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Comment on Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers that killed at least nine people and injured thousands in ~news
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Comment on EV discussion thread in ~transport
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentOoh, in that case I’ll ask directly! I had another comment in this thread which details my driving needs, but to summarise, I think I’m looking for a hatchback with maybe 300km (~200 miles) range...I am happy to answer questions in the comments or elaborate more. EVs are basically my hobby so I really like talking about them
Ooh, in that case I’ll ask directly! I had another comment in this thread which details my driving needs, but to summarise, I think I’m looking for a hatchback with maybe 300km (~200 miles) range at highway speeds. I know actual driving range is different to the advertised numbers, so I’d love your insight into what factors are actually relevant when considering range.
For example, I’ve heard people talking about how their actual range drops by a decent amount in cold weather, but Australia’s winter is nowhere near the kinds of temperatures you’d experience in e.g. Canada or the Midwest. There are probably a few consecutive weeks where the temperature minimums get to as low as 5°C (~40°F) and occasionally a few isolated days below zero (below 30°F) but daytime temperatures are regularly closer to 10-15°C (50-60°F)
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Comment on EV discussion thread in ~transport
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentThanks for all this! I knew that at the higher end there would be EVs with decent range, enough to suit my needs, but yeah it’s the combination of budget and car-shape. I really like the hatchback...Thanks for all this! I knew that at the higher end there would be EVs with decent range, enough to suit my needs, but yeah it’s the combination of budget and car-shape. I really like the hatchback style, and in a tiny city size, because I regularly snag parking spaces that would otherwise be too small for most sedans or SUVs.
But also, wow, I did not know about those year-on-year range gains! That looks like a pretty significant increase!
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Comment on EV discussion thread in ~transport
ThrowdoBaggins LinkI don’t have an EV yet, partly because I haven’t been super impressed with the options that I’m looking for, and partly because our household does just fine with the cars we have, and I’m not...I don’t have an EV yet, partly because I haven’t been super impressed with the options that I’m looking for, and partly because our household does just fine with the cars we have, and I’m not looking to replace anything early.
We try to take good care of our ~2013 Mazda 2 hatchback which means yearly full service, not thrashing it at the lights (not that it can really do much even foot to the floor) and sometimes paying a bit extra for the more premium fuels. We’re hoping to keep it until it’s just about ready to fall apart.
In Australia, the general car market is definitely still pulling in the direction of larger trucks and SUVs but there are still plenty of sedans and hatchbacks on the road, and even a healthy number of station wagons (not sure if that’s a colloquial phrase like ute is, or if it’s more international)
Having said that, the EV market definitely isn’t offering hatchbacks in the size (and price) I want. There’s a rumour that the BYD Seagull might be coming to Australia soon, so I’m keeping an eye out for that.
I’m also a little torn — the vast majority of trips are less than 10km (6 miles) return trip, and once per year we do a road trip that’s about 700km (1400km (850 miles) return). So far so good; it’s easy enough to get a short range EV and just rent a larger range EV or ICE or whatever I need for that once-per-year trip.
But there’s this awkward middle-range bit where I visit my parents basically every month, and that’s 150km (95 miles) each way. That trip is also usually just for a few hours, so I don’t think I could plug it in at their place and get a full charge, which means I want the range to be reliably 300km regardless of conditions, at freeway speeds for most of the trip in both directions, so maybe more like 400-500km advertised range?
I don’t really have a good sense for how much freeway speeds or weather conditions impact the range, so I’m probably overshooting with these estimates, but I’m doing my darnedest to not just give in to range anxiety. Also, is range something you can pay to upgrade later? I wouldn’t hate the idea of buying a car with minimum specs, and then getting a feel for what I actually need, and paying to upgrade later.
I’d love some input from people more familiar with how range is affected, so I can be more informed when I need to make that decision.
