All right, yeah, hi, I'm Matthias Loeber. I'm a Prometheus Thanos Prometheus operator maintainer. I work at Polar Signals. And today I want to talk about the open source project Pura, which aims to make SLOs manageable, accessible, and easy to use for everyone. So in the first place, why SLOs? They reduce your flakiness and alerts, and quantify overalls. So exactly, what are they? They quantify your services, reliability target, and you can make data-driven decisions about the reliability of your service. And I think can agree that that's something we want. So kind of like to formalize it a bit more, imagine an API website or something, and you want 99% of requests to succeed within five seconds, for example. And we measure that. And then on the flip side, when talking about SLOs, there's like the arrow budget. And the arrow budget is kind of the inverse of the objective that we are measuring. And for 90%, the arrow budget would be 10%. So on kind of always like 100% minus the objective is the arrow budget. So why Pura? Nadine Failing, UX designer at Grafana and I, we kind of like knew we needed to do something to make it better for users using Prometheus. And we kind of started out interviewing kind of a dozen SREs, different companies, to kind of really get an understanding for what is going on. And did a bunch of product research before even designing and even before doing any engineering work. In the end, we came up with this kind of UI. You can see all the SLOs with their name, different labels, kind of Prometheus style. You can label them. You can see the time window objective and then the actual availability and the actual arrow budget that's left on the service. You can also always see if there's an alert firing for any of the SLOs. You can filter by availability. Time window, for example, as well. And you can use the labels to filter, just like Prometheus or alert manager. You can filter SLOs as well. That's like a detailed page for the SLOs. So if you click on one, you get the name and then a better description. So other people on the team really understand what's going on. But also maybe people from the other teams. The current availability and arrow budget is shown and then a bit better understanding what the arrow budget looked like over time. You get a nice graph. You can drill it down into it as well. And then further down, we get like red as a graph. So a rate, arrows, duration. Duration, hopefully, one day. And at the bottom, you get the actual multi burn rate alerts kind of nicely shown. If there's some firing with the different severity, it's very clear how severe the incident is. It works with Prometheus, Thanos, and Cortex, or every other product that implements the query or query range APIs. You can deploy it on Kubernetes. It has a CRD. Or you can just use Docker or the binaries to generate the rules and alerts for Prometheus. So how do you create in SLO? Again, there's kind of a CRD. Get the namespace and name. You can get labels. Then you specify the time window for the duration of the SLO, the target. And then you can say, is it an error ratio thing you want to alert on, or the duration or latency? You give it an error metric. You give it the total metric. You can also do the same metric, different labels. You can filter into APIs, for example. And if you do that, kind of with the Rackex, you can also group by similar to some by Prometheus. And with one config, you get all the different SLOs by handler from one config. In the end, you get the Prometheus recording rules loaded into Prometheus, and just like that, also the allotting rules. Today, we released pure 0.4. You can find it on GitHub. If you want to learn more, go on these pages, read the books. I've been on the Big 10 podcast by Grafana, discussed with Björn SLOs. Thank you to the contributors. And Grafana and Polar Signals are always hiring. Thanks.


Okinawa disproves the U.S. narrative about overseas bases. Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki has implored the U.N. for international backing in his opposition to the prefecture being overrun with U.S. military bases. The Japan Times reports, quote, I am here today to ask the world to witness the situation in Okinawa, Tamaki told a session of the World Bodies Human Rights Council, arguing that the concentration of the military bases there threatens peace. Tamaki, the first Okinawa governor in eight years to address the council, said, the reclamation work proceeds despite the fact that it was clearly opposed by Okinawan voters and a democratically held referendum, end quote. Whenever I talk about the rapidly increasing number of U.S. military bases and operations surrounding China, I get Empire Sims telling me, but the people in those countries want us there. Okinawa shows it's always been a non-consensual relationship disguised as a consensual one. And it should here be noted that Japan's national government was itself the product of extensive U.S. manipulation after World War II. A 1994 New York Times article titled CIA Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 1950s and 60s details the massive amount of energy the U.S. intelligence cartel poured into stomping down the Japan Socialist Party and ensuring that the Japanese right wing, quote, maintained their one-party rule, forged close ties with Washington, and fought off public opposition to the United States as maintaining military bases throughout Japan, end quote. Silicon Valley, the mass media and the British government seem to be doing everything they can to delegitimize the very serious allegations against the Russell brand by making it abundantly clear to everyone that what they actually care about is his online content, not his accusers. The Google-owned platform YouTube has demonetized brand's account. Empire propagandists like James Ball, of the Only Barrier to Julian Assange Leaving Ecuador's Embassy as Pride fame, are writing screeds attacking brand's content. And a British MP with ties to the British Army's psychological warfare division has been writing letters to other social media platforms demanding that brand be demonetized. I wasn't even going to weigh in on this controversy, but I also wasn't expecting the media, government officials, and Google to openly advertise the fact that they care solely about removing brand's content from the internet, not about helping his accusers.  