Ex-fighter pilot, now researcher, challenges autonomous vehicle safety (BusinessInsider) - London Reconnections
The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Capital's transport networks.Long Branch Mike (London Reconnections)
reshared this
Just had to completely reinstall the OS on my Mac laptop because something in the OS got corrupt and it started going nuts.
Never had that before! Thankfully returning it to its previous state (well, one major OS back - it installed Ventura rather than Sonoma for some reason) was not too painful an experience. I guess I got to junk a load of cruft too.
Still, not how I'd planned to spend my evening.
i have spent a month trying to get my PC to boot off install media as it needed nuking to the bare metal.
USB. nope. DVD. Nope. Spent far too long beating PXE with a stick. Got every other device to work except the PC...
Then today it just...booted from the network...except ubuntu now didn't pick up the win10 install
I HATE tech at times
Put my friendica installation on a VLAN. It made accessing it locally ... interesting.
So I can access it from outside. Fine.
But if I try to access it internally, the traffic just gets dropped. There's no firewall rule to handle the forward via external IP address loopback.
So I set up a forward, and of course, that was a stupid thing to do. Every other https service in the world suddenly and unceremoniously disappears.
So I change the forward to only be something looking to loopback via my external IP.
But the external IP is dynamic. The router will update the dyndns record, but it will not update its own firewall rule. I'd have to do it manually every time it changed. Very far from ideal.
But inspiration struck! I have my own DNS server! (pihole).
As of now, thegoatery.dyndns.org from within my internal network resolves to the IP address of the friendica box on the VLAN.
Done.
like this
like this
Potential gotcha: LuCI is available on all interfaces on #OpenWRT. WAN is moot because firewall and redirect anyway, but having it on the Friendica DMZ VLAN is very bad!
It’s no longer there.
reshared this
The “advising people on the internet that they can’t be dual tax resident” people are at it again.
They sound very convincing as well. Sadly, HMRC are less easily convinced.
reshared this
I want to preface this by saying that I am not, in any way, a furry. I wish those who are all the best with it, but that’s not the angle I’m approaching this from.
That being said, I’m kinda mad that evolution took our tails.
Equal in length to my height, about 2-3cm in diameter, and scaly like a pangolin. Prehensile and strong enough to take my body weight.
It would have been epic.
like this
reshared this
Right, not starting anything, but normal countries have a general election should their parliament serially fail to produce a functioning (at least in name) legislature.
So without naming names, if any large federal republics with a 9 digit population in the western hemisphere need an intervention, blink twice.
Spencer likes this.
reshared this
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
“Don’t worry, Trump won’t be nominee”
“Don’t worry. Trump won’t be president”
“Don’t worry, the UK won’t leave the EU”
“Don’t worry about LePen”
“Don’t worry about AfD”
“Don’t worry, we can carry on with business as usual”
SOMEBODY FUCKING DO SOMETHING! START FUCKING WORRYING.
reshared this
I increasingly feel utterly alienated from the growing part of my species which seems to openly want to rush towards apocalypse.
WHY?!?!!?
I do not understand how this is happening, and why people enable it. I am happy with my dog, but am rapidly losing interest in humans.
@f4grx To be fair, it IS literally business as usual.
Fascism is the natural emergency mode of capitalism. It will expand systematically each time capitalism manages to reach its goal: concentration of capital.
reshared this
“Hey Siri, set cinema”
“Ok, which home? The one you’re currently in or the one two thousand kilometres away?”
YOU ARE LITERALLY A FUCKING HOMEPOD. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK?
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Sarah Brown likes this.
The Israelis are about to kill over two million people, half of whom are children, and the world is just going to let them.
How utterly monumentally fucked up.
like this
reshared this
like this
Wifi 6 (892.12ax) is interesting because it seems, the more of its useful features you turn on, the more 2.4GHz-only WiFi 4 (892.11n) cheap shit just breaks.
So I’m maintaining a separate 802.11n SSID on the same gear just for said cheap shit.
Cheap shit that breaks on WiFi 6 seems to include:
Princess dehumidifier (cloud only, but it seems they all are, so they’ll likely eventually brick it)
Daikin AC units (local control without cloud, thank fuck)
Legrand Netatmo zigbee hub (again local control, thankfully, but dear god its WiFi support is flakey and power cycling if involves using the fuse box)
iRobot Roomba i3
Seriously, this shit all has the cheapest nastiest buggy cheap junk WiFi implementation and they should be ashamed.
