Monument

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel that in my area the driving culture has become so toxic that there’s a better than average chance that indicating a lane change (which I always do) will lead to the vehicle in the lane you’re attempting to change into accelerating to prevent you from ‘getting in front of them.’
  It’s so frustrating (and dangerous!). It seems that a lot of folks feel entitled to the road, or the patch of road in front of their car fro as long as the eye can see, and are willing to behave irrationally regarding it.

  I feel that telegraphing that your vehicle is slowing down (for any purpose) will lead to overconfidence or even willful misunderstanding by other drivers. A careful slow-down will turn to panic as they try to take advantage of the situation. I also think that drivers will focus on the vehicles too much, and will not focus on things like pedestrians or perhaps why your car is slowing down, and wind up contributing to the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 5 stages of Charles Manson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Lemmy.

  So. Honestly, I’m in over my head on a couple projects that I thought were going to be “easy enough.”

  I’m new to the entire “type” of project I’m building - ESP32’s with displays. The starter project is a ‘magic 8 ball.’ I have one of these already and figure the gyro/accelerometer can capture the shake/flip motion. The more complex one is intended to be backed by ESPHome and use a motion sensor/Bluetooth presence detection to deliver customized messages in addition to providing smart home control.

  In the course of trying to figure them out, it’s become apparent I’m going to have to learn/use LVGL for the graphics. I haven’t yet gotten to LVGL and I already am on the struggle bus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak masculinity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And ears so big they can be used as handles. For reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEGA PENGUIN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was planning to, but work has been hell today. I’ve barely had any time to shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ope, now I regret deleting my edited explanation! That is an excellent response to my accidental comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My immediate thought was “That’s not all they’re going to be hitting…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 5 stages of Charles Manson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be fine with it, but my wife barely likes men. There’s no way I could convince her to find me a gaming buddy.

  (I kid! I’d actually rather she find someone that knows C++.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the U.S., the decisive blow came with the Citizens United ruling, although it’s not unreasonable to suggest the refusal to punish Nixon during watergate signaled that the rule of law was merely a suggestion. That kicked off a whole cascade of political and legal maneuvering to get both the legislative and societal landscape into such a contortion that it would willingly hand away the entire nation to vulture-capitalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they don’t believe in choice, freedom, or even democracy. They merely support the ideal and facilitate the illusion.

  Anything that empowers voters to either dilute the two-party hegemony (where both parties are accountable to the same pool of donors) or elect party members that haven’t been carefully vetted by insiders is a threat to entrenched power structures. Adding roadblocks now ensures that transitions to better systems are made impossible via peaceful and lawful means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare insults dropped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how Jill is doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare insults dropped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a threesome with an HR lady! Her hair is purple and she has a polyamory infinity symbol wrapped by bands around her wrist in the colors of the bisexual flag.
  She’s a cool lady. Great friend and hates being a tool for the man. She’s cool people’s version of Ron Swanson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unfair is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only do I have an increased range of motion, but I (very recently learned) that an old injury is causing spinal stenosis – my spinal canal is narrowing due to bone overgrowth on my vertebrae. (Car accident. I was rear ended.)

  About 20 years ago a chiropractor popped my neck by twisting it, and it so freaked him out that he leapt back from the table and did the heebie jeebie dance.
  He told me to never let a chiropractor pop my neck by twisting it ever again.
  Reasonably certain I could kill myself showing off doing yoga, like in that Dead Like Me episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump would cut CISA budget by $491M amid ‘censorship’ claim⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, everyone is already fucked, and that’s what keeps everyone else in check.

  Russia has made great efforts to hack municipal systems all over the world, and may actually have some control over Microsoft systems, owing to that credential hack last year that Microsoft still hasn’t confirmed is contained. (Recent Russian hacking campaigns are using malicious signed MSI files, so my bet is no…)

  China has all that communication equipment everywhere, with rumors swirling that it’s intentionally compromised. There’s also Tuya, a massive IOT company that produces its own products and also white label products. And there’s all the EV power inverters that can be hacked and used as a botnet to destroy electrical grids. Not that they need to, because apparently they can shut down the U.S. power grid remotely. And who knows what they’ve managed to do with the U.S.’s backdoor access into telecom systems.

