I was once responsible for a student house (we don’t have dorms in the US sense, this is the closest we have) and I have similar experiences but less extreme. My favourite was when I had forgotten to configure DHCP filtering and someone plugged in a router the wrong way so it started offering DHCP (that didn’t work) to everyone in the building, in a race with our upstream ISP.
I needed it for a printer the other day!
This is one of the hardest earned lessons I’ve ever learned, and I’ve had to learn it over and over again. I think it’s mostly stuck now but I still make the same mistake from time to time.
As in efficient per watt or some other metric?
and Intel was releasing foxes and shit
I realise this is an autocorrect error, but it’s still funny 🦊
I’ve fallen for it too and I’m technically a security researcher depending on how you read my job description
No idea honesty, I don’t collect metrics.
I still do this!
I’ve heard perovskite-based solar panels have less scary runoffs if they go bad but I haven’t found anything solid on that.
The public are usually very for that after it’s been implemented. They hate it before, assuming you include people who live outside the area where it’s being built but imagine they might want to some say drive there in “the public”. It’s much more of a mixed bag if you don’t.
Did not see “faster than Commodore 64!” coming!
This is a really good idea actually
I have the same situation almost. We have fiber from Telia delivered to the basement of our apartment building where it’s converted to cable by Tele2, who rents access to Telia’s fiber. Neither of them were willing to sell me or the organisation that owns the building access to fiber, even though it would have required only activating an outlet on whatever fiber switch thing they have in the basement.
Tele2 also has a monopoly on internet access; it’s that or 4G/5G.
This led to the absurd situation where we have a special coax outlet, followed by a cable modem right next to the fiber switch to supply the intercom system with very very expensive and terribly slow internet.
I’m not in the US and I also get most of my retirement in stock market casino chips
I was worrying about precisely this. I’d be ok with blocking search engines if there was a better way of searching but AFAICT there isn’t federated search of any kind?
I think this is right on the money. The fitness function optimised is “does this convince humans”, and so we have something that’s doing primarily that.
I’m imagining him going on to do the same thing there and just going “why am I the John McClain of cybersecurity? How can this happen AGAIN???”
Hasn’t this been posted five thousand times already?
Sounds like we may have an easier conclusion to draw here
Also, the times rats got into the networking room and ate random cables. I should add the network was built by volunteer students in the ‘90s.