Also, I wish the EU would get round to banning cloud-only appliances. You just know they’re gonna turn the cloud services off years before the useful end of the device, basically bricking it. Local API or GTFO.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
reshared this
Sarah Brown likes this.
Once upon a time the Internet would tell you what to press to make your dishwasher drain.
Now it wants to show you a video, about replacing your drain hose, by visiting their affiliate link, to remove the blockage.
It’s not blocked. I just want to know how to make it drain.
I gave up and just ran it on the shortest cycle on the basis that it will drain at the end.
like this
reshared this
I want dials levers and switches that go thunk, with raised or deeply etched legends that aren't just screen printed, and more metal everywhere.
I don't need 5 different very slightly different dishwasher settings, we all know I'm just gonna hit the "regular" one every time any
silverwizard likes this.
Amidst the performative cries of “Israel has the right to defend itself”, it seems to be heresy to acknowledge the humanity of the few million people who get to live, in perpetuity, as Israel’s ritual punching bag, and are expected to do nothing in response, nothing in prevention, and accept the blame for others doing literally anything.
And even saying this will just result in tedious wankers going, “oh, you support terrorism then?”
The way the Palestinian people are treated is some serious Omelas shit.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
reshared this
Yet another lightning connector dies from
Electrolysis. Been cold plugging this one; it’s a lightning to USB C adaptor, and I’m working on the basis that cold plugging will extend the life.
But it still has a life expectancy of only a few months. My phone charges inductively but the iPad needs this fucking cursed connector.
I hate it with a passion. Useless piece of shit that doesn’t do the goddam thing it’s fucking supposed to.
kjaerulv reshared this.
@Breadbin @Rachel Lawson I can’t find any consistent link to climate.
No other connector does this to me. It’s just lightning cables that provide power, and only lightning. USB C doesn’t do it. The old iPod dock cables didn’t do it. It’s just lightning, and they will always do it.
@rachel_norfolk Damn, that’s such a shame:(
Also odd that the iPad doesn’t have wireless charging. Hmm.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Pollinators reshared this.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Human bodies:
Ethanol: wheeeeee!
Ethandiol: I … die
Propanol: wheeeeee!
Propantriol: Yeah, whatever
Fickle.
Sarah Brown likes this.
Apparently Farage and Patel sang karaoke at the Tory conference.
Can’t get the image of them doing a duet of “Endless Love” out of my mind.
I BLOODY WARNED YOU IN THE ABSTRACT.
Just had some random pop up on Reddit, necroposting to reply to something I posted in 2022 saying, “you will never be a woman”
And, ok, whatever, but I replied asking if they’re able to explain what it is that doing this is doing for them.
And I hope they reply because I’m actually fascinated.
I get that they’re trying to offend me, but on the one hand, poor target selection because I’m years past that, and on the other, why not something contemporary? I mean, if they’re picking year old posts to reply to, their target might never even see it.
I guess I just don’t understand why they spent their time doing this in this way.
Sarah Brown likes this.
People think coeliac disease, or even non coeliac gluten intolerance, is like lactose intolerance: painful and annoying but ultimately a “choice”.
It isn’t. If you are sensitised to it in that way, gluten will make your immune system attack your own body. It’s not nice stuff.
reshared this
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I have non coeliac gluten sensitivity (if I eat it, I get rheumatoid arthritis), and my partner has coeliac disease. The prevalence of what we call, “Los Angeles Gluten Free” types is something we regard as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it creates a market for gluten free food because 90% of most supermarkets are simply off limits to us.
But on the other, it creates establishments which claim to sell/serve “gluten free food” which is nothing of the kind.
The worst offenders store their gluten “free” and wheat products on the same shelf and use the same utensils to handle them!
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I would, however, note that it’s perfectly normal to buy gluten free and gluten containing produce in the same shop. Our household has a gluten free kitchen, but for the one member of it who does eat gluten, who has her own grill, we also buy gluten containing food.
Households contain more than one person, quite often.
Wasn’t aware of exactly how bad it can get, but anyone talking about medical issues as a “choice” can fuck right off.
