#Cloud Router

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Calix cloud login accessing your account sign up

For an easy calix cloud login process, open the web browser and type the 192.168.1.1 IP address in the browser bar. Now, enter the default admin details on the login window. Here, you reach the smart home dashboard of the device and configure basic settings like SSID name and password change. To know more, reach us here!

[techdriveplay]

How to Create a Home Network That Handles Everything

Having a reliable and robust home network is no longer a luxury; it’s a necessity. No matter if you’re streaming 4K content, working remotely, gaming online, or simply browsing the web, your home network needs to be powerful enough to handle everything. This article will guide you through the steps on how to create a home network that handles everything, ensuring that your digital life runs…

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InnoScale: Ihr Komplettanbieter für IT-Cloud-Lösungen im KMU-Bereich

Als Innoscale verstehen wir uns als Ihr starker Partner in allen Fragen der Digitalisierung. Wir sind ein Zusammenschluss von vier Unternehmen, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt haben, die gesamten digitalen Bedürfnisse Ihres KMU abzudecken.

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Warum IT-Cloud-Lösungen für Ihr KMU?

In der heutigen Zeit ist Digitalisierung der Schlüssel zum Erfolg. Doch gerade für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) stellen die damit verbundenen Investitionen und die Komplexität der Umsetzung oft eine Herausforderung dar.

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Supersnel internet.....

De getallen van de internetproviders vliegen om je oren. De een heeft het over het Gigabit-netwerk wat ze kunnen aanbieden en daaroverheen komt er weer eentje met 2 Gigabit snelheid. Maar wat heb je nu aan dat supersnel internet? Continue reading Untitled

[bliiot-jerry]

BLIIoT R40 4G Industrial VPN Router used in Computer Room Base Stations Monitoring

1. Foreword

With the development and popularization of computer technology, the number of computer systems has increased day by day, and its supporting environmental equipment has also increased. Computer rooms have become an important part of major units. The equipment room equipment (power supply, UPS, air conditioning, fire protection, environment, security guards, etc.) must always provide a normal operating environment for the computer system. Once the environmental equipment of the computer room fails, it will affect the operation of the computer system. The reliability of data transmission, storage and system operation will pose a threat. If the accident is serious and cannot be dealt with in time, it may damage the hardware equipment and cause serious consequences. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the water, smoke, access control, temperature and humidity, infrared, etc., and timely processing and solving problems, avoid damage to the hardware of the equipment, and cause serious consequences.

2. Monitoring content

Power distribution cabinets, intelligent power distribution equipment, air -on, UPS, battery, air conditioning, temperature and humidity, leakage, video, access control, etc.

3. System composition

Smart Sensor + BLIIoT R40 4G Industrial VPN Router + Data Center

BLIIoT R40 4G Industrial VPN Router can be connected to various sensors, which can read the state of smoking and water -immersing switch in real time. Remote control of access control, air conditioning, and infrared switches, and real -time monitoring of the temperature and humidity index.BLIIoT Technology also provide access to the unmanned computer room monitoring cloud platform, which can remotely control the device and provide data collection, data storage, device maps, historical data analysis curves, timing tasks, alarm functions (SMS, WeChat, mail, APP), permissions Management (pyramid structure, perfect institution, role, user system), three -terminal interoperability (web webpage, APP, WeChat public account).

4. System advantage

24 hours full -time inspection, abnormal real -time alarm

The motion room monitoring system can achieve a 24 -hour full -time inspection. Once abnormal problems are found, the real -time alarm can be achieved through alarm to comprehensively ensure the safety of the computer room.

High integration and unity, convenient management and reduced cost

BLIIoT R40 4G Industrial VPN Router provide a variety of interfaces and support a variety of protocols. Only single terminals can access multiple devices for collection and linkage, which greatly reduces the cost of deployment and maintenance, and integrates unified management and control.

Remote environmental monitoring to reduce maintenance personnel

Real -time monitoring of the environmental data of the electrical room, the operating status of the equipment, and the uniform management of the electric equipment on the scene to avoid the tedious tasks of the staff to inspect the on -site inspection. The staff can fully grasp the entire information of the computer room in the monitoring room.

Automated monitoring system, improve management efficiency

The administrator can intuitively understand the overall operation status of the machine room, monitoring data, and alarm prompts through the background to improve management efficiency, reduce the workload of manual inspections, and reduce labor costs for enterprises; at the same time , Reduce the cost of accident handling.

5. Summarize

Monitoring system through the Internet of Things power room monitoring system allows the operation and maintenance management of power dispatching machine rooms and substation machine rooms to be more simple, concentrated, and efficient. No manual inspection and maintenance, at the same time, can achieve real -time monitoring and information notifications, multi -directional monitoring and alarm functions, and can realize intelligent linkage control, so that you can remotely control the equipment thousands of miles away, build a smart Internet of big data in the era of big data era. surveillance system.

More information of BLIIoT R40 4G Industrial VPN Router: https://www.iot-solution.com/industrial-iot-edge-gateway-p00307p1.html

[cuubism]

Computation

part 7 of Complex Mathematics

(aka Dream vs Technology -- Technology: 1, Dream: 0)

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Wednesday, 3:54am

Hob. what is the wifi password?

3:56am: why are you texting me when I’m in the same house?

3:57am: I did not want to wake you up.

4:00am: ……….

4:01am: Ah.

4:03am: it’s 12345. which is terrible security by the way

4:04am: how do i know this and you don’t? we’re in YOUR flat

4:05am: Computers are your friends, not mine.

4:10am: It does not like the password.

4:12am: alright i’m getting up

Dream creeps back into the living room, holding a cup of tea, as Hob’s tinkering with the router. Turns out it needed to be completely reset before he could reconnect it to Dream’s laptop. Not that this is that hard, but for some reason Hob doesn’t understand, technology is simply out of Dream’s grasp. Head in the clouds, too smart for basic computer skills, etc etc.

