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  • This isn’t some new development. Anyone who’s had regular drug testing in the last 20 years is aware of this. Clearly, you haven’t had a regular drug testing requirement for a job, parole, or any other reason.

    If you had, you would know that modern tests moved the threshold of detection up because of these issues on early era drug tests, which is why this idea persists.

    I won’t call it a myth, because it’s always possible a batch of food grade poppy seeds wasn’t properly processed, and that batch has unusually high alkaline contents, or that someone consumed a disgustingly large amount of poppy seed muffins, or salad dressing, a day before their test, but that would be the exception, not the rule.

    Also, have you never had the poppy seed salad from costco? The dressing is in a small plastic ramekin with at most, a tablespoon of poppy seeds, but probably less.


  • No, it’s not easy to pop hot just from eating a dish with poppy seeds and it hasn’t been for a long time. The trace amounts aren’t nearly enough to reach the minimum threshold.

    I would be 100% willing to believe hospital used substandard or defective tests, that she was on another legally prescribed medication that causes false positives, or even that the hospital administered opiates themselves, and through negligence and incompetece, forgot to put it in her chart.

    But whenever someone says they ate a poppy seed muffin or salad, and that’s the only explanation they have, I’m immediately leaning towards actual opiates being the culprit.

    Not saying it’s impossible these days, I’m saying it’s the least likely possible answer between those two options.

    That said, this is the American healthcare system, so my money is on hospital error of some kind.


  • Generally the elastic or usage/volumetric type billing structures are used on SaaS/cloud products, not on-prem.

    Although it’s entirely possible that elasticsearch, and other vendors in the space use that pricing model for their on-prem customers.

    Regardless, that’s even more of a reason why it would be very difficult to give a quote without being first having a presales meeting with a solution architect or knowledgeable rep.


  • This company may be dogshit, but seat count is the standard licensing structure for most employee facing business software, including on-prem.

    Most business software licensing/CRM tools requires that information to generate a quote, as price will be dependent upon several factors, including volume licensing tiers i.e. volume discounts.

    Sometimes, licensing structures are simple enough that an employee or rep might be able to give you a quick ballpark without that information, but that would be the exception, not the rule.

    And all of that is assuming that pricing is only based on seats, when there could be a whole lot of other variables that would be required even for their system just to generate single quote e.g. core count, support terms, etc.

    To be clear, none of that means anyone should trust, or switch back to, elasticsearch. It’s just a minor peak into the mundane horrors of business software licensing.


  • I mean, Voice of America is explicitly a state funded propaganda organization used to advance American interests abroad.

    I think the confusion most people have is that they incorrectly believe that propaganda means lies , it doesn’t.

    Propaganda is information published and used to influence opinions and actions. Doesn’t matter if it’s accurate, or inaccurate, information.

    So yeah, VOA is a US government run propaganda outlet. While it doesn’t mean that they’re some dystopian disinformation factory, they also aren’t typically breaking news either, so I would recommend using alternative sources without that baggage.



  • Everyone hating on that setup are a bunch of morons.

    There’s a good reason to put your patch panels on a separate rack then all of your switches like that, because eventually you’ll have to roll them around. At which point, you’re going to need some slack in the lines, like when you’re hooking up a tow line to your hitch.

    That’s all I see here: preparedness. Separate racks for switches and patch panels, and a lot of slack for when you got to roll them around, or some shit I don’t know.

    I just know that I see foresight and planning when I look at that picture, not sure why everyone else doesn’t.










  • Maybe, or it could have been poor intelligence, systems failure, or there could have been an actual HVT at this location, and they just didn’t give a shit about any civilian collateral damage.

    I’m not saying any one of those scenarios is more likely than what you’re suggesting, just that they’re all just as likely until we know more.

    Edit: my bad, I didn’t realize everyone here already knows for a fact that this was Putin lashing out, and there no possibility that it was anything else. You must share your OSINT gathering secrets with me.


  • I’m assuming they meant that they were company phones, and that additionally they were required for any work related MFA requirements.

    If that’s the case, it would be YubiKey in addition to, not instead of.

    As for the time tracking software, those are often part of a much larger accounting, payroll, and/or HR software suite. Having his team spin up Windows vms, or even have separate older windows boxes somewhere, probably makes more financial sense than not. At least, until they can switch to a more modern suite that has a web portal.