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27 days ago^PSST, rumour is that paedophiles use HTTPS…^
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The HK company’s
brandingdesign/branding was licensed to a manufacturer nominally based in Europe.Edit: many sources, but here’s one: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trail-mystery-woman-whose-company-licensed-exploding-pagers-2024-09-20/
3·1 month agoYeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.
Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).
remote access
To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.
Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.
Need some kind of fake power-down mode baked into the OS, which locks encrypted storage and switches on an unresponsive black screen tracking mode.
ffs, every time someone from a community group asks me “Can you have a quick look at our basic website, we just need to change <reallySimpleThing>”, and I’m like “sure, i used to do web development, let’s have a look […] FFFFFFUUUUUC…”
No worries. The situation I was describing is indeed absurd and defies reasonable expectations.
Ah, that’s good then.
In Australia you really only need a name and date of birth and ID such as a passport or driving license number of the owner. No physical or even photographic proof. Some phone companies send the original sim a notification before moving it, but no response is required and moving the number often only takes 10~30mins.
Banks in Australia commonly use sms codes as 2fa.
A large percentage (20~30%?) of adult Australians have had their ID details leaked in recent years because there are no adequately enforced security requirements or data-retention limits. One of the largest breaches was the second largest mobile phone provider…
As in “Hi PhoneCompany, I’d like a mobile plan with you. Yes, I’d like to bring my old phone number over to the new account.”
Or “Hi PhoneCompanySupport, I’m @thingsiplay and i lost my sim, plz send me a new one. BTW my new address is …”
Ideally it shouldn’t happen, but phone company security is pretty slack sometimes,
Swapping the sim associated with your phone number – from your sim to their sim.
AUR has just as much ability to fuck you over as piping curl to sh as an installation method.
Check your PKGBUILDs every single time and make sure you (still!) trust whatever repos it’s pulling the source/binaries from.
~623 km/h in today’s units.
So… I really don’t know chemistry, and these aren’t the highest quality references, but here goes:
- 4 mol of iron in a heat pack provides 1648.4 kJ of heat. [1]
- 4 mol of iron weighs 223g. [2]
- Recycling 1000kg of steel saves 642 kWh of energy. [3]
- Recycling 0.223kg steel saves 642 * 0.223 / 1000 = ~ 0.143 kWh
- 0.143 * 3600 = 515 kJ
Huh. So maybe heat packs are a reasonable use of scrap iron’s embodied energy after all. Assuming you have a sufficient source of uncontaminated steel filing waste and that it’s economical to collect and process into heat packs.
…But only if you’re heating your water using fossil fuels using an inefficient method! If your water is heated using solar or waste heat capture or a heat pump[4], which would swing the balance way over to hot water bottles again.
You’re not considering the energy required to smelt the iron.
Iron filings (in a collected quantity high enough to make manufacturing these heat packs worthwhile) are not a waste product, they are recycled – saving the smelting of that much new iron.
Sawdust+iron heat packs are a very useful and non-hazardous product, for sure, but aside from situations where a hot water bottle is impractical, hot water bottle still wins.
Could go old school and build your own:
Page 66: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/AUSTRALIA/Electronics-Australia/EA-1992-07.pdf
Page 126: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/AUSTRALIA/ETI-Australia/90s/ETI-1990-01.pdf