Scott Manley put out a decent video on it this morning:

https://youtu.be/Esk1hg2knno

TLDR/W: It’s moving around 13km/s, expected to pass nearby in 2028, and potentially collide with earth in 2032. Currently there’s a 2.3% chance of that happening, though as more data is collected that number is expected to drop.

Volume and mass information is scarce as we discovered it too late for radar and are relying on optical observations. Current estimates put it between 40 and 90 meters across and anywhere from 25k tons up to as much as 1 million tons. If that was to hit earth; energy wise, that’s equivalent to between 1 and 40 megatons of tnt. For reference, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) was less than 1/66th of that power (the lower 1megaton number…).

The directors and pretty much all of the security team at the Office of Personal Management come to mind.

Fair enough.

I’m not saying she or others should lay down and let it happen; I’m mostly just wondering what’s different about this situation. She hasn’t been marched out yet (presumably). How come?

Again; I support it, I’m just not expecting much.

It doesn’t seem like she’s been frog marched out of the building, yet. How come, what’s different here? Public perception? Physical resistance from others? Something else?

Clearly she’s doing something right; I just wonder what’s protecting her.

Well, everyone that’s put up a similar stance has been physically removed from their offices and had their access to resources required to do their jobs revoked.

What’s gonna make this one any different?

Don’t get me wrong, I support it; I just don’t expect it to be effective.

A lot of people aren’t even aware of the concern. That’s why I bring it up.

Paying an electrician to add a breaker is much cheaper than replacing the PC. Tho that’s up to OC if they want to pursue that. I’m just putting the info out there for them to consider.

breaker to my room likes to trip if I am gaming and someone in the house decides to microwave something

… Why the hell is your pc on the same breaker as the kitchen??

The kitchen plugs should have their own dedicated breaker in most modern electrical codes (at least in North America). The voltage drop your pc experiences everytime a high-load item like a microwave or kettle is turned on, on the same circuit, is really rough on your PSU.

At least you have a UPS which presumably performs some power conditioning, but still. Not great.

That’s true; once everything inside is brought down to temp, they use very little power to stay cold.

My regular fridge uses ~500-800wh a day (depending on how much it got opened). My chest freezer though, uses ~200wh/day pretty consistently.

OS updates I only bother with every 6-12mo, though I also use debian which doesn’t push major updates all that regularly.

As far as software goes; pretty much everything is in a docker container with watchtower automatically pulling new updates to those nightly at 4am. It sends me email notifications, so It’ll tell me if an update fails; combined with uptime-kuma notifying me if any of my services is unavailable for whatever reason.

The rest I’ll usually do with the OS updates. Just because an update was released, doesn’t mean you’ve gotta drop everything and install it right this moment.

I’m not all that concerned about either tbh; I was just already capturing DNS traffic and funneling it through pihole for the customizable blocking, and figured I may as well add DOH while I’m at it.

Just sharing the knowledge for those that are interested. You can use any DOH provider you like.

You think they haven’t tried that? If it was that simple it wouldn’t have gotten plugged in in the first place.

It’s monitored. You need to stop Musk and his lap dogs, who are backed by the DOJ and POTUS himself.

Everyone that’s put up resistance has been walked out of the building and put on leave/fired.

Regular DNS can be monitored, intercepted, and modified however your ISP decides, even with you specifying custom DNS servers.

I run pihole on my LAN, with cloudflared as its upstream DNS. Cloudflared translates regular DNS into DOH using cloudflare and quad9 as the upstream DOH providers (configurable).

Pihole DOH with cloudflared

Finally I block all port 53 (dns) traffic at the router so it cannot leave my LAN. All LAN devices that want regular DNS are forced to use the LAN DNS server which wraps their requests in DOH for them. (as well as blocking ads, tracking/telemetry, and known malware sites)

Sure,

That’s why Trump won’t even take Trudeaus calls. He just wants to negotiate.

Fuck America, enact a full trade embargo. Nothing in, nothing out; including oil and electricity.