Help me decide on a university for an Automotive Master’s Program.
I’m looking to enroll for this upcoming winter semester in one of two programs below. I was wondering if anyone had annecdotal experience with either? How do they compare? What are something’s I should know that aren’t listed on their websites?
I have offers from the following universities for MSc programs

1. Politecnico di Torino - Automotive Engineering
2. MUNER - Automotive Engineering, Advanced Powertrain

I am ideally seeking to forward my career in Motorsport, however won’t be opposed to a career in the auto industry.
I would appreciate any insight I receive that helps me make my decision! Grazie

Hello all, I have made it a misson to educate others on predatory illegal loan practices. Tribal loans are almost always illegal and unenforceable. They can not sue you for the debt back because their interest rates exceed state & federal laws about maximum interest rates. They can not sue you for the debt because they would have to admit in a court of law on record that they lent money to a US citizen without a lending license & well above the interest rate maximums. The debt collectors they pass along the debt to are ILLEGAL as well. They are trying to collect a debt that is not legally enforcable in anyway.
So you took out the loan, you received the money, you have started paying it back, and one day you log in to see after paying $800 back you still owe $800 in interest. You are dumbfounded. The very first thing you need to do is go and print out ALL of the loan documents and ANY other documents you signed with these companies. You need to take a highlighter to the shaded grey section that states your interest rate, the total interest the loan will cost you, the total amount fianced, and the total amount the loan will cost you. Now you have hard copies of all your documents.
You will need to do research in your area and state. 1st is you could print your documents or save them to your computer and do a free consultation with a bankrupcy attorney incldue in the comments you have a lot of tribal loans. They will ask to see your documents via email as its more than likely these loans are not enforacable and will not effect you in any way to stop paying. The lawyer will be able to tell you in a consulation whats even enforacable. If you have 0 ties to native american land you will not be effected by these.
2nd is to skip the lawyer and do your own research. Your state will have a licensing look up online. Look up the lending companies specifically under lending and installment loans . Most will not even pop up. Some will pop up with licensing that is inactive. This is usally because they did have a license and got sued because of illegal loan practices. They still opperate just illegall, online, and unlicensed. Next, you need to download credit karma and see exactly what's being reported on your credit. If you've been making on time payments for a month or more you should have your payments reported to minimum one of the credit bureaus. If they aren't reporting there's a reason. Even my less than 30 branches local bank reports to 1 of the 3. Its common for bigger companies banks, credit cards, and most loans to report to all 3 of these bueaus. It's also common for smaller companies to report to 1 or 2 of the 3. Payday & Auto Title loans commonly do not report to any of the 3 due to the loan being generally very short term and nearly the maximum interest rate allowed. ANY other licensed, repsectable, and trustworthy loan/bank/credit union company will report to 1 of them. If they are not reporting to credit bueaus, are not licensed in your state, and have higher than the legal maximum interest rate allowed they are not a legal loan company. You can also go and google search the name of the company and "+lawsuit" or "+predatory loans".
Now that you determined if it's unenforcable time to start revoking automatic payments and autheorization for any ach or prepayment of any kind. You will go through and make a note in your phone. Write down the lender information on your loan document just above the shaded section. Address, email (if there), Company name, and phone number. You are going to start calling ALL the loan companies.
These calls will be frustrating because they usually make you hold for a while. Ultimatly you call and say the following:
Hello, my name is [Your Name] and I am calling regarding loan number [Your Loan Number]. I am formally revoking all prepayment authorizations and ACH authorizations associated with this loan. Please be advised that effective immediately, I am revoking any and all authorization for automatic payments from any checking accounts, savings accounts, or debit cards on file linked to this loan number [Your Loan Number]. This revocation applies to all future transactions. I request that you update your records accordingly and cease any further attempts to debit payments from my accounts without my explicit consent to reenroll. I also need email confirmation as soon as possible confirming the payments have been stopped in writing, and that my next payment on [Payment Date] will not be automantically taken out of my bank accounts or debit card on the phone and in that email.
Some will offer to move a payment date ONLY MOVE THE DATE IF AUTHROIZATION WILL NOT CLEAR IN TIME FOR YOUR NEXT PAYMENT if it will clear before then you shouldn't move the payment. Either route you take you MUST still revoke authroization for prepayments & get confirmation in writing. Some will only be able to put a 14 day hold and will require you to send them an email. You will be sending ALL of the companies and email and requesting confirmation on the phone and in email reguardless so no big deal.
Before you get off the phone you need to confirm:

1. the payments have been stopped temporarily and you can send the offical revoke in email/the payments have been stopped and youll get a confirmation email
   
2. The next due payment will not come out of yoru checking account, savings account, or debit card. and that you are now on manul payments/will be once the email is sent and confirmed.
   
