Hot hot hot. And humid. Which my fingers want to spell with a ‘j’. It was hot yesterday and will be hot for the next week. Certainly hot today. Sunny and moist. Yeehaaa.
Well, I did make it out to my client’s place in the afternoon. Didn’t get the new cams installed, it was hot, and I opted for indoor network and DirecTV stuff instead. Had some success there.
Before I could head out though, I needed to get a dumpster arranged for all the concrete I’m pulling out of the area around my BOL house. That was actually harder than I expected, and still not set in stone. I’ll be calling them again later today. Seems that most people out in the country don’t pay people to haul away concrete, they use it themselves, dump it somewhere, or give it away. Even after filling a 10 yard roll off, I think I’ll have plenty left for anything I might need it for.
I’ve been watching youtube videos to learn about operating the skid steer and mini-excavator I’ve rented. Thank gnu that now they have “iso” controls that are standardized. You can still switch them to use other schemes if you have the experience with different systems, but mine is long enough ago that I don’t have any muscle memory and will be happy to learn a new, simpler, scheme. I expect that by the end of the week of use, I might be finally getting the hang of it. I really wish there was someone I could pay to do the work, but that isn’t happening. And hey, I get to run mini versions of the big boy toys!
Youtube is a great resource. It’s a shame their politics interfere.
Today I’ve got some pickups and some running around to do. I’ve got to make some cable before Thursday’s swimmeet, pick up some stuff from my secondary location, go by my rent house and see why the neighbor is complaining about trees needing to be cut back, and other stuff as well. Busy day, once it gets going. All that and back to pick up D1 from her thing at 3pm. Something might slip.
Seems like there is always something to do. Some of it is driven by our participation in meatspace activities. That can’t be helped as I think being ‘part of the world’ is important. Some is just part of the lifestyle, and some is work. Oh well, I guess that it’s all part of work/ life balance…
Probably won’t get anything stacked today. But I hope to do something. You should stack something though.
nick
First post. Suck it up buttercups.
Train is not moving, I have no idea why. Train next to us is going to Essen, same place this train is supposed to go. That train has just left and we just sit. Maybe the other train bypasses Frankfurt, one of the stops on this train journey.
People in Germany despise DB. I am beginning to understand why.
I have an excuse for not being first. I was letting the chickens out and filling the water tanks when you posted that. (And dumping water into one of my sneakers because of early-morning clumsiness.)
I plan to make an adapter frame to fit the automatic door opener to the coop. Finding time for it is the problem: the ordinary things around the house, job, shuttling The Child to graduation parties for the various no-longer-seniors, doing 100% of the care for the chickens, and more.
Last night I cut an adapter disk for one of the kitchen lights. We have dangling lights over the island and someone broke one of the glass, er, globes? The decorative frosted glass thing that keeps you from being blinded when you’re walking around the kitchen but lets light out the bottom. Gotta be a name for it other than “globe” but it was a short night and the coffee isn’t made yet. Anyway, one got broken by I-didn’t-do-it. My wife got replacements but couldn’t find any with the right size opening. I cut a disk from ¼” acrylic to hold the globe with the too-large opening on the stem and it fit perfectly. But when I reached the “nut” ring that holds it all together, it separated into three pieces when I touched it. That’s odd. It was in one piece when I laid it on the island. Cast zinc, fragile, and prone to breaking, so it might have been stressed from the original assembly and the removal and the fiddling while I was figuring out what size to cut the inner hole, and just fallen apart. More likely, someone fiddled with it while I was in the garage cutting the disk. No point in asking; neither of the candidate culprits will remember having done so.
Did the cutting with a laser etcher/cutter. Got it recently, as one of the products which I evaluate and review for the manufacturer, then keep the product as my pay. I’d bought a bunch of different materials as part of the evaluation, including the acrylic. Everything was still set up, so it was a snap to make the cutting diagram (just a pair of concentric circles) and cut it out. Much quicker and neater than finding the hole saw for the inner cut and then using the jigsaw for the outer cut. The only downside was the stink of burning plastic.
