The "back door" in this case are Chinese-made solar inverters.
This one gadget could give China a back door into the U.S. power grid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/10/us-energy-grid-china-threat-blackouts/
Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."
'nut' is a UPS monitor program; you can configure your host to switch off when your UPS is running low and change settings on the UPS and monitor charge. The 'N' stands for Network - so you can do a lot of things remotely, for example making a bunch of machines speak to one host monitoring the UPS and get them all to shut down.
I also use some of my own scripts to feed it into some graphing stuff with Grafana and get pretty line voltage graphs;
Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.
have basically given up on streaming video subscriptions & rent things ala carte via the roku search function, which feels quietly like renting for the weekend from the video store, minus the browsing. ~$4 per rental, no further relationship, & no silo. (the willie doc is rentable via fandango.) https://heads.social/…
It was heavily implied that the power going out in Caracas shortly before the US raid was a cyber operation.
In the same way that the US fears Chinese equipment will be remotely commandeered for military or espionage uses, governments will probably be looking at where US company equipment sits in their critical infrastructure.
I imagine they'll be requesting software inspection and reproducible build chains, as the UK did for Huawei.
Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."
#LB Que forte, hein?
https://social.chatty.monster/@losttourist/115609521766579946
Internal memo and a source: Meta is cutting ~600 jobs out of several thousand within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to cut bureaucracy (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/meta-superintelligence-tbd-ai-reorg