I don’t work directly with PLCs but we do have them at my work. The main thing that makes these different from any other devices is that they typically control physical machines. Which means there is a real danger that them becoming compromised could lead to damaged equipment or even death.

Additionally, many PLCs use older OS versions like xp because their software is notoriously out of date (if it’s working why rewrite it when that could introduce safety concerns)

This “urgent” message from CISA does not prove that any of these devices are internet accessible just that if they are then they should be removed. If CISA wanted to require this then they would have released a binding operational directive (BOD) or an emergency directive (ED). Both of which are publicly viewable on their site.

This whole situation is making me strongly consider bringing a burner phone on my next vacation. That way I can wipe it before going through customs.

If they want to do business in the US then it follows that they would need to follow us law when conducting that business. It is the same reason that valve has to follow California law despite not being headquartered in California.

If that weren’t the case then businesses would just move to international waters and claim to only need to follow maritime law.

I would highly recommend actually reading the full text of the bill. It is a lot more than what is in the body of the post.

It is not clear to me whether a site would need to be hosted in the US to fall under this law or if they would just need to be accessible in the US.

I would post the definitions but there are 7 titles under this law and 5 of them each have their own definition.

Edit: just to be clear. I hate this law too. ID requirements will kill many platforms or people will use vpns to circumvent.

gofuckyour.self

Sounds pretty funny. Can’t wait to see what is hosted there.

I would guess either 50-50 it is a meme site or pron. No in between.

This exactly. My company has a disclaimer everytime you log into a system to tell you as much. “there is not expectation of privacy”.

We don’t have the same level of keylogging and webcams access that they are talking about here. But I think most people would be surprised at the amount that we can see.

Yea. I have tried a few. But they either don’t work for me. Or the come down at the end of the day leaves me unable to do anything.

I don’t think I would even trust an open source version that I fully control. Either it would be a pain in the ass to maintain it or it would eventually have some major vuln discovered and lead to people being hacked. Too risky.

I yearn to go back to the days when a 2 minute lapse in focus/interest didn’t subconsciously send me reaching for my phone.

Can’t wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong. The article does not say where this is happening.

AFAIK these might be illegal in the US but only by technicality since we have laws against flashing lights. Especially ones that could be mistaken for police lights. (yes I know they are box trucks not police cars. But while you are driving and just see the lights in your mirrors you might mistake it for police).

This is basically what I discovered as well. I have found that Ai writes code that is complex and “works” (at least most of the time) but it is heavily over engineered and often contains design choices that make expanding functionality effectively impossible without a full refactor.

When I tried having the Ai fix a test failure the Ai would either fix the code, fix the test, or change the test and the code breaking everything else in the chain.

I no longer use vibe coding because it is just faster/better for me to write the code.

But for tiny scripts it is very good.

The last time I tried vscodium the devcontainers support was very poor. That is the main thing keeping me on vscode.

That’s fair. Most of what I listen to is very modern (within the last 2 decades or so). I could see those being difficult to find.

Any particular news sites you like or just a general app with music categories selected?

Thanks. I looked at a few of these. I think I have seen tiny desk before a long time ago. And I already found a new thing I like :)

I’ve never really thought about looking up the openers for concerts that I don’t go to. Great idea.

How do you discover new artists? That is the main thing keeping me from doing this.

I am genuinely curious what you were looking for that they didn’t have. I feel like my tastes are so benign because I have never had that issue.

In the same breath that Spotify uses to introduce Ai stuff they also introduce a prompt based Ai to create playlists. I wish there were more platforms with feature parity and that it were easier to transfer preferences and genre tastes to other platforms.

I’ve tried deezer briefly but it is just missing so many things that I like that Spotify has.

No worries.

I used to use Ubuntu and then pop_os!

But I have since switched to debian and honestly I have not run into many issues that I didn’t already have with pop. I just like having something more bare bones but not as bare bones as arch.