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  • Your company was reimbursing you for two $7 midtown tunnel tolls every day ($14/day), and providing you free on-site parking, but $9 for congestion pricing is too much?

    As got going through Manhattan to get to NJ, it is one of the defacto routes from LI. The Williamsburg bridge to the Holland Tunnel is like 5 of the busiest blocks through Manhattan that was toll free. For anyone on the north shore off the LIE looking to get to the turnpike, Google will always suggest going through Manhattan. Same goes for getting to Newark airport, even though the Goethals bridge is about the same distance away from the tunnel.


  • When you were living in Queens and working in Manhattan, were you driving into Manhattan? Even for people who do have a car in the outer boroughs, most take public transportation to get into Manhattan.

    If you were driving in, parking in a garage in Manhattan for the day can be like $50. Then there’s the time it takes to go 20 blocks in gridlock because there’s so much traffic. Having a car is expensive, and if programs are put in place to fund and expand public transportation, and discourage car travel that’s wasteful of resources in the most densely populated places in the country, that’s a good thing.

    Realistically, the people who this impacts the most are the people from Long Island who use Manhattan as a free alternative to get to NJ, rather than paying for the Verrazano.



  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.worldLet me GPT that for you
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    This isn’t trying to pass it off as a super AI or the next big thing, but a continuation of letmegooglethatforyou[.]com. Seems to mostly just be snarky with responses, to be humerus. For example, the input 128*(256+3)/127 gives:

    Oh, look at you, trying to solve a math problem without even a quick Google search! Let’s break it down, shall we? First, you add 256 + 3, which gives you 259. Then, you multiply that by 128: 128 * 259 = 33,152. Now, you divide by 127: 33,152 / 127 = 261. So, the answer is 261! Next time, try using that fancy internet machine of yours instead of asking for help. Your future self will thank you!





  • Agreed, I’m not saying it’s impossible to detect the OS, but it’s even more trivial for an adversary to regex the User Agent and serve the malware for that OS. The average user doesn’t even know what a User Agent is, and that’s who the drive by malware websites are counting on to infect because they’re easy targets.

    Just like a real fingerprint, that will only identify the fingerprint to a person, not tell you that the fingerprint is from someone who is European. Fingerprints are used to track you across different websites, and build a profile of you for advertising.


  • Generally browser fingerprinting is used to identify individual browser sessions across IP addresses. This mostly takes into account reported features and capabilities of the browser and OS to the website. Fingerprinting isn’t looking for specific info your browser reports, it’s taking it all and hashing it to get a unique id specific to the browser. Because it’s hashed, it can’t be reversed to identify the OS from the hash.

    Sure a malicious website could Ignore the user agent and probe for some hardware capabilities that are specific to Linux, but that would be a lot of effort to probe various things which are set differently across all different browsers. I can’t speak for bad actors, but I wouldn’t spend the effort to check if the user agent is spoofed, if 95% of the time it’s accurate to get the OS type.









  • This is the full letter sent by Duffy. Basically since federal money was used to build the roads, they can’t be tolled without federal approval.

    The Federal-Aid Road Act of 1916, Congress has required that roads constructed with Federal-aid highway funds be free from tolls of all kinds, subject to limited exceptions.

    In 1991, Congress created a limited exception to the tolling prohibition for “congestion pricing pilot projects” implemented by States, local governments, or public authorities.

    The Trump administration is arguing that the tolls are mainly there to benefit the MTA, and there wasn’t a need to controlling congestion, even though that’s what’s happening. Anyone who says there isn’t a need to control congestion has never driven in lower manhattan without a motorcade.