Buelldozer

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

That has happened many many times and a few times in the past few years the homeowner has even gotten away with it.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago

Make it clear to the rest that they need to surrender their illegal firearms.

So when do the SWAT teams and National Guard roll into the seedy side of Chicago to do this to the Gang Members that are carting around illegal firearms? When the hell are Illinois Prosecutors going to start jailing the people that police catch with illegal machine guns?

That person at home who shouldn't have a firearm is a a problem but they are far and away not the biggest problem and its not even close.

Buelldozer , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Something’s fishy going on with this statement

It's not difficult to understand. The SACEUR doesn't speak for NATO as an organization and in fact the idea that Christopher Cavoli is "NATO’s top military officer" would come as quite a surprise to his boss Admiral Rob Bauer the Chair of the NATO Military Committee.

Admiral Bauer, unlike Cavoli, actually does speak for NATO.

What does Admiral Bauer have to say? His statements are the official ones, not the just opinion of an Officer.

Buelldozer , 3 days ago

I think not. I've never hear of the Satanic Temple rolling into a Sunday School and slaughtering all the children.

Buelldozer , 4 days ago

Nah, it's not that Chinese cars have too much privacy its that the data is going to China.

Buelldozer , 4 days ago

Project Lion Cage by Tor Indstøy.

According to that Finnish Researchers project, on his own ES8 from NIO, about 90% of the data the car generates is being sent directly to China. The data includes the cars physical location as well as specific information about the driver.

He has 6 articles in the series now.

Buelldozer , 4 days ago

Having an inner voice makes it easier to absorb the information in a book

I think all of our brains are wired different and the different wiring leads to advantages in one thing but it's probably a disadvantage for others. For instance I have no inner voice but my reading speed, with comprehension, is well faster than nearly anyone I've ever met. I can even sometimes recall precisely where on a page a given word or phrase was located, even years after reading the material. However I'm almost entirely unable to imagine a 3 dimensional object and rotate it in my "minds eye".

Buelldozer , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

I'm not the OP either but my brain seems to work the same way that yours and theirs do. I'd say you did a good job of describing how it works for people like us.

One difference though is that you don't seem to have the visual recall that I do. I don't have a "photographic" memory but I could probably recall the hypothetical map as a visual object and examine it for additional information that I didn't notice the first time.

I can personally push it to a visualisation, but it takes significant mental effort, and the results are unstable.

You may actually be better at this than I am. Describing my results as "unstable" would charitable. I also don't get dog breeds, just amorphous and blurry blobs with rorsarch like colors slapped on them.

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

vainglorious,

Wow, now there's a word you don't see very often!

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

Like, bruh, I’m a dude, but I’d rather see a bear than another man if I was on a solo backpacking trip.

I think you may have a skewed perception of the risks, at least where I live. As someone who is out in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains on a frequent basis I'd much rather wander into another man than a bear. Here in Wyoming Brown Bears, aka Grizzlies, are now mauling or killing multiple people per year during wilderness encounters however I haven't heard of a single random wilderness encounter where a man attacked or killed someone in at least a decade.

If you are hiking somewhere that only has Black Bears than yeah you are statistically safer with the Bear. If you hike here though you are statistically safer with the man.

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

My apologies and I really have nothing further to say. 🙂

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

It's all good, I just "outdoor" in a place with a large and growing number of Brown Bears so sometimes I can't help evangelizing a bit about how dangerous they can be, particularly in the spring and fall. Aside from that I have nothing further to say. 🙂

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

Who is "they"?

As the article notes the largest meat packers are at least somewhat against this and are themselves investing in cell grown meat. The National Cattleman's Association stance on the issue, also noted in the article, boils down to "It's fine, it just needs to be labelled so consumers know what they're getting."

I think the only "they" we can define here are the Florida and Alabama State Legislatures.

If I was a Rancher, and I'm not terribly far removed from that, I wouldn't want cell grown or cultivated meat banned. I'd stand up a production center for it on my ranch right next to my cattle and sell both.

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

Pythagoras wasn't white. 😎

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

It was when it started but that hasn't been accurate for the past two releases.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

How do you, an average American, purchase an anti-worker product created by an adversary government? Simple, you move to China along with the rest of the American CEOs.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

Where as the States with no inspection are impoverished shit holes, I stand by my, ‘no threat’.

You don't live in reality.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

Anti worker. Riiight.

