California is big, and the LA basin can be extremely dry. For me this is the most I’ve seen since the one bad el nino season in the 90’s, but that one didn’t last nearly as long. It seems normal the last few years to get winter storm conditions that last months.
2025 was the coolest summer I’ve ever experienced living where I do near the coast with an onshore breeze that is now frigid and very wet at times. I usually get fog now in times of the year it rarely happened - almost like san francisco’s notorious summers.
Tracking local weather patterns used to be part of my last career so this stuff I notice pretty well.
I'm split three ways on this:
- he is a Russian asset
- he has serious dementia and the power brokers around him are doing what they can
- or, similar to 2 minus the dementia, he's just trying to grift and enrich himself and friends
Waiting on my passport for an EU country (already have citizenship) to figure out options.
I’d say correct common path. OpenSSL due to hand waving deals with a lot of edge cases the correct path doesn’t handle. Even libraries like libnss suffers from this.
There are multiple overlapping specifications for things like X.509. There are the RFCs (3280 and 5280 are the "main" ones) which OpenSSL generally targets, while the Web PKI generally tries to conform to the CABF BRs (which are almost a perfect superset of RFC 5280).
RFC 5280 isn't huge, but it isn't small either. The CABF BRs are massive, and contain a lot of "policy" requirements that CAs can be dinged for violating at issuance time, but that validators (e.g. browsers) don't typically validate. So there's a lot of flexibility around what a validator should or shouldn't do.
The spec is often such a confused mess that even the people who wrote it are surprised by what it requires. One example was when someone on the PKIX list spent some time explaining to X.509 standards people what it was that their own standard required, which they had been unaware of until then.
I'm drawing a blank on it sorry, it's somewhere in an archive of messages but I can't find the appropriate search term to locate it. However it did turn up a reference to something else, namely this, https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt. It hasn't been updated for a long time but it does document some of the crazy that's in those standards. The various Lovecraft references I think are quite appropriate.
Technically yes because I saved the messages, which I saw as a fine illustration of the state of the PKI standards mess. However I'd have to figure out which search term to use to locate them again ("X.509" probably won't cut it). I'll see what I can do.
Have had max for awhile, funny thing opencode still sorta works with my cc max subscription. That said after awhile open code just hangs. My workflow involves saving state frequently. I cancel open back up and continue then it’s performant for maybe 2-3 token context windows, repeat
This is timely. Out of my five cats, my primary boy has been really needy or making a game out of hop on table, walk on keyboards, get picked up, scritched and tossed down. Repeat. Even cat tv on youtube hasn't been helping.
All five of the 4 legged a-holes I have here, plus the one my wife has with her (we split / travel between houses) are completely spoiled. He's my primary - my wife brought a couple of cats to the relationship while I had my old ginger. During covid my ginger passed and the other cats were sorta hers - the two sisters she adopted from a homeless person, the boy who hitched a ride on her gas tank (special, but great cat), and then the cat she adopted form a homeless woman after covid.
My ginger passed and I adopted a cat who was named "Tank" because he was a little box of a pre 4week cat. Got him at 5-6 weeks, his name is Tiny Jerk because even at a young age - tooth brush, toilet paper, socks got carried off.
It was a bond. So while primary and secondary are not the best terms "my cat" and the others isn't either.
He is a great cat, he's also dealing with moving from the place he was raised to a new home (mover ~1yr ago, but moved him up - and the rest - 6mo ago). He gets all the attention he demands, but it's hard with the typing.
This sort of reminds me of those single powder or whatever meals they were awhile back - for those that need to eat but take no pleasure or dedicate no time.
For me, cooking (prep and cleanup included) is about enjoying the process, understanding what I am making and taking time doing it.
If I want quick, sure there are options around.
Cooking for me is relaxation and time away not thinking about tech and the like.
The sad thing is, people in rural areas that depend on places like Dollar General, and are getting fleeced blame everyone but republicans and they are usually in red areas
I live in a rural area with a Dollar General about a half mile from my neighborhood. For staples, it’s honestly fine. You want a 6 pack and some hot dog buns because you missed it in the Wal-Mart run the other day (15 miles away), it’s great!
You’re not getting fleeced and if you are, the gas savings alone more than make up for it (0.65 per mile per the IRS.)
For folks who depend on the local DG for, idk, clothes and household goods it might be much worse, I don’t shop for those there ever, but on staples it’ll do, especially given the density of stores compared to major chains.
Being in a shopping rich area, I have some luxury of choosing what I get where. DG is a good option for a small list of items, about ½% of my shopping.
But it'd be awful if my best shopping option was 15mi away.
Having moved from a shopping rich environment of some 30 years to a very rural setting, I was innately trained to hate on Dollar General by my 15 years on HN. In reality, it’s a trade off. Nothing more, nothing less. Whereas before you might have fallen back on a country-store with a small kitchen and minor staples (eggs, cheese, milk) next to the RedBull most folks now have a wider variety of options at a price point comparable to or better than that filling station. All the better, DG has rolled out their “Market” concept with fresh options as well.
At this point I’d love to see a conversation about price points and convenience of a Japanese conbini as compared to a Japanese supermarket on HN. Far less politicized and denigrated I would hope.
> But it'd be awful if my best shopping option was 15mi away.
In much of the rural US, 15mi away is having your good shopping close by. A lot of areas make due with their "best shopping option" being well more than 15mi away.
Yes 15 miles for good shopping sounds pretty nice. I'd say I've got it fairly good for being rural - only 23 miles to the nearest Walmart. That town isn't really great shopping though.
The concept of "small convenience store near me" isn't the problem. The problem is that these stores are actively engaging in outright fraud. People who shop there are absolutely getting fleeced regardless of how much gas they burn getting to the store that's regularly ripping them off.
Having a small nearby connivance store and not getting scammed is an option. If the ability to get beer and hot dogs buns without having to drive to a larger more distant store is really worth the higher prices customers are getting fraudulently charged at the register, then these stores can just stop lying to customers and post the accurate prices.
If the laws were meaningfully enforced this is exactly what would happen. These stores would either comply with the law and stop committing fraud or they would be shut down, their CEOs would be sent to prison, and competitors willing to follow the law would step in to fill the need the market has for a small shop that sells beer and buns to rake in that profit for themselves.
Your article lists a few instances of target in an area failing at rates like 9% or 2.67%. The Guardian article shows dollar stores all over the place caught thousands of times and getting error rates like 76% 68% and 58%. One dollar store in Utah was caught cheating their customers in 28 inspections in a row! Maybe the News & Observer could have dug deeper into the Targets in your area and found violations of a similar scale, but they didn't, so from the information we have these are extremely different circumstances.
If Target (or whatever the hell a Sheetz is) were ripping off their customers to the same extent that these dollar stores have been doing it then they should also face meaningful consequences for that.
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