“A peace offering,” Dream says, placing the tea on the coffee table. He perches on the couch beside where Hob’s leaning over the router on its spot on the bookshelf.

“I’m not mad at you,” Hob says. He pats the router as its indicator lights finally turn green again. “I will take tea, though.”

“I woke you,” Dream says softly.

“You’ve woken me before, you will again,” Hob says with equanimity. Their sleep schedules are out of alignment, it tends to happen.

It’s the wrong thing to say, though. Dream cringes, hands folding in his lap. “I should be able to handle such things.”

“It’s just the wifi.” Hob finally finishes reconnecting Dream’s laptop and turns properly towards him. Dream still looks guilty about it. Sometimes Hob misses the time before they were dating, when Dream would bristle at him instead of caving. Just because he doesn’t like seeing Dream feel bad.

He takes the cup of tea and places it in Dream’s hands instead, briefly wrapping their hands around each other. “It’s okay,” he repeats. Possibly they should have a longer conversation about it, but Hob’s not emotionally awake enough for it.

Instead, he gets up and heads for the kitchen to put on some coffee. He needs something with more caffeine in it than tea.

“What are you doing?” Dream asks.

“Might as well get something done while my brain is online,” Hob says. He goes to fetch his own laptop from Dream’s bedroom. Lord knows it’ll need to get reconnected to the glitchy wifi again, anyway.

~~

Friday, 2:05pm

Hob.

2:06pm: ?

2:07pm: The wifi is angry again.

2:09pm: did you antagonize it?

2:09pm: hang on did you just wake up now?

2:10pm: I cannot comment.

2:12pm: I assume you have been hard at work in the library since six.

2:14pm: more like hardly working in the library. i did make an app that gives you a gold star every time you do the laundry

2:16pm: Will that assist in your routines?

2:17pm: probably not but it’ll be fun for 5 minutes

2:17pm: wifi password’s still 12345

2:18pm: maybe I should make an app for that instead…

2:20pm: I do not think it would help.

2:30pm: …You are not trying to make said app, are you?

2:34pm: nope just realized I’m late for a class and had to scramble out of there. I’ll be back later can do couples counseling for you and wifi then?

2:35pm: Very well.

For a while after putting down his phone, Dream stares at the wifi router in vexation, as if that will possibly make the angry red lights turn green again. He doesn’t know what he’s done wrong. He knows even less what to do to fix it.

He needs the wifi operational to keep generating these fractals. He supposes he could go to the library and use university wifi, but that requires going out in public, which is preferably avoided, at least while he’s trying to work. So he will have to do something else until Hob gets back from class.

He recalls what Hob had said. That instead of working on his dissertation he had made an entire phone app about laundry. He had said it so casually, like it was a doodle to pass the time. Dream can use apps—barely—but he cannot begin to fathom how he would go about making one. Hob does not understand how even in his procrastination he is exceptional.

Well. This is something that Dream can do. Hob hates doing laundry—hence the app-based reward system—but Dream doesn’t mind. He finds it meditative. He will have to be more precise about fabric care instructions now, as while his own clothes rarely range beyond grey, black, and dark blue, Hob actually wears colors which might bleed into each other.

He puts on his headphones with some music, gathers up the laundry from the bedroom, and goes about his routine.

When Hob gets back, Dream has finished hanging the laundry to dry and returned to his contemplation of the router, this time still with his headphones playing. He’s lost in thought, and doesn’t notice Hob’s come in until his hand lands on Dream’s shoulder. Normally a sudden touch when he’s thinking would make him jump, but he’s become used to Hob.

“Trying to solve your marital problems through telepathy?” Hob asks.

“We were never married,” Dream says. “Indeed we are enemies.”

Hob laughs. He kisses Dream on the cheek, then kneels in front of the router. “You have to stop tormenting my boyfriend,” he tells it. It only blinks back at him innocently.

Hob can be very silly at times. “I do not think arguing with the inanimate object will help,” Dream says.

“You never know.” Hob takes the router down and sets about unplugging all the cables. Dream still doesn’t know what any of them precisely do, nor how wifi works. It may as well be magic.  

Hob has it fixed within minutes, of course. Far more effective than Dream’s intense staring. He gets Dream’s laptop reconnected, and Dream is finally able to start generating his fractal. “Thank you,” he says.

“Anything for my love,” says Hob, getting to his feet again. “Guessing you want some time to yourself now to work on this?”

“Yes,” says Dream, with some guilt. Hob has come home to help him only for him to immediately bury himself in his work again. But yes, he does want to make progress on this at last.

“Well, good,” says Hob, and Dream turns to him in surprise. “Because I’m due for a nap.”

Dream still hasn’t formulated a response to this by the time Hob’s disappeared into his bedroom. Strange, that their routines can be so opposite and still meld together so well.

Hob pokes his head back out into the hall. “Did you do the laundry?”

“Yes,” says Dream.

“I could kiss you,” Hob declares, then blows one to him before disappearing back into the bedroom.

Dream presses his hand to his cheek, as if to touch a kiss that had really landed there. Smiles to himself. Then goes back to his fractal.

~~

Monday, 5:02pm

Hob.

5:03pm: Wifi?

5:04pm: …Yes.

Thursday, 9:50pm

…..Hob.

9:50pm: I’m sitting right next to you.

9:51pm: ….

9:51pm: I’m just gonna get you a new router. This thing’s got problems.

9:52pm: I think it is I who has the problems.

9:52pm: That too.

Saturday, 6:00pm

Hob.

6:00pm: Is it broken AGAIN??

6:01pm: No. I got dinner.

6:02pm: Oh!

6:02pm: Fuck I’m starving.

6:03pm: Coming back from class now.

6:03pm: Don’t touch the router it’s in a fragile mental state.

6:04pm: Aren’t we all.

~~

Thursday, 3:50pm

This time, it is the wifi in Hob’s flat that is stymieing Dream. He does not think it is broken. Hob has merely changed the password, as he’s much more diligent about internet security than Dream, and then forgotten to tell Dream what it is. Or, more likely, correctly assumed Dream would have to ask him again anyway.