3. the email you need to send this in writing to.
   

Once all of this is done go to your email and start making the same generic email with information changed to fit your loan number and loan company.
[Your Name] [Your Address] [City, State, Zip Code] [Loan Company Name] [Loan Company Address] [City, State, Zip Code]
[Date]
Dear SiMadam,
I am writing to formally revoke all prepayment and ACH authorization associated with loan number XXXXX. Effective immediately, I hereby withdraw any and all authorization for automatic payments from any checking accounts, savings accounts, or debit cards linked to this loan number.
Please update your records accordingly and cease any further attempts to debit payments from my accounts without my explicit consent. Should any unauthorized attempts for payments occur in the future, I will have no choice but to report them to my financial institution as fraud and take appropriate legal recourse.
I expect prompt confirmation of this revocation and confirmation that no further automatic payments will be attempted without my explicit authorization.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. For the sake of clarity I want to reiterate one last time i revoke any and all authroization for charges to any and all bank accounts or debit cards attached with my loan.
Loan Number [Loan Number Here]
Checking Account Number [Account Number Here]
Last 4 of Debit Card [Last 4 here]
Sincerely, [Your Name]
I gave myself a 1 month expectation to go through and ensure no companies tried to charge me after revoking payment autherizations. I revoked authorization either the monday before the payments were due (that friday) or the monday after i had made a payment (the friday prior). A few companies did still charge me. I went to the bank explained these are companies that are unlicended lending you money at illegal interest rates. I showed them me revoking authroization for payments and the confirmation from these companies via email and a dispute was filed. I got my money back in 2 buisness days and moved on with life. Now none of these companies have charged me in a month and 1 week.
I was expereincing every day day being negative. I was so financially exhausted I was going to file bankrupcy at 22 to get out from under these tribal loans. I found releif in stopping the payments and will be moving forward changing my spending habbits and paying off my enforcable debt.

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I have a 11 year old dachshund, she just went to get her annual exam, they were impressed by how healthy she is. She had started sneezing regularly, which had us worried, but they assured us it was nothing to worry about.
Fast forward to yesterday, and she's sneezing blood everywhere. Had blood-soaked stools in the house, too. I took her to an emergency vet, who told us her blood platelet count was at zero. Zero! I didn't even know that was possible. Her blood can't coagulate and is therefore oozing out of everywhere.
They tell us to go to another emergency vet for a transfusion, which we do. Emergency vet then tells us a transfusion would be extremely costly and most likely not work, as what attacked her platelets in the first place would do the same to the new blood. They tell us it's probably cancer or maybe an auto-immune disease, both of which mean we're looking at best, at months with her, not years. And like 10k$ for testing and treatment - which we don't exactly have. They think the sneezing could indicate something cancerous in her skull. We'd have to find out, but we're not sure we even can.
They sent us home with like 8 medication to try and get her platelet count up, and although she's still losing blood, at least it's more of a manageable situation. I'm truly at a loss. I don't get how this all happened so fast, from basically a healthy! dog (which i realize now was probably not the reality) to a seemingly lost cause. I'm shell-shocked.
If anyone has gone through something similar, your words would be appreciated. Keep Leia in your thoughts, please. She's the best pups. She just got a new yard, and she loves her new place - I was picturing her running around this space for so many more years.
For now she's home with us, at least, and relaxing in all her favorite blankets.

So, I’m a fairly organized guy but during COVID I had a hip replacement that went bad (staph infection) that took my attention off of things. I paid off my car substantially early during this same period. It was a 5-year used auto loan from a Colorado credit union. Fast forward 3 years and some change and I’m ready to trade the car in, but realized the credit union never sent me the title. This was the first car I’ve ever purchased used and this the first time I’ve ever utilized a used auto loan at a credit union. All my other cars were financed through the car manufacturer’s auto financing group. A couple of questions;
1). Is this normal behavior (not automatically using the title) for a credit union?
2). Do I need to go through the hassle of getting the title at this point or can a dealership pull the title from them?
100% of this story occurs in Colorado, if that matters.

