This definitely happens. Last time Dead & Company came to town, it was simulcast in the local movie theater. Tickets to the show were only available on a raffle basis since the venue didn't hold nearly enough people.

Then again, the Dead were also pioneers of permitting and encouraging the bootleg scene.

Anyone have suggestions for backing up Google Drive + local files? I keep reading the horror stories about people getting locked out of cloud services, and worry about my 20 years of history stored in Drive. Less worried about local files which are sync'd to an external disk, but it'd be nice to have something in place for everything.

I have the same worry about being locked out.

So I back it up to a NAS. I bought a Synology NAS (back before they turned into an evil company) which includes a Cloud Sync app which will connect to your Google Drive and sync changes every hour. It's technically sync not backup, but because all deleted files go into a "Trash bin" directory that you can set to never empty, it effectively works as backup for deleted files too (though you can't recover older versions of a file that still exists). The really great feature is that it has the option to sync all files that are in Google Docs/Sheets/Slides format as converted to Word/Excel/PPT. And the great thing about the backup running on your NAS is that it doesn't depend on your computer being on or anything.

I know Synology's considered an evil company now because they seem to tie you to their own hard drives now, but I don't know if there's anything else as easy to set up for reliably syncing consumer cloud files to a NAS. Hopefully there is though, if anyone else knows?

And of course, you can similarly run a backup program on your computer to back up your local files to it, as it's just a network mount.

I saw an entire physical switch configured for bridging VLANs. It was even labeled as such. 802.1q is hard and confusing if you don't know what you're doing.

Where are you finding cheap WiiUs? I've wanted to pick one up for a while and find them to be exorbitantly expensive, especially the controllers.

The gamepads often cost more than the console itself, because they're region locked and you can't use the console without one.

There is an attempt to clone the functionality of the gamepad ongoing that's somewhat usable: https://github.com/vanilla-wiiu/vanilla

I saw console-only Wii Us in Book Off in Japan for ~US$30.

> https://magicshifter.net/

I get a cert mismatch on that site, and when clicking the shop link I end up at https://hackerspaceshop.com/ which is advertising an online fax service.

Yes, we let those lapse alas, we’re working on it .. and yeah, we have had some fun times with the MagicShifter ..

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Magicshifter+30...

.. and well, they’re not over (new firmware builds this week..)

https://github.com/magichsifter/ms4000

It's 2026, and these PLCs etc. are directly connected to the internet? I think that's the most surprising aspect here.

It doesn’t surprise me at all. Show me the incentives, and I’ll show you the outcome. Security is simply not valued, in many cases.

> But it doesn't extend to even other people's kids!

I think it's a question of exposure and tolerance, otherwise it'd be much harder for daycare workers, for instance.

Every response to the original post calls it out as being factually incorrect...

Nope https://x.com/rdd147/status/2038383801307639960

And one more: https://x.com/AGCast4/status/2038638898151383519

This threat actor is also using Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) "Canisters" to deliver payloads. I'm not too familiar with the project, but I'm not sure blocking domains in DNS would help there.

Thanks for putting this together. I've been seeing the name TeamPCP pop up all over, but hadn't seen everything in one place.