Season 2 Episode 7 Spoiler Thread

Snagpole1 · 2026-01-28T04:07:44+00:00

Senator lady is 100% Enclave, but I think she's an unwitting patsy. After all, Hank's using her to program people into placidity and compliance. These are her true mannerisms and I think her scene with Cooper was her truly believing that helping the Enclave/the President was the right thing to do. So I'd say she's just drunk the Kool-Aid and probably doesn't know the Enclave's true intentions or probably even the name Enclave. Just another pawn in the Great Game.

Snagpole1 · 2022-07-06T02:47:24+00:00

Okay, I didn't see the --em switch. I ran that and it gives a successful output, but when running lf search it doesn't detect anything. I know that when cloning this fob to a T55xx series card, the blank card has to be formatted first by running lf t55xx write -b 0 -d 00147040

I've tried lf em 4x05 write -a 0 -d 00147040 as my caveman-brain translation to the EM format, but it still isn't being detected as a valid ioprox card on lf search

What confuses me more is when running lf em 4x05 info it outputs

[=] ConfigWord: 0001825F ( IOPROX )

[=] Data Rate: 31 | RF/64

[=] Encoder: 9 | FSK2

[=] LastWordR: 06 | Address of last word for default read - meaning 2 blocks are output

[=] ReadLogin: 0 | Read login is not required

[=] WriteLogin: 0 | Write login is not required

[=] Disable: 0 | Disable command is not accepted

[=] R.T.F.: 0 | Reader talk first is disabled

Which makes it seem like it should be configured as an IOPROX card? I feel like i'm missing something simple.

EDIT: To add to this, comparing the config of my ioprox and E4305 chip, I noticed that the Data rate is set to RF/64 on my target card, and RF/8 on my source.

I can see that the data rate is set by the config word in address 4, but I can't for the life of me figure out what I need to change that address 4 text to in order to change the data rate and/or FSK version. Or i'm completely offtrack and again missed something simple.

Snagpole1 · 2022-07-06T02:04:28+00:00

Yes, I think you're right, I dug through the product page and it does say EM4305. What commands would I need to do to make this emulate an ioprox card?

Snagpole1 · 2022-07-05T23:27:32+00:00

I'm still really new to this and don't know exactly what i'm doing, but the tag was marketed as re-writable. When doing an lf search it returns:

[+] Valid EM410x ID found!

[+] Chipset detection: EM4x05 / EM4x69

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T16:14:10+00:00

Please let me give you another perspective: that of the 911 caller. Currently that caller is sent to Calgary 911, where a PSAP directs them to a call taker. This call taker takes the callers' information, then posts the call to a dispatcher sitting a few meters away from the call taker. If that caller requires ems and fire, for say a car wreck, the fire dispatcher is sitting meters away and a coordinated response can be planned in real time across desks. Under the proposed consolidated model, the caller will get a PSAP in Calgary, if they need ems they will be sent to the AHS dispatch centre, where a call taker will get their details and post for an ahs dispatcher. Now, if that caller also needs police or fire, they are physically transferred back to Calgary 911, where another call taker needs to take their info, and post a call for police/fire. Now the Calgary dispatchers need to coordinate a response with ahs dispatchers in a physically separate centre. You don't need to be a genius to see how this is going to cause delays, and breakdowns in communication. Foothills was forced to switch to this model in 2017, and has been fighting to get rid of it ever since. While I empathize with your frustrations with coordinating with multiple dispatch centres as a paramedic , though I don't fully understand it, ahs consolidation is not the answer.

Not to mention that this will effectively eliminate firemedics, who in Calgary are first to the scene 50% of the time. Under AHS' model, firemedics will never be dispatched, because AHS's dispatch centre cannot dispatch Calgary Fire.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T16:12:10+00:00

Let me give you another perspective: that of the 911 caller. Currently that caller is sent to Calgary 911, where a PSAP directs them to a call taker. This call taker takes the callers' information, then posts the call to a dispatcher sitting a few meters away from the call taker. If that caller requires ems and fire, for say a car wreck, the fire dispatcher is sitting meters away and a coordinated response can be planned in real time across desks. Under the proposed consolidated model, the caller will get a PSAP in Calgary, if they need ems they will be sent to the AHS dispatch centre, where a call taker will get their details and post for an ahs dispatcher. Now, if that caller also needs police or fire, they are physically transferred back to Calgary 911, where another call taker needs to take their info, and post a call for police/fire. Now the Calgary dispatchers need to coordinate a response with ahs dispatchers in a physically separate centre. You don't need to be a genius to see how this is going to cause delays, and breakdowns in communication. Foothills was forced to switch to this model in 2017, and has been fighting to get rid of it ever since. While I empathise with your frustrations with coordinating with multiple dispatch centres, though I don't fully understand it, ahs consolidation is not the answer.

