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  • Team Trump Panics as “Hell” Breaks Loose in Elon Musk’s Voting Plan

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  • He spent 40B mostly of other people’s money. His liability is like 12B. The more interesting question is why various stodgy bankers gave him the other 28B.

  • CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says

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  • There are a lot of misunderstandings about what happened. First, the ‘update’ was to a data file used by the crowdstrike kernel components (specifically ‘falcon’.) while this file has a ‘.sys’ name, it is not a driver, it provides threat definition data. It is read by the falcon driver(s), not loaded as an executable.

    Microsoft doesn’t update this file, crowdstrike user mode services do that, and they do that very frequently as part of their real-time threat detection and mitigation.

    The updates are essential. There is no opportunity for IT to manage or test these updates other than blocking them via external firewalls.

    The falcon kernel components apparently do not protect against a corrupted data file, or the corruption in this case evaded that protection. This is such an obvious vulnerability that i am leaning toward a deliberate manipulation of the data file to exploit a discovered vulnerability in their handling of a malformed data file. I have no evidence for that other than resilience against malformed data input is very basic software engineering and crowdstrike is a very sophisticated system.

    I’m more interested in how the file got corrupted before distribution.

  • Tesla recalls Cybertrucks over accelerator crash risk

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  • The F150 EV is not exactly a success.

  • Tesla recalls Cybertrucks over accelerator crash risk

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  • 3,878 fuglytruks is the apparently the entire fleet. That is the really big story here. The fuglytruk is a flop. Nobody wants an 80k rust bucket.

  • Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

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  • Except of course anyone can manufacture and sell plug compatible pipes.

  • Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

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  • I started out in the computer industry working for a company that reverse engineered and built IBM compatible terminal systems, This was more than 40 years ago, when that was its own large and profitable sector of the computer hardware market. It was absolutely legal to build 'plug compatible' reverse engineered third party systems. DRM is almost entirely horseshit that has helped turn the entire tech industry into silo'd enshittified monopolies.

  • TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989

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  • It’s our version of China’s social credit score.

  • How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists

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  • Capitalism and neoliberal globalization is great as long as your capitalist organizations are dominating the system. But that inevitably results in the emergence of other competitive capitalist organizations. Then it’s back to trade barriers, and when that fails, military conflict.

  • The world experienced first 12-month period of more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial reference period, the Copernicus Climate Change Service says

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  • 1.5 is so 2020. The new limit is 2.0.

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    Theodore Luhaka: Aspiring footballer left with 'serious anal injuries' - French police officers given suspended sentences

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  • Police forces are the the primary Ideological State Apparatus of Repression. They do not exist to protect the public from crime, they exist to protect the property rights of the owners of the means of production. Keeping the proles in a state of fear is them just doing their job.

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    Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek

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  • Yeah, which made them just fabulous for our favorite use for them at the time: driving around drinking. Pack that bug full of teen agers smoking and drinking and freezing and basically getting CO poisoning until somebody got sick and we all had to do an emergency exit drill.

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    Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek

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  • Yeah when I saw the pictures with all the white 3s, I guessed they were hertz rentals used by ride share drivers (because hertz is renting them at really low rates) who either don’t know much about their cars or deliberately run them down to near zero to max their fares.

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    Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek

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  • The 60s era vws were notorious for never managing to produce any cabin heat.

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  • You can list all the current loaded drivers. You can examine the system event log for service start operations. You can run with a kernel debugger attached and examine any loaded driver. The driver itself is likely correctly signed and will not require additional user acknowledgement beyond what was given when the game was installed.

  • Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge

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  • This is part of the 'EV apocalypse' FUD campaign.

    AFAICT one super charging site in Chicago had more than one non-functional chargers. Why they were not functioning is not known. Quite a few Teslas queued up there in the cold and some of them ran their batteries down to zero. Each regurgitation of the this event has the same pictures of the same cars at the same place.

    It is a fact that EV range decreases with cold, and that decrease can be significant. Drivers unaware of this, and who don't monitor their battery levels, can indeed find themselves effectively 'out of gas'.

    We need much better urban charging infrastructure. Street level L2 charging should be ubiquitous, and that can be easily achieved using the existing street level power line infrastructure.

  • Adding services to an existing Docker nginx container

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  • Containers are very lightweight. I have no desire to build anything so I always just add another service container to my existing stacks.

  • OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools

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  • intelligent swarms of lethal drones are the near future battlefield. Also they will be deployed shortly afterwards by the police.

  • NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft

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  • There is zero need to revive SSTs. We need to focus on slow transport using renewable energy.

  • For the second time in recorded history, global sea surface temperatures hit six standard deviations above 1982-2011, on January 6 2024

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  • And while we don’t have the data it is very reasonable to assume that if we did have data going back 150 years the results would be stunningly worse.