Agree! I use this feature all the time. Especially if I want to find where I went a few years ago
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“Someone else’s problem”
That’s what you’re paying for on any cloud provider. Any hardware problem isn’t your problem and it (should be) abstracted away.
Imagine it like dropping a stone in a literal well. The potential energy is higher on the ground than two meters down the well.
Since we are in the gravity well of a planet (earth) the energy needed to reach escape velocity is a certain value, because we have to climb the walls of the gravity well. A denser planet has a deeper gradient so requires more energy to escape.
Falling down the gravity well requires no energy, but the difference of potential energy in “outer space” and “on the planet” is what you’d experience.
There’s no energy stored per se, when you pump water up into a dam or when you enter orbit, as you expend the energy into work, resulting in a difference of potential energy in two rest states.
> GSM security, is everything. Getting the metadata of who you are and where you are, and being able to capture that passively is pretty sensitive metadata, I’m sure you’d agree.
And if the state has access, you’re one social engineering step away from the keys to the kingdom shrug
A *# code doesn’t count here also ;)
No idea yet how widespread the implementation is as I’m teaching myself all of this in my spare time!
It’s easy to get a burner phone in some countries, but many you need a passport or government-issued ID to even get a prepaid SIM! Let alone a phone!
Governments really don’t like citizenry to be anonymous.
IMSI then can be taken to the carrier and the account holder details will be released by a warrant.
An IMEI (which in most countries it will be illegal to change/clone) only identifies the hardware.
So swapping SIMs between phones don’t help to do anything apart from identifying a number of phones that you have access to.
3/4/5G phones will always drop back to 2G if it sees a 2G service whilst 3/4/5G frequencies are jammed.
So you need to realise that phones by design are tracking devices, and stock up on those burner phones and never switch them on near your home :)
It even managed to run some x86 windows stuff - incredibly slowly (this was ~2005)
And it ran the windows 2000 shell preview as well! - though I may have installed NT 4 by then.
It ended up running Debian and being a mono test bench until it was retired to being an MP3 player for the home office.
Alas it was accidentally recycled along with a host of other stuff I was avoiding to deal with. Still it was fun to play with at the time!
Anything that decided to hit the hardware directly from DOS, or did something that OS/2 didn't support in windows just crashed or had undefined behaviour.
Even windows in protected mode couldn't do all DOS things any more. Even if you dropped out of protected mode, and fiddled around too much you'd end up breaking windows when you switched back to it.
Back then you'd have all manner of weird DRM schemes which used dongles on the parallel port, not to mention manually set IRQs, I/O Ports and blocks of high mem (between 640K and 1M) where your device drivers were baked into the DOS application, NOT the operating system. There were some driver.sys type drivers for random hardware, but mostly it was just cheaper to write the driver inside the app itself.
Programming under DOS was more akin to writing to an Arduino rather than linux/windows back then.
I learned meditation in my teens, so I can switch a lot of stuff off, but when I'm particularly stressed - it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid being overwhelmed.
Imagine trying to go to sleep after being mugged or being in a car accident and having to deal with that adrenaline rush, then being asked to sleep. It's that kind of level of stress. Some people are just more susceptible to being overwhelmed that way.
It's one reason why I avoid TV news, and Twitter ... Too many monkeys screaming panic
This was after a huge media outrage about a certain pop star allegedly being a sexual predator in countries where it was legal.
The EU also forced those cookie notices on pages and GPDR about movement of data globally.
Being a holocaust denier will get you arrested in Germany, even if you broke that law in another country.
That's just three examples off the top of my head.
It's not that they don't want to pay tax, it's just better for shareholder value that they don't.
Over workers, pointing at workstations no.
However, MTIM proxies by bluecoat ... Apparently is okay.
AWS, Azure, and GC are horrendously expensive for what they are. Especially for long-lived services. They do have a use case but 99% of businesses just do not need it.
(queue up the downvotes.)
Just write a text file.
Pretty it up when you’re trying not to think about a problem that you’re stuck on.