Posts by Terje 370 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Mar 2011
This I guess is the main reason. I would never allow it on my wifi at all, sure I could give it a separate vlan etc, but nope it would not let it touch my network, it's cheap stuff from manufacturers I don't trust to not have security issues that will never be patched.
Meter communication over the power line is mostly a dead technology there are niche areas where it is still practical to use, but it's mostly dead. There are to many problems with it and it's to easy for some electronics with a faulty power supply to knock out communication to the entire neighbourhood.
That is because it's almost impossible to ban something that a large part of the population is addicted to or that is deeply socially integrated.
Ask yourself if either alcohol or tobacco didn't exist in the world but the risks were known, and you were starting to market and sell it today, how long do you think it would take to be banned for health reasons, or you being straight up locked up for trying to sell people addictive poison.
For a lot of social media today we can see there are harmful effects yet there have been virtually no regulation of them based on health.
I don't think we are at the point were some more stringent regulations are impossible to impose yet, but in another decade it may well be.
As regards to Youtube, I have been giving them however many pieces of silver a month it is they want for premium for quite a few years now, and As far as I can remember have not seen any ads in my watching. So for that single thing I have to give them credit.
As to the questions you put.
What are the odds a burglar would know the brand of a smart lock you have and have the know how to exploit it?.
Probably quite high if we look at the "professional burglar" it's a job skill and as such would probably quite fast make it's round to those in that area of "business" especially if the owner have to manually update the locks firmware as that is unlikely to happen to a large number of them and is thus a long term viable option. If you are talking about your regular break a window kind not very high, but then any kind of locked door will result in going through an easier route.
The lock business seems to have a longstanding tradition of security through obscurity, putting their heads in the sand and ignoring known problems, so I'm not surprised at there being no answers and no patches from the company.
KPMG Accountants NV, the >>>Netherlands-based arm<<< of the global professional services firm, has been fined $25 million (€23 million, £20 million) by the >>>US's Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)<<< for failing to prevent its financial auditors from cheating on exams.
The only way I can read this is that it's the us fining the nl company, not that they should not pay for it (they should pay a lot more in my not so humble opinion() but it still looks like the standard us overreach of authority...
I have been toying at home with llama2 and mixtral, why?
To poke around at it and get some general experience of it and it's a bit of fun and to somehow rationalize my 4090 card to myself... Beware that running the larger models will require a "fair" (read insane by home standard) amount of gpu memory to be bearable to run.
My toying around have cemented the idea I had before, <sarcasm> that the "AI" craze is a plot by Nvidia and big climate change to sell more gpus and waste more electricity on pointless energy hungry compute. </sarcasm> Sure there are probably some cases where it can be a really good technology, but for 99% of what it's used for today it's pointless.
If you are a bank, an institution that should be very concerned about security, service stability etc. do you outsource what seems to be core business functions. That seems like a unique opportunity to lose control of your system/data and end up facing all manner of regulatory, customer and legal issues should things go wrong.
I have been using W11 for half a year now, and it's fine(tm)... You can configure it to remove most of the idiot things that should not be enabled from start. If we disregard any potential "improvements" "under the hood" and just consider the user experience, in my not so humble opinion it's a slight downgrade from 10, mostly from crap being added that I don't want front and centre (Onedrive I look at you). I have luckily avoided most of the horrible bugs people have experienced so I'm not tainted by them in either direction as of now. My verdict is Meh, don't upgrade unless you are forced to or if it's a new system and you don't want to mess with upgrading when they try to force you away from 10.
When anything AI related tries to make it's way onto my desktop It will be gone the moment I figure out how to disable it, that's crap I don't want.
There's not a single feature I have found that I feel like wow, that is nice!
In another year or two it may be (with configuration to disable crap) an on par experience with 10.
Or rather confidence in the people that leave default passwords on kit, if you have a abcd1234 password to get into the device first time when you configure it that is kind of sensible, but that should probably ring a bell for anyone remotely sane to change it.
This shows more about how the IETF needs to sort themselves out then the underlying issue. While I wholeheartedly agree that ipv4 is a problem, I don't believe that ipv6 is really the answer, since it's one misconfiguration of my router away from exposing everything inside to the world. If ipv4 were to disappear today which seem to be pretty much what IETF wants then there would be even more carnage with intrusions then there already is since firewall configuration is significantly harder to do properly when you don't have a nat under it providing another layer of isolation when you are either a home user with no clue, or as in my case someone with enough knowledge to be dangerous.