The manufacturer was Ikier, by the way, and I evaluated their 24W laser unit. I was favorably impressed with it, my only criticism being of the manuals. The manufacturers are happy with my evaluations, reviews, and suggestions. Getting an outside engineer who can write well, especially an American who can provide the appropriate cultural perspective, is rare and well worth the cost of one or a few sample items. (One in this case but for some things I test to destruction.)
I’d put Amazon and Google higher on the list of privacy threats to worry about.
Of course Starlink will work well in a sparsely populated area. That’s never been the issue.
Location down to a few meters is useful for targeted advertising and demographic data of who is watching what where.
Plus, while the TV is stationary, mobile devices with which the set can establish an adhoc network are constantly moving in and out of range in even moderately populated areas. Practically any device has the computing horsepower anymore to calculate routing tables based on really complex models for a mesh network. 10 years ago, that needed a decently powered PC, but my phone has at least as much computing horsepower as the desktop I just retired if not more.
Not that I think the checkbox means much in the era of 5G with any device possessing a 2.4GHz transponder except hardware located in very remote locations where cell service is spotty.
Plus, new/interesting streaming service content is pretty limited right now between Hollywood labor unrest and Disney figuratively (literally?) flipping over sofa cushions in Burbank and Orlando looking for spare change.
Who knows when Baby Yoda will return. Or if.
That will be up to the new owners of Lucasfilm. What Would George Do? We might find out. 🙂
Sneakers? A REAL MAN would be barefoot. And pantless.
No need to give the chickens somewhere else to perch.
BTW, interestingly, the subject of “Ahsoka” was off limits at Rosario Dawson’s panel at the show in Dallas over the weekend, strategically placed as the last panel of the three days.
To fill the hour, the moderator brought up really obscure parts of Dawson’s career, including the “failed” Tarantino film “Death Proof” and her appearance as Mimi in Chris Columbus’ film version of “Rent”.
“Rent” having been made 18 years ago. Cough.
No word if Baby Yoda will appear in “Ahsoka”.
Up and moving. It’s hot, humid, and overcast. While I don’t want rain, I don’t want blazing sun today either. Any breeze at all would be nice too.
@steve, good on you for fixing rather than trashing.
@ray, I guess making the trains run on time would be fascist or something? Given your amount of travel, you are bound to have some delays and issues, the whole world is in decline, remember?? (is your wife doing ok with all the constant movement and change?)
@mratoz and @ray, oh thanks, now I’ve got that image in my brain! Gahh, where’s the brain bleach when I need it?
Time for some bean broth.
n
Ahh, that’s the stuff.
I’ve been avoiding this, because really who cares? I do find it kinda funny that you can be a billionaire, world leader, and go to your grave as “the bunga bunga guy”.
memento mori
Silvio Berlusconi’s partner, 33, weeps as the former Italian PM’s coffin is carried into Milan cathedral for his state funeral – despite his Bunga Bunga sex orgy shame
n
A 24W laser ’engraver’ eh?
For some reason I am reminded of the ‘flashlights’ Louis Wu took to the Ringworld.
– no one seems to be commenting on the MEXICAN beer brand being number one in the US. Around here, the only Bud Lite drinkers are illegal and legal immigrants, the ones LEAST LIKELY to want to be associated with ghey or tranz … who have turned to a second tier (in terms of brand awareness and marketing in the US) Mexican brand.
Demographics are destiny. If you can’t speak spanish, you should start learning. Or get ready for a genocide, because that’s the only way things go back…
Even the guy I spent Monday’s swimmeet talking to (of hispanic parentage) noticed how many freaking immigrants there were all of a sudden and how they all only speak spanish. His comment, ‘we never spoke spanish.’ He was in his 60s and there watching his young grandkids swim.
n
For some reason I am reminded of the ‘flashlights’ Louis Wu took to the Ringworld.
– one of the interesting things about the Known Space books, how they subverted the psyops conditioning against violence. From the psychotic used as a worst case planner, to the incredibly powerful searchlights, and spaceship drives that make astoundingly good beam weapons… even the Puppeteers masking their fighting reflex as ‘running away’.
