You can live in hope.

Stupid shit like this is more common than you might realise.

A commercial geostationary satellite launched to cover Australia and New Zealand had its dishes installed incorrectly, causing spot footprints to cover the two countries to be incorrectly aligned.

As a result a whole lot of satellite dishes on the ground had to be adjusted to “fix” the problem.

Source: I had a ground station that was affected.

While they’re at it, could they please also penalize Android app developers who do this too?

Adding weight to things is a tried and true means for increasing the price because the product “feels more expensive”.

I first came across this with wired headphones something like 40 odd years ago, actual slugs of steel to increase their weight, and it’s still happening today.

Ironically, headphones went the other way for a while, the lighter, the more expensive.

I’ve seen it in headphones, keyboards, mice, even monitors. No doubt it’s used in other products.

As a creator, I’d be much more interested in a way to get paid into my actual bank account in such a way that didn’t involve Bitcoin (et. al.), PayPal or Stripe.

So … not made from potato then?

The technology that’s possibly in use on the railway is:

https://assets.new.siemens.com/siemens/assets/api/uuid:c9dbe06e-5daf-426d-97e8-c1a03562da91/sie-bro-pso4000.pdf

RF happens at plenty of lower frequencies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency

Tah. I’ll have a look see.

Not sure how, or if, I’d want to install an Arch package under Debian, but it’s my understanding that the package I’ve raised a bug for under Debian implements, or is supposed to at least, the functionality you’re describing.

What I haven’t found is a recipe that documents exactly how it’s supposed to work (not to mention, in a Debian way).

I’d love to discover something that doesn’t start with instructions to remove all pipewire packages and install from source, since that completely defeats the purpose of running Debian Stable as the host.

In my adventures I did look at this, but it appears to require that you install support for this inside the guest, which is possible for modern guests, but not for ancient ones like say Debian Wheezy or Win98se.

I’d be surprised if they had been updated at all after their installation was signed off.

So … you want to do what exactly?

Monitor every single interaction and police them?

How do you decide what’s an actionable conversation? Who’s laws apply? What’s allowed and what isn’t?

So … you want privacy, or a police state?

Nobody gets fired for buying IBM … apparently.

Microsoft … the perfect incentive to migrate to another operating system.

CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Nothing says leadership quite like being the first to leave a toxic platform … oh wait.

For me, the way to deal with this was to raise my arms above my head in a stretch. Made it stop every time.

Thought I was having a heart attack the first couple of times it happened.

As an adult, I still have them from time to time, but not anywhere as frequently, though still without any warning.

So, why is this being disclosed here and not a CVE reported to Apple?

While contemplating that, my Mac has been up for longer than that and it’s working fine.

The Mac I had before that was up for years, also fine.

So … what is this really about?