Does this sub require a body in the post? I don’t know. That is why this is here, extra text to stop the auto mod from deleting this post . There is nothing more to read here. Just answer the question. Why are you still reading this? I’ve said everything I wanted in the title. Go comment. STOP! Stop reading! Dude, seriously? I don’t have time for this! I’m leaving….
You’re still here? GO! I don’t even care if you answer my question now! Get the fuck out!
Sorry for yelling. I’m just under a lot of stress at work right now and I’m not handling it well. But you’re not here for that.
Well if you’re not leaving I might as well tell you. The work it’s self isn’t the problem. In the last couple years I started smoking weed. I liked it, but it was expensive and I smoked my roommates weed, so I only smoked when he was feeling generous. Fast forward to about 6 months ago I got a promotion and at the same time a weed card. Now I’m smoking pretty much every day. And I’m not sure it’s very good for me. Anyway that’s all.
Also I wanted to do a play through with as a loyal willing servant of the absolute, I wanted to bring Minthara along but she wants to kill the absolute! Now I can’t even go to moonrise with Minthara in my party! Is it not possible to serve the Absolute with Minthara in your party?

We've got a short driveway, and we need to try and park as close to the house wall as possible, the driveway is a little bit uphill (only a tiny amount, like 1 or 2%).
I notice that it's very difficult to slowly creep forward, as soon as I apply pressure on the pedal the car seems to move quite fast. I'm driving in D mode (adaptive regen, auto-h is off) when trying to do this, does anyone know if there's a better way to slowly creep closer to the wall?

I was playing 76 for a few weeks then went back to revisit FO4 after the update and I forgot how different FO4 plays and surprisingly a few ways I actually prefer 76…
VATs - I prefer it as an auto aim feature in 76 rather than slowing time to a near halt. It’s just too jarring and slow in Fo4, it interrupts the flow of a gunfight imo. I find myself not using it at all in FO4 when it’s all I did in 76.
Food - I know survival mode exists but the increased difficulty isn’t really something I want with it. Having hunger and thirst requirements adds a layer of resource management that goes well with the wasteland theme.
Legendaries - there are definitely some cons to the system in 76, but I really like the scrap system for legendary scrips. In FO4 endgame legendaries are useless, hell even before that some are pointless and they don’t even sell for much. I think this really goes against what legendaries should represent, you shouldn’t just be leaving them behind. I rarely pick them up or even loot them now tbh.
Weapon and Armor Durability - Needing to repair gear pairs really well with the scrap/junk system. Again it’s a resource management thing that I think makes a lot of sense for a post-apocalyptic game.
Events - this one is extremely biased but I love events they’re probably my favorite part of 76. I don’t really know how this could be incorporated moving forward, but I’d love to see maybe some online feature where you could match make to do localized events/expedition. I don’t need the entire game to be co-op but having small PvE events would be fun I think.
What are your thoughts and do you have any other 76 features you prefer?

My mother passed away from an accident in September 2023, and I barely cried at her funeral. Partly because I felt like I had no tears left in me by that time, but also because I was just so utterly numb. My body was just on auto-pilot and my mind was far, far away.
Fast forward to this weekend, and I attended a funeral for my friend’s mother who passed away from a stroke. I completely lost it at this funeral. Her mom was about the same age as my mom. Her brother also spoke at the funeral. The grandkids also called her “Nana”. It felt like deja vu.
I had to get up and leave in the middle because I just couldn’t take it. As soon as I got outside, I broke down. I cried almost as hard as the day I got the call about my mom’s accident. For 30 minutes I just sat outside on the curb and sobbed - even the security lady came out and asked if I needed medical assistance. My head was hurting from the intense reaction. And I felt so embarrassed by this because this funeral wasn’t about me/my family. When everyone came out, several came up and hugged me and offered words of encouragement. I felt so guilty that I took some of the attention at another family’s time of grief.
I almost feel like this was a delayed reaction to my mom’s funeral, where I didn’t cry from the numbness. Has anyone else experienced this kind of delayed reaction while attending another funeral?

