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  • Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail

    Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail “Build a smart home”, they said. “It’ll make life so much better”, they said. Well, life wasn’t very bloody good at 23:00 the other night after travelling 33 hours from Paris only to find the IoT doorlock batteries dead and the 9V “jump start” procedure completely failing! Eventually, the…

  • Weekly Update 508

    Weekly Update 508 Light switches. How on earth is it so hard to find decent light switches?! It sounds ridiculous until you actually spend enough time looking for ones that meet two simple criteria: Aren’t stateful (switch is up or down, has to be push-button) Looks good Now, I’m conscious that this is also very…

  • Weekly Update 503

    Weekly Update 503 Well, it’s the day before the Instructure “pay or leak” deadline (at least by my Aussie watch), and the company remains removed from the ShinyHunters website. In its place sits a press statement that amounts to “we’re not making any statements”. So did they pay? And if so, what lofty figure would…

  • Weekly Update 472

    Weekly Update 472 This probably comes through pretty strongly in this week’s video, but I love the vibe at CERN. It’s a place so focused on the common good of science that all the other cultural attributes that often put people at odds these days fade into the distance. That hit me more than it…

  • Weekly Update 451

    Weekly Update 451 The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour is upon us! I’ve often joked that work is always either sitting at my desk at home in isolation or on the other side of the world, and so it is with this trip. As we’ve done with recent travel to the US and…

  • Weekly Update 449

    Weekly Update 449 Today, I arrived at my PC first thing in the morning to find the UPS dead (battery was cactus) and the PC obviously without power. So, I tracked down a powerboard and some IEC C14 to mains cable adaptors and powered back up. On boot, neither the Bluetooth mouse nor keyboard worked.…