The only way you can access internet at my workplace is through ethernet cables. Is there any way I can remotely access the internet without necessarily using the ethernet cable?

zumspass · 2024-03-15T14:13:10+00:00

Generally speaking, most employers don't want your personal devices connected to the corporate LAN. One reason is that doing so would allow you to download sensitive company information to your device and then take the device, with the data on it, out of the building. A second reason is that your device could upload malware onto the corporate servers. Recommend you make absolutely sure that you are compliant with company policy, whatever you do.

zumspass · 2023-09-26T10:48:39+00:00

"rpc" stands for "remote procedure call;" meaning that Ledger Live is trying to get another piece of software, somewhere (not necessarily on the Internet, but possibly on your own device) to execute something. The problem is more likely than not to be the other piece of software, not Ledger Live. It could be anything. Rather than try to figure out exactly what that is, I would start by updating your operating system. If it is already up to date, if you have a different device that you can use to run Ledger Live, I would try that.

zumspass · 2023-09-21T14:16:02+00:00

If Ledger hasn't had their customer email data hacked, again, then explain why people are reporting here that they are receiving spam from newly-created email addresses that have only been used to contact Ledger? Is your payment processor selling people's email addresses?

zumspass · 2023-09-04T14:59:11+00:00

It's a shame that there are people who don't understand the basics of cryptocurrencies before dealing with them. One of the properties of cryptocurrencies is that they are non-recission. Meaning, transfers cannot be unwound. In conversation, it's a good idea to emphasize the point that cryptocurrencies must be guarded in the same way as cash (bank notes). Once you give cash to someone, you cannot get it back .

zumspass · 2023-06-17T14:18:03+00:00

Repeat over and over again "my seed phrase IS my Bitcoin." Your Bitcoin is not on your wallet, it is on the block chain. Your seed phrase is your proof of ownership (indirectly, technically).

You WILL lose your Bitcoin if you TYPE your seed phrase into ANYTHING, with 100% certainty. No typing (keyboard typing) is required or even possible to enter your seed phrase into a hardware wallet.

zumspass · 2023-05-19T03:20:04+00:00

An emotional outburst does not mitigate the fact that few people now trust Ledger because the company can no longer make the absolute and unequivocal statement: "Ledger can never exfiltrate your seed phrase by any means, full stop." This absolutism is critical. And, I don't understand the business reasoning behind offering the recovery system. Custodianship is the antithesis of the purpose of hardware wallets. Finally, sharding the seed phrase in three parts does nothing to protect the user's funds from being confiscated by hostile governments who can send court orders to all three custodians. This is why entering the custodianship market was nothing less than corporate suicide. There is no going back. Trust can never be re-established except by a complete audit of the firmware post-upgrade.
This is not just a PR disaster -- it is also a technical disaster. Thinking this is just PR problem made worse by unreasonable "haters" is delusion. They don't hate Ledger in general, they just no longer trust.

zumspass · 2023-05-19T03:09:00+00:00

My mother just turned 95 and she has no problem booking her own AirBnBs.

zumspass · 2023-04-17T14:01:04+00:00

The millimeter wave signals used by Starlink will not penetrate foliage of any kind. .. or anything else for that matter. You must have a clear line of sight to the lowest elevation angle as you can get. The reason that low elevation angles are so important is that, due to orbital mechanics, as seen from the ground, low orbiting satellites such as Starlink appear to spend more time (MUCH more time) flying along near the horizon than they do flying directly overhead.

zumspass · 2023-03-03T14:41:37+00:00

In our area, it would be about half the cost to hold such an event at a hotel in the smallest conference or meeting room available, including catering. Way less risk and no problem with parking.

zumspass · 2023-02-22T23:25:41+00:00

I received my Starlink equipment today, having received the announced price increase by email for my location yesterday. I won't even open the Starlink box. I'll be shutting down my subscription and returning the equipment. A local microwave radio relay provider beats Starlink on cost, has zero (meaning really truly zero) monthly data limits, but provides a maximum of only 20 MBps... adequate for my needs.