Hi everyone, I came upon some vids for auto targeting systems made with Arduino. There are plenty of instructions online and it’s pretty straight forward. Now I was interested to find how exactly it would be possible to give it facial recognition and fire only a specific person lol. I haven’t found anything yet, I suppose this is done only be Ai. There is the “Husky Lens” which is pretty cool (the usual arduino targeting recognises movement, while the Husky recognises human faces in general) but as far as I know Husky doesn’t let you train their Ai on a specific face.
Has anyone tried this? Or seen any blueprints or anything helpful?

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“MIXED MEDIA AND ACRYLIC PAINT ON CANVAS”

You're so easy to read But the book is boring me (“Misery Loves Company”, 2006 🎵)

It is June 2023. An alert pings on your Instagram. Butter my muffins – your problematic teenage fave just posted! What has she been up to?
It's been almost a full year since EA's last communiqué. She was going to do an AMA on her new blog, Stark Raving Sane. Fans would submit their burning questions, and she would select twenty of them to answer in her next post. You could fill out a form with your name and email and question. Clearly, she didn't like some of the questions.
(Since then, the one interesting that's happened in the Asylum was when EA was listed as the opening act for one single Maroon 5 show in the Netherlands 📝, but that turned out to be – most likely – a Spotify glitch.)
You tap the notification to check out EA's comeback post. The caption reads:

Introducing 'My Heart Is A Weapon Of War,' and I painted her and I love her. Medium: Mixed media - digital (Procreate, Maya 3D Sculpting) and acrylic paint on canvas.” 🪞📝

The art style is yassified-oil-portrait-realistic, unlike anything EA has ever drawn or painted before.🪞 It's a pastel-colored portrait of a button-nosed, elven-faced woman shaped like a Rococo centerpiece. She's got an ethereal smile, a sheer pink heart on her cheek, flowers in her towering hair, and rockin' anime titties. The gold lamé of her skin-tight top blends with her actual skin at the neck, and her arms are non-existent.
You rub your eyes. This surely isn't... no. She can't possibly be serious.People in the comments are trying to be diplomatic:

EA, I've always loved and defended you, but this is clearly AI.

EA does not respond to the diplomatic people in the comments. Instead, she posts another portrait of a diaphanous woman with a cheek-heart and a weirdly levitating necklace. In another post:

Oh, if anyone is curious about my general process, I'm happy to share, as I'd love to see other artists try it. It is thus: I start in Procreate with an Apple pencil, move over to Maya/Zbrush and do some 3D sculpting and lighting to flesh things out and create otherworldly elements in incredible detail, go back to Procreate and... 📝

Commenters are now having mostly civilized back-and-forths over the ethical implications of AI. Many hope EA is reading, wondering if she is aware of those issues. Many say everything would probably be fine if EA would just admit to using AI.
EA admits to nothing and apologizes to no one. No: EA posts more art, in a slightly different, less generic style, that still looks nothing like her own. “Digital painting”, she maintains. Many are imploring EA to please end this charade and stop insulting her fans' intelligence. But then again, some fans are defending her (“She literally just explained that it was digital painting!”), so maybe she's right to do it...?
EA posts a picture of a “buried treasure” that she just randomly chanced upon – a pencil drawing from her teens, once posted on her website in the early 2000s. (It's the one I linked to earlier – the one with the “EAF” signature, and the false age, and the fire reference. Yes, this is the context in which she was posting that.) She's posting it, à propos nothing, because she literally just noticed that she still draws eyebrows the exact same way to this day! In fact, you can clearly, definitely, unmistakably see a very similar eyebrow shape in her most recent art! See?
People are gobsmacked, and dragging her to filth. Desperate loyalists are gently pressing EA to please just post a Procreate timelapse of one of her new “digital paintings”, so that people will stop calling her a fraud.
EA is happy to oblige, and posts a mini-timelapse 📺📝 of what looks like color splotches and blurs being removed from the top layer of a finished piece with the eraser tool.

I'm shriveling with second-hand embarrassment on her behalf. How is she not mortified...? 🐀

EA keeps posting. More generic AI girlies with pale skin and sad eyes, more abstract sploshes that she calls her “morning pages”, but also more Asylum member-berries (“...the original Unlaced violin part... someone please learn this!” 📝) – and more of the massive, medical-themed mixed-media sculptures that she started making the year before, even presenting a few pieces at Art Basel 2022. The difference in style is obvious to everyone but her.
She ignores the peasants screeching about AI, won't even deign address the existence of such a thing; it's all EA, OK? OK. She makes it look easy, because it is to her:

4 hours start to finish in Procreate only with Apple pencil. Did you know that [the art for a card deck she released in 2019] was the first thing I drew on an iPad, because I was recovering from a disastrous TMJ jaw surgery and my face was bandaged and I couldn't get out of bed? I didn't either until just now. 📝

...Because... because you just made it up...??
People are going full tinfoil hat now – she has to be doing this on purpose, right? She just has to.

