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I’ve found HomeKit to be pretty resilient. During internet outages it still functions locally, which was an important design choice for me.

There was one time where it went on the fritz and ultimately fixed itself when I restarted my phone (wish there was more troubleshooting or audit logging, but that’s endemic to all Apple products not just HomeKit)

I tend to agree but there are use cases where the smart bulbs have been great for us.

1. Next to our bed we have reading lamp sconces. The sconces we picked out do not have light switches (oops). It turned out to be a blessing in disguise as now the reading lamps automatically switch on in the evening before we come upstairs to bed, then turn off as part of the “good night” scene (which also alarms the security system, etc). If the alarm goes off, the lights automatically switch on to max.

2. Our front porch and rear lights automatically turn on and off with the sunset/sunrise. They also turn onto a flashing red/blue if the alarm is triggered (kind of corny but hey anything to scare off would be intruders)

3. Our kids have smart bulbs in their room lamps. We are able to switch them to a low red colored light as a night light automatically when it’s their bedtime.

Most of my lights are “dumb”. The few use cases for smart bulbs are nice though. I use the Nanoleaf essentials through Apple HomeKit so I don’t feel like I’m exposing my personal details to some third party.

I couldn't figure out what the actual measured memory bandwidth to the onboard HBM2e memory chiplets are- how does it compare to, say, Apple's M2 Ultra?

you're referring to the Xerox Workcenter: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...

Haven’t seen an upleveled bmw in action but yes these vehicles do get put to use and save lives.

There are other 'convenience' features that become problematic in a highly adversarial environment, such as unlocking all the doors when you shift into park, or unlocking the doors and shutting off the fuel supply when an accident is detected. In an emergency situation you may have to ram through a vehicle blockade- I would hate for the car to then suddenly shut down in that case...

Yes, those are great stories... we were a small VC funded startup that had maybe five customers. We needed a network monitoring solution, so I built out a Big Brother network monitoring system (for nostalgia, check out the demo site: https://web.archive.org/web/20010124042600/http://bb4.com/bb...). I was told under no uncertain terms that Big Brother was not professional enough for our purposes and we needed to build out an entire NOC with HP OpenView. To monitor about 20 servers at the time, maybe growing to 100. At a cost of about $2m for the hardware, training, and facility buildout.

There was also the $1m/month rental of the EMC Symmetrix storage array (again, for five customers). When things went belly up and we needed to cut costs, we just moved data centers in the middle of the night, abandoning the Symmetrix storage array at the old facility (since the lease was covered in our colo payments).

Ahhhh those were the days... I did enjoy driving 26' rental trucks full of mission critical datacenter racks around the area as a 21yo. Fun fact: it's easier to rent a box truck as a 21yo than a regular car (at least it was at the time).

To be clear I am no Trump supporter. Feel free to check my comment history if you don’t believe me.

I didn’t say china can’t innovate… I said that the Chinese government actively encourages and finances at a large scale industrial and economic espionage activity.

See for example the China National Intelligence Law’s Articles 7 and 10: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Law_of...

If a low ranking employee in Cincinnati divulged corporate trade secrets, they'd be tried and convicted. If a low ranking employee in Shanghai did the same, what can the US company do? Not much. So it's a low risk activity, that is also actively encouraged and in many cases financed by the Chinese government. This is in no way intended to be disparaging of folks who are of Chinese descent, but rather a reflection of the reality of contemporary Chinese government politics and policies.

Two things. First, this isn't the same thing; you're talking about embedding a resource in a company to read out real time telemetry from internal systems (information with a short shelf life), not stealing industrial trade secrets (information with a very long shelf life). Second, I can assure you that, even with our imperfect systems, there is actually a set of checks and balances in place to prevent rampant (note I said rampant) abuse of this kind.

Yes, agencies would be very excited for this sort of capability. Do they get it as a matter of course that easily? No. There are layers of accountability, legal authorities, and (warranted) push back from commercial entities.

Best quote: "People working for Didi apply for intern jobs at Uber China and then exfiltrate our data. We can’t let them see the formulas or they’ll just copy what we do!”

This is so true. People in the US just don't understand the level of economic and industrial espionage that happens in China on a daily basis. I was responding to an unrelated breach at an unnamed tech company back in mid-2000s time frame and had a side bar conversation that went like the following:

Them: "Yeah, we just opened a tech center in Xinjiang and ... wow, we've had quite the rash of lost ID badges there recently"

Me: "Have you considered that they're not 'lost', but rather 'sold' for profit?"

... silence ...

I don't know if executives are aware but just don't care, or if they're simply incompetent, but China has productized industrial espionage on a massive scale. GE Aviation was a victim more recently: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/11/16/accused-chi...

