As a non-mechanic that watches various channels working on vehicle sin various states of use and repair… It seems that half of vehicle work seems to require hammers, and the other half a hammer should never be near. And knowing the difference is a mystical art form.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.English
14·4 days agoPretty sure they’re talking about the body cams, not the scanner.
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Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGEEnglish
13·4 days agoQuestion is does he go back to South Africa? Or Canada? Since he has citizenship there and that’s how he made it into the US.
Who’s problem do we make it?
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Technology@lemmy.world•TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in JapanEnglish
12·5 days agoOh they want to… There are quite a few chip fabs around the world… there are very few that can manufacture at this size, along the bleeding edge of the numerous technologies necessary to do so.
Having the knowledge required to build the fab, the actual hardware required to manufacture them, and the skilled personnel to operate it all are hard to do. This is not something that you can toss together in a cave from scraps like Iron Man.
And a lot of that is by design with companies and governments trying to guarantee sovereignty by tightly controlling where these can be manufactured. The idea that enemies are less likely to try to take over/colonize a smaller country (like Taiwan) if the global chip manufacturing apparatus can be destroyed in minutes to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
20+ years in various customer facing roles has shown me that customers rarely know what they’re talking about. And they are not capable of reading either. The size of any sign is inversely proportional to their ability to even notice it exists.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI controls is coming to FirefoxEnglish
7·7 days agoDon’t forget adding additional surface area for security vulnerabilities. Does the off switch prevent a zero day attack via that code? Of course not.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private CompanyEnglish
43·7 days agoHA!
You should look into where the Nazi rocket scientists went after WW2 and how few of them saw any form of punishment for their involvement.
And that doesn’t even take into account the pseudo-Nazis running the current US government, which is certainly what the other poster was talking about.
Nazis and NASA are like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I’ve had several NDAs that also cover disclosure of the other party. And those weren’t even for proper “work” as you’d generally define it.
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Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t MatterEnglish
15·9 days agoHonestly with all the ketamine… Probably.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!English
6·9 days agoAnd build up like that is why you should limit artificial insecticides like that around your house as well. That build up happens to each animal up the food chain. Bug gets 1 insecticide, but the lizard eats a bunch of bugs. Lizard now has 100 insecticides, and gets eaten by a snake. Snake eats a dozen lizards, now we’re at 1200 insecticide. Owl eats a dozen snakes, 24000 insecticide in the owl.
Obviously this is simplified, but it gets the point across.
Every time Mythical Chef Josh decides to regale everyone with a story from his childhood.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•No low ballers, I know what I haveEnglish
13·10 days agoYeah, but a specific type that we know doesn’t kill us.
Can’t say the same about that pizza.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunchEnglish
5·12 days agoThe same way any vehicle doesn’t let people just drive off… a key. Either in the form of a key fob/key card… Or a phone key paired to the vehicle.
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Technology@lemmy.world•“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trialEnglish
623·12 days agoNot sure if you’re trying to argue that modern social media is a good thing… Because it really isn’t. All of these platforms are actively detrimental to our mental health and destabilizing society. All of them have their billionaire owners manipulating the algorithms to maximize what they want you to see and minimize opposing views, if not outright removing them (like Meta is doing with the ICE List currently).
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunchEnglish
173·12 days agoTo be honest, coming from a near-launch Tesla Model 3 into the current EV market… most alternatives available in the US suck for various reasons.
I had a Polestar 3, which was great, until the AC was inconsistent on the Driver side. Only had it for 45 days before it was in for Service at Volvo 150 miles away… And has been there since last April. Still paying on it every month and having to maintain insurance… I’m still trying to get it returned as a lemon via lawyers now nearly 9 months later. In the interim I went through several Volvo, Kia, Mercedes, and Hyundai EV rentals, and talking to a coworker who has an EV Mustang. All of them felt like EV afterthoughts made just so they could say they have EV options.
The American brands almost exclusively use the same base vehicles and even interiors as their non-EV options and thus there are arbitrary things that just don’t need to be there and make it feel like they’re just making a car to say they have one (which is exactly what they’re doing).
For instance, my biggest pet peeve is having a Start/Stop button as if the thing still had an engine. There’s no need to have it since the cars are on all the time anyway. Its just an unnecessary step both when getting in and leaving the car. And it artificially prevents you from interacting with the vehicle like rolling down windows or the roof cover while it’s “off”. It’s small, but just shows it wasn’t designed to be an EV, they just took the same shit from before and dropped an EV powertrain in and called it a day.
Several brands also use the same outsourced platform like GM’s Ultima platform. So every one of those vehicles feels the same regardless of the brand it’s under, or the slightly different exteriors. The interiors are nearly identical and use GM parts regardless of brand. The Honda Prologue that I got after my Model 3 while waiting to see about new offerings in a few years, doesn’t feel like a Honda at all. It drives and feels like a Chevy Blazer. Because it is.
The only EVs I’ve driven that actually felt like they took advantage of being an EV were from EV companies, no legacy automakers. Tesla, Polestar, Lucid, Rivian. Everyone else the vehicle felt like an afterthought, especially after driving a Tesla for nearly 5 years, and those were often at 1.5-2x the cost for fewer bells and whistles. My current Prologue purchased before the EV credits went away was almost the same cost as my Model 3 back in 2018, and it’s nowhere near the same quality or capability. And that’s saying something if you know Tesla quality.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Neocities deindexed from BingEnglish
381·13 days agoIt’s not about no plugin support… It’s about Chroma and Manifest V3 crippling adblocking plugin capabilities.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and ThreadsEnglish
12·13 days agoI wonder if they’ll love spamming the Epstein and ICE links now that the USA monitors and censors those.
Yes. They will. Because it’s not about who the aggressor is. If you aren’t able to figure that out, then you really should look at getting a better real world education and not just sitting in your mom’s basement, or propaganda mill, it’s hard to tell the difference nowadays. The neck eards keep regurgitating the same talking points the astroturfing farm drones do.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and ThreadsEnglish
1292·13 days agoA friendly reminder that the act of doxxing is not illegal. Neither is collating information. Nothing ICE List does is illegal.
It’s just a fundamental threat to the current administration and the billionaire class.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy FlawEnglish
441·17 days agoExposing? Microsoft has made it very clear for a while that your Bitlocker keys are synced to your Microsoft account.
Hell, they even have a support page for it. Most of their support pages are nearly useless, but this one is even readable by a normal person.
And before someone mentions the part about Microsoft Support not having access to keys (because some smart ass always does for this stuff)… Just think for a second. Of course customer support doesn’t have access to the keys. What Support can do is not a limit for legal disclosure. A legal warrant (like used here) means they’ll give any info they have in a heartbeat.
Large vehicle suspension components scare the living hell out of me. Seen too many videos online.