If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.
I guess Dubya was kinda prophetic.
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Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales
One of the reasons the US Government banned the use of Huawei devices in US critical infrastructure was the Chinese government ownership stake in Huawei. And that makes complete sense, you don't run your critical infrastructure on devices which a major adversary might be able to compromise at the hardware level. By the same argument, I can see many countries being uncomfortable using chips made by Intel, because of the large ownership stake the US Government holds in Intel. It wouldn't be the first time the US Government has been implicated in hardware hacking for SIGINT. The NSA TAO was outed hacking Cisco routers en route to target organizations.
So ya, gotta expect that some countries will be hesitant to use Intel chips in some places. At the same time, if the US Government has a high level of visibility and control over Intel's manufacturing and processes, there is a good argument that US critical infrastructure and defense assets will favor Intel chips. So, it may be that Intel ends up trading non-US customers for a greater share of the US Government's business.
The US Government hasn't given a shit about harmful monopolistic practices in a long time. They only pretend to care from time to time to force large companies to start donating to politicians.
I'm just short of 50 and can probably give some answers to those questions. I'm sure there are folks even older who can go deeper.
before computers, how did you learn to do something?
Books and other people. My father taught me a lot of basics around home improvement. I spent several years in auto-shop in high-school. I used to read a lot of things, just to satisfy my curiosity. Honestly though, the internet has made this sort of thing much easier. You're far more likely to find information on what you want to learn. However, you're also able to find a lot of bad information. And most of social media was a bad idea.
Did access to knowledge change your life, was a constraint lifted when you no longer depended on having found the right books or people to learn tips on how to cook a new dish, or how to fix a plumbing problem, or how to plant a garden?
Can't say it "changed my life", but it's certainly a much better situation. Though I will say that the internet and easy access to information is still no substitute to having someone on hand to teach you for many subjects. Just the ability to ask questions and get immediate feedback is invaluable. Especially when analyzing your screw-ups. Having someone there to talk though what you did right and what you did wrong and how to avoid those mistakes in the future just can't (currently) be replicated by Youtube videos. Still, I'd much rather have the internet than not.
Was life more simple, did you have fewer problems to solve without technology in your life, or did technology make life easier?
It's a mixed bag. Part of the "life was simpler" is just the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. There wasn't the constant barrage of information and distractions. However, if your local library didn't have the books you were looking for, you were up a creek. At the same time, I think there was more opportunity to fix things and tinker. When toys, bicycles and cars aren't 90% semiconductors, you can actually pull out a set of hand tools and fix a lot of stuff yourself. On the down side, being a nerd or just being different led to a lot of bullying, with most authority figures basically telling you to "suck it up". Not that I'd condone it, but I sort of understand why some kids turned to violence. So, as I said, a mixed bag.
Oh and adjacent to the access to information, the access to stuff is still kinda amazing. Sure, it's easy to hate Bezos and Amazon. But, the fact that I can click on an item on the internet and it shows up at my door a couple days later is fucking amazing! I would ride my bicycle to the hobby store and hope they had any interesting D&D books. One time, I even got the owner to special order a book for me, which was a bit of a disaster. It's really hard to explain how fantastic it is to just pick a random item out of millions and it just fucking shows up in days. Like, what even is this magic?
TV watching is also so, so much better. While I do sorta miss the Saturday Morning Cartoons ritual, I like not having to time my life around network schedules or setup a VCR timer and hope it works correctly this time.
So ya, overall I think things are better now. I'm just waiting for all that really cool tech like cybernetics and flying cars which is supposed to show up in the distant future of 2020.
I remember the Great Digg Exodus. One of the common reasons was the shit UI which was the new Digg. Looking at the screenshots in the article, it looks like they made it even worse. And the descriptions they give makes it sound like a cut-rate Twitter clone.
What's next, is Fark going to do a major re-brand and attempt to launch as a Twitter clone as well?
Is someone finally holding him to account for eating all those poor oysters in their bed?
I'd suggest looking into some sort of auto bed leveling upgrade. My previous printer (Monoprice MP10 Mini) had the bed leveling sensor fail and be non-replaceable. The amount of futzing with first layer setting was a nightmare, even with a glass bed. My new printer (Creality K1C) does automatic bed leveling with a load sensor and the difference has been night and day. Most prints, I can hit start and not have to fight anything (except TPU, holy hell TPU has been a fight). The sensor won't guarantee perfect first layers, but goddamn it's a lot easier to get something reasonable.
No need to add water to perfectly good apple juice.
The alert seems to indicate a compromised account, this can mean a lot more than "a bad IP". Your account may have shown up in a "dump" and they took action to ensure your safety. Have you tried putting your email address into HaveIBeenPwned. While the normal recommendation would be to not put your email address in a random web form, this site is actually run by a well known security researcher and just lets you know if you have shown up in such a dump in the past.