Humans have a long history of disguising the tools and ability to do violence. Karate – developed as a fighting style when the people were denied weapons. Most chinese martial arts weapons are agricultural implements modified into weapons. Stick fighting styles- when a man lives in a forest, it’s awfully hard to deny him a stick… etc.
Heck, chinese Tai Chi Chuan rebranded itself as an exercise regimen when it’s a defensive fighting style. It survived the maoist destruction of traditional martial arts forms in china.
n
Por cierto!
She’s gonna walk.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12192957/Weapons-expert-Alec-Baldwin-case-hungover-Rust-set-prosecutors-claim.html
emph. added. She’s going to dodge responsibility. I almost wrote, bullet, but decided to spare you. See, I’m a giver.
FWIW, I agree with her defense attorney. Freaking NM made the whole thing political and ‘all about them’ when they should have focused on what happened and left the personalities out of it.
n
Oh, of COURSE it is…
false flag, paid agitators, or FBI put up, doesn’t matter, the photo op happened and now they are trying to leverage that into something more. Maybe they can team up with Patriot Pride…
n
Modelo and Bud Light are both InBev brands, probably made in the same facilities. It doesn’t matter to the bottom line as long as the booze keeps flowing.
Cable cutting war in 3.. 2..
And the progs have already started on the ‘mandatory’ phase…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12190331/Massachusetts-students-tear-rainbow-decorations-chant-pronouns-U-S-A.html
The students in question aren’t allowed to ‘feel safe and included’, or to celebrate their own identity. The whole thing is dripping with irony, you only have to imagine if the beliefs were reversed.
The kids I see here are remarkably red pilled and aware, they just won’t talk about it. They have been very effectively silenced.
n
* the progression for deviant behavior – must first be accepted, then celebrated, then everyone must participate.
Hah ha!
– your participation will be mandatory. Next it will be car, job, and bank accounts. Note that it’s not illegal to be a racist. Nor to call people names. Not that either of those things happened here. And note too that the process is the punishment.
n
“Amazon told DailyMail.com in a statement: ‘We work hard to provide customers with a great experience while also ensuring drivers who deliver Amazon packages feel safe. In this case, we learned through our investigation that the customer did not act inappropriately, and we’re working directly with the customer to resolve their concerns while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again.’ ”
— yeah, how about “don’t try to punish your customers on behalf of your workers, since that isn’t your function or place.”
and anyone reading this who has anything critical like lights heat and security tied to amazon, they will punish you for whatever they like… and if you continue using their product, you will eventually get what you deserve.
@Greg Norton
“I’d put Amazon and Google higher on the list of privacy threats to worry about“
Both are using the Chinese tech. Neither is stupid enough to believe they get the only call. When the revolution comes the wall should be chosen carefully, ‘cuz she be getting used hard.
Remember, it wouldn’t need to be normalized if it weren’t abnormal.
“Donald Trump arrested: Special counsel Jack Smith confronts former president in courtroom”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/donald-trump-arrested-jack-smith-confronts-former-president-miami-courtroom
We are now a banana republic. I weep for the old republic.
“Quote of the day”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/06/quote-of-day.html
“We have become a banana republic with nuclear weapons. My apology to banana republics; they, at least, provide us bananas.”
“Word.”
I forgot the nuclear weapon thing. Of course, I expect Biden to throw all of our nuclear weapons in the bottom of the sea before he crumbles into dust like the wicked witch of the west (I know, she melted but Biden is fading away).
Don’t be ridiculous, Lynn. Traitor Joe (and his handlers) will deliver them to the Taliban as a delayed final part of the war booty they got last year. Figure on another billion in cash, too.
“Texas passes new law banning use of temporary paper license plates”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/texas-paper-plate-law-18151773.php
“A bill banishing paper dealer tags for Texas drivers was signed into law on Monday.”
