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bobs_monkey ,

I miss the days of when our biggest concern was when W would say something and we collectively said, "dafuq did he just say?!" But then we continued on with our day.

bobs_monkey ,

I'd love if there were some sort of salary baseline that companies are required to abide before asking for staffing handouts. "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

bobs_monkey ,

Lol. I'm all for raising the minimum wage to something livable. But also at the same time, there's got to be some kind of mechanism that forces these companies to pay people properly. Either that or make unions mandatory.

bobs_monkey ,

Can you not buy one online?

bobs_monkey ,

But do you have clock radio?

‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama (www.theguardian.com)

‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station | Alabama::Small radio station forced to go silent after ‘unbelievable’ theft of giant tower, which would cost over $100,000 to replace

bobs_monkey ,

There was another video where a guy clamped a wrench to ground with a jumper cable and held it (wearing insulated gloves) within arcing distance of the tower. The power transfer of the arc was enough that you could audibly hear one of the transmission frequencies just in the arc along. Those AM towers are no joke.

bobs_monkey ,

Yeah I think at this point, they're protecting their brand's business model as it equates to their share price. As long as their business model is the exclusivity they've sold to their shareholders that allows them to justify sky high pricing, it's all or nothing for them. The second they back down and allow interoperability, they're toast as far as their shareholders are concerned. What a fucking joke.

bobs_monkey ,

Apple just wants to sell you more shit.

Bingo. I just set up a dual monitor and dock setup for my laptop in our home office. It dawned on me that my wife could get some use out of it, so I plugged it in. Come to find out, her MacBook Pro only supports a single external monitor. To do two external monitors, she'd have to upgrade to an entirely different and obviously more expensive MacBook. Dafuq? My almost 15 year old Sony laptop can do that ffs. Fucking boners.

I know there are software hacks I can do to enable the functionality, but that's asinine for a $1700 laptop. Guaranteed if I dual booted Linux on it the problem would magically disappear.

bobs_monkey ,

Nah I fully get where you're coming from, but locking out users is a cop out. Considering Apple's M-series chips being "system-on-chips" integrating the CPU, GPU, RAM, and more, I can slightly understand limitations with someone trying to do dual monitor video rendering or 3d modeling overloading the chip and crashing the system on lower end chips. But even then, there could easily be a software mechanism that disallows such use when loads are too high as well as a warning to the user by way of a pop up prompt. Modern monitors using display port via thunderbolt and USB C while claiming the chip can't handle it is such a silly restriction when 3rd party software can mitigate it. Like I understand to an extent that they've made computing easy for the technologically uneducated and illiterate, but given their track record with other business decisions, this seems like more of just another "we like money" scenario instead of protect grandma.

Awesome username btw

bobs_monkey ,

While I haven't tried, there are software circumventions on osx that bypass that limitation, so I can all but guarantee it would likely be a non-issue on any given Linux distro

bobs_monkey ,

He's saying "Omelette du Fromage"

bobs_monkey ,

Not only that, but they think people are dumb enough to keep paying (and sometimes they're not wrong).

bobs_monkey ,

Probably because public transit requires people to be around other people, and they'd rather get around in their little bubble without interaction (except giving a BMW the finger).

bobs_monkey ,

True, but I'm just going off of my experience as an American. Too many people are so antisocial that the idea of sharing space with other strangers is foreign, mostly because they've lived so long without it. Obviously this isn't true in places like NYC, but in Los Angeles you'd have a hell of a time convincing people to give up their cars.

bobs_monkey ,

underfunded and under prioritized

Or designed and scheduled by incompetence

bobs_monkey ,

Agreed, but I can understand the apprehension for those who aren't familiar

bobs_monkey ,

Agreed. I remember my mom tripping out about these a while back, and so I did some digging. Precursor: I am but a humble resi/commercial/industrial electrician, not a lineman or POCO employee.

There are a couple different configurations of these meters, typically one way broadcast RF and bidirectional RF. These use the same (or similar) frequencies as cellular networks. The bidirectional meter connects to a neighborhood gateway, which then transmits back to the POCO, while the broadcast meters (like my local utility) transmit a low range signal that's picked up a truck with a receiver driving through a neighborhood to collect usage information (and doesn't require the meter reader to walk up to each and every meter and physically read them). These are primarily used for efficiency and labor cost reduction. Obviously, the one way broadcast meters are not being read in real time, only the meters that are connected to the POCO through a network connection.

