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Oh, I missed the TV etc. impact - risk of idle speculation, I suppose. Yeah, OSS/BSS or enabling IT seems more likely, though I'm struggling to understand how a fallback to 3G would fix that. Supposedly customer information wasn't compromised.

One can hope that Vodafone will provide a decent external postmortem given the impact to Portuguese emergency services etc.

Sounds like their EPC/packet core was compromised pretty seriously.

Ars article: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/02/vodaf...

"Vaz said the company hadn't received any ransom demand that would indicate it was hit by a ransomware attack. The CEO also said he had no indications the attackers had accessed subscriber information or other sensitive data."

Yet at the same time - "The attack comes a month after the websites of two of Portugal's biggest news outlets—Impresa and later COFINA—were hacked by a ransomware group calling itself Lapsus$."

As to why there's been no discussion, it seems like there just isn't much information to discuss at the moment. Vodafone Portugal's in damage-control mode, they don't want to say more than they have to, and what's been said is in Portuguese.

OP - are you in Portugal? Desculpe if so! I imagine this is a big deal in-country.

I've been driving a rental Model 3 with FSD for the past day - for the first time - and totally agree. And after a day's experience, it's obvious it needs to be watched. It's an amazing capability but there are clearly still corner cases, and it makes you very aware of them.

I liken Autopilot / FSD more to a horse at its current state. You keep a firm but gentle hand on the rein and let it find its way. Sometime you have to check it.

If you get complacent (which the screen explicitly warns you against), yeah, things could go wrong. That's also 100% true when driving a normal car.

Edit to add: I think a lot of criticism focuses on the term "Full Self-Driving" which implies "Full Self-Driving". That's fair, but I think it misses an important point. ("Autopilot" made a lot more sense to me: real autopilots can't do everything either. They can't even taxi.)

When you're actually IN THE CAR, enabling this functionality for the first time, you have to enable three separate toggle switches. Each one pops up a progressively longer, more dire WARNING dialog, emphasizing the software's primitive state, the importance of paying attention and keeping your hand on the wheel. It also demands your constant attention while engaged.

I live in the forest in rural norcal and everything you say rings true. We had a huge fire come within 3 miles of us last year. This year's obviously going to be just as bad given the prolonged dry winter. The neighborhood is aggressively managing the fire risk, yet it seems it'll never be enough.

It can happen anywhere though. I have immediate family who lost their home to a fire last year - they lived in a town of 20,000 people, among grasslands in the suburbs.

IMHO California and PNW homes need to be rethought, starting now - much like how we stopped using unreinforced bricks due to earthquakes. Stop building houses out of flammable materials. Use intumescent coatings. Intentionally fireproof your landscaping. I was hoping that was the focus of this article but.. nope.

Yes. Bungie was an independent studio back in the 90's, then MS acquired them for Halo. Bungie split from MS in 2007; the Halo IP remained behind under 343.

They were under Activision during the Destiny era until 2019. So if they stayed, they would've ended up back at MS. The M&A merry-go-round continues.

Therapy is the best for this kind of thing. Strongly recommended.

I delayed therapy for years, thinking it was for people with "major psych problems" when really, you're just learning how to identify and manage your emotions. While this sounds almost stupidly simple, it's actually extremely hard work that most of us never learn! A good therapist will act like a master coach, helping you through the process, as you learn "how to drive" emotionally.

Finding a good therapist is also hard. And there's very little help for you in that process. Here's some advice I got from a trusted psych, which turned out well for me:

* Use Psychology Today's Find a Therapist tool: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists

* Look for therapists who focus on only a few therapeutic orientations (I like CBT)

* Avoid therapists who offer CBT alongside psychodynamic therapy, or family therapy - these are different, largely incompatible modalities

You'll probably have to meet with / call a few before you find someone you click with (which is important). Patience is important. The whole process takes time - took me 2 years of weekly work, but it was tremendously helpful.

Also, exercise. It doesn't have to be anything special / major, just get outside (preferably) and move your body. A walk around the neighborhood is fine. This has a number of positive psych and physical effects.

Be well!

Your English is great! It sounds like you liked authentication/authorization; perhaps consider IT security / CISSP?

You will have to endure some degree of printer cartridge-type work in your early years, no matter what, especially since you're the new person. But if the role exposes you to the work you enjoy, put in the hours and you'll get noticed.

I remember my first years in networking - I never enjoyed climbing into ceilings, pulling cable etc. But I got it done, and worked hard in the areas I really enjoyed. Pretty soon an engineering role opened up; I was able to move into it quickly, as management had seen my potential.

You talk about "doing things that others have solved" - this is the "make vs buy" problem and, to a degree, it's fine to build things yourself. But you can probably appreciate that it isn't just about building the thing, it's about maintaining it. In a professional setting, you have to choose the optimal solution for the business.

On your personal time, build stuff! Whether that means assembling FOSS solutions or writing things from scratch, it's valuable experience.

Mid-life here - I can appreciate you're probably feeling frustrated and a bit lost. I think this is normal at times, especially early on in our careers.

Working in tech / IT can be grueling, particularly entry-level roles. Operations is often 24x7. People only call when they have problems. Incidents are rarely convenient. The work can be repetitive. It's a good job, but a bit like being a plumber, and you have to accept a certain amount of that.

