts and the n-2 hosts. To me it appears that there was more to this than just a corrupt update, otherwise how was this policy ignored? Unless it doesn't separate the update as deeply and maybe just a small policy aspect, which would also be very concerning.

I guess we won't really know until they release the post mortem...