He briefly contemplates trying to deduce the password, but it is likely an incomprehensible string of characters that Hob would claim is ideal security precisely because of the impossibility of deducing it.

He refuses to text Hob about it again. Hob has a class to teach soon—Dream has his schedule memorized—Dream does not want to distract him. Though speaking of…

3:50pm: You have a class in ten minutes.

3:51pm: FUCK

3:51pm: I got distracted

3:53pm: Now… running

3:54pm: You are not near the building, are you.

3:55pm: NOPE

Dream smiles to himself, thinking of Hob sprinting across campus. It happens often. Hob is good at many things, but time management is not one of them. This is why Dream knows his schedule.

He does feel… a bit silly, though. He should be better at this, should he not? Less bothersome to Hob over small things that he should be able to handle.

Normally he would go back to his work to distract himself from these thoughts, but he still can’t work on his fractals without being able to connect remotely to the university computers, which are more powerful than his own. This is something Hob had also set up for him, because Dream had not been able to make any sense of the instructions he had been given for remote login, and the like.

Sighing, he instead takes his sketchbook out of his bag. It’s been a while since he’s made any time for drawing. But he had started looking at fractals in the first place to better understand patterns in art, to understand resonances between what occurred in nature and what was projected by mathematics. And drawing used to soothe him.

So he starts drawing, sketching the fractal he has been generating—to the extant that he can with the imprecise instrument of his pen. Even in infinite impossible digital form, the branching spirals eventually become too small for him to see, though he knows they continue on in perfect replication forever, smaller and smaller until they disappear into atoms. He cannot recreate that level of detail by hand. But he tries.

By the time he gets another text back from Hob, an hour later, he’s moved to the floor to have more space. He’s found a bigger piece of scrap paper and is drawing the fractal again, in more detail this time, color-coding the different shapes, free-handing where he should probably use a ruler for more precision. He has achieved several more levels of replication than before, but it is still not right. He can’t get it right. If he could only use the stupid computer system he could get it right.

Finally he looks at his phone, several minutes after the text alert pinged.

Thanks love 😘

Unexpectedly, it makes him tear up. Always this happens to him. He does not realize how frustrated he has become with himself until it is too late.

Of course, to only make matters worse, he is still sitting hunched on the floor, pen clasped tight in his hand, teeth clenched so hard it’s hurting his jaw, when Hob comes through the door. He must have texted not far from home.

“Hey, love,” Hob’s already saying as he comes through the door, “meant to stop and grab dinner but I totally forgot— I’m sure I have something here, though— Dream?”

Dream hasn’t moved from the floor, or responded. Hob puts down his bag and comes over to him. He looks down at the fractal, which is still incomplete. “Did you draw that?”

“Obviously,” Dream bites. The pen is still in his hand. He drops it, scraping a hand through his hair. Great. Now he’s snapping at Hob, too.

Hob sits down on the floor beside him. He studies the fractal. Then points to one of the shapes that Dream’s colored in red. “That’s supposed to be purple.”

Dream stares at the fractal. Hob is right, it is meant to be purple. According to the way Dream had color-coded it digitally. He looks at Hob. “How do you know that?”

“I’ve watched you fiddling with it enough. We set it up on your laptop, remember?”

Yes. Dream remembers. He remembers how Hob had helped him.

“Wifi giving you troubles again?” Hob asks, looking from the drawing, to Dream’s laptop, which is sleeping on the couch.

Dream nods, then saws quietly, “Are you not… frustrated with me? Annoyed?”

Hob doesn’t need to ask what he means. “Sometimes,” he says, and Dream can’t help his flinch. “So?”

“So?”

Hob shrugs. “I would have missed that class if you didn’t text me.”

Dream does not understand the relevance.

Hob looks up at him, raising an eyebrow in challenge. “Aren’t you annoyed with me?”

Perhaps he is, at times. Recently, Dream has been too absorbed in his project to feel much about it at all.

“I don’t know,” he says. “It is just how you are.”

Hob seems to think that Dream still doesn’t understand the point he’s making, and perhaps Dream doesn’t. Hob takes his hand. “Look. I’ve no idea why someone as smart as you are is constantly defeated by basic technology, but it doesn’t matter. Always having to be the one to fix the router is a small price to pay for having you in my life.”

Dream’s mouth opens, but no words come out. He… he does not know if anyone has ever put up with him with so little complaint. For truly, it is not only computer troubles. It is all the small things that stack upon each other to make him feel different and difficult.

“I find I do not like…” Dream admits tentatively, “when you must do these things. That I should be able to do.”

“You did the laundry the other day,” Hob says.

Why must he jump topics in this manner? “I do not understand.”

“Well, we don’t actually live together, you know. You have your own laundry. You don’t have to do mine, too.”

“I thought it would help you,” Dream says.

Hob just waits expectantly.

Dream looks down at his lap. “Ah. I… see.” Hob finds him frustrating at times, he had said so, but still wants to help him. He finds Hob’s admittance that Dream is frustrating to be a relief, in its way. He would only feel more on edge if Hob pretended otherwise, surely to snap later when Dream was least expecting it, as so many have done.

“Give me your arm,” Hob says then.

When Dream does, Hob pushes up his sleeve, takes one of the markers from the floor and writes on Dream’s forearm, the wifi password is I love you.

“There,” he says. “Now you won’t forget.”

Dream touches the words with a light fingertip. “This is not good internet security.”

“Oh, so you do listen my ramblings,” Hob says, laughing. Always, Dream thinks. “What, you’re going to throw out my valentine because I cut the heart out a little wonky?”

He makes as if to rub the marker off, and Dream pulls his arm protectively to his chest. Hob’s smile softens. He carefully pulls Dream forward into a hug, Dream’s arm pressed between them. Dream tucks his face into the crook of Hob’s neck. It’s one of his favorite places to hide.

