empireOfLove2

@ empireOfLove2 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A Reddit Refugee. Zero ragrets.
Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels
moved here from lemmy.one because there are no active admins on that instance.

3w ago

Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch
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empireOfLove2 @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago
Can't get manufacturing sites. They are all parts bin contract manufactured from lowest bidder garbage in China as cheap as possible. Warehousing tho

3w ago

Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector

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empireOfLove2 @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago

Xfinity is absolutely collecting (and probably selling) data on the traffic of every device on your network.

They're doing that anyway via the modem. Unless you are tunnelling everything your ISP sees every byte you send.

This past weekend.

A wildfire started up a few miles from my parents house in the western US. Winds were fairly high and it was well above 95F, so in a day and a half it went from a sprig of smoke to 10,000 acres fuelling its own weather.

I have spent the entire weekend helping them prep their property under some extreme stress. We ripped out every bit of brush and weed from the house perimeter, cut down 6 trees that were too close, ran a tractor with a disk to start building ground fire lines around the base of their hill, and ran as many water sprinklers on the lawn and surrounding terrain and trees as we could to improve their ability to resist ignition. And on top of that have gotten them packed and their livestock and farm equipment all moved to pastures well out of the treeline.All of this while the sun was completely obscured by smoke, to the point where I had the lights on the tractor. Hell, we could HEAR the fire from their house. It was like a jet engine was running just over the west ridge. You could see tree crowns torching 150+ feet in the air.

I've probably worked like 45+ hours in the last 4 days. I'm so tired dude.

Luckily, whether by sheer happenstance or force of a god unknowing, the wind has held in the right direction and the fire front facing their house has been very mild since Saturday night, and wildfire crews have had a chance to build dozer containment lines there. We're still on a hair trigger but we are cautiously optimistic they're going to make it through without any of their land burning.

Fuck global warming dude