In 2011 I was aghast when I learned a popular keycard / biometric system used FTP to pull down its cleartext list of acceptable keys from the server.

The username was something like ADMIN and the password was PASS.

And no, that wasn’t the FTP command; that was the password.

So I’m not surprised that there are still problems with these devices.

edit: more complete thought

For most games, the real consequence of failure in a game is being forced to repeat what just happened. And getting caught in a Groundhog Day-esque situation that repeats once every few minutes suuuuucks.

It’s even worse when a failure causes your character to lose stuff. That’s even more time wasted, in that the time and effort taken to get the thing is gone.

Paint the rainbow on my proud carebear chest if you must. I just want a place to escape to for a little while, a place that doesn’t frustrate the shit out of me.

“whose head should be sliced like onions” That is the most Slavic thing I’ve ever read.

You’re deluded. Russia is robbing Ukraine of land and people, full stop. They are kidnapping citizens and taking land from a country that is trying its damndest to be a democracy. Ukraine look to the West for their future and Putin cannot abide that.

Putin wants the Soviet Union back together; he wants that to be his legacy. He took Crimea with barely a shot fired and now he wants more. This is similar to what Hitler did, by the way: Austria, Sudetenland, then Poland.

Putin suppresses his political enemies in the old Russian way, by jailing them. Hitler suppressed his enemies by rounding them up and killing them or putting them in concentration camps.

Fuck Putin. He is a scared, small man from the KGB who never let go of the Soviet dream, a dream that could never work.

Goddamn, gamers can hold a grudge like no other asshole out there. The game has been working fine for years now. It’s time to move on.

My favorite usage of partial() is when I’m print()ing to a file. So helpful to keep the code readable and easy to change.

Like they’ll ever become Chinese.

I think it’s a joke where the punchline is in the lower right box.

Opnsense is probably in the left column, somewhere between he center and bottom boxes. If you can’t find it there, it may be at the Progress Bar having a double bourbon, thinking about its place in the world.

You had me at “Purity” and “Firewall” on the same slide

That’s because of coronal mass ejections, the paper says, which can create magnetically induced currents that at significant strengths could potentially “enter and damage long-distance cables that constitute the backbone of the internet.”

Glass in fiber optic cables doesn’t carry electrical power.

It may cause power fluctuations in the electrical grid. If that grid fails to deliver the right power, data centers can switch to generator backup.

TIL, thank you

ITT: people not downvoting and moving on

or maybe my outrage muscle is just overworked

One other late thought on this. Lemmy advocates like this one have told me that “It doesn’t matter which instance you use. You’ll still be able to interact with communities (subreddits) on all other instances, regardless of which instance your account lives.” Doesn’t defederation prevent interaction between two instances, making the above statement false?

have you considered using an instance that more closely aligns with your views?

This sounds like a lot of homework. I want to interact with people, not worry about whether my chosen server is and will remain acceptable to every clique.

I think everyone should trust me to control what they see.

Joking aside, voting is the least worst form of content management. It’s gamed for sure, but so is everything else.

We love our infrastructure, but we don’t want to pay for the upkeep.

Careful with that window, Eugene

It’s still great sport to watch the engineer hoist with his own petard

Senior engineer at a big US VoIP provider checking in. Been fairly active on r/networking.

You’ll find me on a hitherto unexplored tropical world, where I’ve plopped my mansion on the best oceanfront property. It will have a deck and a fridge full of Mai Tais. Inland, I’ll have a warehouse full of iron, ship fuel, and cabbages. Dance parties every night on the beach. Don’t mind the T-Rex, babe, he’s just strung out from a long trip, ya dig.

So many stories like yours are coming out. Thanks for sharing.

The momentum definitely seems to swinging Lenny’s way. Glad to see it.