Em Adespoton

Yeah; the HAM is a “next step” thing for if they lock down the microwave band somehow.

But also, a HAM license is required to operate LoRa at higher power broadcast, at least in my country. At under 10km range low bandwidth, it isn’t currently needed.

Pretty much.

/someone who runs their own SMTP service.

They already are though.

That’s an interesting one actually. If they licked down HAM regulations, they’d lose their relief valve/last line of defense.

It’s not that some idiotic government couldn’t do it, but if they did then they’d lose what control they currently have AND be totally screwed of anything went wrong.

That’s when I buy a LoRa array and a ham license.

The thing about the Internet is that anyone can be an ISP and any devices can be networked. If consumer ISPs become gatekeepers, we can network without them. And then we can tunnel encrypted data over the official devices that can’t be fully locked down.

That’s an interesting case of hypocrisy you’ve got there.

It’s possible for everyone in this scenario to be wrong, and they are. Including you.

That’s an odd take here.

Man uses company card for personal purchases, then leaves account management with 9 year old son.

Let’s say this was:

Bob has Bill’s key to his house, so he can take care of it while Bill is away. One day, Bob’s son says he needs some peanut butter. Bob says “let’s use some of Bill’s — he’s away, and we can replace it before he gets back.”

So Bob and his son go over to Bill’s place and take his peanut butter. Bob leaves the key with his son.

Later that day, his son is hungry but Bob isn’t around. So the son goes over to Bill’s house and eats everything in Bill’s fridge.

Bill gets home the next day and finds his fridge empty an a note from Bob saying he borrowed his peanut butter.

It doesn’t matter that Bill was off at a puppy shooting convention. Bob and his son are both in the wrong here.

Google operated by “don’t be evil” right up until they merged with Double Click. That merger itself forcibly removed the “don’t.”

Why should we have to opt out of our devices spying on our LAN?

https://xkcd.com/927/

Interesting that he’s framing it as a balance between privacy and safety instead of privacy and security.

Flock cameras haven’t been proven to make anyone safer.

There are two acceptable ways to leverage technology (including AI) to increase profits: one is to maintain/decrease operational costs while maintaining service (this means enhancing existing delivery, not replacing humans with AI), and the other is improving service without increasing costs.

Everyone who goes for options 3 and 4 (replacing employees with automation and automating fleecing your customers) is after quarterly earnings at the expense of long term company profitability. This is essentially the VC vampire model, and companies rarely survive it for more than a decade.

https://archive.org/details/eliza-digitizing-book_202107

That’s how to do it the right way.

I take it you haven’t shopped at a Best Buy? They do two things well: have department “experts” who will shadow you and let you know in no uncertain terms that they know everything there is to know about their department and confidently give you incorrect answers (they have supervisors monitoring them to ensure they are behaving in this manner) and sell you extended warranties.

Generally when I go to a store, I just want to buy a specific thing I already know I want to buy. I just want the salesperson to sell it to me. That’s almost impossible to do at a Best Buy. It’s not a salesperson issue; it’s a management issue.

Circuit City and Radio Shack… their customer support was probably part of their downfall.

I’ve attempted to shop at Best Buy over the past 30 years or so.

The problem is, no matter which era, none of the staff seemed to even understand my questions, let alone be able to answer them — this isn’t just electronics, but on ANYTHING in the store. “Does that washing machine have a direct drive or belt drive?” “What’s the theoretical maximum power of that amplifier?” “What are the manufacturing tolerances of that Monster cable you say is so much better than bulk electrical wire I can get at Lowe’s?”

I mean, even the Geek Squad guys just read the details off the packaging or off their reference document; no actual thought ever went into trying to help me solve an issue that would result in a purchase.

In the early 00s I made a fair bit of money as a side hustle fixing stuff that the Geek Squad had messed up.

I wonder if it would be possible to implement Firefox or Chromium in webassembly and run it on top of WebKit — it wouldn’t be as performant, but would be an extra layer of sandbox. You could theoretically do this in any app that uses WebKit too.

It’s true… it’d be replaced by a much LARGER attack surface.

both the iOS 26.6.1 and iOS 18.7.10 updates patch serious issues in WebKit, the engine that underpins Apple’s Safari browser. They land nearly three weeks after iOS 26.6 patched 90 issues. No iOS 18 update was released at the time.

How are people running their Macs exposed directly to the Internet?

In order to make this work, a user would have to:

1. Turn on screen sharing
2. Turn off the OS firewall block
3. Set up NAT routing on their router to forward port 5900 to their Mac

Seems to me that anyone who could do this would know it was a really bad idea?

Especially since you can already tunnel screen sharing via Apple ID or FaceTime to connect without leaving the port open.