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dhork ,

"Five Nines" typically refers to something that works 99.999% of the time, which still allows for 1 screw-up out of 100,000.

dhork ,

The Twitter bird isnt dead, it's just pining for the fjords

dhork ,

He's legit in that his campaign went through the process to get on the ballot in certain states. That has nothing to do with his chances.

dhork ,

Found some more technical details here:

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/15/brothers-accused-of-25m-ethereum-exploit-as-us-reveals-fraud-charges/

dhork ,

There definitely are optics available for single mode. The problem is that the wavelength will need to match what you are being sent from your provider. So we can't really answer your question, you will have to ask them.

1310nm is quite common but we can't assume your link is 1310nm.

dhork ,

Oh, they just left you some extra patch cables? That was nice of them.

The wavelength of the fiber might be printed on it. I know some fibers are color-coded based on their wavelength, but I don't know if it's universal.

You'll need to match the modules to the fiber.

dhork ,

Maybe you can go a bit lower tech. There are "smart" door locks with a keypad that have Bluetooth, but are not otherwise cloud enabled. Then find a small device you can use as a Bluetooth proxy and position it near the front door, to keep tabs on it. Our lock is from Kwikset, and while there is an app to program it, once it is programmed it is pretty much stand-alone and won't need the app anymore.

The lock does have Home Assistant integration but I haven't tried it yet because I haven't done the Bluetooth Proxy yet.

dhork ,

This lock has a keypad, so the kid just needs to remember that. It has a key also, but if the kid never has the key, they can never lose it.

dhork ,

I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.

I can $ertainly think of a $cenario where I might con$ent to let bygone$ be bygone$ and go back to work for that a$$hole

dhork ,

500 a day is $62.50/hr, that's not very good for contracting, especially if they don't take taxes and healthcare out. Any sort of key contractor like that ought to be worth at least $250/hr

What is OVM in VLSI? (discuss.online)

In the world of hardware design and verification, SystemVerilog has emerged as a popular language for creating complex digital designs. To ensure the correctness and reliability of these designs, a robust verification methodology is essential. One such methodology is the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), which provides a...

dhork ,

SystemVerilog is awesome, but not in a form of an AI generated post in a forum it doesn't belong in.

dhork ,

Father Justin then warns you that OUR WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

dhork ,

AI written articles don't always have a byline that says "I'm a bot, Beep Boop."

dhork ,

AI writes a blog post about AI

dhork ,

It can be used, even while powered off, to track and surveil you.

How? The only legit thing I can think of is if they are tracking you anyway, and then they see your phone is turned off, they might try to claim that you must be up to something. But they won't be able to track it while it's off.

dhork ,

That's not quite how it works, though. These devices are basically mini computers now, there's a limit to what they can do without fully booting. Devices that are plugged into the wall might be likely to retain some power-draining function while plugged in, but there's only so much you can do on a trickle charge while a phone is powered off.

dhork ,

I think you are overestimating what these devices can do when turned off, specifically when whoever is doing the tracking wants to be covert. Devices like Cellular Radios and GPS chipsets are getting more efficient every year, but they still consume enough power that it would be noticed if they came on by themselves even if the device was off.

dhork ,

Doesn't a modern smartphone have something like a 4000 mAH battery? And that lasts most people all day with room to spare? Even 100 mA every few minutes will get noticed, if someone has their phone off and expecting consumption to stay minimal.

And that's the key thing here, you're not just building a tracking platform but you are building it into commodity phone hardware without the users consent, and without them noticing. Any phone that burns that much power while off would likely get replaced by the user. Do you think the phone vendors are in on it?

dhork ,

In order to not "start from scratch", though, you will need to save some state persistently about your location (and the location of the satellites), which will cost power. Then you go in a building and lose all your signal, while still burning power to maintain that old state.

If it was that easy and cheap in terms of power, AirTags would have GPS receivers. They don't.

dhork , (edited )

You seem to be the one going through mental gymastics to justify why the button might not just turn the thing off. Sometimes they're not out to get you, you know.

These phones cram oodles of stuff into a tiny space at super low margins , and are perfectly good at spying on their users when turned on. There's no reason for them to spend any extra effort to spy when they're turned off, for the .01% of people who turn their phones off regularly.