“The report by KXAN found that the selling of fake Texas tags has ballooned into a $200 million illicit business in which people in Texas are able to distribute cars with fake information to all 50 states—a phenomenon causing rampant headaches for law enforcement investigating crimes. KXAN’s investigation led the Texas DMV to vote in favor of fingerprinting all car dealers in the state upon the renewal of their dealer license in 2022.”
I knew that the paper plates were a bad idea the day I saw them. My first thought was that I could copy that with a laser printer.
Last night I cut an adapter disk for one of the kitchen lights. We have dangling lights over the island and someone broke one of the glass, er, globes? The decorative frosted glass thing that keeps you from being blinded when you’re walking around the kitchen but lets light out the bottom. Gotta be a name for it other than “globe” but it was a short night and the coffee isn’t made yet.
Sphere ? Spheroid ?
Of course Starlink will work well in a sparsely populated area. That’s never been the issue.
Starlink is working better here in Fort Bend County too. But my Peplink 30 WAN multiplexer ignores it until I disconnect my two AT&T 12/1 DSL lines since they have a better response. I probably need to replace my Peplink 30, it is over ten years old now but I have never had a problem with it.
Even so, Starlink is usable here. I need to drop one of my AT&T DSL lines but I need to get around tuit.
“Saving Proxima” by Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson
https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Proxima-Travis-S-Taylor/dp/1982192054?tag=ttgnet-20/
A standalone science fiction book, hopefully with a sequel or two released some day. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Baen in 2022.
In the year 2072, a old school radio broadcast is received at the lunar farside radio observatory from the direction of Proxima Centauri. The radio broadcast is found to be an uncompressed and unencrypted form of fax pictures of humans on a planet similar to Earth. Earth sends back a radio communication using a high power radio telescope and nine years later, gets a reply. Then another radio communique shows up and says that they are dying out due to 99% of the babies born are male. Earth builds a near light speed spaceship designed for 25 crew members with a first generation cryosleep system with 100 million human embryos. Forty people make the ten year journey that is fraught with sabotage.
The book goes great until they arrive then the ending is rushed. And left open for a sequel that does not appear to be on the horizon.
Les Johnson has a website at:
https://twitter.com/LesAuthor
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (152 reviews)
Taliban? What about Our Greatest Ally?
I don’t how your LAN is set up but maybe put the wi-fi onto Starlink?
Maybe the Peplink 30 has a setting to adjust ping time or however it decides what to use.
“Pendant light shade”.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Pendant-Glass-Shade/5001919647
Got a Kindle Fire or other Amazon device in the house? Assume it is always online … and listening.
I keep a Fire as a cheap movie player for the road, but it stays in the bottom of my travel bag except for occasional charging to keep the battery in decent condition.
I don’t how your LAN is set up but maybe put the wi-fi onto Starlink?
Maybe the Peplink 30 has a setting to adjust ping time or however it decides what to use.
I am not sure what it uses but I was wrong, it is using the Starlink. Since the last reboot (we had an extended power outage over the weekend), it has downloaded 17 GB and uploaded 0.8 GB. The Starlink downloaded 7 GB and uploaded 0.5 GB of that.
Huh. Since I installed the Peplink 30 in Nov 2013, we have downloaded 7 TB and uploaded 0.9 TB. Wow.
There must be a way to configure the metric to prioritize the Starlink through the shell in the Peplink if the router offers ssh access to a shell, but I haven’t messed with Unix/Linux networking at that level in about 15 years.
On the plus side, given the age of the device, the routing config is probably old school and not dependent on Systemd.
Travel tip: When traveling in states run by PLTs and Eco-weenies, be sure to bring a supply of empty plastic grocery bags.
I went to a Walmart here near Spokane and picked up a couple of items. At checkout, I had two choices. Buy an expensive and unhygenic “reusable” woven bag, or carry my items out in my hands. Apparently, this is statewide.
Fortunately, I could manage without a bag, but if I were going to do any real shopping, I’d have to remember that I have a half-dozen bags lining the bottom of my backpack for just this issue.
