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  1. Comment on Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update in ~tech

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    "Did you try turning your shoes off and on again?"

    "Did you try turning your shoes off and on again?"

    13 votes

  2. Comment on Does anyone here work in infosec? If so, which laptops are you allowed to use? in ~comp

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    It makes sense that Apple would be more 'trusted' as they own the hardware and software. Dell is US owned, so maybe that makes them more trust worthy? I work in cloud security and have a MBP, as...

    It makes sense that Apple would be more 'trusted' as they own the hardware and software. Dell is US owned, so maybe that makes them more trust worthy?

    I work in cloud security and have a MBP, as does the rest of my team. The other choices were a bunch of different models from Lenovo, Dell, HP, Microsoft Surfaces, etc. This is for a large multi-national corp.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Does anyone here work in infosec? If so, which laptops are you allowed to use? in ~comp

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    No. The big deal with Superfish is it was able to reinstall itself from the BIOS by way of "Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table" which was designed to allow drivers to be installed.

    No. The big deal with Superfish is it was able to reinstall itself from the BIOS by way of "Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table" which was designed to allow drivers to be installed.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Do you guys run a home server? If so what do you self host? in ~comp

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    A cheap externally powered USB 3.0 hub would allow you to power both the external drive and the pi.

    A cheap externally powered USB 3.0 hub would allow you to power both the external drive and the pi.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Do you guys run a home server? If so what do you self host? in ~comp

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    I have a Dell R720 racked in my garage and symmetrical gigabit Fiber-To-The-Home to feed it. Dell R720 LFF 2xE5-2790v2 2.50GHz 10c/20t 128GB RAM 1.2TB PCIe NVME Drive for VMs and other fast...

    I have a Dell R720 racked in my garage and symmetrical gigabit Fiber-To-The-Home to feed it.

    • Dell R720 LFF
      • 2xE5-2790v2 2.50GHz 10c/20t
      • 128GB RAM
      • 1.2TB PCIe NVME Drive for VMs and other fast storage
      • 512GB SSD for more fast storage
      • ~16TB spinning rust
      • VMware for Hypervisor
        • FreeNAS with an HBA passed through for direct access.
        • Two Docker Hosts
          • Plex with ~20 users
          • Tautulli for Plex Stats
          • Sonarr for TV Shows
          • Radarr for Movies
          • Lidarr for Music
          • LazyLibrarian for Books
          • nzbHydra for indexer aggregation
          • Ombi for user request management
          • UniFi Controller for APs
          • Portainer for Docker management
          • LetsEncrypt/Nginx for reverse proxy
          • NextCloud
          • Pi-Hole for ad/telemetry blocking
          • Wireguard for VPN
        • sabnzbdplus (Tried under docker but download speeds were bad for some reason)
        • ZoneMinder for security cameras
    3 votes

  6. Comment on Shamima Begum: IS teenager to lose UK citizenship in ~news

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    It seems the Home Office thought she had dual UK/Bangladeshi citizenship but that is in question. You'd hope they'd have done their homework to avoid stripping someone of their only citizenship...

    It seems the Home Office thought she had dual UK/Bangladeshi citizenship but that is in question. You'd hope they'd have done their homework to avoid stripping someone of their only citizenship and leaving them stateless.

    2 votes