You're upset at someone being upset. Nobody was upset. A group of adults got together and decided to do something different.

Why do you feel upset by this. Why on earth do you feel insulted. How do you not see the irony? I honestly thought the Cracker Barrel episode would expose this kind of tail-eating dumbness.

Do a little reflection and recognize that your feelings aren't from other people being irrationally upset about the status quo, because you certainly didn't know or care if they existed until now, as evidenced by your shock and disbelief. Your feelings are from being irrationally upset about change, and you're projecting, onto "them". That's a you thing. I'll break it down Barney-style: WHAT THEYRE CHANGING THE LOGO, WHOS UPSET WITH THE OLD LOGO. The company just decided to rebrand. There's one upset party that wants to change something and they think it's someone else. Do you get it now?

Oh you thought that would be a joke? Don't tease. Minimum standards in order to call something Italian. A legit Italian food review board or something. Absofuckinglutely yes.

There's a big fight over Almond "Milk", but you can put mozzarella on Cacio e Pepe and call it Italian. Fuck that like sliced american cheese on lasagna.

Guy, that's not it. I don't want to sound ableist but man they're all handicapped. I'm all for diversity and I fully support the mentally handicapped and any way we can enrich their lives let's do it, it's just that... don't you think it's a little extreme to put them in cabinet positions? I'll say it, it's cruel.

Look at poor Pete Hegseth, my man just wants to play softball, can't you see it in his eyes? It's fucking cold what you're doing to him and it brings me to tears. We should be reading Betsy DeVos bedtime stories and you put her in charge of the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION? Stop abusing them, you sick bastard.

PAWGs are where it's at, but hey anything can be porn if you work hard enough dude.

Who did? Or are you making that up.

Um, projection? httpd with no explicit cultural references, is "white"? That's your neutral? Doesn't THAT say something?

You don't think in modern times a corporate brand that represents "authentic ex-slave mama food" is no longer what it once was?
Betty Crocker is now a red spoon instead of a white 1920's homemaker. Nobody cried about that, must have happened before you weirdos decided this shit is important. All of a sudden it's a "culture war".

Who do those brand icons speak to?

But you have nothing to say about stuff like Betty Crocker's famous mug missing, and that's hardly the only example. Removing explicit cultural references makes everything "white" to you and you're trying to pull some reverse racism bullshit.

Why is your neutral, "white", WHY? Answer me!

All tape backups systems are indexed, tape and seek position, by client, file path, and time.

Yea there's some cost to doing that, there's a little database involved usually, but it's ultimately no different than filesystem metadata, it's just tracked off the media because they're removable. Like any filesystem there's still metadata backups, maybe written to the end of the tape or at a fixed position to aid rebuilding the index instead of scanning entire tapes in case the backup server went tits up with the things that need restoring.

When you do a restore you're just browsing that index, and when you hit go, the system knows exactly which tapes to tell the robot to load and what all the seek positions are. Then the tapes can be run at full speed before reading.

It's not as optimal as backup IO, like constant optimal request depth, optimal block sizes, full wire speeds etc. But restore IO, aside from tape load times and seeking is still really fast linear reads with optimal block size and request depth.

... then that 1000tb is your primary storage not your backup. You can do point in time backups to primary storage, but what do you do when that's unavailable... it's all gone. That's mouse nuts for an enterprise tape library.

We're not allowed to talk about anti-American stuff anymore, it makes white people feel bad and the liberals did it, lots of liberals in 30s Alabama, but they gone now. America is always great number one for all time, thank you for your wisdom dear great leader who does not have a small pp.

It probably fits the popularity gradient of sweet tea across the U.S. and nothing more nefarious than that. More hot days, more drinking. Just happens to be soda, lemonade, sweet tea, koolaid, sports koolaid I mean Gatorade, etc on a hot day more often than water.

Not seeing what's particularly hard to swallow here.

Yup, from two unnamed Department of Energy Officials in May.

And now a note from the Federal Highway Administration.

We still don't know anything. It's hard to believe.

What the fuck are we even talking about, known instances of disabled cellular radios in industrial equipment where they might actually make sense in some configurations? Like pull them out just in case?

Or unknown unknown receivers in whatever that do who the fuck knows and could take any form?

A lot of the comments are going with the second one, and we might as well add it could be god damned aliens at this point. Until we know more... which is the same thing in May, and we don't know more. I'm going with the first one. If anything.

Why play what-if, when still no additional information has come out since May. And this is a note from the DoT/Federal Highway Administration? Seriously...

So... with guidance to search for and deactivate whatever it is, has anyone done so since May when two anonymous Department of Energy? officials leaked whatever this is the first time? Has anyone found anything? Keep looking? Does it smell funny to anyone else?

The Federal Highway Administration did. Which should be the first red flag in this story. Why disregard one part of the story when the whole thing smells bad.

... why do you think ANYTHING was discovered? You can't take PART of it with a grain of salt, take the whole thing with a grain of salt. It's not like the source has a great reputation for honesty or integrity. In May it was "two unnamed DoE officials", and now it's from the U.S. Department of fucking Transportation? No additional information, no manufacturers, no specific equipment, just check everything? With instructions to disable and remove... what? What was found, discrete components, a SoC, WHAT?

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Information Agency referred questions to the D_o_fucking_T? Which then referred further questions to the U.S. CISA. Of Fucking Course they did. Did you ready TFA?

I don't dispute a lot a shady shit could be done, but why is there still no details whatsoever, but an expanding snipe hunt? And it's not even coming from the places in government that this kind of thing would come from if it was actually a thing. They've given guidance (from the fucking D O T) to actively go find and disable some thing... why is it secret at all at this point and not dissected and studied by academic security researchers, private sector security researchers etc? It's just like the fucking UAP bullshit. You can't just say oh hey everyone we should all be concerned, it happens all the time all over, keep your eyes peeled, oh and also there's a deep state multinational pan galactic coalition of federations that don't want you to know the truth, I'm not crazy!

It doesn't fucking make sense man. It's not like this shit will up and disappear if the details get out, we know right where it will be. Or we would know. Hypothetically. If it's where it's allegedly supposed to be found. Everyone go check your tv remotes, it might be in your shoes too! FFS.