I am glad to see this has improved your travel preparation- I have learned the hard way too!

I see your point but my perspective is that this approach protects me in a potentially adversarial situation in a location where I am at a distinct disadvantage: I most likely don’t speak the language, aren’t familiar with cultural norms, and unfamiliar with the surroundings.

With paper, I can point to my reservation number or booking details unambiguously and prove my point. If they need to take the paper to someone else to verify, I’m not giving up my personal cell phone and only method of communication at the same time.

It’s like when you learn to drive: you are taught, you could be right in a traffic situation but at the end of the day, you adapt to the situation. Better to have bent to someone else who did something wrong but stay alive rather than dying “proving” your correctness.

I've been doing this long before eSIMs were widespread. I have traveled to locations where you can't buy an eSIM until you present physical identification in country, so that's sometimes a no-go. Plus you have no way of knowing that eSIM will function until you land... or cell coverage is too poor to use immediately, etc...

The papers that I carry with me, on the other hand, will be available regardless.

Everyone makes fun of me for this, but this is why I carry a 1/2" binder with paperwork for every part of an overseas trip in individual plastic sleeves. When you land in a foreign country, you never know when/if your phone will start roaming, or you're waiting to buy a SIM, etc...

I'll travel with workmates or friends, and they're frantically trying to look something up, while I calmly retrieve my bulky binder, flip to the right page, and pull out the appropriate paperwork from the plastic sleeve. I highly recommend this mechanism for any complex trip.

In your case, knowing what the name of the hotel is can be very important before you even leave the airport. I've had Canadian border guards ask me very detailed questions about the nature of my trip, where I'm staying, phone numbers, etc. You could be detained in secondary if you didn't have that information handy.

Or when I was in first grade and my teacher marked me down thinking I had written both a one and a zero. Never will forget that.

Second this. Just bought a Miele dishwasher in our renovation and it’s by far the best dishwasher we’ve owned. Well worth the extra $$$.

Also make sure you check the traps and clean the rotating heads - that was an issue with our older Bosch after a while.

But now these markets are much more saturated with smokers than the us market, so why aren’t those markets similarly saturated with salty and sweet foods?

I believe the thread started with a veiled reference to the Sacklers and the lack of jail time related to the manufacture, marketing and covering up the fact that they knew of widespread abuse of OxyCotin (opioids).

In this case there is someone already “the fuck in your pc”. It’s just a group of cyber criminals looking to monetize said pc with mostly illicit activity. As the sibling pointed out, the pop up would require code execution so … they would necessarily be in your pc already.

That said, I would imagine the pop up would be where this is going over time.

Absolutely. Highly regarded, excellent customer service and fast shipping.

My only complaint is their service is a bit too good- they’re used to dealing with businesses so you’re assigned a sales consultant even for a $100 order. But that also means you have easy access to a person if you have any concerns or questions.

You can use standard keystone wall plates and an lc-lc coupler (I used pre terminated lc fiber from fs.com and ran that through conduit. Just add slack on both ends to make sure it’s long enough and no need to terminate fussy fiber)

* keystone jacks: https://www.fs.com/products/143313.html * pre terminated fiber: https://www.fs.com/products/143475.html * sfp+ transceivers for the switches and endpoints: https://www.fs.com/products/65337.html

The operation was performed in concert with other governments. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/qakbot-malware-disrupted-inte.... I’ve worked with some of the partners involved on previous operations and they are top notch - while like I said I think this is a legitimate argument either way (should governments have the ability to actively disrupt malicious activity), I am on the side of taking action as has been done here.

I like your ssh-to-comment system! Clever!

You should read through the search warrant to see the lengths that they went through to get permission from the courts to do so.

Regardless I think it’s an interesting question as well but my position is that if these machines are already compromised I’d rather have them run the “uninstaller” than the victims continue to receive commands from the botnet controller and cause additional collateral damage.

But don’t forget, “today we are experiencing higher than normal call volume”- yeah today and the other 364 days of the year…

But without the in flight PA announcements how else would you be aware of the special offer for the branded airline card?

I almost feel bad for the attendants slowly walking down the aisle afterward sadly holding up the offer paperwork after the announcement while everyone sits there annoyed waiting to land.

Or you just provide someone else’s information. Who says you have to share your true name with your supermarket? Unfortunately it’s very difficult to lie to google

I keep hearing this but haven’t seen proof of this happening. Curious to see if this is reality yet.

Disagree and commit (more specifically have a backbone; disagree and commit) is one of the fourteen Amazon leadership principles which is why he’s probably using that specific language

Ref. https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...