Yeah lmgtfy.com was funny bc at that time Google search really was good, and some questions really were super low effort and annoying, and lmgtfy was a little in joke to let off some steam, kind of like rick rolls.
Of course some people were a dick about honest new people trying to get started. A problem since the original Septembers and perennial during this eternal September.
This is something I’ve never understood about firewalls. If the vacuum cleaner is uploading and downloading stuff from https://somecorpo.net/, what stops it from listening for remote commands on that same connwction?
Earlier in the article he says that he only disabled some of the network connections but he left open the ones for firmware updates and stuff so to me it’s not impossible that it was able to receive remote commands although I would certainly want to see more technical details to satisfy my curiosity.
The article says in words that it was a remote command. But again, we don’t have any details supporting that description. So maybe the journalist got it wrong.
Not to fear! Here is the relevant part so the next person coming by doesn’t have to read the article:
deep in the logs of his non-functioning smart vacuum, he found a command with a timestamp that matched exactly the time the gadget stopped working. This was clearly a kill command, and after he reversed it and rebooted the appliance, it roared back to life.
(Image credit: Harishankar)
So, why did the A11 work at the service center but refuse to run in his home? The technicians would reset the firmware on the smart vacuum, thus removing the kill code, and then connect it to an open network, making it run normally. But once it connected again to the network that had its telemetry servers blocked, it was bricked remotely because it couldn’t communicate with the manufacturer’s servers. Since he blocked the appliance’s data collection capabilities, its maker decided to just kill it altogether. "Someone—or something—had remotely issued a kill command,” says Harishankar. “Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”
Mime didn’t, but it is from 2006. I think it is messed up.
Cursed headline, I love it.
Holy shit that’s wild.
Web sites that amplify reports of mind control and group stalking" are “an extreme community that may encourage delusional thinking” and represent “a dark side of social networking. They may reinforce the troubled thinking of the mentally ill and impede treatment.”
Thanks for your answer. That makes a lot of sense.
I knew somebody who had a dog that could sense when they were about to have a seizure. I’m not sure that science knows how it works.
That is actually pretty debilitating now that I know this.
Wtf is this headline
Yep! That’s why we do it. Some people like responding to the comments! I’m sorry it bothers you, but not that sorry.
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Maybe noone knows
This is so gross.
Cloudflare down
Great message, but weird way to protest. What are the optics even?
I can see how in the short term companies like NextCloud would be hindered using a non-commercial license, but in the long term I think non-commercial licenses might be the way to go for some things, if we want to encourage society to publicly fund some software development for crucial infrastructure.
The amount of supply and demand is always changing. As people create value, and create more people, money mediates the trading of supply and demand.
It is not zero sum and unchanging. If there is a global bumper year for agriculture, more value is produced. If there is a big natural disaster, value is lost. Demand also changes – mostly increases.
I’m not an economist and just making this shit up.