EoP - Ethernet over Power

0% of the time it works because I shut that shit off the first minute I saw it

I’ve only ever used DEs that aren’t gnome. And that wasn’t really by choice - it was a workplace. But after hearing about how gnome treats their users… fuck that. I went so far recently as to try to make a nix system that was 100% free of gnome shit and I have actually hard a really difficult time because it has wormed its way into other dependencies.

Maybe they just don’t have AI commenting like reddit does?

I checked it out. It’s not a ghost town, but I feel like there is less activity than on federated platforms. It doesnt have the critical number of people talking about stuff to be interesting and actually result in dialog.

Collecting something can be a fun hobby. Buying collectibles is something a fucking idiot does.

Jokes on them I just know the spots that the metermaids dont patrol often.

Being pedantic is totally OK here - we’re talking about SSL’s spoof protection. I’ll have to look up how any rando can host a DNS that supports DNS/HTTPS when a system would be expecting a valid SSL cert that declares who it was issued to and by whom and the requester is expecting a particular whom.

Wow really? I was under the impression that the SSL part would prevent the pihole from being able to spoof itself as a legitimate DNS

Pihole’s act as a DNS or “Dynamic Name Server”. All internet traffic is IP based once it leaves your home because routers dont know how to forward traffic for “https://samsung-ad-hell.com/”, so there is a dedicated kind of packet for “Where is https://samsung-ad-hell.com/ located?” and that is a DNS Lookup. The Pihole pretends to know because it maintains a list of bad urls that host websites that only support privacy exploitation and advertisements and tells them “oh you want to go to 0.0.0.0, that’s where you’ll find your stuff” as it snickers.

But DNS Lookups were always plain text. When your laptop says “Where is https://big-booties.com/” your ISP knows you want porn. Now there is a new variant called “Secure DNS Lookup” which encrypts the url you’re asking about. The ISP knows you’re asking for a domain’s IP, but it can’t know which one and it no longer cares. Neat.

The trouble is that the Pi-Hole can no longer protect us from all the stupid fucking smart devices that want to earn a fraction of a penny per device by spying on us because THEY use the new Secure DNS Lookup.

I wonder how much longer that will work. DNS over HTTPS is now a thing and totally defeats the mechanism of a pihole.

I heard those linear compressors could be the best in the industry but they tended to fail. Did they finally fix that?

Whenever appliances get brought up I always warn people to stay away from Samsung.

Even 0.01% of a businesses shares in volume in the span of a 1 minute order is enough to massively swing the price. I saw it multiple times in after hours trading when I let my options ride for the day.

I generally do too. But then you’re also at the mercy of whether the site was designed with even the most basic of security in mind. Luckily the password managers all generate unique passwords so one site getting hacked and plaintext passwords stolen won’t get my bank info put at risk - but still.

People didn’t listen to Einstein because he had money - he didn’t. He just had good ideas. People didn’t listen to Curie for her money. She had none. People only listen to Theil because he has enough money to be scary. They obviously think his ideas are fart sniffing.

Honestly I thought it was great when OAuth started making it easy to use my various pre-existing IDs as logins for websites. But now I cant remember which one is which and my password manager doesn’t give me any hints. Sigh.

They’ll keep parts of democracy working. The parts that enable them to control the labor force so they can extract profit. That’s it. So lots of cops, jails and prisons. They’ll keep funding roadways at a minimum because you’ve got to get to work. Basic kick-the-can-down-the-road levels of investment in other infrastructure but never enough to actually improve things. Schools will be entirely AI or Jesus with no in between.

Really, the whole thing will have lost all forms of legitimacy and I expect people will stop paying taxes or voting. Societal guardrails that prevent mass shootings will fail and people will just stop going to work because why bother - its not like working actually improves their lives anymore. Once food distribution systems fail, the government will fall.

I give it 3 years.

Meh. I think quantum computers are technological hocuspocus that is used as justification for companies like D-Wave to generate billions of dollars for a few financial executives. The science is real. The engineering is real. The technology is a toy and its uses are extraordinarily limited and out-competed by normal computers.

Can it optimally solve the travelling salesman problem? Sure. With many thousands of bits. Can a classical computer with a fancy algorithm get close enough for practical use cases? Yes. With today’s technology and enough power to run an old lightbulb.

AFAIK quantum computing’s only demonstrations of being able to break encryption using Shore’s algorithm was in a toy problem where they already knew the answer and it was like 5 bits long and satisfied a particularly easy pattern. I’ll be impressed when it can break 192-bit encryption with proper entropy.