Usually when people lower the temperature on their thermostat to below the current temp; they expect their A/C to kick on immediately
Amen to that.
Thermostats (room temperature things) in the UK are now all 'smart' energy saving things which attempt to heat a room to the set temperature without overshooting.
But you're feeling a bit cold, instead of putting the tenperature up 1 degree, you have to put it up 3 so that the heating doesn't switch off until it's gone up 1 degree. (thats centigrade)
I suppose they work for people who set the temperature to 'the maximum they're comfortable with' but I've always wanted 'the minimum I'm comfortable with' and so, instead, a smart thermostat should be 'on' until it reaches the set temperature and never undershoot instead.
One of the most frustrating things about these IOT things is that they won't work properly unless they have an internet connection and are registered.
I don't actually own any IOT things but kindle - AFAICT you cannot have a 'collection' until it can talk to the internet.
Kindlefire, connect to a private network with no (non proxy) internet connectivity and it will refuse to automatically use the connection - even if there are no other connections available.
I'd guess things like nest are the same. The crazy thing is that I do have a way onto my internal network from outside - a VPN - I don't need each and every device trying to find its own way to punch holes through my firewall. I shouldn't have to have firewall rules to catch outgoing traffic and send it to an internal server so devices work. I shouldn't have to have special DNS zones to redirect traffic.
These devices even try to use their own hardcoded DNS servers and bypass the ones supplied by dhcp/radvd so more firewall rules to send that traffic to the only reachable dns servers.
Centrally planned economies and government subsidies often go horribly wrong in all kind of unintended ways. Let's stop subsidizing anything instead of thinking ourselves wise and just spending the subsidies elsewhere.
While is is true that central planning can be disasterous, the alternative isn't necessarily better.
The reason coal power is so cheap (actually not that cheap any more) is that nobody budgets the cost of removing the CO2 from the atmosphere. When there weren't so many of us and we each used so much less power, this wasn't a problem.
Now one solution is to remove the fossil subsidy - you emit 1T of CO2, you have to remove 1T of CO2. Or pay someone else to do it.
But this would cripple us. Far better is to provide a matching subsidy to clean energy sources. Over time we can reduce the subsidy to both - for example, it might actually make sense to have coal plants for base loads and wind farms whose power is used to remove the CO2 that the coal plant produces. While this will clearly be less efficient than using the wind power directly, coal does have the advantage that it is available when it is needed.
Let the market decide. But the market can only decide when the hidden subsidies are accounted for too - and that takes central planning.
And a Norwich Pharmacal Order is an order that the court can make of an *innocent* third party to force them to disclose the identity of someone that appears to have wronged someone else so that the someone else can sue the someone.
Usually the plaintiff has to pay the defendants costs and indemnify them (although the plaintiff can then recover those costs from the eventual target of their action)
The original case was Norwich Pharmacal v HMCE. NP had evidence their patent was being infringed - the chemical in question was being imported - but they couldn't tell who was infringing their patent so they asked customs and excise for the information they had on the importer and manufacturer.
Based on the news reports, it appears in this case that the person who asked for the facebook account to be deleted didn't have the right to do so. Obviously nobody can *know* that because we don't know who it is. It's also possible that facebook know that they did have the right - and this order will protect facebook who otherwise, quite properly, would refuse to release this information.
Nobody is blaming facebook for anything at this point. It appears facebook is merely following the law of the land.
I have a static IPv4 address anyway. Previously, although it wasn't static, I kept it unless I disconnected for at least an hour - so effectively it was static.
But this is orthogonal to NAT as a firewall. ISPs could offer changing prefixes the same way they offer changing IPv4 IPs and some may do that so as to have 'static' addresses for premium business services.
With privacy addressing, which almost everything IPv6 uses, it's hard to probe for devices.
It's not something to rely on, and 1x1 pixel images will be used to get the victims IP from phishing emails, but even if IPv6 routers do allow inbound connections by default (mine doesn't) it won't be an instant disaster ( NAT can be bridged if you can get the victim to start the connection)
but they they wait until the market determines that they have to buy it back
When you short a stock, you have to post the money into a margin account to buy it back (slightly more as you will have to have enough to cover any expected movement in the short term before your position can be closed)
As the price rises, you have to add more and more money to your margin account. Eventually you run out of money and if you cannot post the new margin for the next day, your broker will use the money in your margin account to close your short position.
