Just do the cheap unlimited personal plan and hook up a shit load of external HDDs to your PC. I have a system where my NAS syncs to my PC which syncs to Backblaze so I can sorta hack my way into unlimited NAS backup for $10/mo.

3-2-1 backup where the primary source of data is the NAS, on site backup is desktop PC external HDDs, off site backup is Backblaze.

Ten, twelve years ago this exploit was the shit. I was in the military at the time and used Backtrack r5 lots while traveling around to get internet when I didn’t have access. All it has to do is guess a 4 digit code and a 3 digit code separately, once you hit success on the WPA PIN you get the SSID and password. Takes a couple hours if it’s not a default PIN IIRC. Coolest script kiddie thing I did since sending Sub7 to people back in the early 00s.

These days I don’t really bother. You might be able to pull it off on some really old hardware which does exist, but anyone who got a router in the past 6-8 years likely wouldn’t be susceptible. Might as well try exploiting your own router just to see.

Backblaze as well. Can’t believe they let me store 20TB of backups for $10/mo.

They also have worse color rendering index so it’s more difficult to distinguish objects despite more lumens.

Wonder if they mistook them for Japanese torpedo boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident

WPA2 exploit has been mostly fixed for years now, and it’s only the router that’s affected. They just needed to implement some rate limiting on guessing WPA PINs. I stopped cracking a majority of routers this way 10 years ago or so. Only someone running a very outdated router at this point would be susceptible. Update your firmware, turn off WPA PIN access, enjoy.

Spiral out, keep going…

Sealed beam headlights are the whole thing, lens, reflector, bulb all in one assembly. You don’t replace the bulb with these, you replace the entire light. Think old cars/trucks when everything had standardized round glass headlights. Not unique designs per model.

Because Mercedes Benz couldn’t use their fancy euro headlights for cars in the US, they had to use the standardized sealed beam lights, which were not as powerful.

Live weather, live traffic, multiplayer traffic, and photogrammetry are all disabled in offline mode.

Article is basically an ad

How many times a day are you shown ads that are completely irrelevant?

Me personally, I’ve never once experienced the “they’re listening to my mic for ads” phenomenon. I think someone would notice by now either by seeing increased upload usage or a hot device- at least with current technology. On device machine learning will make this much easier to analyze without having to upload audio.

Not that I don’t think it’s entirely possible to listen right now, I just don’t think it’s occurring to unimportant people. I’m not particularly important or rich nor is anyone I know. It seems much more plausible to me that we’re just seeing conventional web tracking get a lot better + a healthy dose of confirmation bias.

What this demonstrates is how good tracking is now. They’re not listening to your microphone, at least not while your phone is in your pocket or whatever, because they don’t need to. They can already see your fingerprint, what websites you’re visiting, what your searching, and all of this applies to people you know as well- people who likely aren’t privacy conscious and share all contact info with whatever app is requesting. Listening to the mic is not necessary to suggest highly relevant ads.

This is funny looking.

It only makes prodrugs that first need to be metabolized by CYP3A4 to be active less effective. This is a pretty small minority of drugs. It makes drugs that are inactivated by CYP3A4 more effective, which is the majority of them. It also only competitively inhibits the enzyme while the drug is in your system, it’s not permanently inhibiting the enzyme like a suicide inhibitor.

Would you look at the P on that beam!

Absolutely. I never really thought much of OCZ to begin with, and sure it was a very early SSD, but damn. It crapped out way early the first time, at least in terms of I/O, and the second time it died it was just outside of RMA eligibility. Never again.

One of those.

And you had to get the partition aligned (?) when you formatted it. I had a 120GB OCZ Agility I paid like $380 for. It was amazing loading in way before everyone in games, I remember always being first in my WoW clan raids. Left 4 Dead 2 also ripped on that SSD. It died within a year and the RMA replacement died within year as well. RIP

Still Wakes the Deep. Shit goes wrong on a Scottish oil rig in the 70s, it’s sorta like dead space mixed with alien isolation and a walking simulator. Stealth gameplay with some puzzles and a decent emotional narrative. I had a good time playing it and it’s on gamepass. Short and sweet.

I really doubt they’re listening to your microphone. Constantly uploading your audio would be noticeable in bandwidth and constantly analyzing audio on device would kill your battery - at least currently.

What this demonstrates is how good tracking by other methods is getting. You don’t need to listen to someone’s microphone when you know what they and their friends/coworkers are looking up online and likely bringing up in conversation. It’s trivial to fingerprint someone and track near everything they’re looking up online, and even if you’re privacy conscious, many of those you associate with share their contact list with every app that asks for it. This makes suggesting things your friends are looking up pretty easy. Add a bit of confirmation bias to the mix and you’ve got this “listening to the microphone” theory, because you’re not counting the number of times an ad isn’t something you’ve been recently discussing.