New guy at work ran this to try to fix permissions on his home folder, accidentally ran it on root (both would have been bad)

Several highly paid and experienced Linux admins finally just gave up and deleted the server and built a new one from the backups.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/developer-guilty-of-using-kill-switch-to-sabotage-employers-systems/

10 years in jail is what’s stopping them.

It’s REALLY hard to create a dead man’s switch that works, but also leaves no trace. Even if you delete the script after it executes, there’s probably backups or logs that show what happened.

I think that has more to do with safety laws and emission standards than anything else. How can you properly crash test a fully modular car?

I’d love it if cars were more repairable, but modular would be a really tough design problem.

Heck, you NEED a screen in the US on any car due to backup cameras being mandatory. If you need a screen, I can see why companies would just use it for the infotainment system.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. Any modern US house would have a similar capability, it’s just older homes that would struggle since there would never be a need for such high power devices in a garage.

Most older garages would only need enough power to run a single lightbulb, if it was slightly newer, maybe a low power automatic garage door opener.

It’s the same in any country with buildings over 100 years old.

I’m not a cop

People like playing Nintendo original games. Mario games, Zelda games, etc.

The only way to legally play those is on the switch.

Yes, even non children play those games.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)

It was released on DVD and Blu-ray, if he purchased the disc and ripped it to his media, and hasn’t shared those files with anyone, then it is legal, as an exception to copyright in the US, where Jeff and Google are both based.

Jeff has stated on multiple occasions that he purchases and rips his media, and does not use piracy.

I’m curious if this actually ends up being significantly lighter though.

I doubt it’ll end up replacing a conventional two stroke motorcycle, as it’s far more complex. But I could see it used in aircraft.

It’s off by default, but it allows you to turn it on in the advanced settings. Seems like a good compromise, especially since it lets you whitelist clients.

If you were using the router as a secondary network, like for IoT or homelab, it would kind of make sense to allow SSH or other logins from WAN, as long as the WAN was also your network and not the open internet.

Took a while to find a list of router models, I doubt this is an exclusive list, but at least bleeping computer has a list at all.

The threat monitoring firm reports that the attacks combine brute-forcing login credentials, bypassing authentication, and exploiting older vulnerabilities to compromise ASUS routers, including the RT-AC3100, RT-AC3200, and RT-AX55 models.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/botnet-hacks-9-000-plus-asus-routers-to-add-persistent-ssh-backdoor/

Kinda tricky to tell what exactly I’m supposed to check.

I run an ASUS RT-AX86S

To check if the settings have been compromised:
Log into the router under http://192.168.1.1/
Advanced Settings/Administration
System tab
Service section
Enable SSH should be set to OFF

Oh damn, I had no idea that’s why a lot of movies had OCR issues with my subtitles. I knew the information, and I had this problem, but I never put it together to realize that it had to be OCRd.

Piracy has none of these problems.

Once again, playing by the rules is a worse experience.

That only works after the video is out and has usage statistics.

This could theoretically start to identify those moments before the video is public.

That’s how I read the article, yes.

It’s a little confusing, because they seem to also be speculating on how power generation and load will be in the future as well as people’s charging habits.

I’m not sure you’re talking about the same thing the paper is about. The overall load is lower, but the mix of power types is different.

Specifically, in California, there’s a HUGE difference in power generation types overnight than during the day. There’s excess capacity until the sun goes down due to solar. If you look ahead to everyone driving EVs, and then assume that everyone charges at night, then the power problem is completely different than what it is today.

You’re missing that the researchers recommend charging during daytime business hours, which means people who use EVs to drive to work would need public or workplace provided chargers to accommodate this.

Setting a timer to charge around noon wouldn’t help if you’re parked at your job with no chargers nearby.

Basically they want people to charge during the daytime when solar power is available, instead of in the evening when the grid is strained by higher demand and lack of renewable energy.

EVs have timers in them to prevent them from charging during peak demand or high electric cost hours. My power company charges triple rates from 2pm-7pm weekdays. We just have the EV timer set to not charge during that window.

No, this is exactly why it shouldn’t be allowed. This isn’t akin to playing a video of home movies because this is a fake video of the victim. This is complete fiction and people thinking it’s the same thing is what makes it wrong.

Your emotions don’t always line up with “what you know” this is why evidence rules exist in court. Humans don’t work that way. This is why there can be mistrials if specific kinds of evidence is revealed to the jury that shouldn’t have been shown.

Digital reenactments shouldn’t be allowed, even with disclaimers to the court. It is fiction and has no place here.