Notices by John-Mark Gurney (encthenet@flyovercountry.social), page 3

Always reassuring when you see stuff like:
%%DCIM_CUSTOMERSERVICE_URL%%

in an email.

Just a word of warning, Sony, when resetting your PSN password, doesn't have a character limit on the password, but then when you log in, they set a 32 character limit, except that their forms won't work, but a 30 character password does work.

I just reset my password 3 times to figure this out.

Fun of idiots who don't know how to do security.

#Sony #PlayStationNetwork #SecurityFails #SecurityFailures

Watching this video made me realize that I didn't know how stain glass was made (my aunt made a number of stained glass pieces for me when I was young), and that it is obvious now that I see it.

Despite having solder, I had always wondered how the solder stayed between the glass and managed to look so nice.

> https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_38fsHe8Ws

Someone is d/l'ing FreeBSD 8.2-R. Guess it's a good thing I still have the old releases hosted. Either that, or some bot is d/'ling it for some reason.

#FreeBSD

The fun of fiber. Getting sub 3ms pings to www.google.com while d/l'ing at 45MB/sec.

(FreeBSD release is almost down.)

@SnoopJ
Omg, that ejected fast. I assume it wasn't sped up. And the force needed to extrude that much that quickly must be crazy high.

Yeah, 4 justices thinks that the us shouldn't pay for work that we asked people to do. Just like Trump has done at his rallies and his other properties. It's a regular move that trump (and musk) has people do work and then doesn't pay for the work.

> https://mas.to/users/kims/statuses/114110472498730351

@dalias
The problem/confusion is that Mozilla runs a number of services that this can apply too but that should get on those services, not for Firefox.

Just realized that this gives Mozilla permission to use your passwords.

> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

This is a really poorly worded grant. Mozilla does NOT need this right at all.

> https://mstdn.social/users/jschauma/statuses/114072572772110102

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
1/

@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.