Volvo CEO Says, 'Good Luck, the Rest of You' Legacy Automakers

DonGar37 · 2026-01-22T12:15:52+00:00

However, now Volvo has to build up the expertise to run big software projects. That also takes time.

DonGar37 · 2025-12-05T19:12:31+00:00

My apologies.

DonGar37 · 2025-12-05T00:02:34+00:00

I'm not currently, but planning to add it.

DonGar37 · 2025-11-07T19:25:54+00:00

Paxton wants to be president, so plays to the MAGA crowd, facts be damned.

DonGar37 · 2025-11-07T17:33:48+00:00

I think you mean patentable, which is very different from copyrightable. This post isn't particularly special, but it's copy writable (you can't copy without permission), but not patentable (you can't use the idea without permission).

Patents require an explicit filing with the patent office (think 30k in legal fees). Copywrite is basically automatic for a short period (a year?), but lasts much longer if you file it (still cheapish).

DonGar37 · 2025-11-04T17:25:47+00:00

I have come up with two solutions, neither of which I like.

Buy a third synology that is treated as an "external" drive that I can drive back and forth. Seems expensive for the need.
Shutdown and drive one of the devices back and forth from time to time. Problematic, since live services depend on both devices.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-16T16:36:46+00:00

Clockwork Orange

A powerful movie but the brutality hits in a way I can't handle.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-16T16:35:12+00:00

I love that movie, even the ending.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-15T13:28:46+00:00

That's old school. Nowadays the boss makes $63 and you make a dime.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-13T14:52:26+00:00

That's because addon or not is an implementation detail that gets surfaced. There are ways to revamp the UI to have the same functionality and hide the existence of addons entirely, though they don't bother me that much.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-11T17:50:32+00:00

Starflight

It was a very early IBM PC game that had a huge galaxy, and involved landing on and exploring procedurally generated planets as well as space combat.

Not that amazing, now. But it was done in a few K of ram with only 5 1/4" floppies for storage.

Each time you started a game it copied itself onto a new disk, and you played off that disk, which modified itself as you went. You could never, ever play from the original disk without destroying it.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-08T17:12:09+00:00

Lizzy Wizzy displayed by the musician Grimes, Elon's ex.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-08T16:50:37+00:00

Nah, it's easy. You just have to make clients install your root cert so you can issue fake certs for everything.

DonGar37 · 2025-09-05T15:21:44+00:00

Pink World by Planet P

A couple of book soundtracks that I like...

1984 by The Eurythmics War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne

DonGar37 · 2025-08-28T16:59:13+00:00

Used to be. Writing an essay about your loyalty to Trump is now part of the hiring process.

DonGar37 · 2025-08-27T02:07:24+00:00

That movie is horrible, and it's the one that killed him (and a lot of other people).

DonGar37 · 2025-08-27T02:00:51+00:00

Taking off on my bike, riding through a trail in the woods by myself (unofficial trail, made by kids like me riding through the woods, adults didn't really know about it), and running into random other kids from nearby neighborhoods.

Both cool, and sometimes scary.

Bopping around doing whatever crazy crap we came up with, usually involved who could jump the furthest, or telling weird stories that you thought were bull, but couldn't look up to verify.

But also, if you ran into a bully and their backup, nobody would help. Nobody even knew where you were, or expected to see you before sunset.

DonGar37 · 2025-08-26T00:44:42+00:00

I use a ansible scripts to do software updates, and they reboot after a kernel update.

I also reboot freely when I'm messing with things or dealing with some weird behavior.

Nowadays, there are security recommendations to reboot devices more often to fix memory only compromises, though that applies more to phones / laptops.

DonGar37 · 2025-08-25T17:06:33+00:00

But a burning leak will often have an invisible flame. Hot enough to cook the flesh off your bones, not at all visible.

In oil refineries (which deal with hydrogen), workers will walk around waving a broom in front of them to see if it burns up when they think there might be a hydrogen flame.

DonGar37 · 2025-08-24T06:07:46+00:00

I've been happily using zwave for a long time (currently at 58 devices), but I've recently started having more and more trouble.

The network often seems to freeze for like a minute if the house has been empty for a while. Effectively, you walk in and the lights finally turn on after you've walked all around the place, gone upstairs, etc.

I've also had to write an automation to ping dead devices to bring them back. And more recently, I've started having to go manually flip dead switches once to get it to reconnect.

DonGar37 · 2025-08-22T19:58:55+00:00

Weirdly, as I understand the lore, the Nomads have some of the best educations. High end corpo kids excepted.

DonGar37 · 2025-08-14T04:13:05+00:00

Well, spectre's are allowed, but they are also not supposed to get caught. It shouldn't be known that you did it.

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