I had a similar problem last week in Illinois, but that was only a city ordinance. In that instance, I solved the problem by going to the next nearest city to shop. I doubt I’m the only one who does that.
There must be a way to configure the metric to prioritize the Starlink through the shell in the Peplink if the router offers ssh access to a shell, but I haven’t messed with Unix/Linux networking at that level in about 15 years.
On the plus side, given the age of the device, the routing config is probably old school and not dependent on Systemd.
There is a very nice web interface to the Peplink at 192.168.0.1 on the office LAN. The only configuration for the WAN links other than firewall rules is fulltime or standby.
Way cool. The ol’ Peplink is still peppy. 🙂
This is true in WA – has been for about a year. WA just eliminated all single-use bags, even the ones that were thicker and available for about $0.06/each. I keep a small box of reusable bags (plastic and paper) in the back of my car for shopping. At checkout, you (if you self-checkout) or the checker person charge you for the bags you used (that you didn’t bring in with you).
Also true in OR, CA, and I think in UT, NM and AZ, based on my recent trip through there. Not TX, though.
All have reusable bags for sale at the checkout, for $0.99 to $1.99. They are good enough. Those bags purport to be washable, so you can toss them in the washer/dryer. The bags are actually bigger and sturdier than the single-use plastic bags, so they hold more items.
Tucker Carlson says that Donald Trump is the only politician in the USA not promoting the proxy war with Russia. And for that sin, Biden and Paul Ryan are going to put Trump in jail.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1668747661028081664
OFD was right, the dumbrocrats and repuglicans are the two sides of The War Party.
@Lynn, I thought the peplink was managed by an online console tool. Mine was. There were a lot of options. You should look at updating firmware too.
n
So my home network is 192.168.1.xxx and my client’s net is running on xxx. xxx. 10. xxx. I’m connected to it via VPN. A device on his network that I need to configure is mis-configured to be on xxx.xxx.1.33 instead of xxx.xxx.10.33
I can’t see it or connect to it from home and I need to. Anyone know what I can do short of driving out there to make the change? It has a web interface on port 80 that I normally connect to.
n
So my home network is 192.168.1.xxx and my client’s net is running on xxx. xxx. 10. xxx. I’m connected to it via VPN. A device on his network that I need to configure is mis-configured to be on xxx.xxx.1.33 instead of xxx.xxx.10.33
Is there any chance that you can remotely change the netmask on the incoming router at the client’s to 255.255.0.0 ?
Pro tip: at some point you may want to change your home router to use something other than 192.168.1.0 and a password that differs from what is printed on the router. Just changing it to run at something like 192.168.13.0 or one of the available 10.x.x.0 networks stops a lot of script kiddies in their tracks.
Another option: If you can remote into a pc there, add a secondary IP that’s in the same network of the device you need to reconfigure. you should then be able to access it (from that pc) and change the Ip of the offending device.
City of Austin tries to be like Portland/WA State so the stores within the city limits enforced reusable bags. This went away in the Pandemic, however, since the agenda dictated everyone recognize that surface transmission via reusable bags would kill Grandma.
The last time I went to HEB inside the city limits, the reusable bags were back, but I don’t know if that was HEB’s rule or city ordnance.
Does the VPN have an option to route all traffic down the tunnel?
If not, does the router offer an SSH interface on the WAN port?
PuTTY on Windows will do SSH tunneling, forwarding a local TCP port on the Windows machine through the SSH link to the destination port (80 in this case) on the remote network address.
Of course, this assumes you have SSH access enabled on the router at the client site.
The thing about single use bags is that next thing is they’re going to charge for is to park at the grocery store or use the bathroom.
Look on Big River. A thousand bags works out to 3¢ each. I’m pretty sure HEB pays a whole lot less, probably near ⅓ of a cent. If that much.
The reusable bags are nasty and filthy. They don’t fit the checkstand so there you are, instead of bagging groceries into a plastic bag that is on a support frame, you have this big stinky grimy thing and it’s like packing groceries into a backpack.
