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A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes.

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US school runs lights 24/7/365: The smart lights have been broken since 2021

This is why your DNS queries now have random capitalization

Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras

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