596: Chrome For Sale

We've been blown away by the feedback and support for the Smart Home Index since we boosted in to episode 137! As promised, we're returning part of that value back to SelfHosted and will continue to do so. To answer Alex's previous question, we have a contribution page at smarthomeindex.com/contribute where the community can submit a new device/bug/feedback directly. Based on feedback, we’ve also integrated a public GitHub repo for collating “self-hosting notes” which is linked from that page.

The tariff plan is just another grift by a career conman. The things Canada and Mexico promised to Trump were things they had already planned to do with Biden. This is like when Trump 1.0 tried to take credit for Obama's CARES act that allowed veterans to be seen with VA care in non VA facilities. My long term take is more or less he's going to start another depression because when you go look at the roaring 20s what came right after, The great depression. So if you shrink the window like the fox news pundit did man tariffs look sweet we need to get back on that train, when you pull the window back out you go yikes, maybe we shouldn't do that again. I would love to be wrong, but this is a tight rope walk over a pool of lemon juice and broken glass, and none of the people kicking the rope are the ones that will fall into the pool.

So the way the Navy deals with it is a massive abandoned salt mine in Utah. The US does operate some breeder reactors also where every so often they will take some of the waste and burn it down to lead. But the hippies tend to throw giant fits about moving the stuff around so this all has been limited.

I will say as a security professional stuff like the cups vuln is a two sided problem. On the one side we tend to be terrible at people skills so we sound like the boy who cried wolf, or chicken little, which makes us easy to bruah off, then we are really quick to scream I told you so and give the means to exploit these bugs away. On the otherside though the people running projects tend to take the work researchers do for granted, and are quick to brush things off when they don't understand them, which is a huge problem because a lot of these bugs exist in the realm of "Why would anyone ever do that"

Remember the Apple ads about vista's UAC. Oh how the times changed. But a little tip, you can usually bypass a bunch of the error messages by setting file system flags, so like the block for internet things set com.apple.quarantine to 0 and its gone. But who knows how long that will last. That's why Ive been telling people to give linux another shot, it's got better. Don't have to deal with this nonsense