ghjnut
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
CenturyLink sends me a bill for maintenance. After tons of back and forth I got to the point where I said "So can you state for the record since I'm recording this phone call, that I the customer should have climbed the telephone pole to remedy the issue".
After that he finally decides to get in touch with the fiber contractor they use who emphasized it was no fault of my own and they cleared the charge.
My original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023395#27024492
Here's the original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09655-y.
There's a marked contrast between vaccinated and unvaccinated survival rates, and they pretty extensively tested and ruled out additional mechanisms they thought may be influencing their observations.
Now I'm the 40-year-old ops guy fielding those questions. I'll write up an LLM question emphasizing what they should be focused on, I'll verify the response is in sync with my thoughts, and shoot it to them.
It seems less passive aggressive than LMGTFY and sometimes I learn something from the response.
The process is grueling in hindsight, but I'm glad to hear you're getting results. At first I would have said "if this is going to kill me, make it sooner rather than later" to avoid a drawn-out painful experience, but I'm starting to appreciate what the buying time really means. It's hard with all that's going on but get your head straight and make sure you enjoy it.
Keep on keeping on.
e.g. - would you still require users connected to the vpn to go through a bastion host? - would you ever run bastion/vpn through the same box? - are there preferred access use cases for each?
I'm guessing the reason why iOS exploits receive more face-time is: 1. Apple has advertised their phones as being at the forefront of security, which holds some merit. 2. iPhones have become commonplace among government employess (possibly as a result of point 1). Political exploits are inevitably more in the public eye if it's the tool of most politicians.
It's the same concept as the early days of Microsoft being the powerhouse of consumer operating systems- everyone was using it making it the most lucrative to exploit.