A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.
Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.
Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life’s too short. Walked away.
TLDR: People need to go touch grass.
So close. All they need is to add this: https://lastminuteengineers.com/sim800l-gsm-module-arduino-tutorial/
Wait till the CFOs start tallying up the GenAI bills…
I have many friends who won’t get off Twitter becauee they follow journalists and subject-domain experts and are addicted to realtime, breaking news.
If large news-gathering organizations mandate their news staff to have presence elsewhere, or provide tools to let them simultaneously post and engage in other places, that will go a long way toward breaking the bottleneck.
My needle on my BS-meter just snapped off.
Somebody starts streaming VR porn on the same cell network. Latency drops to a second. Patient flatlines.
The future is here.
The year is 2245. The heirs finally locate a working, antique reader that can handle the ancient USB key, hoping to find great-great-grandpa’s crypto-wallet or the pin-code to a long-lost Maltese bank account.
Instead, they find a 4-bit, VGA-quality scan of Miss October.
The article didn’t really explain what was so controversial about Mastodon? Last I heard, they created a U.S. non-profit. Did I miss something?
Be fun to see the same M3Max with an ad and tracker blocker. See how much their top line improves.
Most products should validate their assumptions before they even start laying down designs, code, or hardware. If it’s super cutting edge (like this one) there is a temptation to question the feedback and get into ‘build it and they will come’ mode.
But most of the time, testing with real users and validating the revenue model is the prudent path. Hopium is not a currency.
You can tell it’s fake because the robot vacuum doesn’t get hopelessly stuck on the edge of the rug.
The RP2040 solution was pretty clever. And that’s just for line sniffing. He can still add clock or crowbar glitching into the toolkit to work around more advanced defenses. This is something that car ECU hackers figured out a long time ago. There’s no software solution to work around that bit of nightmare. FWIW, ChipWhisperer can do all of these, including the synchronous sampling method used to fake a clock signal right out of the box.
As the piece mentions, setting a PIN can help, but all it does is annoy the user (who will likely choose something obvious and easy to remember) and transfer the problem to a simple dictionary attack.
The minute you put the security component in a separate module, you’ve opened yourself up to line-sniffing and MITM. And as soon as someone has physical access to a device, all bets are off.
This has been around for a while. It may be so they can track and throttle LLMs hovering up public code repos.
Either way, it’s a meh. Not sure why anyone would want to clutch their pearls over this. For those who need it, self-hosted gitlab is available.
So robbers rob a bank and take hostages. Then when nobody shows up or cares, the robbers call the feds to report the bank management for not having made a bigger fuss. The real victims aren’t the bank or the hostages. It’s the poor, ignored bank robbers.
Is that what’s going on?
Yikes! Have two of those 2TB drives for archiving. Been afraid to plug them in until a firmware update. If it’s a hardware problem, that makes it even worse.
There’s been a steady exodus of news and legal people onto Threads. Techie people seem to be moving more to Mastodon.
Once the automated posting tools catch up with the Threads and Mastodon APIs, there will be less reason to check anything relevant on Twitter.
Wife: I don’t remember my {service} password.
Me: Did you put it in {password manager}? We have a family plan.
Wife: groans I never remember it. What’s the password?
Me: How would I know? It’s your password.
Wife: ruffles through desk, picks up tattered handwritten note. Aha! Here’s the {service} password. Same as {30 other sites}.
Me: slowly bangs head on table
[ Repeat once a month]
The problem with Chinese EVs is that they show it’s possible to innovate, keep prices down, and mass produce.
Ford, GM, even Tesla, are spending all their time whining about how it’s just not possible to compete. They point the finger at worker wages, instead of improving engineering and design, materials, manufacturing processes, and not chasing stock-market gains.
Stop making $70K SUVs and start making $20K Taurus and Escort EVs. You did it once. You can do it again.