Also auto immune is really scary shit:( Few things can unravel your life and turn it into a living hell as your immune system turning on you.
@Breadbin The thing with coeliac is that the autoimmune target is your gut lining.
So you die slowly of malnutrition.
“HS2 on existing track” is not a thing. The whole point of it is to move long distance trains off existing track so more local trains can run.
With this half arsery, the Tories get the worst of both worlds: they spend most of the money and get pretty much none of the benefit.
like this
reshared this
!Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ AppleTV hardware now supports Tailscale, with exit nodes.
I am astonished that Apple allowed this blatant circumvention of region coding, but they did.
Get it while it’s hot, I guess.
like this
don't like this
Há uma podcast que se chama “prova oral”, em português. O nível é difícil param mim, mas tenho ouvido no carro.
No episódio mais recente, houve uma conversa com uma psicóloga, e ela estava a falar sobre relacionamentos tóxicos e, também, sobre narcisistas.
E foi realmente, realmente interessante. Eu não entendi tudo, mas os partes que eu entendi, eu senti-os no meu coração.
Parece-me uma boa maneira para aprender uma língua.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
You, a TERF sitting there in your underwear with uncleaned teeth trying to convince the five Nazis left on Twitter that trans women are really men.
Me, a trans woman, spending her day SUP surfing at the beach followed by great food and sangria with family at a nice restaurant.
reshared this
On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I tried sup surfing.
Let it be known that I have neither concussion nor a broken metacarpal.
But I am still grateful for voltaren.
Also, you absolutely cannot take the Atlantic in a fight.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
KatLS reshared this.
Dear god, I just hit 50.
How the hell did that happen?
Just watched the “Death of Stalin” episode of The Spanish Princess.
Whoever wrote this clearly has OPINIONS about Margaret Beaufort.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) reshared this.
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
Watching The Spanish Princess on HBO Max.
Dunno how accurate their portrayal of Margaret Beaufort is, but they’re portraying her as exactly the sort of woman who would wield power in the court of a Tudor monarch and yet still die of old age.
And if she was anything like that, then she’d have been beyond terrifying IRL, and an utter inspiration.
Colin the Mathmo reshared this.
Sarah Brown
Unknown parent • •Jay 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 (Free 🇵🇸)
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@tommyyum
I'm not so sure - outside of the MAGA, I don't think he's got the votes in a general election. Since 2016, he's lost 3 straight (2018 and 2022 midterms and the 2020 general).
My guess/hope is that moderate Republicans stay at home if Trump is the nominee. In addition, there's the 14th amendment issue that will end up in the Supreme Court.
npr.org/2023/09/25/1200130870/…
While that won't bar him from every state, he just needs to be barred from certain swing states.
FeralRobots
in reply to Jay 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 (Free 🇵🇸) • • •I worry less about him winning than about people who are crazy enough to do something if he doesn't. We haven't yet done anything to convince that lot it's better for them to sit tight.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
in reply to FeralRobots • • •Although to be fair, those same people will gleefully do worse if he wins, so even if his winning is improbable, it's still the bigger worry.
FeralRobots
in reply to Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ • • •Well that's the thing, there's precedent to suggest that if they're sufficiently discouraged, most won't try anything. E.g. they tend not so show up at polls if they think their guy's gonna lose. I agree with @goatsarah that we could do more in that regard. But more than we're doing would entail Democrats ignoring law, which isn't something they'll agree as a party to doing. (Dem corruption tends to be an individual choice, rather than structural.)
@jaybhatt @tommyyum
FeralRobots
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@tommyyum
The principle motivating feeling of most American Republicans is fear. Even their greed is subordinate to & filtered through fear. (I suspect Tories are similar, AFAICS this is super common for conservatives in general.)
So 'stop being frightened of the guy who can unlease an overwhelming swarm of low-skill ratfuckers' is a noble aspiration, but one to which the majority of Republicans cannot obtain.
Sarah Brown
in reply to FeralRobots • •FeralRobots
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Democrats as such can't do anything specifically to stop him. Some specific democrats (like Tish James or Fani Willis) can, & are. & the parts of the judiciary who'd allow it are Republican - we're well down the road to judiciary-capture in the US. At this point our Supreme Court is just John Edwards' sense of propriety away from endorsing one-party rule.