Matthew Robinson

@LinusTech is there an official bit holder available to either buy or print at home for the ltt screwdriver shorty bits? If no, is there one coming? #lttstore

@sysadafterdark We use PRTG at work internally and for customer installs. Their new pricing model has made it too expensive though. We are going to migrate over to Zabbix and see how we get on. Such a shame as PRTG is very user friendly for our support teams.

So, what are we all using for monitoring these days? I have a second meeting with Grafana Enterprise on Friday and our PRTG quote came back a bit too rich for our blood. It has to use SSO and if it’s cloud based, needs to be SOC2 compliant. Bonus points if it’s not 14k.

@MarcherReborn Hes only pissed off because his multi millionaire non-dom wife is gona have to actually pay some taxes now.

Never seen him so angry

@robertgraham @SwiftOnSecurity You might have miss read the origional tweet. A device needing to ‘report back’ to the manufacturer doesnt need to be routable on the public internet. It certainly doesnt need an SNAT. Any manufacturer that requires an inbound connection to a device should have S2SVPN.

This is a well-known problem. Sometimes it's product warrantee information, sending back status messages to the manufacturer so they can tell if the product is failing. You don't want an X-Ray machine drifting out-of-spec, do you? In the past, dialup served this purpose, and you'd find medical machines via wardialing. Other times, they need to simply communicate to laptop attached via WiFi. Well, since all those devices use routable IP addresses, the medical device uses a routable IP address. All of this can be solved with segmentation of the network and VPNs, but since nobody does it, hospitals don't know how. In other words, you could sweep in an fix a hospital, but they aren't going to let you. They are too conservative. What if what you do breaks something, then a patient dies because the network failed? Hospitals want to do what every other hospital does. They want machines to operate like all the other machines they have. They don't like your new fangled ideas about trying something risky and different.

Network engineers: I get how you _can_ do it, but how do you _accidentally_ expose a "this might kill somebody" medical device to be routable on the public Internet? This is some intelligent design stuff I don't think the universe materializes this as how IPv4 works.

@jakkuh_t Been running FF for years. 100+ tabs (i have a problem) Rock solid. Fast and light on memory, especially compared to Chrome.

I don’t run browser ad block but chrome sucks anyways… what browser should I try instead?

@GergelyOrosz Long time user of Sonos, have one in most rooms of the house. Software used to be great (S1 app) S2 has always been crap but then they ‘redesigned it’ and it was useless. However, been using my system for the last two days and its night and day different. Ive changed nothing.

What is happening at Sonos is hard to believe. The company released a new app that is a big regression in reliability, usability and functionality vs the old one. Sales are falling thanks to the new app. There is no quick fix. They want to re-release the old app... but cannot

@Chuggley1 @CuckooInternet This used to be in their billing emails. This was for their FTTC service. I dont know if it’s different for the new full fiber services they now offer.

@Chuggley1 @CuckooInternet Thats because nearly everyone is using the BT (Openreach) wholesale network. So there is a fairly fixed fee for that. The rest is upto each ISP. @CuckooInternet have a breakdown of this somewhere.

Mid-contract price rises are a tactic that the big six broadband providers have been using for years, leaving customers confused and shortchanged. At Cuckoo we’ve never raised prices mid-contract. That's £0.00 in "pounds and pence" 😁

Can someone @Sonos tell me why its more reliable, faster and a better user experience to control my speakers vis the @Spotify app than natively through the Sonos app. The new app is a hot mess!

@daveehumphrey @TracketPacer Back in the 90s would this have been running CatOS rather than IOS? Had some fun adding Vlans to a trunk in CatOS 🤦‍♂️ ‘errr, why have we lost comms to the second building?’s**t!!!!

tell me your funniest “i took the network down” stories? i need a laugh today

@remixedcat @John_Capobianco No. Their business was soft drinks.

@MWRobbo @John_Capobianco Was it beer??

12 years ago I finally removed VLAN 12 from the insurance company's network ! VLAN 12 was an internal subnet using 163.5 ... a public IP that we didn't own ... because "Carole, the database admin's, birthday was March 16

@mattdesignme @SkySportsF1 Same problem here. How is it that @skytv cant amend the recording schedule when they extend their own broadcast. Id be really annoyed if I was paying for this. Oh wait! … 🤯

@SkySportsF1 my Sky Q recording of FP2 cut off long before the session. I’ve tuned in live to F1 channel which says a re-run of FP2 is on, but it’s just showing old features. When can I watch the FP2 re-run in full?

@autosport Something we can agree on there.

Max Verstappen made it very clear he is not a fan of the show surrounding the #LasVegasGP 👀 Do you agree with the triple world champ? 🤔 #F1

@EverySmartHome Take my money! This is what Ive been waiting for. Much excites.

Production batch of these just arrived and are working really well, I love them 🥰 Should be available very soon if you like to PoE all the things 👀

@HackingLZ @TomLawrenceTech This has always been one of my bugbears about ‘prosumer’ kit. They give features odd names and make you configure it in backwards ways. I’ll defo be watching this tonight.

Great video from @TomLawrenceTech on setting up VLANs on Unifi. The Unifi VLAN config was a little weird for me coming from other network gear but eventually makes sense. youtu.be/TCMivAkDBtw?si…

@jazaa08 @leicspolice @LFRSFireControl Its still a mess

ROAD CLOSURE | 13:15 | The M1 is currently closed due to a lorry fire at junction 21a northbound and junction 22 southbound. Please avoid the area. Thank you for your patience.

@CarThrottle Maybe a hot take but like the grill LED on the Golf this will also look shit.

A new BMW X2 M35i is on the way, complete with illuminated kidney grilles... Read more: carthrottle.com/news/2024-bmw-…

@SkySportsF1 Im not a huge fan of Lance. But this kid looks like he’s on drugs in this interview. His system must be all over the shop after a race in that heat. Where are the safety measures to make sure the driver can physically and mentally cope with that kind of punishment.

"It's ridiculous! Just passing out basically in the car in the high speed corners" 😮 A frustrated Lance Stroll after the Qatar Grand Prix

@deanmoulder @sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy You could also ask the DNO to increase the main fuse (assuming your supply is rated for more)

@deanmoulder @sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy Hopefully your getting a decent charger installed. The nicer ones will have a CT clamp on the main tails so it can monitor the whole house load. Then you can set a power limit on the charger so you never have a situation where the power exceeds 60A.

Do you have a looped power supply? This is a very interesting video. If you are thinking about buying an EV it's worth checking to see if you are on a loop supply if you intend to home charge. A loop supply mags your sharing the same incoming cable from the DNO with neighbour.