IphtashuFitz
@IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
- Comment on To win the show Alone, could someone smuggle a GPS locator inside of their anus? 20 hours 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 21 hours ago:
Blatant First Amendment violation
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago:
Wait, I thought Tesla was a robotics company, and not a car company or battery tech company or solar company…
- Comment on We are living in the Pre-"Drone 9/11" era. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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? 2 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. 2 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If the same geopolitical environment still led to World War II but with a different German leader then the outcome of the war could very well have ended differently.
Leading up to major invasions like like D-Day in Normandy and the invasion of Sicily the allies implemented major deceptions to confuse the Germans. Despite some senior leadership recognizing at least some aspects of those deceptions, Hitler himself fell for them pretty thoroughly and ordered troop movements that reduced German defenses where the attacks took place, and delayed moving them back because he still believed the deceptions were real. There are other examples of poor decisions by Hitler throughout the course of the war that proved helpful for the allies as well.
If Germany had a more qualified military leader running things then events like the Normandy D-Day invasion could have had a very different outcome. If the Germans had the Normandy beaches better defended then that invasion could very well have failed. And if that happened then there’s a good chance Germany could have won the war.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 months ago:
Nope. The only fluid I worry about in my EV is windshield wiper fluid.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Passwords in movies NEVER adhere to best practices. They’re virtually always a word or phrase that’s all lowercase, has no numbers, no punctuation, etc.
- Comment on How would legal procedure change if every citizen eligible for jury duty was aware of jury nullification? 2 months ago:
I’ve been called in for jury duty a number of times, made it to the courtroom a couple of times, and was seated on one of them. None of those times did anybody ask if we were aware of jury nullification, or anything that was related to it.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 2 months ago:
Neither my wife nor I wanted kids but we still got married. The legal aspects you touch on are pretty darned important even without kids in the picture. Health/medical reasons are another huge one. We have a friend who lived with her partner for decades, but never got married. When he fell ill and was hospitalized it was virtually impossible for her to make any decisions, tell the doctors what his wishes were, etc. All because they weren’t legally married.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Fireworks are legal in New Hampshire but not Massachusetts. The MA police will stake out NH firework shops near the border before July 4 and pull over MA cars they see loading up once they cross back into the state…
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 2 months ago:
I’m outside Boston and I see a lot here as well…
- Comment on Exclusive: Tesla to delay US launch of affordable EV, a lower-cost Model Y, sources say 2 months ago:
There are already a growing number of EV alternatives. I will definitely be looking at all of them a few years down the line when I decide to get rid of my Tesla.
- Comment on Exclusive: Tesla to delay US launch of affordable EV, a lower-cost Model Y, sources say 2 months ago:
And it will run perfectly fine on ten year old computer hardware using nothing but cameras in any manner of weather.