Notices by John-Mark Gurney (encthenet@flyovercountry.social)

Another classic line is that someone needs to "take responsibility for the decisions". If this was true, there'd be a lot more unemployed CEOs, but as a general rule, even if a CEO runs a company into the ground, they can still find another company to do it again.

> https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/114032834026699417

> Supporters say the city must replace outdated facilities and that it is key to better train officers to avoid improper use of force.

No amount of training cops on how to be violent will stop cops from being violent.

You don't need a fancy training center to teach de-escalation and disengagement techniques. You do need a hundred million dollar training center to teach cops how to violently beat protestors and how to turn a peaceful protest violent.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cop-city-money-laundering-charges-dropped

@feld
Now things have changed, but it definitely was a loss leader when they built out a significant part of their network a decade ago.

Do you know how many billions they spent building it? (I don't, honest question, but it's hard to quantify with the labor to make agreements, power purchasing and dev of hardware and manufacturing as well.)

@feld
Further now that the navi money is being pulled.

E.g. the supposed lauch of vw on Tesla this year, will it even happen? I'm not going to hold my breath.

2/2

@feld
Also, Tesla was smart in doing 8 or 12+ chargers at a location. It means that when it fills up the next person only has to wait 5 minutes or so, where when there's only 3, when they're full, you have to wait 10+ minutes.

(Queuing theory)

@feld
Because no other car maker gambled on EVs. And the charging network is a loss leader.

They also have the advantage of a single supplier for their charging hardware, where as everyone else has split their investments between different manufacturers.

Tesla was also smart in that they realized high speed charging mattered, and so now there are too many slow 65kW chargers that make it harder to justify building out in some locations.

Wonder if Tesla will reneg on opening their network
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@GossiTheDog
Alt text:
Photo of a sign that says:
FBI PRESENTATION

“SCAMS TARGETING SENIORS” MONDAY, FEB 17TH

HAS BEEN CANCELLED

A NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WAS SIGNED THAT

NO LONGER ALLOWS

THE FBI TO DO COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Know why Musk did this?

Because he doesn't want competition with other charging networks. Now that NACS is going to be the de facto charging standard, he wants to kneecap any competition.

> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/trump-has-thrown-a-wrench-into-a-national-ev-charging-program/?utm_social-type=owned

Their graphic on spending is bad. It's total spending, so of course the two largest and most populous states are at the highest. Should be at least spending per capita, or maybe include area in there as well, but as it is, it's really just a population map more than anything.

@feld Back when typing unix passwords, I would sometimes joke and just type a long stream of jiberish, then in the middle type ctrl-u, then type the password. for people who aren't aware they might mistake the ctrl-u as a cap U, and think I have a much longer password than I really do. ;p

It's really annoying. When I was learning the new passphrase for this computer, I kept making a mistake after the first three letters, so I'd start over. I did that so many times that the mistake is now "part" of my passphrase, and it's hard to type my passphrase WITHOUT making the mistake first before starting over and typing it correctly.

@feld
I'm not. When the other dbs default to unsafe and safe makes your DB a magnitude slower, you look slow and rarely do people test/understand safety. So they have to be unsafe like everyone else.

See Linux w/ unsafe async writes making FreeBSD look "slow".

@feld
Correct. It's by default the safest.

But you can use other modes and should if you know certain guarantees about your query/data. Most people are too lazy or don't spend the time to learn what is needed to go fast.

Congratulations to all the idiot dbs who violate the SQL standard in the name of better benchmarks because some db decided to do this so everyone else had to follow suite.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-set-transaction.html

> SERIALIZABLE is the default transaction isolation level in the standard. In PostgreSQL the default is ordinarily READ COMMITTED, but you can change it as mentioned above.

> https://fosstodon.org/users/bert_hubert/statuses/114015452562488619

Websites really need a way to permanently turn off those explore this new feature. One has told me to explore their new layout multiple times, and despite me hitting skip there is no way to not have it show.

Replacing a MB air battery and sadly, it looks like only one of the four turned into a spicy pillow. Too bad I can't just replace that cell.

#repairability

TFW your computer d/l's a 182MB dmg so fast you don't see the download progress the first time, so you download it a second time, still don't see the progress, and check the download page to see you d/l'd it twice in the same minute.

(The problems of having 1gbps internet.)

@coreyspowell With this graphic, I just realized that over half that atoms (by count, not by weight) that make you up are not star dust, but from the big bang (hydrogen). (~50% water by weight, 2/3rds of that is hydrogen, remaining 50% is unlikely to match the same number of oxygen atoms)

@feld
This used to work fine when mac's had built in Ethernet. Macs would use the same Mac address on both hardwired and wifi meaning migration just worked.

I haven't investigated trying to use a bridge or anything to replicate that though.

@khm
Not only that but they collected entire packet dumps, not just ssids. Like how do you not notice that your system is collecting many more gigabytes of data than intended.

People's browsering history, emails and passwords was collected, and this was before a significant portion of web traffic was protected by https.

And then they tried to hide that they did it.

https://epic.org/documents/investigations-of-google-street-view/

@dalias