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  • That would be illegal. I worked on the software deployment of these devices in a store. If we increased the price, we'd automatically give the customer the lowest price in the last several hours.

    The other problem was they were extremely low powered and low bandwidth and it would have killed the battery to update more than a few times a day.

  • Quck enable/disable WebGL on FF
  • NoScript enables you to enable or disable WebGL per site. If you don't want to deal with the hassle of websites being broken, you can set the default to enable JS but disable WebGL then set applications to be trusted with WebGL.

  • A dive into the tiny, silicon accelerometers and gyros in your phone

    I thought the model of 3D printing models of the chips to be a really cool way of visualizing how these chips work.

    From the YouTube summary

    How does your phone track its position in space? MEMS devices! Phones use small micro mechanical chips called MEMS, to monitor accelerations and rotations. These are fabricated using semiconductor technology, but are tiny little moving mechanisms.

    Today we're decapping a six axis IMU (MPU-6050, on a GY-521 breakout board, containing three accelerometers and three gyroscopes), looking at it under the SEM, printing up some models, doing some high speed video recording, and talking about how these little MEMS devices work.

    CAD/STL models (fair warning, it's a very challenging print!): https://www.printables.com/model/413667-mems-model-six-axis-imu-device

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    Fears raised over ‘Chinese spy cranes’ in US ports
  • Fears raised over ‘Chinese spy cranes’ in US ports

    There are concerns that the machines are effectively Trojan Horses for Beijing and could be used to sabotage sensitive logistics

    Unexplained communications equipment has been found in Chinese-made cranes in US ports that could be used for spying and potentially “devastate” the American economy, according to a new congressional investigation.

    The finding, first reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), will stoke American concerns that the cranes are effectively Trojan Horses for Beijing to gain access to, or even sabotage, sensitive logistics.

    The probe by the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House select committee on China found over a dozen pre-installed cellular modems, that can be remotely accessed, in just one port.

    Many of the devices did not seem to have a clear function or were not documented in any contract between US ports and crane maker ZPMC, a Chinese state-owned company that accounts for nearly 80 per cent of ship-to-shore cranes in use in America, according to the WSJ.

    The modems were found “on more than one occasion” on the ZPMC cranes, a congressional aide said.

    “Our committees’ investigation found vulnerabilities in cranes at US ports that could allow the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] to not only undercut trade competitors through espionage, but disrupt supply chains and the movement of cargo, devastating our nation’s economy,” Mark Green, the Republican chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN.

    The Chinese government is “looking for every opportunity to collect valuable intelligence and position themselves to exploit vulnerabilities by systematically burrowing into America’s critical infrastructure,” he told the WSJ, adding that the US had overlooked the threat for too long.

    The Telegraph has contacted ZPMC for comment.

    ‘The new Huawei’

    A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington DC said claims that Chinese-made cranes pose a security risk are “entirely paranoia.”

    The US investigation began last year amid Pentagon fears that sophisticated sensors on large ship-to-shore cranes could register and track containers, offering valuable information to Beijing about the movement of cargo supporting US military operations around the world.

    At the time, Bill Evanina, a former top US counterintelligence official, said: “Cranes can be the new Huawei.”

    “It’s the perfect combination of legitimate business that can also masquerade as clandestine intelligence collection,” he told the WSJ.

    In recent years, a handful of Chinese crane companies have grown into major players in the global automated ports industry, working with Microsoft and other companies to connect equipment and analyse data in real-time.

  • what's your experience with paperless?
  • Paperless does support defining a folder structure that you can use to organize documents within that paperless media volume however you should treat it as read only.

    OP could use this as a way to keep their desired folder structure as much as possible, but it would have to be separate from the consumption folder.

  • How to intercept HA noifications?
  • Yeah I always use states when I can but the original post description made it sound like the integration was directly sending a notification. If it didn't set a state (which would be weird) then you'd need an event.

  • Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”
  • Doubtful. TicketMaster is there to take the bad PR but was designed to get as many fees and funnel part of those fees to the artist. Yes TM has deals with Live Nation that basically force big artists to use them because they have the big stadiums, but Taylor Swift is a massive artist she has tons of lawyers and can negotiate fees.

    As much as I love Taylor Swift, I have no doubt that she is massively benefiting from the high ticket prices.

  • Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
  • One of the problems with the cloud-polling integrations is that they will frequently poll the back-end APIs to get the current status of that device. A normal user might only open up the app once or twice a day and call the APIs, but these integrations will go 24/7 every 10s-5m. That can add up to a non-trivial amount of traffic. If there's 100 users opening it up once a day, that's not a lot of traffic, but 10 users polling every 1 minute is equivalent to 15k people doing something once a day.

