I consider myself technically apt.

I was expecting a parcel from abroad so was expecting to have to pay customs.
Received an SMS that looked fairly legit, from a named SMS number that didn’t set off an alarm bell, asking for additional information. The only red flag that got me were some unusually personal questions, like date of birth. I was close to giving away a bunch of personal details.

Another one was a “your parking permit is about to expire”. We recently had permitted parking introduced, and I figured I’d messed something up. But thankfully I looked into that via the councils parking permit page, and knew I was months away from an expiry.

My parents received a “help, I’ve flushed my phone down the toilet and need a new one for work tomorrow. Sorry for the strange number, I’ve borrowed a friend’s phone. Can you send me $$$ to [account details] so I can get a new phone?” from a scammer pretending to be my sister.
Apparently they made it up to a “this is a new account number, are you sure this isn’t a scam?” prompt in their banking app when they finally decided to try and contact her. She immediately picked up and said “stop, it’s a scam”.

It doesn’t take much to make you vulnerable to social engineering.
An expectation of events and something that would normally red flag suddenly doesn’t seem suspicious.
An emotional manipulation, time pressure, all that stuff, and it’s easy to ignore red flags.

I always say “if you ever feel pressure, take a moment and analyse the situation”. Time pressure, emotional pressure. And analyse looking for anything that seems odd, then pick at that thread.

Not a concrete expert, but dead bodies. They decompose, can create pockets of pressurised gas, and leave a hollow cavity of no structural strength.

Source: Me. I made it up, but seems plausible.

On jerboa, I see 😈 MedicPig 🐷 BabySaver 😈 as your name on all comments

Yeh, that’s pretty common. But a gas bottle is a lot cheaper than a battery, and testing a gas bottle is cheaper as well.
Swappable batteries could work, but there is a lot of risk involved

And keycloak has a decent k8s operator, making deployment on a k8s cluster a breeze

I’ve noticed this as well.
I think alt+tab, or maybe just hitting alt fixes it. Maybe it’s ctrl.
It’s like it latches into a key combo mode, and hitting one of those keys clears the state.

You’d need a service contract with a battery supplier.
No fuel station would risk a competitor driving in with their old batteries and swapping them with good batteries.
So you would likely be locked in with a fuel station brand.
As a consumer, you also risk picking up a dud.
Fuel stations would also need to be considered in insurance claims, as they would own the battery.

It’s a great idea, however. I’d rather see more public transport and less cars. But electric cars, easier “refueling” of electric cars, and more solar/wind/hydro/nuclear power is a good hold over

US arms should be considered compromised.

If they didn’t already have a backdoor, one is being engineered into a “mandatory” update.
US already have an off-switch. Or US will have an off-switch.

Such a shitter that the us became - essentially - a compromised nation. They were such a powerhouse.
They could’ve remained as a dominant faction. Seems like there are going down the russia-path where they truly expose their inner self, and suffer because of how inadequate they are.

Certainly sounds like it.
Altho there are many seemingly good targets, such targets will be counted against their country.
So spies whacking Putin would be lauded. Spies whacking fElon would be punished.
The world is governed by opinions. And Ukraine only has the authority of some of those opinions. The US would need to attack other allies (like invading Greenland, Panama, Canada) for Ukraine to have support for whacking US targets. At which point other counties would likely jump on the bandwagon!

The 2nd part about “don’t mention politics” is twice as long as “I’ve lost my job”.
And still ends with:

Remember that government employees are humans too and it is a very scary time for most of us and our families.

As if that isn’t the left-wing (most countries would call centre) modus operandi: people are people

Meta promotes books?
Updated the comment

• Eutelsat: French giant with global ambitions.
• Inmarsat: British maritime specialist.
• SES: Luxembourg market leader.
• Hisdesat: Spanish strategic player.
• IRIS²: Europe’s ambitious plan for the future.
• Project Bromo: The industrial alliance.

More info in the article. Or search for them

Well, I guess the EU is 26/27th decent.
However, the EU is working towards defunding (I guess pushing-to-change, aka punishing) shitty members.
https://theconversation.com/why-has-the-eu-stripped-hungary-of-1-billion-the-latest-confrontation-explained-246614

So yeh, the EU isn’t perfect. It’s working on it, and it is making progress.
Nice when an oversight body isn’t corrupted

“Book from a whistleblower - titled ‘Meta’ - that was declined from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon”

Sometimes I hate the whole “proper prose title” that articles use

Edit:
Perhaps it’s “Book from whistleblower that Meta blocked from being promoted is now a best seller on Amazon”.
I didn’t read the article. The title broke my brain

Pretty sure that and the White House advert halted the dip the last few days.
Except fElon hasn’t changed, so down it goes!

accessed from the internet

Accessed only by you and close family/friends who you are also hosting services for?
Or accessed by anyone?

“Accessed by anyone” carries more risk.

“Accessed by users you host for”, the risks can be eliminated (well, other than risks from those users) by using a VPN. As in, only the people authorised to be on the VPN can access the services.
Wireguard is the go-to these days.
Tailscale is much easier and free for 3 users and 100 nodes.

If it absolutely has to be “accessed by anyone” I would look into a “reverse proxy over VPN/tunnel” or just straight tunnel style approach like chisel (or crowbar, or corkscrew), rathole, frp, or cloudflare tunnels.

Basically, don’t point a domain at your home public IP and don’t forward ports on your home router/firewall

As someone that works in events, getting files named “such and such_edit_updated_final_v2_fixed” is always funny

It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?

Your mistake was referencing a woketionary.

As an augmentation, the ability to spot and track objects visually would be amazing.
But then planes just have to fly above 10k ft, and pretty much guaranteed cloud cover.