“I’ll help you fix your program after we find some dinner,” Hob tells him, rubbing his back.

“I think I should give up on using computers,” Dream mumbles.

Hob chuckles. “See how you feel about it after I make you some brownies for dessert.”

Dream hums in pleasure at the thought, and Hob kisses the side of his head. And Dream touches, again, the words Hob’s written on his arm, where it’s pressed between them. And allows himself to smile.

Wednesday, 6:03pm

Dream is attempting to cook dinner. Hob doesn’t think it’s going so well. At least not if the blaring fire alarm, which Hob’s just silenced by waving a dish towel at it until the smoke dissipated, is any indication. But it does mean he’s been treated to the sight of Dream with his sleeves rolled up, delicate hands at work—and wearing an actual apron.

Having soothed the alarm, he leans against the counter so he can shamelessly ogle instead of helping.

“What are you even trying to make?” he asks, eyeing the still-smoking oven.

Dream pouts. “Only bread. It should not be so hard.”

“You didn’t wait for me to get home to watch?” He imagines the sight of Dream aggressively kneading the bread dough. It shouldn’t be a turn on, but it kind of is.

“You would make a spectacle of my misery?” Dream says, but there’s a smile tugging at the corner of his lips, like he knows exactly what Hob is thinking about.

“Definitely,” Hob says, and Dream sighs, but turns to take the attempt at bread out of the oven. It’s… pretty blackened, to be honest. “Butter’ll save it, I’m sure!” Hob says cheerfully.

“Nothing will save it,” says Dream, morosely. He pulls off his oven mitt in apparent disgrace, and— Hob catches his arm.

“How has this not faded yet?”

For Hob’s writing saying the wifi password is I love you is still on his forearm.

Dream looks sheepish. “I got it tattooed.”

Hob tilts his head at him, confused. “So you could remember the wifi password?”

“So that I could remember this.” He traces his finger over, I love you.

Hob feels a blush creep across his cheeks. But it’s a pleasant feeling. “This is not even my best handwriting.”

“I know,” says Dream. He does not seem unhappy about it.

Hob takes his arm, touches the words, too. “You could have just gotten this part done.”

“I think,” Dream says slowly, touching the part that says, the wifi password is, “that this is another form of the same.”

And Hob… finds himself tearing up a little. Because it’s true. It’s so silly that Dream, certifiable maths genius, struggles so much with basic computer skills. But Hob will do any silly thing for him, because he loves him.

“Yeah,” he says, taking a shaky breath. “It is.”

“Unfortunately, you can never change the wifi password now,” says Dream, and Hob laughs wetly.

“I really can’t, can I? Terrible security. The things I’ll do for you, darling.”

“Would that include making proper bread?” Dream asks, and Hob nods, patting his arm.

“We’ll fix it, don’t worry.”

Now he’s wondering how he didn’t notice Dream getting a tattoo. Though to be fair, they haven’t seen each other as much in the past two weeks as they usually would, thanks to very inconvenient scheduling. Apparently Dream’s taken advantage of that time to do this.

“Can’t let you out of my sight for a second,” he says, as he fetches a new bread pan from the cupboard. “God knows what you’ll come back with next.”

“Be careful or I will consider that a challenge,” Dream says, and Hob pauses as way too many images flash through his mind. He shakes them off. He’ll never be able to focus on anything like that.

And Dream, the bastard, is smirking.

“Watch that look on your face or you might find that flour you’re holding dumped over your head,” Hob warns, but Dream only looks victorious, and utterly uncaring of the bag of flour he's precariously picked up.

“How will you ogle me kneading the dough that way?”

Hob swipes a dish towel from the counter and throws it at him. Dream yelps and spills the flour, which poofs up in a cloud of white landing all over his black t-shirt.

“Hob,” he complains.

“Serves you right, you dickhead,” Hob says. It only returns the smirk to Dream’s face.

“If you feel that way perhaps I’ll decide I don’t need your supervision,” he says archly.

Hob tears a piece off of Dream’s first attempt at a loaf. Or rather, breaks off a piece, which is hard as stone. He shows it to him as evidence.

Dream snatches it and shoves it into his mouth. Bites down with a crunch so horrifying Hob’s afraid he’s broken a tooth. But Dream persists, chewing it painstakingly and then swallowing, as if by force.

“Taste good?” Hob asks.

“Yes—” Dream starts to insist—then dissolves into a fit of coughing that swiftly turns into giggles. Hob loves it so much when he laughs like that. It’s so rare.

Hob laughs with him. Then frees the crumpled bag of flour from Dream’s grasp and sets it aside, brushes the flour and crumbs from his shirt. Then he takes Dream’s arm and runs his fingertip over the words again, still in awe.

He again finds himself having to clear his throat to avoid tearing up. But he manages, and says, “Let’s get you some proper, not burnt bread, yeah?”

“Please,” says Dream, a tad sheepish. “I am… very hungry.”

Hob kisses his cheek, then goes about solving that problem, too.

[thegirlfromblackwater]

If the Van der Linde Gang lived in Modern Times (Modern Au)

Life gives you funny ideas...and I'm going to write them down

Arthur

Would live on a ranch in Montana or Wyoming as a rancher

Offers services like trail rides, lessons, and boarding

Has a herd of cattle

Spends every Sunday watching Rodeos on TV

Watches while sitting in his favorite worn-out armchair

Always has a cold beer and a snack or his dinner while watching

Has a pickup truck that's a bit filthy on the inside. Addresses his car as a "she."

Treats it like a horse: calls it a "good gurl."

Has a mounted Trout and some taxidermy on the walls

The Wifi at the ranch is spotty..doesnt understand why guests need it when they're surrounded by nature

Network Name: MorganRanch Password: Ynnel123

Tried to fix the router once but not exactly tech savvy. Ended up punching it

Texts Albert Mason sometimes

Dutch

Definitely lives in a city either Los Angeles or New York City

Lives in a Snazzy Penthouse in the clouds with a skyline

Works as a motivational speaker

Wears a lot of bling

Has a bar in at his place

Molly always tries to find a way in

Calls Hosea a lot

Has a weird fetish for black, red and white furniture.

