gertrunde

Most optical cabling setups I encounter these days tend to be made so that you just use a straight through (A-B) cable, and it generally just works.

Although it is super easy to just pop the individual fibres out of the clip holding them together and flip them round.

The biggest polarity issue I see are with mtp/mpo cassettes, especially with multiple spans, you always seem to need to cross something there.

"The 10 dropped the physical SIM slot"

I'm assuming that's a country specific/dependent thing?

(My pixel 10 does have a physical sim slot).

There was a time when the community was the attraction, although I wouldn't say "the insanely large community", given that at the (for me anyway) best/peak WoW times, your specific community was the server, which was maybe a couple of thousand or so?

Around that sort of time you would encounter known groups/people, e.g. characters that had a reputation as extremely good in PvP etc.

Then along came the cross-realm stuff, and fairly quickly community ceased to matter, you just queue up, play, and move on.

Great for ease of play etc, terrible for community.

(Well, that was how I saw it anyway).

Wind spill?

Like... A hurricane?

Sun spill?

Like... A coronal mass ejection?

Wow... What have they done to that webpage to make it that unreadable?

And why?

Ouch.

There are USB headsets, that usually provides a few extra handy features, like volume/mute and call answer/hangup buttons.

Does it have to be wired via headphones jack?

If you want to do that sort of thing in a cheap way, then you can.

I'm told a box with two optical NICs in it with only one fibre in it, TX->RX, works quite well, plus a bit of software to wrap around it.

But these sorts of organisations love a bit of bureaucratic regulation, and "certified" devices and that sort of thing, so there's probably not much of a market for a data diode without the paperwork.

On the opto isolated idea - I think there was a QR-code and camera based data transfer tool posted on HN a few days ago!

The ubiquity is the problem I suspect.

If customers buy the product regardless of the quality, then the manufacturer has no incentive to improve the quality.

For context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

It does clearly state that the price is variable depending on what it costs them to source the memory modules.

And other pages give the costs for repairs & diagnostics, which are probably in line (it's effectively a type of 'repair').

(Although prices are in emirati dirhams, given they're based in Dubai)

Those kinds of designs have been proposed before iirc, mostly with a large section of the fuselage that drops in/out.

There's Airbus's US patent US9193460B2 if you fancy a comedy read!

Regarding capacity, iirc, one of the advantages of this style of body is greater internal volume.

And another company working in the same space, Natilus, is planning to fit 150-250 passengers on theirs, somewhat comparable capacity-wise to a 757, but about 30% smaller length/width.

I think the more commonly used term is Blended Wing Body.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body)

(And actually, now I've just noticed they do use the term further down in the body of the text).

For me personally, while I like the history element, if I'm gathering/storing/searching everything, I'd love to also see the command output with the entered command, giving much better context.

Currently I tend to log all my ssh sessions out to text files and grep through the whole lot to find what I want, so a better version of that would be lovely, especially if it could automatically redact secrets or similar, as I'm aware thats a downside of the current setup.

> This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.

Well, that may be correct for the second, local, analysis attempt... but seems funny to tout this as an advantage after already having tried the opposite...

My jellyfin setup is not that different.

Jellyfin container instance running on a mini pc, reading media from an NFS share on a NAS, organised in a very similar fashion.

The advantage is there is a "native" app on the TV, so everything is very adapted to the TV UX, i.e. remote control driven UI etc.

(And the jellyfin side is relatively disposable, the container can be trashed and redone fairly quickly).

What is the point of them taking the fingerprints at all, if they don't verify them on entry?

Not sure about "David Harris" and "Sarah L. Harris" being exactly the same...?

There were some telephone engineers I used to know who worked in telephone exchanges in the electromechanical era, and they could tell when they walked in if things were not working correctly by the sound...

This reminds me of the time when I removed en-US from windows, leaving just en-GB, and it blue screened.

It's both surprising and irritating how many US-centric things are just assumed. (Don't even get me started on paper sizes...! ;) )

I tend to find ebay less shady than Amazon these days, which is a bit disapointing really.

More like a replacement for something like CyberArk than for Citrix.

It's not so much about the remote access as it is about control and auditing.

i.e. ability to permit/deny certain commands/behaviours, and a complete audit log of the session, sometimes extending to a screen recording of an rdp session.

The lack of security is one thing, but why have they retained the information at all!

iirc, one of the elements of GDPR is "storage limitation", i.e. you must not keep personal data for longer than you need it - and in this case, the data is only needed to verify the age of the user, and shouldn't ever be required again (unless people can now get younger).

Once a document has been used to verify a person's identity and that the person is of legal age, there is no reason to retain a copy of the document any more.

It would be reasonable and fair to retain a photo of the user to verify that the person matches the account, but that's it.

With "AWP" (Amusement with Prize, as opposed to SWP: Skill with Prize, i.e. quiz machines), they're often set to payout 80-85% of money taken in. (SWP's are usually around 30%).

And at that level they're still pocketing hundreds of pounds per week per machine.

The most lucrative ones I've seen (admittedly ~20 years ago now) were being emptied by the operator twice a week and taking out £600-800 every time, per machine, with 3-4 machines per location.

An eye opening industry - I'm sure there are businesses out there that pretend to be one thing (pub, club, etc), but their primary profit source is gambling.

Quite possibly.

But the way that they dealt with the whole thing smelt very "we don't know what we're talking about", enough to put us off.

And shifting all the IP space about would have had costs with very little return, so little business appetite to go through it.

The blurb in game suggests the multiplayer side of things will be open, the 'premium' thing on steam gives the one closed bit, which is the single player campaign.

(In theory!)

Fairly freedom-y by the looks of things:

https://github.com/beyond-all-reason

I once asked them if we could enable IPv6 on a 1Gb DIA circuit, and the response I got back was that "we can convert the circuit to IPv6, but you'll need to give up your IPv4."

I don't think I bothered asking them again!!

(Edit "them" = Virgin Media)

I can't really see this ending well for the end user, however well it does/doesn't end for the stakeholders.

I thought Roku took off due to their focus on the streaming platform itself, and being agnostic to the streaming services that could be accessed via that platform. Having one specific content producer buy that platform feels like it destroys or devalues the USP of the platform, at least from the point of view of the consumer/end-user.

Or is this just another step in the relentless enshittification of all services?

Quote from my partner's manager before a vacation:

"If I see you log on, I'll disable your account."