@BrodieOnLinux On a reasonably slow internet connection, windows updates can saturate the connection and make it unusable.
Tell your room mate to set a low speed limit in windows update advanced options.
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Turns out my room mates Windows 11 machine wanted to take my entire network for itself when it got turned on during my stream, didn't know it could do that.
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@weaverology @7Kiwi ~6 years to pay for itself, then "free" power after that, does make it a relatively easy choice though if someone does have the up-front cash.
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@7Kiwi The issue with heat pumps is that in order to be financially competitive with gas they require a solar and storage system to generate and store electricity. This adds thousands in upfront costs.
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One unit of electricity costs 4X one unit of gas
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow
The worst heat pump is more efficient than the best gas boiler. A gas boiler turns one unit of energy into less than one unit of heat. A heat pump delivers 3 to 4 units of heat for every unit of input. More in future Substack long read. Sign up here: janrosenow.substack.com
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@objcrocks @VicVijayakumar That's actually a solid idea: kid trying a vape on the sly, and probably not owning up to it.
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@VicVijayakumar Maybe you have someone in your crawlspace and they accidentally hit their vape. My THC vape makes my Mila go crazy and if near the smoke alarm it will go off too.
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Every single smoke alarm went off at 640am screaming SMOKE DETECTED. My wife and I bolted out of bed and sprinted up the stairs while the alarms resolved to “IN THE KIDS ROOM”.
No fire or smoke.
But the air quality monitor shows these spikes at that time. The smoke alarm went off 2 more times (6:51, 7:02) while I was in the room.
Making a giant pot of good coffee now.
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@MoneroKaiser It's possible that the only defence could be intentionally resetting the password repeatedy, until you hit the reset limit.
*Perhaps* nobody else can then do it either. idk what the thresholds or intervals are.
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this instagram exploit is stressing me out, i have a few “OG” handles that i’ve had since 2010, worth a good amount, and meta apparently lets AI access account info and can make total changes with no human to intervene and stop it. I curbed a few attempts at my accounts already
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@vxunderground Maybe someone could stop the AI by using the AI itself to reset the AI's own password and then getting inside mainframe to destroy it from within.
Might need an LED lightsuit tho.
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Instagram still hasn't (correctly) patched their AI goop account reset thingy. Accounts are still being stolen and Instagram hasn't said anything about it. Nerds continue to find ways to convince AI to reset accounts for them.
People on social media are freaking out because some of these profiles apparently are big sources of revenue for them.
Meanwhile, rumors are floating around that a few weeks ago Instagram laid off a large percentage of their Trust & Safety department and had it replaced with AI.
Very cool
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@CloudflareDev Hey, so I have a Cloudflare feature idea...
(but duno if it's even viable!)
w3c.github.io/webappsec-dbsc/
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@zachbussey Imagine if they send some data to sponsors.
"23% of lines to take were spoken with excited intonation"
The content creator equivalent of the old "smile more!" but automated by clankers and hated by everyone.
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Amazon Ads to launch two AI Twitch Sponsorship tools at Twitchcon.
Campaign Assist will analyze how creators speak during sponsorships and prompt them on what they need to say, change tone, etc.
Chat Sentiment Analysis will process all chat messages to determine reactions.
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@acjuelich @arpeyton Does the *first* connection often work, but subsequent ones fail?
Only web browsers? If so, disable QUIC by browser policy reg key (check it's applying at edge://policy), then re-test.
After eliminating QUIC, maybe next is how the PA is doing user-id lookup (WMI or PA service)
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@arpeyton Palo Alto. I've run into all types of Firewalls during implementations, but I've never seen these many issues before, so i'm perplexed on how their configuration could differ so much.
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I have a customer whose Firewall is breaking a lot of M365 and #MSIntune functionality. All of the required FQDNs and IPs are allowed, as well as excluding them from SSL Inspection - I'm told. Are there any good tests or scripts to do some added validation and troubleshooting here? I've run the built-in M365 Connectivity Test.
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@ryan_c414 Yep. South-facing room, lots of random tech kit.
It probably only hits 32+ when there's no ventilation, so if a neighbour starts smoking or lights a bonfire, it's a bit shit.
A split A/C unit would be far better - the current 2-hose DIY setup is still inefficient.