If the shares move too rapidly and unexpectedly, your broker might not be able to close out your position using the margin account and you're fucked. If it's a big enough movement, your broker is fucked too as they're on the hook if you go bankrupt.
Should the ip rule stuff be part of route or a separate command?
There are things that could be better with ip. IIRC it's very fussy about where the table selector goes in the argument list but route doesn't support this at all.
I also don't think route has anything like 'nexthop dev $if' which is a godsend for ipv6 configuration.
I stayed with route for years. But ipv6 exposed how incomplete the tool is - and clearly nobody cares enough to add all the missing functionality.
Perhaps ip addr, ip route, ip rule, ip mroute, ip link should be separate commands. I've never looked at the sourcecode to see whether it's mostly common or mostly separate.
If I type ifconfig interface I get back pretty much everything I want to know about it
How do you tell in ifconfig output which addresses are deprecated? When I run ifconfig eth0.100 it lists 8 global addreses. I can deduce that the one with fffe in the middle is the permanent address but I have no idea what the address it will use for outgoing connections.
ip addr show dev eth0.100 tells me what I need to know. And it's only a few more keystrokes to type.
What was the reason for replacing "route" anyhow? It's worked for decades and done one thing.
The linux kernel routing is so much more powerful today than in the days of yore.
Either route needed a complete overhaul -which would have broken backwards compatibility - or something new needed to take its place.
route is stil there if that's what you want to use. And for simple networking needs it's all you need and you can stay with it. And you will be left behind as technology moves on.
I can hear yanny across the entire range. But if I think 'laurel' while it's to the left then I can hear laurel.
I had to pause it, wait, and then restart to hear laurel at all to start with. Now with the slider half way to the left I can switch between the two at will.
I used to have good HF hearing - the 15kHz whistle from CRT TVs used to annoy me. Obviously that was many years ago and I be amazed if I could still hear those frequencies.
SMTP is supposed to be end to end. TLS gives you encryption and most MTAs can be configured to require encryption if you so desire.
Personally I don't require it. In the past, too many ISPs didn't support it at all.
I also don't fail on self signed certs, and I'd be vulnerable to a MITM attack although I'd be able to detect it retrospectively by analysing logs.
But then I don't have anything in my emails that I care if a determined attacker reads. In fact, I'd be somewhat pleased if they wasted their time on the effort. But I do want to prevent a casual 'nosey' person reading them 'because they can'
Unfortunately, spam has lead to many people refusing email except via large email hubs.
With luck, soon both sides: the appointment-making and the reservation-taking will be given over to the machines.
That would be awesome but I can't see it happening for a long time.
Hell, *I* cannot navigate the menus to get to talk to a person. What hope has the google AI.
Most recently I needed to change the *mailing* address for my council tax bill (think property taxes)
Now it's slightly unusual to have a mailing address different to the property address but sufficiently common that all council telephone line staff will have dealt with it dozens of times before.
So I ring up. 'this is the 24 hour... During the hours 9am to 4pm you will also be able to talk to a person'
So far, so good.
Now none of the options quite fit - am I moving home or not? So I guess, next option 'hmmm, I think I guessed wrong on the previous option but I'll get to a person eventually'. Anyway, eventually I get to a 'you can find the forms at www.blurb. Goodbye'
Try again. Different route, same outcome. Try again - Do nothing 'we did not detect a key press. Goodbye'
Eventually, after 5 or six attempts, I managed to get through to a person and 30 seconds later was done with the call.
And it will get worse. As AI improves, the number of calls that it will refuse to route to a person will increase making it harder and harder to actually deal with these systems. I never call them unless I cannot work out how to deal with the question without a call.
A normal working day has 1pm in the middle. Non DST has more hours of daylight before the working day than after.
In the depths of winter it makes no difference, dark going to work, dark coming home. In the height of summer it makes no difference, dawn chorus at 3am. Blackout curtains needed at 10pm.