The margins aren't as low as I thought, but they still aren't giving any money away on their BOMs....

dhork ,

Nothing in your links above indicate that the spyware operates while the phones are powered off (although I relied on a crappy translation of the French). Could spyware mock the shutdown process so that it looks like the phone is powered off while the phone is actually running? Sure it can, but the victim will be tipped off when the phone's battery is being drained even while it is "shut off". (And someone who is paranoid enough to shut down their phone would pay attention to that.) . It seems like it's not worth the effort.

dhork ,

Yes, info on Pegasus is easy to find. And never says Pegasus is active when the phone is powered off. It's undetectable and insidious in what it can grab, but at no point is there any reference at all to being active while the phone is powered off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

If you have a reference that states otherwise (that isn't written by an AI), please supply it. I'll be happy to give up on this if someone can prove their point.

And that is because it is way too easy to detect when the phone is off, not only because of the battery drain, but because the radios would be transmitting when they shouldnt . Plus, persisting across a reboot requires some trace of the Trojan to be on physical storage, which is more likely to be found on a scan.

I am assuming that when a state-level actor is hacking a phone, they are targeting a person directly, and know how to get the Trojan on undetected. Their main goal will be to continue to siphon data off it while it is in use. It's not worth the risk of detection to track it while it is off (and not being used, after all.) Don't you think they would prefer to use the same method they used the first time to infect the burner phone that's actually being used?

dhork , (edited )

Companies like Amazon can pull this off because of stock grants. (And I don't think they give out stock grants to warehouse workers, but I could be wrong.)

When they hire a developer, especially one who already has the relevant experience they for, they will say "On top of the salary and bonus, we will also give you $200k worth of stock". But that stock can't be sold right away; it goes into an account where it vests over some number of years, every 6 months. Your only condition for vesting the stock is being employed. If you leave for any reason, or even get laid off, you give up the rest.

Sometimes you also get smaller awards with your yearly review, subject to the same terms. They do this so that if you are a key developer, leaving would mean you forfeit this large account you have accumulated on paper. But in the back of your mind, you know that if your project gets canceled and you don't find a new one in the company, that money goes poof also. So it's play money until it vests, anyway. And there is always another vesting event coming sometime in the next few months.

dhork ,

Most of the "fun innovations" are awesome ideas that would get a small startup a ton of business and make them widely successful. But the problem is that these companies are so large, that even those successful innovations barely make an impact on the company. So many initiatives at these companies have to be pitched as huge and game-changing in order to be funded in the first place. Which means they need to hire huge staffs, to justify their importance.

The managers make extremely optimistic forecasts: they have to, to get the project funded at all. Then, when the project is successful (but not as successful as promised) the bean counters scale it back to the size it should have been in the first place. So the headline is all these layoffs, when the real problem is that these companies are too darn big to operate efficiently.

dhork ,

My point is that while it seems insane to leave half a million in RSUs to leave a company, if the person thinks their job is in a precarious position, it's extremely unlikely they would ever have vested them all anyway. So the money was never really theirs to begin with.

Now, is that DevOps engineer worth that much more than the warehouse guy who picks the item to send to you? I doubt it. But it seems like that's the going rate for a competent DevOps engineer with the relevant experience. While the qualifications to be in the warehouse are not quite so stringent.

dhork ,

That's no guarantee, though, it would have to be negotiated. And let's face it, most devs aren't the best at negotiating....

dhork ,

Sure you do, the Bay Area is full of below average devs with RSUs.

dhork ,

No, if they had negotiation skills they would be below average managers.

dhork ,

My password is hunter2

dhork ,

It's knowledge has reached the limits of the Universe, and it must evolve....

dhork ,

Vasa? Like, the Swedish ship that sank 10 minutes after it was launched? Who named that project?

dhork ,

Oh, my sweet, summer child. This author actually thinks the users are Roku's customers. They're not, users are the product, being sold to advertisers.

Do meat processors worry that their business might be hostile to the cattle?

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

dhork ,

You just passed the exam to be a Project Manager

dhork ,

Same here! The totality was still cool to experience, though. This might be the only time in my life I can say that I would have rather been in Cleveland.

Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?

Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor's office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it's always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I...

dhork ,

I agree with you. I am fortunate enough to have insurance now which covers the things I need without much of a hassle. But at my last job, they had an insurance provider who was very fond of losing paperwork, making up bullshit, and not really delivering on what it was supposed to do.

