• 5 Posts
  • 899 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 9th, 2023

help-circle






  • Interesting news but why is this @politics?

    Am I the only guy be who thinks this is somewhat wholesome, despite the tragedy? No one is stoking outrage, no one is casting blame, it casts the teachers in a heroic light, and it even looks like they were correctly prepared. They had and used bear spray, they stayed in a group, defended their charges: that seems like about the best you can do and sometimes it’s not enough.

    Even just that this is a natural tragedy. Man’s best efforts will never overcome what nature can do: but it’s so nice that it didn’t start “rogue gunman opened fire at a school….”

    I’m not trying to make light of the tragedy; they have my sympathy, but it’s “only” the tragedy

    Edit: downvoting for the horrible source. I turned off reader mode and there were so many layers of so many ads that I could no longer find the article






  • Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs

    While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.

    A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage







  • Not really but I do believe it’s the future. For any future devices, Matter/Thread is my preference.

    But of course using HA means you don’t have to limit yourself. Both my Zigbee and zwave meshes are solid.

    I did have a conversation with a friend a few months back who asked what I recommended. It’s tough because

    • Matter/Thread is rolling out very slowly so you can’t really count on it yet.
    • always avoid WiFi with vendor portals
    • is it worth it for a newcomer to invest in Zigbee or zwave?