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Data diode hardware isn’t terribly expensive, but the software runs into the hundreds of thousands precisely because these are niche products. To DIY it you need three NICs (or an …

Things that don’t have a compelling need to be connected to the internet should never be connected to the internet. When there is a need, connectivity should be restricted to the b…

Nobody is waiting on an RFC to make configuration changes to those devices to disable old cipher suites.

The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.

I don’t think a non-crap general purpose Bluetooth stack exists. The “specification” is garbage and the implementations tend to be garbage also.

AI won’t be replacing first year apprentices crawling through ceilings for $11 an hour while either you or I are still alive. It’s not that we can’t do it today, it’s because like …

Neither of these are challenges at all for semi-modern card systems.

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Perhaps, rather than AI, Reddit’s growing hostility to its own users might be the main driver of users away from Reddit.

I had lane keeping “assist” in a Subaru Forrester rental car almost kill me and my family by trying to push us into the path of a very large truck last year.

> The ban does not need to be absolute, as I already mentioned in the above reply. To work, it doesn't need to be, to enforce absolutely would be a freaking nightmare, though veste…

Mine is paying for my masters right now. It’s not unusual.

> I think the average person here in Aussie land would have to agree it's having a positive effect - it's working. My eldest daughter, and my various teenage nieces (all of whom ar…

It absolutely would not have received a positive reception at an event like DEF CON. They’ve always had a strict photo policy.

> And when I see videos of how tall and wide the flames are, I have no idea how wide they should be... Up to 40km, depending on the wind. Embers can travel a long way.

Even in places where you can’t be compelled to hand over a password, attempting to deceive the cops will get you thrown in prison just as reliably as destroying evidence.

Saving the environment with Microsoft Excel.

That’s a number I would been disappointed with 25 years ago, running Perl CGI on a 700MHz Pentium III.

Depends on the visa. A-1 and A-2 for example require almost nothing beyond a photograph, and a letter saying you’re travelling on behalf of your government.

> People care about UNIX clones because they are lazy, UNIX has the source code available, and an existing ecosystem that they don't want to replicate, so it always ends up being y…

I learned recently that it can also mean "the spacecraft exploded on the launchpad in an enormous fireball." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/blue-origin-rocket-ex...

And sometimes it’s just impossible to get a CVE number in a reasonable amount of time, or indeed at all.

> It's an odd business that is huge and just trucks along without remarkable growth. This isn’t odd at all. It’s a feature common to most businesses that have been around 100 years…

An AIX box that processes $70bn (yes, 70 billion dollars) of payments every day.

And because getting heavy plant up through a mountain range to dig trenches etc is a pain in the arse. It’s easier to do it along a main road.