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> That is why most of the successes are skewed early like Reddit and a bunch of other companies which defined the internet.

Reddit rode the wave with zero innovation. Really what is Reddit? Message boards predated Reddit, which was predated by Usenet, predated by BBS. Somewhere in there were Yahoo! chat forums.

All they did was colocate message boards in one place, and allowed freewheeling moderation. That's it. They got lucky, made millions with zero new ideas. People connected the same way on AOL 15 years before.

Like most Silicon Valley innovations, you just reuse an existing idea or resell polished turds as new.

> middle managers with no direct reports

No actual engineers performing real work were harmed in this exercise.

Not strangely, it is regional preference. Go to Lowes or HD and see what housewife in that area prefer; there will be 20 models of one kind and 2 of other kind.

Good luck fixing it when it breaks and thus creating more e-waste.

Electric dryers, especially older models, are very simple appliances, you can easily repair yourself and keep them running forever. Can't say the same about heat pump or gas dryer

Total clickbait after you read details:

> NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off.

So 23 DEI architects and middle managers with no direct reports were sent packing by means of re-org. Good riddance!

No physical offices being closed as implied by misleading title.

Two years is more typical.

Well, getting fucked out of your 401k money 6 months before it vests stings some.

> If I run `nc -l 31337 | sh` that puts my system into a remotely exploitable state

Quick, before someone posts this to Mastodon and gives presentation at security conference with title:

Living off the Land: the Hidden Threat Within

> In theory, the attacker could then use the undocumented commands to scan, spoof, or otherwise attack any near by bluetooth devices.

So? Device is 0wned. Did you think Bluetooth chip is magic protection device for rest of the network?

How would you stop physical external actor? Do you have "No ESP32 permitted on this property" signs on windows?

After reading it really seems much ado about nothing.

Wait until they learn you can rewrite disk drive firmware from inside OS with root access.

> "Buy this super cheap home automation product” turns into installing an APT in your network.

If that was intention, no need to hide code in the Bluetooth, just write it in the firmware. The device itself it the trojan horse.

Costco abusers.

Yes, he is going to deploy Ricky from Trailer Park Boys to climb trees with some hubcaps.

You likely have network misconfiguration like MTU issue. Don't blame Samba if you cannot configure properly.

This is just wrong. Tuned properly SMB is much faster than SFTP.

> My 4-year old Dell XPS 15 is up for replacement, but somehow no manufacturer aside from Apple is making laptop with decent specs nowadays?

Panasonic Let's Note. Your welcome.

It's repairable, upgradable, and has a *removable battery* (unheard of in 2025).

Your quaint experience in the barrio isn't justification for having an unlicensed automotive repair business (which process hazardous waste) run out of a personal residence is a good thing.

I'm sure if that guy could move his business he would, if money and personal circumstances dictated otherwise.

Here is the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NHTRgH3G0

(Caution very NSFW language)

> I always thought it was TCP only!

So did the NIH firewall administrator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229201

> And it is sensitive data - even if it is open.

This is literally contradictory.

Data does not become sensitive because some random on HN says so. You are speaking with authority but have no idea what you are talking about.

It's best to read HN in reverse order to get true diversity of thought.

Also recommend custom stylesheet to unhide the grey-text posts.

> metadata directly to Google, who give it directly to the NSA, who give it directly to Elon Musk and DOGE

Source?

This is why, OP said mid-superBowl:

> T-Mobile since I canceled my service with them mid-Superbowl when I learned they were collaborating with StarLink

That implies spur of the moment, emotional response.

You are watching the Super Bowl one minute, you see a commercial for T-Mobile, then immediately call to cancel your service in anger? If it happened at all - you must port before cancelling, or lose the number

Life and career is about soft skills, not metrics. Perhaps you were toxic and they just did not like you?

Tech-bros that invented and deployed nearly every privacy-invading technology of the last 20 years, tracked your every movement, scanned your email to show you ads, sold data for profit, now come to HN to cry privacy concern about a government audit.

Interesting story but a CVE for this is a bit melodramatic and why no one takes security folk seriously (cry wolf too many times).

OpenWRT ships with no password at all (!) with full root access on default install. The situation is the same: they politely suggest you change it from the default (blank) password but do not force you to do so.

By this logic every OpenWRT install (and many other softwares) dating back many years should be subject to CVE.

OpenWRT, the crown jewel of open source firmwares for "insecure" consumer routers, uses a blank (null) password by default with full root access.

CoC are the homeowners associations of the free software world. Some think they're essential to keep undesirables out; others won't have anything to do with them.

Both are often the source of petty disagreements.

HN does not have cookie banner? Should they? Is HN subject to the laws of EU?

Censorship is wrong in every case, even more wrong when the motivation is extortion. History has taught us this.