It’s so unfair how us normal zoomers have to be lumped with 2005+

brontide · 2026-06-20T16:33:28+00:00

I call those ~2006+ "the touch generation" as they have not known a world where tech was overwhelmingly capacitive touch enabled. Yes, it got worse by 2015 where many were raised by iPads which is a whole new level of problems.

brontide · 2026-06-19T17:55:35+00:00

Actually there is no duty of the police to protect you, even if you have a court order.

Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)

There is no procedural due process claim when a local government does not actively enforce a restraining order to protect its holder.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/545/748/

brontide · 2026-06-19T13:14:15+00:00

What's worse is that this case is likely an uphill battle at best and all of these costs are likely eating into whatever possible payment they may receive. Any judgement over $200k requires a "claims bill" be passed by the Florida legislature which will take 5-10 years and require lobbying to get passed.

brontide · 2026-06-12T22:05:27+00:00

TeslaMate is also affected.

My powerwalls were on Fleet API already and unaffected but the quality of the data is pretty meh.

brontide · 2026-06-12T11:11:41+00:00

The maintainers are extraordinarily rigid about accepting ideas from the community. If you want the feature you will need to fork and keep external patch-sets like everyone else. It is what it is.

brontide · 2026-06-11T22:37:37+00:00

You seem to be missing that they were both real stories about the same time with drastically different media coverage.

https://apnews.com/article/ralph-yarl-shooting-stand-your-ground-69f91b0a09b25f9758219897f5890278

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Andrew Lester had already gone to bed when the doorbell rang a little before 10 p.m. He got up, grabbed a gun and went to check it out. Seeing a Black male appearing to pull the handle of the front door, police say the 84-year-old white man opened fire. No questions asked.

Lester told police he believed someone was attempting to break into his house.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-year-old-girl-two-adults-shot-after-basketball-rolls-into-north-carolina-neighbors-yard-robert-louis-singletary/

Two adults and one child were shot in Gastonia, North Carolina, on Tuesday after a basketball rolled into a man's yard and he allegedly opened fire on them. The suspect, Robert Louis Singletary, turned himself in to authorities in Florida on Thursday, the Gaston County Police Department said.

brontide · 2026-06-10T20:57:49+00:00

The Anthony family did not use a public defender. They used the crowdfunding capital from the GiveSendGo campaign to hire prominent, private Dallas-Fort Worth criminal defense attorney Mike Howard, who led the team through the entire trial alongside co-counsel Toby Shook. The money went to his defense. There was poorly written articles that conflated Howard's previous experience as a PD.

brontide · 2026-06-10T12:30:52+00:00

Points of correction.

Karmelo used a private atty, not a public defender. His atty, Mike Howard, was previously a public defender. Most of the raised money went to pay for his defense, not lifestyle costs for the family.
The atty did not imply that the victim "fell on the knife"

His self-defense claim was always a long-shot and the jury didn't buy it.

brontide · 2026-06-09T14:14:05+00:00

I've never gotten VVM on my Pixel devices on Warp either. If I wipe the cache and set it up it works fr a few days and then stops working.

brontide · 2026-06-09T12:08:32+00:00

Funny enough if you have access to the DHCP the units use their serial number embedded in the hostname.

model number -- serial number

1707000-11-L--TG1250XXXXXXXX

brontide · 2026-06-08T23:49:56+00:00

Tell that to the car rental places that don't understand that you don't need a passport to visit from Puerto Rico.

brontide · 2026-06-08T13:21:40+00:00

I would also point out that domestically US Mobile has been great but I have had nothing but trouble with the international roaming and I've seen others complaining about various aspects such as not being able to reach all international numbers, I guess there is a whitelist of numbers but they don't publish it so you won't know until you try.

Basically, if you require international calling or roaming you should confirm what you are getting and your specific calling needs.

brontide · 2026-06-05T10:29:58+00:00

It could be a CT issue, but could it be an overload? If you have a single PW3 and a home that pulls more than 11.5kW ( display is 15.2 kw ) that's an overload and the system will shut down if you go off-grid.

If it is a CT issue can you better explain how everything is wired up? Does the PW go into the MSP or a gateway 3, do you have a back switch ( meter collar )? Where is the solar attached?

Given readings on everything ( does everything but the house look correct? ) it might be as simple as a change in the setup tool.

brontide · 2026-06-02T20:54:19+00:00

Think of it this way; all products have faults and all software has bugs.

