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- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 6 days ago:
OT…
Does anyone know how high a cast iron firepit has to be above black limestone patio slabs to ensure they don’t crack from the heat?
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 6 days ago:
Well, I disagree <folds arms across chest>
It works fine, it’s just that there’s layers of bugs on layers of bugs, right down to the silicon.
If we could just stop innovating new stuff for a while and innovate bug fixing, then just think how stable everything would be, and then there wouldn’t be any logic gaps and then there wouldn’t be any security gaps and then we wouldn’t need… cyber… security… consultants… hmmm… ok… carry on.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 1 week ago:
Might be helping a contractor to cut down some willow trees that have gotten out of hand.
If that doesn’t happen, then frantically pulling together a list of cyber security maintenance tasks for a large client, that I’m a few weeks late on.
So… backups… er… check the AV… er… firewalls… that’s a good start 😉
- Comment on What are your methods to harden *nix servers? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the links, I’ll take a look as I’ve never actually played with port knocking.
- Comment on What are your methods to harden *nix servers? 2 weeks ago:
Is this for internal facing servers? Not much more than CIS and the usual Best Practices (no root for SSH, etc)
For a DMZ node, minimal software (ie Arch) and automated defenses like fail2ban, key authentication, etc…
Firewalls with Geo-IP blocking also help, but that’s not technically what you’re asking for.
- Comment on What are your methods to harden *nix servers? 2 weeks ago:
Would you use that on internal LAN connections or only external internet facing connections? I’m not aware (not checked) if any firewalls support it… not sure why?
- Comment on ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK? 3 weeks ago:
Good god, is ActveX still alive?
- Comment on 4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War 3 weeks ago:
I saw a bird on my lawn today…
- Comment on People think onlyfans is weird 1 year ago:
Thank you. I went quite light headed laughing about your statement.
- Comment on Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off 1 year ago:
I presume the physical device just isn’t capable (like an old phone)
The SIM doesn’t provide the 3G/4G/5G ability, it just enables it, so swapping the SIM wouldn’t help… unless another provider was holding back the upgrade for longer…?
- Comment on Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off 1 year ago:
Because the physical location is not suitable - a 60s house with the distribution units (and old Eco7 termination for night-storage heaters) are right next to the current meter.
Oh, and it’s in the kitchen, underneath the bathroom… right underneath the bath!
- Comment on Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off 1 year ago:
The UK 3G network switch-off: what you need to know
Timescales vary by provider, but yep.
I’m still happy with my un-smart meter (which would require an entire house rewire to make a smart meter useful - so much for “free”)
- Comment on Where do you start with Brian Eno? 1 year ago:
Oh wow… you’ve just picked 2 of my favourite artists & albums. 🙂
- Comment on New North Sea oil and gas licences will send ‘wrecking ball’ through climate commitments 1 year ago:
Considering that a LOT of gas in the UK came here by boat from the middle east, then, yes, this is actually a good thing.
Don’t get me wrong, we need to get to NetZero, but the plastic parts on your electric car are made from oil…
- Comment on ‘Hands-off, eyes on’: Ford deploys 'hands-free' driving in cars on UK motorways 1 year ago:
As long as the car can determine that the driver’s eyes are open because they’re paying attention to the road, not watching a film on their phone, perched on the dash…