Are you seriously trying to make the claim that a Chinese auto worker is doing as well as a UAW member? If you are I want proof, if not then what are you talking about?

If they’d gotten off their rich asses and developed the tech for cheap, well-built EVs sooner they wouldn’t need Big Brother to run to their aid.

You realize it's "cheap" in China because their Government subsidizes it and the manufacturers abuse their employees, right?

This round, it’s time they did.

I have no love for the American Auto Industry but this idea that BYD or any other Chinese "New Energy" vehicle is competing on anything like a level playing field is ludicrous. They are cheap because they pay their workers like dogshit, they treat their workers like dogshit, they have near zero environmental safety regulations, and they have near zero environmental regulations hell. 2/3rds of their electricity is produced by burning coal!

Lusting after a cheap BYD product just because you despise American Auto Manufacturers is literally cutting of your own nose in order to spite your face.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

US government right now is very heavily subsidizing EVs as well.

What you refer to as "heavily" (~15B across four years) is what China spent per year every year from 2009 through 2022, for a total of 173 Billion dollars. Their latest package, announced last September, will have them spending 73$ Billion across the next four years. Their Government has literally been subsidizing EV production at 3-4 times the rate of the United States for over a decade! Yeah, that's a totally level playing field. No shenanigans there, no Sir.

let’s say double the price.

As the article notes the Seagull, rebadged as a Dolphin Mini, sells for $21,000 in Latin America so you aren't going to get it for $24,000 in the United States and most especially not if it's built here where they can't employ people for 5 USD an hour.

You don't have to like it, or me, but it's completely irrefutable that the 12,000 price is only possible due enormous government subsidies and cheap Chinese labor. Allowing those vehicles into the United States is the end of all domestic auto manufacturing, not just the Big 3, and all of the workers who are employed there. We already watched this play out with Steel, Textiles, and other manufacturing based industries.

Buelldozer , 5 days ago

@Buelldozer is right, he’s just being extra spicy about it.

You're darn right I'm being extra spicy. This is a re-run of what I watched happen with textiles, steel, and other manufacturing businesses here in the United States and especially industries that were heavily unionized with higher labor costs.

It's astonishing to see so many people willing to kill their Domestic Labor just so they can get a cheap car. It's disgustingly short sighted and selfish.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

How could you ever fuck your production cost so much as to get losses like that.

It's because there is a lot of fixed cost being divided into a relatively small number of units. For instance "Ford Blue" is Ford's ICE division and in Q1 it moved about 626,000 units while "Ford Model e" is Ford's EV division and it only moved about 10,000 units in Q1. Source.

So if Ford Blue spends a Billion dollars that's a per vehicle cost of $1,597. If Ford Model e spends a Billion dollars its a per vehicle cost of $100,000.

So what would cost a Billion dollar? Well, how about 3 new battery factories plus an EV assembly factory that cost something like 7 Billion dollars?

That's not nearly all of it either. In May of 2021 Ford said that would spend something like 30 Billion by 2025 (that's next year!) to increase EV production.

So yeah, Ford has spent the GDP of some small countries shifting to EV production and when you divide those very large sums into a very small number of vehicles you get upside down real quick.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

I dont think it would be fair to call that a loss per vehicle then.

It's common to break down the cost of Fixed Asset Investment to per unit produced by the investment. I won't comment on whether it's "fair" or not but it is common and it's how the article arrived at this eye popping "loss per vehicle" number.

Buelldozer , 6 days ago

Seems like they enjoy crying over losses and staying silent over profits.

It's not in the actual report put out by Ford. It's a creation of the Journalist who wrote the article. So you are unhappy with Julian van der Merwe, the author of the article.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

why isn’t more being done to improve security and find the criminals?

It is but Law Enforcement and Healthcare I.T. can't keep up with the growing number of threats and threat actors. From the perspective of someone in Healthcare I.T. I've watched lots of money, time, and effort get spent on securing systems but it's never quite enough and it never happens fast enough.

MFA all the things, HIPS on everything, EDR on everything, Zero Trust everything, regular patching of all systems, High End Firewalls, encrypt all the things, bi-annual security reviews, DNS Filtering, regular network sweeps for unknown or unmanaged equipment...and you can still end up getting whacked by a 0 Day exploit in a commercial helpdesk tool. (This is what got Change / Optum).

The criminals typically belong to overseas hacking groups, many of which are in places that Western Law Enforcement can't reach like Russia, Belarus, China, and North Korea.