Still loves reading books by Evelyn Miller despite that the writer is a nobody living in Idaho

John, Abigail & Jack

They probably live out west on a farm (very much like Beechers Hope)

John works on the ranch and also has side multiple side jobs (thanks to Abigail)

Jack spends his time in the school library

Abigail is obsessed with this one bakery

Molly

Lives in whatever city Dutch lives in

Tries to make herself at home in the penthouse

Famous on social media for her makeup tutorials

The neighbors can usually hear Molly & Dutch fighting

Dutch: "Not now Miss O'shea" Molly: "Pig!"

Bill

Lives somewhere in the Midwest

Works as a truck driver for Walmart

spends a lot of his life on the road

Has a bit of road rage

likes rest stops

when he's not working, he is a part of a biker gang

has a tattoo sleeve and wears a white wife beater

one of those bikers that wears a bandana with the American flag on it

Marybeth

Probably lives in a quaint town on the east coast

Works in a bookstore during the day and is a freelance writer in her free time

Lives in a cute townhouse with a small garden in the front full of flowers.

Her house is cozy

has a seating area with big windows that look out over the street

spends her time writing and reading there

likes to sit at cafes and drink coffee

Lenny

Is a full-time university student by day and bartender by night

Lives in Chicago or Atlanta

Probably double majoring in Business and literature (if that combination even exists)

Lives his single life to the fullest

Mostly an A student who goes full ham on the weekends when partying

Micah

Lives in Las Vegas

Sells illegal drugs

Has no money because he gambled too much

Stays in different hotels

Owns a pawn shop

Everything for sale there was smuggled across the border

Has dealings with the cartels & other shady characters

Hosea

Lives a quiet life out west

Goes to his lake house on the weekends to go fly fishing

Reads a lot of books

Also likes to go hunting

Is a part time English teacher who teaches children to read

Talks to Dutch by phone

Sometimes visits Arthur and stays at his Ranch

Uncle

Lives in a trailer park in Florida where the weather is always warm and the cold won't bother his illness

Sits on a folding chair outside his mobile home

Plays the Banjo

Drinks a beer

Is a complete mess inside

Doesn't own much furniture

Can't work because of the Lumbago

Sweats a lot

Naps and snores too loud

Lives next to a swamp

Javier

Lives in Arizona

Lives in the desert

Grows cactuses

Owns a Music shop

Travels around playing at local bars

Works part time as a music teacher at the local high school

Has a YouTube where he shows off his music

Sadie

Probably lives in a city like Dallas or Denver

Works as a cop

Likes to catch people for speeding and sits on the side of the highway

eats Chick-fil-A while waiting

Watches Dateline

Carries a Taser

Always looks sexy in her uniform

Charles

Definitely lives in a cabin out west

works as a conservationist

Likes National Parks

Goes fishing with Arthur

supports and donates to the Bison Sanctuary (if one even exists)

Likes Camping

Trelawny

Lives a wealthy life in Charleston, South Carolina

Lives in a large southern mansion

Wears a robe to sleep

Has a whole walk-in closet full of clothes and accessories

Has a sauna in the basement where he relaxes

Owns a bunch of fancy cars: He loves his Bentley

Reverend Swanson

Probably lives in Philadelphia

Still works part-time at the church

Mostly spends his time helping people with addictions

Hosts an AA meeting three times a week

Rescues crackheads from the street

Mostly sober

Wrote a memoir on his journey to recovery

Sean

Lives in Boston

Likes the university/young people vibe

works at a pub

Everyone's favorite Bartender

Makes customers laugh

goes back to Ireland once a year

Takes Karen with him sometimes

Karen

Lives in Portland, Oregon

Works at a bar as a bartender and a stripper

Good Pole Dancer

Her large tits are popular amongst the men

Puts on shows in the evening

Talks to Sean a lot

Gets Hammered

Strauss

Works in Finance in New York City

Is a Workaholic

Has no friends

Goes back to Austria every few years

Boring to talk to

Always on a work call

Listens to Classical Music

Tilly

Lives in Nashville, Tennessee

Visits Marybeth a lot

Wants to be a Nurse

Likes taking care of people

Wants to travel around the world

Pearson

Lives somewhere in New England

Owns a restaurant and catering business

The restaurant is interestingly enough called "Pearsons"

Probably has a wife and some kids

Loves Maine Lobster one of those people that wears a bib when eating it because he's messy

Is a good Butcher

Susan Grimshaw

Lives in Florida

Is a housekeeper

Cleans uncles' mobile home once a week

Tries to control Tilly and Marybeth from miles away

disgruntled

[pupsmailbox]

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[agapi-kalyptei]

crowdstrike: hot take 1

It's too early in the news cycle to say anything truly smart, but to sum things up, what I know so far:

there was no "hack" or cyberattack or data breach*

a private IT security company called CrowdStrike released a faulty update which practically disabled all its desktop (?) Windows workstations (laptops too, but maybe not servers? not sure)

the cause has been found and a fix is on the way

as it stands now, the fix will have to be manually applied (in person) to each affected workstation (this could mean in practice maybe 5, maybe 30 minutes of work for each affected computer - the number is also unknown, but it very well could be tens (or hundreds) of thousands of computers across thousands of large, multinational enterprises.

(The fix can be applied manually if you have a-bit-more-than-basic knowledge of computers)

Things that are currently safe to assume:

this wasn't a fault of any single individual, but of a process (workflow on the side of CrowdStrike) that didn't detect the fault ahead of time

[most likely] it's not that someone was incompetent or stupid - but we don't have the root cause analysis available yet

deploying bugfixes on Fridays is a bad idea

*The obligatory warning part:

Just because this wasn't a cyberattack, doesn't mean there won't be related security breaches of all kinds in all industries. The chaos, panic, uncertainty, and very soon also exhaustion of people dealing with the fallout of the issue will create a perfect storm for actually malicious actors that will try to exploit any possible vulnerability in companies' vulnerable state.

