Risky click of the day paid off

About 15 years ago Microsoft had this great idea.

What if we forced everyone to use our software on the web so they can’t buy it.

Macros will no longer work, but not many people use macros so fuck those guys, they are nerds anyway.

This became the heyday of the Libre Software movement. And the reason I still occasionally use it.

Companies run on the simple automation the nerds create with Macros and companies aren’t going to hire a bunch more clerks so they can pay more for shittier software.

TL;DR, Microsoft backed down when people voted with their feet and not before.

Being Elon’s brother gets Kimball on corporate boards like Chipotle.

He’s not rocking the boat, he’s just dense.

Is that a real picture or AI?

Endorsement

“I don’t belong to any organized political party, I am a Democrat”

Will Rogers

I have quite a few smart home devices. But the only “crappy IoT things” is an air purifier that is controlled by phone.

Unfortunately, I bought quite a few T-Link products before the IC revealed that they are dangerous.

It is worth exploring.

Edit TP-Link

I had set my router to track IP Statistics. There were 9 packets sent and received to that IP.

Thanks!

I did not think of this. I will have to go into the bios to turn off the battery of my work laptop.

It is probably going to come to this.

I have Wireshark, but haven’t really had a reason to learn it. I mostly just stare at the traffic rolling by the way they do on The Matrix. This is on the list to try.

I could see someone (maybe me when we were younger) trolling my Dad by putting this on his car for him to find.

I have x-code loaded on a Mac, but that is the closest I have to that.

It does, and it’s not listed there.

It is more than your average home network. I have a dual WAN router with fiber on each to a different provider. (It is stupid overkill, but my wife and I both work from home and it is important not to be down). I use a pi-hole for ad blocking and unbound for recursive DNS resolution. Most of the devices are wired Ethernet, so I have a bunch of switches and kit to transform coax into fast Ethernet.

I don’t mess with the firewalls, because that seems like there is a big downside to messing about if you get it wrong. That is all vanilla out of the box.

Sounds like purchasing got a deal on surplus spook gear.

lol!

That gave nothing useful

This is interesting. I had to modify it to nmap -A -T4 -p- -Pn <IP>.

It said the host is up with 0.077 seconds of latency. All 64k ports were scanned with 7 filtered tcp ports (host-unreachable) and the rest (no-response).