Oh yeah I agree on both concepts- too much death, and if US did agree to that then it’s on us to try to push Israel to follow it.

My point stands though that we promised something that a. we cannot guarantee, and b. have no intention of even trying to make happen.

Lol

Yeah we can absolutely do those things, and some of them we probably should just on general principle. I have always been of the belief that if you give a guy a gun and he shoots somebody, and you give him another gun and he shoots somebody else, you may not be responsible for the first shooting but you’re definitely responsible for the second. And all of the ones that come after that.

So if you’re going to argue that we should take a harder stance with Israel, I’m definitely not going to disagree. Whether that will actually happen is a completely different story.

However even if we weren’t going to strong-arm Israel, it’s basic dealmaking 101 that while bluffing is acceptable in some situations, when it comes time to put the cards on the table and play them, you can’t play a bluff.

I could see this as a comedy skit

Trump: if you reopen the Strait Israel will get out of Lebanon. Israel: no we won’t.
Iran: okay we will open the strait and Israel will leave Lebanon. Israel: no we won’t leave Lebanon.
Trump: okay we have a deal!
Iran: Why isn’t Israel leaving Lebanon?
Israel: is my phone on mute or something?

It was some sort of hash system. The blockchain didn’t want to store large amounts of data on the chain itself so it would store some sort of hash of the image file and as I recall a pointer to a server where that file was located.

The whole thing was totally fucking stupid but people poured tons of money into it

These technologies are not grifts.

The way they are often employed is absolutely a grift.

Blockchain is a very cool concept. Getting people to pay $1,000 for a picture of a cat and imply that it has value because it’s on a blockchain is grift.

Ai is a cool technology. It has become a grift because the companies behind it are sucking up massive investor dollars, destroying the worldwide computing parts market, and persuading managers to axe jobs promising the AI can take their place.

If quantum computing actually starts to work some of it will be used for grift because many current encryption schemes could potentially be cracked using quantum computers.

This whole thing is stupid as fuck.

I’ve got no special love for Israel, but they are still an independent country that is not obligated to do as we ask.

Trump made a deal that promises they’ll do something- a promise he had no standing to make. That’s like if I promised everyone reading this thread that if you upvote me, Elon Musk will give you a million dollars. I have no authority to make that promise because Elon never agreed to it, and he’s not bound by my statements.

And since apparently Israel never agreed to this, and in fact said openly they don’t agree, this whole deal was bullshit from the start.

Hope we didn’t send the money yet…

Hmm Are you wedded to that particular Mac address? If not, shut down the VM, delete the virtual Network card, then make a new virtual Network card. Copy paste the Mac of that new card into pfsense with the static mapping, and fire up the VM. See what happens.

If that doesn’t work, I remember something it was possible for proxmox to do some kind of routed Network system. To investigate that, delete all static mappings, fire up the VM, and just look at what Mac address it shows getting the DHCP lease. Is it the one that shows as being assigned to the VM?

Yeah this still sounds very much like what I had happen. pfSense tries really hard to hang on to that old random dhcp lease sometimes.

Don’t worry about ARP- that just shows what currently exists.

You might try turn off the vm, delete the static mapping, then delete the DHCP lease in status - dhcp leases, then add the static mapping again and turn the vm back on.

Also on pfSense check /var/dhcpd/var/db/dhcpd.leases . Chances are your VM is in there. Turn off VM, stop DHCP service on pfSense, delete lease from that file, restart DHCP service, check static mapping, turn on VM.
Let me know if that works…

I think you have a PFsense problem not a proxmox problem.

I have encountered something similar to this in the past with PF sense. What fixed it for me is shut down the machine in question, let the DHCP lease show offline in PF sense, then use that very line on the status - DHCP leases page to assign the static IP address to it. Then when I booted it back up it worked.

Also copy and paste the MAC address right out of the DHCP leases table if you are adding it manually. I believe it may be case sensitive.

My sweet summer child, where do you think NASA actually gets its rockets from? You think they build them themselves? You think there were federal employees bending metal and turning wrenches at the space shuttle factory?

The difference is design and oversight. With a NASA vehicle, the government is in charge of the design process and construction, although these tasks are mostly done by outside companies on government contracts. With a company like SpaceX or Blue Origin, the design and testing and operation is done by the company who then sells launch contracts to NASA.