I can’t help but find it extremely suspicious that she came back after a year of inactivity just to drop the very obviously AI-generated art pieces, refuse to forwardly acknowledge the controversy, and then immediately move on to posting a bunch of artwork that is very clearly hers. A part of me is genuinely convinced that this is some sort of publicity stunt... 🐀

What other explanation could there be to this madness?
Not everyone loves the modern art sculptures, but those are definitely her work. Some of them really have The Vibe. About a piece entitled “Manic Phase” 📺📝:

This is (...) a blueprint of brain activity during a very... interesting period. Just one of many over several years, until a very particular combination of chemicals conspired to bury them just below the surface (...) Every single day, right now, I am afraid of going back there.

Hoop, there it is. Girl... you just spent days covering every inch of a canvas the size of a patio table with spirals of text from your decade-old journals written in minuscule all-caps, after a disastrous three-week bender of trying to pass off obvious AI art as your own. Is it perhaps possible that you may be “there” already...?
The more art EA posts, the angrier people get, and the harder she doubles down. Some AI pieces are accompanied by lengthy blog posts where she elaborates on their meanings. Mostly old Asylum talking points and metaphysical ramblings (that, in some cases, only seem loosely related to the art), but also some concerning news... and another spoonful of denial for the road:

Biscuits has no tits and neither do I at present. I’ve lost them, along with my arse, and most of my muscle mass, because that’s what happens when you’ve got an auto-immune issue and it hurts to eat because your body is attacking itself. (I never say auto-immune “disease” because it’s an ugly brown and I don’t like the way the “s” that is really a “z” feels in my mouth, and it also sounds unnecessarily dramatic and that embarrasses me). I prefer not to talk about this. With anyone. I will fix it. I am fixing it. And I will be able to sing and dance. And that is all.” (“Biscuits” - Blog entry 📝)

...Well shit.
Despite her track record and the context of this disclosure, not many fans accuse EA of malingering (well, okay, some are really pissed and they do 🐀). An auto-immune disease does line up with things she has mentioned in passing for years (bad blood-works, diet restrictions, hospital visits...) – and she did look so thin in those Art Basel pictures that some people accused her covertly creating thinspo.
In light of this, some fans choose to cut EA some slack, or at least temper their disappointment with earnest sympathy and concern, as she is clearly struggling in more ways than one, and has been for some time. Others are less forgiving, pointing out that it's pretty manipulative of her to pull out the chronic illness card in the midst of the ongoing AI controversy. Everyone, everywhere, is shaking their head in sadness and disbelief.
And by everyone, I do mean a few dozen people tops. It's pretty echo-y in the Asylum halls these days.
This goes on for two months, into August 2023. The AI art drops eventually stop, but the controversy does not. EA soon restricts the comments on her Instagram. For two weeks, she shares more artworks made from old lyrics 📝 and partially melted medical supplies. Using a syringe, she glues a bazillion crystals onto a pink hospital gown. Then, one day, mid-project, she stops posting.
And as of this writing, that was the last we heard of singer-songwriter, author, actor, visual artist, and world-class violinist Emilie Autumn.

