SwiftOnSecurityWhen your manufacturing processes are not 100% local to a datacenter your biggest enemy is not Russian hacks it's crackheads looking for copper ☹️
"Just get redundant lines" turns out the crackheads will take both of them
John Breen@SwiftOnSecurity My independent, redundant connection methods to the internet goes to 11, so I've got that going for me...
@SwiftOnSecurity Of course I exaggerate, I only have 7, but I did not count connecting to my neighbors WiFi hotspots as a backup method.
David Costa@SwiftOnSecurity hi! I'm the problem, it's me! lalala la la la
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Greg Whitehead@SwiftOnSecurity The big takeaway I remember from my failure analysis class was that airplane designers (now) run redundant lines down different paths so that they won’t all be severed unless the whole plane is cut in half
King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi@SwiftOnSecurity Home aircon condenser thefts are becoming increasingly common as well, as the heat exchangers often are made from copper due to its VASTLY superior heat conductivity to much more readily available aluminum, as well as its ease of manufacture and assembly compared to aluminum: just solder it all together and you have hermetically sealed joints!
Fi 🏳️⚧️@SwiftOnSecurity kinda makes me think that an important criterion in site selection for datacenters is whether the local area does anything to help out their homeless/impoverished population.
Desperate people are a threat surface for continuity of operations.
sen@munin @SwiftOnSecurity Alternatively, how can datacentre operators improve the area?
It’s common for wind farms to have to engage with and give a percentage of revenue to the community they’re located within, beyond just the local taxes and rent to the landowners. I’d love to see datacentres following the same model.
sbi@munin @SwiftOnSecurity I dunno man, Berlin isn't particularly known in Germany for being a city full of wealthy people, but it's not like *everybody* is out on the streets here, fighting the pigeons for scraps. And, yet, copper cables disappear from it's city trains (S-Bahn) regularly—and not just during the wee hours of the day when the trains pause:
not a man, and it looks like there's quite a few homeless folks in berlin, so maybe the systemic injustices go a bit deeper than 'fighting pigeons'. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-nearly-2000-homeless-in-berlin-says-census/a-52288746
@munin I apologize for the misuse of that phrase. I hadn't looked at your profile and I am not a native speaker, so I just re-use what I heard elsewhere. Sorry.
Yes, there is homeless people in Berlin, roughly 1 in ~2000 Berliners. (Note: In Frankfurt that's 1 in ~200, in Munich it's 1 in ~150, and in NYC or SF it's 1 in ~100.) But those aren't the the cable thieves, b/c stealing cables from under a running train line requires the sort of logistics homeless people usually don't have around here.
Yes, there is homeless people in Berlin, roughly 1 in ~2000 Berliners. (Note: In Frankfurt that's 1 in ~200, in Munich it's 1 in ~150, and in NYC or SF it's 1 in ~100.) But those aren't the the cable thieves, b/c stealing cables from under a running train line requires the sort of logistics homeless people usually don't have around here.
MrAptronym@SwiftOnSecurity "Just get redundant lines" is absolute top tier advice for measuring an element on ICP-OES though.
Paul@SwiftOnSecurity 😂 I really want to read the story behind this
Alun Jones@SwiftOnSecurity ha ha, "redundant lines". Like the airport that required redundant lines to stop the prospect of back hoe incidents, subcontracted it out to different providers, who subcontracted out to the same trench diggers/cable layers, who decided they could save money by putting them in the same trench.