It's a nearly impossible challenge and it's never going to end as long as these systems have any path to the public internet.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

Fixing the issue doesn’t line the pockets of investors.

Yeah it does. Cyber Security companies are making tons of money selling things like EDR, High End Firewalls, DNS Filtering, MFA, and so on. Healthcare Institutions are buying the stuff but none of it is enough.

It's the age old race of Arms vs Armorer.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

I completely agree. Lemmy is a global community after all.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

The women got their cars back, this case wasn't about that, but SCOTUS really needs to deal with the "Civil Asset Forfeiture" monster that they created.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

I want a $10000 car that would normally be inflated to $30000 in the US.

You can't make that same car in the United States for anything like the same price. Even ignoring the Chinese Governments heavy subsidies there's still a massive cost gap due to worker compensation, cost of compliance with safety regulations, cost of compliance with environmental regulations, and a whole host of other things.

The cost of manufacturing in the United States is radically higher than it is in China and that simply isn't fixable unless you're going to unwind Union pay deals, remove environmental laws, and reduce safety restrictions.

You cannot have both, so which are you choosing? Are you going to go with your wallet like a self absorbed capitalist or are you going to support union workers, stronger environmental laws, and more worker safety?

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

Every step of the supply chain has a profit margin attached. Sometimes just a few percent, but often double digits.

That's true in China as well. The only difference is in the price of what is being marked up.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

The disconnect has locals fulminating.

What?

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

Something tells me that here in the United States of Greed, such a thing is ‘un-possible’, legally speaking.

It's not only possible it happens reasonably often. So often in fact that the "poison pill" idiom was created by companies who were doing just that.

Here's a Harvard Law paper on it.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

Today you can use an inline "RunAs" command such as "runas /user:Administrator "powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -command Set-Location "$PWD"; .\install.ps1"

Or you could use Gsudo.

Additionally, Sudo will soon be available in Win11.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

I’m glad I don’t live in america

When this law is signed New Hampshire will have stronger child marriage law than Australia and their existing law is roughly equivalent to Australia's. (Basically 18 with controlled exceptions down to a minimum of 16).

Your horse isn't nearly as tall as you are pretending it is.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

Close but no cigar. I'm a Classical Liberal.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

while Trump&Fam look like their doing their best to start a royal family of America

The Trump family is just the newest one to try this. The Kennedy's had the first American Dynasty I can think of, the Clinton's tried, and the Bush Family also tried and somewhat succeeded.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

Bush Sr was head of the CIA, Vice President, then President. One Son became Governor of the 2nd largest State (Texas) and then became a 2 term US President. His other Son went on to become Governor of the 4th largest State (Florida) and may have become President if his older brother hadn't fucked it up quite so badly. The Bush Family was very close to a Kennedy level dynasty.

The Clinton Family tried really hard to get there. Bill was Governor of Arkansas and went on to become a 2 Term President while Hillary went on to become a Senator, Sec of State, and came within a whisker of being President herself. The only thing preventing a further run at "Dynasty" is that, at least so far, Chelsea isn't showing any interest in politics.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

Frankly, I never understood why businesses were invested in the office suite anyway.

When MS Office really took off back in the Office 97 days there weren't any good alternatives and now MS Office is so embedded that it's almost impossible to dislodge.

Buelldozer , 11 days ago

Home Theater PC.

Buelldozer , 11 days ago

You have to use your internet-facing programs in a VM in Windows to achieve the same effect

Eh, there's 20 different ways to detect DHCP Option 121 fuckery and once you know it's happening its fairly trivial to stop. Any VPN client worth its salt will be updated in 60 days or less to fix this and existing VPN clients can be hardened against TunnelVision with some fairly simple scripting.

It's a serious vulnerability but it's hardly the unfixable world ender that the media has made it out to be.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

What are the missing pieces you’re still looking for?

The addition of JF or Plex, even with a Steam Dock, doesn't turn a Steam Deck into a user customizable, privacy respecting Xbox.

For starters it needs integrated streaming apps. I don't WANT to have to use a web browser to access streaming content. Next up those streaming apps need Audio and Video support for 4K resolutions, Dolby Vision / HDR, and Dolby Atmos. My Wife doesn't want to watch Outlander in 1080p with stereo sound on a 65" 4k television and I don't want to do it when I'm watching shows on Disney Plus.

