I'll just leave this little NSA intercepting Cisco products reminder here:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
Readit Newsabridgett commented on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
abridgett commented on How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads ourworldindata.org/britai... · Posted by u/sien
The hazard perception test was a great addition in my opinion.
(Basically a video plays and you have to press a button when something dangerous has happened).
I passed my driving test 30+ years ago and then took the HPT as part of a motorcycle test 15 years later.
Paying attention (to the kid bouncing a ball at the side of the road, to the cyclist when it's windy weather etc) is a key part of road craft and I hope this made it much clearer with some (contrived) examples. TBH I just wish they let you click earlier (for _potential_ threats - i.e. before they step into the road, not just afterwards).
If a president flaps his arms on one side of the planet does this cause a hurricane of chaos on the other side of the world? And everywhere else.
It's still paid even if it's public. The difference is now the people who use it pay for it.
This sounds reasonable. However there was a study showing major economic benefits if was free. These benefits came from more people implementing it, time saved by all those additional users, removal of licensing hassle.
abridgett commented on The 2005 Sony Bravia ad sfgate.com/sf-culture/art... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
Their "paint" advert wasn't bad either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ut_2GWIm4 though it can't compete with the music.
abridgett commented on Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming (2022) carbonbrief.org/revealed-... · Posted by u/Tomte
It's a sad indictment that it took all this effort, in 2019, to convince a world "leader" that climate change was real.
abridgett commented on AWS re:Invent 2024 Swag Review medium.com/@ntriantafillo... · Posted by u/tlyleung
I wish companies were more environmentally conscious and stopped churning out swag. It's such a waste. Much of it you would never have bought, most is low quality. We don't need it.
abridgett commented on Evolve Bank and Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6M people's data theregister.com/2024/07/0... · Posted by u/Bender
Here is the email I received on June 28:
There’s been a data breach at Evolve Bank & Trust.
Evolve Bank & Trust is a regulated bank that we worked with from 2020 until 2023 to provide your old USD account details. They’ve recently been affected by a data breach and some of your personal information may have been involved.
This personal information does not include copies of any of the identification documents you’ve shared with us — these have not been shared with Evolve Bank & Trust at any point.
Your Wise account is safe We no longer work with Evolve Bank & Trust, and have already strengthened our security measures. We’ve also started a thorough investigation into this data breach and can confirm that it has not impacted our systems. This means:
• your Wise account credentials, including your password, are safe, and you can use your account as normal
• you can continue to use your USD account details — these are no longer connected to Evolve Bank & Trust
• you can continue to use any Wise cards you may have as they were not impacted by this issue – your card number and PIN are safe
I've asked them:
a) _what_ details may have been involved. Currently the criminals know more than we do.
b) why EBT had any data if Wise stopped working with then in 2023.
I'd except there to be a fairly strong obligation (probably on both parties) under GDPR to ensure that EBT destroyed that data.
I'll be following up
abridgett commented on X debut 40 years ago (1984) talisman.org/x-debut.shtm... · Posted by u/guerby
I still remember playing Quake on Linux - with the X display being displayed on a different computer over the network. The different computer was running HP-UX (HP's Unix) on a PA-RISC chip.
abridgett commented on Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced mastodon.social/@pid_eins... · Posted by u/CoolCold
I'm not sure it can replace non-trivial setups - sudo/doas looks set to stay.
e.g when you need to restrict a set of users to run only certain applications with certain other users. sudo can do this (even if the config format can be painful).