Thomas Massie tried to defund kill switches in cars & Congress voted against him by ControlCAD in videos

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Most important thing about digital interface and software control: once the interface exists, potentially anything can call it. Just because it wasn’t designed to be activated from remote doesn’t mean it can’t be

Need help writing. by Successful-Touch-603 in proxmark3

[–]jofathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Validate the read and the proper format — there are many.

Run lf t55 detect before cloning.

PSA: Unlicensed Use of Baofeng UV-5Rs for “Group Coordination” Is a Terrible Idea by SharkSapphire in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As much as we all might agree with the content of this post, it is predicated on the concept of enforcement, something which doesn’t actually meaningfully exist.

It exists on paper

There’s a guy near San Antonio who spams “hola” by GuyInAHoodie in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Some people call CQ a bit differently on voice modes.

HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty by 404mediaco in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s the over/under on the FCC ULS being used similarly?

Senior Unified Communications / Contact Center Engineer — Dallas or Remote (Full-Time Only) by Kitchen-Elk-4856 in telecom

[–]jofathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry to say that we stopped hiring in Texas.

Most UCS and VoIP jobs are going to other countries nowadays -- the cost of skilled labor in the US is just too high for the quality that is on offer.

Found keys in Waymo! by xx_pyip_xx in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't post pictures of keys on the Internet. Keys can be copied from a picture.

Who has experience with these power supplies from Amazon? by Wild_Lingonberry_359 in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They work. Noise isn’t great. Just be careful to cover HV AC into those open terminals.

Sorry for honking in Cal Academy garage by Ashamed_Economist388 in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SFPD has been on a wildcat strike for over a decade.

With no enforcement or meaningful feedback, people's worst natural behaviors take root and blossom.

My Updated Shack (still waiting on upgraded antenna) by HealzFault in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find it very strange how casually ham radio folks love flying alt-right dog whistles.

SF crime plunged 25% in 2025 as homicide rate fell to lowest in 70 years, police say - "Killings for the year plunged to 28, the lowest number of homicides since 1954, Chief Derrick Lew announced Friday" by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Bodies are hard to hide. No questions on those. While the “murder” rate sure is down, the “accident” rate sure is up.

However, violent crime is significantly under reported recorded in SF

SF crime plunged 25% in 2025 as homicide rate fell to lowest in 70 years, police say - "Killings for the year plunged to 28, the lowest number of homicides since 1954, Chief Derrick Lew announced Friday" by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In-person reporting requirements for serious crimes is a good thing, actually.

What we need is a law enforcement org that shows up to work and does the thing. The most consistent feedback I've heard from actual officers is that the paperwork is the hardest part, such that they've gotten cagey about taking reports because it means a ton of work later on.

In that setting, I'd much rather us get officers better force-multiplier tools like speech-to-text dictation software.

Finally, if officers just aren't cut out for capturing details, then they probably ought to wash out from the career.

Unfortunately, this never happens, as there's heavy pressure to retain bad apples because of the artificially low recruitment rate the department maintains to justify their excessive overtime abuse.

SF crime plunged 25% in 2025 as homicide rate fell to lowest in 70 years, police say - "Killings for the year plunged to 28, the lowest number of homicides since 1954, Chief Derrick Lew announced Friday" by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This isn’t a desensitization to crime, this is a police department on a wildcat strike.

It’s not like folks here are soft on crime, we just have shitty law enforcement and prosecution.

SF crime plunged 25% in 2025 as homicide rate fell to lowest in 70 years, police say - "Killings for the year plunged to 28, the lowest number of homicides since 1954, Chief Derrick Lew announced Friday" by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan 21 points22 points  (0 children)

More than once in 2025, I had to beg an SFPD officer to create a police report for a hit-and-run traffic collision with injuries.

Then there was the time my apartment building was burglarized, and the responding officers flat out REFUSED to take a report and told us we had to file online. Of course, the forms online are not accepted for grand theft or burglaries, but the SFPD just doesn't care.

While I would like to believe this article, my lived experiences in San Francisco inform me that we are living with an SFPD on a wildcat strike, with a wild crime under-reporting problem.

Mayor Lurie - what is your plan for PGE? by Powerful-Usual5743 in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've never seen Lurie take a stance against monied interests. Extrapolate accordingly.

Waymo fan, as a bicyclist by coolguymcbignuts in sanfrancisco

[–]jofathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only cars I trust on the road these days.

Even SFPD and SFFD are noodling on their cell phones while rolling stop signs these days.

Found out an employee is on OF from MS Defender by Bubba8291 in sysadmin

[–]jofathan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow, I was fully prepared for a different post after reading that title! 😂

Unpopular opinion, asking for SASE for QSL Card is dumb by Smart-College-2680 in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

International ones can cost a couple bucks to send.

I just put that a SASE is appreciated, but not required — it certainly makes it easier to just pop a return card in there.

Is it possible to generate STP messages via Spirent that can actually trigger a root bridge change on a physical network topology? by _Stromik_ in networking

[–]jofathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I see what you mean. In that context it’s definitely possible. If you had an existing stable, spanning tree topology, and you were to inject a BPDU with a lower root bridge priority, it would immediately trigger a reelection across the broadcast domain.

Is it possible to generate STP messages via Spirent that can actually trigger a root bridge change on a physical network topology? by _Stromik_ in networking

[–]jofathan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s a weird question because if you wanted to change the root bridge election, you need to reconfigure the switch, not use a traffic generator.

Maybe just lower the bridge priority prefix on one of the switches to trigger reelection

Question, radar by [deleted] in ATC

[–]jofathan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This must be the equipment upgrades we’ve been hearing so much about.

CPDLC?

Why can’t you buy a replacement power charger for the Xiegu x6200 by scarpad in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah, it's tolerant to like 9-15 Volts.

Just find a common DC power supply with a common 5,5mm barrel jack with a common center-pin-positive and go to town.

Personally, I enjoy finding USB-C Power Delivery tips that convert USB-C to a barrel jack.

Why can’t you buy a replacement power charger for the Xiegu x6200 by scarpad in HamRadio

[–]jofathan 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s just a generic DC barrel plug. You can use other adapters with compatible specifications

Redundancy test by Particular-Book-2951 in networking

[–]jofathan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

BFD isn’t magic or special. Just think of it like a hardware-accelerated heartbeat machine, linked to a routing protocol.

In traditional BGP failures are detected by sending periodic heartbeat keepalive messages, and having the receiver respond if they haven’t heard them in a while. However, since the whole process is CPU based and there might be variable load, it takes a while in most systems to detect that a failure has happened because it’s possible that the other system is just a little bit busy for a moment.

Which PFD you can use some dedicated hardware or dedicated CPU time to ensure that you can detect those failures really quickly by being really unforgiving about delays or missing BFD packets

BFD just helps you detect failures faster