The analysis / speculation part:

globalization bad lol

OK, more seriously: I have not even heard about CrowdStrike until today, and I'm not a security engineer. I'm a developer with mild to moderate (outsider) understanding of vulnerabilities.

OK some background / basics first

It's very common for companies of any size to have more to protect their digital assets than just an antivirus and a firewall. Large companies (Delta Airlines) can afford to pay other large companies to provide security solutions for them (CrowdStrike). These days, to avoid bad software of any kind - malware - you need a complex suite of software that protects you from all sides:

desktop/laptop: antivirus, firewall, secure DNS, avoiding insecure WiFi, browser exploits, system patches, email scanner, phishing on web, phishing via email, physical access, USB thumb drive, motherboard/BIOS/UEFI vulnerabilities or built-in exploits made by the manufacturers of the Chinese government,

person/phone: phishing via SMS, phishing via calls, iOS/Android OS vulnerabilities, mobile app vulnerabilities, mobile apps that masquerade as useful while harvesting your data, vulnerabilities in things like WhatsApp where a glitched JPG pictures sent to you can expose your data, ...

servers: mostly same as above except they servers have to often deal with millions of requests per day, most of them valid, and at least some of the servers need to be connected to the internet 24/7

CDN and cloud services: fundamentally, an average big company today relies on dozens or hundreds of other big internet companies (AWS / Azure / GCP / Apple / Google) which in turn rely on hundreds of other companies to outsource a lot of tasks (like harvesting your data and sending you marketing emails)

infrastructure - routers... modems... your Alexa is spying on you... i'm tired... etc.

Anyway if you drifted to sleep in the previous paragraph I don't blame you. I'm genuinely just scratching the surface. Cybersecurity is insanely important today, and it's insanely complex too.

The reason why the incident blue-screened the machines is that to avoid malware, a lot of the anti-malware has to run in a more "privileged" mode, meaning they exist very close to the "heart" of Windows (or any other OS - the heart is called kernel). However, on this level, a bug can crash the system a lot more easily. And it did.

OK OK the actual hot lukewarm take finally

I didn't expect to get hit by y2k bug in the middle of 2024, but here we are.

As bad as it was, this only affected a small portion of all computers - in the ballpark of ~0.001% or even 0.0001% - but already caused disruptions to flights and hospitals in a big chunk of the world.

maybe-FAQ:

"Oh but this would be avoided if they weren't using the Crowdwhatever software" - true. However, this kind of mistake is not exclusive to them.

"Haha windows sucks, Linux 4eva" - I mean. Yeah? But no. Conceptually there is nothing that would prevent this from happening on Linux, if only there was anyone actually using it (on desktop).

"But really, Windows should have a better protection" - yes? no? This is a very difficult, technical question, because for kernel drivers the whole point is that 1. you trust them, and 2. they need the super-powerful-unrestrained access to work as intended, and 3. you _need_ them to be blazing fast, so babysitting them from the Windows perspective is counterproductive. It's a technical issue with no easy answers on this level.

"But there was some issue with Microsoft stuff too." - yes, but it's unknown if they are related, and at this point I have not seen any solid info about it.

The point is, in a deeply interconnected world, it's sort of a miracle that this isn't happening more often, and on a wider scale. Both bugfixes and new bugs are deployed every minute to some software somewhere in the world, because we're all in a rush to make money and pay rent and meet deadlines.

Increased monoculture in IT is bad for everyone. Whichever OS, whichever brand, whichever security solution provider - the more popular they are, the better visible their mistakes will be.

As much as it would be fun to make jokes like "CrowdStroke", I'm not even particularly mad at the company (at this point - that might change when I hear about their QA process). And no, I'm not even mad at Windows, as explained in the pseudo-FAQ.

The ultimate hot take? If at all possible, don't rely on anything related to computers. Technical problems are caused by technical solutions.

[electrosquash]

You can whip up concepts in seconds by sticking to these five shapes

Y'all don't know how essential MS Paint is for keeping the internet running

[oz00ms2]

"Absolutely not."

Clark pauses instinctually at the specific tone of Bruce's voice. It's the one Clark has labeled Bruce's "annoyed but can't process why" tone, typically reserved for when Hal or Oliver are *existing* too close to him.

"Everything ok in there?" Clark asks, even though "in there" is the living room just ahead of the kitchenette bar in Clark's apartment. The open floor plan allows front row seats to Bruce's slow glare development.

The left brow is a little lower than the right which means they've reached category 2 in Bruce's annoyance scale.

Uhoh

Currently the not-masked crusader is sitting on the couch, worn but clean cushions half swallowing the spine-straight posture like a cloud. Donning his typical all-black fashion which only ever makes his skin look like bleach bone peeking out from the darkness.

"Wifi." Bruce states, watching Clark with disapproval that probably has activated Dick Grayson to shudder somewhere.

"Ah." Clark replies, knowing exactly what the issue is.

He tries to will his ears to stop burning, convinced if he acts casual enough, pouring coffee out evenly between two mugs before him, that his body will obey. "In my defense ---" He tries, but there's really no defense for his password to be "Bruce Wayne is Batman" Still, he scrambles for anything. "You're really the only person who'd guess it."

Bruce's face reads *I better be* while taking the mug offered as Clark comes around the couch. Trying to remain cool and calm and kicking himself for not thinking about this before Bruce spent time in his home.

Part of him just assumed Batman has a hotspot hidden in his shoe sole at all times or something equally convoluted - the idea that Bruce would need his wifi felt too domestic for the man. Then again that Bruce Wayne is in his apartment at all while the sun is up - and not just skulking in the shadows of his fire escape as Batman, judging him for the growing collection of houseplants - felt surreal enough.

