RattlerSix
@RattlerSix@lemmy.world
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 19 hours ago:
They discovered a thing that everyone’s known forever. Here’s Bruce Schneier in 2008
- Comment on Social Insecurity: Billions of Social Security Number and Passwords 1 week ago:
The article says more clearly “2.7 billion records with Social Security numbers.” The author goes on to say he found 4 records with a friend’s data but in those 4 records were 3 different SSNs. He called the friend and confirmed that one of them was his actual SSN. I guess someone was auto-linking names and SSNs for ID theft purposes and getting it wrong sometimes.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 1 week ago:
Good thing they don’t read the Bible, because other than the pet dog thing, it’s a tie
- Comment on Double standards 1 week ago:
I think of the method this guy used as “The Sarah Palin method” because she once did a news interview while people were killing turkeys in the background that way.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 2 weeks ago:
Christians should show they’re not the antichrist by getting “Nero,” which is Greek for “not the beast” tattooed on their forehead
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
What if it’s a torx instead? People have to buy torx bits to work on their car.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see how it could be effective. The brand specific things I mentioned are almost identical and none of them stop people from repairing their car. The BMW design is simpler than the ones I mentioned. A flat screwdriver with a gap cut down the middle would work.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really know. I purposely picked the things I mentioned because they’re similar to the BMW bolt, but the tools required are cheap and simple for all of them.
Part of my point was that there are other, more complicated and more expensive tools that are brand specific too. I think a lot of it is really just the nature of the beast. Brands do thiings differently, so a special shaped tool to get into the nook and cranny of a certain car won’t work on a different brand that has different nooks and crannys. And you can substitute “brand” with “engine,” “model,” or even “year.”
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
“specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.”
Give me a break.
I hate to break it to people but every manufacturer has a lot of brand specific tools. You need a special socket for Toyota head bolts, 10 point sockets for Honda suspensions, a special multipoint socket for Audis, a special socket for Mercedes lug nuts and it’s good to have a 21.5mm for Fords. 5 point security torx are starting to pop up on GMs.
That’s just an example of a few sockets, the deeper you go into a car, the higher the possibility that you need a $400 special tool or kit for a specific manufacturer, or even specific year or engine.
- Comment on Price gouging 2 weeks ago:
An auto rotation isn’t a crash. An auto rotation can end up as one but usually looks like a normal landing
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I like some of the stories in the Bible but it’s still pretty hard to read. I don’t know why, I don’t have that problem with other, even older writings. There is nothing confusing about the Enuma Elish, for example. I think the Epic of Gilgamesh is freaking great.
But when the Bible steals a story told in the Epic of Gilgamesh and makes it Noah’s flood, it loses all meaning. The original wasn’t all that exciting to begin with but there was a deep meaning to it being in the Epic. But in the Bible, what is the meaning? What’s the moral to the story? It just doesn’t work.
- Comment on Fake moo 1 month ago:
And a whole tree is ground down for one toothpick
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
I don’t see how you could get enough reliability to do either from any distance.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
I’ve been fooling around with Meshtastic for a couple years and haven’t come up with a real world use for it yet, other than scenarios like you mentioned.
What would be really cool is if cell phone makers could incorporate a mesh into their phones as a local public channel when the tower goes out. It would probably just be used by drug dealers or something, but it’s the only cool and functional idea I can come up with.
- Comment on Good point 2 months ago:
Wikipedia sez
The name “sperm whale” is a clipping of “spermaceti whale”. Spermaceti, originally mistakenly identified as the whales’ semen, is the semi-liquid, waxy substance found within the whale’s head.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
I knew the OP couldn’t be right because how do you add a dimple after the jug is full?
But I’m not sure ambient air temperature during molding is the whole story either, although I expect that is a concern that is taken into consideration and the article below leaves it out.
The article says “*The high-density polyethylene plastic jugs are made of shrinks slightly over time. It also shrinks more in hot temperatures than cold temperatures…
Producers must make jugs slightly larger to offset inevitable shrinkage if they are exposed to summer heat in transport and/or go to long-term storage before being filled, but they want to keep the jugs smaller in cold months and if jugs go directly to be filled.*”
It’s saying the dimple is to adjust the size of the jug depending on what shrinkage it’s likely to see before being filled. So you can presumably have small dimples in summer if they go directly to be filled, and large dimples in winter if they’re going to be transported and stored first.
- Comment on Don't let his sacrifice be for nothing 2 months ago:
It’s simple. He sacrificed himself to himself so we can avoid the punishment that he made up for breaking the rules he made up.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 2 months ago:
Jeez, I haven’t drank that much in my entire life
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
My dad is still running this exact computer, but he only uses it to print one certain thing a month
- Comment on They Wylin' 3 months ago:
I don’t think we can read that much into it. “Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing bubba like I made up last week when we were joking about what Putin might have on him.”
Regardless if it’s true or not, this would be a great time for Clinton to take one for the team and say it happened. “He even introduced me to something called analingus, which I had never had before. He was really practiced at it, he said it was his favorite thing in the world.”
- Comment on They Wylin' 3 months ago:
I like that millions of people are asking if Trump was giving blowjobs but this looks like a joke to me. This isn’t Epstein letting it slip that Trump likes to have dicks in his mouth. He’s with Bannon so his brother is joking “ask him what blackmail Putin has on Trump, photos of him blowing somebody or something?”
Unless maybe Jeff told Mark that Trump gives BJs so Mark is saying “ask Bannon about that thing you told me about.”
- Comment on The PP Police 3 months ago:
Often it’s children’s junk their obsessed with. Absolute perverts
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 3 months ago:
Gotta be rotini, it’s ribbed
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 3 months ago:
I agree in general but I can’t think of anything in the OT that is taken from The Epic of Gilgamesh except the Noah’s Ark story, which is a clear rip-off. And the 5000 years ago is too long, I think the oldest books are from the 8th century BCE.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 3 months ago:
“I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.” - Mark Twain
You don’t have to look at Christians to think God isn’t so good.
In the Bible, Satan kills 10 people, Job’s children, and he did it with God’s blessing while they were having a bet.
God killed entire cities, all the firstborn of a nation even down to the slave’s children, killed everyone on earth except 8 people, killed a guy for picking up sticks, killed a guy for not allowing the ark of the covenant to fall, told the Hebrews to attack nations and kill every man woman and child in the land and was furious when they left a few alive, had a God-off to show he was more powerful and when the other side converted to believe in him he had them killed, killed David’s son and had his 10 wives publicly raped, killed 42 children for making fun of a bald guy… the list goes on, not to mention that God told the Hebrews to have slave’s, women were property and have to be killed if they ruin the one thing they were good for, their virginity.
Christians have weirdest relationship with the Bible. Many don’t really read it. If they did, they’d be Jewish. Jesus said to keep the Jewish laws, but Paul said it’s ok not to. Christians go with Paul instead of Jesus and generally disregard the Old Testament except the parts they think prove Jesus was the Messiah.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
Don’t forget to hydrate
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 3 months ago:
When I was 15 in the 90s, every adult in the family, and adult friends of the family, said “You’re 15? Let’s go drive for an hour or two!” I’m pretty sure that, legally, a parent was supposed to be with me, but I guess any random adult was close enough.
I just added up 14 different vehicles I “learned on,” including an old pickup with “three on the tree”, a Corvette, a 280z turbo, a 68 Chevelle, an International Scout. The rest were boring vehicles. If I remember correctly, 9 were manuals.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 4 months ago:
Amazon, parts store, junkyard, find someone to 3D print one for you
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 4 months ago:
When you have to call in tech support
