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2·2 days agoSpies hate him
The amount of supply and demand is always changing. As people create value, and create more people, money mediates the trading of supply and demand.
It is not zero sum and unchanging. If there is a global bumper year for agriculture, more value is produced. If there is a big natural disaster, value is lost. Demand also changes – mostly increases.
I’m not an economist and just making this shit up.
Yeah lmgtfy.com was funny bc at that time Google search really was good, and some questions really were super low effort and annoying, and lmgtfy was a little in joke to let off some steam, kind of like rick rolls.
Of course some people were a dick about honest new people trying to get started. A problem since the original Septembers and perennial during this eternal September.
This is something I’ve never understood about firewalls. If the vacuum cleaner is uploading and downloading stuff from https://somecorpo.net/, what stops it from listening for remote commands on that same connwction?
Earlier in the article he says that he only disabled some of the network connections but he left open the ones for firmware updates and stuff so to me it’s not impossible that it was able to receive remote commands although I would certainly want to see more technical details to satisfy my curiosity.
The article says in words that it was a remote command. But again, we don’t have any details supporting that description. So maybe the journalist got it wrong.
Not to fear! Here is the relevant part so the next person coming by doesn’t have to read the article:
deep in the logs of his non-functioning smart vacuum, he found a command with a timestamp that matched exactly the time the gadget stopped working. This was clearly a kill command, and after he reversed it and rebooted the appliance, it roared back to life.
(Image credit: Harishankar)
So, why did the A11 work at the service center but refuse to run in his home? The technicians would reset the firmware on the smart vacuum, thus removing the kill code, and then connect it to an open network, making it run normally. But once it connected again to the network that had its telemetry servers blocked, it was bricked remotely because it couldn’t communicate with the manufacturer’s servers. Since he blocked the appliance’s data collection capabilities, its maker decided to just kill it altogether. "Someone—or something—had remotely issued a kill command,” says Harishankar. “Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”
2·5 days agoI don’t know how to write bash scripts. But I used AI to generate a Bash script to rename some GoPro files a certain way, thinking that they would still be usable in the gopro, but with more descriptive file names, and I spent a long time learning about its output and how it had written in a lot of really good features into the Bash script, which took about half an hour that I was sort of learning. But then it turns out that renaming the files didn’t do what I thought it would do, so overall it was a waste of time.
Mime didn’t, but it is from 2006. I think it is messed up.
4·9 days agoHoly shit, this is amazing. Thank you so, so much for sharing this. I had not heard of it, and I am often stymied by journal CTL, since I don’t really know how it works. So I will most definitely be using this on my desktop and possibly on my self-hosted stuff as well. Thank you again.
Cursed headline, I love it.
Oh my god, thank you for asking this question. There is so much great advice in this thread as a result.
Sounds good. What are the downsides?
Bike index, EP #153
Have you ever got your bike stolen? In this episode we dive into the world of stolen bikes. Who does it and where do the bikes go? We talk with Brvan from Bike Index who investigates this.
Carbrain? Or against personally identifyable info of all kinds?
Want to watch a grown man rage at FTL and occasionally sing Christmas carols? I forget his name.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPDn7J-qmi5ZGNXgWv5eDO
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Ootl what is “fortnight kill bill?”
I know Fortnite and Kill Bill separately but not in juxtaposition.