BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why do people say more people didnt vote for trump than did? 1 day ago:
I don’t think most adults have that capacity, but doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
- Comment on Why do people say more people didnt vote for trump than did? 1 day ago:
As George Carlin once said, imagine the average American, then realize half of them are stupider than that.
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 3 days ago:
If someone annoys you by being happy all the time, you may want to reevaluate your life.
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 3 days ago:
Smile all the time and then people can’t tell. Plus people will find you more friendly.
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 4 days ago:
Tsunami sirens are a thing in places near where I live.
Theres also a siren for the volunteer fire department about an hour away from where I live because it’s a small lake community that has poor cellphone coverage.
- Comment on What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS? 5 days ago:
Anything over about 90 feels great to me, and I can’t even notice the difference between 144 and 240.
- Comment on Meaning/implication of “you don’t have to do this” in this context? 1 week ago:
The implication is that they’re not into small talk.
You can choose to continue the small talk and they will probably continue responding, but they are letting you know that they’re not really into it.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 1 week ago:
I honestly haven’t considered that one, definitely more likely to be followed, but I suspect Panama would likely sabotage it before letting it fall into US hands at this point.
Any sort of physical aggression would probably be unpopular with US citizens again because there’s no provocation from Panama, US ships use it all the time so there’s really no reason to take it by force. Once there are losses of military men and women in fighting over it it would likely quickly turn it into a deeply unpopular situation.
There are militarily strategic reasons to take Panama though, which is why the generals may still agree. If trump were to declare some sort of semi-war on China for example and the goal was to reduce Chinese global shipping capacity.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 1 week ago:
I honestly suspect that if Trump were to order an invasion of Canada, the military would refuse.
There’s far too much goodwill among the military and populace to invade Canada without some sort of provocation happening first. It would likely just be taken as an unlawful order and refused.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
The first argument is a non-starter, professions have come and gone for all of human history. Where did all the people who raised and trained horses go when cars came out? Where did all the people go who made buggies and coaches? What about people who lost their jobs to construction equipment like excavators? What about switchboard operators at telephone companies?
The economy will re-organize itself to adapt to the newly available labour. Don’t get me wrong, individuals are going to be absolutely devastated by this, but not replacing someone who’s doing a job that can be automated is no different than having them dig a ditch and fill it back in. It’s never a good idea to hold back technology just to keep jobs around. This path leads to the Amish.
Liability for accidents has already been sorted out for 100% autonomous cars, it’s the vehicle manufacturer’s fault. For most of the current ones on the road, they are modified existing vehicles, so the manufacturer would be said to be the self-driving company (like Waymo) though once the software is built in from the factory it will be on Ford or Nissan or whatever likely in partnership with a software vendor. They may insure themselves, but likely only against catastrophic situations rather than day-to-day accidents.
They are definitely considering cyberattacks.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
The benefit to self-driving cars is self-evident though. There’s no argument that they wouldn’t be better than human drivers in theory. Not only for safety, but for traffic, parking, cost, etc.
The only thing holding them back a this point is refinement. They have already proven that in at least three cities, they are mile for mile safer than human driven vehicles.
Waymo has gone from 1 city, to 3, to now pushing out to 11 in a few years. I wouldn’t be surprised if it doubled 5 times again in the next 10 years. That would put it in just under 200 cities by 2035.
The first iPhone only sold a million units in the first year, but two years later there were 25 million iPhones and they hit the 200 million mark by year 5.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Your example about Netflix proved my point. Naysayers said it wouldn’t work, but they are now the leader.
I’m happy to wait and see, I fully expect them to arrive in my city in the next decade.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
You’ve cast double on my links, but you’re clearly too young to actually remember these things happening. I’m not. I do remember lots of people laughing and dismissing all three as never going to be for normal consumers (I’m not old enough to remember them laughing at cars)
You’re also clearly not paying attention to this industry if you think Tesla is a leader. You’ve only caught what made the news in the UK.
Waymo is far and away the leader, having hundreds of cars driving around daily with nobody behind the steering wheel.
Mobileye(NA and Europe) and Baidu(China) are also actively driving around without drivers in certain places.
The only place Tesla has them fully autonomous is in the factory as far as I know.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Then the gang is going to have to take out both the self-driving car company AND the cellphone company at the same time. It’s not just one getting the data, and again it’s going to get noticed immediately if cars start going missing and data is being blocked. They may get ahold of a few dozen cars if they try to do it quickly, but they won’t get even hundreds.
The battery may worth something, but it’s a lot of effort to steal a car just to get a $15k battery. Criminal gangs aren’t stealing 5 year old Kia Niros for resale across the globe, they generally target vehicles worth 3-10x that much.
There’s no “source code” for self driving cars in the sense that a video game has source code. The cars have some normal code yes, but the self-driving portion is a trained machine learning model that is essentially a black box. It takes millions of compute hours on high end graphics cards along with millions of hours of driving data to generate a new version of that model. Stealing the existing driving model still won’t make it work in West Africa or the Middle East. Stealing the training data wouldn’t help get it driving there either, they’d have to collect millions of hours of local training data for each destination.
