IphtashuFitz
@IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 2 days 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 week 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] 2 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] 2 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] 2 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. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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] 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Nope. The only fluid I worry about in my EV is windshield wiper fluid.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on Exclusive: Tesla to delay US launch of affordable EV, a lower-cost Model Y, sources say 2 months ago:
If Musk is removed AND major changes are made to the brand then Tesla might have a long term chance in the US market.
I bought a Tesla before the Musk craziness was in full display, and I can honestly say I wouldn’t buy another one (or recommend them to others) unless they seriously redesigned the physical controls, and focused more on truly useful software features. Not just games, “fart mode”, and a full self driving system that’s been promised for a decade now…
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 2 months ago:
Properly configured telephone systems at hospitals etc. will show their main public facing phone number on Caller ID for any outbound call.
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 2 months ago:
Well it is a day ending in “y”.
- Comment on JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses. 3 months ago:
What ever happened to Cloudflares wall of lava lamps?
- Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 3 months ago:
We have a handful of Python tools that we require to adhere to PEP8 formatting, and have Jenkins pipeline jobs to validate it and block merge requests if any of the code isn’t properly formatted. I haven’t personally tried it yet, but I wonder if these AI’s might be good for fixing up this sort of formatting lint.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 3 months ago:
Why even connect the tv to your local network?
- Comment on Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption 3 months ago:
Not sure if they have this specific GPU or not, but I know AWS has on-demand instances with GPUs (and other cloud providers like Google likely do as well). It’s probably just a matter of time before somebody deploys self-service images so a business that got hit by this ransomware could quickly recover on their own.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 4 months ago:
My wife borrows a lot of ebooks from our library, which are delivered to a kindle through Amazon. I’ve used this USB download option to remove the DRM from some of those borrowed books. Guess I’ll have to figure out a new approach now…
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 months ago:
Time for the US military to replace all their humvees?
- Comment on Before GPS There Was LORAN 5 months ago:
Fun fact: the US Coast Guard used to have a base in the Oklahoma panhandle. It’s sole purpose was a LORAN transmitter.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 5 months ago:
OnStar freaked me out after an accident in a rental car a few years ago. We had no idea the rental car had it. We got rear ended by a drunk driver and spun 360 degrees off the road. Within a second or two of coming to a stop a voice was asking if we were ok.