AFTERMATH

Other than broken hearts, bad health, and dwindling career prospects...?
I mean, what usually happens when a semi-obscure solo artist tells tall(ish) tales about... mainly their age and name? It took me three write-ups to explain why EA's absurd but ultimately harmless lies are relevant to anyone on Earth at all. TMZ is not interested.
Because most of EA's fabrications were so self-contained and irrelevant to anyone but her fans, most of the “consequences” remained strictly internal to the fandom. They never (as far as I'm aware) affected her interactions with the press, for instance.
In fact, there was a weird overlap between 2011 and 2014 when she still got a fair amount of new and positive media coverage, but it had become common and accepted knowledge within the active fanbase that she made stuff up. And no one beyond the walls of the Asylum cared, because why would they? Overall, EA is great at interviews: she's charming, funny, and gives amazing soundbites. Sympathetic outsiders were happy to print whatever wondrous things the dazzling lady had to say – about her connection to Alice Liddell, her artistic process, her larger-than-life projects, whatever – without much critical distance. She wasn't famous enough to fact-check or call out, and her creative license with truth made for exciting interviews. It was a frustrating time to be a grumpy EA fan!
Since the press was in on it, and the Asylum forum was strictly under EA's thumb, bitter Plague Rats took their whistleblowing elsewhere. Unofficial forums opened in the name of free speech; anonymous confessions, receipts, and snarky meme blogs started blowing up on Tumblr. But that wasn't public enough for some fans, who felt that EA should be shamed and exposed, lest anyone else “fall for her lies” like they had. So eventually, among other things, they took to Goodreads.
During the never-ending delay of the Asylum audiobook (okay, it was two years; but it felt really long) there was a noticeable influx of one-star reviews, some of which barely addressed the book at all, but went into great detail about the lies and crimes (and personal info) of its dastardly author. I don't have solid receipts for these, there aren't any screenshots – possibly because most of those reviews, while they were ad hominem attacks more than book critiques, weren't quite abusive enough 🐀 to go against Goodreads TOS. But things did escalate enough that Anne Rice felt the need to step in.
In 2015, the author of “Interview with a Vampire” – who takes cyber-bullying against novelists rather seriously... no matter what kind of novels they write 🔍 – shared someone's Facebook post 📝 about the “conspicuous, blatant personal attacks” targeted at author Emilie Autumn, along with a direct link to one such egregious review.
And that, my friends, is how EA's Goodreads page was durably purged of the really pissed-off comments, and TAFWVG's rating stabilized at a cozy 4-star-something. A bunch of indignant Anne Rice fans (or should I say, fangs? (no)) swooped in to mass-report the Asylum's most virulent escapees 🐀, while loyal Plague Rats flocked in with the 5-star reviews. Truly a bizarre week in the greater goth community.
As far as her fabrications go, that's about as intense as “open” fan retaliation against EA ever got. But it is sadly clear that ten years of successive call-out waves from her own supporters (and the mental gymnastics it must have taken to shut them out and not admit to anything, ever) have taken a toll on her general well-being, to a point where she no longer feels safe online... and seemingly can't engage with her audience, at all, in a healthy and honest way.

Slander and dissension They're parlor games to me Papers overrun with lies too mad to mention You say they never hurt you? No consequence, I'm happy We're much too far above it all – But oh no, that's not true! These wicked pastimes take their toll These tyrant vices break your soul Deliver me from all I am And all I never want to be I love you, doubt me not Re-write this plot for all to see (“Willow”, 2004 🎵)

As you can surely guess, it takes more than a handful of unsavory book reviews and anonymous call-out blogs to kill a fandom (and an artist's fighting spirit). In truth, I don't think that many people turned their backs on EA solely for her fabrications; a lot of fans were just low-key annoyed by them for years, and then it was something else that finally broke the camel's back.
There were so many something-else's to choose from.See, while EA's phony stories were an unending source of frustration, they were a mere backdrop to the years of actual, hands-on, ever-evolving drama that eventually brought the Asylum down.
And that's where we're headed in our final installments. Hope to see you there.

