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Very likely they shipped with an ADMIN/ADMIN username/password and nobody changed it. Because who would want to break in to a freezer, right? It's not like there's bitcoin in there.

We've been telling people for years that naive threat modeling was going to bite everybody one day. And finally, here we are.

Exactly. That's part of what I meant by "none the wiser." The other being that the xmitter could in theory detect a missing antenna from the impedance mismatch and try to increase its power (assuming it knows how to do so without frying itself).

No. Reflections happen with unmatched impedance.

The detectors they use seem to measure only gamma. Not alpha or beta or neutrons. Which is not surprising since cheap handheld detectors usually only measure gamma.

This map is entertaining but it's not terribly useful scientifically.

The point of a dummy load is to match the impedance so that all the radiative energy gets turned into heat and the transmitter is none the wiser.

This. I've had this happen with relatives who come to visit. It's unkind to tell them "Don't fuck with the TV" or "Ignore the TV if it tells you it wants to connect to something."

They want to be "helpful" and show me they can "work tech" by doing stuff like this. They don't understand that the TV is manipulating them. I don't want to have to explain to them that I'm basically a neurosurgeon and they just tried to impress me by drilling a hole in somebody's head. Because the TV told them to.

Disconnecting the wifi avoids the need for unpleasant conversations.

Better to replace the wifi antenna with a dummy load.

> it's possible for a black hole to have a lower density than water

But that density is not homogeneous. It's much denser in the middle. As you cross the event horizon you wouldn't notice anything happening (as long as the BH is big enough that the tidal forces were small so you didnt get spaghettified). But things would feel very weird as you got closer to the middle.

Probably. Nobody has proved any of this but it seems likely.

You can't build an ordinary 3-sphere in 3D Euclidean space; a 3-sphere is a hypersphere. Are you considering 4D spacetime as the container of the 3-sphere, or did you just mean the volume of the 2-sphere in 3-space (as opposed to its shell area)?

The novel Children of Time describes a planet where this is the case. The inhabitants are used to it but fires there are pretty impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)

> at 43 percent a lightning strike will cause the entire atmosphere to ignite since it is so high in flammable oxygen

Good article except oxygen is not flammable. Oxygen is the stuff that makes other stuff flammable.

And here I thought there was nothing I would ever suggest we rename after Trump.

I got a used M2 Air a year ago and it's the best Apple laptop I've ever owned. And I've owned dozens.

Plus it runs Asahi linux on the metal.

Yeah it was my cat. One bite and the screen turned black. He was a kitten at the time. Kittens chew on everything.

That happened to my MBP without OLED. Fortunately I had Applecare.

He has a lot of company.

I used to think this was a universal law but then there's Warren Buffett, who's rich but doesn't seem stupid. Of course he's not a tech billionaire.

And then there's Mark Cuban, who is a tech billionaire but who also still seems to have a working brain.

You know how on a computer screen you can just drag any corner of a window to resize it? I had a dream once where I had a phone that worked that way. Want a bigger screen? Just drag one of the corners of the phone. Shove all the corners together and drop it in your pocket.

I used the hell out of that phone all night. Then I woke up and spent about an hour trying to figure out how to build one. I think I could do it in one dimension (i.e. make the phone wider) by rolling the screen around a tiny roller in the edge of the case, and having the case telescope. But that won't work in two dimensions at once. I never figured out how to do it in two dimensions.

When somebody builds one of these, I'll buy one.

Look at this thing. Now tell me how long you think it would last under an assault of, say, three modern $50k military drones controlled by trained Ukrainian operators.

My guess: 35 seconds.

How are running local ones going to become cost prohibitive? Indications are that Nvidia has been channel stuffing (artificially inflating perceived demand), which suggests massive oversupply of GPUs.

LLMs seem to be very good at detecting vulnerabilities caused by using C and other forms of human stupidity.

So yes.

My paramedic colleagues were using fentanyl decades before you heard of it in a recreational context.

This might be a job for fentanyl. Carefully monitored in a hospital setting of course.

I've faced this same PR problem. Something is very wrong with a software development process when one developer can halt forward progress on the repo by simply ignoring PRs. One solution I've thought about is to automatically accept any PR that sits idle for 48 hours without comments or modification. After that, the reviewers lose the right to complain. If some nasty bug is later discovered, that's what git bisect is for.

Exactly. Grain dust is very dangerous because a small spark can make it explode, but the spark is absolutely necessary. If you leave a pile of oily rags in your garage and wait a few hours, your house could burn down. No spark needed.

Human spontaneous combustion is a silly myth. Other kinds like oily rags and apparently fishmeal are very real.

Radar detectors are not illegal in Oklahoma.

Speaking for myself I love the quick acceleration of electric cars because it enables you to safely pass other cars quickly on two-lane roads without needing to linger in the oncoming lane.

Likewise commercial aircraft.

One of those myths too many programmers believe: All street addresses can accept US mail. Not necessarily the issue in this comment, but when somebody gives you both a shipping address and a mailing address and you send mail to the shipping address, the fault is yours if it doesn't arrive.