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Brkdncr ,

Modern cruise control makes it much less taxing to drive. You can focus only the necessities while leaving things like lane centering and maintaining a proper distance up to the ecu.

Tesla fsd is really just advanced cruise control. The problem is you can’t program out the idiots, and Tesla’s fsd should be considered advanced cruise control and not imply that the operator doesn’t need to pay attention.

Brkdncr ,

I agree that’s is marketed as fully autonomous and it shouldn’t be. I think the states dmv should have stepped in and not allowed a vehicle to be registered as anything but having cruise control unless they OK’d it because there are idiots behind the wheel that are simply ignorant of the fact that they are moving multiple tons of mass at speeds that are faster than they can react.

Brkdncr ,

I agree. The state should stop allowing new teslas to be registered on their roads until that moniker is corrected. They should prevent advanced cruise control systems from being misleadingly labeled.

Brkdncr ,

You can buy like 2-3 for the price of one. If you didn’t need to worry about software issues it would be a good purchase.

If you’re looking for a good chassis and powertrain with no need for anything g else it might make sense.

Do I need a new phone for 2FA? (Tad Long)

So recently my work, a mid sized engineering firm, decided to start upgrading their IT security. The rumor is that we have potential DOD work coming our way. Over the past few months there has been multiple company decided changes to our 2 factor authentication mobile app. I willingly installed the app on my phone over a year...

Brkdncr ,

Ask them to reimburse you the cost of a new phone.

Ask them to give you a yubikey or some other OTP token device.

Brkdncr ,

As a sysadmin I have so many devs asking me to set up antivirus exceptions for their apps, disable UAC, run the service as full admin, etc

Hell no. Submit your shit to virus total and learn how to program.

Brkdncr ,

When apps have code obfuscation in use, injects into dlls, and has detection for when running in a vm when it has no business doing any of these things then yes I think I can complain to the devs about it.

Brkdncr ,

I played a game recently where you had drones that could use shafts. It made a lot more sense.

Brkdncr ,

They definitely don’t go through the same amount of QA as other apps.

Brkdncr ,

They probably said the same thing about riding horses when cars became popular.

Brkdncr OP ,

re: Adobe, they have eroded the trust of many industries. The legal industry for instance has largely moved away from Adobe specifically due to licensing costs.

Brkdncr OP ,

PowerPDF, owned by whoever owns it now. Used to be nuance and kofax.

foxit also gets mentioned in poll results.

Brkdncr OP ,

Parallels has been in the OSX type2 hypervisor space for a very long time. It’s not free, but if it’s for “work stuff” i’d feel ok with paying for it.

Brkdncr ,

In grade school was taught how to write cursive so I could be taught how to use it when writing checks. I was taught that cursive was more resistant to fraud because someone would be comparing writing styles when clearing checks.

My cleared checks were returned to me by the bank so I would be able to keep record of the transactions.

My 1st bank had 2 branches and would mail a double sided newsletter to me every month. They had a play area for kids in their lobby since the line to wait for any of their 10 tellers would get long on payday.

One side of the bank was the smoking section.

Sometimes if I was in a hurry I would use their drive-up. It had 3 manned stalls, but would use vacuum tubes to send and return checks or deposit slips for the 2nd and 3rd stall.

Brkdncr ,

Yup. I forgot to add that when debit cards became a thing you basically used them as a 24x7 bank teller, usually only at the bank. Sometimes your bank would have an atm at its own stand at the grocery store.

Oh and the delays at the grocery store because of slow check writing or getting a check OK’d.

Maryland high school student arrested after authorities discovered a 129-page document detailing school shooting plan, police say (www.cnn.com)

A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday....

Brkdncr ,

Large margins. Double spaced.

Brkdncr ,

I watched the most recent season of the Fargo tv series so I already know how this ends.

Brkdncr ,

I use my account at two households without much issue. I wish they were a little more lenient, but it’s better than Hulu’s implementation. I canceled Hulu TV because of it.

Brkdncr ,

BlackBerry devices had this.

They had a “under duress but unlock” PIN and a “under duress and wipe device now” PIN. You needed their enterprise management server to configure it.

