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wil421··on Oura says it gets government demands for user data
Nobody cares that’s why this stuff sells.
wil421··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
Not in the articles example.
wil421··on Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car
What about your insurance company?
wil421··on Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
They don’t own the drainage ditch. They can still dump the water into the local watershed/river whatever body of water per the permit you stated.
wil421··on Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
They have a permit to dump water but not put it in the ditch where the pipe runs.

They need to get it to a body of water, not a ditch. Dumping into the drainage ditch or running a pipe in the drainage ditch requires a separate permit.

The water quality is also questionable. Tesla and the drainage company are at odds on the testing method.

At least that’s my understanding of the situation

wil421··on CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub
At my job the commits wouldn’t have even made it to our private GitHub repo. The scanners would’ve rejected it when you tried to push a commit.

They find keys and tokens all the time.

wil421··on Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car
They already check mileage when they do emissions. Not sure if the state gets the info back.
wil421··on Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car
I drove 15,000 miles last year and paid 33.3 cents per gallon to my state. That’s around 833.33 gallons of gas so I paid about $278 dollars. $20 more. Assuming 18mpg.

For an EV I’d pay $258.90 extra to register.

My state must be factoring in average miles driven to come up with the $258 number instead of charging per mile driven.

wil421··on Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car
The F-150 is not the most popular vehicle or even truck. The F-Series is, which includes all the bigger versions and fleet models.

How do you pay more taxes on EVs when you factor in gas taxes?

wil421··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
If they were in Iran a drone would’ve paid a visit, based on current events. Most of them are in Russia or former Eastern Bloc like Belarus. USA and the west doesn’t want a direct conflict so the drones never pay them a visit.

Instead, they trick the hackers into going on a vacation in a country that will let them grab them.

wil421··on Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
I’m constantly badgered by google apps on my iPhone to use Chrome. In fact I’m not able to just click a link and open my default browser, I have to see the big chrome logo and a smaller link to choose my default browser.
wil421··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
Push the goal posts of you want. OP specifically said rear wheel drive.

There’s a whole community that doesn’t consider anything without front and rear lockers, dana 44 axels, frame on body, and 37s with bead lock a real off road rig.

wil421··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
Autotrader says there are 246,000 used trucks for sale nationwide with AWD/4WD and 38,000 with rear wheel drive. For new it’s 429,000 AWD/4WD vs 51,000 for rear wheel.

Volume wise it’s of course Texas with Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota having the largest ownership share.

wil421··on I want to live like Costco people
Your local grocery store must be terrible if you think Costco has good food and produce. No, I’m not talking about wine, oil, or water. I buy those 3 things plus paper towels and toilet paper (not Kirkland toilet paper post Covid).

Everything you mentioned is a prepackaged, premade item. It’s not fresh. The Kirkland Parmesan is cut and sealed in a factory. Not cut by my local grocery or Whole Foods from a giant wheel that has the Italian markings.

The last bag of chicken breasts I got were almost the size of turkey breast and it was woody and stringy. Google if you don’t believe me.

wil421··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
This is the internet. You can’t expect HN or Reddit to be positive, especially around America. It was the same way before Trump was around.

These people and bots have no idea what they are talking about. They’re parrots.

wil421··on Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
It’s because they’re all in bed with the Government who wants the same thing. Think of them as an extension of the NSA/CIA and the byproduct of the data collection is being able to sell Ads to make money.
wil421··on I want to live like Costco people
I’m in the same boat. The quality to terrible. No I don’t want a bunch of pumpkin seeds that you’re using as filler for products. The produce isn’t great either. A huge portion of the food is either premade factory food that’s chilled or frozen.

I don’t want a bunch of cellulose in my cheese either.

wil421··on I want to live like Costco people
The one near my office is like Mad Max Fury Road if you try to go at lunch time. Good luck getting gas much less checking out with 200+ people all trying to get back to the office.
wil421··on Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
You can buy server boards that don’t require loud fans. If you’re buying used server gear from a datacenter then it will be like what you said.

I have a 4U NAS with a supermicro board and an i3 chip with 6 WD Red NAS drives and it’s very quiet. The chassis came without fans so I installed the brand I like.

wil421··on American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
Sounds like you choose to live in a place without free range area. My neighborhood is covered with kids. Lots of kids on e-bikes after school on the main roads too. Plus a lot of packed are revamping side walks to accommodate bikes, golf cars, e-bikes and everyone on foot.
wil421··on Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests
You do realize it’s a fake 2g/3g network and most phones don’t care. They will happily connect to whatever they support.
wil421··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
This is how it works in the US. Federal/State/County/City.
wil421··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
People put whatever engines they can find on old truck chassis. It’s up to you to do the swap. Most people do want to DIY anything on a car. Enthusiast based models usually don’t sell in high volume.
wil421··on Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
Bad actors will buy data from people and places where they don’t care.

https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/surveillance-s...

wil421··on Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
Scammy telcos in poorer countries sell SS7 data for a small fee. It will give you all the location data you need.
wil421··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
There’s no way they are putting that into a contract. HRs are already using it to fire people.
wil421··on Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
My hdmi cable causes my headset dongle’s range to significantly decrease. From like 50+ feet to 10.
wil421··on Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
What about Blu-ray? I don’t want DVD quality and last time I checked you can’t exactly legally backup Blu Rays because you break DRM.

Most 4k kids movies on eBay were from the bargain bin at Walmart. The DVDs are as cheap as 4k blu rays.

wil421··on Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security
My buddies brother did the same thing with a PS1 and maybe sent his Xbox off somewhere to get it modded. However he was an asshole hermit and wouldn’t let us play or burn any games.

My dad would never cheat or do anything illegal even though he was an EE who could’ve done the mod himself. Today he might do it but there was a strict no stealing policy even for digital things. Like the time he freaked out because I was grabbing stuff from The Scene and wrote down a bunch of terms to research, he saw the word Warez and freaked out.

wil421··on Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
> mitigating harvest-now/decrypt-later attacks.

Most likely the NSA or someone else is ahead of the game and already has a quantum computer. If the tech news rumors are to true the NSA has a facility in Utah that can gather large swaths of the internet and process the data.

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