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Comment Re:Smdh (Score 1) 76

The straightforward solution is for the UPS manufacturers to jitter the test time and it becomes a total non-issue. Perhaps regulatory bodies should be approving and regulating power infrastructure equipment firmware to keep manufacturers from doing dumb shit like being vulnerable to RCEs or doing a power-consuming activity at the same second globally.

I mean, you're not wrong, but ... back in the 00's, there was a big stink because D-Link configured the routers they sold to use Poul-Henning Kamp's stratum 1 NTP server as a time source. Manufacturers are pretty clever, they'll manage to do dumb things even if there are clear guidelines around how to do smarter things. They already made the sale, why should they bother?

Comment Re:The claim is that it was a router problem (Score 1) 59

A thousand login requests every four to five seconds is definitely something that was considered in the era of floppies. If anything, people thought about that kind of thing MORE often back then because bandwidth was scarce. A common approach would be to use exponential backoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are obviously design issues in the billion dollar system.

Comment No one got my Funny points? (Score 1) 56

But I was going for Funny.

Serendipitous public conference on AI yesterday. Large numbers of participants, but it turned out that at least some of them were there for the free lunch that I hadn't even heard about. I went mostly because of my business connections to the main sponsor.

The technical talks were mostly disappointing. Best of them was probably a Googler saying stuff that was mostly conclusions I got to a while back... At least that was how it seemed. (And then things got a little weird...)

So my main conclusion was tangential. Of course. Huge building was quite dazzling. And obviously based on borrowed money and stockholders' expectations of huge future profits. I thought the corporate headquarters was a different huge building that I visited a few months ago, but it's evidently it's a much bigger bubble than I had noticed.

Oh, yeah. Back to the story. Latest news I heard was that it was a new meta-tool, new and improved with AI, that was overwhelmed by the sordid real world. I hope it at least went down with some funny new error message like "I'm sorry, mother."

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