But in spring and autumn DST is better than not. And double DST would be better too. Put the clocks forward in spring. Leave in autumn. Forward again in spring and then leave it alone.
Firefox (on android at least) already does something very strange with RFC1918 addresses.
I have a VPN to my home network on 192.168.x and a proxy server on 192.168.y.50. This all works fine and I can browse the web.
But firefox will not display any pages on a RFC1918 address, whether or not I go through the proxy, whether or not I set the config setting to leave DNS to the proxy. (the dns server is also in 192.168.y
The one thing I haven't tried yet is have dns serve up a non rfc1918 address to the browser but leave the proxy server getting the correct adress. (or even block DNS completely to the browser as the proxy server sees requests for non-existing domains, just not domains that resolve to rfc1918)
What depresses me about comments like this is the total ignorance of nearly 200 years of science.
Back in the mid 19C some scientists thought CO2 was 'saturated' and more wou!dn't cause more warming, others didn't
By early in the 20C and the understandings of quantum physics we could have known that the 'not saturated' argument was the correct one. But nobody seems to have run the maths and published.
By mid 20C and the advent of high altitude bombers who had to worry about ice forming on their wings, we had the data to know that the 'not saturated' argument was the right one.
60+ years later - so nobody under about 70 can have had an education that didn't know these facts - and people are still posting bullshit.
My father remembers in his school chemistry 'Silicon, an abundant but useless element.' What would you think of someone who still said that as fact today?
Pave (verb) Cover (a piece of ground) with flat stones or bricks; lay paving over. âthe yard at the front was paved with flagstonesâ(TM) âa paved areaâ(TM)
There is also the phrase "pave the way" but that refers to enabling something to happen.
We do use the phrase metalled: "A metalled road is covered with small or crushed stones." although this is somewhat technical and relatively rare and I suspect the majority of the population wouldn't know what you were talking about.
Middle English: from Old French metal or Latin metallum, from Greek metallon âmine, quarry, or metalâ(TM).
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Gif: The gift that keeps on giving.
There's a gigantic gigabyte gif in my git repo Giles!
So could concorde.
the web is being broken by these ill thought out changes.
type taxationweb.co.uk into a browser and it will work. try it again and it will fail.
At least currently you will see that you actually visited https://www.taxationweb.co.uk/
In the future you will have no idea what is going on.
Amen to that.
Thermostats (room temperature things) in the UK are now all 'smart' energy saving things which attempt to heat a room to the set temperature without overshooting.
But you're feeling a bit cold, instead of putting the tenperature up 1 degree, you have to put it up 3 so that the heating doesn't switch off until it's gone up 1 degree. (thats centigrade)
I suppose they work for people who set the temperature to 'the maximum they're comfortable with' but I've always wanted 'the minimum I'm comfortable with' and so, instead, a smart thermostat should be 'on' until it reaches the set temperature and never undershoot instead.
One of the most frustrating things about these IOT things is that they won't work properly unless they have an internet connection and are registered.
I don't actually own any IOT things but kindle - AFAICT you cannot have a 'collection' until it can talk to the internet.
Kindlefire, connect to a private network with no (non proxy) internet connectivity and it will refuse to automatically use the connection - even if there are no other connections available.
I'd guess things like nest are the same. The crazy thing is that I do have a way onto my internal network from outside - a VPN - I don't need each and every device trying to find its own way to punch holes through my firewall. I shouldn't have to have firewall rules to catch outgoing traffic and send it to an internal server so devices work. I shouldn't have to have special DNS zones to redirect traffic.
These devices even try to use their own hardcoded DNS servers and bypass the ones supplied by dhcp/radvd so more firewall rules to send that traffic to the only reachable dns servers.
While is is true that central planning can be disasterous, the alternative isn't necessarily better.
The reason coal power is so cheap (actually not that cheap any more) is that nobody budgets the cost of removing the CO2 from the atmosphere. When there weren't so many of us and we each used so much less power, this wasn't a problem.
Now one solution is to remove the fossil subsidy - you emit 1T of CO2, you have to remove 1T of CO2. Or pay someone else to do it.
