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wtch98··on Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election
I'd be very surprised if the internet isn't well on its way to being balkanised by 2036.
wtch98··on Image of our satellite-choked night skies
When I look at the night sky with my eyes I don't see the picture shown. I might see a few moving lights, sometimes they are planes, sometimes satellites. They're magical, just like a meteor or the space station, but they don't annoy me at all.

One of my most memorable night viewings was some years ago when I was in Cyprus, lovely and warm, sat looking overhead. I saw a bright light and a dark light perhaps 2 or 3 degrees (more than a thumb, less than 3 fingers) apart travelling at the same speed. I later found out it was a Dragon carbon ship detatched from the space station and on its way back to splashdown less than an hour later in the pacific.

wtch98··on Multiple planes diverted as bomb threats to commercial flights reported
I'm going to assume this will continue until everyone is ignoring the threats, then an actual bomb will go off
wtch98··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
Cleaner that comes in after normal office hours, with a phone which connects to guest wifi, which is segregated on the LAN side, but has public IPs from the Whitehouse AS
wtch98··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
Most people working shifts will work varied shifts, sometimes nights, sometimes days, sometimes they'll be missing for days or weeks on end
wtch98··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
In which case you'll be far better off renting for half that
wtch98··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
> I make it work with 420k combined income, and I’m able to save 20%

> You can get things below the median and it’ll be ok, you’ll live

Median household income is about $140k. Well done for "making it work" on 3 times the median income.

wtch98··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
If your mortgage is $20k a month then thats because you are paying it down over something like 10 years and almost all that $20k is going into capital.
wtch98··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
They'll get bailed out.

Retail is a small part of those index funds, and the wealthy won't be happy with losing paper value.

wtch98··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
$9k a month after tax is about $150k before tax.

The median individual salary in California is about $50-60k

$480k on its own (ignoring stock) is a ridiculous level, it's $285k after tax.

Yet someone with $1b in investments "earning" 10% makes $270k every day.

Someone with a "mere" $10m makes that $480k gross every 6 months.

wtch98··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
People who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

That's fine when they are accountants, it's important to tell the decision makers the costs. The decision makers know the value.

The problem is when the decision makers don't know the value.

wtch98··on Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107K per employee monthly
$480k base. Lets assume you're the only income but still have to pay childcare (single parent)

Take home $22k a month

$10k on a swanky place like

https://www.zillow.com/apartments/san-francisco-ca/490-avenu...

or

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/727-Moraga-St-San-Francis...

$3k on childcare https://familychildcaresf.com/child-care-san-francisco/

Leaving $9k a month

wtch98··on WTF Ubuntu?
No this vulnerability is about IP Options, not MPTCP.
wtch98··on WTF Ubuntu?
Redhat didn't release a patch until yesterday, so no doubt the same applies to them?
wtch98··on WTF Ubuntu?
> It sounds like iphones use mptcp in the wild, which use tcp options, so im not sure how true this is.

There's so much commentary misunderstanding what ip-options are that I find it difficult to make any judgement call. I do know that I've got routers on 5 continents with hundreds of public IPs and none have triggered an IP packet with an ip-option arriving on the WAN side, or seen on the internal side other than ones I've created with scapy trying to reproduce this. I also can't get these packets to traverse any internet paths I've tried.

wtch98··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
A company might, but if it's a large company, nobody in that company will have actual ownership, it will always be someone elses responsibility.
wtch98··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
The US seems to make the same mistakes in the middle east time after time.
wtch98··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
The company installing the fridges did. The person who is an expert in food chain logistics bought the shiny fridges and was enamoured by the real business benefits they had of centralised monitoring and alarming of their fridges.
wtch98··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
It's not insecure code that's the problem, it's an insecure system, driven by project managers, information security departments, and box ticking.

For large companies, infosec will never allow some POS IOT device on their network without a 50 page form and large amounts of funding. The business however needs this to happen for whatever goals they have.

So the project manager goes back to the supplier, who recommend sticking it on a 4g simcard with a public IP address, and "install this app" to manage it

The project manger finishes the project, gives the app to the store manager, and rides off into the sunset, and nobody actually owns the equipment or even knows its there.

For small companies they likely don't have a technology provider at all, and just use the ISP's router.

wtch98··on US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears
Any older models are better in many ways. Won't surprise me when we reach a point that new LLM models start collapsing in quality (while at the same time probably becoming better for the adtech industry), and older models are the premium.
wtch98··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
Not unique to politicians, any large organisation who doesn't have a strong single leader sees this. It's nothing new either, with the Peter principle, the Dilbert Principle, even the Gervais Principle, recognising the symptoms.
wtch98··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
Jaguar-LandRover had a cyber attack which shut them down for months and nearly caused them to go bankrupt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Land_Rover_cyberattack

Of course they then blame "state sponsored" attackers.

https://www.techdigest.tv/2026/10/former-minister-confirms-j...

wtch98··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
I blocked packets arriving externally on my firewall with ip-options a couple of days ago. Firewall rule has zero hits, and I've got a very open ISP (andrews+arnold), if I want I can host SMTP, DNS, whatever
wtch98··on US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears
Google search was a breath of fresh air 25 years ago, it became shit. AI will go the same way.
wtch98··on US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears
2 years ago people were raving how great AI was.
wtch98··on If IPv4 were land
Most people don't care about a private IP, which is why they cost about $20-$25 each (which would be about $2 a year to finance). I've used Airtel in the past and they certainly offer a dedicated IP. Currently I'm with TATA and Vodafone in India

Indeed a shared IP is arguably a benefit in that it makes fingerprinting harder.

If your ISP had customers who were interested it could spend $150k on a /19 block giving 8000 IPv4 addresses and charge an extra ₹100 a month for them and after two years it would be in profit.

In fact I think Jio and Airtel offer static IPs for residential use for something like ₹300 a month, which given how cheap IPv4 addresses are is a massive money spinner, but I have't spoken to anyone living in India about ISPs for a couple of years.

wtch98··on GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229
Or I can (and do) use something good. That doesn't change the fact atlasian no longer support on prem jira.
wtch98··on GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229
We've just moved from on-prem (protected by MTLS) to on-cloud because of this. I now know why everyone hates jira. The cloud version is so much worse
wtch98··on The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Only if that battery was connected to 500GW of inverter capacity (and the grid was a spherical chicken -- enough intertia-replacement devices to keep timing working, enough capacity to link supply with demand etc)
wtch98··on Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls
Most professional pollers do a good job.

When they are 3 or 4 percentage points off they are ripped to shreds.

The polls for the recent Brazil elections were about 49% for Lula, the result was 52%, that's a 3 point difference, not a massive error margin. With brexit the polling pointed to about 52% for remain, actual result was 48%.

But those are proper polling companies, not worthless online ones.

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