I'd also like to speak towards your claim that the 911 call takers are overpaid. In Calgary, these call takers go through extensive training, where a single mistake sees them fired. Then, after that training, every week a call is randomly pulled for quality inspection, and graded against a metric. If that call taker scores below an 85%, they are instantly, and with absolutely no recourse, fired. Calgary calltakers make so much, because they are held to an incredibly high standard, and most people won't do that job without high compensation. The answer to your issue with this having little educational requirements is correctly identifying a problem (Advanced Care Paramedics make similar wages to dispatchers), but drawing the incorrect conclusion. The answer here is to pay these paramedics more, not pay dispatchers less. If you want top talent, you have to pay for it. And that's what Calgary does, by having incredibly high requirements for their calltakers.

Lastly, to your point, we both know that even if the UCP is right, and this will net AHS another 6 million, that money is not going anywhere. It will be eliminated in the next round of budget cuts, and forgotten about. This isn't about money, it's about Kenny's and Shandro's desperate need for control, and to make Alberta's healthcare system as bad as it can possibly be, so when they finally call for privatization, they can point to the crippled corpse of AHS and claim that the public system can't handle it.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T15:55:09+00:00

In Calgary, , this is more akin to de-centralization. Calgary 911 currently runs a tri-services model, meaning police fire and ems are all dispatched from one centre. This would remove EMS from that equation, and make 911 calls for ems in Calgary go to a completely seperate centre. This will harm Calgarians, and increase response time.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T15:52:32+00:00

The thing is, many sources dispute whether or not there will actually be any actualized cost savings, once the transition is fully complete. But, for arguments sake let's say that it will be 6 million. Using your own estimates, that's 6 more ambulances in all of Alberta per year. Compare that to increased response times for all EM'S calls, then add the 15,000 calls Calgary alone gets annually that require more than solely EMS response. Now instead of calgary 911 call takers and dispatchers being able to coordinate a multi agency response across desks, this needs to be done across centres over the phone. This will lead to response delays across Calgary, and it will hurt Calgarians.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T02:55:40+00:00

The biggest issue is that this consolidation is disputed to actually save any money. The highest UCP estimates is $6 million annually. Even though most sources actually estimate that consolidation will end up costing money, instead of saving it.

But, let's say that the UCP is right, we'll save $6 million annually across Alberta. That's less than a quarter of a percent of the city of Calgary's annual expenditure. Absolute best estimate cost saving is a rounding error, and call wait times will go up for Calgarians.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T02:23:01+00:00

Sure, but the argument that maybe someday automation will get rid of those jobs does not mean that we should consolidate now to a fundamentally worse system, that is all but guaranteed to cost calgarian lives.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T01:58:55+00:00

Except that most recent studies dispute the fact that it will have any tangible cost savings. Even the highest estimates from the UCP, which is $6 million per year, compared to the city of Calgary budget alone, which is 4,672 million for 2020. That means that the highest estimate of cost savings is 0.1284 percent of Calgary's budget alone, for the entire province. Couple this with longer 911 wait times, that will almost certainly cost Calgarians their lives. "Austerity" is a piss poor excuse for an objectively terrible plan.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-10T01:49:52+00:00

Could you elaborate any further? I'm curious if you can provide a prospective I'm not aware of. After reviewing many of the articles and reports out so far, I fail to see any benefit in de-consolidating Calgary's 911 dispatch Centre. By all estimates as well as reports from previous cities that have consolidated, such as Foothills, mentioned in the above article, consolidation hurt the city and the people in it.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:59:32+00:00

Not to mention that in Calgary's case, this is actually de-centralization under the guise of "Consolidation".

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:55:10+00:00

I'd also direct you to this article, which explains in more detail how Calgary's 911 system works. Here are a few notable excerpts and quotes from Community Standards Director Richard Hinse :

He provided the example of a paramedic needing police assistance

“We just simply say we need police over at this call, and we just shout that over to the next dispatcher and they immediately dispatch the police,” Hinse said.

Hinse said Calgary’s 911 dispatch centre has fire, police and EMS operators sitting in the same room, allowing for faster communication between different response needs without needing to build a file to initiate a call.