"Where's your router?" Bruce demands when Clark comes around, handing him the mug and settling in beside him on the couch. Allowing the broken-in cushions to support his body with a soft embrace.

The sudden shift of weight causes Bruce's stiff frame to overcompensate on soft cushions to keep coffee from spilling. Leaving him no choice but to fall against Clark's side.

"You're not changing it."

Too-blue of eyes glare over at him, affronted at being told what he can and cannot do.

"Your digital security is abysmal." There's the smallest gesture of surrender in the way Bruce allows this nearness, the shock of cold ever clinging to the man's body melding with Clark's warmth. It's a victory that leaves Clark's skin humming and Bruce avoiding his gaze as he wrestles with the urge to meddle everything around him.

"If you think that's bad, don't look at my work login." Clark pushes his luck to tease and, despite being the alien in the room, when Bruce goes tense with calculation it feels out of this world.

"I swear to God if it's: I'm Superman...."

Clark drinks his coffee very quickly in an attempt to hide the guilty flinch from Bruce.

It doesn't work...

"CLARK."

[calixcloudlogin]

A Complete Guide for Calix Router Login

Similarly, you know the essentials to access the interface of your networking device. Now, learn to log in through two different methods: Web GUI and the Calix router app. Stay tuned to look closer to the methods:

[malikfaizan1997]

Router-Konfiguration und -Management - Innoscale macht's einfach!

In der heutigen digitalen Welt ist ein zuverlässiges Netzwerk für jedes Unternehmen unerlässlich. Ein Router ist dabei ein wichtiges Gerät, das für die Verbindung Ihrer Geräte mit dem Internet sorgt. Die Konfiguration und Verwaltung eines Routers kann jedoch für einige Benutzer eine Herausforderung darstellen.

In diesem Beitrag wollen wir Ihnen zeigen, wie einfach die Router-Konfiguration und -Verwaltung mit Innoscale sein kann. Innoscale ist ein Anbieter digitaler Dienstleistungen, der sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, alle digitalen Bedürfnisse Ihres KMU zu erfüllen. Dazu gehört auch die Unterstützung bei der Einrichtung und Verwaltung Ihres Netzwerks.

Was ist Router-Konfiguration und -Verwaltung?

Die Router-Konfiguration ist der Prozess der Einrichtung Ihres Routers, so dass er ordnungsgemäß funktioniert. Dazu gehört unter anderem die Einrichtung Ihrer Wi-Fi-Verbindung, die Festlegung von Sicherheitseinstellungen und die Priorisierung von Geräten.

Die Router-Verwaltung bezieht sich auf die laufende Wartung Ihres Routers. Dazu gehört die Überwachung der Netzwerkverbindung, die Fehlerbehebung bei Problemen und die Aktualisierung der Router-Firmware.

Warum ist die Router-Konfiguration und -Verwaltung wichtig?

Eine ordnungsgemäße Router-Konfiguration und -Verwaltung ist aus mehreren Gründen wichtig:

Sicherheit: Ein falsch konfigurierter Router kann Ihr Netzwerk anfällig für Sicherheitsbedrohungen machen. Durch die Einrichtung starker Sicherheitseinstellungen können Sie Ihr Netzwerk vor unbefugtem Zugriff schützen.

Leistung: Eine optimale Routerkonfiguration kann die Leistung Ihres Netzwerks verbessern. Dazu gehört die Optimierung der Wi-Fi-Einstellungen und die Priorisierung von Geräten, die eine höhere Bandbreite benötigen.

Zuverlässigkeit: Durch die regelmäßige Überwachung Ihres Routers und die Aktualisierung der Firmware können Sie Netzwerkprobleme verhindern und die Zuverlässigkeit Ihres Netzwerks verbessern.

Wie kann Innoscale Ihnen helfen?

Innoscale bietet eine Reihe von Dienstleistungen an, die Ihnen bei der Router-Konfiguration und -Verwaltung helfen können:

Beratung: Unsere IT-Experten beraten Sie bei der Auswahl des richtigen Routers für Ihr Unternehmen und helfen Ihnen bei der Einrichtung.

Konfiguration: Wir können Ihren Router für Sie konfigurieren und die optimalen Einstellungen vornehmen.

Verwaltung: Wir bieten laufende Überwachungs- und Wartungsdienste an, um sicherzustellen, dass Ihr Netzwerk reibungslos funktioniert.

Mit Innoscale können Sie sich darauf konzentrieren, Ihr Unternehmen zu führen, während wir uns um die technischen Details kümmern.

Zusätzliche Informationen:

In diesem Beitrag haben wir Ihnen einen kurzen Überblick über die Router-Konfiguration und -Verwaltung gegeben und erklärt, warum sie für Ihr Unternehmen wichtig ist. Wir haben Ihnen auch erklärt, wie Innoscale Ihnen helfen kann.

Wenn Sie mehr über unsere Router-Konfigurations- und - Verwaltungsdienste erfahren möchten, besuchen Sie bitte unsere Website oder kontaktieren Sie uns noch heute.

[cyberpunkonline]

The Internet: From Nuclear-Resistant to Vendor-Dependent Dumbassery

Back in the day, when the Internet was just a glint in DARPA's eye, it was designed with one crucial concept in mind: survival. Picture this—it's the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon looms large, and the military bigwigs are sweating bullets about communication breakdowns. They needed a network that could withstand a nuke dropping on a major hub and still keep the flow of information alive. Enter the ARPANET, the badass granddaddy of the modern Internet, built to have no single point of failure. If one part got nuked, the rest would carry on like nothing happened. Resilient as hell.

Fast forward to today, and what do we have? A digital house of cards. The once mighty and decentralized Internet has become a fragile mess where a single vendor bug can knock out entire swathes of the web. How did we go from a network that could shrug off nuclear bombs to one that craps its pants over a software glitch? Let's dive into this clusterfuck.

