https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."
Hey everyone,
I wanted to poll the community and pick up tips on DIY cable labeling and management.
At work, we label both ends of Ethernet cabels using a Brady Label maker. They are awesome but run about $200 USD.
I don't need such an expensive device to create (one-time) 40ish labels.
I was hoping for DIY suggestions that balances durability and ease of installation. Was thinking tape, sharpies, or even thick zip ties etc. Some forums even suggested bread ties (but I'm concerned they will fall off in hard to reach places). And sharpies are great but can wear on some materials (like those plastic sticky tabs for books and notes)
What are some pros and cons of approaches you guys have tried?
EDIT:
I was pointed to this video which suggests you:
The finished product looks like those shrinking labels where the label is flush against the cable and text is behind a clear film and can't be smudged.
For those that suggested borrow the label maker from work or print them at work: that has occured to every one of our engineers on staff and now our printers are locked away and are signed out bc we would always find them either low on ink/toner or more frequently out of lable paper. Yes, ordering those supplies is negligibly cheap for a budget at work but the issue lied in whenever you picked up the label maker at work, you immediately had to either change the roll or ink. sigh this is why we can't have nice things :)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/data-brokers-staggering-sale-of-sensitive-info-exposed-in-unsealed-ftc-filing/
Judge: Data broker’s motion to sanction FTC “long on hyperbole, short on facts.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-introduce-surveillance-reforms-intended-curb-fbi-spying-2023-11-07/
A bipartisan team of U.S. lawmakers has introduced new legislation intended to curb the FBI's sweeping surveillance powers, saying the bill helps close the loopholes that allow officials to seize Americans' data without a warrant.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-introduce-surveillance-reforms-intended-curb-fbi-spying-2023-11-07/
A bipartisan team of U.S. lawmakers has introduced new legislation intended to curb the FBI's sweeping surveillance powers, saying the bill helps close the loopholes that allow officials to seize Americans' data without a warrant.
https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-first-stable-release/
Prossimo is pleased to announce the first stable release of sudo-rs, our Rust rewrite of the critical sudo utility. The sudo utility is one of the most common ways for engineers to cross the privacy boundary between user and administrative accounts in the ubiquitous Linux operating system. As such, its security is of the utmost importance. The sudo-rs project improves on the security of the original sudo by: Using a memory safe language (Rust), as it's estimated that one out of three security bugs in the original sudo have been memory management issues
I have a device that reached end-of-life support and I'm burned out loading ROMs to extend it's support. Upon from my return from the trip I plan on purchasing a new device anyway, so buying one while traveling is also an option.
I'm traveling to a European Market that has stronger privacy rules GDPR and their devices must have lower SAR (regarding phone RF emissions).
My carrier frequency bands in my home country are supported by European phones I'm looking at (Android and Apple). But do the phones dynamically manage the RF emission based on locale or are the limited at hardware or software?
Would purchasing the device abroad have an effect I think it does when I bring it home?
This one is tricky, typically the account (gmail or Apple ID) is associated with the locale. If I were to create a new account and set up my device while abroad, will this have lasting effects? I have a friend who have immigrated and set their devices up abroad and their locale is still their OG country. One of them changed locales (for android) because spotify (app) wasnt available in their home country locale. So I speculate this is a solid approach if I were to do so.
I know I might have issues with availability of content (downloading from app stores). But as far as accounts go, my Spotify (and netflix if i stil had it) account is associated with my home country so I will still be able to watch shows in my locale. Being able to download the app is the limiting factor but there are ways to get around that with side loading.
So yeah, if anyone has experience with this and could call out some things I didn't consider or validate my expectations, would be appretiated.
Unit tests are meant to verify the functionality of isolated units of code. When dealing with code whose output depends on the system or system configuration, what are approaches to write effective unit tests? I feel this problem plagues lower level systems languages more so I am asking it here.
I solve this by writing "unit tests" that I then manually compare to the output of my terminal's utilities. It is the quickest way to verify units work as expected but it is obviously not automated.
Making a container or a VM to run integration tests seems like the next easiest way, not sure if there are other cost effective ways.
Say I have a function called
get_ip_by_ifname(const char *if_name, struct in_addr *ipaddr)
Inputs:
Returns:
The way I might test something like this works is write a test that logs each case's output to the terminal than run ip -c a
in another terminal and compare the info in the 2 outputs. I verify it works as expected manually with very minimal setup (just assigned multiple IP addresses to one of my interfaces).
I would like to test this in an automated fashion. Is there any way that wont be a time sink?
https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
gpt4all: an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue - GitHub - nomic-ai/gpt4all: gpt4all: an ecosystem of ope...
If you didn't get a choice to work remote, how come?
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