If you think the government can do better, I encourage you to take a look at SLS.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/six-years-after-orions-first-spaceflight-america-still-waits-for-an-encore/ This is a few years old but it’s very relevant. As of 2020, NASA had spent more on the Orion vehicle and one flight than SpaceX had spent cumulatively on all space activities combined (including falcon, dragon, Merlin, starlink, and the beginnings of starship)

Working with the US has made even more difficult by the fact that the US seems determined to keep them under embargo, even though it’s seriously questionable whether the embargo serves any useful purpose anymore. So even if they wanted to work with the US it would probably involve a bunch of useless ass kissing and we probably make the oil refineries back.

Bottom line it’s an awful lot of harm for not very much. Should have been ended decades ago

This exactly. Cuba has cars and farm equipment but it doesn’t have the fuel to run them.

The solar tech China is sending Cuba will probably be their most valuable trade. Every bit of Cuba that no longer relies on US-controlled foreign oil is a godsend to Cuba. A car that charges on solar power is energy independence for them.
(would be for the US too but we’re not under sanctions and we’ve got enough gas to ignore that small truth).

China could send basically a ‘farm in a box’ (equipment, seeds, fertilizer, instructions) and even if it was wildly successful you don’t get food out of that for 3-12 months. Cuba needs food NOW.

Cuba also needs energy a lot more than farm equipment…

More usefully- their price will likely be something Cuba is happy to do. IE, access to sell Chinese goods in Cuba? Hell yes bring them in bring our people up to modern standards. Set up a base somewhere? Of course Cuba is neutral between US and China, we lease space to US we can lease space to China too. China becomes Cuba’s primary trade partner? Hell yes sign us up US sure isn’t trading with us…

And let’s not forget China is already selling Cuba a ton of solar power tech. For a nation like Cuba that’s a godsend, because it reduces their reliance on foreign oil.

This is genius.

Cuba’s population is about 10.9 million. That means, if my math is right, this shipment has about 2.75 lbs of rice per Cuban citizen. That’s a LOT of rice- about 10-12 servings per person. And there’s another 3 similar shipments coming.

This is not some useless token, this is a ‘feed the country for a week or two’ type gift.

You can bet your sweet ass that neither the people nor the government of Cuba are likely to forget this anytime soon. The ‘gentle giant’ USA is choking them, China feeds them. It’s a powerful message.

Of course it’s China so there’s always a price eventually. I suspect Beijing’s goal here is additional influence within Cuba, and I don’t see any reason why Cuba would have any objection. A few boatloads of rice gets you a LOT of good will in a starving country.

Well gee golly.

A Russian cargo ship carrying nuclear components for North Korea has a ‘surprise accident’.

I can’t think of anyone who might have wanted to arrange that accident, can you? I mean surely everyone wants North Korea to have nuclear stuff… Oh wait…

This exactly.

I looked into setting Plex up a few years ago. It installed, and then starts talking about making a cloud account. I don’t want to talk to a cloud I just want to organize my own shit on my own network. Why does that need a cloud?

I uninstalled it. Everything I’ve seen since, and I mean EVERYthing, tells me I dodged a bullet. Not once have I read an article that makes me wish I’d continued the install.

I also fear that he could possibly use something worse just to win.

I think/hope he knows that if he uses nukes on Ukraine the entire rest of the world will unite against him faster than you can say ‘dasvidanya’. Or at least that someone around him understands that…

this is exactly it.

It’s far better for Ukraine to blow off arms and legs than kill soldiers. The more wounded sent back to RU, especially those who can’t be rehabbed back into combat readiness, the better. And the more of such people who get into RU society the better- SHOW the RU people the cost of the war. Don’t let it be some abstract concept like war is to Americans.

Exactly this. Ukraine has started open cooperation with foreign weapons companies, inviting them to come test their autonomous systems in real battlefield conditions. Given that the rest of Europe is arming up against potential Russian hostility, the opportunity to test your new weapons against their most likely opponent is a golden ticket. My guess is a lot of these new designs are proving effective, and Putin is realizing that any more ‘special military operations’ will be taken as proof positive that Russia has turned conquistador and met with overwhelming force by most of the rest of Europe.

It’s also possible he’s just running out of troops. The last estimate I saw was something like 340,000 Russian casualties…