The Glory Days of Decentralization

The original ARPANET was all about redundancy and resilience. The network was designed so that if any one part failed—be it from a technical issue or a catastrophic event—data could still find another route. It was a web of interconnected nodes, a spider's web that kept spinning even if you tore a chunk out. It was pure genius.

This approach made perfect sense. The whole point was to ensure that critical military communications could continue even in the aftermath of a disaster. The Internet Protocol (IP), the backbone of how data travels on the Internet, was conceived to route around damage and keep on trucking. No single point of failure meant no single point of catastrophic breakdown. Brilliant, right?

The Rise of Centralized Stupidity

Then came the tech giants. Companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft built empires that depended on centralization. Cloud computing took off, and suddenly, everyone and their grandma was storing their data on a handful of massive servers owned by these big players. It was convenient, it was efficient, but it was also the beginning of the end for the Internet’s robust decentralization.

Today, we've got massive data centers dotted around the globe, each housing thousands of servers. These centers are like Fort Knox for data, but unlike Fort Knox, they’re not immune to problems. A single screw-up—a bug in a software update, a misconfiguration, or even a physical hardware failure—can take down huge chunks of the web. Remember that time when AWS went down and half the Internet went dark? Yeah, that was fun. Or more recently, Cloudstrike do something retarded and every single Windows machine running their shitware gets bricked. Fantastic.

The Single Vendor Blues

It gets worse. The consolidation of Internet services means that many critical applications and websites rely on the same vendors for infrastructure. If one of these vendors messes up, it's not just their services that go down—it's everyone who depends on them too. It’s like having a whole city’s power grid depending on one dodgy generator. One hiccup, and the lights go out for everyone.

Consider the infamous BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacks and leaks. BGP is how routers figure out the best path for data to travel across the Internet. It's crucial, and it's also vulnerable. A single misconfiguration or malicious attack can reroute traffic, causing widespread outages and security breaches. And because so much of the Internet is funneled through a few major ISPs (Internet Service Providers), the impact can be catastrophic.

Why This Is So Fucking Stupid

So, why is it that we’ve allowed the Internet to become this fragile? It boils down to a mix of convenience, cost-cutting, and plain old shortsightedness. Centralized services are easier to manage and cheaper to run. But this efficiency comes at the cost of resilience. We’ve traded the robustness of a decentralized network for the convenience of cloud services and single-vendor solutions.

The result? A network that can be crippled by a single point of failure. This isn’t just stupid—it’s dangerous. It leaves us vulnerable to attacks, outages, and other disruptions that could have far-reaching consequences. It’s a stark reminder that in our quest for efficiency, we’ve neglected one of the core principles that the Internet was founded on: resilience.

The Way Forward

What’s the solution? We need to get back to basics. Decentralization should be a priority. More diversity in service providers, more redundancy in infrastructure, and more focus on designing systems that can withstand failures. It won’t be easy, and it won’t be cheap, but if we want an Internet that can survive the challenges of the future, it’s absolutely necessary.

So next time you hear about a massive outage caused by a single vendor’s screw-up, remember: it didn’t have to be this way. We built an Internet that could survive a nuclear war, and then we broke it because it was cheaper and easier. It’s time to fix that before the next big failure hits.

There you have it, folks. From invincible to idiotic, the Internet’s journey has been a wild ride. Let’s hope we can steer it back on course before it’s too late. - Raz.

[notquiteaghost]

there was a moment when the dog was still a puppy and i had only recently admitted to myself i have cptsd and it is in fact someone's fault, when my dad shouted at the puppy in my presence and i lowkey had a flashback about it

and then there was a moment earlier this year when i was walking the dog and as we passed an older greyhound being walked by an older woman he didn't just bark but full-on bared his teeth and snarled in a way that scared me, the person he thought he was protecting

and. well. angry men also raise angry dogs, it turns out. violent rage is always just desperate fear with teeth, it turns out.

chain of events that i keep compulsively rotating in my mind: my parents raise me > i am insane in a way where i am drawn to the symbolism of dogs > i move out my parents' house > my childhood dog dies > i realise my parents raising me and my being insane are connected > my parents get a new puppy > i write a poem about being unable to stomach yelling at the puppy > the puppy grows up > the now-dog develops a worrying habit of barking and snarling at people and dogs unprovoked > i sit next to my mother on the sofa as we watch a dog training show and she makes a comment about how dogs pick up on feelings. how they can smell them. how it makes sense, that he's like this. she doesn't specify what feelings he's been raised steeped in. she doesn't need to > he's just scared, she says. he's lashing out because he's scared > i have never told her she hurt me and i don't know i ever will

[theminecraftbee]

hello friend Bee! I am still doing vault hunters though I haven’t gotten very far at all. I have however specced entirely into ‘Go Fast’ and ‘hit hard’ so I’m like level 28 with three levels of speed and like, maxed strength. I’m running out of keyboard buttons close to my hands so I haven’t got any ranged attacks. My favorite vaults are elixir! I may also have a hoarding problem, I have so much stuff I rarely use. How are you doing?

my most recent run is on a server with my friends we started a few months ago! I’m about level 80 now and have recently switched from my old physical scatter javelins build to a poison nova build, with a side spec into lucky hit for when my cooldowns are up and I have to actually hit things with my sword. switching from shields to wands has made me MUCH squishier, but at high levels the toxic reaction/poison nova build is just so damn fun I don’t care. (plus, hilarious side effect of “I carry a wand with a legendary CDR modifier in the overworld so I can dash as much as possible, and by chance it has poison cloud, and since my killing routers in my farm use my stats it clears out the farm SO FAST whenever the cloud procs and toxic reaction goes brrrrrr.)

getting high speed is FUN, and strength is actually REALLY GOOD earlygame especially; +12 attack damage at max strength increase is a LOT of attack damage at a point in the game where that just about doubles your damage outright. plus, if you get some armor with % attack damage modifiers you can do some real hurt! javelins for range sound like they’d be good for your build, if you have the free space.

glad you’re having fun LOVE vault hunters here,