IphtashuFitz

@IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  ISIS has/had for a while a really good recruitment program that identified and groomed Muslim ideologists. I have a distant relative that was married to such a Muslim man. He was recruited by them, eventually proclaimed himself a member, and to make a long story short will now spend most of the rest of his life in jail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this is just a necessary legal/regulatory step in order for them to start running Virtual Power Plants in the UK. There was a recent article stating that they recently ran a successful test of a 100,000 node VPP in California. Up until now I’ve only heard of them being 1000-2000 nodes, so that test is a massive improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be wary of one or more colors fading over time unless you are VERY careful with how you print these. Being monochromatic, QR codes don’t have such issues. It would likely also be easier to recover a faded QR code than a colored bar code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation tasked with examining the June 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible released its report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It absolutely blew my mind how many times he clearly heard the carbon fiber cracking under the pressure yet constantly explained it away as not a big deal. And despite having acoustic sensors meant to identify when that cracking was likely to be a major problem he ignored that as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Legalized bribery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad was an electrical engineer that worked on the Gemini & Apollo programs. He actually worked at Draper Labs in Cambridge, MA which did a lot of work for NASA.

  He likes to tell the story of a coworker he shared an office with. This coworker designed a lot of the circuitry used in the rockets, and back then it was all drawn out by hand on huge sheets of paper on drafting tables. This guy was also fairly short, so he’d practically stand on a stool to reach the upper parts of the drafting table. He’d draw up various circuits, have the papers duplicated, and send the duplicates off to NASA. He kept all the originals on his desk. When it was time to draw up a new circuit he just put down a blank sheet of drafting paper over all the other circuit drawings and start drawing the new one.

  From time to time this guy would get calls from the NASA teams that were actually building the rockets. They’d say they were calling about a specific circuit, so this guy would start flipping through the corners of all the sheets of drafting paper looking for the right one. When he found the right one he’d duck his head under so he could get a good look at the circuit diagram while discussing it on the phone with the NASA people.

  If he had to then he’d actually crawl onto the drafting table during a call. My dad says that more than once he walked into the office to find this guy covered by sheets of drafting paper with only his legs & the telephone cord visible as he talked to the NASA engineers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except the cops will argue there’s no actual proof that the bills with dye on them are the same bills you took out of the ATM or got from a bank teller. It’s not like the serial numbers are recorded. So they’ll just claim the most likely scenario is that the cash is indeed stolen and confiscate it. And for good measure they could also charge you with receiving stolen property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. That flag violates US Flag Code which is a federal law, although not truly binding in a legal sense. So these people are ok with violating laws.
  2. It’s inherently racist. It was created as a knee jerk reaction by law enforcement (a job) in response to Black Lives Matter protests (a race of people). If you’re so so offended by BLM support then get a different job.
  3. It’s being co-opted by white supremacists & extremist groups (see #2).

  These are what come to my mind any time I see one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article doesn’t make it clear what their goal is. Nuclear power plants only require enrichment to about 5% uranium-235. Nuclear weapons require in excess of 90%. So my guess is this would be strictly limited to the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To win the show Alone, could someone smuggle a GPS locator inside of their anus?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or at least “no unapproved outside assistance of any sort”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blatant First Amendment violation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watch it be a “redacted” PDF file you can just copy & paste…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well then don’t do stupid stuff in public. This idiot could have been busted just as easily by somebody with a mobile phone and a social media following.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Floats a New Source of Funding for xAI: Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, I thought Tesla was a robotics company, and not a car company or battery tech company or solar company…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Terrorism is all about terror.

  Imagine a major league football or baseball stadium packed to capacity. Two or three drones, each with a relatively small explosive charge surrounded by shrapnel fly in, crash into the spectators, and detonate. You end up with a small number of immediate casualties like what happened at the Boston Marathon. But the stampede of tens of thousands of panicking people trying to rush out of the stadium will probably injure and kill many more. Have a car bomb or two strategically located a couple blocks away where you expect those crowds to run and you’ve succeeded in your terror plans quite nicely…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly I was hoping to see a lot more… Back in the early 2009’s my employer was hit hard by the capacitor plague - we had something like 700 server motherboards recalled. Before the recall we had a handful of servers suffer “thermal events”. Long story short, the on-board video chip would erupt in a geyser of smoke & flame about 6-8 inches high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here for old school Mission: Impossible reference and wasn’t disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Elon Musk says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When it’s useless features like games, “fart mode” etc. it’s a high priority for Tesla. When it’s something truly useful like improvements to cruise control then it’s years out.