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Comment on TikTok argues in federal appeals court that US ban would have ‘staggering’ impact on free speech in ~tech
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentI don’t know enough of the details to refute my own idea here, but I really think that should have been covered by those “safe harbour” laws. Note that this is all my own opinion. If the feed was...I don’t know enough of the details to refute my own idea here, but I really think that should have been covered by those “safe harbour” laws. Note that this is all my own opinion.
If the feed was just chronological, without any algorithmic choices being made, and the end user has control via subscribing/following/blocking, then you’re just hosting content on the producer’s behalf. Likewise if you give the user a handful of various sorting options (eg when online shopping allows you to sort by price or alphabetically or by reviews etc) that are predictable and explicitly in the control of the user, then safe harbour still applies.
But I think as soon as the platform has its own algorithms dictating what the platform “recommends” then that should immediately step outside of the safe harbour laws, and the business itself should be held responsible for the content it recommends.
And if a platform tries to hide behind “oh but we couldn’t have known that the black box algorithm we built would recommend this hateful sludge and cause these societal harms” then the response should be “gosh what a foolish and irresponsible platform to publish code to the user-facing side that gets your business in trouble!”
A massively inexperienced mechanic who cuts your brake cable isn’t protected from their liability because “they didn’t know it would cause that issue” — that’s just admitting gross negligence
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
ThrowdoBaggins LinkOops, I caught up on my tildes messages and bumped the old thread. This is just a comment to bump the other one. Feel free to flag as noise.Oops, I caught up on my tildes messages and bumped the old thread. This is just a comment to bump the other one. Feel free to flag as noise.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentI set up chests at the guardian farm for cooked and raw of each type that drops. I think if your sword has flaming (or whatever the enchantment is called) then it automatically cooks whatever fish...I set up chests at the guardian farm for cooked and raw of each type that drops. I think if your sword has flaming (or whatever the enchantment is called) then it automatically cooks whatever fish the guardians drop? Plus looting if you really want a lot of it!
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentThat was the bit I was struggling to auto-craft. Making sure the shards and crystals flow into the autocrafter in just the right order to make the right shape is what I’ve been working on, and...That was the bit I was struggling to auto-craft. Making sure the shards and crystals flow into the autocrafter in just the right order to make the right shape is what I’ve been working on, and I’ve got a system that works but isn’t robust. Even a small interruption ends up breaking the sequence.
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Comment on Inside Iron Mountain: It’s time to talk about hard drives in ~tech
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentYeah I think it’s the three factors of data integrity, the knowledge to decode said information in future, and the density of the data. Otherwise carving into stone tablets seems to work just fine...Yeah I think it’s the three factors of data integrity, the knowledge to decode said information in future, and the density of the data. Otherwise carving into stone tablets seems to work just fine if historical records are anything to go by. And even ink on paper, if you spend a bit more effort on the conditions they’re stored in.
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Comment on NHTSA proposes new vehicle safety standard to better protect pedestrians in ~transport
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentI completely agree with this. All the situations I was in, it was an unusual compounding of factors, and thinking back on it, I think having three of these incidents in less than 20 years of...Statistically, there are few situations where going faster reduces the chance of fatality in a collision. The faster you go, the more momentum the vehicle has, and so the more force is being exerted on the vehicle in a potential collision.
I completely agree with this. All the situations I was in, it was an unusual compounding of factors, and thinking back on it, I think having three of these incidents in less than 20 years of driving places me well above the statistical average. I spoke to my dad about them and he reckons he’s been in three or four incidents like this, but across his nearly triple the number of years driving than I have.
It’s also worth noting that I think in all these cases, having access to higher acceleration could have just as easily pulled me to safety without going above the speed limit, but I’ve only ever driven “sensible”/budget cars that are fuel efficient but not very powerful. So a manoeuvre that took me 5-10 seconds to complete might have taken a sports car 2-3 seconds, if it was powerful enough.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentFeel free to — I haven’t been on in a while and my most recent attempts to design an auto-crafter have hit some roadblocks, so I never actually finalised it. I think my intention was to...Feel free to — I haven’t been on in a while and my most recent attempts to design an auto-crafter have hit some roadblocks, so I never actually finalised it. I think my intention was to automatically trash/destroy the runoff that didn’t fit into chests, but haven’t implemented that yet.