But this would cripple us. Far better is to provide a matching subsidy to clean energy sources. Over time we can reduce the subsidy to both - for example, it might actually make sense to have coal plants for base loads and wind farms whose power is used to remove the CO2 that the coal plant produces. While this will clearly be less efficient than using the wind power directly, coal does have the advantage that it is available when it is needed.
Let the market decide. But the market can only decide when the hidden subsidies are accounted for too - and that takes central planning.
AFAICT, this proposal is designed to stop exactly that.
Too many people are obviously preventing android devices reporting to google.
Indeed they (probably) can.
And a Norwich Pharmacal Order is an order that the court can make of an *innocent* third party to force them to disclose the identity of someone that appears to have wronged someone else so that the someone else can sue the someone.
Usually the plaintiff has to pay the defendants costs and indemnify them (although the plaintiff can then recover those costs from the eventual target of their action)
The original case was Norwich Pharmacal v HMCE. NP had evidence their patent was being infringed - the chemical in question was being imported - but they couldn't tell who was infringing their patent so they asked customs and excise for the information they had on the importer and manufacturer.
Based on the news reports, it appears in this case that the person who asked for the facebook account to be deleted didn't have the right to do so. Obviously nobody can *know* that because we don't know who it is. It's also possible that facebook know that they did have the right - and this order will protect facebook who otherwise, quite properly, would refuse to release this information.
Nobody is blaming facebook for anything at this point. It appears facebook is merely following the law of the land.
It would be better if you hadn't quoted the first line of my post before writing your ill-informed rant.
I have a static IPv4 address anyway. Previously, although it wasn't static, I kept it unless I disconnected for at least an hour - so effectively it was static.
But this is orthogonal to NAT as a firewall. ISPs could offer changing prefixes the same way they offer changing IPv4 IPs and some may do that so as to have 'static' addresses for premium business services.
With privacy addressing, which almost everything IPv6 uses, it's hard to probe for devices.
It's not something to rely on, and 1x1 pixel images will be used to get the victims IP from phishing emails, but even if IPv6 routers do allow inbound connections by default (mine doesn't) it won't be an instant disaster ( NAT can be bridged if you can get the victim to start the connection)
When you short a stock, you have to post the money into a margin account to buy it back (slightly more as you will have to have enough to cover any expected movement in the short term before your position can be closed)
As the price rises, you have to add more and more money to your margin account. Eventually you run out of money and if you cannot post the new margin for the next day, your broker will use the money in your margin account to close your short position.
If the shares move too rapidly and unexpectedly, your broker might not be able to close out your position using the margin account and you're fucked. If it's a big enough movement, your broker is fucked too as they're on the hook if you go bankrupt.
Should the ip rule stuff be part of route or a separate command?
There are things that could be better with ip. IIRC it's very fussy about where the table selector goes in the argument list but route doesn't support this at all.
I also don't think route has anything like 'nexthop dev $if' which is a godsend for ipv6 configuration.
I stayed with route for years. But ipv6 exposed how incomplete the tool is - and clearly nobody cares enough to add all the missing functionality.
Perhaps ip addr, ip route, ip rule, ip mroute, ip link should be separate commands. I've never looked at the sourcecode to see whether it's mostly common or mostly separate.
How do you tell in ifconfig output which addresses are deprecated? When I run ifconfig eth0.100 it lists 8 global addreses. I can deduce that the one with fffe in the middle is the permanent address but I have no idea what the address it will use for outgoing connections.
ip addr show dev eth0.100 tells me what I need to know. And it's only a few more keystrokes to type.
The linux kernel routing is so much more powerful today than in the days of yore.
Either route needed a complete overhaul -which would have broken backwards compatibility - or something new needed to take its place.
route is stil there if that's what you want to use. And for simple networking needs it's all you need and you can stay with it. And you will be left behind as technology moves on.
I can hear yanny across the entire range. But if I think 'laurel' while it's to the left then I can hear laurel.
I had to pause it, wait, and then restart to hear laurel at all to start with. Now with the slider half way to the left I can switch between the two at will.
I used to have good HF hearing - the 15kHz whistle from CRT TVs used to annoy me. Obviously that was many years ago and I be amazed if I could still hear those frequencies.
