It doesn’t always need to be automatically set.

Back when the very first chinese IP cameras started arriving in the west in the noughties, after we’d only had the first gen very expensive professional ones from the like of Axis, they nearly all shared the same firmware. This had factory set credentials of admin / admin and a common port (8080, iirc)

Back then, uPnP was commonly also enabled by default on routers, so the camera would ask for the port to be opened automatically and the router would just do it, allowing the internet into the camera. A simple scan of IPs on port 8080 would yield a lot of prompts with the distinctive login page for this firmware and around 90% of the time, the default credentials would still let you in, and you could see the camera.

Fortunately, routers have improved and uPnP was recognised as being incredibly stupid and isn’t seen much now and is disabled by default if it is. Some IP cameras have improved also, but there’s still a lot at the lower end that have almost no security, or prioritise convenience or cloud solutions first.

(I researched the above when I found one of my company’s cameras broadcasting and tried to educate people about it back in the day, but I doubt it did much good)

This isn’t new.

The realisation as you go through life that things just aren’t as good as they should be is hard. The more you learn, the more you are exposed. What is new, perhaps, is that the scale of bullshit is bigger and the spread of it more actively pushed than before.

How to cope? Damned if I know. I just try to shut it out as much as possible.

(BTW, your colleague may just be exhausted with change, or demoralised or depressed themselves. It’s hard not to judge people when you see the answer so clearly, but it’s a trueism that everyone walks their own path and you just don’t know what’s going on in their life)

It’s for the best, really.

But which toilet does it use?!

That’s good to hear, but honestly, I’m amazed he’s still alive.

This post permanently lowered my IQ

Joker: Folie à Deux has to be on the podium

Vote better.

Gizmodo flying a bit close to the libel laws in that article.

Despite saying they can’t confirm it’s genuine, then saying stuff like " it’s pretty clear that Mangione was motivated by the tremendous injustices regularly perpetrated by the healthcare industry in the United States."

Was he? Did he write those words? Is he the shooter? Doesn’t this kind of reporting compromise the chance of a fair hearing?

Surely he deserves the right to a trial before being found guilty, as per the Sixth Amendment?

Adults saying “poop”

Am British where it’s what kids call it. For adults it’s poo or shit.

Walking on Dartmoor one cold, gray and rainy winter’s morning.

A young man in a sodden T-shirt and shorts emerged out of the mist on the same moorland path I was on. He was carrying a tesco carrier bag with a ram’s skull sticking out and what looked to be the spine stuffed into it.

Sheep die out there all the time so it was probably a chance find - but walking in what were difficult conditions so poorly dressed, but with a carrier bag…? I still wonder what he was going to do with his prize.

Oh, and that time when I drove around a corner to find five pirates pushing a horse and carriage up a hill. (It was a themed wedding and the horse was slipping on the way to the reception so the followers got out of their cars and helped push - but it earned a second glance)

And when these guys discover local auctions, the storage requirements explode. So many half-broken mowers, engines, chests of old tools - all needing sorting out, fixing and keeping forever.

Agree. Context from OP suggests it’s a sick day, but day off = paid holiday, surely?

I think I’m going to disagree with the accuracy statement.

Yes - AIs can be famously inaccurate. But so can web pages - even reputable ones. In fact, any single source of information is insufficient to be relied upon, if accuracy is important. And today, deliberate disinformation on the internet is massive - it’s something we don’t even know the scale of because the tools to check it may be compromised. </tinfoilhat>

It takes a lot of cross-referencing to be certain of something, and most of us don’t bother if the first answer from either method ‘feels right’.

AI does get shown off when it’s stupidly wrong, which is to be expected, but the world doesn’t care when it’s correct time and again. And each iteration gets better at self-checking facts.

I have been this week, for the first time.

I’m using Hugo to design a new website and Gemini has been useful in find the actual useful documentation that I need. Much faster and more accurate than trawling the official pages, and does a better job of providing relevent examples. It’s also really good at sensing what I’m actually asking, even if I’m clumsy at the phrasing.

And for those who continue to say AI isn’t really useful for learning - another thing I’ve been using it for. “write perl to convert a string to only container lowercase, converting any non-alpha chars to dashes” - I’ve learned how to do stuff like that over and over again, but the exact syntax falls out of my head after a few months of not doing it. AI is good at providing a quick recollect. I’ve already learned perl properly (including from paper books - yes, I first wrote perl a quarter of a century ago) - and forgotten it so many times. AI doesn’t prevent me learning, just makes it faster.

That shit is essentially a full time job. And it’s forever ongoing full time job, with 24/365 on call type job if emails are mission critical.

Totally agree. No fun being a small guy in a dugout and a rifle when the spam and malware arms race is bombing you with nukes.

No sign of that happening yet, especially with the results of a certain election in a certain country.

Maintaining perl scripts from the 90s is my ball park!

Mind, I did write some of them, and they’re still whirring away making it a pretty easy job. Perl’s lack of breaking features is its strongest strength.

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I built a little bracket for mine to stop the GPU flapping around.

Here’s a pic, which explains a bit better: https://imgur.com/tCtpH8g