It would be easier for these gangs to start their own self-driving company.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say you’re not in North America. I don’t think there’s anywhere you can buy land for $5k in a city around here. This changes things unfortunately,
For smaller values of land you want it to be more of an impulse purchase rather than logical one.
If you’re in a country where $15k is a substantial sum of money, then this simply won’t work.
If you want this to work you need customers who won’t even bother comparing it to other properties, you need to make it easy for them to see way more than $15k of value for their life (camping, relaxing, sporting, etc.) and make it REALLY easy for them to buy.
Scam or not, you should at the Timeshare industry as an example of how this is normally done.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
I remember them saying the latter three myself…
So yes they did.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/92539357.cms
The CEO of Microsoft laughed at Apple when they released the iPhone saying people wouldn’t use it because it was too expensive and didn’t have a keyboard.
newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva… 1985 article from Newsweek called “Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana”
These are just two easily locatable links, I personally remember people saying these things wouldn’t catch on.
I also remember people saying 3D TVs would catch on, and they clearly didn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Are you going to get 3 times the current price of the land consistently doing this? Probably not.
Can it increase the price a little bit? Yes.
A lot of it will come down to who can buy the land, if it’s just random $10k properties in the woods, you may be able to land some random customers who will pay $30k because you brought it to their attention.
If it’s $200k properties you’re trying to flip for $600k, it’s very unlikely to ever happen.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Cutting the wires will work, but it’s already recorded it’s location and transmitted that data by the point you get to that point.
There’s no way that the self-driving car companies won’t require regular check ins on the network to function in self-driving mode. You can’t even play many single player video games these days without an internet connection.
Essentially it won’t be a self-driving car once you’ve stolen it, and it may not even be a regular car either because some of the proposed models don’t even have steering wheels or pedals. Even if you did crack the software, it’s not going to be loaded with any sort of relevant self-driving functionality for <insert 3rd world country where they don’t check vehicle registration here>, it won’t have maps, it won’t be trained on the local signs, traffic lights, road markings, etc. it may not even operate on the correct side of the road.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Why would the onboard software ever allow (or even support the ability) to disable connectivity?
The tracking doesn’t even need to happen on the vehicle itself, given that they’re likely to use cellular connections the tracking from the cell company can locate it.
My point is that there’s no benefit to stealing a self-driving car over a regular car, so why would these gangs switch? None of the self-driving features will work when it can’t connect to the network, and none of the extra parts have any sort of resale value separate from their intended use. They may as well continue stealing regular cars.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
People said the same thing about cars taking over for horses.
People said the same thing about computers.
People said the same thing about the internet.
People said the same thing about cell phones.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
The Stuxnet worm was created by the US government likely with hundreds of people working on it for half a decade or more, not some random hacker group.
There are ways to protect self cars, giving them a command to drive somewhere isn’t inherently dangerous. The commands to send them to a destination will not be able to control HOW the car gets there, that will all be done locally on the vehicle self-driving software. It won’t be possible to tell the car “go drive into this building” since the driving software simply won’t allow for such a request remotely.
The most impactful thing that hackers could do is tell all the vehicles to pull over and stop where they are, which would cause problems of course, but it’s hardly the end of the world. Essentially a form of DDOS attack on cars, but it would be detected almost instantly and likely the vehicles with occupants could just override it locally.
What exactly is a hacker group going to do with a fleet of cars that can certainly still be located by the corporation that owns them since they’re literally connected to cellphone (and probably satellite these days) networks all the time. There’s not that much value for a hacker in obtaining a self-driving car that can’t drive by itself because it’s not connected to it’s network. The resale value for the fancy sensors and chips inside them is pretty much zero.
Again if people want unattended cars they can do this a lot easier than hacking a massive corporation to get access to them.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Your government passed a law last year to allow it starting in 2026
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
There’s a difference between grabbing data, and controlling physical systems.
Hackers are not regularly taking over power plants or shutting down manufacturing robots.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
We’re already in a place with self-driving cars. They are operating as taxis in a half dozen cities in North America already and Waymo is expanding to like 12 cities total in the next year.
It won’t happen overnight, but the aren’t science fiction at this point, it’s just refinements.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Either with their own smaller delivery robot, or buildings will get dedicated delivery robots inside that can receive packages and take them up to particular apartments.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
You vastly overestimate hackers abilities.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
You say unsupervised, but they have as many cameras and sensors on them than your average military drone at this point. They can (and will) transmit this data live if they detect negative interactions.
It’s not like people don’t have unsupervised access to cars without people in them right now. People park and leave their cars alone all the time.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 1 week ago:
If you spend enough money you probably could.
Probably on the order of $10k-100k.
For example if you rent enough billboards across the country to make the national news, or do some other such stunt.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Self driving car companies benefit from more total units on the road compared to limiting service and charging more. It will only take one of the companies selling outright to customers for the entire industry to be forced to drop prices.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
These apps will die slowly until the companies can switch to self driving electric cars.
Once they become common/cheap enough that a pizza place can afford one or two self driving cars doing delivery the prices on these things will absolutely crash.
For pizza, I wouldn’t be surprised if it went a step further and the pizza was made and cooked by a robot inside the vehicle while it drives around. Only needing to go restock and recharge every few hours.
Not needing a retail location or almost any staff would make the whole thing super cheap to operate.
In the meantime fuck all food delivery.