If I didn’t hear the fire alarm, I certainly won’t hear your call.

Usually those are only 0% for a certain period of time. After that, the interest rates are typically higher than average.

So if you utilize it and pay it off completely during the 0% phase, they really don’t make any money. They make money when you carry a balance past that, or if/when you continue using that line of credit after the 0% period has ended.

That’s my understanding, anyway, as I have seen 0% APR offers, but they always are for a limited amount of time.

That, or there’s some kind of massive penalty if you miss a payment or something. Definitely read the fine print lol.

Phone calls also assume the person on the other end wants to be bothered. If you choose to not answer, you’re treated like the a-hole and are expected to explain why (“I’ve been trying to call you. Why haven’t you picked up?”)

To quote Stephen Fry:

“A telephone is a fantastically rude thing. I mean, it’s like going ‘speak to me now! Speak to me now! Speak to me now!’. If you went to someone’s office and banged on their desk and said, ‘I will make a noise until you speak to me’ it would be considered unbelievably rude.”

Can’t speak for OP, but the Vault software itself is fine. It’s their recent change in licensing that has a lot of people upset and looking for alternatives:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

That is why today we are announcing that HashiCorp is changing its source code license from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL, also known as BUSL) v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0.

BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use under specific conditions. With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years.

Easier on my wrist, less arm motion, and my hand doesn’t lock into a claw shape after using it all day.

I really like my trackball mouse, though I had to buy it myself.

I think cartographers also used to put fake things on their maps to detect unauthorized copies.

A Quiet Place

My takeaway from that is that I should start putting canary bugs in my code 😆

I don’t know what he expected there. You give a room full of people whistles, and that’s gonna happen. 😆

It would have to be something that won’t get accidentally activated all the time like car alarms do now (typically the “panic” button getting pressed accidentally in pockets/purses). Otherwise, I feel we’d be back to where we started.

Maybe something old school like a whistle or something?

Off work today, so I have a to-do list I hope to knock out:

• Finish last round of testing and release 1.4.0 of Tesseract
• Update my Nginx + ModSecurity WAF and test/deploy the new build.
• If not finish, then at least continue moving stuff off of an old server I’m decommissioning

There’s more I need/want to get done, but just those 3 things are ambitious for one day where I’m supposed to be relaxing lol.

• Get up early and get as much stuff done outside as I can before it’s sweltering
• Frequent breaks
• Freeze wet wash cloths or bandannas, grab one from the freezer, and put it around my neck to cool down
• Ice blended cocktails (minus the alcohol if that’s not your jam)
• Keep a bowl of ice cubes out for the doggos
• Move my home office down to the basement in the summer
• Blinds and curtains closed after late morning (sorry houseplants!)

Maybe, lol? Depends on the context, but I feel like that’s generally more sticking it to yourself.

Ha, thanks. It’s pretty much my only “sticking it to the man” story, so at least it’s a good one.

The ending is a little less infuriating when you realize the old miser lady probably called back to get those account fees refunded (I reversed the refunds I did‡) and was told by someone else (who wanted to keep their job) that she was out of luck (those were legit fees). She most definitely would have said something like, “well, the other guy I talked to said he was going to refund two of them” (as if we don’t hear that all the time) and then still being told no.

I’d like to think she reflected on that and realized that her entitlement caused her to get nothing, but people who complain like that usually don’t do that kind of soul searching.

‡ Not really reversed, just didn’t finalize the process after she went on her tirade.

This is probably the exception, but I bought a bunch of smart bulbs from there 4 years ago (all pre-flashed with Tasmota). They’re still going strong and get used daily.

Yeah, they’re isolated on a separate, no-internet VLAN if you’re worrying about my security posture lol. That said, I’ve never noticed them trying to make any suspicious outbound connections.

That totally sounds like something I would do. Oof.

Hey, nothing wrong with small and petty. Everything, everywhere generally sucks these days, so take joy when and where you can, I say.

I’m totally on your side with regard to the word ‘hack’: Context matters, and in that context, ‘hack’ pretty much always means a kludge of a fix that works but could be better. It’s also a signal to whoever looks at the code later to take a better look / improve it. OTOH, auditors are the worst (though I would not personally want their job lol), and I can’t say I’ve never had to do similar pedantic things to appease them.