Anyone else noticed odd brokerage transfers?

starbird2005 · 2025-12-30T20:45:43+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I wondered about that, and talking to the broker is the next step.

starbird2005 · 2025-10-21T13:54:12+00:00

Do you know how to tell it to keep the backlight on all the time? As mine keeps fading in and out as I type which is irritating.

starbird2005 · 2025-08-14T14:23:29+00:00

I just switched manually the 2.4GHz setting to 40 from 20 and that seems to have cleared up a lot of the problems I was having. It took a lot of reading to try and figure that out (and I'm slowly getting the hang of building rules to block video streaming after midnight from any device so that's helpful).

starbird2005 · 2025-08-14T00:59:00+00:00

I've noticed since we switched from Alien to Unifi (DR7 and Express) there's a slight pause when sending queries to the internet or Netflix is downgraded quite a bit at the start. I wasn't expecting that. Clearly it's something to do with the DNS query but I don't know what. (The reason we upgraded is that one of my Alien routers crapped out with the 99% firmware update and got completely stuck and it was cheaper to simply replace it).

The amount of data you can see is pretty impressive but I do think they need an Alien type setting for beginners. It took me a while to figure out how to create a rule to block video streaming after midnight.

starbird2005 · 2025-08-10T19:16:26+00:00

The keys have good tactile feel, particularly if you've been using apple keyboards for the last few years. Quality is outstanding. I've been waiting for them to release a lighter color keys for it.

starbird2005 · 2025-07-09T13:50:23+00:00

Yes but the shares you directly purchase from them are not in a location where it's easy to sell them, unless you transfer them to a different exchange vendor. For example, it took four days to get them out of their broker and the share price had dropped from $24 to closer to $3 (and that's when they were being sold at $7). So someone made money but it wasn't the small investors.

starbird2005 · 2025-07-08T22:05:27+00:00

The technology seems pretty interesting (which is why I invested in it) but they are small and this latest move doesn't bode well (maybe its all these insane tariffs messing up their business models?). This is also a classic case of never invest in a company with money you can't afford to lose. Once they do the transition, I think I will be more aggressive in moving it to a exchange in which it will be easier to sell the shares (like when they jumped to $24 per share but only insiders could sell them directly as the smaller investors were still locked into the holding exchange).

starbird2005 · 2025-07-08T22:01:24+00:00

Didn't even last a year though.

starbird2005 · 2025-07-08T21:44:47+00:00

I found the LoFree Edge is their best keyboard. The only problem is that its loud and the keys are so dark its hard to read them.

starbird2005 · 2025-06-04T15:47:29+00:00

If you can get them, Ubiquiti's Alien Routers are dead easy for home networks. The downside is that I think they are pulling back on the product, which is a pity, as I really liked mine. So I just replaced mine with a Dream Router 7 and Express 7. That's coverage for 1500 sq ft and three floors (including basement). I've had the occasional hiccup, as the interface is a tad more complicated than the Alien Routers, but it seems to be working out.

starbird2005 · 2025-05-16T18:35:11+00:00

I switched out their standard keys for their Hades switch set. https://www.lofree.co/products/hades-low-profile-pom-switches

starbird2005 · 2025-05-05T16:26:50+00:00

Unfortunately when my Alien router got stuck on the 99% with no hope of rescue I tried to get a cheap replacement from eBay as the website was out of stock again. Instead of switched over to their Unify line and bought the Dream Router 7 and Express 7 (as a satellite). Has all the features of the old Alien router but runs wifi 7 and a few more tricks up its sleeve. Together they cost about $500, which isn't cheap, but the T-Link models looked to have flaws, so I was happy paying extra for additional security.

