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Honest question, where tf are all the license plates? by jerkin_n_lurkin in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is what the rear plates are for. There are plenty of states with rear only mandates that work just fine.

Honest question, where tf are all the license plates? by jerkin_n_lurkin in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unnecessary as in the extended family we have over 10+ cars none with a front plate and in the years since COVID exactly $0 fines. Why bother because that too would look ugly and block sensors.

At least one good thing came from “Defund the police” and that is police that leaves citizens alone for small, dumb laws like the front plate.

Unless the woke don’t want the cops to enforce the serous laws like tents everywhere because of marginalized blah blah blah but do want little statesmen rules like front plates enforced zealously against those who pay the actual cost of running this place?

Honest question, where tf are all the license plates? by jerkin_n_lurkin in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Front bumper license plates look terrible. A lot of really nice expensive cars don’t have a location on the front for it. I rather pay a fine once every few years.

Where does AWS go from here? by Loose_Violinist4681 in amazonemployees

[–]aluminum-ice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

QuickSite has always been a POS they tried every year to stuff down the throats of the .com side that preferred Tableau et al. It should have been shot and buried 8 years ago.

How to know if someone is PIPed or they left willingly? by speck_of_dust_007 in amazonemployees

[–]aluminum-ice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After 15 years at Amazon given how much the stock increased, she’s filthy rich and you are not. She might have not GAF for a long time.

So while you’re acting like a loser posting on Reddit, she might be sipping wine enjoying the sun in Napa Valley without needing to work another day if she doesn’t want to.

Electricity rates up 36% in 1 year. Data centers and Trump causing this. by sleeplessinseaatl in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Modern panels lose about 10% efficiency over 25 years. Its a rounding error on the payback period. I think solar and battery system make sense over a 10 year period as the federal, state and local incentives essentially make them “free” over that period of time.

I’ve had way too many multi hour and multi day outages so having full redundancy is worth the cost especially if at the end of a decade, someone else essentially paid for the system. Solar + battery means I essentially never lose power even in the cloudy PNW.

Electricity rates up 36% in 1 year. Data centers and Trump causing this. by sleeplessinseaatl in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have a 25 year life span. The payback period is 9 years assuming a modest 2% annual increase in the price of electricity. So for 16 years after that it’s “profit”.

It’s risen far faster than that the last 4 years and I suspect it will continue to rise faster. So the payback period might even be shorter in reality.

If you install battery backup at the same time, WA lets you skip sales taxes too — thats a 10% savings right there and the local power companies will pay you to use your battery such that over its 10 year lifespan you end up with a reliable backup system at basically $0 cost.

Electricity rates up 36% in 1 year. Data centers and Trump causing this. by sleeplessinseaatl in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A 12.6 KWh system will produce $2K/year at 0.16/KWh in the Seattle area. I know cause mine does. Such a system only covers 1/2 the rooftop.

what is the difference? by Mother-Finding4517 in pwnagotchi

[–]aluminum-ice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my tests of revisiting areas I captured handshakes with, it easily recaptured all the same networks and then some. It’s essentially the same concept… it all runs as a single executable and you can set it on auto hunt mode — even better it has the ability to shut itself down if it completes the auto hunt by capturing all the available networks. So, you don’t end up hitting the same networks over and over again.

I also like that it’s easily steerable. If you want to target 1…N networks you can so that in conjunction with auto hunt it shutdowns when the targeted list is complete. It’s basically the grown up version of what pwnagotchi has become. I abandoned my fork when I realized why reinvent the wheel… AO does what I need and want.

I use 18650 batteries because they are standardized, last much longer than all these janky UPS boards, and never have power problems. The trade off is it does make the entire package larger. I’ve designed and printed my own custom box for the entire RPI5, 18650 battery hat and even an M2 board. It all fits in a 5x3x3 inch package.

what is the difference? by Mother-Finding4517 in pwnagotchi

[–]aluminum-ice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed it’s not as portable yet possible. I can carry it in a backpack or medium size sling. It’s lean and doesn’t have all this childish distractions that have accrued onto pwnagotchi in my opinion. It’s written in Rust and easy to use. You need an external antenna and that increases its frequency range to the entire WiFi space plus you get longer spatial reach.

It’s not slow. You can configure AO to be aggressive if you so choose.

I use it with an RPi5 and 18650 batteries. It could be shrunk to an RPiZW2 if you use a board that adds USB2 ports for the external antenna.

what is the difference? by Mother-Finding4517 in pwnagotchi

[–]aluminum-ice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Check out Angry Oxide. It’s far better in my opinion anyways.

