This "trick" has been used since the dawn of time in major platforms

Every time I've seen similar done in the past, it has come back to hurt the instigator.

Right. Which is why I favor doing your own memory management entirely (which has some huge advantages) or not worrying about memory at all and trusting a garbage collector. I don't think there are many situations left where memory management is too important to leave to a gc but not important enough to do from scratch.

What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable.

Sadly, my go-to Linux hardware manufacturers either don’t offer ECC RAM, or only offer it as an option on their absolute top-end machines. Yes, yes, the extra two thousand dollars for a machine with a six-year lifespan probably is worth it on a monthly basis, but man it still hurts.

Love this! As a consumer, there's nothing like open pricing.

However, as a provider I can totally see a situation where I (proverbially, I'm not in this business) sue you for disclosing what amounts to a trade secret (depending on what's in the fine print) and compel you to give up all documents so I can go after my loose-lipped client too.

I hope you've got your legal bases covered

> He also wants to make X into an "everything" app where you'll do shopping, calls, chat with friends, send payments, etc. And if that was pulled off successfully it doesn't seem like the craziest thing to distance from the Twitter brand which has long been associated as an app primarily for news and shitposting? But he has a long way to go to get people to think of it as anything other than what it was before. Everyone on the platform is still calling it Twitter and refers to posts as tweets.

I feel like the way to go there would have been closer to the Meta/Facebook brand hierarchy.

X is the platform / super app and Twitter is the first app within X. Twitter accounts become X accounts but you still use them to Tweet on Twitter.

The destruction of the Twitter branding seems more out of spite than business development goals. Really the whole follow through of the Twitter purchase reeks of spite and destruction rather than building something new of value.

But I'm not a successful billionaire so I'm probably wrong.

Exactly! Ownership is not in it for revenue. They'll say they don't care about revenue to everyone who asks. To be baffled, one has to ignore all of that.

There is strong nostalgia for aw-shucks persona of an inventor-turned-business-owner.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/cnbc-exclusive-cnbc-transcri...

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/dealbook-summit-2023-el...

802.1x allows for the client to validate the authentication server by way of X.509 certificates, although this normally does require manual configuration since there is no global namespace to tie an ESSID to like there is for domain names in normal TLS. Mutual asymmetric key auth is available through EAP-TLS as well, but I could see that being a rare feature on cameras.

> Robbers are not following network cables around like some kind of map line.

That's why matching cable from cameras [ ... disappears, reappears ... ] and into visible on office desk sacrifical anode NAS box works. They don't trace the cabling, they make assumptions based on matching colour. The 'trick' is to make sure the camera display screens cut out if the "fake" NAS goes down .. best to route to screen through sacrifical secondary storage.

> That is a scenario that only happens in the movies.

Here, in my part of the world, it's used by several contracters I'm aware of, in homes, shops, warehouses .. fake drives near camera display screens get destroyed in break ins more often than you realise - and more frequently in recent years.

Even in the US the Afroman raids show the police about to rip drives out of the security system .. if there'd been a decoy box | real time cloud backup there'd be more footage of the raid for his songs and court case.

I spent over a decade working on security cameras and various NVR related applications. Hard wired cameras are more secure, BUT, if someone can get access to your network cable, it's not hard to inject packets and DOS out most UDP-based cameras.

Most large sites put their cameras on segregated networks, so it might not even be obvious to folks for a while.