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  • Uvalde school shooting victims' families announce $2 million settlement with Texas city and new lawsuits

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  • Depends on the department but police vests being carriers with ceramic plates is far from uncommon these days. I know for a fact that's the case for my local department.

  • Uvalde school shooting victims' families announce $2 million settlement with Texas city and new lawsuits

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  • Standard procedure literally nationwide is that normal officers are expected to go in with what they have. That's exactly what happened in Nashville less than a year later:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting

    The body cam video is public. Officers responded with what they had. Yes, there's an officer with an AR. There are also officers clearing rooms with handguns and in plainclothes. And one of the officers that engaged the AR-wielding shooter did so with their duty handgun.

    Body Armor, AR15s.

    They absolutely wear the former every day and many these days have either an AR or a shotgun in the trunk of their patrol vehicle.

  • Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

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  • It's why I've avoided anything smarthome tied to any particular vendor.

    My endpoint devices are almost entirely Zwave or Zigbee/Matter based. I started out with a SmartThings hub but migrated it all to Home Assistant last year. HA has honestly had easier integrations than SmartThings did and supports almost anything under the sun.

    I don't have to worry about suddenly losing control of my devices and the only 'subscription' associated with it all is $15/year for a domain name to make setting up remote access easier. This approach requires a little more research, but it opens up the ability to mix and match devices however you'd like. Absolutely zero regrets.

  • Bump stock ruling could trigger booming rapid-fire marketplace [Clayton Vickers | 05/21/24 | The Hill]

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  • To expand a little bit for those that don't want to click through:

    5.56 penetrates hard targets because it concentrates energy across a small cross-sectional area due to its small diameter. It delivers a lot of energy to a small point which helps it push through hard objects.

    5.56 similarly does not over penetrate in soft targets due to its dimensions: the projectile is narrow and relatively long, with the weight biased to the rear. This means that when it penetrates a soft object, the heavier tail end retains more energy and wants to flip past the tip of the projectile. Because the projectile is long and narrow, it tends to break apart when that happens. That quickly dumps the energy in the projectile and causes the large wounding effect being described above. Since the smaller fragments have less energy, they come to a stop much faster than a solid projectile would.

    tl;dr saying 5.56 is capable of both punching through steel and also generally won't overpenetrate in soft targets is accurate because physics

  • Bump stock ruling could trigger booming rapid-fire marketplace [Clayton Vickers | 05/21/24 | The Hill]

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  • Rules-making agencies have to conform to the the statute when issuing rules. They can interpret within the bounds defined by the law, but they aren't allowed to invent regulation wholesale.

    That's kind of the point of this suit. The ATF's rule appears to conflict with the statutory text; if the court decides that to be the case, then the statute takes precedent and the rule gets invalidated.

  • Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck

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  • His Forrester is built on a Legacy chassis; it's a four door sedan with a little lift and a bigger body shell on top.

  • Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations

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  • This comment coming from someone on a .de instance is just icing on the cake.

  • Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect

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  • It is. And the price of ESUs goes up each year that a product is EOL.

  • European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches

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  • From the article:

    Carmakers like Tesla which rely heavily on new tech will have to decide if NCAP's five-star rating is worth reversing its interior design. Tesla's latest Model 3 has force-touch buttons to activate the turn signal instead of the usual toggle — the kind of change the safety body is hoping to end.

    Call them whatever you want, they're literally one of the things NCAP is identifying as a problem and considering in their safety ratings.

  • European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches

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  • Putting it on the wheel purely to be different is a bad design no matter what you call it. You've turned a critical control into a tiny moving target. People having trouble locating them and have to take their eyes off the road is a common complaint about these things.

    And, FWIW, I absolutely consider a capacitive sensor distinct from a physical button. An arbitrary flat spot on the steering wheel is substantially more difficult to locate and identify by feel. Especially when your hands are moving around the wheel while doing highly uncommon things like, I don't know, steering.

  • European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches

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  • Newer Teslas don't have a turn signal stalk. They've put the turn signals on capacitive touch elements on the steering wheel because of course they have.

  • Derps of Tiktok

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  • Kurt Cobain has been dead longer than Kurt Cobain was alive at this point.

  • TIL that Wyoming is larger than the United Kingdom in area but less populous than Glasgow

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  • The Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year

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  • They literally show in the video that the majority of the surface area on the RAM truck they filmed was blocked off by plastic paneling because it's not needed to actually cool the motor. A large part of the point is that these grills don't have any actual utility and are killing people for purely aesthetic reasons.

    There are plenty of good arguments in favor of EVs; this specific issue is not one of them.

  • Low power security camera

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  • If you'd like object detection with fully local processing/control, I'd highly recommend looking into Frigate. It uses a Coral TPU (basically a little USB stick that acts as an accelerator for detection) and works extremely well. It also has Home Assistant integration if you're using that. Frigate works with a wide range of cameras and all traffic stays on your local network.

  • Drunk Mel Gibson Arrest Diorama

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  • It's part of his Jeff Bezos rowboat video.

    https://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8

    All of his videos are brilliant but that one is unironically a masterpiece of a production.

  • Need help understanding how to get around port-forwarding with tailscale

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  • You can also just spend $10 on a domain name with a registrar that offers dynamic DNS. Offhand, both Namecheap and Cloudflare do. I have no idea what my public IP address is because my router just updates it automatically for me. Plenty of DDNS desktop clients around if your router can't for whatever reason.

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    Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla

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  • The PT Cruiser was more or less a Dodge Neon with a funny looking body shell on top, meaning engineering cost to bring it to market was pretty minimal.

    The Cybertruck is... pretty much the opposite of that. Tesla has spent literally years trying to get the thing to market meaning it's failure will be far more painful than PT Cruiser sales tapering off was for Chrysler.

  • Obscure button tier list

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  • I generally remap to swap caps lock with left control. Having control on the home row makes Ctrl shortcuts way less of a contortion act.

    Useful in general but especially so on laptop keyboards.