Regular interruptions leading to an increase in procrastination!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900/ (the article is partly fearmongering, but makes some nuanced points)
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When a tool supports both regular expressions and literal strings, which should be the default?
If you default to regex, users can match more strings than they realise (e.g. `foo.txt`) or less (e.g. `foo(bar)`).
I typically see regex as the default, but I prefer the opposite.
Super impressed that the UK government does regular scanning for vulnerabilities for servers based in the UK: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/ncsc-scanning-information
Preventative and good for the overall ecosystem.
Remotely bricking satellite modems as part of (presumably) nation state hostilities: https://www.reversemode.com/2022/03/satcom-terminals-under-attack-in-europe.html
If over-the-air update systems aren't receiving regular patches, maybe it would be better for industry to use hardware that can't be reflashed remotely?