slicktux

Agreed, Everyone seems to shun the DIY hacker now a days; saying things like “I’ll just pay for it”. It’s not about just NOT paying for it but doing it yourself and learning how to do it so that you can pass the knowledge on and someone else can do it.

I will give it a listen! :)

I’m curious; what database are they using? Or does Flock allow queries to their database?

I watched a documentary a while back on the Salton Sea. It touched on the local residents that live in the area and how the dust affected the children. There were even plans of tapping into Mexico’s Laguna Salada to help keep the Salton Sea from drying up.

Although it’s not a natural sea and its full of chemicals from agricultural run off the residents that live in the area are suffering from the dust and fears of great dust clouds plumbing and going west to San Diego were also insensitives from keeping the hazardous Salton Sea from drying up.

Beautiful place to visit…just not during summer when it smells from all the Dead Sea life.

Maybe I’m too stupid to understand this sentence: “ A stupid man is born a stupid man by an act of Providence.”

How is being born stupid and act of providence? How can parents willingly have the foresight to spawn a stupid person? Isn’t it rather the lack of providence by the parents?

Lorenz Equations and Chua Circuits probed with an analog oscilloscope is mesmerizing! Great videos of a Chua Circuit being probed with an analog scope… Also, plugging the circuit to a speaker via AUX port gives white noise ;)

It’s a process to come into a high radiation area, as well as, a process to come out; I’m sure the worker was not injured so they processed he/she out and decontaminated the individual and did a whole body count. Then release him to medical for evaluation…which in itself is a process.

I’ve heard of people falling into the spent fuel pool but never the reactor pool. Usually there are strict FME barriers in place and one cannot even look over into the pool without violating the FME. I wonder what led to the event? Definitely an OSHA recordable!

The difference is there’s two options; to scan and bag your own stuff or go to a human(s) that can scan and bag your stuff. If the former catches on then we/you will be doing the “menial job” of bagging and scanning our own stuff all the time… and then some self checkout attendant will have the “menial job” of supervising the checkout and resetting it when it errors out.

Probably OPs’ version of watermark..?

Being that it’s an SSD it’s already encrypting by default. You just have to set the User and Admin password and you’ll have full disk encryption!

You can set HDD/SSD password via the BIOS/UEFI or (my preferred method) using HDPARM —SECURITY commands.

Then if you take the drive out you can unlock it from another computer so as long as you plug it in directly and the UEFI supports HDD/SSD unlocking during post; if not you can install a Pre-Boot authentication on the drive that runs Linux to unlock the drive and then once unlocked it with the PBA it re-boots and it works as a normal un-encrypted drive.

Look into HDPARM and OPAL standard for full disk encryption.

You can disable the RFID by manipulating the right bits in the ECU’s anti-theft EEPROM. Something that’s done with imported engines from Japan for sports car engine swap; they usually come with wire harnesses and ECU but no key. I know how its done for the imported 3SGTE engine ECU… I’m sure it’s not too different for the 2013 4Runner. Though, Toyota makes some newer ECUs nearly impossible to open without damaging the circuit board and anti-theft bypass requires physical access to the EEPROM.

Edit: RFID should not need battery…you can reprogram your own key by jumpering the correct OBD2 pins..process takes about 20 minutes…

I use KDE but I setup my desktop with two panels…the default launcher panel on the bottom and I add an extra panel atop with the clock and icons for applications I use the most.

Does that title seem like a cluster to anyone else? I tried rewording it in my head but only came up with a slightly better solution: “Man develops rare condition after cutting consumption of salt do to a ChatGPT query”.

I recall being on a road trip and was at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains; was getting ready to camp at a random camp site and noticed a sign warning or squirrels that carry bubonic plague via fleas… Scary..

“The gray race shrivels trapped inside the world it creates it's black and white” -Bad Religion The Gray Race

I recall years ago reading a research paper on WiFi signals being used to track people through wall using MIMO…then American Express investing in the technology and now this…

You can load the IPhone’s pictures on Linux using the folders namespace and then rsync from the loaded namespace to /local…

I’d prefer a meme of Wilfred The Dog JD Vance…the bald one is creepy!

It’s nice to see what a little bitwise manipulation can do(XOR)! Low level programming is always fun!

Awesome technology! Nice to see Dead Reckoning being used with computer vision and offline maps! Something college students have been doing in robotics competitions here in the USA ;)

Great wiki page! It even mentions Boltzmann Brains! “ This infinite future could allow for the occurrence of massively improbable events, such as the formation of Boltzmann brains.”

Simple and elegant!

It’s pretty amazing to know that the golden necklace around my neck came from the tremendous force of a star dying!

Mexico is just a small portion of Latin America; A few places I can think of is Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil which have huge stockyards…

Electrical schematics can be represented with linear algebra and Boolean logic… Maybe their being able to “understand” such schematics is just a matter of them becoming better at mathematical logic…which is pretty objective.

That’s even worse! :)

Time to switch back to my Casio F91W

I recall having Facebook and always had that feeling the algorithm was messing with me and my posts… Come to find out a few years later it was exposed that Facebook was conducting mass social experiments to users and their comments and posts. Shadow banning and I just never liked the feed…it was not organic.

I think the whole teaching the history of computers is a big failure at an attempt to Segway into computer organization and architecture. Nonetheless, I get what is happening. If it’s a pure Computer programming class then the goal maybe to have them understand the “basics”…like what is the hard drive vs RAM (memory allocation) or what is a transistor (Boolean logic) and what is a punch card (mnemonics and abstractions of those mnemonics to what is now just a computer programming language).