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Denon actually tend to play nicely with local control, with telnet, RS-232 serial, and local network APIs that are easy to use. My Denon receiver worked OOTB with Home Assistant.

This is also a problem in classical HPC, there aren't very many algorithms that can scale linearly with cores. That's partially why so many HPC algorithms tend to be built on matrix multiplication and Monte Carlo, because those do tend to scale near arbitrarily.

You were one generation before me, I started college in 2007. By then it was all those super cheap little 4 port Netgear switches most people reading this have probably owned at some point. I don't remember us having official dorm wifi but we were allowed to have our own wireless routers, probably an IT nightmare by today's standards. I recall we also all got publicly routable IP4s.

Hubs were still just barely still relevant when I first started learning networking, but it was late enough that I don't think I've ever encountered one in serious use. Especially after port mirroring became a common feature even on affordable switches. I think we had an old pile of industrial/scientific test equipment in grad school nobody wanted to touch that was using an old Cisco hub, but my memory is fuzzy.

I've definitely never seen any old Thicknet networks in use, though I have seen Token Ring in active use semi-recently. I never learned anything about Token Ring other than I remember old CompTIA mentioning it existed.

I do have a fondness for seeing this old tech that was way out of my reach or just barely too old to encounter back in the day being used, it's so neat to learn about. ClabRetro on YouTube is one of my few "drop everything and watch a new video" creators.

People may forget that Ethernet originally had a shared transmission medium and collisions were a serious limitation. Switching was a later addition that mostly solved collisions and really paved the way for Ethernet as we know it today.

See ntopng, it provides a nice monitoring UI for exactly this type of scenario. It's higher level than Wireshark, more focused on high level traffic analysis.

I have a Studio 2 for work and even on windows it runs like absolute garbage. Almost unbelievably slow at everything and locks up frequently. Maybe I have a dud with some sort subtle hardware fault but it's by far the worst computer I've owned. Not a good look for a premium priced laptop that is supposed to be a showcase for Microsoft.

And yeah, can't run Linux on it either to try and salvage it because of all the weird and undocumented hardware.

SELinux was originally designed by the NSA to serve their needs, which are probably a bit more intense than "normal" users, and that was over 25 years ago. I'm not convinced a fresh effort couldn't do better, though I'm more skeptical that anyone is willing to invest the resources.

They do use the official client, but it also makes it fairly easy to bridge tailscale networks with regular wireguard clients with normal routing rules.

PfSense and OPNsense both support Tailscale and can integrate it with their normal routing/firewall behavior. I think OpenWRT can as well but I haven't tried it.

The prospect of going to a website I've never visited before, getting a captcha, and it saying "we don't think those are YOUR feet, access denied" is a little TOO believable.

"We reserve the right to retain your security feet pics indefinitely, but won't use them for advertising purposes. We may use them for other business purposes, subject to change at any time without notification."

--new TOS

Then, a few months later x.ai announces a new SOTA frontier model, FeetGrok.

25 years is the standard time horizon for automatic declassification, and someone high up probably decided to collect things together to publicize in an attempt to score some political kudos.

Speakers can act as part of a useful microphone circuit but you're missing all the amplifiers and ADCs and other stuff to use it as one in any sane speaker driver circuit. They'd have to intentionally add all that, which maybe they would, but it'd be easier to just stick a tiny $0.05 all in one microphone chip on there.