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  • The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business

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  • Yeah that's about 2 and a half round-trips between Dallas and Houston, that's...not a lot to be calling this thing ready to go and pulling out the safety drivers.

    I wonder how these handle accidents, traffic stops, bad lane markings from road construction, mechanical failure, bad weather (heavy rain making it difficult/impossible to see lane markings), etc.

    You'd think they would be keeping the safety drivers in place for at least 6+ months of regular long-haul drives and upwards of 100k miles to cover all bases.

  • ICE Invades Wrong home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves

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  • Yeah unfortunately it's no guarantee that blue states are better. Many are, but not all. Colorado, California, and New York all score a 'C', still not great but much better.

  • That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

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  • They likely streamed from some other Plex server in the past, and that's why they're getting the email. The email specifically states that if the server owner has a plex pass, you don't need one.

    I got the email earlier today and it couldn't be clearer:

    As a server owner, if you elect to upgrade to a Plex Pass, anyone with access to your server can continue streaming your server content remotely as part of your subscription benefits.

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    Determining The Sweet Spot For Swap Space / Swappiness

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  • I run all of my Docker containers in a VM (well, 4 different VMs, split according to network/firewall needs of the containers it runs). That VM is given about double the RAM needed for everything it runs, and enough cores that it never (or very, very rarely) is clipped. I then allow the containers to use whatever they need, unrestricted, while monitoring the overall resource utilization of the VM itself (cAdvisor + node_exporter + Promethus + Grafana + Alert Manager). If I find that the VM is creeping up on its load or memory limits, I'll investigate which container is driving the usage and then either bump the VM limits up or address the service itself and modify its settings to drop back down.

    Theoretically I could implement per-container resource limits, but I've never found the need. I have heard some people complain about some containers leaking memory and creeping up over time, but I have an automated backup script which stops all containers and rsyncs their mapped volumes to an incremental backup system every night, so none of my containers stay running for longer than 24 hours continuous anyway.

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    Determining The Sweet Spot For Swap Space / Swappiness

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  • People always say to let the system manage memory and don't interfere with it as it'll always make the best decisions, but personally, on my systems, whenever it starts to move significant data into swap the system starts getting laggy, jittery, and slow to respond. Every time I try to use a system that's been sitting idle for a bit and it feels sluggish, I go check the stats and find that, sure enough, it's decided to move some of its memory into swap, and responsiveness doesn't pick up until I manually empty the swap so it's operating fully out of RAM again.

    So, with that in mind, I always give systems plenty of RAM to work with and set vm.swappiness=0. Whenever I forget to do that, I will inevitably find the system is running sluggishly at some point, see that a bunch of data is sitting in swap for some reason, clear it out, set vm.swappiness=0, and then it never happens again. Other people will probably recommend differently, but that's been my experience after ~25 years of using Linux daily.

  • ICE Invades Wrong home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves

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  • lining the pockets of the wealthy

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  • The bottom hits when all (or most) of the bad news is on the table. People know what's happening and what the future looks like. It doesn't happen when the pain is gone, just when people know what that pain will look like for the foreseeable future. For example, in 2022 the bottom happened when rate increases started to slow down, not when they stopped completely, just when inflation was starting to level off and we dropped from .75pt hikes to .5pt and people could see a path forward.

    We are not at that point yet in the current crash, nobody has any idea how bad it's going to get, none of the indicators show the problems yet because they're all lagging, and consumers haven't been hit yet by the high prices and supply chain crashes because manufacturers and retailers are still running off of back stock.

    I could be wrong of course, but I don't think I am.

  • lining the pockets of the wealthy

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  • Way too early. We haven't even begun to see the results of these policies yet. Inflation results don't yet take tariffs into account, the mass layoffs that are currently happening don't show up in unemployment stats yet, the massive GDP shrinkage isn't showing up yet, supply chains that are in the process of crashing haven't yet affected consumers. This is a dead cat bounce, which literally every single crash in history has, and every time there are people shouting that the pain is over and now is the time to buy back in, right before the bottom drops out.

  • YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...

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  • Market self regulation assumes informed consumers that are smart enough to know what things mean

    Not just smart enough, but informed enough. That means every person spending literally hundreds/thousands of hours per week researching every single aspect of every purchase they make. Investigating supply chains, performing chemical analysis on their foods and clothing, etc. It's not even remotely realistic.

    So instead, we outsource and consolidate that research and testing, by paying taxes to a central authority who verifies all manufacturers keep things safe so we don't have to worry about accidentally buying Cheerios that are laced with lead. AKA: The government and regulations.

