Cathedral of Brasília and it's bell tower, from a trip a little while ago.
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Cathedral of Brasília and it's bell tower, from a trip a little while ago. You wouldn't guess this was a church if you hadn't been told so. (Or you might, there's a huge cross at the top of it and all, but you'd have to admit it's at least an /unconventional/ one)
Conveniently located just outside Brasília's central bus station, it's only a quick walk away from the National Congress and most other buildings housing the bulk of Brasil's federal administration. Actually, the whole region for the Plano Piloto is tiny, I really wasn't expecting that. Frustratingly unwalkable, too.
I've arrived just slightly too late for their visiting hours, but I did get to take a slight glance within: the dimly-filtered light peeking through the stained glass roof onto the circular nave sunk into the ground, with the angel sculptures floating right above the main altar does make for a spectacularly gloomy atmosphere.
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Cathedral of Brasília and it's bell tower, from a trip a little while ago. You wouldn't guess this was a church if you hadn't been told so. (Or you might, there's a huge cross at the top of it and all, but you'd have to admit it's at least an /unconventional/ one)
Conveniently located just outside Brasília's central bus station, it's only a quick walk away from the National Congress and most other buildings housing the bulk of Brasil's federal administration. Actually, the whole region for the Plano Piloto is tiny, I really wasn't expecting that. Frustratingly unwalkable, too.
I've arrived just slightly too late for their visiting hours, but I did get to take a slight glance within: the dimly-filtered light peeking through the stained glass roof onto the circular nave sunk into the ground, with the angel sculptures floating right above the main altar does make for a spectacularly gloomy atmosphere.
That was probably the only half-decent picture I've got from the whole trip. That, and this dreamy-looking shot of the National Museum, which I guess tells you something about my photographic habilities. (To be fair, four hours isn't really enough to see much of anything, though I did try my best to take in as much as I could).
Did I mention that's right beside the Cathedral? I'm still surprised how close together most of this seem to be. Fully expected just wasting most of my time there inside public transportation.
In the end, I wasn't really able to learn much about the place itself, although I did get to see quite a bit. I'd really hope to get the chance to go back there one day, and get to know the city at a slower pace. Brasília is quite the interesting city.
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Turns out the size of the IKEA Tradfri control unit is just slightly higher than the gap under the front of an IBM AT. If you push the front of the Tradfri unit, say, cos you lean against it without realising it. Then the Tradfri box slides under the AT, which presses the button on the face of the Tradfri, which turns the lights on, and starts cycling through the colours.
It wasn't some malicious hacker playing with my lights. It was just the Tradfri box being squeezed under a 30 yr old PC.
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... The cause.
The last 5 years I've worked for a security company. I'm known for being paranoid about network security. Having my home network compromised like this would be bad. What else would they have access to ?
Turns out, this was not a security compromise. This was a poor interaction between old technology, and new.
The old technology? An IBM Personal Computer AT built sometime between 1984 and 1989, and the IKEA Tradfri control box.
What is this poor interaction?
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@mannivu @oblomov però pure dire che il problema sta nella semplificazione delle meccaniche rispetto alla profondità del mondo medievale, il che renderebbe più facile diventare fascisti... Che è un po' come dire che Mario Kart rende dei pessimi automobilisti perché è una semplificazione di una gara automobilistica.
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A couple of weeks ago, I was sat on the sofa when the ceiling lights came on. I don't use these lights very often. Having come on, they then cycled through all the colours. This is alarming. The lights are IKEA Tradfri bulbs, and I have a Tradfri gateway so I can control the lights via the app. My immediate concern was maybe someone had compromised my network and was experimenting with the API the gateway exposes. I started to do some debugging and network analysis.
Today I discovered...
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