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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Don't Call Me. Ever.English
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    8 hours ago

    What is that saying, ‘lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part’ or something.

    My friends know that they only call me if their house is actively on fire, they are being robbed at gunpoint, or they just won the lottery and want to split the winnings. Family also includes lunch/dinner plans. Only exception is when we have planned a call for a date and time, otherwise you’re greeting my voicemail. Landlines is the exact same situation. I might be taking a shower, asleep, taking a dump, getting freaky with a friend; it doesn’t matter. Leave a text message and I’ll get back as soon as I’m done crying from taco tuesday, or finishing waking up the neighbors with moans and screams, or whatever else.

    Email is ‘sometime today’ communication, and gets handled at the beginning or end of the day, or whenever I’m on the can. Anyone expecting a rapid response via email is a proper dunce.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Friends.English
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    15 hours ago

    I’m about to blow your mind: the IT Crowd has a live studio audience. One of the specials goes over each cast member and shows bloopers and such, and you can see them in several shots. I believe they also talk briefly about the audience, though it’s been a while. If I remember right, they would take the audience reactions of two takes and sort of merge them together.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - DexertoEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Tbh, for me there’s just a couple of ‘creators’ I watch that do it for their careers, and they didn’t start that way; the rest (50 or so subs) still do it ‘right’, even years later. YouTube started as a platform where everyone can create and share, and people who saw an opportunity for money helped turn it into the shit that it is today. When you (them) have multiple sponsorships per video, the production quality matching broadcast television, prominently show off your new car, house, jet… You (them) are the problem.

    This needs a reset back to goofy video game machinimas, cyber police, hiiii my name is boxxy, arby n the chief; when people who hit record didn’t want money. They were there to share with others.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•what do you think of self driving cars?English
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    1 day ago

    Ooh, I get to geek out for a bit!

    I helped a friend get into waymo as an employee when it was still staff-only/non-public, and later got to attend a private event where I could explore the regional hq building freely, view the cars, the hardware that makes them go, the nav system of all the cars in the region in real-time, see video feeds and diagnostics in real-time, ride in a ‘beta’ style vehicle with wires and sensors very much visible, ask questions directly to technicians regarding details about the software, cameras, lidar, emergency situations… The whole nine yards. I have also been in a public vehicle that was able to override the geofencing and ‘guardrails’ for a couple trips as well, and see how that works, how the car communicates with hq when that happens (‘why are you doing this, is everything okay, etc’). Except for someone currently or formerly employed by waymo, I am possibly one of the most informed people about how it all works. Especially the Lexus and Chrysler vehicles, since I got special access to those.

    That out of the way, you are correct. They run the cars with a safety driver while training/feeding data back to the regional hq while in a new area, so you might see cars with a person at the wheel (and possibly a passenger, sometimes with a laptop) while the car drives around, not stopping for passengers. They note issues and areas for potential problems, log many miles along the same roads at different times of day for an entire area, and will do this with multiple vehicles for 6-12 months, before having enough data, runs, low incident occurance, and high confidence before allowing testers to ride; my last information was that they still retain the safety drivers for several additional months, before letting the cars go ‘solo’ and open the area to the public.

    The friend has moved to greener pastures but this data is between '15 and '23, I believe. I am signed up for the tester program but the service is not yet in my home area; I’m a few miles outside their current zone for my region. I’ll be in the service area this winter though, and am planning on taking a couple rides and refreshing myself on the current situation for the general public.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllersEnglish
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    2 days ago

    As someone who bought a Supermicro board 6 weeks ago and was super happy to learn about IPMI: oh no.

    I flashed the latest bmc firmware and bios the day I got it running (also fuck paywalling the bmc UI for bios updates), but… 😬

    E: holy shit it truncates passwords to 19 characters. One of my weakest passwords, in the bottom 10 of like 450 passwords.

    E2: I can’t disable KCS, I can’t disable the IPMI (short of unplugging the ethernet cable), I can’t disable the default user or limit the privileges, so I had delete my user, login as the default, then change the username and password to my user creds. Like, wow.