Oh and what makes it really special is when you are scanning stuff and shoving it down to the bagging area, if you are lucky enough to have a bagger helping, then the customer tosses their filthy smelly bags on top of their groceries. And then complains “this bag is too heavy”. Well, yeah babe, I pack your filthy bag full with 50 pounds of groceries because it fits.
Dunno. When I was checking I scanned and bagged. One motion. If their cart was in the right place, I’d reach over and put the bags in the cart. Which made for fun times when you have a couple of older-ish ladies catching up on the gossip and I have everything bagged and in the cart and she looks at me and asks “aren’t you going to check out my groceries?” and I’m like “I’m done with your stuff, those are her groceries, I didn’t want to interrupt the conversation y’all are having”.
I’m a Bad Person. Then again, with four registers open, folks are in MY line. Because, well, the other checkers have three people in line, I have six and they are all gone while the the other checkers still have one or two to deal with. And I wasn’t running the express lane, full carts.
I’m a Bad Person.
Aren’t we all ?
@Lynn, I thought the peplink was managed by an online console tool. Mine was. There were a lot of options. You should look at updating firmware too.
Yup, very nice http interface that is only accessible from the LAN side, not the WAN side. Unless, I change that configuration.
I have the last firmware for the Peplink 30. It is a 10+ old year box. They want me to buy a new more fancy box. For instance, my box don’t do IPv6.
(Catching up from yesterday…)
>> https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2023/06/13/tues-june-13-2023-out-of-office-today-working-for-a-living/#comment-261587
@Ray / Rick H, how do you get the ‘thin’ blank blockquote inserted in a comment?
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>> There is still a dead tree encyclopedia available, the World Book Encyclopedia 2023, one mans review:
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rejoice-its-2023-and-you-can-still-buy-a-22-volume-paper-encyclopedia/
>> I have previously mentioned my search for (and purchase of) the 1968 Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Either of these printed/bound in archival format? (acid-free paper, etc.)
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>> I guess it’s better for my diet, though. I usually eat a full package of graham crackers with a glass of milk (dipped). Still do – had one last night. Less crackers, less calories, I guess.
As long as you’re still ‘full’ after the shrunken package, otherwise you might not stop after just one more from the second package.
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>> If they will do this to Trump, imagine what they are willing to do to you and me.
One-way ticket to Gitmo.
>> If they will do this to Trump, imagine what they are willing to do to you and me.
One-way ticket to Gitmo.
Or a firing squad. Much cheaper.
Or just take all of our food and guns. Cue The Band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
Why do you think that they’re so determined to take guns away from everyone but career criminals?
Just onshore the constultants running the Gitmo reeducation sessions since the subjects will be citizens with certain “rights”.
Yes, consultants. One of the biggest names in the industry had my Bat Guano neighbor on the payroll running the snake torture.
The camps will have WiFi where all other areas will revert to Internet access only via dial up modem. Most of the population will show up at the gates voluntarily.
“A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon”
https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amazon-df1074e3818b
“On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week, from Thursday, May 25. This wasn’t just a simple inconvenience, though. I have a smart home, and my primary means of interfacing with all the devices and automations is through Amazon Echo devices via Alexa. This incident left me with a house full of unresponsive devices, a silent Alexa, and a lot of questions.”
“When I connected with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked. When I answered I was unsure, their tone turned somewhat accusatory. I was told that the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my “Ring doorbell” (it’s actually a Eufy, but I’ll let it slide).”
The future is here.
Why do you think that they’re so determined to take guns away from everyone but career criminals?
The career criminals are the future brownshirts. They will be collecting your food and guns in an emergency.
SteveF says:
Because they know that they’re going to do something to us that would cause us to shoot them. It’s proactively self-defense.
Lynn says:
I have no “smart” devices in my house, and wouldn’t have them. None of my phones have a keyword to wake them; I have to press a button before I talk to them. And I’ve never gotten an advertisement about something that I’ve talked about with my wife. I’m relatively sure that there’s nothing in the house listening to me.
The future brownshirts will be city cops rotated out of their usual jurisdictions so the locals are objects, not people.
