Be careful about the culture.
Higher management had a massive panic because "AI stopped working" in a product we make.
They started an all-hands meeting.
Everything worked except the AI responses.
Turns out we just ran out of credits.
The bad part is we told everybody we would run out of credits in less that 3 days.
Nobody cared until we had production outage.
Now procurement is complaining about token usage.
Before reading the article I was surprised to find them similar to old german Sout backpacks.
They are really sturdy and durable: your kid needs just one of them for all primary school (grundschule).
They are explensive (not so much considering 3-6 years of continuous abuse by kids), but when the kid gets tired of it, some people put them on sale.
I have one that I know was resold at least 2 times and it still in perfect shape...
Great for airport travel, btw.
That's... not terrible. Biff isn't exactly popular (yet?), so a name change isn't out of the question. Both of those names (and `biff`) are already taken on crates.io. Which is maybe not a huge problem. IDK. Naming is hard.
I did. I always do. I just missed this one. Or if I saw it, it didn't register for me and felt like it was just an old archaic tool. Which... is probably still true, but I under-estimated its mindshare. Just an honest unknown unknown.
This reminds me of Nortel Command Console back in 2000-2005!
I worked for a telco company that had a lot of Nortel Passport devices (does anyone know what Frame Relay is?).
We started changing the network from Nortel to Cisco.
Cisco used telnet (later SSH), but Nortel people were extremelly reluctant to switch.
Turns out the Nortel network managment system (nortel nms) had a very interesting feature: you could open the command console to connect to one of the passport devices... or you could connect to a device group (or all the network) and run the same command in all devices.
This was great for auditing which version had every single device in the network... or for changing access-lists globally.
Probably the police wants to gather some evidence.
The easiest way to block a wifi tap is to change the wifi password... or wifi name. Both things will be noticed by the eavesdropper because they will block the device *but* it is an easy way to block it asap.
What I would do:
1 - Get an old android phone.
2 - Configure the phone to act as an access point with the same wifi name and password.
3 - Change the wifi password or name in the router.
4 - Change wifi passwords in laptop, etc... (I know, it is a pain).
4 - Activate the phone access point.
5 - * IF * the listening device connects to the phone AP wifi, you know there's a wifi tap.
You can connect the phone to your home wifi later... and it will look transparent to the stalker.
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