A while ago (like ~10 years ago) VMWare workstation, or some of the things virtualbox graphics drivers did, seemed to be the only reasonable ways to run a virtualised desktop with 3d or at more than 5fps. But these days virtio and spice seems to work just fine.
Check out Mars Guy https://youtube.com/@marsguy?si=AFAci3mConZv1L5- Dr. Steve Ruff. Excellent videos from an expert, but one terrific thing is the use of common objects (like mars guy cutout) that gives you some better perspective on the images.
Most of these CI jobs do things like apply your proposed change, deploy the service, then connect up a headless client and take screenshots of the results so you can confirm the correct behaviour of your change; e.g. http://storage.bhs.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_dcaab5e32b234d56b62... is from a job that was modifying the gita deployment.
Humans approve changes for merge with Zuul, but Zuul commits the code. When Zuul merges the change, another set of jobs will push things to the production hosts automatically. There is a talk on the overall process at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apLHQ4DkIHU
There are obviously bastion hosts and private components to the production deployment, but as much as practical is completely open. There have been contributors with no special access that have developed the deployment of infrastructure services and admins helped only at the end committing some secrets and providing production hardware resources. More commonly, people who have CI issues can jump in and fix their own problems, especially relating to things specific to them (e.g. mirror setup on CI nodes, software versions used, etc.)
One cool thing is that the Zuul jobs publish their production deployment logs in public, but encrypted (these might contain secrets, so are not made open by default). If you work on a particular system, you can request to commit your public key to the service you like and access all the deployment logs. For example, say you are interested in maintaining codesearch.opendev.org. The "infra-prod-codesearch" job deploys changes relating to this service. You can look at all the jobs at https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/builds?job_name=infra-p..., and every job has an artifact that lets you download the logs; e.g. https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/build/c76ec695d19a4e9e9.... Details are at https://docs.opendev.org/opendev/system-config/latest/open-i...
Wikimedia is the only other platform I've seen with a comparable commitment to open infrastructure (unsurprisingly there has been collaboration between the two over the years)
One interesting tidbit about "My Favorite Things" is that it came out several years before the movie [1]. So it was a Broadway hit, but not yet at the universally-known level the movie propelled it to.
The reverse engineering is certainly interesting, but the article headline seems like a bit of a beat-up since the app has a built in checker where you can scan the QR code shown and validate the details independently (the article does say this, at the end). It seems if you actually want to check a license this is better than having to identify if a physical card is a forgery.
How many people are actually going to properly verify the electronic IDs? We already have seen with the covid vaccination passports that most don't really care.
Yep exactly. I've ordered alcohol to be delivered, and they insist on validating. Imagine the lawsuits if a minor was able to order alcohol. But this is literally the only case I can remember in recent memory. (I don't often even get carded at the actual liquor store!)
Furthermore, when I went to vote recently, it was certainly not "validated". And this was the AEC.
May I ask how you voted? This seems to be an irregularity. When voting in federal elections in Australia you should only be asked for your name, address, and whether you have voted before in the particular election.
There was a bill before the federal Parliament to introduce voter ID, being the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021 (Cth). This bill will lapse given the change of government and is unlikely to be reintroduced by Labor.
And what you're saying makes total sense, why would they validate if it's not required.
As someone with a non-Anglo name of greater 16 characters in total, my instinct when asked for my name and address in an official context is to just hand over an ID. It saves time and avoids ambiguity.
I suppose it's an invalid assumption in my head that an ID is required. It's just what I've always done.
> Furthermore, when I went to vote recently, it was certainly not "validated". And this was the AEC.
Note I'm German and can only speak for the German election process here, having served in half a dozen election boards. Usually here it is enough if you bring your election notification ("Wahlbenachrichtigung"), so that we can cross-check your name and voter roll number on the notification against our records, and reject you if the name has been already registered for in-presence voting or if there have been issued by-mail voting documents. We usually only demand ID cards if there are inconsistencies (e.g. someone looking like age 20 shows up with a DOB that suggests age 40 or someone presenting as female shows up with a male name), but these cases are extremely rare, and the inter/trans folks with deadname ID cards usually show both their ID card and the unofficial Ergänzungsausweis [1] so that we know there is nothing sketchy going on.
I think they're likely looking to do the minimum to make the uppity bureaucrat at an enforcement agency go bother a softer target. Monetizing the PII is probably just a side benefit that helps offset some of the cost.
I suppose if they'd made it the size of an A4 folded along its major axis it would have been easier to hold, though reading text would have been annoying.
I suppose I've just gotten into the habit of showing my ID. It's not required.
As someone with a non-Anglo name, at security/role/other checks etc where my exact name is required, it saves a lot of time versus spelling my name out vocally.
For early voting they did require ID. I presume for making sure I was in the correct electorate since the venue I went to was doing multiple electorates at the same time.
However previously, when voting on the election day my name has been crossed off a physical list.
I am dating myself but I'm old enough to have watched the Simpsons episode where this word was invented in its first airing. Maybe it is a word now, I mean it's no more or less ridiculous than other words, which somebody just made up at some point too.
A while ago (like ~10 years ago) VMWare workstation, or some of the things virtualbox graphics drivers did, seemed to be the only reasonable ways to run a virtualised desktop with 3d or at more than 5fps. But these days virtio and spice seems to work just fine.