I like the idea of AI. But I want it to be optional.

I’m going to be honest, I’m not a fan of talking to my phone. So I’d not want to use this so called feature. If they force this change this will be my last Samsung phone.

I just hope the other manufacturers don’t follow suit.

They problem is, one company leads and other’s follow. It’s hard to say for sure that this will remain a Samsung “feature”.

I mean it’s bizarre to us. But many followers of Islam do not condone images of living (often specifically sentient) beings. As with all things religious this is of course adhered to, from every possible extreme and sometimes not at all.

I always say this when someone asks why I am interested in radio, when you can make phone calls for free from pretty much anywhere to anywhere else.

One day, all that infrastructure may be switched off, or just gone. But I’ll be able to take a piece of wire, hoist it into the air and have a two way conversation with people thousands of miles away.

It’s also just very interesting I think, the way the signals are propagated differently at different wavelengths at different times.

It made me think of that too. I remember hearing it on the West Wing though.

They were the cheat codes you used to keep hackers out! :P

OK guys, time to upgrade to Redhat 6 from 1999. I bet it’ll be great! It has Kernel 2.2, and I’m hearing good things about the upgrade to ipchains from ipfwadm!

OK guys, guess it’s time to upgrade to Windows 8. I bet it’ll be great!

I have a better idea. Let’s drop climate conservation, use a load of fossil fuels to fire him in a rocket directly into the sun! Then, resume climate conservation.

I think this is one of the things that ech is meant to solve. But ech/esni is still not widespread on smaller sites yet I think.

But you can see the ip address, which will id the bank. They can derive other information by ip addresses or leaked data and there’s still things using unencrypted connections even today. I generally just connect to my home vpn so at least it’s inly my isp spying on me.

Well, I would say bittorrent with a good vpn or, usenet with a good indexer and depending on how much you download, block account vs monthly.

Personally I top up all my block accounts whenever I see a sale. With priority set from cheapest per gig to most expensive (so the pricey ones are only used as fillers).

But that does involve paying some money, but then doesn’t really require a vpn. In the long term I don’t think I’m paying that much though.

On public WiFi I just vpn into my home network. The issue with public WiFi is that it can be sniffed by anyone in range since there is generally no encryption.

Although pretty much everything we do is over tls these days, and DoH helps protect against even dns sniffing. There’s still at least some risk to working in the clear over a public WiFi network. At least in information gathering, what bank you use, etc.

But, there’s no real benefit in using a paid vpn over one you own unless you’re downloading illegal content, want to watch another Netflix region, or are in a country with heavy Internet monitoring/filtering.

Hmm. That would mean it’s likely one of the following (well perhaps more options, but these spring to mind)

• A windows machine that has the network set as a public network, or netbios specifically blocked on LAN.
• A windows machine that has all the netbios services disabled.
• Not a windows machine, or a container as others suggested that’s running some kind of IIS install
• Not a windows machine at all but for some weird reason IIS files and a web server setup.

I think you suggested in another comment, that it’s not in your DHCP client list but has an IP in your normal range. Which suggests it is setup with a static IP. That is odd.

Some other people suggested it could be a container that is using a real IP rather than the NAT that docker etc usually use. I do know that you can use real IPs in containers, I’ve done it on my NAS to get a “proper” linux install on top of the NAS lite linux that is provided. But I would have expected that you’d know about that, since it would require someone to actually choose the IP address to use.

If you have managed switches you could find which port on which switch the MAC address (as found by lookuping up the arp record for the IP using arp -a) is on (provided the switch allows access to the forwarding tables). Of course, if they’re on Wi-Fi it’s only going to lead to the access point they’re connecting to.

I don’t even think my current wifi kit has WPA (1) as an option. It’s WPA2 or 3 only I’m pretty sure.

So, as others have saId this is just an unconfigured IIS server, which implies it’s either a windows machine, or a windows based VM, well or someone put the default IIS files on another server, but that’s unlikely.

When you say “weird” IP I’d wonder what you mean by that.

I think since it’s probably a windows machine, from another windows machine typing nbtstat -A <ip> should give you the computer name and workgroup or domain they belong to. See if it matches anything you expect on your network.

If not, maybe it’s time to change your WPA wifi key.

Don’t need the router. If you’re on windows or linux, you just ping the ip then enter ‘arp -a <ip>’ it will show the MAC address for the IP from your machine’s arp cache.

Technically, no. The last few have been significantly below either measure of inflation. So in real terms, I’ve had a wage cut!

Raises where you work are still based on merit? Damn!

Packets are lost all the time. Especially when uploading or downloading.