The cell phone standard to meet FCC approval has included the capability to switch on audio transmission remotely without the user’s knowledge since the early 90s.
The only way to make sure the phone isn’t transmitting is to remove the battery.
The surveillance method requires a warrant … for now.
The cell phone standard to meet FCC approval has included the capability to switch on audio transmission remotely without the user’s knowledge since the early 90s.
The only way to make sure the phone isn’t transmitting is to remove the battery.
The surveillance method requires a warrant … for now.
The NSA in “The Good Wife” tv show did not need no stinking warrant to listen to your phone.
https://ew.com/recap/the-good-wife-season-5-episode-2/
Anybody know about drug abuse, probably meth, and psychomotor agitation?
I just interacted with someone who is clearly “different”. Twitchy, nervous, overexaggerated motions, fast talking. But actually doing a desk clerk job at a motel, and at least semi-competently. Turns out, she’s my friend’s baby mama.
I later talked to the friend who hired her, and he told me she has cleaned up her act and he’s keeping her on the payroll because he wants his daughter to have her mother in her life. Admirable. But…
I worry whether she’s really cleaned up her act, and the agitation is residual, or if she’s back on the stuff.
Do tweakers continue tweaking when they get sober?
I’d like to see a valid source that states that requirement. Not just a conspiracy theory or anecdotal theories.
According to information I quickly researched:
My first job out of college in 1992 was at Valor Electronics, one of the registered manufacturers holding a range of AMPS standard ESNs, inherited from Philips Circuit Assemblies, who originally designed and manufactured reference phones for their AMPS/TACS hybrid chipsets at a plant in Tampa. When the new FCC approval requirements came out for 1993, my management flipped out and requested a clarification with the lawyers who came back affirming that the audio capability had to be there.
Anectdotal, but I’ve always gone on that being the rule. The RF band transmitter is always under control of the towers since the user does not need an FCC license, one of the key advantages of cell phones over the previous mobile telephone service standards.
The requirements could have died with AMPS, which hasn’t been deployed new in the US in 20 years with dismantling starting in 2008. Audio is expensive in terms of bandwidth.
The bosses ran out of money just as they were applying for approval. I assume approval happened and a few got made after I left since, ironically, the phone was popular with criminals who discovered that we used a discrete chip to store the MIN/ESN.
And on NCIS, Bishop’s 2012 MacBook Pro could crack AES 256 in an hour.
@Alan
That blank grey bar with red left border is done via the ‘code block’ icon (last one). You’ll need to put some text after it, then move up before the last line and click the icon.
Here’s one. Normally, the blockquote (left double quotes icon) is used for quotes. The code and code block icons (last two) are normally used for fixed space code fragments.
But some ‘fancy’ people use it as a blockquote.
@rick, can you link the text rebuttal? When someone quotes text but doesn’t link it, I usually just highlight some of the text and search for that to get the source, but two different chunks of the rebuttal yielded no hits at all.
@alan, the 1968 version was meant to last. My copy is just the same as what I remember from childhood, even down to the smell of the pages. They are thin, but tough. Don’t know if it’s technically archival, but it hasn’t crumbled or yellowed. It’s not as opaque, covered in clay so that the pictures look good, like new printing. More like onionskin. I never worried about tearing the pages though. Pretty sure it’s bound in real leather too. My dad read thru the whole set cover to cover twice. You could not beat the man at trivial pursuit.
@crawdaddy, I can change the netmask, but can’t change it to /16 or 255.255.0.0 because the router has reserved xxx.xxx.002.xxx for VPN… I’ll have to wait to change it when I’m out there on Friday. serves me right for brainfarting the 1 vs 10
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added– @greg, no local computers at all on his network. Ipads and phones. His work lappy isn’t connected and I couldn’t access it anyway (even if I could it would probably break a HIPPAA rool…
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Anyone ever “recover” a chromebook? D1’s says it needs to be recovered, and to insert the USB tool… which I found online.
Any ‘gotchas’ I need to watch out for? Or just follow the instructions and it’ll be fine…
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The quotes came from NIST.
