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Comment Re:A warranty canary would make more sense (Score 1) 38

There is a third scenario. They can't force you to update the warrant canary, but failure to do so would be the same as telling everyone you received a secret warrant.

A better solution is to have someone else periodically ask if you have received any secret warrants. You can simply stop answering. The law can't really expect you to do anything else, since it's not a situation that you created.

Submission + - Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US (arstechnica.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Solar power developers want to cover an area larger than Washington, DC, with silicon panels and batteries, converting sunlight into electricity that will power air conditioners in sweltering Las Vegas along with millions of other homes and businesses.

But earlier this month, bureaucrats in charge of federal lands scrapped collective approval for the Esmeralda 7 projects, in what campaigners fear is part of an attack on renewable energy under President Donald Trump. “We will not approve wind or farmer destroying [sic] Solar,” he posted on his Truth Social platform in August. Developers will need to reapply individually, slowing progress.

Thousands of miles away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, it is a different story. China has laid solar panels across an area the size of Chicago high up on the Tibetan Plateau, where the thin air helps more sunlight get through.

The Talatan Solar Park is part of China’s push to double its solar and wind generation capacity over the coming decade. “Green and low-carbon transition is the trend of our time,” President Xi Jinping told delegates at a UN summit in New York last month.

China’s vast production of solar panels and batteries has also pushed down the prices of renewables hardware for everyone else, meaning it has “become very difficult to make any other choice in some places,” according to Heymi Bahar, senior analyst at the International Energy Agency.

Comment Re:Malicious or not, TP-Link devices have issues (Score 1) 82

I am considering Cudy products at the moment. They are well priced and seem like decent hardware. To some extent there isn't that much difference between many of the products now, they are all essentially a couple of reference designs for a handful of chips.

Might try one of their POE access points.

The is the OpenWRT One as well. The form factor is a bit awkward, with the ethernet ports and antenna jacks on the same side, and it could do with a cover for cosmetic reasons, but it has the big advantage of being reference hardware and thus extremely well supported. Maybe I could 3D print a case for it.

Comment Re:I'm curious (Score 1) 116

I know blaming people for being weak minded morons makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but the reality is that three quarters of Americans are overweight. It's the normal state, being a healthy weight is the exception.

There's clearly some environmental factor at play here.

Comment Re:Malicious or not, TP-Link devices have issues (Score 4, Informative) 82

Yeah, about that... Here's a list of Linksys CVEs that are scored 9.0 or above:

CVE-2002-2159, CVE-2008-0228, CVE-2008-1247, CVE-2008-1268, CVE-2008-4594, CVE-2009-3341, CVE-2009-5157, CVE-2010-1573, CVE-2010-2261, CVE-2013-4658, CVE-2017-17411, CVE-2018-17208, CVE-2018-3953, CVE-2018-3954, CVE-2018-3955, CVE-2019-11535, CVE-2019-16340, CVE-2020-35713, CVE-2020-35715, CVE-2022-38555, CVE-2023-46012, CVE-2024-33789, CVE-2024-57223, CVE-2024-57224, CVE-2024-57225, CVE-2024-8408, CVE-2025-34037, CVE-2025-45487, CVE-2025-45488, CVE-2025-45489, CVE-2025-45490, CVE-2025-45491, CVE-2025-4999, CVE-2025-5000, CVE-2025-5441, CVE-2025-5442, CVE-2025-5443, CVE-2025-5444, CVE-2025-5445, CVE-2025-5446, CVE-2025-5447, CVE-2025-6751, CVE-2025-6752, CVE-2025-8816, CVE-2025-8817, CVE-2025-8819, CVE-2025-8820, CVE-2025-8822, CVE-2025-8824, CVE-2025-8826, CVE-2025-8831, CVE-2025-8832, CVE-2025-8833, CVE-2025-9245, CVE-2025-9246, CVE-2025-9247, CVE-2025-9248, CVE-2025-9249, CVE-2025-9250, CVE-2025-9251, CVE-2025-9252, CVE-2025-9253, CVE-2025-9355, CVE-2025-9356, CVE-2025-9357, CVE-2025-9358, CVE-2025-9359, CVE-2025-9360, CVE-2025-9361, CVE-2025-9363, CVE-2025-9392, CVE-2025-9393, CVE-2025-9481, CVE-2025-9482, CVE-2025-9483, CVE-2025-9525, CVE-2025-9526, CVE-2025-9527

Is there anyone else in the consumer/SOHO space you would recommend?

Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 82

TP-Link don't seem to be worse than the competition for security issues. Certainly better than Cisco/Linksys and... Actually that's it for US manufacturers, isn't it? You can get a bit better if you pay a lot more, like some of the Unify stuff, but not in that price bracket.

Otherwise it's Taiwanese vendors like D-Link and Asus, neither of which I rate very highly. Neither offer very good security or support.

I wonder who is next. GL.iNet have a lot of very good products (their Flint routers are very well received, and run OpenWRT), but also based in Hong Kong...

Comment Shame (Score 2) 82

TP-Link hardware is generally quite decent, and a lot of their gear can be flashed with OpenWRT if you don't like their firmware.

Their firmware isn't bad though. They update it when needed, and they don't disable features just to upsell you the next model, generally if the hardware can do it they will have that feature enabled.

Comment Re:Next up: screw us over by disabling HTTP entire (Score 1) 33

Unfortunately it usually takes Google a few years minimum to deprecate any feature, and they are more likely than not to abandon the attempt before reaching the deadline. See 3rd party cookies.

I can see them adding further warnings, or disabling HTTP for non-local addresses, but if they announced it today it wouldn't happen for at least 3 years.

Comment Re:I want to keep the status quo (Score 1) 159

Yes, the exact hour at which the change is made is adjusted for timezone, and based off UTC (so including leap seconds).

For automated systems, they have to account for that difference when calculating DST times. It annoys users because they expect it to "just work", but unless the system knows which timezone it is in then it can't be fully automated.

It would be better to just not bother with it, and if particular groups want to have different summer and winter opening times they can do that themselves. It's not like every shop and business opens at the same time anyway.

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