These meters only read the overall usage in your home or business, not individual loads. They are situated in line on both phases (or all 3 in a commercial environment) between the utility feeders and your main breaker (or through a current transformer for mains that are too large for a regular meter, but it effectively does the same thing), measuring the current flowing through them, and, through Ohm's law math (Watts=Volts*Current, Watts/1000=kW), reports usage. The only way to determine individual loads without extra equipment/monitors is through inference (which is actually pretty easy to due to the trained eye; for instance, when sizing generators, I'll run a power monitor for a few days to a week to gather load data, and it's fairly easy to surmise what spikes are what based on typical patterns and time of day). Some (read: very few) meters could do what's called load shedding (aka turn things off) to reduce demand on the grid, but even the few meters that have this capability are only able to disconnect your home/business entirely. Some utilities are offering incentives to allow high-demand appliances (ie air conditioners) to be managed by the utility, but outside of using utility-connected thermostats, they would rely on a separate load management module that is directly connected to the appliances they wish to control (and only then, it would be a simple on/off; this is where thermostats are preferable, because the POCO can stop Suzie from cranking the AC down to 60 and running like a stockcar when its 115F out, and set it to 78 to bring overall demand lower while not cooking her like a holiday roast). It's important to remember here that every single electrical appliance is physically connected to the grid via hardwire. There is no wireless electricity (for anything useful or practical pertaining to this conversation). It is possible to use powerline networking to control appliances, but that would require these appliances to be equipped with a communications module to respond. Electricity is pretty dumb; it flows wherever there's a free path of travel.

Also, there is no benefit to the POCO for turning any of your stuff on and off aside from load management for the wider grid. If anything, they'd prefer you using electricity that they can then charge you for.

The only real concern I could see with these is a nefarious actor having access to your real-time usage to determine your habits. I guess the argument can be made that the POCO is spying on you, but I really don't see a benefit to them knowing your usage aside from network/grid management. Perhaps a locality can use this data to determine if you're growing weed, but other than that, in a world where all of our information is harvested anyway, it seems pretty inconsequential to me. if you're that concerned, get a solar/battery system and turn off your main breaker.

bobs_monkey ,

It's important to remember that POCOs are highly regulated, and they're not allowed to frivolously charge whatever they feel like, even in high demand conditions (probably state-dependent, but that's at least the case here in CA).

ML applications
What do you mean by that?

And I see where you're coming from. At this point in the world, where just about every data point about a person/household is tabulated and used in ways to coerce you to spend more money, I just feel like this is low on the priority scale. The utilities' motivation for smart meters is mostly labor cost reduction (meter readers). The remainder is real time grid load monitoring and statistics that better enables them to manage surge generation to keep costs down. This comes from a family friend that's a higher up in SoCal Edison. They legit don't care if someone is using an industrial grade sex machine or growing weed (though the municipality might). The biggest issue I can see with this, like anything else and as you alluded to, is data security/privacy.

bobs_monkey ,

People that are willing to abstain from purchasing a game in protest versus the "shut up and take my money" masses

Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV (news3lv.com)

Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV::KSNV NBC Las Vegas covers news, sports, weather and traffic for the Las Vegas, Nevada area including Paradise, Spring Valley, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Indian Springs, Sloan, Searchlight, Laughlin and Nellis AFB.

bobs_monkey ,

Dead & Co just announced their limited run residency this summer. $600 for two for a Thursday night. These people suck donkey balls.

bobs_monkey ,

It's even worse when you shine a black light on them

Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint (www.the-express.com)

Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint::A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit against Google Maps for allegedly navigating them to a notorious South African crime neighborhood where tourists are left 'injured, maimed or dead.'

bobs_monkey ,

Assuming they're tourists, probably ask the rental car agent and hotel clerks what the best routes to <destination> are. Most locals in hospitality in my experience are happy to share their insight with you.

The problem is like the other said, people need to be on their toes in a foreign environment. It's the same with foreign nationals visiting the US, like people visiting SF accidentally ending up in the rough areas of Oakland, or visiting tourist destinations in Mexico. At some point, personal responsibility needs to come into play, and that includes doing your homework about sketchy areas to avoid. It isn't victim blaming to ask people to think and prepare, and not go blindly wandering about.

bobs_monkey ,

It's really unfortunate that one of the most dangerous areas in the province is in such close proximity to the airport.

It's pretty common from what I've seen, especially large international airports. Like that In N Out that's shuttering an Oakland store for the first time in their history. The area around LAX is pretty bad as well.

bobs_monkey ,

I'm more amazed that it's already been 7 months, time sure flies.

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    bobs_monkey ,

    And then he posts a greentext on 4chan.

    bobs_monkey ,

    Couldn't this also signal to investors that they've achieved a comfortable market position and finally profitable ,and that they don't need to go growth crazy mode anymore?

    FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law (arstechnica.com)

    Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

    bobs_monkey ,

    For the past 2 weeks I have been getting calls from a company claiming to register companies for voice search optimization. I've repeatedly told them to stop calling me, to which they respond that the calls won't relent until I sign up with their service. I've been threatened, mocked, and just straight hung up on, so now I enjoy just waisting as much of their time as possible. I filed a complaint last week, so I'm just logging all their calls to increase the inevitable fine (they're US based, all of the agents are clearly American).

    bobs_monkey ,

    How in the world is someone supposed to remember each and every time they smoked a bowl?? Shit I can barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday, and I don't really smoke much anymore.

    bobs_monkey ,

    To an extent, I can understand not wanting to hire someone if they have an active substance dependency issue, especially for mission critical government work. But why are we still chastising people that had a bit too much fun in college?

    bobs_monkey ,

    That's debatable, but that doesn't have much bearing on China's military capabilities. Their urban canters are very much developed. You could also say that much of the US is rural and poor, while our military has been involving themselves all over the world for a long time.

    bobs_monkey ,

    I never minded fire drills during school, it got us outside during class and killed a good hour of the day

    bobs_monkey ,

    Any idea if Posteo allows their service with your own domain?

    bobs_monkey ,

    How else do you think they'd do age verification? It's the same way they do it for porn sites, you upload you DL/passport/ID to verify your age. The difference here is that now these data broker social media companies now have a hard link to your identity instead of a pretty strong inference, and are able to shore up their advertising profiles in an unprecedented way.

    bobs_monkey ,

    If a manufacturer's design allows a virus to proliferate as HP claims, they deserve to get sued into oblivion.

    bobs_monkey ,

    All the more reason that devs and admins need to take responsibility and NOT roll out "AI" solutions withoit backstopping them with human verification, or at minimum ensure that the specific solutions they employ are ready for production.

    It's all cool and groovy that we have a new software stack that can remove a ton of labor from humans, but if it's too error-prone, is it really useful? I get that the bean counters and suits are ready to boot the data entry and other low level employees to boost their bottom line, but this will become a race to the bottom via blowing their collective loads too early.

    Though let's be real, we already know that too many companies are going to do this and then try to absolve themselves of liability when shit goes to hell because of their shit.

    bobs_monkey ,

    It just proves that avergae people want their TV and don't give a fuck about how much it costs.

    My wife is a perfect example: We leached off my mom's Netflix for years. I don't really care, we have Plex that I manage and Netflix blows, so it's all her. Mom ended up cancelling with the latest price hike. Brother and I took bets. My wife lasted 36 hours before making her own account. I lost my bet.

    bobs_monkey ,

    Yup, happens every time. Even with everything working and that my wife can pick her own shows to automatically download, I think it's the waiting that does it, because God forbid you have to wait 5-10 minutes. Also too, I can see the appeal in browsing someone else's library and watching something on a whim.

    bobs_monkey ,

    Agreed. I'm not really one for much TV or movies anymore, though when I am, I know exactly what I want to watch. I also tend to watch things I've already seen before as background while I'm doing something else. But I know there are plenty of people that when they get home, they just want to zone out, and that mindless browsing, plus content they've never seen before available instantly certainly could have that appeal.

    bobs_monkey ,

    Nothing personal, but that's bullshit on the company. Rotate the entire assembly 90° to the direction where the next track arrow points right, and counter rotate the ok gel button so that it's properly up and down. I can't imagine a silk screen template is that engrained. There might be some mounting screw difference, but adjust that in manufacturing from your parts suppliers. No reengineering of the harness necessary. This is just pure laziness.

    bobs_monkey ,

    That cart narc guy is absolutely obnoxious. Sure I get his angle, and perhaps some people need to be shamed into doing the right thing, but I'm amazed no one has run him over yet.

    bobs_monkey ,

    German
    Comedian

    The math ain't mathing here.

    bobs_monkey ,

    Yeah but they tend to be the worst. This is the same crowd that will be a raging cunt all week but once a week they go listen to a sermon and somehow that absolves them of being an ass the prior week.

    bobs_monkey ,

    They do now, that whole OMNY system

    bobs_monkey ,

    Yeah I think I saw that, a contractor in his work van in Texas I believe

    I'm getting doxxed by a troll

    I got doxxed by a troll on a forum , the troll posted my real full name and school including my grade level , pics of a Facebook account which the troll thinks it's me but isn't because I don't have any mainstream socials. The troll keeps pasting my name and pics from the Facebook profile everywhere on the forum, what do I do...

    bobs_monkey , (edited )

    I don't mean to be a dick, but if a troll is able to pass your information out, you need to adhere to better personal information security practices.

    bobs_monkey ,

    Shit I ain't a saint, we all can better about it. My point is that if you wanna go in the offensive online, be sure it can't bite you in the ass, at least in this regard.

    bobs_monkey ,

    Failure to compensate for gravitational pull, and a lean to the right

    bobs_monkey ,

    I grew up with w3m, but I like your style

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