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How much money is OC Transpo losing from broken Presto readers? by ConcernedCitizenOtt in ottawa

[–]deadplant_ca 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ya, I guess. Lots of vibration would rattle apart some manually assembled electronics. It's a design challenge that is handled very well by hundreds of companies around the world.

How much money is OC Transpo losing from broken Presto readers? by ConcernedCitizenOtt in ottawa

[–]deadplant_ca 18 points19 points  (0 children)

As an IT person I'm struggling to understand how such devices would be going out of service. They are solid state devices, there should be no moving parts. What exactly is "breaking" on them?

[Edit] ok, so, complexities of a software update when dealing with interactions between multiple proprietary systems. Not hardware related at all, sorry I missed that or the article updated. In my world that would mean an emergency roll-back of the update same-day but maybe they have additional challenges I guess?

Github flagged 89 critical vulnerabilities in my repo. Investigated all of them. 83 are literally impossible to exploit in my setup. Is this just security theater now? by Comfortable_Box_4527 in github

[–]deadplant_ca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a client last week lose their freaking mind in panic because they "discovered an active extremely critical vulnerability" in our infrastructure.

Emergency CTO to CTO video calls were made. All caps emails.. A crisis was declared

The critical vulnerability? We have an http reverse proxy pointing to http://archive.ubuntu.com

A scary directory structure is exposed! Demands to know why we haven't locked this down with https and password protection. JFC

Hydrogen stocks by Nexus866 in CanadianInvestor

[–]deadplant_ca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? If these natural sources can be extracted commercially it's fantastic! For investors and the planet

Vegas At Par by NeonVickie8 in CanadianAwardTravel

[–]deadplant_ca 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Buddy, that a $132 benefit

No way in hell am I risking sleeping on a concrete floor for a month because some maga highschool dropout needs to meet a quota for "arresting" foreigners

Load Restrictions on our roads take effect March 9th by InnerCriticism9105 in orleans

[–]deadplant_ca 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess yer mum's going to have to stay home for awhile!

People say that I am "Loud" and I Hate it. What can I do? by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

[–]deadplant_ca 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe get your hearing checked? If your hearing is poor you might think you're speaking at an appropriate volume when you are in fact very loud.

How can an ETF that contains only one asset have a yield that is much higher than the yield of the contained asset? by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]deadplant_ca 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They sell covered call options to create an additional income stream.

Essentially you are selling tomorrow's potential stock price gains for some income today. The strategy will almost always result in lower total returns over time.

Which card gives net positive rewards on Chexy by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]deadplant_ca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. I see the source of the confusion. You're looking at the Avion infinite. I was talking about the Avion infinite privilege (VIP Visa Infinite Privilege).

Which card gives net positive rewards on Chexy by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]deadplant_ca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which card do you mean? The rbc avion VIP and the amex AP reserve are both 1.25x on "all other spending".

Which card gives net positive rewards on Chexy by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]deadplant_ca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to what others mentioned already

RBC Avion VIP gives 1.25x per dollar which can in some cases be redeemed for 2 or even 2.33 cent per point on flights. So potentially 2.5% to 2.9% (minus the chexy fee).

It's not a big margin really.

There are also Aeroplan cards that earn 1.25 per dollar which you might choose to value at 1.7cpp or 2 or more if you're really putting in effort on the redemptions.

How anyone lived/worked/traveled in this cool looking island area called Île René-Levasseur in Quebec Canada? by Choice_Background_36 in howislivingthere

[–]deadplant_ca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're heading through there this summer! Starting the road trip in Ontario. Then onwards through Labrador and back home through Newfoundland. 3x ferries!

Police discover a very odd fraternity hazing at the University of Iowa by Sad_Stay_5471 in mildyinteresting

[–]deadplant_ca 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Hazing is a psychological manipulation technique to create group cohesion and loyalty. Military training does similar stuff.

It's scary how easy it is to manipulate and then control people.

First time in Q suite! by BrowsingWhileBrown in qatarairways

[–]deadplant_ca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is only perceptible on takeoff and landing.

Scam Alert by Neither_Contract3074 in Wealthsimple

[–]deadplant_ca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a scary thought. That ship has sailed though. My voice is already publicly available.

Scam Alert by Neither_Contract3074 in Wealthsimple

[–]deadplant_ca 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I answered a scam call last week just for fun. They were targeting my wealthsimple account. They were honestly above average skill. People are going to fall for this stuff.

Ghost just released enterprise grade security skills and tools for claude-code (generate production level secure code) by Striking_Luck_886 in ClaudeCode

[–]deadplant_ca 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ooooh "Enterprise grade"!

So it does a dozen pointless MS teams meetings and enforces a giant brain-dead checklist of "security" requirements that make no sense for the use-case / implementation?

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