Buelldozer
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- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 days ago:
I believe it’s a pump-n-dump ahead of the earnings call on April 23rd. Those results are not going to be good and I expect that that the big investors who are driving this will start selling off next week to cash in.
- Comment on Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 5 days ago:
Tesla employee or not they’re almost certainly correct, the barriers to entry in the automobile market are very high. Tesla made it, barely, through leveraging enormous amounts of Venture Capital. BYD made it by using even more enormous amounts of Government Funding and Venture Capital and those were both done in areas that already had stupendously high levels of ICE auto manufacturing.
Mexico has none of that and they’re competing with all of the established players. I wish them success but it’s extremely unlikely that they will succeed.
- Comment on Cybertruck Crashes in Light Snow as Driver Shouts "NOT AGAIN!" 1 week ago:
Yup, this is 100% a driver created problem. I know that Tesla and the CT are hated right now but the CT easily has the ability to pull that trailer on that trail it’s just that the driver doesn’t know WTF they’re doing.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 1 week ago:
May I ask the name of this place? I’d like to pull it up on Google Maps and have a look at the layout.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 week ago:
The game may be old but that doesn’t mean a particular person has played it before.
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 Can Now Be Hacked with Just a USB Flash Drive 1 week ago:
You can already rip 360 games.
Using a PC you just need to make a .iso of the disk using whatever method or software you prefer.
You can also do it with an umodded 360 console.
The trick isn’t ripping the games, it’s playing them.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 4 weeks ago:
Just Stellantis doing Stellantis things.
- Comment on Star Wars: Kathleen Kennedy Expected to Retire from Lucasfilm 4 weeks ago:
Probably some big announcement coming in April where it would be obvious she’s leaving.
- Comment on Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems 1 month ago:
I pre ordered Star Trek Voyager Elite Force
Sheeet. I had thousands of hours into ST:EF. Even clanned up for that one. Fraggers United!
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 2 months ago:
You do still have to pass the General Exam but on his personal page he said that he did both the General and Amateur Extra at the same testing session so I counted them as one…but he did in fact have to pass two.
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 2 months ago:
Everyone in the Amateur Radio community knows that the FCC is fed up with people using frequencies that they don’t have legal access to and as a result they’ve been issuing increasingly harsh penalties over the past few years.
As for whether he was “doing it in good faith”, well, I question that. The guy was trying to get firefighters to protect his radio repeater site and one of the repeaters located there was for his own business. He had a personal financial interest in getting a fire team over there.
I’m an Amateur Radio operator myself and I have limited sympathy for the situation this guy put himself in. The proper course of action was to leave the wildfire area and come back when it was over, not keep making illegal radio transmissions trying to get firefighters to come over and save his property.
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 2 months ago:
He wasn’t told not to, either!
First and most importantly Mr Frawley holds an “Amateur Extra” license from the FCC. That license class VERY CLEARLY doesn’t allow the license holder to transmit on 151.145 MHz. A person literally has to pass a proctored exam proving that they know this and on that part of the exam there are no trick questions.
Second and equally critical to your comment the fire operations section chief left the scene of the fire, drove to the airstrip and told Frawley to cease operations on the frequency. He got personally and directly told to STFU and obey the law, taking a section chief away from an active firezone.
The guy isn’t some n00b; he’s been licensed for a long time and well knew that what he was doing wasn’t allowed.
Looking at the guys profile page and the article it seems clear that he did this because there were two radio repeaters under threat from the fire, one Amateur VHF and the other his own business band repeater. He had a personal financial interest in trying to get firefighting efforts redirected to protect his property.
Everyone in the Amateur community knows that the FCC will rain breaks on you for doing stuff like this so as an Amateur myself I have very limited sympathy for the predicament that this idiot put himself in.
- Comment on Hacking Rooftop Solar Is a Way to Break Europe’s Power Grid 3 months ago:
How do you have a SmartGrid if the nodes aren’t able to communicate with each other or log data?