The SSH tunnel would connect through the shell on the router if available.
The remote audio thing is a lot like the choice of 40 bit encryption for GSM, that was the longest length three letter agencies could crack in a reasonable amount of time. Hard to prove but widely acknowledged. ‘course with GSM, it turned out you didn’t need to crack it, you could clone a phone and activate a maintenance mode and get the decrypted audio. And iirc a bunch of the digits were always 0 so as to make it far less than 40 bit in practice.
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“it is important to note that such capabilities are not a standard requirement set by the FCC or any other regulatory body.”
– if I was a lawyer, I’d point out that the statement could be completely true, and wouldn’t preclude some other agency (that was not a regulatory body) from inserting requirements. Whenever I see very specific statements I always get twitchy. The next line is a little more broad and general, but something doesn’t have to be mandated to be included. Onstar is a good example. The audio can be activated without the vehicle occupants knowing.
The audio activation could have been included as part of e-911 forex..
FWIW if the capability exists, it will be used. And we know it exists, even that text admits the possibility, ergo SOMEONE is using it or could.
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My understanding is that Groupe Bull developed the 40 bit encryption for GSM and the French wanted to take care of their own.
I swear I remember Dr. Pournelle touching on the subject at some point.
It is nothing more than a blank line in the comment box, formatted as a quote. Like the line below.
Currently in Hövelhof. DB was 55 minutes late on the long train ride from Regensberg. 9 hours on the train is just as bad as flying for 9 hours, maybe worse. Fortunately the train from Essen to Hövelhof runs hourly.
That is a local train and does not use electric wires. I could feel the transmission shifting so it is some kind of diesel engine driving the wheels through a physical transmission. Must be a really beefy transmission to accommodate the mass of a train with six cars. The effort to overcome the inertia is significant, the rolling resistance not so much.
I used to commute into Germany on the train. The German train systems suffers a serious lack of maintenance and investment. While the intercity trains do ok, regional trains are rattletrap museum pieces, and regional tracks are poorly maintained. Because the tracks and trains are in such poor condition, no one wants to take them. Which justifies not investing, of course, because just look at the low passenger numbers.
Decades ago, Europe agreed to get cargo on trains, from the North Sea all the way to Italy. Switzerland, for our part, built new tunnels through the Alps. Italy was late with their part (of course, because Italians are always late), but they got it finished. Germany – industrial, organized Germany – is nowhere. They can’t decide where to build the extra tracks. Should they be alongside existing ones? Along the Autobahn? Somewhere else? Dither, dither, dither… So we still have stupid numbers of trucks on the highways.
I see others have already answered. I’ll toss my answer in anyway, because I had this exact problem a while back.
Assuming you have access to the router: Probably it has a network mask set to 255.255.255.0, which is blocking your access to devices outside of the 192.168.10.xxx range. Set the network mask to 255.255.0.0, and you should be able to access the device.
On this trip it was the ICE that was late. The reason given was there was a problem with a signal and that delayed the train. That cascaded as the late train now had to wait for clear track for other on-schedule trains.
This time the regional train was on-time, and was working well, even the A/C. The train seemed to be in good shape, relatively clean.
This is the first time in seven trips to Germany that I have had any problems on the trains. Of course, I mostly use the ICE, one time having a train that was traveling 300 KPH on specially built tracks to handle the speed. Most ICEs run about 150 KPH to 200 KPH in the open country. In the cities they slow down a lot and I can feel the bumps from the track switching junctions.
I also avoid using the trains during peak morning and evening rush hour. Our train to Berlin is set to arrive about 3:30 to avoid the rush hour commuters. Which is when DB suffers the longest, and most frequent, delays.
More pictures from Europe. Go to page 3 and 4 to see the new pictures. The first picture on page 1 are the seats the wife and I had on our flight leg from Atlanta to Amsterdam.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Europe
Today is a relaxing day with not much to do except visit. Which is fine as that is the primary purpose of this visit.
Wonderful pictures Ray.