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Argentina Getting Pissy With Uruguay Envy

January 15th, 2020

The return of Kirchnerism to Argentina's government means that tensions between Uruguay and Argentina are starting to ratchet up. I feel very comfortable taking Mircea Popescu's 2014 observation that:

Argentina is in no sense a country friendly to the United States.

and going further to say that Argentina, especially the Kirchner-Peronists, run a country in no sense friendly to the world. It's not just that the Argentines aren't friendly to the US government, it's not just that they aren't friendly to other governments generally. It's the full on Obamatard rejection that anyone outside their particular annoited socialist circle could possibly have anything to say about how the world works. Read the rest of this entry »

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Week 2 2020 Review - A Very Qntra Week

January 13th, 2020

This was a very heavy Qntra week with 8 pieces produced. Most notably Trump very nearly made the late Hussein Bahamas relatively competent. There was also the very lulzy leak concerning how little US "Big" anything actually controls their own shit. Read the rest of this entry »

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Week 1 2020 Review - Wrestling With NSD After Standing Up TRB Nodes

January 5th, 2020

Daily Qntra production continued as I've been wrestling with the NSD name server daemon. With two of the four servers still getting loaded with blockchain, I brought the nameserving orchestra online New Years Eve. Five boxes, the 'anyserver' hosting Qntra alongside a number of aligned blogs was joined by four other servers spread around doing the Bitcoin node thing and other tasks to be determined were all gloriously serving Qntra DNS for two days. Then they stopped, and reversion to the prior setup that didn't shit the bed was done. Read the rest of this entry »

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Data Protection Journey Part 2: Add More Heat

January 4th, 2020

Last we visited the aluminum hard disk platters they had been soaked, boiled, soaked some more, and boiled some more in Coca Cola Black, an excellent etching agent available at retailers near you. It was time consuming and visible changes to the platters beyond fouling during the initial tomato sauce boil and sanding were unimpressive. Here's a video of something faster: Read the rest of this entry »

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Peso Watch - Tourism Season Edition

January 4th, 2020

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Reviewing The Last Plans And New Plans Going Into 2020

December 29th, 2019

Reflecting on the plans I published for the end of 2019, I managed to find a piece of work outside the scope of the search I laid out. The datacenter crawl has proceeded slower than I expected it to. Managing the correspondence it creates is more time consuming than I expected. Read the rest of this entry »

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Data Center Survey Part 2: Poland, Serbia, Prague With Its Outlying Areas

December 27th, 2019

These locations were scoured in the early going for the strong recommendations they had collected during Mircea Popescu's Grand European tour, though Serbia's standing has since fallen. Read the rest of this entry »

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Data Center Survey Part One - LATAM and Iberia

December 27th, 2019

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Conducting A Job Search In 2019: Part One - The Environment Inside And Outside The Republic

December 21st, 2019

The Situation Inside The Republic

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Data Protection Journey Part 1: Husking, Oxidizing, and Salting

December 20th, 2019

In accordance with Republican doctrine that the only possible protected intellectual property is the secret, or the trade secret... the small pile of used disks left by Pizarro required destruction. Not being the Republic of "hurr durr secure erase," destruction means physical! Lacking space to do a good barrel burn as well as the lack of a suitable barrel at the ready, alternatives needed to be brought into use to provide the irreplaceable certainty physical destruction offers. Read the rest of this entry »

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