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State Treasurer Plans to Invest Billions to Help Bring Manufacturing to Wyoming
Wyoming Power Plant May Be Proving Ground for Emissions-Free Coal Burning
Re:A $20k electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slat...
on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:15AM (#43793252)
If this is void of telemetry, dial-home and other fascistic crap then I would seriously consider it. It's in a similar price range of street legal UTV's but with more room assuming it stays in that range when it launches.
Re:To Avoid Deer Strikes, Finland Is Painting Deer Antlers with Reflec...
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @08:50PM (#43789140)
I fed about 110 deer during this last winter. I wanted to put something reflective on them and the senior game warden said no. There is very little I am permitted to do for them. I am not even permitted to protect them from predators. I can not put a sign next to the highway to watch for them, only the department of transportation can. I kept them off the highway all winter but mid spring they go their own way, mostly into the mountains but about 4 or 5 packs cross the highway. People think they are dumb but they just have incredibly poor depth perception and cars are much quieter these days. Noisy trucks and motorcycles will make them run back to me. EV's will need a sound system that makes them sound like a big-rig with jake-brakes and straight pipes. Let's make it happen.
Re:Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:49PM (#43787303)
Brake checking a semi seems like a classic FAFO situation.
It absolutely is. There are many dash-cam videos truckers have uploaded to Youtube of people finding out.
Re:Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:27PM (#43787119)
Are all the driverless kinks worked out? How well do these handle ice, snow squalls, loose gravel and dirt on the roads? Have people tested brake checking them in these conditions? Truckers have to deal with clowns brake checking them far too often.
Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas
Re:/www/ – Internet History and Culture
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:14PM (#43787010)
Ah that explains why it was not working for me. I have JS disabled by default.
Re:/www/ – Internet History and Culture
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:08PM (#43786967)
A flash board is interesting. How many browsers still support shockwave by default? Somewhere I still have an archive of SWF's from the early 00's. Most in my collection are probably too offensive by todays standards.
Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads
PgDog is a transaction pooler logical replication manager can shard PostgreSQL
Dutch privacy regulator concerned over Meta's AI plans using Facebook, Instagram
Re:Digital Identities and the Future of Age Verification in Europe
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:59PM (#43784936)
In the spirit of kicking the dead horse that is ground to dust at this point... the optimal solution is to require websites that either have adult content or user-generated content to add an RTA header [1] and / or meta tags. That's it. End user devices and apps must make a best effort to look for that header and activate parental controls. That's it. The law for that could fit into a few sentences in a tiny paragraph.
Not perfect, nothing is. Teens will bypass it. Actual children not legal children but single-digit aged kids will be less likely to bypass it or accidentally stumble onto Goatse. Again, not perfect, nothing is. Perfect is the enemy of good or better than what we have now and the cost to implement is at best a side project of one college intern per company and there is no risk of data leakage. Alternately five to fifteen minutes from a network engineer adding the header to the load balancers. RTA headers are privacy compliant and do not in any way involve third parties or PCI audits. This would be one of the simplest ways to get two thumbs up from ones legal and compliance departments. We just need to create one simple law and keep the greedy evil user-profiling and tracking incentives out of it.
[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#single
Re:Edison to bury more than 150 miles of power lines in wake of L.A. f...
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:55PM (#43784892)
I agree with the sentiment but it's tricky. Logically and technically it totally makes sense but it's expensive and companies look at cost, maintenance, accessibility. Above ground is easier to maintain, less legal hassles and easements among other things. Even when it made sense to bury everything that would affect the investors. There are some rough laws around impacting shareholders. Oh and people are greedy. I probably could have just said people are greedy.
Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind
New Patches Get Linux Booting on the Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus
Re:Nationwide burger chain to close more than 100 stores
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:03AM (#43783691)
Jack in the Box announced plans Tuesday to close 150-200 underperforming stores as part of an aggressive financial plan called “JACK on Track.”
Nationwide burger chain to close more than 100 stores
Re:Ask HN: What's Everyone Using These Days for a Desktop Chat App?
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:52AM (#43783549)
What type of business is this for? While I am not a fan of it, I found most developers liked Slack. The general consensus I received when trying to switch to an internal chat system was "You can take slack from our cold dead hands". This was in a financial company with a lot of developers. Compliance were OK with Slack after we had them add a lot of features, audit capabilities and limits.
For non developers people seem to like Discord for the freedom, options, ability to chat with whomever. It's not great in terms of compliance in a public company but maybe your company is small and this is not an issue.
The natural transition from Skype would be Teams and should be free if you are a small group. It is also free if you buy O365 or whatever they are calling it now. I can't keep up with the name changes.
Without understanding your business model it is hard to suggest anything that fits into your regulatory and audit requirements. Beyond that it would also matter what you put in your SOC1/SOC2 documents and what policies and procedures they reference.
Korean Telco Giant SK Telecom Hacked
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Critical bugs in Siemens, Schneider Electric gear top CISA advisory
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Hackers exploiting vulnerabilities at higher rates, reports Verizon
Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise
Re:Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?
on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:29PM (#43778156)
Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?
Probably not? I could think of ways to hide the controls but the most likely targets would be Linux forks and firmware that run in cell phones, cars, appliances, IoT's, etc... Those are more likely to be in the path of monitoring something interesting. Even in the case of cell phones, cars, etc, I would expect the control to be in firmware that one could tickle with JTAG over bluetooth, USB, WiFi, LoRa to take full control of the OS and bypass all security controls rendering encryption into a placebo or a CPU warmer. Why waste processing cycles on brute forcing when you can tell the application that the encryption key was successfully decrypted without ever even looking at the key.
I guess a simpler way to say that is, why control Linux when there are always so many proprietary things are in the path that only have a handful of people controlling them, especially when one could replace said people whereas replacing all the Linux developers would be hard. Firmware that provides a CPU ring -4 shell can bypass absolutely every security control anyone could imagine in microseconds.