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by minkles 2y ago
No one reads the manuals these days. Apart from me apparently.
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by minkles 2y ago
It looks like a command structure attack. There’s now 98,000 people with no orders.
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by minkles 2y ago
Looks like they were using Gold AL-A25 / Apollo 929 pagers which are 100% passive.
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by minkles 2y ago
Their comms and command infra is now hosed and all the operatives concentrated in hospitals. They are dead in the water.
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by minkles 2y ago
I would wait for confirmation on even those things before placing any trust on it. There is a lot of noise and misreporting at the start of a story like this because all parties involved want to set a political agenda which is convenient. T
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by minkles 2y ago
A pager is passive receiver only. It never transmits. So you can't track it. That allows an operative to get to a secure line or obtain a burner device. Whoever did this just killed that as an information channel as both the devices an
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by minkles 2y ago
Well nothing which is why people are spreading stuff about it being a hack causing the batteries to explode. Which disrupts everything with a network connection and battery. Adds confusion to the situation. As I said elsewhere this is a one
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by minkles 2y ago
This is a one shot attack. They will never be able to do it again. And I don't think most of the world has pissed off Mossad quite as much as Hezbollah. Assuming they even did it!
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by minkles 2y ago
Exactly that. There is a video of a hole blown through a table surface with one. That is not happening with any off the shelf battery technology as is currently being heavily misreported. They were modified with explosives clearly. Of cours
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by minkles 2y ago
I suspect that is an intentional side effect against the whole pager network. It is now totally compromised which means they can no longer use passive channels as a communication medium. This effectively shut down their comms structure. As
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by minkles 2y ago
I have colleagues for that.
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by minkles 2y ago
I don't disagree with that. I've argued with all my kids' ones at least once!
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by minkles 2y ago
> It’s cool that AI is making that accessible. If you want to be taught by a hallucinating crack head that gets only 60-70% at best of what it says right, then yes. As a qualified mathematician, I would suggest that the best path to te
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by minkles 2y ago
I still fuck them up after 20 years. Fortunately we have ILO / RAS cards in everything.
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by minkles 2y ago
I worked for a place a few years back that had stuff that was in C++/DCOM and written by someone snooting cocaine all day (both performance boosters) that the front end was an Excel spreadsheet. Now that was fragile.
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by minkles 2y ago
Sounds about right. A couple of the things we rely on appear to be run by two guys in a trailer somewhere who can't even get basic fixes out without a 6 month lead.
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by minkles 2y ago
Installed it on test machine. Fine. Installed it on main machine. Fine. Very boring. Can't find any issues to complain about.
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by minkles 2y ago
We use extreme waterfall. All the disadvantages of agile and waterfall in one process. Nothing gets to production due to meetings so the customers are happy we aren’t fucking anything up.
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by minkles 2y ago
Well you still can upgrade the RAM on an Intel Macbook (not sure about M1+) and the SSD on all of them. It does require a hot air station and some skills though. Having done that stuff for years it doesn't bother me but it's an ob
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by minkles 2y ago
I did that with my previous MBP (2015 15" retina). The lid cost a lot more but was quite easy to replace. Also I've replaced many many bits on thinkpads before for myself and other people.
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by minkles 2y ago
Yeah that. We just do what everyone else does in our sector. And do a 20% less shit job for 20% less money. And that not a hard bar to meet when everyone else’s products are dire and incredibly overpriced.
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by minkles 2y ago
I just angrily chew my nails off and get back to what I was doing.
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by minkles 2y ago
My Mac battery is considerably more amazing than its default amazing state when I don't have any browser open or any Electron crud running. I blame the modern web. The browser is just the universe it runs in.
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by minkles 2y ago
Yes that's exactly what they are doing. I literally had someone with the balls to tell me that it was ChatGPT's fault. Due diligence and intelligence has shit the fucking bed quite frankly.
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by minkles 2y ago
That’s fine until your code makes its way to production, an unconsidered side effect occurs and then you have to face me. You are still responsible for what you do regardless of the means you used to do it. And a lot of people use this not
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by minkles 2y ago
apache -> nginx. Python versions. postgres. All fine.
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by minkles 2y ago
it's still better than my handwriting :)
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by minkles 2y ago
I did CentOS 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> Debian. Very few problems. (30 nodes)
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by minkles 2y ago
LOL we have 2 full time people managing the production monitoring stack. And it costs money. And it generates a lot of internal traffic. Nope! rsyslog + knowing what the fuck you are doing is much better.
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by minkles 2y ago
It's not terrible in my experience of doing it several times now. It is definitely less terrible than trying to unfuck tangles of terraform / terragrunt / yaml / bits of cloud infra.

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