douglasg14b

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

I'm in my house right now with a perfectly working thermostat that's 70 years old.

And given the mechanism of action it will continue working in another 70 years.

16 years for hardware used inside of homes is a ridiculously, absurdly, short lifetime. Even for a vehicle that would be pushing the edge of "too short".

That said 16-year-old software is not that old. If it's built using sane language choices it should actually be functioning and modern today.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

The US has an ideal, chosen, location for long-term mass storage.

Unfortunately State politics and news fear mongering are preventing it from being developed and utilized.

Just more footgunning.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

That's.... Not how internet infrastructure works.

And cables are not in straight lines between you and the destination.

douglasg14b , 2 months ago

What a great way to dismiss an entire problems based that affects our society. It's easier to just hand wave it away as someone else's problem than to actually consider it...

When a problem becomes systematic it's now a societal and cultural problem and not an individual responsibility problem. Individual responsibility isn't working so it's now down to the society this is occurring in to solve the systematic problem in a systematic way.

That's how almost everything works

douglasg14b , 2 months ago

Kagi!!!

I started using it entirely last month and I'm never going back.

douglasg14b , 3 months ago

Wonder how much that ends up costing per month and how much that ends up costing over the lifetime of the vehicle.

Assuming the lifetime even matters when they decide to just cut off subscriptions at some point in the future to turn features off to drive you towards buying a new vehicle and dumping this one like a good consumer.

douglasg14b , 4 months ago

Theres a link below of a "you g girl" on the toilet.

It appears to be a young adult, clothed, using a toilet as a seat. Idk why it's labeled the way it is, it's really weird.

However , that somewhat dilutes the notion that that means children on this site.

douglasg14b , 10 months ago

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It'd be a stretch to call it malware, it's probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

douglasg14b , 10 months ago

You say this and are downvoted.

While we are coming off the tail of Def Con where there where a plethora or small talks and live examples of taking advantage and abusing just this.