You list a lot of different domains; specializing in an area will help you get past the entry-level physical work. Pay attention to the subjects that don't burn you out. Is there one specific type of "IT work" you really enjoy?

If so, focus there. Figure out the certifications which matter in that space (e.g. the CCNA/CCNP/CCIE track in networking) and pursue them.

I went to college for one thing (bioinformatics), burned out, took a year to recover and pivoted into network engineering, which ended up being a great decision that ultimately led me to a FAANG. Don't lose hope.

Long-term, I also suggest some inner work on your burnout, ideally with a therapist or other professional. Burnout rarely happens only once, and often it has more to do with our mindset and worldview than it does with the specific work. Took me a very long time (and some months with a great therapist) to recognize that about myself.

Be well!

Flex was available for certain things (Colossus IIRC, gave you a ton of flex quota) but for others it wasn't. Because This is Google.

More broadly I think this speaks to the power of defaults. I recently had a family member lose everything (house fire) including all of his iDevices. He thought he'd lost the photos on them - he didn't even know he had iCloud backups - but as soon as we got a new device on his account, there they were.

Helium is ultimately independent of LoRaWAN though - it's now expanding to other protocols i.e. CBRS.

I've also been using HEY for a year of personal email, and just renewed my subscription.

I spend a lot of time organizing and managing email at work. I have multiple inboxes, hundreds of tags, filter rules etc.

When I tried HEY for my personal gmail, it just felt like a breath of fresh air. They were wrapping friendly UX around the realities of modern email. It wasn't "work" to manage my email.

I recognize their system is limited if you want to do that stuff - not sure I'd use HEY for work yet - but if you're inundated with email (as I was, having a gmail address dating back to beta), they do a great job of making it manageable without any effort on your part.

As a former Glass user, agreed on the need for FOV. While amazing, current AR doesn't feel like "augmented reality", it feels like "tiny transparent phone screen in your eye".

As someone who struggles with seasonal depression as well, but who also wakes up early and starts his day early, DST is my enemy for all of the reasons you love it. I'd prefer no DST.

I think we can't "win" with time-related legislation. Is this apple cart something our govt really needs to be upsetting right now?

The intent of "Wi-Fi 6" is to start versioning Wi-Fi numerically (i.e. the next major rev will be Wi-Fi 7) instead of the IEEE's ever-lengthening 802.11 alphabet soup.

It's just a coincidence that we're also talking about 6 GHz at the same time. No formal relation.

Vandana Aspen, draspen.com.

I found her by searching Psychology Today's listings and looking for therapists who specialized in CBT and little else.

I spent two years with a fantastic psych in the bay who studied under Burns. She used a combination of 50% ACT, 50% Burns CBT and it was very impactful. Workbooks for homework were The Happiness Trap and the Feeling Good Handbook.

Fundamentally changed my life for the better.

In a similar situation - year 5 of remote, now living in a small town still working for big tech. It does get lonely and you have to manage this yourself.

Volunteering with an organization you care about is a great way to combat this. They're locals, you get to know the community you're living in, and you probably share a common interest. Also feels great to give back.

(2015)

Zapffe's The Last Messiah is a good read on this topic if you're not already familiar.

IIRC the original link didn't include "exo". The whole article seemed intentionally vague in that regard.

(Orbiting a distant K-dwarf star)

Original paper, I believe: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00678

The original iPhone was 2G, not even 3G (I owned one, along with a Palm Treo). I built Wi-Fi networks at the time, and suddenly we were inundated with iPhone users who were frustrated with the 2G speeds.

OP author doesn't seem to know their history...

That's fair, parent is post-hoc theorizing.

I have to hope that the people in charge of these things -do- care, and that it's simply difficult to get this right. However, given some of the things in the PDF, one has to wonder...

"Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome"

IMHO you need a good workflow and as few tools as possible. It sounds like you're using many different tools. Is there a reason for that? Do you have a workflow you routinely use?

Suggestion: Treat one tool as your "canonical" todo tracker (these could be separate tools for home / work). Take todos from other sources (slack, email, meetings, whatever) and routinely consolidate them into your canonical tracker. When you're working, work exclusively off of the tracker.

Offline, I keep a simple paper bullet journal during meetings. I'll note action items with a bullet point (other notes get a hyphen). After meetings are done, I review the bullets and either complete them or commit them to my canonical tracker. Bullets get crossed out when this happens - full cross if I completed the bullet, half-cross if I committed it to tracker.

I still remember the first time I found this page, and the deep existential crisis that followed!

Ultimately if consumers will support these business models, there will always be a Bezos willing to sell to them, at whatever the human cost.

Slap some pretty marketing around your product and most consumers are blissfully ignorant. Certainly helped by global-scale supply chains that add a fog of war.

Even those who are aware of it, in many cases, fall prey to "that's a pity" thinking without actually changing their own habits. Like a crowd of folks walking by litter - many shake their heads, but few actually pick it up.

Have you omitted all such products from your own life? Good for you if so, but few of us can make such a claim.

This looks like a private venture that was selected - along with 11 other ventures - for $100,000 in NASA funding back in 2013: https://www.nasa.gov/content/niac-2013-phase-i-and-phase-ii-...

Nothing more recent than 2016 on their own website for "human stasis": http://spaceworkseng.com/tag/human-stasis/

Why is this news?

Habitica - if you're into gamification, it's a cool way to build positive habits, daily todos and long-term todos.