I am running a home server ubuntu 22 and k3s running alongside cilium as kube-proxy replacement and loadbalancer
I have various apps running and recently I have setup docker-mailserver but I am having hard time getting the real client-ip
The problem is that i get the client ip as 127.0.0.6
for instance https://echo.jimytar.com is an echo service and as you can see it shows
```
client_address=127.0.0.6
```
the mailserver also does show rip 127.0.0.6
```
Login: user=xxxx@jimytar.com, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.6, lip=10.0.0.51, mpid=10701, TLS, session=
```
I have instaled cilium using helm and currently it is running the following configuration
```
k8sServiceHost: ${local.k8s["ServiceHost"]}
k8sServicePort: ${local.k8s["ServicePort"]}
kubeProxyReplacement: true
routingMode: native
autoDirectNodeRoutes: true
ipv4NativeRoutingCIDR: "10.0.0.0/8"
loadBalancer:
mode: hybrid
l2announcements:
enabled: true
operator:
replicas: 1
rollOutPods: true
rollOutCiliumPods: true
```
```
KVStore: Ok Disabled
Kubernetes: Ok 1.29 (v1.29.3+k3s1) [linux/amd64]
Kubernetes APIs: ["EndpointSliceOrEndpoint", "cilium/v2::CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy", "cilium/v2::CiliumEndpoint", "cilium/v2::CiliumNetworkPolicy", "cilium/v2::CiliumNode", "cilium/v2alpha1::CiliumCIDRGroup", "core/v1::Namespace", "core/v1::Pods", "core/v1::Service", "networking.k8s.io/v1::NetworkPolicy"]
KubeProxyReplacement: True [enp4s0 192.168.1.10 fe80::da5e:d3ff:fe12:4f7b (Direct Routing)]
Host firewall: Disabled
SRv6: Disabled
CNI Chaining: none
Cilium: Ok 1.15.4 (v1.15.4-9b3f9a8c)
NodeMonitor: Listening for events on 128 CPUs with 64x4096 of shared memory
Cilium health daemon: Ok
IPAM: IPv4: 62/254 allocated from 10.0.0.0/24,
IPv4 BIG TCP: Disabled
IPv6 BIG TCP: Disabled
BandwidthManager: Disabled
Host Routing: Legacy
Masquerading: IPTables [IPv4: Enabled, IPv6: Disabled]
Controller Status: 381/381 healthy
Proxy Status: OK, ip 10.0.0.93, 0 redirects active on ports 10000-20000, Envoy: embedded
Global Identity Range: min 256, max 65535
Hubble: Ok Current/Max Flows: 4095/4095 (100.00%), Flows/s: 251.19 Metrics: Disabled
Encryption: Disabled
Cluster health: 1/1 reachable (2024-05-04T20:10:15Z)
Modules Health: Stopped(0) Degraded(0) OK(11) Unknown(3)
```
what am I missing
for instance the echo.jimytar.com is exposed using ISTIO Ingress
I do get the correct client in the X-Forwarded-For but not as the clinet address.
I have also tried with externalTrafficPolicy: Local and still no luck

Seen a bit of talk recently about different levels of CP and being able to drive. I have "mild" CP and can drive without issue, although I can only drive auto cars legally. When I applied for my licence, I ticked that I had a disability. My regular doctor, that I've had all my life and knows I'd be fine, was away sick, so I had a locum doctor. He gave me an eye test, then just kinda went, "disability, umm, alright you can drive auto."
That was almost 18 years ago. Fast forward to today. I check the mail- odds are it came in on Friday- and I have a letter stating that I need to complete a Fitness To Drive test, requested by my GP. First I've heard of it in 18 years. I got a new doctor about 2 years ago when my old one retired, and while he seems a little more cautious than my old one, he seemed okay. Saw him a few weeks ago for antibiotics and this wasn't mentioned at all. Plus I thought he was away on leave at the moment.
Very much in shock and pissed off. Nothing's happened that would prompt this, and the letter says if I don't do it within the next month, I lose my licence. What the fuck?
Am very keen to get to the bottom of this, feel totally blindsided. The only reasonable explanation that crossed my mind is that maybe the practice just wants assessments for their disabled patients on file? But some kind of contact from them would have been nice, instead of an out of the blue letter that basically says, "do this immediately or lose your licence". Absolutely fuming. Wouldn't be subjected to this if I was abled.

Sharing a little tool I had made for my project's needs, I had been working on this little packer for some months now considering I could not find a proper solution for packing the texture sequences of my sims. This little packer has all the bells and whistles you'll ever need (I hope!), will auto pack, auto upscale, auto rows x columns but most importantly will convert your anim texture sequence to become seamless and loopable! I have compared this to other solutions out there and I'm sure you will appreciate the ridiculously fast render times thanks to Unreal Engine.
some notes if you get to use it:

• One time session, sequences will not save
• exporting must be done on the same partition as the .exe was booted up from
• Loop forward: sacrifices a set of texture sequence to loop forward with (makes animation shorter a little)
• Loop back: ping pong from given start time (minimum 0.5)
• Sequences must not contain numbers in the name other than the export sequence value _#####
• Recommended for sequence length to be squared (for example 121 - 196)
• Win10-64 bit and above only (not tested on previous versions)

I hope you get to make use of it as I have found it to be an essential and integral part in packing my sims into flipbooks (blender, stock footage, EmberGen, After Effects) If you like it and wanna help me out check out my project and Wishlist it!
Preview
grab it from here
PS. if you have any feedback or suggestions pls reach out directly