Yeah, I’ll start making major changes on this active system people are actively using while they are actively using it. Or… I could do it at 10pm when they’re all in bed and won’t write me nastygrams about interrupting their workflow.

I’m also thinking of things like roadworks, where you can either have land closures when folks are out and about or at night when there are fewer folks on the road and working with hot asphalt is less hot.

There are also some processes that need to be done at a certain temperature, like thermite welding rail (skip to like 4:00). So, either you air condition the railroads or you weld when the outside temperature is right.

It also twinged my implausibilty meter when they said there were several easy to find podcasts and blog posts on the depths of AiW, but didn’t link to any…

Edit: the first, long comment made me think it was some autist’s [not derogatory] special interest and that they were too deep to explain it well. The second comment made me think that was not the case.

I’m optimisticly guessing the devices talk to the router in such a way that their mac addresses can’t be eavesdropped out of the ether, and there’s enough mac addresses in the universe that cycling through spoofed addresses is unlikely to be fruitful.

Though, I could learn a device’s mac address by setting up a competing wifi device, possibly by a: having a battery-operated one during a power outage or b: being friendly with my neighbors “sure you can borrow my Wi-Fi”.

Now I’m curious how mac addresses are determined (like, is a Pixel 3’s mac address going to follow a specific pattern?) and I’m going to go look that up.

Is that bypassable using a spoofed mac address?

What I got out of it (including the clarification) was “AI ties to Alice in some way also Alice in Wonderland is deeper than you think” and the ties to AI were where I felt it was either nonsense or not written for the audience.

I don’t sleep in my glasses and I don’t sleep in my shoes and coat in winter. I’ll have to get dressed anyway–possibly just in glasses, shoes, and long coat.

My bigger worry is that my dog isn’t currently wearing his harness and ID (he had a bath). I’d have to either toss him in a crate and carry him out, or get him dressed in his harness.

Thank you. I follow a tad better.

I don’t understand what you wrote. Please explain like I’ve not take a literature class since high school. (I read, but mostly for fun or computer tech information, which is also for fun.)