Actually Spirit have both Airbus and bombardier as customers as well, but I think that at least for Airbus it's smaller components being made and not entire fuselage sections.
From what I have read / seen on youtube (so truly authoritative sources scouts honour) some years ago Boing considered the option of buying back and in housing spirit again, but given the external contracts it would be almost impossible to do and on top of that todays boeing don't have the funds to do so without taking on debt in a way that will not pay for itself.
I think for many industries it's not the cost of new hardware that cause them to keep running ancient systems, but the fact that it's far easier and safer to keep a few ancient machines running then to get some new servers to talk to the old equipment, and more importantly make sure it's rock solid. If the controller for your blast furnace dies and the melt solidifies, the potential cost of rebuilding the furnace and the months at best of lost production far outweighs anything you spend on keeping a few redundant ancient machines running
What you fail to remember is that during that time era, optimization by the compiler was better then nothing, varied a lot, but was nowhere close to compete with assembler even written by someone not very good at it. and it took a long time for the compilers to catch up to someone good at writing optimized assembler.
Using a clamp requires you to have access to the just one of the cables in the cable since if you measure both the "supply and return" the net current will be zero unless you suffer from an earth fault in the equipment. And I guess that having the outer insulation on the cables stripped to reveal the internal cablers would make the customer ask annoying questions...
I have had a pixel 4 and 7 and after an unfortunate encounter with gravity now a 8. My opinion is the reverse to your, they are the best phones I have used, without the additional crud and bloat that most other manufacturers add on to android.
Edit: This sounds a bit to evangelical, but they have worked very well for me.
Unless my memory fails me (which it very well may, it's Friday after all) One of the main issues was that the documented operational procedures for the reactor were ignored during the tests, when the energy output got to low you had to shut the reactor down and restart from scratch, the director didn't want that and when trying to bring power up it caused a hotspot and follow on bad things.
Sometimes you need to do stupid things to get your brain to learn to avoid similar things in the future. In my case me and a colleague was doing some troubleshooting, and I decided to check that the 230V supply really was 230V and we didn't have a dodgy cable or something. Grabbing the multimeter, setting it to 300V and doing a quick measurement phase to neutral. after pulling my head out of the roof after setting a new record height for a standing jump I realised that it would have been a good idea to check that the cables were in the sockets for voltage and not current measurements... No harm was done apart from vaporising the probe tips, blowing the multimeter fuze and one of the office fuzes. To this day I have a printout of the resulting transient on my wall to remind me not to do something like that again. Unfortunately the measurement bottomed out at 86A, would have been fun to know what the actual short circuit current was. As a fun note, the actual short circuit lasted for about 1/100 second but that and a couple of hundred amps was enough to vaporize something like 5mm of probe tips. Nowadays I always double check that the multimeter cables are correctly connected.
When two boxes collide they turn into an expanding cloud of different boxes that in turn can turn into other boxes. By carefully analysing the resulting shower of boxes we can learn things about the makeup of the original boxes and even figure out the contents of them. with enough box collisions we may even find new heretofore unknown boxes and deduce the underlying principles of all boxes and possibly finding new delivery methods that will extend the standard modes of delivery! There are models that predict an entire new family of delivery methods similar to the normal ones but transposed to higher altitudes. Propositions of an even larger box flinger to probe these possibilities have so far met with resistance from the community.
While I personally would like to kill anyone who install a server in something else but English, and exclusively use English for my own computers, I fail to see why any sane person would force a us keyboard on anyone. For many languages it's functionally unusable and since all the common users of said keyboard are used to whatever local version they have you lose productivity as well. One thing that absolutely needs to be sorted out in some smart fashion is sql collations though since I have no small amount of hate for different collations colliding, while at the same time don't want to see å, ä, ö treated as a and o or whatever else the collation of choice of the perpetrator deems correct.
Reminds me of one of the first versions of internet explorer for solaris (yes there was such a thing) that could only set the cache in % disk space and minimum of 1% which on a quota based unix system was not such a good idea when 1% was way more disk then you had quota for... It was promptly banned...
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