markr

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Nothing written here can possibly be correct.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Except of course anyone can manufacture and sell plug compatible pipes.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I started out in the computer industry working for a company that reverse engineered and built IBM compatible terminal systems, This was more than 40 years ago, when that was its own large and profitable sector of the computer hardware market. It was absolutely legal to build 'plug compatible' reverse engineered third party systems. DRM is almost entirely horseshit that has helped turn the entire tech industry into silo'd enshittified monopolies.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (33 children)

It’s our version of China’s social credit score.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Capitalism and neoliberal globalization is great as long as your capitalist organizations are dominating the system. But that inevitably results in the emergence of other competitive capitalist organizations. Then it’s back to trade barriers, and when that fails, military conflict.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, which made them just fabulous for our favorite use for them at the time: driving around drinking. Pack that bug full of teen agers smoking and drinking and freezing and basically getting CO poisoning until somebody got sick and we all had to do an emergency exit drill.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah when I saw the pictures with all the white 3s, I guessed they were hertz rentals used by ride share drivers (because hertz is renting them at really low rates) who either don’t know much about their cars or deliberately run them down to near zero to max their fares.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The 60s era vws were notorious for never managing to produce any cabin heat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can list all the current loaded drivers. You can examine the system event log for service start operations. You can run with a kernel debugger attached and examine any loaded driver. The driver itself is likely correctly signed and will not require additional user acknowledgement beyond what was given when the game was installed.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This is part of the 'EV apocalypse' FUD campaign.

AFAICT one super charging site in Chicago had more than one non-functional chargers. Why they were not functioning is not known. Quite a few Teslas queued up there in the cold and some of them ran their batteries down to zero. Each regurgitation of the this event has the same pictures of the same cars at the same place.

It is a fact that EV range decreases with cold, and that decrease can be significant. Drivers unaware of this, and who don't monitor their battery levels, can indeed find themselves effectively 'out of gas'.

We need much better urban charging infrastructure. Street level L2 charging should be ubiquitous, and that can be easily achieved using the existing street level power line infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Containers are very lightweight. I have no desire to build anything so I always just add another service container to my existing stacks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

intelligent swarms of lethal drones are the near future battlefield. Also they will be deployed shortly afterwards by the police.

 

Sorry, no link to some ‘news’ article. /s

I’m a newcomer myself, but it seems my feed is just filled with low-effort news links with no other content. It’s c/mildlyinfuriating at this point. Maybe moderators outside of communities that are specifically for current events could require at least an effort by the op to add some of her own thoughts?

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