Just keep in mind, I don’t think prismarine is popular enough to require more than a double chest or maybe a few shulkers, so it might be better to just eliminate the runoff rather than expanding the amount of storage capacity available?
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Comment on NHTSA proposes new vehicle safety standard to better protect pedestrians in ~transport
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentI don’t know what those speeds are and how they compare to regular highway speeds, but I’d just like to slightly push back against it. I’ve been driving for a bit under two decades, and I’ve never...One other I'd like to see NHTSA is to have mandatory governors that put a max speed
I don’t know what those speeds are and how they compare to regular highway speeds, but I’d just like to slightly push back against it.
I’ve been driving for a bit under two decades, and I’ve never got a speeding ticket. I very early on decided I never want to speed just for personal convenience, so to the best of my knowledge, I’ve only ever driven considerably above the speed limit in two or three occasions. All of them were for the safety of myself and other road users, and total combined duration speeding is probably less than 60 seconds (probably half that). They’ve all been on freeways or rural highways, nowhere near pedestrians or buildings.
If my car physically did not let me speed in those circumstances, I likely would have got into an accident (at least one head-on collision at highway speeds) and may not have been here alive today to write this comment.
Having said that: I’m all for a speed limiter that allows for brief bursts of high speed, and only kicks in for example if the vehicle has built up an average-above-speed-limit that shows disregard for speed limits across a few minutes, rather than just a rare speed-to-avoid-accidents.
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Comment on The “email is authentication” pattern in ~tech
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentThank you for the detailed breakdown, I appreciate it! I’ll stick with BitWarden for now, in that case. A few years ago when I first looked into this, LastPass seemed “good enough” and then they...Thank you for the detailed breakdown, I appreciate it!
I’ll stick with BitWarden for now, in that case. A few years ago when I first looked into this, LastPass seemed “good enough” and then they got hacked twice.
I’d been dragging my feet on dealing with migrating away from LastPass, because while they said passwords were encrypted, I also assume it’s just a matter of time until it’s broken. If you have an offline file to decrypt, it’s really just a matter of time before you can decrypt it if you’ve got the hardware.
Recently, there was an unauthorised attempt to log into one of my accounts (thank 2FA for saving my arse here!) that I know must have been from the LastPass leak, because it doesn’t use an email address as the login, therefore there’s no “oops used the same email and password” crossover to make it vulnerable from other data leaks.
So now I’m wanting to speed run getting a new password manager, migrating things over, and changing the old passwords. Step one (get BitWarden) is done now, and you’ve confirmed here that it’s not just swapping one leaky password manager for another one, so I can focus on the next steps.
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Comment on It is time to do away with the empty recurring weekly threads in ~tildes
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentI personally am interested, albeit in bursts, which is probably why I like the megathreads so much. Most of the time when I pick up my phone, I’m not looking for US politics discussions and...I personally am interested, albeit in bursts, which is probably why I like the megathreads so much. Most of the time when I pick up my phone, I’m not looking for US politics discussions and articles, but sometimes I’m really in the mood and I like the megathreads because I know it’s a big bucket of the stuff, and I can just chain article after article and feel like I’m “caught up” and better informed.
Just as an example, (and for context I live in Australia) on the first day of the Trump assassination, I had no idea it had happened, and when colleagues were talking about it at work, I was a little lost. But that evening on the train home, I found all the articles about it (iirc some had been posted outside the megathread, which makes sense given the significance of the news) and read up on it, and the next day in the office I was better informed about the details that had been confirmed than most of my coworkers and was able to answer some of their questions.
I guess I could achieve this same result by filtering out that tag from my main news feed, and then selecting that specific tag and viewing only those threads when I’m in the mood, but I wouldn’t know how to do that (or if it’s possible) on the app I’m using - Three Cheers.