  The U.S. has its own devices, hacking, and infiltration efforts, although as a U.S. citizen, my awareness of them is decreased due to U.S. media.

  But my core point is that there’s basically a digital Cold War happening. And the U.S. is all but surrendering, making successful surveillance, hacking, and sabotage campaigns more likely.
  If a situation goes hot at the same time that large parts of U.S. see poisonings or health issues en masse due to tampering with water supply chemical or filtration systems through the water supply, possible destruction of drinking water systems, the explosion of natural gas lines as C&C systems over pressurize domestic lines, followed by a prolonged grid-wide electrical outage, the U.S. will have basically no ability to do anything but focus on domestic issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that idiot thinks scary is a bunch of ships off your shore like it’s WWII, and not unseen death from above by an enemy you cannot attack or anticipate, all brought to you by a partnership of your neighbor countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I went looking for the alt text because, well, I love the Easter-egg nature of the alt text he provides. Got chills as soon as I realized what he’d done.

  So much respect for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i get most of my news something like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I found out from the ‘dies of cringe’ meme, then shared that on to my wife and her best friend, telling them that was how I found out - and that’s how they found out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, snap, bringing me the magic I need, but didn’t know to look for.

  I’ve been refusing to update because of video station. Looks like I’m saving your comment for later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because there isn’t a single IP range or user agent, and many developers are going to lengths to defeat anti-scraping measures, which include user agent spoofing as well as vpns and the like to mask the source of the traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate reachability of smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the red ‘notification’ dots on my apps give off a nice warm glow that makes the screen feel homey.

  Silliness aside, it’s an act of self care to only do what you have the desire and capacity to do. Don’t make yourself unhappy for an expectation that you get to set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They say regulations are written in blood.

  Elaine Chao is a conservative government official who is famous for not enforcing safety rules or following up on safety complaints and may have violated ethics laws while Secretary of Transportation under Trump’s first regime. While in that role, she rubber stamped a sketchy driver control system implemented by Tesla that later helped kill her own sister (in addition to drunk driving).

  Can the lightning bolt of consequences strike twice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic! on the trade floor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those darn millennials!
  Such rascals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The advice I needed and have not been able to find. I could kiss you. Or at least give you a fond nod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point I think I would⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want the version with all the African fjords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My desk wireless charger is magnetic, and my keyboard is wireless and can be switched between devices. So I can switch to my phone and bang out a message on my keyboard while my phone is held up comfortably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same people who regularly give us uninspiring and insipid candidates to run against demagogues and repeatedly act surprised when they lose ground expect to gain control of a White House where the current president is treating democracy as if it’s an optional hindrance – expect to take power?

  If nothing else, I admire their optimism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d threaten legal action for defamation and bury it before it was published.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly are they teaching in our schools?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From my recent garage sale:

  A sign beside a road that reads “Garage Salad” and features an arrow pointing left

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend asked why I carry a gun around the house? 
  I looked her dead in the eye and said, “the motherfucking decepticons”. She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster, it was a good time.

  …. I don’t know. It’s just what came to mind when I thought of household appliances being hijacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a quick search, so I’m basically an expert now. imaginary hair flip

  So, some flashlights have multiple brightness modes. I guess that’s controlled via a tiny, low power microprocessor.
  And if it’s a computer, it can be hacked!

  So the firmware does things, depending on the capabilities of the hardware in the flashlight, but you can set it to override defaults for brightness, change how many levels of brightness you have, add (or remove) a blinky SOS mode, sleep timers in case it’s accidentally left on, and even add a way to check the battery percentage via a button press pattern, that the flashlight responds to with a series of blinks.
  No lie, kind of fascinating stuff. I like to hack other stuff, like smart appliances (replacing firmware so it doesn’t share my data, but I still get to use it as a smart device). I don’t think I would be into talking to my flashlight via Morse code, but I can see the appeal as both a hobby, and for folks who need flashlights as safety equipment.