    I actually saw one of my integrations I used defaulted to updating every 10 seconds. I decreased that because I didn't want to draw attention to it.

    A business will look at their usage and ask why there's more than expected traffic. They could be running their server on a potato. They could go back and support Matter, that costs money, requires skilled engineers, and cuts into profit margins.

    While it sucks, that is something they could point to in a court about "economic harm".

  • Help with NGINX? so close...
  • I don't fully understand what you're saying, but let's break this down.

    Since you say you get an NGINX page, what does your NGINX config look like? What exactly does the NGINX "login page" say? Is it an error or is it a directory listing or something else?

  • Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?
  • Also, the law requires that publicly traded companies be greedy

    The law doesn't actually state you need screw over your customers and maximize profit. It says that executives have a fiduciary duty, which means they must act in the best interest of the shareholder, not themselves.

    That does not mean they have to suck out every single dollar of profit. Executives have some leeway in this and can very easily explain that napkins lead to happier customers and longer term retention which means long term profits.

    It's purely a short-term, wall street driven, behavior also driven by executive pay being also based in stock so they're incentivized to drive up the price over the next quarter so they can cash out.

  • Grocy: how to add bottles of oil?
  • Then try something like:

    Create Quanity unit of ml and a liter unit

    In your product use: Unit stock: bottle or liter Unit purchase: bottle Consume: ml Price unit: ml

    Set a product specific QU conversion of bottle to ml

    Weirdly, the quick consume unit is based on the stock unit, not the consume unit. That seems like a bug.

  • Grocy: how to add bottles of oil?
  • The problem with Grocy is that going too fine grained means you're unlikely to keep it up to date or it be accurate. I would not try to track your usage in ml. Just track it at the bottle level.

    However you can still track the price per ml because grocy lets you independently set units. Just define a mapping between bottle and ml.

  • Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
  • It's true that Mozilla does collect telemetry and that Mozilla Corp is for profit, however Mozilla Corp is owned by Mozilla Foundation. That ownership structure is either a way to get around limitations on non profits, or its an opportunity for the Foundation to directly influence the Corp to be better.

    However, I'll still use Firefox/Thunderbird because: Usage stats such as number of accounts or filters is in no way comparable to my username and password. One is basic metadata and stats, the other is a massive risk. You can opt out of the telemetry, the only way to opt out of sharing your password is to not use the new Outlook.

    I take a more pragmatic approach to privacy based on my trust. I understand the value of telemetry, but change it depending on the company. Big Tech I have less trust in, Mozilla, while they have issues, are on average far better for privacy vs big tech.

    As a developer, I understand the value of telemetry and the risks that come with collecting any data. I pick Firefox because it challenges the homogeney of Google's influence and it looks like I'm going to pick Thunderbird because I' haven't seen a better option.

  • LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info.
  • That's not because you have a wildcard. That's because you need to implement DKIM, DMARC, and SPF records to prevent others from using your domain name to send mail.

    MTAs use those standards to verify if somebody is permitted to send email for your domain. If you don't have those set then you can get what that ISP described.

  • Unpacking Amazon's stealthy mass layoff strategy in Seattle
  • Amazon corporate employees get RSUs which are stocks, not options. After the new hire RSUs go away, you end up with two vest dates a year and new comp offerings start the following year (so in 2024 you'll see new money in 2025 plus a small base salary bump that goes in effect that month).

    Tech salaries are frequently stock based, but Amazon's is unusual in that it's only twice a year, and bumps start the following year, and they recently made the change to do 2 year offers instead of 3 years.

  • How many of you host your IOT software in the cloud?
  • Will I still need to consider multicast DNS if my DNS server is on-prem (Pi-Hole + Unbound)

    Multicast DNS is separate from DNS, so even if you have Pi-Hole, you'd still have devices using mDNS. It's possible to route mDNS across separate IP networks seeing as how there's mDNS relays across VLANs which would suggest Wireguard could support Multicast. Other things use Broadcast (e.g. WoL) which is a bit more challenging to forward across IP networks.

    I'm not familiar with GRE so I couldn't comment on whether it's possible or not. I guess it all depends on how confident you are with your networking skills. If you get it working, you should definitely document it and share with others.

    I didn't quite do what you did, but I ran HA in a Kubernetes cluster which was logically a separate IP network. I had to setup the container with multiple network interfaces and specially craft the route table to forward broadcasts + multicast traffic to the correct network.

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