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Comment on US Department of Justice attorneys claim Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on day one of ad tech trial in ~tech
ThrowdoBaggins LinkGoogle is so massive and has so many pieces interlinked that I wouldn’t even know where to start when it comes to breaking it up. I think breaking off the advertising side of things would have a...Google is so massive and has so many pieces interlinked that I wouldn’t even know where to start when it comes to breaking it up. I think breaking off the advertising side of things would have a huge impact, but mostly because it would hurt their revenue, not necessarily because it would open up Google’s markets to competition...
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Comment on It is time to do away with the empty recurring weekly threads in ~tildes
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentThere’s likely going to be an increase in postable links and discussions in the run up to the US presidential election. Just as a counterpoint, I think it’s unreasonable to expect that everyone...It's especially unreasonable to suppress US political discussion on tildes in the run-up period to the time every four years that Americans get to vote for their president.
There’s likely going to be an increase in postable links and discussions in the run up to the US presidential election.
Just as a counterpoint, I think it’s unreasonable to expect that everyone outside of the US would want to be subjected to this predictable increase in what I view as niche topics of discussion.
I think keeping it contained to a thread does double duty — if you’re interested in it, you have a single place that keeps everything together and easy to find! And if you’re not interested, it doesn’t take up more and more of the top slots of discussion, it’s a single thread when I’m looking at the homepage and scrolling past posts.
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Comment on If you could send someone to any historic moment, who and when? in ~talk
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentChristopher Columbus mysteriously falls overboard in the middle of the night just before first making landfall. The rest of the crew continue the voyage and exploration but maybe aren’t as...Christopher Columbus mysteriously falls overboard in the middle of the night just before first making landfall. The rest of the crew continue the voyage and exploration but maybe aren’t as needlessly cruel and brutal and maybe don’t even enslave natives to bring back to Castile?
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Comment on The “email is authentication” pattern in ~tech
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentAh, I see! Yeah I’m okay with my bucket of data being in the cloud, as long as it’s not just hanging around in plaintext or whatever. I’m currently using BitWarden, do you know if their own...Ah, I see! Yeah I’m okay with my bucket of data being in the cloud, as long as it’s not just hanging around in plaintext or whatever.
I’m currently using BitWarden, do you know if their own service ever has access to unencrypted versions of the info or if it’s all only ever decrypted in my own device?
I know that last year my phone died (water damage, even though it’s supposed to be rated for much deeper under water than I’ve ever been) so the replacement phone didn’t get a chance to get backup files handed over from phone to phone, but restoring the phone from iCloud and then logging into BitWarden with my “master password” was enough to get everything back.
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Comment on The “email is authentication” pattern in ~tech
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentYou’ve touched on an aspect I’m not sure about — I think personally, getting locked out of my accounts is more devastating than having someone else access them, although both are pretty bad. I...The file is stored locally, not in the cloud.
You’ve touched on an aspect I’m not sure about — I think personally, getting locked out of my accounts is more devastating than having someone else access them, although both are pretty bad.
I understand the security of not having things in the cloud means the chance for leaks is significantly reduced, but on the other hand I think I want to design my personal security situation around the possibility of (for example) a house fire destroying every physical thing I have, including computers and phones.
I currently lean in heavily on my password manager, and every single account I create goes into it, with a randomised generated password that I will never ever be able to remember off the top of my head (email addresses included).
If everything dies, and I’m starting from nothing, my password manager is the first point for everything else. So for me, the idea of all my passwords not being backed up to ~the cloud~ someone else’s computer isn’t something I’m willing to risk.
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Comment on The “email is authentication” pattern in ~tech
ThrowdoBaggins Link ParentWhich other password managers have you used and what was it about them that dropped them down your list?Which other password managers have you used and what was it about them that dropped them down your list?
When you’re the website owner and coder, I’m sure there’s all kinds of stuff you can do behind the scenes! I just wonder how much of it is manually editing links and addresses, versus whether Deimos has already created a tool for this exact case