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IphtashuFitz

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  • San Jose passenger claims a Waymo drove off with his luggage at the airport | A man says the Waymo he rode to San Jose Mineta Airport drove away with his luggage in the trunk

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  • Hell, my wife’s entirely manual Jeep (manual door locks, manual window cranks, etc.) still has a sensor that warns you if the tailgate is open…

  • Donald Trump says US will take over Cuba ‘almost immediately’

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  • Same plan as Iran:

    1. Send the US military to bomb a bunch of stuff.
    2. Iran Immediately folds and capitulates to all our demands.

    It’s the most bestest plan ever that only the brilliant minds of Trump & Hegseth could have come up with.

  • Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves

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  • Here’s a bit of trivia (I worked for a startup that Ask Jeeves acquired back in 2000 & stayed on for a few more years):

    There was a brief period of time where Ask Jeeves seriously considered getting into search for porn. They went so far as to design a French maid caricature named Mimi that was to parallel the Jeeves butler that was their brand back then. They even registered a bunch of domains like askmimi.com before finally deciding they didn’t want to risk damaging the Jeeves brand, and scratched the whole project.

    Another bit of trivia: the CEO & executives at Jeeves when they acquired us were short-sighted idiots. One of the products my startup had developed was something we called “text ads” that let people bid on popular search terms for placement of ads along with the search results we served up. It was a fully automated system that required virtually no interaction on our part, and we considered it a license to print money. It brought in a good amount of revenue for us. After Jeeves acquired us they shut our text ads down and sold the service off to another small company. The Jeeves CEO at the time infamously said “we’re in the question answering business, not the advertising business” when this was sold off.

    The company that bought it made some improvements to it then re-launched it as Google AdWords, and Google quickly eclipsed Jeeves after that.

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  • Hell, just find an accessible sewer cleanout and use that. No need to trick your way into a house.

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  • Jokes on them. I have a septic system.

  • Russian Refinery Hitlist - Update 30.04.2026

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  • Russian Refinery Hitlist - Update 30.04.2026

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  • Why hit them more frequently? Let Russia expend the effort to completely rebuild it and get into operation and THEN you attack again. By waiting until it’s back in operation you not only maximize the repair costs, but you also target it when it’s full of highly flammable materials. That ensures maximum destruction when you hit it again. A refinery full of oil that burns for days causes much more damage than a hunk of explosives in a drone that detonates next to an empty storage tank.

  • Only the Most Premium Lightbar

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  • I work regularly with theatrical LED lighting fixtures. They’re downright cold compared to halogen stage lights.

  • Only the Most Premium Lightbar

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  • I can’t believe that the light bar would generate enough heat to cause that sort of damage. All the lights on other models of Tesla’s are LED, which generates very little heat. I can’t believe they’d use something other than LEDs here as well.

  • Trump slammed as "a wolf in sheep clothing" (IMHO, the "sheep clothing" looks pretty wolfy)

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  • Obvious choice

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  • I’m not an expert by any means, but every commercial solar install I’ve seen over public parking lots has included steel beam construction mounted on reinforced concrete footings that extend 2+ feet above ground. The concrete footings appear to be designed not only to support the structure but to be able to absorb the impact of cars that might otherwise dent/bend the steel supports. A few examples:

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/fcQ9PUoWp68c21n57

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/QqbmVsphByzN5Xi56

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/n3wUKkYZLMCpzVTz5

    The electrical infrastructure to support these is also significantly more than a residential solar setup. I have 44 panels on my roof, and I counted around 488 on one of these carports. I can generate around 85 kWh on a clear day, so one of these can probably generated 1000 kWh or more. You’ll need good electrical infrastructure to safely manage that and feed it into the grid. I didn’t need any infrastructure changes when my solar panels were installed other than a new utility meter. These all likely required a lot more than that.

  • Obvious choice

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  • The infrastructure to build a load-bearing roof over a parking lot is significantly more than the concrete footings and supports needed to hold ground-based solar. There are some public lots near me that have solar roofs over them. When I park there I almost feel like I’m pulling into an underground parking garage.

  • AI brings Val Kilmer back to life for film

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  • AI brings Val Kilmer back to life for film

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  • A cousin of mine died about a year ago, after a long struggle with cancer. “She” still posts on Facebook. It makes me sick.

  • Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity

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  • I have a “prosumer” internet setup at home for various reasons. It’s UniFi gear, which is highly configurable, and configs are centrally managed. They provide a pretty robust web UI to manage it all, but the configuration all resides in plain text files that you can also hand edit if you want to do anything really advanced.

    While troubleshooting an issue recently I came across a post on their support forum from somebody who had used Claude to analyze those config files and make recommendations. Since I have access to Claude through my employer I decided to give that a try. I was pleasantly surprised with the recommendations it made after it spent a few minutes analyzing my configuration.

  • Oklahoma school principal takes down gunman

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  • The thermal cameras used in Ukraine's FP-2 UAVs show how full each tank is at oil facilities.

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  • I wonder if Russia is purposely keeping the larger tanks empty in the hope that Ukraine might simply target them based on size…

  • Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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  • This is a phased array radar system, which is significantly different than the mechanical radars used by boats/ships. A phased array system typically supports near real time tracking of multiple targets since the radar signals are controlled through solid state beam steering.

    Mechanical radars like those on boats can only update targets as quickly as the antenna rotates, which can be as slow as 20 RPM for some consumer brands. They are very different beasts. Comparing the two is like comparing a car to a train…

  • 'Addicted to hacking': Young hacker behind historic breach speaks out for 1st time, before reporting to prison

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  • Same here. We also contract with HackerOne, a company of “white hat” hackers that actively attack our site and earn significant bounties if they can do something like remotely execute commands, exfiltrate data, etc. Only after they provide us with a repeatable set of steps and we close the hole do they get paid.

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin ‘no longer has upper hand’ in war, says ex-CIA chief

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin-zelensky-truce-oil-refinery-live-b2945082.html
  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Found Lemmy HQ while in Reykjavik

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Russia may stage radiation incident and blame Ukraine, ISW report says

    newsukraine.rbc.ua /news/russia-may-stage-radiation-incident-and-blame-1772008484.html
  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    Tesla kills Models S and X to build humanoid robots instead

    arstechnica.com /cars/2026/01/tesla-kills-models-s-and-x-to-build-humanoid-robots-instead/
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Czechia to supply Ukraine with new long-range Narwhal missiles capable of striking deep inside Russia

    www.uawire.org /czechia-to-supply-ukraine-with-new-long-range-narwhal-missiles-capable-of-striking-deep-inside-russia
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Ukraine detains Russia ‘shadow fleet’ cargo ship in Odesa, SBU says

    kyivindependent.com /ukraine-arrested-ship-belonging-to-russian-shadow-fleet-in-odesa-port-sbu-says/
  • Enough Musk Spam @lemmy.world
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    Against All Odds, Elon Musk is Getting Even Worse at Comedy

    www.cracked.com /article_49270_against-all-odds-elon-musk-is-getting-even-worse-at-comedy.html
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/12/companies-issuing-rto-mandates-lose-their-best-talent-study/
  • [Dormant] moved to !teslamotors@lemmy.zip @lemmy.world
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    The new SiriusXM app for Tesla sucks

  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    No more EV app folders: Universal plug-and-charge is due to launch in 2025

    arstechnica.com /cars/2024/12/universal-plug-and-charge-for-most-evs-is-moving-ahead-for-2025/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Swing state voting support for college students

    studentvote.info
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the funniest/strangest thing you have seen out your office/apartment window?