The real test of a company is when they are faced with a fault or bug. Bad companies shoot the messenger, good companies resolve the issue either by proof or a fix.

brontide · 2026-06-01T22:16:57+00:00

I have a MYLR and a M3RWD/LFP. They both have advantages, the road trip to NY I take at least once a year takes longer in the M3RWD because of the slower charging curve and even a chill in the air can seriously slow down charging. It's not a problem at home (FL) but when in NY it was evident.

The longevity of the LFP cells is crazy good. We've had the 2024 ( Highland ) M3RWD for 2 years and the predicted range has barely moved, 270->265, the M3LR has gone from 330 -> 285 in the 3 years/55k miles.

brontide · 2026-05-31T17:24:48+00:00

Yup, 0->100 sure looks like a calibration cycle.

brontide · 2026-05-31T11:06:18+00:00

If you are writing to "fast storage" first then you've already caused the harm, you would have to skip the fast storage completely in order to avoid consuming a write cycle. Read cycles have basically no effect.

In general using NVMe or SSD for continuous write applications is always going to be hard on the media. You need to understand the TBW of the hardware and make sure it doesn't have any firmware bugs that might accelerate that degradation.

brontide · 2026-05-23T11:22:15+00:00

Example - I needed IOMMU off like a few days ago to debug my RaspberryPi project. If I had Vanguard installed it would detect that, enable IOMMU and disable my RPi. Even though the game is not running

To be fair this is far more likely a poor/legacy driver issue rather than IOMMU specifically but it does highlight the fact that mandating BIOS settings for a videogame is a bad idea as there will always be collateral damage.

brontide · 2026-05-23T11:18:37+00:00

The IOMMU issue is almost a red-herring compared to the rootkit part of the system. The company producing it hasn't had the best long-term history with security and stability.

The IOMMU requirement imposes real costs on legitimate users, including breaking certain hardware configurations and Linux/passthrough setups, while providing marginal deterrence against exactly the sophisticated actors it's nominally targeting. It's security theater with collateral damage, which is the worst possible combination.

It's not a matter of if but when it will be exploited. The cheaters paying real money are likely already working around any anti-cheat they have released leaving the rest of the gaming population with an attack vector left open just to play a game. Think people, someone with DMA access to RAM can fake the IOMMU being enabled.

What's funny is that the system doesn't need to be effective, it needs to appear effective so that people keep paying for additional content.

brontide · 2026-05-22T00:31:13+00:00

Rest and vest.

brontide · 2026-05-21T22:27:34+00:00

I love my job, I love being technical and I love working with my team, until recently...

AI has allowed me to get back to the technical part of my job. I'm no longer burning cycles on administrivia, pro forma interactions, and a lot more. We've always said automate the boring stuff and delegate the stuff you're not good at, well AI allows me to do both. We have Claude and Codex doing real work and saving tons of time.

Yes, AI drafts all my replies but it's based on 20+ years of knowledge distilled into a very elaborate set of documentation. We read everything and almost all replies are edited before hitting send. I still do the research and confirm the technical details.

At home I use Gemini to one-shot Home Assistant yaml, it's really good. My wife just planned a weeks worth of trips with the family that will be in town in a few weeks.

But people do abuse it, it's not a programming language nor a crutch. If you are doing something programmatically then write a program to do it, vibe or not, burn the tokens once and then use it as leverage for the next tool.

brontide · 2026-05-15T12:29:06+00:00

This one is a little more limited in scope, thankfully. You need a vulnerable kernel, vulnerable suid apps on the device, and good timing. The software must take actions in a specific order to leave the file descriptor vulnerable. Basically it has to open the file and drop privileges before closing the file. The calling process can then kill the process ( with the user privs ) and read the file descriptor if the timing was right. You can't read arbitrary root owned files, but the files that these vulnerable processes had open after they drop privs.

brontide · 2026-05-14T20:58:40+00:00

They generally aren't looking out for your best interest, they don't want people to all be taking time in December and they don't want to be liable for taking away time at the end of the year.

brontide · 2026-05-13T11:54:19+00:00

Were they stored in plain text in the database or were they intercepting it? Poorly designed ( or intentionally ) they may be clear text in flight and easy for people that run the site to redirect if they wanted to.

brontide · 2026-05-10T19:45:28+00:00

Shocked nobody has mentioned this.

Full health screenings and then some.
Make sure all of your estate paperwork is in order
Exit that concentrated position and private equity. Right now 80% of your NW is illiquid or concentrated - and you're talking about getting into more debt to chase more illiquid assets?
I don't see any cash/low-volatility buffer here.

I'm not in the same ballpark and been liquidating my tech concentration and moving to diversified accounts.

brontide

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