How about an HDMI 3.x port? (Steam Dock is only 2.x).

It needs support for a normal tv style remote control. Game controllers are great but I've yet to find a half decent one that has volume and mute buttons.

The last time I checked a Steam Deck wouldn't automatically start in a 10' interface.

Please understand that I'm not bagging on the Steam Deck with these comments. It's a damn capable device for mobile gaming but it wasn't mean to be an HTPC and because of that its never going to function quite right if you try and make it be one.

An Xbox Series X absolutely murders a Steam Deck as an HTPC when used with commercial services but its not user customizable nor privacy respecting. That's why I want Valve to bring back Steam Machines.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

4K, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos to start with. Then it needs an HDMI 3.x port along with support for a regular TV style Remote.

I meant it when I said I would like a "user customizable, privacy respecting Xbox.", so basically any capability that an Xbox has (aside from Live obviously) is what I'm looking for and why I want Valve to officially bring back Steam Machines.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

I know you are making a funny comment but my Wife would be exceptionally displeased if I did that while she was watching "Outlander". People who live alone don't have this concern but for the rest of us a TV and it's attached streaming box are not single user devices. :)

Buelldozer , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

I don't know if there's any pre-built scripting out there (yet) for this but it's relatively straight forward in Windows to use powershell and either look in the registry for the assigned dhcp options ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dhcp\Parameters\Options) or check the routing table for illogical routes.

Assuming that you aren't using split tunneling you could also have powershell check your external IP address for the expected result.

Another possibility is to grab the dhcp test tool from Github, run it in non-interactive mode and then parse it's output. Something I find VERY interesting is that Andrey Baranov specifically added Option 121 to that tool in March of 2023!

With any of those it's a matter of what you want to have happen when you detect the problem such as warning the user and disconnecting the vpn or attempting to mitigate the problem by reconfiguring the routing table.

I should point out that Option 121 is a legit thing and it does have valid uses so you can't assume something nefarious just because it's being used.

I'll probably be scripting up a remediation over the next few days, I'll try and remember to come back and share what I did.

Buelldozer , 9 days ago

I wouldn’t expect HDMI 3 given the HDMI group are openly hostile to open source implementations of HDMI 2.1.

It just takes a company with sufficient market power, like Valve, to get involved. For example Android had this same problem in the early days, then Google realized that their OS required it for market adoption and found a way to get it done.

I understand that it may not be possible but that doesn't stop me from wanting it. :)

Buelldozer , 11 days ago

Why is everyone in here discussing "oil" when the article is talking about oil refining.

Russia was / is a big player in the refined petroleum market and exported a LOT of Diesel, Gasoline, Kerosene and other petroleum distillates.

This distinction is important because oil refineries are multi-billion dollar multi-year projects, they are not built quickly or easily. Most of the world is also refinery constrained, meaning that their existing refineries are already working at or near capacity.

Here's the capacity utilization data for the United States. As you can see the US has very little slack in its refinery capability so any dip in the ability to import refined petroleum products will, and does, lead to sharp price rises.

So yes, Ukraine blowing up an oil refinery in Russia will absolutely cause global price hikes for refined petroleum products...and I fully support them doing it.

tl;dr Y'all are discussing the wrong thing and "oil" is absolutely not a synonym for the refined petroleum products that come of out of an oil refinery.

Buelldozer , 10 days ago

America is a NET EXPORTER of oil.

Big whoop. The article isn't talking about oil production and it isn't "oil" that matters; it's what that oil is refined into that matters and the US doesn't have the capacity to create much more in the way of refined products like Diesel, Gasoline, Kerosene, etc than it already does. In fact we've been importing a LOT of refined petroleum for years now to make up for our lack of refining capacity and pre-invasion much of it was imported from Russia itself!

So when Russian oil refineries suddenly explode and those refined petroleum products are no longer available on the world market the prices go up. This is exactly how you can end up with low oil prices but high gasoline prices. If Russia can't refine the oil they'll try and dump it on the market for whatever price they can get but that low cost oil is headed into a refinery system that's already working at capacity and can't make anything more than it already does.

Buelldozer , 11 days ago

Western media openly admits that US isn’t able to keep up with ammunition production for Ukraine.

Yes, but that only applies to artillery shells and there's a very good reason.

Try keep up with the real world.

I do, which is why I know that things like JDAMS are entirely unconstrained. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of them lying around.