“good morning, I’m about to destroy the backend” is exactly the energy I’d welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months

A fiver says OOP has never left their suburb

The software isn’t really the hard thing about these companies, the customer and provider UIs are nothing special and they achieve their scale using fairly industry standard event driven tools and cloud compute. They all talk a lot at industry conferences, so it’s no secret really.

Ensuring a restaurant will make the food for an order, ensuring a delivery person shows up to collect it, ensuring that food makes it to its destination in the same condition it left the restaurant, ensuring everyone gets paid at the end.

Preventing any of that from going wrong and handling it when it does is where the value of these companies lies.

Who is going to step in if a restaurant starts ignoring orders, or a driver starts eating the food, or a customer does a fraudulent chargeback?

Then there’s the money issue: where does the money go when people pay? Who owns the merchant bank account? Does every driver need a merchant bank account? How is tax accounting handled?

You can’t use cash for this system as both the driver and restaurant need to be paid (and TBF, whoever is paying for hosting the back end servers), and the driver won’t necessarily go back to that restaurant

Tarantino & Nolan already got shouts in the thread, so:

John Carpenter for some of the best practical effects in cinema history

You’ve also got the likes of Stanley Kubrick & David Lynch, of course

Talking of Davids, David Fincher feels like he has enough good to make the list

I feel like you could go on a great journey through 80s-00s cinema with films having either Bill Murray or Arnold Schwarzenegger in the cast

There’s probably a lot I’m forgetting

I guess I was more wondering why do the name change at all

But I’ve gone and looked it up now and apparently Wally is a less common name over there, so they changed it up to something more familiar.

Which now begs the question: is Waldo a common name over there? I don’t think I’ve ever met or heard of anyone other than this character go by that name

Why do you guys call him Waldo?

6ish, I’d like 8 but I can’t really fall asleep until after midnight unless I’m truly exhausted, then work means I usually need to be up around 7ish

Are we talking time or space complexity?

This might be the most stereotypically American thing I’ve ever seen

Beautiful ❤️

Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

I miss the keyboard screen series of Logitech stuff, I held onto my G510 a lot longer than I probably should have and only really retired it for something much nicer to type on around 2020.

If Logitech had released something like their G915 but with the screen, I’d have got it in a heartbeat. Even though game support had long dwindled, it was still good for media player feedback, system stats and IIRC there was a third party way of getting notifications from some sites to show up.

I guess smartphones kinda do most of that better these days… Well excluding the system stats, but that was always the fallback if nothing else was worth showing

Damn you guys are sprinting towards cyberpunk dystopia over there aren’t you?

Shame you won’t even get the cool aesthetic as a silver lining, just more tacky gold if anything.

I’m gonna start pronouncing gnocchi as nookie to wind up my partner

I vaguely remember getting into a WPA network (that I owned!) using kismet about 15 years ago with relative ease, but I’m struggling to remember details about that process.

I also remember reading that WPA2 non-enterprise was broken a while ago, however I just looked into it and both of the main exploits I can find were patchable (and have been patched) at client OS level (They were the KRACK and FragAttacks). Seems like there has already been something found wrong with WPA3 too that’s also been addressed.

So yeah as you say back to brute forcing for the most part. Forcing reconnects was a pretty easy way to get more handshakes to record back when I last tried, so I assume that still has decent levels of success, given the prevalence of mesh networks. Looking further it seems people use a tool called hashcat today to get pretty rapid results doing the actual brute forcing using a modern GPU.

But yes very good advice all in all, long passwords and the highest WPA version you can get away with are going to make an attackers job harder.

Thanks for the reply, you got me to go back down an interesting rabbit hole I’ve not looked at in a while

Worth highlighting WiFi blasts all your data in all directions, and unless you’re using enterprise/WPA3 encryption with a strong password, someone determined enough can break in.

If someone wanted to they could park near your house and run aircrack (or whatever the modern suite is called) without you ever knowing. FWIW this is why it’s good to set up a way of getting notified about new devices on your network (most modern non-ISP routers support a way of doing this)

Conversely, I believe most ethernet NICs discard any packet not intended for it at hardware level, they’re super optimised for speed, it would be much slower to leave that for software. I’m not 100% if that’s universal however, so I’d try and double check that

Great, there’s a whole additional angle for getting splashed by a puddle I need to watch out for now

Oh shit, have we discovered the single good horny meme

I’ve been dying to hell you anything that you want to hear

Yep, furnace me on expiration please