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Trainguyrom

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  • When you finally by your own house

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  • I'm currently working through getting everything fixed and sorted following an intense hail storm and it's become very apparent that I've taken on the role of property manager by daring to own my own home. Honestly a pain in the butt at times. Long term it's worth while but yikes!

  • Peak security

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  • Could be they were configuring the actual network firewall and got a couple of rules out of order so they blocked all of their out of band access

  • Peak security

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  • I mean it's a pretty realistic scenario. I happened to be the unlikely remote hands for the company I work for just a few weeks ago.

    Company: an industrial cleaning company with about 1500 AD users and about 8000 employees, historically had 2 corporate offices, currently has three as it's transitioning one corporate office across the country

    Server and mistake in question: old admin who's no longer with the company setup the ESXI 6.0 cluster in the server room at the office without documenting the root password to access it. This cluster happens to host the companies critical services including AD so being unable to access the host has been blocking the office migration. Old admin had also not fixed the ESXI backups which have been broken for over 3 years so no backups to restore from. Also the out of band access to the servers was never correctly setup

    I happening to be close to this office and having IT experience was poked to go in and with physical access to modify the shadow file and set the root password to be blank. Had I not been available they would have had to fly someone in from the office 2000 miles away or hire a very expensive local contractor to come in after hours to do the same thing

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • Idk I've met some pretty frustrating administrators who understandably hate Microsoft but they then go and refuse to learn anything else, refuse to use anything other than some variant of Windows for anything that needs an operating system then complain when their hacks to make windows do stuff it was never designed to do (or stuff it once was designed to do but hasn't been supported since Server 2003) get broken.

    As an administrator part of your job is to identify the right tool for the job. I am most comfortable in Linux, I find the general architecture to make far more sense than Windows. I fully recognize that for most businesses Windows is the best bet on many cases. But there are also situations where windows should be your last possible choice. These admins setting up IIS Server and windows-based SCSI targets, using HyperV instead of a better hypervisor for more than a handful of VMs, they frustrate me to no end and I have to suspect they just have given up on learning anything new with these choices

  • uh oh, what was that sound

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  • My understanding is that's true of basically all insulation. Old structures were built with the assumption that they'd breath, and insulation wasn't as important since they'd be heated by fireplace in the winter (either directly or using the fire to heat water for radiators) and air conditioning wasn't a thing yet.

  • Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students

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  • That's only 4-8 active drones at a time though. The article talked about deployments with dozens of drones in a given school. Sure you want to keep some in reserve but at some point from the perspective of the drone company it makes too much financial sense to have one person piloting more than one drone at a time since the technology exists.

    Miltech companies have been developing fully autonomous drones for combat scenarios since jammers can prevent manual control and are currently used in combat zones for that exact reason. Mithril Defense which is selling these drones also makes combat drones. I'd be very surprised if they actually maintain 1to1 drone operator to drone ratios for any amount of time

  • Removed

    Josh Hawley introduced a bill to ban members of Congress from stock trading. Democrats said OK, we'll support it if it includes the President and JD Vance. Now the White House wants to stop the bill.

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  • Josh Hawley is a lunatic, but I suppose a broken clock can be right a couple of times a day.

    As long as the bill doesn't have anything super problematic buried in its language this sounds potentially quite beneficial

  • Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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  • I mean, I've had some luck professionally with strange intermittent issues being resolved simply by running those commands. For intermittent issues once I get stumped I'll run the sfc/dism commands while scanning the event viewer for any other leads and about half the time I'll leave the user with a "okay monitor and let us know if the issue returns" and sometimes that's enough to get rid of the issue

  • Can any scientists confirm this important fact?

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  • It's based on way too many reinterpretations of descriptions of studies into how cats communicate. Basically cats without human interaction will only meow as kittens communicating to their mom and their mother might meow back, and as they grow older they will learn to communicate with each other purely by body language and pheramones. Cats who interact with humans have learned that meowing at us like kittens gets our attention and is effective at communicating with us.

