The one db I saw compromised at a previous employer was an AWS RDS with public Internet access open and default admin username/password. Luckily it was just full of test data, so when we noticed its contents had been replaced with a ransom message we just deleted the instance.
I very briefly tried a couple zwave light bulbs with a USB zwave adapter for Home Assistant, but couldn't get it reliable. I do like the mesh + low power idea though and played around with ZigBee dev boards previously.
I have settled on mostly Tasmota firmware on ESP8266 based devices. Lots of switches (from the CloudFree shop among others), smart plugs, and other devices. I also like to assemble my own sensor/relay boards, which Tasmota is great for. I did have to set a fixed 2.4Ghz channel on one router, and later set "IoT mode" on my Unifi network, to avoid devices falling off the network. I also have flashed most of the devices, but am happy to do that (not so different from uploading an Arduino sketch once you're used to it).
Akash Bobba, 21, a student at the University of California, Berkeley; Edward Coristine, 19, a student at Northeastern University in Boston; and Ethan Shaotran, 22, who said in September he was a senior at Harvard.
The ones who actually have degrees, or at least have left college, are: Luke Farritor, 23, who attended the University of Nebraska without graduating; Gautier Cole Killian, a 24-year-old who attended McGill University; and Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who attended Berkeley;
For better or worse, reading the linked article does not expose you to the fake images.
Interesting hack:
The hack exploits the random combination of numbers and letters used in such short codes, making it impossible to know where it’s leading until you get there. When customizing such links, the platform will stop you duplicating an existing shortcode, But Binder explains that “it appears that there was a bug in Bitly that allowed users to create a custom back-half that was previously in use if the original link or Bitly account that created the link was deleted or deactivated.”
I have ESP8266 WiFi modules running Tasmota firmware for a few parts of this. Some report temperature (and humidity just for fun), I like DS18B20 sensors better than SHT30s which seem to have a bit more self heating. Then I also have Mitsubishi mini split heat pumps for which there's a Tasmota control library. MQTT for communication + HomeAssistant for UI + AppDaemon for automation scripts in Python.
Is this the same incident? Some more detail from CBC:
Israeli forces fired on the crowd on three occasions overnight and into Sunday, killing two people and wounding nine, including a child, according to Al-Awda Hospital, which received the casualties.
Israel's military said in a statement that it fired warning shots at "several gatherings of dozens of suspects who were advancing toward the troops and posed a threat to them."
Me debugging SQL syntax errors in complied dbt models.
I really enjoyed working with SQLDelight when I was briefly writing a Kotlin backend, sadly it wasn't complete enough. (It "generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from your SQL statements.")
In the weeks after Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel, employees at Google’s cloud division worked directly with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — even as the company told both the public and its own employees that Google only worked with civilian government ministries, the documents reportedly show.
Were they systematically tortured? Medical staff abducted from hospitals that were then razed? Foreign humanitarian aid workers killed in non combat zones?
Not that important a detail to focus on, in the context of the genocide.
Good point about a default deny approach to users and ssh, so random services don't add insecure logins.