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bluGill

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  • Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

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  • I wonder how each of us would do with the same 20k seed money? I'm sure some of us know something about managing a coffee shop and would do okay - but a lot of us don't know much about it and would make a lot of stupid mistakes as well.

  • Why They Don’t Want You Driving a Chinese Car

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  • Having used some lockpicks, unless you have the best locks those deadbolts won't stop anyone. The worst I can pick faster than I could get the correct key into the lock (I only have 3 keys on my keyring) - and I'm not even any good at picking locks. The medium quality will stop me, but again I'm not good, it won't stop anyone who has put in any practice...

    I've also been in construction long enough to know there are faster ways into a house than through the doors if I'm trying to be dishonest. Fortunately most people are honest.

  • 'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education

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  • The real problem is finding something better. I want researchers who research and publish.

  • Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz

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  • They already cut the internet out off for themselves except a few elites. So they don't care.

  • What are your thoughts on internet trolling

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  • Someone who disagrees with you is like trolling, but even worse.

  • Would you actually have to go back to high school?

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  • My cousin did. He was on track to graduate until he was in the hospital for a month. They let him graduate with his class but he had to go back for a few months to retake the classes that he failed for that reason before he got his diploma.

    Other than that weirdness though it unlikely.

  • New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB

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  • It isn't that key - most backups do work. Backup program creators test that everything works. and there are consultants who can help restore - for a price - in an emergency.

    However if you want to restore fast you better have tested the process recently - all the staff needs to have experience in what to do.

    If you want to be 100% sure you got everything backed up you need to do a real test as well. That means you regularly tell everyone no working this weekend, leave your computer behind - when you return it will be wiped to factory and restored from backup. I don't think anyone does this.

  • What happens when Reddit actually dies/ start being 90% bots?

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  • fair. Though that seems like it will shutdown the fediverse. Either because you can only connect if you personally know someone to get you an account (that is chain of trust - because we have proven to validate our users we will federate), or because their are no instances.

  • New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB

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  • Overwritten is fine when that is intentional. But the best backups do include media that is completely offline and so if there is an issue you can restore to fresh/new uncompromised systems.

    ZFS snapshots are great for this - so far they have not been attacked and when they work they give you what the file was before. (you still should have an offline copy of everything stored in a different campus)

  • What happens when Reddit actually dies/ start being 90% bots?

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  • The fediverse is no better. Well it is, but only because most of the bots haven't discovered it yet. If/when the fediverse takes off the bots will be right there.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • Wheel bearings are generally sealed and so last well. Brakes tend to be easier to access and so don't last - but it doesn't matter because they typically wear enough before salt/dirt gets them that they will be replaced as part of normal maintenance.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • that is what I was trying to say, but perhaps I didn't write well.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • 1970s/early 80s. The master cylinder has two chambers, though they are connected.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • Most of your gain is at higher speeds, to just leave it in gear with foot off the pedal until the engine is at idle speeds makes a big difference and doesn't wear the clutch.

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  • I have a history of keeping my cars for about 10 years. However the EV is only saving me money because I was going to replace the previous anyway, and so either way I'd have similar payments, but with the EV my fuel bill is down. You have to drive vastly more miles than average to save money with an EV - in that case charging will be an issue (either you know all the fast chargers on the way - and also factor in the loss of battery life from regular fast charging, or you should be driving a diesel)

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • Redundancy, warnings, and inspections. You should have two different brake systems, traditionally the "parking brake" is a cable. Your hydraulic brakes are two different systems, one for the front, one for the back - if one fails you should have the others (at least a few times until you lose all fluid - enough to stop once). Your brakes also are designed to make noise when the common wear parts get worn, and that is a good time for a tech to inspect the rest of the system.

  • New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB

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  • Once again tested backups are the answer. I left the backup software industry many years ago, and I don't miss at all hearing customer crying because the new software they just bought can't restore the losses from before they had it.

  • Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering

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  • I have not seen such a setting. Thanks for the tip, I will look

  • Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering

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  • My car has Android automotive. If you're driving 8 hours a day, it's better than what you have in your Android or Apple phone. Everything's right there and it integrates very nicely with the car. However, like most people, you're only driving for a little bit to work and then your car just sits there. It's not worth it. Your phone already has everything you want on it and you just want your phone to connect and do things. I hate that in my car if I say hey Google my car jumps in sorry you need a subscription- my phone already has my subscription I don't want a second one. If I remember I can turn on the Wi-Fi on my hotspot on my phone, but why bother? I don't even want my car to respond here. I just want my phone which is right there and already can respond and do everything. Part of this is another well deserved rant against GM for not putting Android Auto on their cars. That's something that other manufacturers do and I suppose in that case it actually would work well. I don't know.