I've told this story so many times I've worn the corners off it. BT was giving a presentation to MSN WAN OPS about the new datacenter buildout in London for us. They kept going on and on about physical security, man traps, and that our fiber left the building on each side and didn't get close to each other for so many km away.

BT guy ends that part of the presentation with "the IRA will really have to get shit together to take you off the net"

This was during the troubles. Same planet, different world.

I eat the whole orange, grapefruit, lemon or lime.

I like the bitter to offset the sweetness.

Umless specifically indicated as untreated, citrus peel in soaked in very nasty antifungal waxes. In the EU they are specifucally warned about not fit for consumption.

My condolences to your tooth enamel.

Citrus peels taste good. They're used for cooking in every culture that grows citrus. Eating them raw is only bad due to farmers poisoning the food they sell.

I was joking, but there is a huge difference between using citrus zest/rind in cooking or as a garnish and eating the whole thing like an apple, including the pith.

I've never eaten citrus like an apple except when at a restaurant and they give slices of lemon or lime - I eat those whole. I usually eat the fruit first, then the peel. The bitterness of the pith is not noticeable at all when eaten like this.

Walk around your neighborhood and see who has security cameras.

Security camera through PVS14 https://youtu.be/gEWniEhtE2k

I did something similar for a US tourist who was making me ashamed of being a US tourist. Got on a boat tour, bar is cash only, he only has dollars. I traded him something like $100 worth of yen, I told him the exchange rate, and that he was paying above it. He didn't care, he just wanted to buy some drinks

I agree; however, here is my vibe-coded home ALPRS:

https://github.com/ryjones/alprs

Using more vibe code:

https://github.com/ryjones/platescan

The bar is low.

This is the feature I’ve missed most from Gerrit. Thank you

When I cared, I found out that a lot of OBD-II dongles shipped with the same MAC, which gave you access to everything on a bunch of websites.

You can curse the storm, but the wind will come.

how did "same MAC" lead to "access to everything"?

Was the website's security based on MAC, which presumably is supplied by the client? If so, I guess.. typical IoT.

buy any dongle that sells for under $100 on amazon. they all have the same mac, and come with 'bespoke' apps to let you do things to your car. those apps are all thin wrappers on code widely shared; they use the MAC of the dongle as the keystone for ID.

Short story: buy one cheap dongle on Amazon, dump the MAC (00:11:22:AA:BB:CC IIRC; it's been 15 years since I cared) and you have auth to all of the apps everywhere.

Reminder: the Bluetooth logo comes, mostly, from self-certification.

Amazing! I have the same MAC address on my luggage!

I made things easier by setting the permission action link on all my nuclear weapons to zero

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=permissio...

Remind me to rotate my GitHub tokens.

00:11:22:33:44:55

I bought 3 from 3 different vendors and they all have totally different Mac addresses.

Internally they're all Bluetooth to serial chips, and another pic16xxxx chip which does serial to canbus.

I guess the Bluetooth serial chips probably have programmable Mac addresses, but equally they normally ship with a globally default one unless you flash a different one onto it.

Why do the apps need auth?

How does this even work? A website doesn't know your MAC, that is only known in your local network.

Jim Grey and I knew all the same people at WMHD yet somehow never ran into each other. I was an annoying high school student. Ron Dippold (he ran usenet votes for a long time) was there, among others.

When I was digging through old VHS tapes, I digitized a couple TV spots and put them on youtube; passing them along to Jim.

Best advice I got when I got to San Jose was from an old recruiter - she must have been 30!

She said the Bay Area is big, but the Silicon Valley is small.

I think about her advice a lot.

The radio world is even smaller. I tried out at WZZQ when I was in high school, but didn't make the cut.

<waves frantically> Hi! How did we overlap at WMHD and never run into each other?

Howdy! maybe? I was off and on at WMHD as a reprobate from a local high school. I never had the GPA to get in to Rose Hulman; even as a local.

if I put two of these far-ish apart, can I get better 3d/4d data?

of course? not working directly together maybe, but put them at right angles and you get depth without relying on signal amplitude analysis.

did I misunderstand the question?

Something like this: https://youtu.be/YZkLQsv3huo

that adds a time dimenstion- not a spacial one. I'm no expert- but I'd expect a quadrf to not even need a time dimension for that case (rf transmitters are very rarely buried among noise in a spacial dimension.). my terms might be wrong, but I doubt the concepts are.

help us help EU residents:

https://openwallet.foundation/

https://github.com/openwallet-foundation

https://github.com/openwallet-foundation-labs

Can you elaborate?

On the tech side, we are working closely with (for instance) Google: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/multipaz-wallet

SPRIND: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/eudiplo

Animo: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation-labs/mdoc-ts

and we do engage with NGOs and governments across the EU.

Thank you for the expanded explanation. But it doesn't really explain how we should help and what you hope to achieve with our help. A bit more targeted information would be appreciated. You seem to be doing important work, but it's difficult to understand what you want from us.