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Comment Re:Comment Subject: (Score 1) 47

Depends on the sophistication and determination of the attacker...
You can quite easily see relationships between people based on social media, you can correlate this with known numbers. Similarly a lot of people disclose their phone numbers via email signatures so if you have multiple people from the same company with disclosed numbers you stand a reasonable chance that they will be in each other's contacts.

Comment Re:Easier fix... (Score 1) 47

Which is why he said "TEXT FIRST"...
I'm largely the same, i never answer unexpected calls not just because of scams but because it's extremely inconvenient as a call forces me to stop whatever i'm doing immediately.
A legitimate caller will text or email first to arrange a mutually convenient time for a call.

Comment Re:Why are you defending Trump's bullshit it's qui (Score 1) 127

He manipulated the election with the help of AI and gerrymandering maps preventing 17 millions democrat voters to vote. Somebody ran the numbers to figure out how much voters suppression there was. In 2024 17 million democrat people tried to vote and couldn't.

How could a citizen just not be able to vote?
Gerrymandering doesn't prevent anyone from voting, at most it can make their vote not count towards the overall result because of the electoral college system, but this time around trump won the popular vote too.

How did the sitting democrat president allow 17 million of his party's supported be prevented from voting?

Comment Re:The real killer for Visio (Score 1) 66

Why build your own? There are plenty of available set top boxes on the market complete with remote controls and a variety of different software, everything from the cheap chinese android boxes running kodi to the apple tv, and all of them are better than the crapware bundled with any tv set.

Comment Re:Unsurprising, To Me. (Score 2) 20

The biggest problem is caused by the deficiencies of legacy IPv4 and the various kludges to mitigate those deficiencies instead of using the proper solution.

Early versions of HTTP/HTTPS assumed one site per IP. It was quite easy for a firewall to whitelist and/or blacklist individual sites.
Then they added host headers and SNI to allow multiple sites to share a single IP. This is because legacy IPv4 is expensive and in short supply.

So now in order to whitelist/blacklist sites you need to filter at a higher level as you need to be able to match the host header not just the IP.

Once you add in SSL it gets even worse as your firewall devices cannot inspect the Host header without breaking SSL. Some places implement full SSL interception and MITM, but this then totally breaks with applications that enforce certificate pinning etc.

Yes it's a mess of kludge upon kludge, resulting in security problems, Move to IPv6 with unique IPs per site and these problems can go away.

Comment Re:The real killer for Visio (Score 0) 66

You didn't read the whole post: "Set up your TV to simply be a monitor and use a cheap little computer as an HTPC".

Seriously who bothers with the crapware built into a tv anyway? Just use it as a dumb screen and attach other devices to it. The devices are cheap and much easier to replace than a tv. I have a tv from more than 10 years ago which i still use in one room, with a newer box connected to it. The built in crapware on the tv is now totally useless as it stopped being supported years ago.

Comment Re:Strange crossovers (Score 1) 120

AIX has always run on Power/PPC, running it on an Apple branded PPC machine is not strange at all. Legacy macOS 10 was never meant as a server OS so it made sense to use something that was.

IBM Z has run Linux for a long time, it's not surprising that people would port other open source systems to it like opensolaris, there's probably BSD ports too.

Comment Re:Do these modules get loaded unnecessarily? (Score 2) 29

but obviously you can't do that if you have a huge farm of devices to support.

It depends what those devices are. In a lot of cases this "huge farm" is actually "hundreds of virtual machines running on the same hypervisor" so you absolutely can compile a custom kernel and roll it out. The memory usage vs a generic kernel will also be somewhat lower, multiplied by the number of virtual machines and you have quite decent savings.

Comment Meanwhile, at Carnegie Mellon... (Score 4, Interesting) 193

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Do the home owners (Score 1) 162

Using the waste heat makes much more sense in a new development, as the properties would be designed to make use of the waste heat rather than having to retrofit it later alongside a conventional heating system.
You would assume that the server farm would have its own connectivity, and having installed it they could use the same physical lines to provide service to the residents, so long as it's optional and you're not forced to use this specific provider (their service could be terrible).

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