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@iso8601x @softlxnar Am I reading this correctly that the temperature in your flat started the day at 32C and only came down to a minimum of 29C? That is mad 🥵
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So I try to stay relatively neutral on UK vs US discourse as a Brit in the US, but one key piece of info a lot of Americans are missing is the cost of UK electricity. Even if you could afford to buy a small AC unit, the cost to run it would be astronomical
cute brute@CuteBrute718
@softlxnar so get some air conditioning
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@softlxnar @ryan_c414 Actual UK temp chart from today w portable A/C
400-500 watts (measured), say 12h max
~£1 - £1.50 /day per A/C unit
A/C started @ 09:00
Temps rise after, due to absence of airflow.
Cooling began when I opened a window.
Assume 10 hot days + 3 hot nights w A/C, maybe £18 - £20/yr?
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If you recall British houses during the winter, an hour after you turn off the heating the house is ice cold again. AC would be no different, and unlike winter where you can then just layer up, there is no other way to keep yourself cool during summer which means running it at least 8 hours throughout the night for relief, longer if you want relief during the day. These costs add up.
Lots of rental properties also enforce specific energy companies contractually because the rental property gets reward for mass enrollment, and often these energy companies add their own fee on top of national energy prices. I dealt with it in my apartment in Manchester. My entire complex of 200+ people tried taking our building to court because people were going into several hundred pounds of monthly debt trying to stay warm during winter because our apartment refused to have another cheaper energy company.
Maybe for you and I it would be a feasible investment, but I have family who already finance their cars, their sofas, their phones, their boilers. An AC installation can cripple many financially even on finance. It’s really not as simple as you think.
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@DrNickA @defido I think it started with Jonathan Haidt's (flawed) book.
That was used by conservative USA groups, plus various charities & influencable legislators.
Facebook also probably funded campaigns. They will need strong ID for the avalanche of generative content & bots, plus training
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This is so dumb it’s insane. Totally hysterical policy making. Worse, they’re phrasing it as a “ban”. It is not, it is supply side regulation on the platforms.
No one gets in trouble for consuming the “banned” product by circumventing the rule. But, by labelling it as one they will make the entire youth of the U.K. think they are breaking the law by using a VPN.
The vast majority will do it anyway. Well done you just made every kid feel like a criminal and now they’re more comfortable wilfully breaking laws. Let’s see how that plays out.
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
EXCL: Sir Keir Starmer is expected to ban social media for under 16s. A government consultation on curbs ends on Tuesday & no final decision will be taken until after that. But I understand No10 policy chiefs have privately said they expect a total ban thesun.co.uk/news/39197313/…
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@TheSnowDreamer We're only 4 weeks away from solar maximum though. This kind of heat is highly possible at this time of year given the right combination of atmospheric factors arising at the same time, which they are now.
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Kew Garden in SW London reporting a rounded 30C… 29.7C 🌡️
Perhaps we could manage 4 consecutive 30C days! Remarkable and unprecedented in spring.
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@adnanthekhan @makowskid if you're by chance able to identify the origin of the compromise, please let people know - it can help others.
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Looks like github.com/makowskid account is compromised.
Aikido Security@AikidoSecurity
🚨 Ongoing supply chain attack on Composer packages! We just found multiple laravel-lang/* packages compromised on Packagist (lang, http-statuses, attributes). Payload runs at autoload time. At least 50 package versions were compromised. If you installed a compromised version, the malware already executed. Pin to a clean COMMIT (not version) and rotate secrets immediately. If your lockfile already had an older commit from before today, you are safe. But you should not update at the moment.
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@RossMcCaff Let's say Tesco was "allowed" £500million/yr profit.
The price of a typical product would reduce by roughly 2p or 3p.
£1.38 instead of £1.40 for a loaf of bread.
£98.33 instead of a £100 shop.
Feel free to run the numbers yourself.
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Such a scam that right wingers have suddenly switched to 'profit margins' when discussing supermarkets, because its far easier to say 'oh poor Tesco is scraping by on a 2% profit margin' rather than consider whether Tesco making £3bn a year while people starve is good
Matthew Bowles@Matthew__Bowles
Supermarkets have profit margins of between just 2% and 4%. Price caps have a long history of producing shortages, weaker supply and many empty shelves. Britain went down that path in the 1970s - it didn't end particularly well...
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@ginko765PSN Changed since the 2011 PSN breach?
Looks like there are also a few other potentical candidates for more recent leaks of PSN data :\
huntress.com/threat-library…
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Nic się nie zmieniło - kradzież kont trwa w najlepsze, a Sony ma to głęboko w dupie. Tym razem padło na twórcę gier (m. in. od Perils of Baking i Habroxia), który dostał ostrzeżenie o potencjalnej próbie przejęcia, zabezpieczył się najlepiej jak mógł, a i tak nic to nie dało. Masakra.