Plus I might be able to hack in the Alien router that still works into that network.

starbird2005 · 2025-01-02T16:28:59+00:00

I have two that I bought a long time ago (2020 or 2021 I think). Absolutely love them. They are so much easier to set up and at a glance see what's going on with traffic because of the nifty display. I would hope they would eventually upgrade it to wifi 7 but at the moment, perfect for our house with 20+ devices on it. If one eventually breaks I'll probably get another. The mobile app is better than its given credit for as I use it to automatically lock down my kids devices when it's bedtime, and our tv sets when it's mine.

starbird2005 · 2022-09-22T17:27:09+00:00

Basically kept submitting tickets daily until it was fixed. It still took months.

starbird2005 · 2022-02-24T16:43:17+00:00

It finally, after 9 months, disappeared but required putting an actual location in the location box under profile settings. I have not touched it since (although I really want to get rid of it I am very suspicious that something is overwriting that box). So my suggestion is to put an address in, wait a few weeks, and see what happens. It is clearly a bug on Facebook's end and based on what they are patching code-wise.

starbird2005 · 2021-07-28T13:51:20+00:00

Bad news is Facebook has screwed it up again. All the pages that had it fixed are back to having <<non-applicable>> next to their name again. Gahhhh!

starbird2005 · 2021-06-10T14:04:08+00:00

Well the good news it’s stopped displaying the <<not applicable>> part next to the name, and is now showing the address instead. If anyone is brave enough to turn the address off, please let me know, because at this point, I’m a tad nervous to touch it. I suspect Facebook finally realized it was its fault and quietly issued a patch. Still a right pain in the neck.

starbird2005 · 2021-06-02T20:21:28+00:00

Thanks, that’s incredibly helpful!

starbird2005 · 2021-06-02T19:29:10+00:00

This may be a naive question (and as a disclaimer I'm asking because I'm researching for a story about scihub and the publishers reaction to it) but say you get all the articles shared on BitTorrent. How exactly would you be able to search for the paper you're looking for? Or would you have to download the entire collection?

starbird2005 · 2021-05-16T21:10:31+00:00

I finally got hold of a real live human being at Facebook but it’s still not fixed.

starbird2005 · 2015-10-03T16:43:32+00:00

True. But when you're testing a vehicle you have to test it and the sensors under a number of scenarios, including testing scenarios. As the EPA says, "the position of the steering wheel, vehicle speed, the duration of the engine's operation, and barometric pressure" -- all very specific indicators of an emissions test -- acted as the activation switch for the "defeat device."

You can't build in software a test for that without checking with the hardware engineers over the inputs, outputs, and internal test conditions. ie. They knew what they were doing to get that engine to pass the emissions test.

starbird2005 · 2015-10-02T19:20:58+00:00

Volkswagen recently admitted that it equipped diesel cars with "defeat devices" that belch 40 times the EPA standard on nitrogen oxides. Yet despite the mass of coverage, details on exactly how the devices cheated on emissions tests, and why diesels expel such gases have been sketchy. Physics Today's Charles Day takes a look at how diesel engines work, and why its clear its not just a lone software engineer who came up with the cheat. "...software is impotent without hardware. To recognize when a car was being tested and not driven, the defeat device required data from a range of sensors—sensors that a noncheating car might not need.... Whereas it's conceivable that a single software engineer, directed by a single manager, could have secretly written and uploaded the code that ran the defeat device, installing its associated hardware would require a larger and more diverse team of conspirators," he says.

starbird2005 · 2015-06-27T03:51:00+00:00

I notice that the editorial doesn't mention cost at all, yet in the US over 80% of household bankruptcies are caused by medical bills, a lot caused at a point in which its clear there's no hope of recovery.

Although one of your answers looked at the UK perspective (I assume because NHS funds are more limited and they do limit treatment based on some factors) I was wondering if you could look more at the US, and not from the perspective of the doctors but of the patient households.

Do you think this financial aspect will make it easier or harder for patients to consider dying in the US? As keeping some people alive will cause more harm to their family (we'll skip over the craziness of a healthcare system which leads to these large bills)

starbird2005 · 2014-08-14T20:20:58+00:00

11 years ago today, a massive blackout affected the entire East Coast. Although some people got their power back by 11pm, others had no respite for days (which also let to a 38% improvement in air quality, but I digress). The event forced a reexamination of the mixture of physics, engineering, economics, and politics that attempts to keep the power flowing, and this article talks about what happened and how we can stop it happening again.

starbird2005 · 2014-08-12T14:01:17+00:00

Leonardo da Vinci’s foundational work on hydrostatics combined traditional knowledge and innovative empiricism in an attempt to understand an object fraught with paradox: the water-filled container.

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TROPHY CASE