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Am I the only one who finds this site undecipherable?

Take this snippet for example:

  American exporters 
  $16.0B of what American exporters sell to Canada sits in headings Canada taxes today, 10.5% of the total. From 8 September it is $26.5B.
  See whose jobs

What does "sits in headings Canada taxes" mean? Whatever this means, how does it jump to $26.5B from $16.0B on a single date? Don't things have to enter for tariffs to be collected?

"See whose jobs" is even more confusing. Nothing about jobs was mentioned. It's talking, presumably about an increase in a tariff collected by Canada. I can understand this will affect certain jobs, but "See whose jobs" just confuses the situation more. I cannot figure out for the life of me what's going on.

Here's another example when you click the "nuclear option" it jumps, without context beyond "Canada’s energy supply is a fourth exposure, and a different kind" to this:

  The nuclear option

  Canada has not done this, and nothing here predicts it will. But tariffs are the smaller lever. 
  Flip the switch to see which states buy their energy from Canada, and whether they have anywhere else to buy it.

  Crude cost per gallon
  $1.86
  what everyone else charges, up 26¢ a gallon

  Both figures are prices the United States actually paid   this year: $67.17 a barrel to Canada, $77.92 a barrel 
  to everyone else, across 704 million Canadian barrels. Careful with the gap, though. It is not a pump price, 
  since refining, distribution, tax and margin all sit on top of the crude. Nor is it really a discount: Canadian 
  barrels are mostly heavy crude, and heavy crude sells below lighter grades wherever it goes, so a lot of the 
  difference is just the grade. What replacing one with the other would cost is a question this page does
  not have the data to answer.

Am I really dumb for not understanding this site, or is this the infogram equivalent of a Nigerian prince email?

Page hijacks the back button

Seems they've got an IP block on Israel.

I use webhooks to argo events that trigger argo workflows on a small k3s cluster on my desk. You could do the same even with a single node cluster.

Does nothing on Firefox Android. You can't even see the error because of overlapping elements.

`sops exec-env`

I have an alias set for when I'm working with opentofu:

`alias tfenter='sops exec-env secrets.yaml "/bin/bash"'`

I encrypt with openbao's transit engine and backup age key kept in a password manager, so no secrets live on disk.

I would argue moving SSH to a non-standard port is security, but it's a different kind. By reducing the noise in logs, it reduces the workload on the human or agent reviewing the logs. So, you can detect an attack in progress or respond to an attack before it gets out of hand. With SSH on a standard port, the harmful malicious logs can blend in with the annoying malicious logs much better.

I can't think of anything that doesn't just work in that it's broken in some way. There are things that are different. I've been using MicroOS with Plasma for at least 4 years now on my personal machine and my work laptop. At some point they changed the name to Kalpa. There were some times in there where things were broken and it needed to roll back and pause automatic updates for a few days, but otherwise it functions just as expected.

A couple of annoyances exist. For example IDEs want to use the system's shell, so you have to make a custom entry to use your distrobox. Tools like python, node, tofu, etc are installed in a distrobox and then exported with `distrobox-export -b $(which $BINARY)` so that you can call them from the IDE.

For me, it's worth those few rough edges. When I install an OS for non-technical people who just need a web browser, I install Kalpa. It looks close enough to Windows to be easy to use, and it's never broken in a way I can't explain over the phone or a text how to fix.

It even passed the wife test in our house. It took a few years of marriage to convince her that her laptop shouldn't take 30 minutes to boot and open Chrome. She let me switch her over to Kalpa (it may have still been called MicroOS Desktop then) a few years back. That old laptop is still kicking and fast enough for her needs. Had she stuck with Windows, it'd be a brick now because of the requirements for upgrading to W10 and 11.

The meaning of the percentages is still unclear.

Bouncing signals off of the ionosphere is most definitely not an option here. The bandwidth of the signals that Starlink needs in order to provide service are far wider than the range of frequencies that bounce off any layer of the ionosphere. If you could get a 10GHz signal to bounce off of the F layer, you'd have a lot of very excited amateur radio operators who would start using that instead of the moon as their reflector.

The cookie consent banner here is the ultimate dark pattern. No deny all option, and the options are impossible to determine. Is the first toggle to turn on or off? I assume on, but that's not labelled anywhere. Based on convention, I'd assume to the right is enabled, but it's entirely against their interests to have it default to off.

Almost the same situation here. The only thing I used was Kafka, and I only used that to allow horizontal scaling of Argo Events sensors. Moved over to jetstream, saved a bunch of compute and memory, and realized I didn't need to scale Argo's sensors horizontally. Really, Bitnami's decision made my life easier in the end.

The author's complaints about the various solutions hit home. My wife and I tried a bunch of solutions for shared tasks and lists. Finally I found vikunja, put it on my home cluster, and it's been a game changer. We never run out of milk due to a lack of communication, and I have no excuse to forget the chore she asked me to get around to last week.

There really is a sweet spot between helping productivity and overcomplicating life, and most of these applications go for the latter. Glad we finally found something that works for us. I'm just sharing here hoping it'll help someone else.