Flying ant day has always fascinated me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuptial_flight#Flying_ant_day
Readit Newsred369 commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard
Second line I already notice:
> 000F6468C6E4D09C0C239A4C2769501B3DD:5894
... Does the 5894 mean what I think it does?
I remember when I was searching the file for some passwords my friends and family use, it took me a while to work out that number too. There are some passwords that many people seem to independently come up with and think must be reasonably secure. I suppose they are to the most basic of attacks.
red369 commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard
I was going to provide my passwords to any random person on the internet, Troy Hunt might be close to the top of the list, but I think your sentiment is sensible.
I remember searching the dataset being fairly straight forward. It's been a while since I've done it, but I think I just downloaded the text file and then grepped it for hashes of my passwords, but I see people doing much more useful things:
https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/creating-a-local-version...
red369 commented on Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015) cringely.com/2015/06/03/a... · Posted by u/suioir
Hewlett-Packard was instruments and test equipment company with some computer offerings appearing in 1970s. The latter were own designs, with bespoke CPU architecture and system software. Eventually they started producing PC clones which however weren't the core business.
Then early in dotcom boom era the company was taken over by new management and gutted for anything except the PCs and printers. That entity has very little to do with the ethos, capabilities and operations of the original company.
Test equipment business was spun off into Agilent, then split again into Agilent doing biomedical systems and Keysight producing T&M.
I realize this may sound like nitpicking but since the article refers to 1990 HP it should be understood it was an entirely different company.
Thanks! I only knew HP as the some computers and shitty printers company (and I realise that I swapped your adjectives, but I feel this way around is more deserved)
red369 commented on Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015) cringely.com/2015/06/03/a... · Posted by u/suioir
HP is dead for soon three decades. There is a company with its name nowadays that makes shitty computers and some printers.
I never had a very strong opinion about HP products either way, so I can't really discuss how much they have declined, but are they so dead?
I am typing this message on very average HP keyboard, connected to an HP EliteBook and some HP monitor. The other monitor is Dell, and sure, it's nicer, but it's also newer. I see the mouse is also HP. None of these are amazing, but none of those are particularly bad. When I have a permanent desk, I do often bring my own peripherals into the office to use, but I don't mind any of these enough to do that semi-regularly. If my company were to ask what corporate laptop I would want instead, I would need to look on notebookcheck.net to see what I am missing out on. I wouldn't even bother trying to improve on the keyboard, mouse or monitor.
Sure, I didn't purchase a single one of the products above, and I can't think of anything I own right now which is HP, but I don't intentionally avoid their products. I tend to use refurbished corporate laptops for personal use, and at least one has been a refurbished EliteBook.
Apart from their printers, which other comments say I should particularly avoid buying, are they much worse than their competitors? (I think printers are a problem area and I would just buy the Brother printer anyway)
Edit: I just want to add, this might feel argumentative, but I am just genuinely asking. Maybe their products are a significantly worse experience and I've just not noticed. Or maybe they produce products that feel similar but don't last. It all feels similar pretty similar to me, with some ergonomic differences which mean I prefer some to others, and some breaking and some lasting forever. I've never noticed a pattern, but I've never looked either!
red369 commented on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond edn.com/poe-basics-and-be... · Posted by u/voxadam
You can get the inverse of an injector that takes active PoE and makes a barrel plug out of it.
Thanks for reminding me of that! I considered that when I was finding it hard to find a passive PoE injector.
It's not quite as tidy, for example, with the router sitting visibly on a desk, but it's close. And you're right that it could work for anything.
red369 commented on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond edn.com/poe-basics-and-be... · Posted by u/voxadam
I recently needed to buy a new power supply for my Mikrotik router (hAP ac²), so I decided to just buy a Ubiquiti PoE injector instead.
It feels magical to have the PoE injector tucked in a cupboard with the optical network terminal, and outside Narnia, the router has only one cable going to it. Also, the Ubiquiti PoE injectors are particularly satisfying. Powered by standard AC cables, and a nice simple design. Now that I've experienced this magic, I'm not going back!
However, as much as I love the hAP ac², it only accepts passive PoE. I don't love passive PoE - it scares me! Unfortunately, it seems like most (all?) Mikrotik routers only accept passive PoE.
Does anyone know of a good alternative when it comes time to replace my router? I would have liked it to be Ubiquiti, but I don't usually read positive things about them around here.
Haha, it reminded me 20+ years back when I was a kid travelling by train in India where the ticket dispenser did not give me 8 Rs back on a 152 Rs ticket when I paid 160, sounds small but is a big deal for poor. Tangential but that is one thing I really thank digital payments and digitization of ticket dispensing for.
My comment is going to be like a tangent to a tangent, but since it's about Bitcoin it sort of comes back to the original topic.
I agree about digital payments, but one of the things that I found disappointingly complex about Bitcoin is needing to receive change when making a payment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unspent_transaction_output).
I only made a few Bitcoin transactions because I found the whole experience did not feel like the future. That was a while ago now, and as other commentors have pointed out, it not seems obvious that the real value in Bitcoin lies elsewhere.
I think a lot of the other unasked for examples given could also cause resentment. Perhaps often the right thing to do is just taking the risk.