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 3 months ago:
YouTube…that reminds of a conversation I had here on Lemmy a few months. The subject of right wing political content on YouTube came up and I had the same “I don’t encounter that” comment that I just made in regards to Mastadon.
After a bit of back and forth I realized that I don’t engage with political content of any type on YT so the algorithm doesn’t push it at me. It seems that YT, and probably other Social Media algorithms, don’t do a good job of classifying political content as to its lean. So once you start engaging with political content of any kind the algorithm starts suggesting all kinds of it.
I don’t know if that explains it completely but there has to be some reason(s) why some of us don’t see this stuff while other people see it all the time and that’s the best idea I’ve come up with.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 3 months ago:
I apologize for misreading your post.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 3 months ago:
Like you I’m confused at the continual cries of racism on Mastadon. I’ve been on there for months and never seen it. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist but I’m confused as to how it is “full of racists/white supremacists” but I never bump into them or see it.
I don’t want to doubt anyone’s experience but I’m at a loss to explain why my experience is so different from other peoples.
- Comment on How Chinese insiders exploit the country's national surveillance state for their own benefit 3 months ago:
This is one reason Western nations ripped out Chinese 5G network appliances a couple years ago.
They were supposed to but as of mid-2024 some 40% of them hadn’t yet done so.
I haven’t seen it discussed but I do wonder if this is at the root of the Telco hack the US experienced / is still experiencing.
- Comment on Drift!! 3 months ago:
That’s simple enough, create a process where CO2 is removed from the air and turned into oil. The chemistry of the individual steps is already known and achievable, the hard part is the energy input required to make it work.
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 3 months ago:
Two days ago BlueSky was adding more users in an hour than Mastodon was per week.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
God created us to be clever, surely that includes using logic and science to learn about the world.
The argument can be made that since God created humanity in their image that we’re all just fledgling gods with the big difference being our lack of immortality. We’re just not long lived enough as individuals to reach God’s level of power and insight. We are who God created us to be, logic and science included so If we don’t kill ourselves off we may eventually reach a collective godhood, or something akin to it, as a species.
I’m not saying I believe that argument, I’m just pointing out that it’s there because it supports your point.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
You have to be extremely willfully ignorant to think the earth is only 4,000 years old.
The Bible itself makes it obvious that the 4,000 year old thing is a lie.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
So even if you’re working strictly from the bible, how the hell do you get 4000 years?
You can’t. The “Young Earth” people are morons.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
Even the original wording could be read as eon instead of day.
Most people don’t know that the Hebrew word “yom” (day) can be and is used to denote wildly different lengths of time.
If anyone is interested you can read a fine destruction of the stupid “Young Earth” argument at the link I provided.
The “Young Earth” people, both Christian and Jew, are trying to shoe horn something into the Bible that doesn’t fit and doesn’t need to exist. It’s nothing more than a desperate attempt to hold onto an old, wrong headed, and man-made theory.
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 5 months ago:
I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.
Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.
- Comment on Life saving hurricane info locked behind a paywall 5 months ago:
What data does this app have that isn’t freely available somewhere else?
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 5 months ago:
I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case
British Indian Ocean Territory, it was just shortened to .io so it would fit into the naming scheme.
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 5 months ago:
That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.
In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.
By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.
You can find a list of the subdomains managed by Nominet here.
tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.
- Comment on The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer] 5 months ago:
<facepalm>
Dammit! Why did I mistype that?
Obviously it should be RHPS. Sigh.
- Comment on The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer] 5 months ago:
If you ever decide you want to see it please for the love of Tim Curry don’t watch it on TV.
The only way to experience RHCP is at a theater, movie or stage, with a floor show. Without the floor show you will not get what makes RHCP an adored Cult Classic. Seriously, the floor show is what makes (or breaks) the RHCP experience.
If you walk into the show and you’re not surrounded by people in costumes spouting weird lines, or if you don’t see them in the aisles within the first 90 seconds of the show starting then you may as well get up and leave.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 months ago:
We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.
The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why the Democrats never talk about it?