I am trying to control an Internet-of-Shit device that can only speak 2.4GHz wifi. I find that I am unable to operate a 2.4GHz network that anything can connect to on any channel because there is too much interference. 82% interference, 10% TX retries. Let's take a look at where that's coming from...
Oh. It's because literally every car in the garage is doing wifi bukkake, several floors below me, through many feet of concrete.
https://jwz.org/b/yk8i
I'm sure I have mentioned this before but... if I ever find myself again trying to flash a microcontroller, I need someone to remind me of the terrible mistake that I am making, through the mechanism of punching me in the fucking face.
Please enjoy jwz mixtape 259.
https://jwz.org/b/yk83
It's almost quaint and retro when I start getting hammered by a botnet that is incompetently probing for WordPress exploits instead of incompetently trying to suck down everything in order to feed the plagiarism machine.
https://jwz.org/b/yk8w
Priest removed as exorcist after his comments on UFOs and demons.
The archbishop of Washington, D.C. removed an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made public comments suggesting that UFO sightings were the work of demons. The archbishop said...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8m
I am trying to control an Internet-of-Shit device that can only speak 2.4GHz wifi. I find that I am unable to operate a 2.4GHz network that anything can connect to on any channel because there is too much interference. 82% interference, 10% TX retries. Let's take a look at where that's coming from...
Oh. It's because literally every car in the garage is doing wifi bukkake, several floors below me, through many feet of concrete.
https://jwz.org/b/yk8i
Commodore (or some entity now calling itself Commodore) is releasing a flip phone. Smartphones are mindlessly seamless by design. Callback is built around a simple research-backed finding: remove features designed to pull you back in, & reintroduce...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8a
RE: https://social.coop/@fraggle/116751947179104454
Periodic reminder that the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars.
The ongoing shitshow of Linux sound APIs: everyone collectively moved from PulseAudio to Pipewire, which now added a new dependency that brings in 50MB of AI/ML junk.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1130264
It has become more frequent for someone to contact me saying "I can't access your sites from my phone / cable modem", and on the few occasions when they tell me what their IP is, it turns out that, yup, that IP did some extremely obvious AI scraper bullshit and got shitcanned for a month.
I have no way of knowing how often collateral damage like this happens, since by definition they aren't connecting to my site afterward. But anecdotally, telcos and cable companies...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8O
180 http req/sec. A single botnet has hit 1,052,380 distinct honeypot URLs in the last 24 hours. Source IPs from all over the globe.
Like Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, I am no stranger to plumbing problems.
It's Only a $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier, Why Would We Expect the Toilets to Work? The 600 toilets aboard the USS Gerald Ford, the "most advanced" and most recent aircraft...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8Q
It has become more frequent for someone to contact me saying "I can't access your sites from my phone / cable modem", and on the few occasions when they tell me what their IP is, it turns out that, yup, that IP did some extremely obvious AI scraper bullshit and got shitcanned for a month.
I have no way of knowing how often collateral damage like this happens, since by definition they aren't connecting to my site afterward. But anecdotally, telcos and cable companies...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8O
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