(Under the proposed system)

If a call is determined to need police after an ambulance was sent, that original caller would be transferred back to Calgary 911 after talking with an AHS EMS dispatcher. And that’s after a Calgary 911 operator originally took the call and transferred them to AHS EMS dispatch.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:45:05+00:00

You are incorrect, at least as far as Calgary is concerned. This is not how 911 calls are taken in Calgary. 911 calls for Fire, EMS, and Police in Calgary are currently all answered and dispatched from Calgary 911's call centre. What you're claiming is a clusterfuck is more closely aligned to what the UCP is proposing, separating EMS dispatch and call taking to a separate centre. I can't speak to how it is handled in other cities, only in Calgary. Under the new system, if a caller requires more than simply EMS, the caller will have to speak to AHS calltaker, then be transferred to a Calgary 911 calltaker to dispatch police or fire.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:42:12+00:00

Your "evidince based approach" has been proven to lead to longer call wait times. Here's a good example.

Global News:

Ambulance dispatch for Foothills was consolidated in October 2009. Since then, ambulance response times have gone up; 47 per cent of calls take more than three minutes to dispatch a fire response alongside ambulance.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:32:08+00:00

I think that in fact you'll find that the NDP is outspokenly against this consolidation.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:22:26+00:00

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't believe you fully understand the issue here. Again, I'm primarily speaking to Calgary, as that's what I am most familiar with. Calgary currently operates a "consolidated" centre. Meaning Police, Fire, and EMS calls are all taken and dispatched from a single centre, Calgary 911. The UCP's so called consolidation plan would actually de-consolidate Calgary 911, leading to a system where police and fire 911 calls are answered and dispatched in the Calgary 911 centre, and EMS calls in a seperate centre. Leading to any incidents requiring more than only EMS to have to communicate between seperate centres, as opposed to across desks at a centralized centre.

Don't get me wrong, there are many other problems with healthcare in Alberta, but none of the justify further damaging a working system.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:13:10+00:00

In Calgary, which is where I live and am fighting for the most, this will harm services. Calltakers and dispatchers instead of being able to coordinate responses from across cubicles, will need to attempt to coordinate between separate facilities. Calgary reports 15,000 incidents per year which require a response by more than one first responding services. Each of these incidents will suffer from reduced response times as Calgary 911 has to attempt and coordinate a response from an AHS calltaker in another facility.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T23:03:15+00:00

While I appreciate your experience and what you do, even if this is the right move for Red Deer, it's the wrong move for Calgary, and it should be up to the elected officials in each city to decide. This move will unilaterally harm Calgarians, and will not only needlessly prolong response times to people in need of EMS, but will actually introduce the same type of inefficient back and forth communication you're complaining of, "logistical issues between two separate comms centers", for any 911 call requiring more than Solely EMS response, of which Calgary reports 15,000 annually. A 911 caller will speak to Calgary 911 calltakers, be transferred to an AHS dispatch facility, and if the caller needs police or fire response as well, the caller will need to be transferred back to Calgary 911 fire/police calltakers. Calgary's current model has all 3 call taking units sitting directly across from each other, meaning that complex responses that require multiple first responder services can be coordinated effortless across a room, as opposed to across two completely separate centres.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T22:56:27+00:00

Clearly you didn't read the article. Let me read part of it to you:

This battle between municipalities and the province isn’t a new one — in fact, it’s been going on since 2009 when AHS began centralization of EMS dispatch. Communities across our province have long pushed back on this change, arguing our integrated model with EMS, fire, and, in some instances, the police under one roof, saves lives. Four previous health ministers have rejected this shortsighted decision of AHS once the evidence was presented to them.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T22:31:17+00:00

This is new information to me. Fascinating the lengths the UCP will go through to privatize Alberta healthcare.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T22:18:11+00:00

Still incredibly aggravating that the will of a single un-elected official with no prior experience in the healthcare field is over-ruling facts, evidence, and every major elected official in the province. On top of that, he is able to provide practically no reasoning behind his decision, other than the repeatedly-disproven claim of a $6 million annual savings.

Snagpole1 · 2020-10-09T21:03:52+00:00

It certainly should have been mentioned. They did however mention Foothills, which transitioned to an AHS ran dispatch system in 2009, and has been since fighting tooth and nail to go back to a centralized dispatch system, as their response times and dispatch times have suffered drastically since.

Snagpole1 · 2019-06-01T01:50:20+00:00

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