  • What would this list look like for your generation?

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  • No names? On what? People just go around saying “no names”?

    It says "no mames". I'm not sure what on earth that means, but I suspect it isn't a typo (writeo?)

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • I self-host Bitwarden, hidden behind my firewall and only accessible through a VPN. It's perfect for me. If you're going to expose your password manager to the internet, you might as well just use the official cloud version IMO since they'll likely be better at monitoring logs than you will. But if you hide it behind a VPN, self-hosting can add an additional layer of security that you don't get with the official cloud-hosted version.

    Downtime isn't an issue as clients will just cache the database. Unless your server goes down for days at a time you'll never even notice, and even then it'll only be an issue if you try to create or modify an entry while the server is down. Just make sure you make and maintain good backups. Every night I stop and rsync all containers (including Bitwarden) to a daily incremental backup server, as well as making nightly snapshots of the VM it lives in. I also periodically make encrypted exports of my Bitwarden vault which are synced to all devices - those are useful because they can be natively imported into KeePassXC, allowing you to access your password vault from any machine even if your entire infrastructure goes down. Note that even if you go with the cloud-hosted version, you should still be making these encrypted exports to protect against vault corruption, deletion, etc.

  • What should I do after finding my info on a Data Breach searching website?

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  • Something I haven't seen mentioned yet - if you're in the US, lock down your credit at all 3 agencies. It takes 10-15 minutes and is free, it's easy to do.

    The issue is that many of these leaks include things like your full legal name, phone number, parents' full legal names, your social security number, and your entire address history. This makes it trivially easy for somebody to steal your identity and start opening up credit accounts in your name. You need to lock down your credit before that happens. If you need your credit run in the future (opening a bank account, getting a credit card or loan), just ask them which agency they pull the report from and temporarily unfreeze it so they can run the report, then re-freeze it when they're done. It adds 5 minutes of work once or twice a decade, but could be priceless later on when someone tries to steal your identity.

  • Karoline Leavitt boasts Trump wouldn’t hesitate to arrest SCOTUS justices

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  • A lot of it comes down to the Just World Fallacy

    They believe that, fundamentally, the world is just and good (mostly that stems from religion and a just "god", but not always). This means that when something bad happens, they assume the person must have deserved it, because bad things don't happen to good people. They also believe they are a good person, and therefore bad things won't happen to them. When something bad DOES happen to them, they start screaming from the rooftops that some radical injustice has occurred and somebody needs to do something to make it right! Completely unaware of the fact that nobody from their "tribe" will believe them, because the fact that something bad happened to them meant they must have been a bad person who deserved it.

  • Something something avocado toast

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  • I bought my house in 2014, $224k at 4% APR, my monthly payment including taxes is $1400/mo.

    It's only been 11 years, inflation is up ~35% in that time, so buying the same house now should be ~$1900/mo. Actual price if I were to buy it now? ~$3500/mo. And wages have barely budged. No wonder young people entering the workforce can't buy houses anymore.

  • Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta

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  • Sure in a decade or so it might have matured enough to have shed all these issues

    That's the point. They want to set themselves up so that when the issues are shed and it becomes a realistic product, they're already in a place where their product can be the one that takes over the market. If you wait until a product is viable before starting on development, you're too late.

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • I abandoned Google when they started throwing shopping links at the top of every search, even when searching for things that have no relevance to shopping, and they started artificially promoting scams and paid material above actual results.

    Google Search was best around 10-15 years ago when their only focus was providing the best results they could (remember when you could actually click the top result and you would be taken to the most applicable page instead of some unrelated ad or scam?). Now their focus is on providing the best product possible for their actual customers (paid advertisers) even when it means trashing their own product in the process.

  • Tesla’s remarkably bad quarter is even worse than it looks

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  • Profits dropped by 71% compared to the same quarter last year, but the stock price went up 68% in the same time frame. Because that makes sense. Who are the idiots still buying TSLA at these prices?

  • 'Trump 2028' apparel on sale at the Trump Organization's online store

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  • Nah, turns out you don't actually have to change it at all. If nobody is willing to enforce the rules laid out in the Constitution, then it's just a worthless scrap of paper that means nothing. He can just do whatever he wants now, nothing matters.

  • Share your partition scheme!

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  • 2-4G for swap (more if you want to hibernate), the rest for /. Only add a boot/EFI partition if needed.

    Over-partitioning is a newbie mistake IMO, it usually causes way more problems than it solves.