huang_chung

> That is why most of the successes are skewed early like Reddit and a bunch of other companies which defined the internet.

Reddit rode the wave with zero innovation. Really what is Reddit? Message boards predated Reddit, which was predated by Usenet, predated by BBS. Somewhere in there were Yahoo! chat forums.

All they did was colocate message boards in one place, and allowed freewheeling moderation. That's it. They got lucky, made millions with zero new ideas. People connected the same way on AOL 15 years before.

Like most Silicon Valley innovations, you just reuse an existing idea or resell polished turds as new.

> middle managers with no direct reports

No actual engineers performing real work were harmed in this exercise.

Not strangely, it is regional preference. Go to Lowes or HD and see what housewife in that area prefer; there will be 20 models of one kind and 2 of other kind.

Good luck fixing it when it breaks and thus creating more e-waste.

Electric dryers, especially older models, are very simple appliances, you can easily repair yourself and keep them running forever. Can't say the same about heat pump or gas dryer

Total clickbait after you read details:

> NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off.

So 23 DEI architects and middle managers with no direct reports were sent packing by means of re-org. Good riddance!

No physical offices being closed as implied by misleading title.

Two years is more typical.

Well, getting fucked out of your 401k money 6 months before it vests stings some.

> If I run `nc -l 31337 | sh` that puts my system into a remotely exploitable state

Quick, before someone posts this to Mastodon and gives presentation at security conference with title:

Living off the Land: the Hidden Threat Within

> In theory, the attacker could then use the undocumented commands to scan, spoof, or otherwise attack any near by bluetooth devices.

So? Device is 0wned. Did you think Bluetooth chip is magic protection device for rest of the network?

How would you stop physical external actor? Do you have "No ESP32 permitted on this property" signs on windows?

After reading it really seems much ado about nothing.

Wait until they learn you can rewrite disk drive firmware from inside OS with root access.

> "Buy this super cheap home automation product” turns into installing an APT in your network.

If that was intention, no need to hide code in the Bluetooth, just write it in the firmware. The device itself it the trojan horse.