    Some have interpreted that to mean cats see us as really strange kittens, which of course gets miscommunicated by well meaning people repeating something they half-remember. It seems the reality is just cats have learned to adjust their behavior to better coexist with humans.

    Impressively, cats and their humans also will develop complex enough communication that humans can interpret the need of the cat purely from their meow

    At least this is my memory of research I half-remember reading about

  • Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students

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  • That is a good point. I'm not sure if the AI hype cycle is strong enough that bragging about your less-than-lethal weapons you sell to schools being AI piloted would outweigh the obvious danger of having AI controlling less-than-lethal weapons in a school environment.

    I'm just thinking from a cost perspective, they aren't going to want to pay enough people to pilot 30 drones individually even just for school hours, they're going to have one person piloting several of them at once when they deploy, and they'll be shifting focus between the various drones they control while the automation handles the ones not being manually controlled at that moment, much like the remote assistant drivers for some self-driving car companies.

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  • I have a nasty feeling that getting hit by one of these is going to be very traumatic in the medical sense. A 10-20 pound object with fast spinning blades flying at up to 100mph in an enclosed space? The tragedy practically writes itself!

    Kid pulls a gun in a classroom, shoots a couple of classmates before another kid starts wrestling him for the gun, ultimately the shooter and 3 students are killed a couple more wounded. Meanwhile the drones are automatically deployed in the hallways by the sound of gunfire. Their pilot is on vacation today so it goes to the on-call pilot who's currently chilling in the pool when the call comes in and therefore doesn't answer immediately. The drones are fully automated for the first 15 minutes of the incident because of this delay. One has its AI interpret a kids fortnite shirt depicting a sentient banana throwing a grenade as the assailant, flies through a window to get to them shattering it and blinding one kid, the drone however is damaged by the window and flies erratically hitting a few students in the heads giving them head injuries before crashing into the floor and shooting it's entire payload in all directions. Another drone clips a wall and crashes into the face of another student severely lacerating their face. Another interprets a pair of crutches as weapons that a kid with a broken leg is using to get to his next class, and pepper sprays him and blares alarms at him causing him to fall and break another limb, meanwhile the cops arrive on scene and pile onto the incompacitated and even more injured kid as obviously the assailant because the drones AI identified him, one trigger happy officer shoots him, and this is the moment the drone pilot finally comes online and starts powering them down since he could see from the drone that went to the source of the gunshot and related it's camera feed that the incident is cleared. Ultimately the gunman killed 3, and injured 3 more while the drones killed 4, injured 20 and police shot one more innocent because they trusted the drone's identification (oh and the innocent who was shot is initially blamed as the shooter while the cops try to cover their asses, and 20 more schools order drones due to this "success")

  • Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students

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  • Many departments already have drones with cameras, loudspeakers and thermal imaging. Currently mostly used for missing persons to scan large swaths of woodland quickly

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  • The article doesn't actually specify that they're human operated. From the way it's described it could easily be just one human managing a swarm of 100 autonomous drones and taking control or issuing commands to individual drones as they see the need to

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  • So many countries tried that option and have you seen their school shootings statistics?

    Have you seen the size of their firearm and miltech industries? Pathetic! Guns are a tool for wealth accumulation through creating an arms race where one didn't previously exist!

    (I'd sarcasm tag except I'm starting to be convinced that the above is in fact the motivation behind it all)

  • Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students

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  • Entities hiring private drone security to fill in for demonstrably unreliable police is so cyberpunk

  • Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ victim Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago

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  • Reportedly a lot of his supporters are becoming disillusioned by the whole sex trafficking thing. Like ,what was your first clue but also better late then never?

    There's even a theory that a lot of people are using the whole Epstein thing as a offramp

  • Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ victim Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago

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  • Aaaand now I'm wondering if Trump's Mar-a-lago club is also a hotspot of sex trafficking where I wasn't before!

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • Damn homophobes...

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • Obviously you take a page out of gaming laptops books and just plug in more USB C cables for more power! You now need 4 USB C cables to power that toaster. And your stove? 12 of them should do!