This already exists.
SMTP is supposed to be end to end. TLS gives you encryption and most MTAs can be configured to require encryption if you so desire.
Personally I don't require it. In the past, too many ISPs didn't support it at all.
I also don't fail on self signed certs, and I'd be vulnerable to a MITM attack although I'd be able to detect it retrospectively by analysing logs.
But then I don't have anything in my emails that I care if a determined attacker reads. In fact, I'd be somewhat pleased if they wasted their time on the effort. But I do want to prevent a casual 'nosey' person reading them 'because they can'
Unfortunately, spam has lead to many people refusing email except via large email hubs.
That would be awesome but I can't see it happening for a long time.
Hell, *I* cannot navigate the menus to get to talk to a person. What hope has the google AI.
Most recently I needed to change the *mailing* address for my council tax bill (think property taxes)
Now it's slightly unusual to have a mailing address different to the property address but sufficiently common that all council telephone line staff will have dealt with it dozens of times before.
So I ring up. 'this is the 24 hour... During the hours 9am to 4pm you will also be able to talk to a person'
So far, so good.
Now none of the options quite fit - am I moving home or not? So I guess, next option 'hmmm, I think I guessed wrong on the previous option but I'll get to a person eventually'. Anyway, eventually I get to a 'you can find the forms at www.blurb. Goodbye'
Try again. Different route, same outcome. Try again - Do nothing 'we did not detect a key press. Goodbye'
Eventually, after 5 or six attempts, I managed to get through to a person and 30 seconds later was done with the call.
And it will get worse. As AI improves, the number of calls that it will refuse to route to a person will increase making it harder and harder to actually deal with these systems. I never call them unless I cannot work out how to deal with the question without a call.
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Clients connect to servers.
8 til 6, 9 til 5.
A normal working day has 1pm in the middle. Non DST has more hours of daylight before the working day than after.
In the depths of winter it makes no difference, dark going to work, dark coming home.
In the height of summer it makes no difference, dawn chorus at 3am. Blackout curtains needed at 10pm.
But in spring and autumn DST is better than not. And double DST would be better too. Put the clocks forward in spring. Leave in autumn. Forward again in spring and then leave it alone.
Firefox (on android at least) already does something very strange with RFC1918 addresses.
I have a VPN to my home network on 192.168.x and a proxy server on 192.168.y.50. This all works fine and I can browse the web.
But firefox will not display any pages on a RFC1918 address, whether or not I go through the proxy, whether or not I set the config setting to leave DNS to the proxy. (the dns server is also in 192.168.y
The one thing I haven't tried yet is have dns serve up a non rfc1918 address to the browser but leave the proxy server getting the correct adress. (or even block DNS completely to the browser as the proxy server sees requests for non-existing domains, just not domains that resolve to rfc1918)
Using a different browser works.
Skin effect is an AC thing, not DC.
What depresses me about comments like this is the total ignorance of nearly 200 years of science.
Back in the mid 19C some scientists thought CO2 was 'saturated' and more wou!dn't cause more warming, others didn't
By early in the 20C and the understandings of quantum physics we could have known that the 'not saturated' argument was the correct one. But nobody seems to have run the maths and published.
By mid 20C and the advent of high altitude bombers who had to worry about ice forming on their wings, we had the data to know that the 'not saturated' argument was the right one.
60+ years later - so nobody under about 70 can have had an education that didn't know these facts - and people are still posting bullshit.
My father remembers in his school chemistry 'Silicon, an abundant but useless element.' What would you think of someone who still said that as fact today?
Indeed. But in British English:
Pave (verb)
Cover (a piece of ground) with flat stones or bricks; lay paving over.
âthe yard at the front was paved with flagstonesâ(TM)
âa paved areaâ(TM)
There is also the phrase "pave the way" but that refers to enabling something to happen.
We do use the phrase metalled: "A metalled road is covered with small or crushed stones." although this is somewhat technical and relatively rare and I suspect the majority of the population wouldn't know what you were talking about.
Middle English: from Old French metal or Latin metallum, from Greek metallon âmine, quarry, or metalâ(TM).