Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

Post by indymike » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 2:32 PM UTC

leptons wrote: post #278

indymike wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If code smell is being weaponized to assault a coworkers code, then you are using the phrase incorrectly and have some cultural issues on your development team. The phrase came from Martin Fowler's book "Refactoring" https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeSmell.html and is intended to indicate that you might benefit greatly by refactoring that code. What I was saying is that the support organization needs to be worked on…

Oh, I'm well aware of where "code smell" came from. The description in the link you provided is pretty wishy-washy: >"smells don't always indicate a problem." Okay, so does it smell like flowers or does it smell like shit?? It's a stupid term, and yes, it's been abused by programmers that often think it makes them seem smarter than they are. Maybe "code stink" would be a better designation for code that's actually a…

Flowers grow well in manure. Sometimes you have to look to be sure of what you are smelling.

Post by tengwar2 » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 3:31 PM UTC

nness wrote: post #81

longsword wrote: post #76

i'm really glad that i can use my own modem. In germany every ISP is by law required to accept self brought modems. They can't force you to use their often shitty hardware. My current modem/router is up for 3 months without a single interruption to my connection.

I've noticed it gets quite murky when dealing with fibre-to-the-premises, particularly in the UK. Although I don't think an ISP would disallow BYOD, I imagine they'd just not be as likely to support it. I recently moved ISP, partly because of cost, but also because they offered a great home router as part of their bundle. The installer could not utilise any of the existing wiring in my house, had to be all drilled a…

I've got FTTP in the UK (from Andrew's and Arnold). There's a provided bridge which takes the fibre connection and relays PPPoE to my own router. I believe that's a common way to do it.

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