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  • Yeah, because it works? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8

    Today I fixed a carrier’s router by simply rebooting it, something was messed up with port forwarding, everything looked good on the webui, but it didn’t worked correctly. Reboot, bam, works.

    As more things become “smart” (for the better or worse) and filled with microprocessors, it will become more common. Also it’s not just digital I remember some analog things could be helped by a reboot, the extra surge after a switch on can help some electrical components, waiting for capacitors to loose current can help.

    And electric toothbrushes are much older, the first patent was filed in 1937. 40 years ago it was 1985, cordless electric toothbrushes are with us since 1960s…

    And 40 years ago we couldn’t chat about an article with people on the other side of the planet, so I don’t really understand the comparison. Yes, Mr. Chen you are becoming older, as everyone else, wow, nice observation… The common workflows to fix your medieval daily things back in the day were different, obviously, we have different workflows now. I guess you couldn’t help your great-grandparent troubleshoot an issue with the gadgets of their time.

    An actual problem is in the last sentence of the blog post, and nor the author of the article, nor Mr. Chen thinks of this as a much more bigger problem:

    Oh, by the way, my attempts to reboot the electric toothbrush were unsuccessful. I had to replace it.

    That shouldn’t be a solution. ONLY AFTER RESTARTING SOME TIME? No other ways were tried to fix it? Did he tried too take it apart an look for some clear problems? You should be able to fix it. Maybe just the battery died? or if the battery is alright, you can reuse that in your next toothbrush. I would restart a thing a million times instead of throwing it out. They are yelling at the wrong thing, and ignore the elephant.







  • 1.5 A for 10 h is 15000 mAh, at 12V. Current powerbanks can do that. Here is a redmi one, specs says it can do that, 20000 mAh, 12V is the maximum: https://www.mi.com/global/product/20000mah-redmi-fast-charge-power-bank/specs

    Buy an usb-pd 12V cable, one end of the cable is type c, the other end is standard dc coax. The cable has a chip inside, so it will always ask for 12V from the power source, it’s like 5 USD, I have one for a similar usecase, works perfectly. They work only if the source can send the required voltage, if a powerbank can only send 5V or 9V it cant convert it up to 12.

    It should look something like this, make sure the voltage is correct before buying:






  • This is stupid. Author wants to ban a platform, because a lot of tools for it are not good, and people doesn’t want to learn. First can be solved by using and writing better email clients. For the second, you can never solve HR problems with IT solutions.

    I think everyone reading this post has accidentally messed up when sending an email, right?

    I don’t remember any of that, but I remember I called and messaged the wrong “John Smith” in my phonebook and in an instant messenger, because I have similarly named contacts. The platform doesn’t matter, if you are stupid enough you can mess it up anywhere.

    The reasoning, that for internal communication there are far better tools is right, but the power of email is that I can send it to anyone.







  • And with SS7 they can get even more precise location, and you can’t really hide from that if you want to use a phone with a phone number, what is the point. This is an interesting way of attack, noone really thought about this before, but it’s not “oh-my-god everyone can be tracked via signal”. I guess the closest server doesn’t even selected via geographical distance, but much more depends on network infrastructure of your location, so Google Maps API can’t really help here.

    And again any VPN could defend against this, so if you want to hide which country you are in currently, it should be the 0th step to use a VPN.