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MikeAshley178on Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for Celeron laptops

Same thing happens all the time in UK gov contracts

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/96m-laptop-contracts-went-to-tory-...

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/218211-geo-geobook-1e...

MikeAshley178on West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres

Shaving a few minutes off your shower, walking to the shop instead of driving, turning your thermostat down by a few degrees will make no f@@kin difference what so ever to the horror that is coming.

The whole point of these exercises is not to save energy but to engage the population to believe that they are part of the problem and therefore part of the solution. They are not.

One of the most important videos on the entire Internet, if you cannot understand why then you are probably already lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g&t=1s

MikeAshley178on I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

Wonder how long until I can ruin it with Python and Requests.

P.S I am not going to and I am drunk.

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: One of best Linux kernel for media streaming

https://xanmod.org/

Hands down.

MikeAshley178on Nsakey: Can the NSA Read Your Data on Windows?

The NSA registry key has nothing to do with cryptography, security or CSPs. It is an urban legend. It's reference to "Name Space Assembly"

MikeAshley178on Elizabeth line: Crossrail complete after decades of struggle – a photo essay

I love the engineering work but the digital systems behind it are nothing short of absolutely shite.

MikeAshley178on London ISP CommunityFibre Discount 3Gbps FTTP Plan to £50

More than likely that the door to door sales aren't employed directly with CF and on commission only so the competition for sales will be fierce. There's another ISP in London that does the same thing I think it might have been Hyperoptic.

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession?

The issue now is that the Middle class stand to lose their houses by the end of the year because over over leveraged and over borrowing. Now that's why it's getting so much (more) attention.

MikeAshley178on Does anyone here realize that only possible way to get big ROI is/was crypto?

Greedy. That's it. If you want to be right, Work hard, Start a a business. Don't chase ROI because that won't make you rich.

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: Why did $LUNA go down so suddenly?

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50620154

What is the point of a "stable coin" especially when it is say pegged to the dollar. i.e. 1 to 1. It means nothing because why not just use Dollars in the first place. It serves no purpose.... Unless you didn't really have those dollars in the first place? Because otherwise it's just transferring money with extra steps (fraud) in the middle. The only possible justification of having it is that you don't have the dollars in the first place.

MikeAshley178on The British police unit helping remove drill-music videos from the web

They aren't doing a good job at all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukdrill/

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: How do a prepare mentally for war?

More likely too late but I would just hang out here and absorb as much knowledge as possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/

MikeAshley178on Who is guaranteeing Russia's foreign currency reserves?

China

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: How are you insulating your investments given the Ukraine situation?

Long Silver and Natural Gas

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?

They don't care. Honestly they are fighting a massive bot/spam problem. A good chance 90% of your wifes "followers" were bots. Explain this to her and go live your best life.

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: What should I do with my unused 1Gig internet?

> Bitcoin miner,

Doesn't matter so much about Bandwidth, That friend knows nothing. You'd need more processing power that offsets the extra bandwidth.

You could try a Seedbox. Easy to setup, cheap.

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=bittorrent

other things include

https://geti2p.net/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_(software)

Setup any number of Game Servers....

https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Dedicated

But first invest in a good router.... Or setup a Homelab

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/

VPN/Proxy Server for family and friends

Plex Server for family and Friends.

MikeAshley178on National debt as percentage of GDP over the last 40 years. What's the plan here?

It's much worse than that.

http://www.jamessawyer.co.uk/01_20_2022_Economic_Indicators_...

MikeAshley178on Track any IP address with IP-Tracer

What does this do? Is it just a Geo Lookup service?

MikeAshley178on Vodafone UK customers aren't able to view images on Twitter

I assume some government censorship feed has gone wrong. Like CleanFeed or something that has incorrectly blacklisted domains or such.

Find a proxy or use a VPN.

https://github.com/tg12/fresh-proxies

YMMV

MikeAshley178on Over 20k servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet

I looked at this sometime ago. Here is what I found.

https://github.com/tg12/rapid7_OSINT

MikeAshley178on Over 20k servers have their iLO interfaces exposed to the internet

For those who don't have a Shodan Subscription you can use Open Datasets to find the same...and more

https://github.com/tg12/rapid7_OSINT

MikeAshley178on Ask HN: Are there remote finance/banking software jobs in the UK?

> Previously worked full-time in the office, but the last two years have really shown me how much better my life is wfh.

100% agree, I insist on Remote only roles now. I did before the pandemic. There's plenty of remote jobs here in the UK. Does it have to be Banking/Finance?

MikeAshley178on WhatsApp Chats still available despite not being indexed by Google now

Whist google has stopped indexing them, I found them still available with my own algorithms. The chat links and names are there as a sample.