Brkdncr ,

Isn’t that the point though? We think it can’t get any better, let’s let something else confirm it.

Brkdncr ,

For the love of god Elon, stay out of my news feed.

Brkdncr ,

“Why should we upgrade our tech when we can just artificially reduce capacity and charge more for priority access?”

Brkdncr ,

The Amen Break is a few seconds sample that became drum and bass. All of drum and bass has roots from that sample.

Brkdncr ,

Preparing to sell?

Brkdncr ,

I love this type of response to bad legislation.

Brkdncr OP ,

Does a good vpn solution exist?

Forti had a ton of cves recently. Cisco has a good client but their firewalls are awful.

Brkdncr ,

This is why I think there needs to be a way to recoup costs besides donations. Having a blended income is a good thing.

Donations, subscriptions, “gold”, maybe a light sprinkling of ads or sponsors, and even a paid api for LLMs to scrape.

Brkdncr , (edited )

Reddit did it wrong. Here’s how I would do it:

  • register as a non profit
  • determine the per-user cost and make it available for the user to see it.
  • create a “show me ads” toggle for the user to enable. Indicate how much this covers their cost.
  • create a “sell my content” toggle and indicate how much this covers their cost.
  • create a donation field.
  • recalculate the numbers and prompt the user to make changes on a monthly basis.

It’s possible that enough donations would cover the entire cost of operations. In that case, as a non-profit it would be necessary to stop selling out the users when costs are covered.

Brkdncr ,

“No.”

Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?

It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....

Brkdncr ,

If an IP address is like a building address for a mall, ports are like suite numbers of the different businesses inside the mall.

There are a few types of ports, but mostly you deal with tcp and udp. Tcp ports create a connection, udp is connectionless.

What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

Currently remodeling a domicile, with the sweet and expensive ability to add anything I want within reason. I plan on modernizing the place to bring it into the 21st century because this house deserves it (just a great structure with lots of history and nearing it’s centennial birthday)....

Brkdncr ,

No one is going to think your solar/monitoring/etc tech is a great improvement. People barely consider actual solar to be a vast improvement.

Running cat6a to each room from a central location is about the only thing that would be helpful. Some areas will be good locations to also run hdmi, coax, and speaker wire.

Weather monitoring isn’t special, you can get a station for a few hundred that is wireless and easy to use.

Ducting a closet never makes sense since it heats up a lot more than the rest of the house. You would need to run dedicated hvac to it, or vent a door into the living space. Or just use low-power devices.

Heck, owning a home for only 3 years barely makes sense. Is it worth the hassle over renting? Will the market be down when you want to move?

Brkdncr ,

Counterpoint: yes.

Brkdncr ,

A corvette.

Brkdncr ,

Hate it when I search an issue and the only other person with the same problem is me 5 years ago and I didn’t figure it out then either.

Brkdncr ,

None, because I use wireless on the phone. Tablet/laptop is used when I need fidelity.

Brkdncr ,

It came with a snake.

Brkdncr ,

This is an old article and iirc this was a reporting issue with their router. The wash machine was not using that much data.

Brkdncr ,

I love mine. It reminds me when to clean it, when the drain is acting up, and when it’s done. It can even order supplies on its own. Sure all those things can be handled with a calendar but I’m lazy.

Brkdncr ,

You use a calendar for reminders right?

Brkdncr ,

Reality.

tomshardware.com/…/your-washing-machine-could-be-…

Brkdncr ,

Ctl alt del then select task manager. Find the exe in question and kill it.

Brkdncr ,

So much for modern memes

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

Brkdncr ,

I sat in front of one of these ideas at an airport. People are just dumb. They couldn’t figure out how to get into the store. They didn’t understand how to pay by just leaving.

Brkdncr ,

Cost. It’s always about money.

Brkdncr ,

federation is a trust relationship.

In the context of fediverse, is server operators allowing other server operators to read and write between each other.

For example If Nextdoor federated with MySpace, a Nextdoor account could post something and a person on MySpace could see it in their feed.

Brkdncr ,

Gotta pay for the OS somehow. The previous system ended up with tons of unpatched out-of-support machines spreading malware.

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