I’m trialing a few different small/remote office cloud-managed firewall / AP products (that work is paying for, fortunately). Unfortunately, not the usual prosumer grade stuff, meaning if I ever separate from the company, I gotta find something else.
I manage an omada network at work and hadan omada at home (controllers and APs).
Work is okay-ish. Multiple hardware models (and versions - wtf, tplink?) make firmware updates a PITA).
Home was always a wreck, unstable AF, and required regular reboots. That one was full-stack - router, switches, controller, APs. Thankfully, it’s in an e-recycle bin now.
This is golden, and absolutely true in my experience. All the small churches in my region have been in decline for a couple of decades and the mega church full-theater production prosperity gospel evangelicals are stomping them out. It’s a duplicate of the Walmart strategy.
Check out the hook while the DJ revolves it.
presumes the Dems don’t completely fuck this up, which historically, is what they seem best at.
Nobody can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory better!
Uvalde was an absolute shit-show, and it’s a travesty of justice that those larping bastards didn’t face any criminal consequences for their negligent inaction. The anguish they wreaked by their cowardice on the children and families of that community should be revisited one-hundred-fold every second of their miserable lives.
That said…
The School Resource Officer programs are a different animal. A good, effective SRO is a community member of the school. He or she is there to partner with kids, teachers, administrators, and parents. They are there to prevent, de-escalate, and deter. The ones that are good at building rapport with the kids are effective at identifying kids in danger, in trouble, or on a pathway to violence.
And in the good school systems, the SROs are integral parts of the Behavioral Threat Assessment Teams, making sure that any indicators of violent intent is taken seriously and assessed by a multidisciplinary team following a clinically validated process.
In a lot of instances, SROs are old-timers awaiting retirement, rookies that think every kid is part of a crime syndicate, a road cop that got stuck on a rotation that couldn’t give a shit, or something else besides a decent human being. But in many cases, even some of the shitty ones have intervened and stopped active assailants. And that’s a sad reality.
Good to know - thanks for pointing that out. On my version, if I were to simply shut down my phone, it requires a pin to start - no biometrics - and (iirc) the data contained within is encrypted until the pin is entered. So the smart play would be to simply shut it off, giben the opportunity?
Found out similar. Samsung locks Emergency SOS on. Can’t disable it.
I don’t believe so, but I also don’t trust the toggles. Remember that Google’s Android and Apple (to a lesser extent but still) are willing participants in the surveillance economy.
Well, some of you… (can I come along?)
Your flock post reminder that they aren’t just license plate readers. They capture Bluetooth and wifi MACs, NFC IDs, and cellphone IMEIs, scan for wifi ssids (exactly like a WiFi Pineapple, to further fingerprint a device) from every device within range. They also do facial recognition of everyone within view of the lens. All that information is sent to flock for sale to any government agency,
While gutting CISA’s election security group and the federal election commission’s cybersecurity department. Wonder why…
Yeah, as much as it’s warranted and deserved, finding a willing contingent of NYPD cops to attempt to stop, be able to get past his US and Israeli security details, and actually take him into custody would be pretty incredible.
I feel the same. I’ve tried that angle with gun nuts before. They focus on ‘militia’ and infer that since the founders understood ‘militia’ to mean any able-bodied (white, free, man) that would answer the call to defend the territory, that same must hold true today. They also take “well regulated” to mean ‘hunter’s safety’, ‘handgun registration’, ‘serial numbers’, and ‘hunting licenses’.
The mental gymnastics put Thomas and the other Reich members on the SC to shame. (not really)
Yeah, but there’s still this:
Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks
Instant messages sent by Zuckerberg during Facebook’s early days, reported by Business Insider (May 13, 2010)
Attaching to this to remind everyone that these cameras have sensors to scrape rfid, nfc, tpms, Bluetooth, and wifi ssids as well. They’re not ‘license plate readers’. They’re full suite surveillance systems that’ll capture every ID passing by. Your list of remembered wifi connections in your phone is a trackable fingerprint, and unless you take steps, it’s being broadcast every time you turn on wifi.
Unfortunately the US has… what… 7 fleets(?) fully capable of carrying out a full-scale war on their own?
I can’t remember where I read it, but there was an article in high finance tech, where they were dealing with billions of transactions per second and relied on sub-millisecond timing. They still used terrestrial long-haul (cross-continent) microwave tower networks for this because even the time it took to transceive between optics and electrons in each switching segment meant fiber was slower. The latency tolerance for those applications preclude the drive up and down to space.
I have a brother-in-law who picks up as much overtime as he can and brags about how little sleep he is able to get. My response is always: “that’s not the flex you think it is, you exploited bastard!”