Colin Moriarty@longislandviper
My PSN account was hacked, seemingly as part of an ongoing sophisticated series of moves against both random and "prominent" users. Indeed, I was told by someone a few days ago that I was going to be targeted, and he was right. (He was also hacked.)
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@longislandviper Perhaps the only defense is having a unique email address on a PSN account?
If part of the attacker's MO is to send some emails, it couls *potentially* imply that they need to know the email address for it to succeed.
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With the help of my friends and connections at Sony, I got my account back. I want to thank everyone for their kind words, advice, and direction! It meant a lot.
I fully know I exercised advantages due only and exclusively to my stature in the PlayStation community and my many tethers to the mothership. These are absolutely not privileges many other people have. I simply must acknowledge that.
With that said, I know this has been happening to a lot of folks over time, and we've even covered it on Sacred Symbols on a few occasions. I will dive deep into the situation on the next episode, but rest assured I am already bending (and will continue to bend) the ears of who I can to hopefully help convince the powers-that-be that this is a real issue they have to contend with.
Thanks again.
Colin Moriarty@longislandviper
My PSN account was hacked, seemingly as part of an ongoing sophisticated series of moves against both random and "prominent" users. Indeed, I was told by someone a few days ago that I was going to be targeted, and he was right. (He was also hacked.)
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@Shpeshal_Nick The last time this happened with PSN it was a password reset system which only needed DoB.
Bunch of possibilities for what it could be this time.
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Uh…what the fuck?
So what’s the fucking point of two factor if they can still get in?
Colin Moriarty@longislandviper
Some important information: 1.) I wasn't phished, didn't click on any links, didn't randomly put my password somewhere, etc. I am completely positive of this. 2.) At the time this happened, my email started getting spammed with hundreds of random emails from all sorts of sources (SubStack, EA, AliExpress, Slack... shit I'm not even signed up for). 3.) I then got a text message that my @PlayStation Network email address was changed. Then I got a text message saying 2FA was turned off. Frankly, how can any of this even be possible if someone isn't feeding information from the inside or has some sort of bespoke access to things they shouldn't? Makes no sense otherwise. I don't want to speculate, but it seems like a pretty serious technical and security breach. @PS_Support_US was zero help (though the person I spoked with was perfectly nice). Said my situation has to enter a queue, it will take a week for them to see -if- they can give me my account back, and they seemed to not at all be interested that I was positively not phished, that my email address was randomly changed, that 2FA was shut off, and all the rest. I did try to explain that I'm a prominent "media" person in the PlayStation space and that I'm likely being targeted as a result, though this has been happening to random people as well (as we've covered on Sacred Symbols). They seemed totally clueless about any of this, even though it's been circulating for months and people have already been targeted and been dealing with account issues. Needless to say, if I don't get my account back, I'm retiring from gaming and podcasting forever. So let's hope it all works out! In the meantime, be vigilant out there! Not that anything I could have done whatsoever would have stopped this. <3
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@Mister_MDM @AdamGrossTX or
sc.exe control IntuneManagementExtension 200
sc.exe control IntuneManagementExtension 220
for syncapp & synccompliance
... *allegedly* anyway, per a rummage through with codex + ILSpy. YMMV. E&OE. Slop notwithstanding.
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@AdamGrossTX $Shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application $Shell.open(“intunemanagementextension://syncapp”)
should trigger at least something... I tried to decompile the cp code some time ago.. but thats one big uhhh mess of code :)
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Ever wondered why a device syncs differently with Intune?
You click Sync expecting everything to be pulled down at once. Policies appear almost immediately, whereas your Win32 Apps and PowerShell scripts are ignored.
From the outside, it feels inconsistent, even maybe a bit unreliable.
In this Patch n Rant, we explain why that expectation is the real problem. The Sync Button in Intune only communicates with the policy engine. Win32 apps and PowerShell run in separate execution paths with distinct timing and triggers. They are not waiting on that button.
Once you see that separation, Intune sync no longer feels random.
Watch the @PatchMyPC Patch n Rant:
youtube.com/watch?v=j2-Wie…
#Intune #MSIntune #Windows #Windows11 #PatchMyPC
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Seizing these is good protocol to get staff in right mindset, but implants won't be placed in items that China knows will be thrown away/tested. They're more clever than this. I'd look at the rose seeds that Xi has promised to send Trump to plant in the White House rose garden
Emily Goodin@Emilylgoodin
American staff took everything Chinese officials handed out - credentials, burner phones from WH staff, pins for delegation - collected them before we got on AF1 and threw them in a bin at bottom at stairs. Nothing from China allowed on the plane. We’re taking off shortly for America
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