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Electric heaters are wasteful. How about spending that energy wisely while also generating heat?

https://fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2828343

(Sorry for the full link, I can't figure out how to reference an article on another instance on the mobile app.)

This is probably the best answer based on the stuff that I've heard.

During the first term, a local talk radio show had a woman on who grew up in a cult. She was born into it. She described her own story about how she learned what was happening and eventually got out. IIRC, her parents cut all ties with her, as that was the way of the cult. Anyhow, she described the process of "deprogramming" someone and it is basically along the same lines of what you describe.

Sadly, it's easy to "mass convert" people to cults, but deprogramming is a one on one conversation over a long period of time.

A port scan and then inspection of the ports is a great habit. Another fun thing to do is to set up WireShark to listen to what your fridge's IP address is doing. Who is it calling? How often? What services (ports)? While your fridge may have a DNS server, unless it's been pre-loaded with the internet, it'll need to query another DNS to reach the outside world. DNS is usually unencrypted, so you can see what it's asking to connect to.

Many of these devices announce their services via Bonjour or whatever protocol. It's a way for devices like Alexa to find out that you have a printer, interrogate the printer and then Alexa will tell you that your printer is low on ink and by the way, Amazon has a special sale, just for you.

If anything is unencrypted, check it out (with WireShark). If it is encrypted, there's a chance that you can hijack it with a proxy server. Set up a SOCKS proxy and add a DNS label (I can't remember what it is) to tell the devices in your network that you have a proxy. Block the fridge from the internet and see if it will autodetect the proxy. There are other ways to tell devices that your home network requires a proxy via autodetection & wpad.dat files in specific locations on your network. You can configure your proxy to log all traffic, like WireShark does and then see what's in the payload.

I've done this with limited success on various devices. More mature products like Alexa are locked down. Those cheap home cameras from China are pretty hackable.

Have fun!

I've thought through this. Would this new country have the resources to defend itself from an attack from the US?

What if this new country joins NATO on its first day of being a country? Would the US be required to defend the new country from itself?

A far more effective solution would be a "soft succession". Pay special attention to the section on economic leverage. What if California joined with New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and any other "blue" states and just stopped paying federal taxes? I can't find it now, but I saw a infographic that the "blue" states are the primary funders of the federal government by a significant amount. Without money from these states, the federal government cannot exist. All of this framework has been reinforced by the judicial branch.

This is already happening. In Minnesota, the DOJ is suing the state. This is a lawsuit to watch. If the legal blog from above is correct, the DOJ lawsuit will fail, just as before:

Federal courts have recently blocked President Donald Trump from interfering with sanctuary city policies; earlier this year, a federal judge stopped Trump from withholding federal funding from cities that refuse to assist with immigration enforcement, including Minneapolis.

You just described most tech stocks.

As Cory Doctrow explains:

the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies.

I came here to say just this. I used to belong to a hobbyist group that would reserve track time for races. They were timed trials for safety and had tow trucks and medics on standby. The best was when they watered the track in the winter and let it freeze overnight. Those were the slowest races I've ever seen. In addition to being safe fun, they taught how to handle your car in extreme situations.

Here's an example race: https://www.onelapofamerica.com/#!HOME

I'm imagining every strenuous lift resulting in a toot!

I think you're on to something. This could accelerate the movement of tech jobs to India & other countries vs just importing cheap labor.

In the past, when tech jobs were outsourced, it was just the coders. Lately, ilve noticed entire teams being outsourced, manager, project/product managers, coders, agilists, designers and others. Big companies are letting all technology be performed offshore and only the business units remain. This administration policy move could accelerate this trend, which could have far reaching implications.

I scrolled way too far to find this.

I don't know why there's more down votes than up votes, but I found the article interesting, even if it was a little light and fluffy.

This may not help at all, but I worked at a toxic workplace. I got good at recognizing when I was being manipulated. Eventually, I learned that if I hid the hurt and acted as if the jabs didn't hurt, it would send the toxic folks into a toxic rage, but the ironic part is that they could not complain to management about me not being affected.

One day, I was called from one of the people from a recorded line (certain customer facing phones were always recorded, you could even hear the beeps). After the call, I told my manager, we went to HR, who pulled the recording and that person was moved to another area. I left shortly after for other reasons.

This contradicts what I'm reading in that AI model costs grow with each generation, not shrink.