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blakes commented on ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera abc.net.au/news/2024-10-0... · Posted by u/puffl

Rebelgecko · a year ago

My Roborock is probably the best <$500 purchase I've ever made. I'm actually tempted to get a fancier one with auto emptying just to avoid having to dump the bin once or twice a week

blakes · a year ago

The auto-empty is absolutely worth it. If you want to be very thrifty, get an i7+ from eBay, or a refurbished J5/J7.

blakes commented on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping” spectrum.ieee.org/motor-d... · Posted by u/belter

karaterobot · a year ago

How?

blakes · a year ago

Things like this have been done before: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/12/zwift-uci-cheating-astou...

blakes commented on The rise of the disposable car bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/rntn

nimbius · a year ago

I agree, a transmission is really only good for around 200k miles. However, you can buy a used transmission in most cases for under 3 grand, and again labor for this thanks to automation is likely less than $500.

The real blocker I dont mention is time. Your shop will need that car for a few days and shipping will take time too. At some point the wait isnt worth it anymore. The upside is, 2 used Toyotas are still cheaper than a new one new Toyota

blakes · a year ago

There is probably no transmission in a US road car that can be replaced for $500 in labor at an auto shop. Your buddy or some rando may do it, but no shop will for that price. Typical shop rate is $120-$220/hour. Most shops are going to charge a minimum of 4 hours, but probably closer to 8 hours. Have you ever been under a car? The amount of "automation" required to replace a transmission is still in the arena of science fiction.

blakes commented on Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator xemu.app/... · Posted by u/InitEnabler

sshagent · a year ago

kung fu chaos time! Such a great game, a little insensitive perhaps...glorious sofa multipleyer game though I kept that disk hoping they'd backwards compat it for many years

blakes · a year ago

Out of all the og Xbox games, Kung Fu Chaos provided the most fun and laughs with friends. It honestly still holds up gameplay wise. I still play it sometimes. The minigames were the best.

blakes commented on Spoofing DNS records by abusing DHCP DNS dynamic updates akamai.com/blog/security-... · Posted by u/Terretta

forgotusername6 · 2 years ago

If you create a brand new domain, it will automatically configure it to be the DHCP server by default.

blakes · 2 years ago

That's true of DNS, not DHCP. One has to specifically install the DHCP role in a new AD domain.

blakes commented on New Microsoft Exchange zero-days allow RCE, data theft attacks bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/croes

chollida1 · 2 years ago

Is this related to Teams?

I thought this was for on premise exchange installs that are directly facing the internet, which is an extremely rare setup these days.

Most companies use hosted exchange or if exchange is on premise, it sits behind a firewall of some kind.

blakes · 2 years ago

Yeah this is completely unrelated to Teams.

Exchange is actually still fairly prevalent, even among smaller companies. Although many of the smaller orgs that still have on-prem Exchange tend to have a migration plan to M365.

blakes commented on Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire cnbc.com/2023/11/02/toyot... · Posted by u/thm

gambiting · 2 years ago

>>My main complaint is the anti-slip detection seems to go off a lot. Maybe it's the roads here close to Boston, or it's just real paranoid about slipping.

What tyres are on the car currently? Sometimes really poor budget tyres can do this, especially as they wear out.

blakes · 2 years ago

Gonna be the Dunlop Grandtrek PT20, which are terrible tires.

blakes commented on Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users ctrl.blog/entry/windows-s... · Posted by u/extr0pian

dc3k · 2 years ago

Glad I switched to ReviOS and don’t have to deal with these shenanigans.

https://revi.cc/

blakes · 2 years ago

Just so everyone is aware, ReviOS disables the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations, virtualized based security, Windows Defender, turns off and hides the ability to use Windows Update (no future security updates), disables Bitlocker, etc. Many of the performance improvements come from disabling security mitigations/processes. Just something to be aware of. I think all of these settings can be re-enabled through their Revision Tool https://github.com/meetrevision/revision-tool.

blakes commented on NIST Privacy Framework nist.gov/privacy-framewor... · Posted by u/sacrosanct

javier_e06 · 2 years ago

From their site: "The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy."

What is a voluntary tool? Beats me. Who are the stakeholders? Beats me. Help organizations to manage risk. What kind of risk? Whose privacy? yadda yadda yadda.. Run on sentence. My take away: NIST needs to hire writers.

blakes · 2 years ago

With NIST frameworks, one needs to explore a bit. Here are some of the stakeholders:

https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework/request-comment

And here is the PDF that should answer all of the other questions you have:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CSWP/NIST.CSWP.01162020.pd...

blakes commented on EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service epb.com/newsroom/press-re... · Posted by u/Scottopherson

mmaunder · 3 years ago

Cool, but try to get 25Gbps on your mac. It's tough. We have our own 10 gig symmetrical fiber backbone connection and wanted 25Gbps on a mac in our film production facility. Thunderbolt maxes out at 40Gbps so you're already close to the max data transfer rate for a peripheral. We had to use ATTO's hardware which is bulky, a pain to configure on a macbook (you need to bond two interfaces) and honestly most of the time it's just easier to stay on Wifi and deal with 400Mbps throughput.

Not sure about windows, but USB-C maxes out at 10 Gbps IIRC, so I'd love to hear what folks in that realm are doing.

blakes · 3 years ago

In the Windows world one would just get a 25Gb NIC and be good to go.

* and supporting network equipment/cabling of course

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KarmaCake day271December 9, 2015View Original