Notices by Terra Field (rainofterra@terra.incognita.net), page 2

Fallacies of Distributed Computing: Automotive Edition

So our 2016 Subaru Outback has been having horrible battery drain issues for a couple years now. We got the attached service bulletin recently that explained the issue.

It turns out that the Data Communications Module that powers Subaru's Starlink service (emergency assistance/safety/etc. service) now causes a battery drain because it is trying to talk to a 3G network that is no longer there, and it just tries its little heart out.

You can bring the car in to get the DCM reprogrammed to not do this anymore which will fix the problem, and they will also cover batteries killed by the issue.

But my favorite part about this is that this happened because they didn't account for the first Fallacy of Distributed Computing:

"The network is reliable".

A bunch of vehicle computers each connecting to a home network sure sounds like distributed computing to me. 🤷🏻♀️

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10251111-0001.pdf
#Subaru #DistributedComputing #Lesbaru #cars

Heritage Foundation finding out the hard way how many InfoSec people are queer/trans: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/heritage-foundation-cyberattack/ #SoSad #InfoSec

Trans people in the US: Whatever you think about staying and fighting versus living to fight another day, please get an up to date passport with your correct information on it before November if you’re able to. https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/passports #USPol #trans

@chrisisgr8 @thomasfuchs let’s see if this works, I put the alt text in a gist because it was too long: https://gist.github.com/346a413c2fc2c21bf1c7f019053d05a5#chatgpt-quasar-unhinged.txt

Every #trans woman reading about the #Utah anti trans law being used to immediately target a cis kid:

I want to thank CNN for voraciously defending my desire to never, ever read a single thing #CNN publishes by preventing me from accidentally reading their trashy faschy pseudojournalism.

@GreenSkyOverMe because the birds work for the bourgeoisie https://youtu.be/5uaCG2lvE9w?si=7Pp7N2RrCmvgBOll

Me to Ronald Reagan: #duolingo #birds #bourgeoisie

I’m sorry but generative AI is a revolution in shitposting. #DallE #ChatGPT #TidePods #Cooking

I can’t sleep but I can write funny prompts: #Gritty #HenryKissinger #ChatGPT #DALLE

The problem is you order them once and then you get another order every hour.

Migrated to self hosting my instance. When I paid for hosting it was to dip my toes in the water and make sure I was going to actually use this, since I clearly am and I wanted to fiddle with things it was time to move to doing my own thing.

That said, if you are looking for a Mastodon hosting service you can’t go wrong with @mastohost - Hugo is very responsive and was even helpful every step of the way with me migrating off. A+ would host again ? #mastodon #hosting

@mastohost thanks for all the work, I'm sure things are blowing up the past few weeks