It's not a mystery what would solve America's opiate crisis. A sane drug policy and a nation where people aren't miserable and desperate to numb the pain. But because a globe-spanning empire depends on keeping Americans too poor and busy and too psychologically abused by propaganda to start making sense of the world and start pushing for reasonable foreign policy, the sane path is not seen as an option. It should be more widely understood that denying the Uyghur genocide propaganda narrative is not the same as denying that there was an authoritarian crackdown in Xinjiang. Empire apologists tend to conflate these two points in a Ma and Baile fallacy wherein the much harder claim to defend Uyghur genocide is misrepresented as one in the same as a much easier claim to defend authoritarian actions in Xinjiang. That Beijing began implementing a giant police action in Xinjiang in 2014 involving large-scale detention of certain Uyghurs in reeducation camps is not seriously debated and is not denied by Beijing. What's denied is that any of this was done with the intention or the effect of eliminating or diminishing the Uyghur population or their culture. There is simply no basis for that claim and mountains of evidence to the contrary. These reeducation camps have been spun by Western propagandists as concentration camps and extermination camps in a ham-fisted effort to frame Xi Jinping as another Adolf Hitler when in reality they were reeducation camps in the literal sense of the term. They were facilities to design to indoctrinate slash de-indoctrinate Uyghurs believed to have become radicalized into an ideology that had plunged Xinjiang into violence and chaos and threatened to tear apart the PRC. By all accounts, including by the Western press, these facilities were decommissioned around 2019 to 2020. This was all covered in a recent report by two prominent German sinologists which didn't get enough attention. Were there abuses in Xinjiang? It's hard to imagine how there wouldn't have been in a sweeping police action involving large-scale involuntary detainment. You can criticize Beijing for those abuses all you want, but what you can't do is legitimately call it anything like genocide. When Uyghur separatist groups began inflicting acts of terror with the goal of driving the Chinese government out of Xinjiang and creating their own state, Beijing had essentially three choices. One, to engage in a U.S. style campaign of mass military slaughter against these groups until they were defeated. Two, to allow a violent uprising of what would inevitably become Western-backed jihadists as they had just seen happen in Libya and Syria. Carve away a massive and geostrategically crucial part of China to be exploited by the U.S. and its allies. Or three, find some alternative to one and two. Beijing went with option number three. And the alternative it found was the aggressive deradicalization campaign it ended up implementing and the reeducation facilities it has been so widely criticized for. Again, you can criticize Beijing for how it went about addressing its dilemma in Xinjiang all you want, but it was plainly universe's less draconian than the U.S. approach of killing millions and displacing tens of millions in its barbaric war on terror. And unlike the war on terror, Beijing's approach actually worked, which is why those facilities were shut down and Xinjiang is returning to normal. China has an authoritarian government. China has never not had an authoritarian government. That's nobody's business but China's. The Chinese have been managing their own affairs just fine for thousands of years without a bunch of white people running in wagging their fingers at them. And the real reason rulers are angry about what happened in Xinjiang is because it prevented the PRC from being balkanized by a Western-backed separatist uprising. Only a moron would believe the same empire that spent the last two decades murdering Muslims by the millions suddenly cares about Muslims in China. Mainstream journalism is mostly just a vanity career for Ivy League trust fund kids who don't need the work but want to feel like important members of society. No grand conspiracy is required for them to administer propaganda. They do it to advance their own class interests. The mainstream press don't push people toward culture war instead of class war because they've been instructed to do so by the CIA or a shadowy cabal of elites. They do so because it would hurt their family's interests if people began focusing on class war.


Once they all jumpers are in the floor, because we have the strongest body, we want it. Zero? The same one we had earlier. Same one we breathed earlier, no changes. So we're going to do first lift, everything's still going to be the same. First lift, Marines first, Brazilians second. Marines will get out, raise track around, Brazilians get out. So it's going to be...