I recall complaining about this to a co-worker, who was incredulous that I would be so lazy. You see, he had a whole system of who to call and where to file what paper to get the results he wanted.... sometimes. But I was amazed at how much effort he put in to work around a system that was totally artificial, inserted between patients and doctors for no other reason than to skim money. And he was proud of it! He was convinced that putting in all this effort showed that the system was working as intended. (I should add that he is the stereotypical "small government" conservative, or at least was until Donald Trump convinced him that the best use of Government was to be a tool to beat up Liberals and Immigrants with.)

It's like these people are convinced that if something doesn't require a huge amount of effort, it must be worthless. Meanwhile, their boss's boss's boss merits their large salary and stock compensation specifically because they are enough of a psychopath to make monumental decisions on as little data as possible. I am starting to feel bad for most ordinary people who vote for conservatives. Not only are they getting gaslit, but they prefer it that way!

I think Obamacare has gone about as far as we can go in reforming Healthcare while half the country is so masochistic.

dhork ,

Hey Torquemada, whaddya say?

I just got back from the auto-de-fe

Auto-de-fe? What's an auto-de-fe?

It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway....

dhork ,

They should call it Clippy

dhork ,

You took "Hot Stove" a bit too literally

dhork ,

I see your confusion. The ad copy gives you the impression that it is selling the display, but what I really want is that amazing AI-enabled hover-mouse that doesn't need to be on a table to be used.

dhork ,

I'd like to respectfully suggest that sending a chat to a customer service representative with a physical threat to a building (with your real name attached, no less) might not have been the best tactic to get your concerns addressed. Yes, we all know you are frustrated and were joking about it, but I don't think the FBI will be as amused as we are. At least you'll get your meds on time while in custody.

dhork ,

Doesn't matter if it was a threat to them or not, it's still a threat. I'm sure it's been reported. Sorry.

If anything, a single isolated threat meant in jest may fuck your life up more than being a legit asshole. If you have a pattern of threats like this, the authorities will be forced to charge you with something, and you will at least know they are paying attention. But a single threat probably just places you on some list, and you'll never know you were placed on it. Who knows where being on that list will fuck you over.

dhork ,

Reddit users have always been revolting

dhork ,

I think this counts as a Science Victory

dhork ,

At least this time around there is intelligence involved, even if it is artificial.

dhork ,

When does it actually go public, anyway? I want to wait a week and pick some up after the inevitable crash

Nvm, Google is my friend, trading starts Thursday

dhork ,

Well, yeah, but I didn't think they opened up options right away on new stocks

dhork , (edited )

So, while Elon Musk is an asshole, and these terms are awful, there is more to it:

They involve stock awards, which are given by the company to the employee. They can either be options (which give you a choice to buy at a certain price, and presumably you wouldn't do that unless you can sell for higher price), or outright stock grants . They are given as part of compensation, and vest on a set timetable. (So, if someone was given 1000 shares, the employee would still see 1000 shares in some account, but they may only be able to access 100 of them every six months). So, this whole discussion is about shares the company gave to the employees in the first place.

Then, the other wrinkle is that SpaceX is a private company. That means that employees can't just go sell their shares on the open market. So SpaceX graciously offers to buy back these private shares at whatever they think they are worth at the time. While this sounds fishy, the only other real alternative is for the employees to hold on to the shares and sell them if they go public....

.... However, simply receiving the shares when they vest is a taxable event. So if SpaceX didn't offer some way for mere mortals to turn their shares to cash, then in effect they would be saddling them with an enormous tax burden and no way to raise the cash to pay it. So they have to do it this way.

Do they really need to confiscate an employees shares if they hurt Elon's fee-fees? Of course not. But that's the only dumb bit here. The rest is pretty standard for a private company who attracts workers with stock benefits.

dhork ,

In public companies, it's not really a scam. It's a legitimate tool for these companies to get and keep the key people they need. The stock benefits are over and above their salary, after all, and equate to real money.

It's the startups and private companies where this all gets a bit scammy, because there is no liquid market for these shares. And those companies are more likely to offer extra stock instead of a competitive salary, but that stock may not be able to be cashed out until the company goes public, forcing the employees to stay until the IPO, unless they give up that theoretical big payday.

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