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- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 20 hours ago:
Not because of advancements in technology, but because of erosion of regulations.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 1 day ago:
Ray tracing at 24fps is not a big ask for a modern gaming PC.
- Comment on Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds 3 days ago:
So, the manufacturers can pollute as much as they want and push the guilt on us?
This is a regulatory problem on the supplier side, not a consumer problem.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 days ago:
It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.
- Comment on The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2 3 days ago:
Google has found exactly what you’re searching for. It’s just they can make more money by suggesting something else.
- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 3 days ago:
The first robot across the finish line, Tiangong Ultra – created by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center – finished the route in two hours and 40 minutes.
The winner of the men’s race on Saturday finished in 1 hour and 2 minutes.
What a misleading headline. This was a 13 mile race. The robots lost by about 8 miles.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 4 days ago:
I tested my car and the speedometer, trip meter and OBD give 3 completely different values. It’s kind of expected because all manufacturers make overreading speedometers.
I think comparing trip meter/odometer, OBD and GPS is the way to go. It would be amusing if Teslas are programmed to behave when something is monitoring it over OBD.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 5 days ago:
Just fit your own dashcam. Some models have GPS logging so you can track where it is every second of driving.
Another way would be to log OBDII metrics, and compare the vehicle speed, odometer and time. If you don’t get s=d/t then something is up.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 5 days ago:
It takes a bit of effort. A chromecast sideskirts your DNS and uses 8.8.8.8. I had to intercept the traffic and redirect it to my DNS server with easylist on it.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 5 days ago:
I have an open access point and my neighbour’s TV is on it. I’m not sure if it was deliberatel.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
4chan is kill.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial 1 week ago:
Didn’t Musk and Zuck want to literally fight recently? I don’t think they are friends.
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 1 week ago:
I assumed they would log everything and create a profile in you from day one. I signed up with a fresh email account.
- Comment on Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware. 1 week ago:
Even Aurora store vets all the apps for trackers. Google just take the money and serve up malware.
At least these days it’s farily obvious when an app is looking at your location or listening in with the mic.
- Comment on Antivirus en Linux – ¿Lo necesitas? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a link to a podcast page that returns a 404.
- Comment on Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs 2 weeks ago:
Every company I worked for is like this. I sneak small improvements into daily work. If I call an old function, I’ll often fix it while I’m there. Don’t raise tickets. Don’t ask. Just fix it.
I also have a shelf of a hundred fixes that I never merged. I’ve done the work, but the real hurdle is PR and and testing. It takes days of effort to push code that took an hour to write.
- Comment on After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work 2 weeks ago:
Australia did this once. We called it “robodebt”. An algorithm that falsely cut people off social security and ultimately killed some of them.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button 2 weeks ago:
I have a Hisense and there isn’t actually a button to view TV off the antenna. It takes about 5 button presses to get there. Absolutely cooked.
This Google Free TV thing is not TV by definition.
- Comment on Basic networking/subnetting question. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done this. I have 3 subnets on a single L2 switch without vlans, and the device isolation works. There’s a few caveats:
- I used a 4-port NIC on my router so I could have each subnet on its own interface. They all go directly into the L2 switch.
- You can only have one DHCP server broadcasting. If you have two, there is no way of predicting which subnet you land on.
- My guest subnet is only accessible via Wifi. I have specifically set up my access points so that a particular SSID is assigned to a particular subnet. The access point can broadcast DHCP on a single SSID.
- My third subnet is for my security cameras. It’s IPv6-only, and each camera has a static IP address. There is no DHCP. It means my cameras never physically use the same cables as my primary LAN, although they are on the same L2 switch.
All traffic between subnets seems to go through the router, so I have some nftables rules to ensure my guest wifi can only see its own subnet and the public internet.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
If I’m in a toxic mood, I go to reddit.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 2 weeks ago:
It’s becoming quite rare to change the CR2032 on a PC motherboard these days. Even those tend to outlive the hardware.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 2 weeks ago:
Someone’s gotta charge the eels.
- Comment on Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if an Android calendar would be considered. Google’s calendar seems to dominate since the AOSP was dropped (it’s kinda maintained under the “Etar” brand now). Thunderbird desktop has a calendar.
- Comment on World Backup Day 3 weeks ago:
I think the October 2001 backup is a good restore point.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
TBH this is why I’ve never used Telegram.
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 4 weeks ago:
Nobody finds your public-facing SSH server with a port scanner for a start.
You don’t give away your public connectable address just by visiting a website.
- Comment on Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve set my phone so it will erase if someone enters the PIN backwards (GrapheneOS duress code). It would be fun to watch the authorities wipe the phone.
I’d probably get deported over it, but whatever.
- Comment on Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charles 4 weeks ago:
Coins last longer and are easier to work with and count. Things like vending machines are far easier to make deal with coins.
Whatever they do, a shitton of vendong machines will need reprogramming.
- Comment on Australia’s new $5 note to reflect First Nations connection to country instead of King Charles 5 weeks ago:
$5 should be a coin by now. It’s worth less than $2 when we coined it in the 80s.
- Comment on When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job? 5 weeks ago:
Leave the battery in and you have a free UPS. Perhaps set it capped at 80% charge to increase its lifespan.