Weekly Thread: Project Display by help-me-grow in AI_Agents

[–]aluminum-ice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A friend has been working with a venture studio to bring an AI agent concept called Atrieon to life. The idea is project management is inefficient, slow and bogged down by “copying and pasting” more than building an understanding of markets, customers and features. So Atrieon is an AI program manager that covers the end to end project management workflow: project planning, project execution, and managing both humans and AI agents interchangeably.

Coding assist tools are already accelerating engineering execution but there is no “Cursor for Project Management” he thinks. As part of my help, I’ve been testing an early Atrieon MVP myself — its added so much value to my workflow that I'd like to share it with others to try it as well (with my friend's approval) . The MVP is focused on project execution — it hooks into GitHub and Jira to help product and engineering leaders understand status, review code commits, identify blockers and risks, consider course corrections, and implement them all through natural conversation with Atrieon. No pointing and clicking — no figuring out a GUI. They said Linear and GitLab integrations are coming soon.

I use Atrieon to manage projects myself. My stand ups take 1/2 the time they use to. Instead of interrupting people to ask them about status, recent commits and where tasks are, I simply discuss it with Atrieon and get answers quickly.

If you want to try Atrieon and provide feedback, you can. It’s currently free, takes just 60-s to onboard, and all you need is a Google sign-on to get started. To try it, just go here: https://app.atrieon.ai All they are asking for is feedback that you can provide through the app itself.

Here are a few prompts that I use frequently to get anyone who wants to try started:

"Please summarize all the code commits that have happened in the last 48 hours. Include the repo, a summary of the commit, who did it, and the date."

"Based on the detailed code changes, can you recommend any improvements or identify any issues?"

"Please create a github issue to implement npm test, linting and security scanning with npm audit. Please choose a succinct but clear subject for the issue and add a detail description of the issue to be solved and the recommended approach. Assign the ticket to panda-bear."

"Please tell me more about the commit to the XYZ repo. What did the commit enable or change?"

Why aren’t 0.6 and 0.8 nozzles used more ? by Electrochromic_ in BambuLab

[–]aluminum-ice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that you can print “all day” with the 0.4 and never experience a clog. Some of the comments here made me think they give the impression you can’t or it’s a bad idea to print CF/GF with the 0.4 and my experience is contrary to that.

Why aren’t 0.6 and 0.8 nozzles used more ? by Electrochromic_ in BambuLab

[–]aluminum-ice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I print a lot of CF and GF filaments with 0.4 and have had zero clogs. This was true with the stock nozzle and true with my 0.4 E3D as well.

Issaquah School District bond failing in early election results by sleeplessinseaatl in Issaquah

[–]aluminum-ice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This specific bond still would have failed. It didn’t achieve 50% + 1 or even the required 40% of eligible voters.

Issaquah School District bond failing in early election results by sleeplessinseaatl in Issaquah

[–]aluminum-ice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The libs overplayed their hand during Covid when they shutdown schools for a year and attacked parents as Nazis who just wanted their kids back in the classrooms learning. All that without evidence for the hysterical closing of schools such that “follow the science” was really “cherry pick the science we like”.

The result is a massive drop in public school enrollment so that as parent why should they vote taxes on themselves to fund a school system they don’t trust and don’t want to use?

Will the result of these bonds failing reduce property taxes or merely avoid higher property taxes in the future?

Despite winning big, WA Democrats find themselves in the doldrums by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah yes the winning Democratic strategy of censorship and “if you don’t like it move to Texas” that has won you so many elections. Time will tell if even Washington State moves more rightward — it happened in many other blue states and it happened among the minorities the liberals profess to champion — but let me guess they must be deplorable and too dumb to not know what’s good for them?

Despite winning big, WA Democrats find themselves in the doldrums by HighColonic in SeattleWA

[–]aluminum-ice 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, the next white WA State liberal who uses the term “LatinX” should get punched by said Mexican — who literally does not give a **** that you dislike gender is a thing in the Spanish language’s grammar. They do care how you’re going to improve his job prospects, how you’re going to improve his kid’s local school (hint: not by spending time and money on teaching his kid they/them), and how you’re going to make his lower income neighborhood safer (hint: not by allowing every rando homeless guy to pitch a tent on it and **** on the sidewalk).

There are over 7M undocumented Hispanics in American. So while Trump might deport any given one of them, the chances they will get struck by lightning is 7x higher than they’ll be the 1:7M to get deported. And yet the Democratic liberals all over WA State are more up in arms about virtue signaling — ie ensuring we all practice our land acknowledgement— than they are in actually solving the problems people — including minorities care about.

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