Hi, I'm Dr. Steven Gundry. If you're like almost anybody outside of Italy or Greece, you need more olive oil in your diet immediately. Why? Well, it's not just because olive oil is loaded with healthy, nutritious fats that keep your hunger at bay, though it is. And it's not just because olive oil is a delicious alternative to waistline wrecking canola oil and other common unhealthy oils, though it is that too. The real reason you need far more olive oil than you're getting is because it contains a unique compound called olorapine. Olorapine is a powerful polyphenol that can mean the difference between you dying early of a heart attack and living healthy and happy well into old age. Take it from a heart surgeon. That's no exaggeration. You see, heart disease kills more people around the world every year than all other chronic diseases combined. It's the number one cause of death on earth, and most of these heart-related deaths are due to dangerous plaque buildup inside people's arteries. This buildup leads to a condition known as atherosclerosis, which causes, you guessed it, heart attacks. Strangely enough, though, people in the Mediterranean region live long lives and rarely die of heart attacks. You know why? They consume a ton of olive oil and get their olorapine. See, olorapine protects your heart by helping to prevent your arteries from clogging. It accomplishes this by acting like Teflon inside your arteries, stopping plaque from sticking to the arterial walls. Let me demonstrate this effect for you. See these two pieces of cloth? The piece on the left represents your arteries currently, vulnerable, unprotected, but the piece on the right has been sprayed with a special fabric protector. It represents the arteries when you have enough olorapine in your system, and this is the stuff in your blood that turns into disease-causing plaque if it sticks to your arteries. That's pretty nasty stuff. And here it goes. Notice the difference already? Yeah, let's give it some more. Wow, yuck. Now, let's run some blood through these arteries. Here comes the blood, and you know, this piece still looks awful. It's still got plaque on it, but look what happens in the treated side. It pretty much comes right off. What a difference. This is your artery on olorapine, and you can bet that over a period of years this nasty plaque builds up until this artery is clogged and hardened, and that's when you're on the way to a heart attack. But look again over here. See how this protected piece rinsed clean easily? This is what happens in your arteries when you get enough olorapine, and that's why you should always make sure that you have plenty of olive oil in your diet. Trust me, you'll feel a lot better, and your heart will thank you. I'm Dr. Stephen Gundry, and I'm always looking out for you. Thanks for watching.


Questions drive a lot of what we do every day. Sometimes they're simple and can be dealt with easily by searching for an answer online, calling a friend, or grabbing a book on the topic. At other times, our experiences or research paper assignments lead us to ask more complicated questions that can't be answered so easily and require more in-depth research. So how do you begin to develop and explore these more complicated questions in a world where answers and quick facts are just a click away? First of all, a good research question is tough to answer, and it won't be answered with a simple yes or no. For example, should marijuana be legalized? It's not a great research question. It's too broad and since there are many issues to consider, your research will be all over the place. When you're getting started, investigate a topic a bit and try to focus in on an aspect you're really interested in or that needs to be addressed. After some investigation, you get a better question, like how does the legalization of marijuana affect the violent crime rate? The question is more focused, clear, and gets you started off faster. A good research question won't lead to an absolute final answer. People will disagree and respond to your work, and that's a good thing. Think of research as an endless flow of questions and answers. Your attempt to answer a question will lead to others asking questions. It goes on and on and the scholarly conversation takes shape thanks to a variety of voices. And that is the beauty of sharing research. It encourages others to question and build on what came before and hopefully leads to progress in society. Research takes time and it will take you in many different directions. You'll use Google, Wikipedia, academic databases, books, and more. There are many paths to discovery so don't limit yourself to the easiest. It's not something you can knock out the night before a paper is due. What you get would be superficial and wouldn't address the question in any meaningful way. Research isn't straightforward. It's very active and requires you to constantly think about and react to your discoveries, adjusting your question and planning as you go along. For example, maybe you build a question using Google to help you lay the groundwork and provide background information. You end up discovering a new aspect of the topic you want to explore so you go in a slightly new direction and have to build your foundation again. There are all kinds of issues that will force you to revamp your approach as you gain and incorporate all this new knowledge into your research. Be curious. Explore areas that have yet to be explored. Be open-minded and expect the unexpected. Find a variety of sources and challenge your ideas with other perspectives. Try to break your question. Disagreement, debate, and dialogue increase the depth of a conversation and help you to see the full picture. When you're doing research, it's easy to get stuck. That's why it's important to think about different approaches to answering your question. Talk to your friends and professors. They all have experiences that you don't and can help you look at your question in a new way. It's really important to take the time to step back and actually think about your own research process and any obstacles that you're facing. You might discover gaps in your knowledge that need to be fixed or potential solutions that you didn't see before. When you research, always think about why you're doing what you're doing. Research requires you to make judgment calls on how all of the information you find fits together and what story it tells. It becomes your take on the question which isn't necessarily right or wrong. It's more about thoroughness, covering your bases, acknowledging the work of others, adding your own voice and shaping it into something coherent. And that's how you inform your thinking.