People are mostly talking about what a bunch of idiots they are though.

This lot look like they were cast by the daily mail, they couldn’t be more of a caricature. It is absolutely not effective communication.

On the one hand, this is embarrassing for Russia, but on the other hand the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent failed a couple of times in a row over the last few years, so I’m not going to get too excited about it.

Their own assets are probably busy in Ukraine or trying to combat Ukrainian infiltrators

Thanks, I find the names of Ubiquiti’s product lines pretty confusing particularly as they are often used together.

I have an Edgerouter X, an Edgerouter PoE-5, two UAP-AC-LR (“Ubiquiti UniFi-AC-LR”) access points, and one UAP-AC-MESH (“Ubiquiti UniFi-AC-MESH”) access point.

The access points came with UniFi firmware, whereas the routers were running EdgeOS. I’m no longer using the PoE-5 and I’ve replaced the firmware on all of the other devices with OpenWrt.

Yes of course I changed the root password, I think it would actually be quite difficult not to do that on OpenWrt as it warns you if the password isn’t set.

Was the exploit not related to unifi’s remote / cloud administration features? That’s how I read it, unless they mean remote admin that was installed by the malware.

Makes me glad I replaced the firmware on my Unifi devices with OpenWrt

Not sure if I’m just misreading you, but which party do you think was the opposition during the brexit referendum and has subsequently gained power in the UK? The Tories called the referendum and have been in power since. Hopefully we will be rid of them at the upcoming election but I wouldn’t count on it.

Not much good news going around at the moment is there. All the more reaaon to celebrate this, which can’t have been easy or quick and can only have been achieved a result of hard work over many years.

Did you not switch to Nextcloud a while back?

You can’t really say it’s “their government” when the Palestinians in Gaza haven’t had free and fair elections in years. Hamas has fucked the civilians in both Israel and Gaza. Civilians of either country who don’t support the aggressive actions of “their side” (countinued settlement, terrorism) shouldn’t be suffering as a result.

Not a bad idea, however I’ve had problems with some of the firmware (I think, maybe it’s the kernel) on external HDDs causing them to power off when not in use for long periods of time. For some reason it doesn’t happen with internal drives so it must be the enclosure or the way the system deals with the drive.

I’ve had the drive on my kodi box fail a couple of times now, it’s annoying. Torrenting probably puts a lot of wear on the drive though so it’s to be expected.

I have two old NUCs, one DN2820FYK with an Intel Celeron N2830, and another D54250WYKH with an Intel Haswell i5-4250U. The former can only take one drive but the latter can have an mSATA as well as a 2.5" SATA. I’d like to use the latter with root on the mSATA SSD and a 2TB HDD for media in the 2.5" SATA, but for some reason I get better video playback on the Celeron than the Haswell. Both are supposed to have hardware acceleration for h264 and the Haswell is a more powerful processor so I don’t understand it!