Another possibility would be that they have seen a major change in your IP geolocation in a short time. This is referred to as "improbable travel" and it's something which many security departments take action on. If you login from an IP address which is associated with Paris, France and then an hour later are logging in from Dubai, UAE, this is going to be flagged. Sure, you might travel between those two locations, but you ain't doing it in an hour. So, your account gets flagged as possibly compromised.
even if it were a VPN, so what, your company literally runs a VPN
Right, but they may not know that you are using another VPN. So, continuing the issue above of "improbably travel". If you are on Proton's VPN, they know all of their exit IP address and likely take them into account. But, if you are using a different company's VPN, Proton likely doesn't know all of that company's exit IP addresses and so can't account for them. Consider the situation from their perspective:
- You are using some other VPN and they force you to do a password reset.
- Outcome - you're a bit annoyed, but ultimately your mail account is safe.
- Some attacker has your password and tried to use it to access your mailbox, but Proton stopped the login and forced a password reset.
- Outcome - you are a bit annoyed, but your mail account is safe.
- Some attacker has your password and tried to use it to access your mailbox, and Proton let them in.
- Outcome - You get wrecked and are really unhappy.
No matter what, Proton is going to lose out a bit to you being unhappy. However, if they force the password reset, the worst case is you being slightly annoyed about a password reset. By not taking action, they risk your account being fully compromised, which can be very, very bad for you. So, they are likely to be more proactive in forcing a password reset than you might like. This will be especially true if you do not have any sort of two-factor authentication setup. If the whole game is lost by one password being lost, any whiff of that password being compromised will result in a password reset.
Ultimately, it is am annoyance but one which is actually positive for you. They take your email security seriously enough that, when their system detected something, they took action to keep you safe.
have T-Mobile as my home internet provider and I deal with this fairly often.
I have the same ISP and the same issue. I believe a lot of the issue is that T-Mobile uses CGNAT on their network. This means that your public IP is shared with a lot of other people and it means your "location" (based on your public IP) can jump around from time to time. I've had Netflix get bitchy about this before as my connection seemed to be coming from Maryland instead of Virginia and their records indicate that I'm not a terrible driver.
I think the real answer was "we wanted to charge $90 for the game, but knew we'd get our shit pushed in over that. So, we released a stripped down version at $60 and then did a $30 up-charge for the Premium edition, which is the full game".
On the upshot, the game and it's "DLC" will probably hit the usual Steam sales in a year or three. I can snag it then.
Fun fact, in some countries the 3.5" floppies were called "stiffy disks". You know, because the outer casing was "stiff" as opposed to the floppy 5.25" disks. This discovery led to a lot of chuckling among the team I worked with when we opened a new product from one of those countries and read the manual. The instruction to "insert stiffy disk" still leads most of us to chuckling today.
ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?
Yes, also you parked it before shutting down the system every time. Once the hard drive was powered down, the heads would just crash into the platters. While not instantly fatal, it wasn't good for the drive. So, you'd park the drive before flipping the power switch.
I used to be able to and often did in the warmer months. These days, I need something covering my feet and lower legs. I'll now sleep without any sort of blanket, except for three layers from my knees down.
Last place I worked on site was the same. I sat in a SCIF, so there was only a single door, no windows, sound deadening padding on the walls and white noise pumped in. We weren't hearing shit in there. So, if the fire alarm went off, we all grabbed our things and walked out. Not leaving for a fire alarm was grounds for adverse employee actions. We also had a lady from OSHA come through regularly and give management hell for any life safety issue. Complete hard-ass, and we were all safer for it. This is really how it should be. There's too long a history of workplaces putting their employees at risk to eek out the slightest bit more profit.
Got a few which I watch regularly:
- Extra History
- Extra Credits
- Practical Engineering
- Real Engineering
- PolyMatter
- Bright Sun Films
- Strange Parts
- ReligionForBreakfast
- Stefan Milo
- Integza
- The Thought Emporium
- NileRed
- MinutePhysics
There are some others, but that's the majority of my watching.
the lemmy.world one seems like it’s owned by someone who registered random community names
Given the complete lack of content on the lemmy.world Signal community, you may try messaging the current owner and see if they are willing to give it up. If they are not, you might also try reaching out to the admins on https://lemmy.world/c/support They have a history of re-assigning moderation privileges if a mod goes inactive. Though, it looks like the current owner is around (last posted 2 months ago) and I don't know how the mods would treat dereliction of a community.
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Move fast and break things."Things" often being defined as security standards or best practice. There is a reason that setting up a server for a US Gov. network is a PITA. At the several places I was an IT Contractor for USG networks, standing up a new server required quite a bit of paperwork, including things like a STIG checklist. By the time the system was on the network, it at least had a reasonable baseline security. We then had a number of processes around access control, including 2FA, which kept things reasonably secure. Sure, it wasn't perfect and there are going to be compromises (see: OPM breach), but it was a hell of a lot harder than Russian threat actors just having the passwords.
Hopefully someday there will be a real investigation into DOGE and we can identify who all was on the Russian payroll. While I understand Hanlon's Razor, "Never attribute to malice, that which can be sufficiently explained with incompetence", DOGE's incompetence seems like an insufficient explanation for just how badly the whole thing was managed.