  So, yeah, I expect to see this in two weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the solution to QR code phishing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I use your phone to view the menu? The camera in my phone is broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me Google that for you is dead. Long live Kagi that for me.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That plus a well configured pi-hole. I don’t even get ads in my iPhone apps thanks to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Among other things, since moving to a more rural part of our state, we have uncovered these items that I assume the previous owners dumped in the woods around us:

  • A 1960-ish era chainsaw
  • A car battery
  • Rusty pipe
  • Jugs full of what looks like motor oil
  • Empty plastic bottles
  • A large roll of some sort of material like landscaping cloth that is overrun with moss & roots now.
  • A rechargeable battery for power tools
  • What appears to be the bed cover for a pickup truck
  • Loads of other smaller plastic scraps
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a nephew that worked at Tesla as a software engineer for a couple years (he left about a year ago). I gave him the VIN to my Tesla and the amount of data he shared with me was crazy. He warned me that one of my brake lights was regularly logging errors. If their telemetry includes that sort of information then clearly they are logging a LOT of data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  #1 is a terrible idea if you ever need to hire an electrician in the future, plan on selling your house, etc. The National Electric Code prohibits using white, green, or grey wire for a hot/load connection. The 120V cable will contain a black wire for the hot connection, white for neutral, and green for ground. To properly convert it to 240V you would need a cable that consists of black & red wires for the two 120V legs.

  If your home ever suffered an electrical fire then this sort of jury rigging is precisely the sort of thing any competent insurance inspector would spot, and insurance carriers would deny coverage for since it clearly isn’t code compliant, which means a licensed electrician didn’t install it and it wasn’t properly inspected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The NSA is already known to have tapped into the fiber optic lines at an AT&T datacenter back in the early 2000’s. That sort of tap would generate absolutely massive amounts of data.

  If they did something like that 20+ years ago then the volume & analysis isn’t the issue. It’s whether or not they decide they need to perform mass surveillance of mobile devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but if somebody like the NSA comes along with a request to intercept a specific package, or even a bunch of packages then customs will gladly turn them over. As was posted elsewhere in this thread, NSA has been known to do this in targeted cases and installed software into routers etc. before returning them to customs for delivery.

  So it truly depends on whether an organization like the NSA has you on their radar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk has been stubbornly clinging to the belief that a vision system similar to human stereoscopic vision is all that a self-driving vehicle needs and has ordered his engineers to produce such a vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually the excuse Musk uses is that humans only use their eyes to drive, so that’s enough for cars as well.

  Wrong on so many levels…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the Tesla vision system has 3 cameras facing forward. One in the center above the front bumper grille and two behind the rear view mirror. Those two provide some level of stereoscopic vision to help judge distances.

  But yeah, the lack of other sensors is a huge issue. Anything from bug splatter to mud to snow etc. can easily obscure one or more cameras and render the whole vision system unreliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall that people blocked Waymo cars at one point by simply placing orange cones in front of them. Given Teslas only use cameras I wonder if you could just slap a sticker of an orange cone (or just a splash of orange paint) on the hood and confuse it enough that it wouldn’t move…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On top of this they are also highly compartmentalized, which sounds like a nightmare to me. A few years ago we ran into a bug with one of their AWS services (I forget the specifics at this point, but it was with a network load balancer). It was a rather novel bug, but easy enough to reproduce, so I was able to give AWS support a working example. They quickly confirmed the bug and said it would be fixed as soon as possible.

  Since it was an odd bug I asked AWS support if they could provide a high level description of the fix once it was implemented. It was then that they told me how their teams were so highly siloed and couldn’t really share details like that with each other. The support rep I worked with wouldn’t even know if the bug was fixed by a load balancer team, a more generic networking team, or some other team. They would only know the bug was fixed.