Re: I was doing this over 20 years ago...
https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari
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So how long before the AI works out where you live, rings the local police and you end up in jail for hate speech.
....or, you tell the AI to kill itself, only to find out you were just talking to a crap human.... and they call the police and you up in jail.
What a retarded suggestion.
As usual, AI needs to be fixed, rather than "worked around".
Sergey needs to keep his stupid ideas to himself.
I've not used pfsense, but it's derivative, opnsense is pretty good for free too.
It's still nothing compared to Checkpoint or Palo Alto, but then I don't want to pay £10K + permanent subscription at home....
It's not the easiest to configure some of the more complicated settings, but the GUI is nice, and after a drive (or openbsd upgrade, not sure which) failure, the config restore process worked perfectly.
I did actually pay for a year of support at the beginningt, which is reasonably priced.
I'm sure the exporters in non-EU countries have plenty of other countries to which they could export the old phones.
This legislation been on the cards for years, so they have had more than enough time to find other markets.
It's not like there's a shortage of secondhand, affordable phones in the EU already.
That's the trouble with a lot of Hacker con badges, it all has to be done in <1 year, every year they change size and shape, and use different components, so every year there are different hardware and software problems to deal with.
Sometimes Neopixels are soldered on the wrong way round, sometimes aerials don't work well, etc etc, and then all that knowledge is dumped for a totally new design next time.
EMF this year tried to do a sort of backplane that will be the same for the next few years, so in theory parts can be upgraded - I just hope it doesn't turn out like the Intel overdrive socket fiasco.
It's all fun and interesting, and people usually want to play with new and shiny things, but I bet after the conference most of it just gets left in a drawer at home or becomes e-waste :(
Sadly I am guilty of this myself....
Sure, but if it's too much in the minority, then nobody will listen to them, and the bigger players will just badly implement standards or create their own crappy ones, unless there's some competition to stop them.
Microsoft tried with stupid tags, Google tries with their FLOC etc.
I know there's the W3C, but they shouldn't be the only voice.
Yes, that would be great, however, linking all this back in would be a bit of a nightmare I would expect.
I love Thunderbird, but there's loads of people that are frustrated with them not adding new features or fixing bugs quick enough, which seems to have spawned this: http://betterbird.eu/
Thunderbird is always complaining they don't have enough money to do what they want, which is sad. I do donate, but not as regularly as I'd like :(
Yes, there are some decent alternatives.
I self-host BBB and it is quite good, although it's easy to break as there are so many sub-systems, however the installer has got significantly better in the last couple of years.
Jitsi is way easier to set up, but personally I don't think it has quite the same level of features as BBB.
I should try Apache OpenMeetings again. It was a bit rough a couple of years ago, but i'm several versions behind now :/
Are any of them enterprise-grade? Not sure, but they are certainly worth a try, and I've never trusted Zoom.
If i have to use it, I run it in a sacrificial VM :(
I started a new job earlier this year, fully WFH, and it was a lot harder to get up to speed than if I was in the office.
It takes longer to find out if someone is free or not, and if they are really busy or just avoiding getting back to you about things.
We have daily dept and team meetings (takes 1-1.5h in total), which is useful, but not particularly efficient.
We only go in 1 day a month usually, for a big dept meeting, which is fine, but not enough.
During the last one someone in our group from the helpdesk said he would prefer it if we were in the office more often, which I agreed with and had to say it in front of everyone.
I was looking around the room to see if anyone was giving me evils, but there wasn't much reaction one way or the other.
I'm kinda making a rod for my own back as it takes me over an hour to get there, and I would have to pay for travel myself, but it feels so inefficient at the moment.
I'm sure it's fine for people that started before covid and knew most of their dept before lockdown etc, but I was doing a lot of thumb-twiddling during the first couple of months....
I was looking at the 4-module version when I was after a laptop a few years ago, and it seemed a bit pointless to have a modular laptop that you'd have to fill with standard modules just to get it back to a decently-ported laptop.
I would like to support them though, it's a great idea, and more laptops should be built with repairability in mind like theirs.
I had to agree to bs ts & C's with my recent Sony TV.
I couldn't even use it without agreeing to Google's crap.
I can't use the iPlayer app unless I agree to some non-bbc ts & C's, why?
I'll agree to the BBC's iPlayer TS and C's directly, thank you very much.
I wish is just bought a dumb ilyama display instead ;(
"So although the message might be end to end encrypted they can identify who is talking to whom and their locations. "
Sometimes that is enough - in the early nineties in the UK, it was said that the police hardly ever needed wiretaps of (landline) phone calls, the mere fact that 1 person was talking to another person they knew was dodgy would be enough to put you and others you called under suspicion.
No, it's because the "certain services" must be using an out of date GeoIP database, and your actual public internet isn't changing at all.....
I get it all the time, but as the error is meant for lusers, it doesn't give enough details to be useful in actually checking whether your account is actually compromised.
You can already get DC PSUs for both HP and Dell servers that fix the "common slot", although they are stupidly expensive new, and they say you can't mix DC and AC PSUs, which is a bit crap.
I bought a second hand 48v dell one so I could run a server direct from a solar battery, but it's got some random connector, neither pin says whether it's + or -, so I'm a bit scared to try it as I can't find any documentation about it.
I guess I've got a 50% chance of being right first time, and 50% chance of it letting out the magic smoke......
The TSA are wankers, in particular spent ages going through by shit, asking "why" i had some documents in french, and if a pack of glow sticks would explode if they opened it. They were being deadly serious. All that security BS has put me off travelling there.
They also had security theatre of a box I had to put my feet on soon after 9/11 happened - it was away from anything else and wasn't even plugged in, it was just a stupid wooden box with a picture of a footprint on it. What was that for? just to scare retarded terrorists?
Hmm, not sure it's feature equivalent at all - I tried it as I really didn't want a Domain Controller at home, but wanted something similar.
The equivalent of AD Users and Computers GUI is rubbish, and there's no way of creating OUs easily. All users are just shown in a massive list, with not heirarchy.
You have to use something like "Apache Directory something" as a client instead to get the structure.
It also uses Dogtag for SSL certs for clients, and I thought, great, I can also use it for my CA, and asked in forums/IRC (can't remember) on the best way of doing this, and was told in no uncertain terms that this would be a bad idea and to use a separate instance for my CA, which adds complexity for no reason.
I'd like to like it, but gave up as after a while, a reboot would destroy the LDAP indexes and I would have faff about sorting it out before any auth services would actually load.
Ok, it was the Turnkey Linux image, so maybe if i had used something else it might have been more stable, but it in general if was pretty disappointing.
As much as I hate MS, I do like AD, it's just a shame they are trying to get rid of it so eventually you will only be able to useuse their cloudy crap....
If anyone else can recommend a decent OSS (LDAP) alternative to AD, I'm all ears....
I'm sure contractors can also improve stuff.
I do so myself from time to time.... Most of it falls on deaf ears and they're still doing easily-automateable shit when im asked back again to do similar stuff, and I'm like... 'What? You're still doing it that way???'
<sigh>
They could be dangerous, but we've just bought some 12v ones that use <50w, This sounds rubbish, but if you turn them on 20mins before you go to bed, they're more than toasty-eough for my perpetually-cold gf, and usually she turns it off once she gets into bed.