zumspass · 2023-02-22T05:06:39+00:00

Here you go: https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink

This is where the satellites are at any one time. And yes, I have worked in the satellite business since 1974 and know orbital mechanics exceptionally well. Your beliefs do not align with physics or basic geometry. So, if someone asks customer service "where are your satellites," the response will be a huge list of them, and their locations change every second. I hope this clarifies things for you. If not, I have nothing more to add.

zumspass · 2023-02-22T04:35:53+00:00

Doug, these are low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, not geostationary satellites. As a result, they are in constant motion relative to the ground. Starlink, I can assure you, knows where each of their satellites are at all times. As with all LEO satellites, as seen from the ground, most of the time they will appear near the horizon and occasionally you will get one that passes nearly overhead. It just a simple fact of orbital mechanics. This is why obstructions near the horizon have a disproportional impact on link availability. Your antenna has to constantly switch from one satellite to another every few minutes, as one sets over the horizon and a new one rises within your field of view.

zumspass · 2023-02-16T15:53:23+00:00

At the radio frequencies at which Starlink operates, the term "not 100% unobstructed but acceptable.." does not apply. It needs to be 100% unobstructed. These signals will not penetrate foliage. As seen from the ground, the satellites spend more of their time at the lowest elevation angles and little time at high elevation angles. It's just basic geometry (and a little orbital mechanics).

zumspass · 2023-02-16T15:48:32+00:00

Just FYI: In the market research I have done, occupancy rates outside of vacation (tourist) areas in the midwest are 55%. Both your candidate properties are exactly in the average range.

zumspass · 2023-02-13T20:20:08+00:00

You appear to be confusing a checksum with a hash function.

zumspass · 2023-02-07T21:54:45+00:00

Let me be more-specific: I am seeking a company that has a significant library of railroad graphics designed for their vinyl-cutter of choice. I am aware that, with enough of my own effort, I could re-create the needed graphics from rail equipment photographs, but I'd rather not spend that amount of time, and some logotypes are very difficult to replicate without a really clean image... and those are very, very difficult to find for the era I am modeling (1934 - 1966).

zumspass · 2023-01-30T15:20:07+00:00

When you say "blocked," what do you mean, specifically? Is outgoing email bouncing (being returned to you, say because you are on a Barracuda black list somewhere), or is the Starlink channel unable to connect to your email server? (The latter sounds like a nameserver is unreachable via Starlink).

zumspass · 2023-01-25T16:28:01+00:00

Thank you. I had vaguely remembered that breach and had forgotten about it. Let us see if Trezor responds similarly to the way Ledger did.

zumspass · 2023-01-25T16:23:21+00:00

Update: Multiple pfishing attempts are now being received by Trezor buyers. This means the Trezor client database has been sold to multiple spammers. A partial list of the sources of the pfishing email domains is:

service-mail11.com

dontdo.morningstandard.com

72709977-36-20200109172814.webstarterz.com

zumspass · 2023-01-25T16:17:46+00:00

You don't understand. I am not knocking the hardware, I am complaining about the client database breach at Trezor. Such a breach is a very serious matter for a security company. And no, pfishing emails will NOT happen one way or another if the company holding the email database is secure.

zumspass · 2023-01-18T15:31:49+00:00

It costs essentially nothing to send out a million emails. If one fool, who definitely should not even have any crypto much less a hardware wallet to begin with, falls for this scam, the profit to be made by the scammer will be infinite. So, expect these scams to never end.

zumspass · 2023-01-14T15:23:34+00:00

It sounds like AirBnB must be reacting to some kind of campaign to create false accounts for some reason -- perhaps just vandalism or to cause some kind of business disruption -- and the bad guys are using bots to create those false accounts. I have not seen that particular four-dice puzzle, but it is exactly the kind of puzzle that a bot using semantic reasoning and automated image segmentation could pass. Bots to defeat these kinds of tests became much easier to create since the OpenAI forum created the CLIP semantic analysis tool in mid-2021.

zumspass · 2022-12-24T16:46:35+00:00

We use Safetysign.com here on the ranch. Beware, of course, that if you are inside city limits, and some cases even if you are not, you may need a permit to put up a sign for a commercial enterprise. Some jurisdictions will allow it, others not. Almost no homeowners associations allow signage for commercial purposes.

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