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Cake day: September 9th, 2025

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  • In a notification to Congress after the second strike in mid-September, the Trump administration said the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels it has designated as terrorist organizations. The drugs smuggled by these cartels kill tens of thousands of Americans each year and constitute an “armed attack” against U.S. citizens, according to the White House.

    The Trump administration has designated several drug cartels and gangs as terrorist organizations, including Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and El Salvador’s MS-13.

    Oh FFS, the long ploy here isn’t Venezuela or the cartels, it’s to normalize the use of military force at his discretion against gangs and terrorist groups, like oh, the newly designated terror ‘organization’ of antifa, with the national guard being sent in to all these ‘warzone’ cities conveniently hostile to Trump’s agenda…







  • I think I can see where they’re going with it, but it is a bit hard to write out

    Say I set up my favorite service in house, and said service has a client app. If I create my own DNS at home and point the client to the entry, and the service is running an encrypted connection with a self signed cert it can give the client app fits for being untrusted.

    Compare that to putting NPM in front of the app, using it to get a LetsEncrypt cert using the DNS record option (no need to have LE reach the service publicly) and now you have a trusted cert signed by a public CA for the client app to connect to.

    I actually do the same for a couple internal things that I want the local traffic secured because I don’t want creds to be sniffable on the wire, but they’re not public facing. I already have a domain for other public things so it doesn’t cost anything extra to do it this way.





  • Far too early to math all the numbers, but one note to this is that it’s entirely possible to start with a median metric and switch to mean from there, their argument being how that’s not possible right off the bat.

    Start off at a median number, which statisticians love because it flattens out the effects of excessive weights on any particular segment, such as we have in the USA with a small number of obscenely rich people.

    But then strip the anomaly from the dataset and recalculate the mean and get a proper average. The median may not move any meaningful amount, but without the anomaly the mean becomes more true to the sample.