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jabiko commented on Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage news.alaskaair.com/on-the... · Posted by u/fujigawa

galaxy_gas · 5 months ago

https://www.alaskaair.com/content/advisories/travel-advisori... It is on top of the page and linked a in it

jabiko · 5 months ago

Ah, okay. I did a Google search for that phrase before posting my comment, but couldn't find any result. Probably its not indexed yet. Thanks for the clarification.

Still I think it would have been better for OP to link to the source to avoid exactly this confusion.

jabiko commented on Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage news.alaskaair.com/on-the... · Posted by u/fujigawa

abnercoimbre · 5 months ago

"As a result of the IT outage, if you are an affected passenger, we are:
- providing hotel accommodations;
- arranging for ground transportation;
- providing meal vouchers; and
- arranging for air transportation on another air carrier or foreign air carrier to the passenger’s destination; as appropriate, based on your circumstances."

jabiko · 5 months ago

That's not what's written on the webpage. If your post is meant as a critique that they’re not offering those services, you should make that clear to avoid spreading misinformation.

jabiko commented on Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption dockerstatus.com/pages/in... · Posted by u/l2dy

jabiko · 5 months ago

Its impressive that even though registry-1.docker.io returned 503 errors they where able to keep a the metric "Docker Registry Uptime" at 100%.

jabiko commented on Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf] satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/do... · Posted by u/dweekly

vayup · 5 months ago

Some of the stuff that was extracted from the unencrypted traffic in the link:

- T-Mobile backhaul: Users' SMS, voice call contents and internet traffic content in plain text.

- AT&T Mexico cellular backhaul: Raw user internet traffic

- TelMex VOIP on satellite backhaul: Plaintext voice calls

- U.S. military: SIP traffic exposing ship names

- Mexico government and military: Unencrypted intra-government traffic

- Walmart Mexico: Unencrypted corporate emails, plaintext credentials to inventory management systems, inventory records transferred and updated using FTP

This is insane!

While it is important to work on futuristic threats such as Quantum cryptanalysis, backdoors in standardized cryptographic protocols, etc. - the unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of real-world attacks happen because basic protection is not enabled. Good reminder not take our eyes off the basics.

jabiko · 5 months ago

When driving by Bad Aibling I always wondered why the BND (intelligence agency) invests so heavily in satellite communication eavesdropping. I naively assumed that this kind of communication would be encrypted.

Also a fun fact: For a long time it was only semi-officially known that the BND owned and operated the site. Officially it was called "Long distance telecommunications station of the Bundeswehr" and operated by the "Federal Office for Telecommunications Statistics"

jabiko commented on QUIC and the end of TCP sockets codemia.io/blog/path/QUIC... · Posted by u/charles_irl

Hydraulix989 · 5 months ago

Not sure I follow. QUIC is just UDP with an extra header in the opaque payload. To a firewall, it looks just like UDP.

jabiko · 5 months ago

That's the point he is making. QUIC has to be based on UDP because the networking stack is ossified enough to not allow the addition of any new Layer 4 protocol. It's not a huge drawback though.

jabiko commented on Window Activation blog.broulik.de/2025/08/o... · Posted by u/LorenDB

throwaway2037 · 7 months ago

Seriously question about focus stealing: What is state of the art at the moment for desktop windowing systems? Is the "correct" action when a window wants to steal focus: Pop under the active window and give a non-focus stealing hint (UI balloon?) to the user that this window needs attention?

I can think of two real world examples: (1) debugger hits breakpoint and steals focus (this is sometimes configurable), (2) WiFi needs re-/auth.

jabiko · 7 months ago

I don't think there should be a "correct" way to steal focus. When I'm editing a document, I don't want _any_ application to steal focus. I don't want a window to show up and steal focus when something needs reauthentication. Maybe the developer of an application thought that his use case is of the very utmost urgency and requires immediate action. I don't agree. Just notify me over the standard way that the system provides and I will deal with it when I want to.

For the debugger use case: If the IDE has already focus, it can pass an activation token to the debugger and the debugger can use this to focus itself. If the IDE is not focused, I don't want the debugger to steal focus.

jabiko commented on When we get Komooted bikepacking.com/plog/when... · Posted by u/atakan_gurkan

jabiko · 7 months ago

Here is a bittersweet video of the self organized goodbye meeting of the ex Komoot team: https://youtu.be/qLJkK4Wn1HI

jabiko commented on BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia jakartaglobe.id/business/... · Posted by u/breve

ninetyninenine · 8 months ago

This is like what you hope will happen. It happened to Japan. Doesn’t mean it will happen to the US.

When you look at some European country like Russia and see how fucked up it is. Then you say well Russia is full of white ppl like the US so the future of the US will be like Russia, doesn’t that sound massively stupid to you?

So why do you think what happened to Japan applies to China? Like is it because the people in Japan look like the people in China? You know the countries hate each other right?

jabiko · 8 months ago

Even though there is some overlap of the European continent and Russia's territory, I don't think that Russia qualifies as an example for the average European country.

Also, why are you mentioning the look of people in a discussion about cars and manufacturing?

jabiko commented on Java is still worth learning empatheticdeveloper.wordp... · Posted by u/ivanche

happymellon · 8 months ago

> Solving problems became more about handling the language than understanding the logic.

I've worked with Java for 25 years and have a love/hate relationship.

Java garbage collection is both great, and terrible. Sometimes objects are instantiated in a method, and should be marked for GC when you leave the method but aren't. There isn't logic or reason, and it trips up juniors hard and reworking "new" features like streams into basic for loops fixes it, even though there isn't any really good reason why.

When it works first time you never even need to think about it, and its awesome. When it doesn't, there is no escape hatch to fix it. Its probably for the best, I would probably prefer someone switched a stream to a loop to fix a GC bug than to keep the stream and add additional code for flagging objects.

jabiko · 8 months ago

> Java garbage collection is both great, and terrible. Sometimes objects are instantiated in a method, and should be marked for GC when you leave the method but aren't.

In the last decade of writing Java software I didn't ever come across a genuine GC bug where a unreferenced object wasn't collected. I'm not disputing that they exist, but if you regularly hit such "bugs" I'm wondering if your understanding of Java GC might be flawed.

Do you expect objects to be immediately collected when they are not reachable anymore?

jabiko commented on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up quantamagazine.org/a-new-... · Posted by u/robinhouston

ColinWright · 9 months ago

Everyone complains about how crap my website is, so in this case I've just exported a page from my internal zim-wiki. Yes, it can have photos, but it doesn't give any control over sizing or positioning, so I'm providing links for people to click through to.

It's the middle of my working day and I'm in the middle of meetings, so I don't have time to do anything more right now.

jabiko · 9 months ago

To be fair, I don't think there is anything wrong with clickable links instead of embedded images.