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by omh 2mo ago
It's mind boggling how bad Microsoft have made this. I just want to install a few apps and manage their settings. But the combination of Windows, Intune, modern Store apps, multiple similar settings, and licensing, make it a full time
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by omh 3mo ago
There are some SFF PCs that can take USB-C power. Lenovo have some,but sometimes require adapter cards. And a few of the Chinese N150 units will take PD power It's great for hot swapping and more portable than a laptop.
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Meta will beam sunlight from space to power AI data centers(tomshardware.com)
3 points by omh 5mo ago|1 comments
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by omh 5mo ago
I'll take that bait ;-) IP filtering is a valuable factor for security. I know which IPs belong to my organisation and these can be a useful factor in allowing access. I've written rules which say that access should only be allowe
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by omh 9mo ago
Thanks. That wasn't clear from the Mail article above. But the Times article also says: > A spokeswoman for Leicestershire police said crimes under Section 127 and Section 1 include “any form of communication” such as phone calls, l
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by omh 9mo ago
This is based on statistics for the Malicious Communications Act. That includes people sending, for example, threatening messages to an ex partner. Not all of them are online posts, in fact probably a minority
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by omh 1y ago
And Microsoft own the client, so they are the one company who don't need to do this! If you really want to check every time someone clicks on a link then you can do this in the client and keep the visible link the same for the end us
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by omh 1y ago
Many years ago we used a hot P4 to heat mulled wine. https://imgur.com/a/mulled-wine-pc-WW1pW It could get to 60°C which is a bit low for coffee but was great for mulled wine
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by omh 2y ago
One use case might be if you have limited bandwidth, perhaps only a voice call, and want to join a video conference. I could imagine dialling in to a conference with a virtual face as an improvement over no video at all.
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by omh 2y ago
Spying how? If you embed a URL in emails then a lot of corporate email gateways will blindly follow the link, trying to check it for malware. This may or may not be a useful security measure but it has many issues. One of which is that it c
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by omh 2y ago
Good point. But what's the threat model here? I didn't think of 2FA as being protection against password reuse. People should still avoid reusing passwords and change them if they know of a breach. Are there really attackers who a
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by omh 2y ago
The article conflates two issues that have different security implications. The "1-click login" links are a concern and just having access to the SMS would be enough to take over things like WhatsApp. But 2FA codes seem notably le
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by omh 2y ago
I agree that it would be fine to not have phones - we'd all cope. But when my daughter hasn't got home on time if I can check her GPS and see that she's in the park then I can relax a little. If she needs to say she's st
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by omh 2y ago
There is a potential clash here between control and privacy. A few years ago Apple blocked[1] some parental control apps because "they put users’ privacy and security at risk" This actually came up with our school. They tried to u
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by omh 2y ago
This debate seems to conflate two or three different issues. 1. Use of phones in classrooms 2. Having phones present in schools, but unused 3. The impact of social media on schoolchildren (1) is undeniably bad and should be banned everywher
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by omh 3y ago
Also it would be very possible to misread the confirmation. If I've just entered "0.21" then when the confirmation screen reads "21" it's not immediately obvious that it's wrong.
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by omh 3y ago
Yes. A typical pump will contain enough for several days. My pump right now has 100 units and is only half full.
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by omh 3y ago
I've got this Tandem pump and we discussed this exact bug when I received the pump. To my understanding this isn't the same type of bug. Tandem are just saying "it can be confusing to enter fractional rates". This bug is
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by omh 3y ago
A clearer description of the bug is here: https://twitter.com/Tims_Pants/status/1730515134731182490 It's wild that this sort of bug got through testing. As a diabetic it feels like our insulin pump software i
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by omh 3y ago
As a slightly more frivolous use of this website - we're approaching conker season! Last year my kids wanted to go collecting conkers and I used a similar website ( https://www.treetalk.co.uk/ ) to find a local place wit
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by omh 4y ago
I have the Awair Element and I'm reasonably happy with it. The primary interface is through their app and I think you might need to use this to get it up and running initially. But they have a supported local API feature[1] that has so
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by omh 4y ago
Even in this dual-homed setup, there is still the potential for the cameras to infect, or otherwise compromise the recording server I agree that this is a potential risk. But if the cameras themselves can't route to the internet in t
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by omh 4y ago
I love the form factor of this and the ambient data. TFL do have some quite good APIs so you could use those rather than scraping the HTML. https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/api-documentatio... I think y
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by omh 4y ago
[ Disclaimer - I am responsible for a Citrix environment, but I'm reasonably proud of how well it works for our company ] The technology behind remote desktops is fundamentally limited but I'm amazed at how good the user experie
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by omh 4y ago
There is something odd about the battery life on the Ikea motion sensor. I use it in our bathroom and it's activated multiple times per day. The first battery lasted about 3 months but the second battery has been going for over a year.
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by omh 4y ago
> It's not even using more energy than Christmas lights or wash dryers I can't come up with any reasonable measure by which Christmas lights use more energy than Bitcoin mining. The reports that suggest this seem to extrapolate
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by omh 4y ago
You're right that an artificial pancreas needs to be super careful. The diabetes community got started on this before the official manufacturers did. Probably in part because the manufacturers were concerned about being 100% bulletproo
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by omh 4y ago
I also have an unhackable pump, unfortunately. I know there were attempts on the later Medtronic pumps by some pretty smart people so it looks unlikely that they'll ever be able to be controller openly. My next pump will definitely be
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by omh 4y ago
I suspect you're aware, but there is a significant community effort on communicating with various insulin pumps. The old Medtronic pumps were hacked years ago and Medtronic responded by making it impossible with newer pumps. By now the
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by omh 5y ago
Quite a lot of organisations are now running Office 365. It gets updated monthly with new features as well as security updates. Even more conservative organisations will often be running Office 365 with a lag, still getting features after ~

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