bushvin

You must have really driven a golf cart, as what you describe is nowhere near the real EV experience.

You’re comparing a 2nd hand car to a new EV? Then yes the initial coat is higher, of course. While the 1968 Ford Galaxy is a marvel to behold, it doesn’t compare to modern ICE cars. Even the base VW Golf has better specs… But I digress… Cars like that are the reason we need EVs if we want to control climate change. The amount of CO2 that baby expells is just way of the charts…

Is electricity cheap? No. But I would be more interested to see how much kW/h your AC unit is using. And how much gallons per mile you’re consuming. That is the only valid comparison to make here. And I would seriously encourage you to look at heat pumps.

EVs are good for people who actually look at cars and who know about cars. Not people who are dinosaur guzzling go-carts prejudiced.

EV’s surpass ICE cars in many ways. My car tells me exactly when I will need to ‘fill her up’. My last ICE couldn’t accurately do that, as it didn’t account for heating/cooling, …

Been driving an EV for 6 years now. Tesla model X (range ~ 260kms) first, now a model Y LR (range ~ 480kms).

I easily leave any competition behind me at red lights, whenever there’s someone who doesn’t know the specs of my car.

Current ranges have improved over the previous generations, and are still getting better.

I easily drive 1000kms in one day with about 3 20-30 minute stops. Which is excellent to stretch the muscles, play a game of petanque or just play a game on the console. It all adds to de-stressing while driving, and arriving well rested at my destination.

Whether your car is driving like a couch or a roadster all depends on what car you buy. Sure a Prius will drive a lot less aggressively than a Lambo, but they are totally diffe cars with a totally different target. Compare the right cars with each other…

So… Europe? 160 ish?

We’re all in a B-26 waiting to perform a HALO jump

GM: The “go-no-go” light is red Player #1: I jump… Player #2: aren’t we supposed to wait for the green light?

Reminds me of a post of an anti-vaxer looking for facts to prove vaccines don’t work… Anyway, had to lol so hard, so thank you internet stranger to brighten up my morning!

‘Politics’ involve government. So the base premise of the article is wrong.

They mean ‘Ethics’

edit correct pronoun, typo

OpenSus

The problem with SELinux/nftables/cgroups is that they don't come with a centralised log aggregator, and they don't do much blocking beyond the defaults for 99% of deployments.

You must not have heard of (r)syslog.

Also, SELinux is a massive pain to set up (even compared to AppArmor), and setting it up correctly is even worse.

I beg to differ, I find SELinux easy to setup. But your mileage may vary, depending on one’s experience.

CrowdStrike does a lot of what SELinux does but it's easier to configure, works on every operating system, and comes with tools to roll out configuration across an organisation. There's nothing close to that in the open source world. Even if you set up something yourself, you'll need to continuously tweak your setup not to get in the way of employees and to prevent alert fatigue from all of the false positives. Apparently, recent events show it doesn’t work on every OS… 😜

When talking about ease of use… Configuration is configuration. If you do not take the time to learn how to use your product, the product you know will always be better than the one you don’t. I’ve used Crowdstrike. I’ve battled them to get their kernel modules signing certificate to be signed by RedHat. I’ve battled them to have the possibility to have the auto update disabled. So no, I am not impressed by the quality of their product. I’ll bet any day a vanilla RHEL with the correct security related software and the latest updates outperforms and outclasses Crowdstrike.

I think a preconfigured solution like Security Onion combined with tons of group policy and Ansible can form an open source alternative, but that only monitors, whereas CrowdStrike also blocks. To block behaviour, you'll need to write code for most platforms, and that's just as likely to take down your org as an auto update from CrowdStrike. I can’t speak of MS products, as I have not managed them for 20 years, but all of this is not needed on a decent Linux distro.

You assume I would think you’re wrong. I do not.

Morally, assassination is despicable. But so is fascism.

I applaud you for taking the high road, while I just say Fuck ‘em all. Fascism should not be tolerated, even in a democracy.

It doesn’t require Hitler-level Evil. Just pragmatism.

What CrowdStrike is actually selling, is someone who actually looks at the system logs and who pushes a button when something pops up. Roughly.

There are better solutions on the market. Unfortunately CrowdStrike has the more aggressive sales team.

For those wondering, I’m referring to *nix based solutions like SElinux, appArmor, iptables, nftables, cgroups, … But you need to monitor your logs if you want to take appropriate action.

He did (at least) one good thing in life, and people feel the need to smear him…