Yeah … that’s never going to happen.

Given that you’re having issues with the DNS, I’d look at this.

Specifically, are you using the ISP DNS as an upstream lookup, or have you configured another DNS as the upstream?

Is the ISP DNS locking you out because you’re hammering it?

Does the ISP block traffic on Port 53?

When you’re having issues, can you look up addresses using a different DNS?

How is your DNS configured / implemented?

Are you stating fact based on research and analysis, or are you venturing an opinion?

So, like a baby Yahoo! directory?

I wonder just how long it will stay relevant and how they determine if the content comes from a human. So far I’ve been accused of being a bot several times, clearly reliably detecting humans is beyond the capability of … humans.

Having had a mono radio cassette player in my bedroom in 1976, running off D-cells, that was not my experience.

The biggest drain was the volume, not the cassette player. You noticed it getting slower and slower, but the drain came from playing it loud.

My Sony Walkman a few years later ran forever on its batteries.

As it happens, actually I was buying batteries in the 1970’s. They were massive and lasted plenty long enough to play audio cassettes for several days.

Edit: I’d also point out that three decades is 1996, not 1976, that’s five decades.

The price of the batteries was never really the issue, it was their weight versus their capacity with some consideration towards size and robustness.

As far as I can tell, today the biggest hurdle is charging.

Tailscale is possibly a solution for you.

The article says nothing about genai and uses a paywalled article as its source. A second source is an article written by the author.

Not sure what barrow this is peddling, other than repeating the absurd notion that software engineers are paid too much whilst the Australian Computer Society promotes articles stating that they should be paid at 1995 pay rates.

As an ICT professional with over 40 years experience, all I see is poorly informed HR teams hiring the very cheapest graduates they can find and believing that Assumed Intelligence will make it all better after they decimated their experienced staff.

No wonder we have escalating data breaches and security nightmares, not to mention unstable consumer electronics and a growing list of terrifying trends in vehicle software implementations with absolutely no global mechanisms for regulation or certification.

Edit: spelling

RCMP Commissioner regrets being caught overseeing an Indigenous spying program that spanned over a decade.

/fixed

The word “spoofing” comes to mind…

So when is this happening, so we can mentally and logistically prepare for the next influx of new users into the fediverse?

I use apt, but you don’t have to, instead you can use any package manager from any distribution and use that distribution within the container.

If an application isn’t packaged, you can use the same mechanism to compile from source.

IMHO, if it’s not packaged and you can’t compile from source, it’s time to look for a different application.

I use Docker and apt instead. The definition of an application lives in a single text file and you don’t give it anymore resources or permissions than it needs.

So much so, that I wrote a bunch of scripts to make life easier, without ever needing to go anywhere near appimage, flatpak or snap.

https://github.com/ITmaze/remote-docker

14,000 sounds like a big number, until you realise that there’s many millions of routers. Asus is not known for backbone routing, so while this might be happening, you have to ask yourself, is this the biggest threat across the internet, or is this article intended to serve another interest?

While the topic is important, the absurd number of em-dashes in that article leads me to discard it out of hand as Assumed Intelligence slop … which is unfortunate since the premise is interesting.

There’s no simple answer to that question.

And how will Instagram know who my parents are?

I’ve been self employed for over 25 years as an ICT professional, writing software, troubleshooting, training, doing research, data analysis, designing databases, reverse engineering code, writing reports, helping startups, installing satellite communications, rescuing ransomware victims, building Arctic capable GPS trackers, doing events, public speaking, voice overs and plenty more.

It’s a tough gig with lots of ups and downs. You have to be extremely self motivated and persistent. Work comes and goes. Sometimes you’re so busy that there’s not enough hours in the day, other times you have nothing coming in for weeks, months or even years. If you have a holiday, everything costs twice as much because you’re spending money while not earning any, and if you’re not earning enough, there’s no holiday pay, sick leave or retirement funds.

I’ve seen some interesting and scary software in production and met and worked with an utterly amazing variety of humanity.

It’s not for everyone and if you asked me today if I’m better off mentally, physically and financially as a result of this, I’d be hard pressed to give you an answer.