JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Death penalty is an ineffective deterrent mostly because people tend to commit the crimes it's used as a punishment for while not thinking, or caring, about the consequences at all.

Now, forget cutting off the internet, if you'd get the death penalty for getting caught pirating music, it would prove to be a very effective deterrent at stopping it. I guarantee, zero piracy after a few years.
A lot smaller population left to buy the legal media too, though, but hey, no pesky pirates!

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

None of the anti-tamper measurements that are based on odometer readings would catch this, it simply measures how many revolutions the wheels are doing, multiplies that with a set value depending on the wheel circumference, and increments the odometer value accordingly. For Teslas, that number is 742 revolutions per mile.
If the Tesla software would "accidentally" set itself to lets say 450 revolutions per mile, your odometer would simply start ticking up a mile for every 0.6 miles you actually travel.

The only way to catch that is to use a GPS to measure how far you've actually travelled and do a comparison. Good thing for Tesla, GPS is an extremely rare technology nobody has access to, and with EVs, nobody ever even notices such things as "range" and "distance traveled".
Oh, right. So uh, how exactly did they think they wouldn't get immediately caught..?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Also AI isn't only LLMs and image generation, it's a massive field that's been used in different things for decades. "No AI" would mean "back to snipping movies using practical effects together from spools of film", as basically every CGI and editing software uses something "AI" in it these days.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Or just moron numerology. The last tariffs were calculated by taking the trade deficit and dividing that in two. E.g some country imports 10 billion to the US but exports only 5, so trump claimed there was a 50% "tariff" by that country and slapped 25% "counter tariffs" on them.

At least they capped it to a 10% minimum as otherwise there would be a bunch of countries the US should have added a negative tariff for making that stuff cheaper.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

In theory.
And it actually probably would be pretty easy to do following US requirements, seeing how lax some of the "Made in USA" labels are:

Made in USA of Imported Parts
...the final construction is done in our country, but all or nearly all the parts have been imported from other countries
Made in USA with Global Components or Global Materials
...the final product is finished in the United States. There could also be a few or no parts of the product that are made in the US, but the majority are made and imported from foreign countries.
Assembled in the USA
...the majority or all of the product is put together in the United States or its territories. ...it’s a foreign product, with foreign-made materials that were only Assembled in the United States. -https://www.allamericanmade.com/what-does-made-in-usa-mean/

But the logistics of funnelling $450 billion worth of parts through somewhere else would be basically impossible.
...or they could just lie.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They do for the freedom of expression, as do most EU countries:

Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

7.4 billion, which is around 0.7% of GDP. 0.66% of GNI.

For comparison, the US might win out on pure billions (~65), but compared to the size of the economy, it uses a whopping 0.24% of the GNI on foreign aid, a figure that is almost certainly going to drop in the near future.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Why does it have that braindead URL?

euvd.enisa.europa.eu -> European Union Vulnerability Database, run by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (from the previous name, European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA), hosted on the official website of the european union, europa.eu.

And why, for the love of god, does it have a separate numbering scheme?!

Because they want the ability to reference other vulnerability sources - like JVN - and not just CVE:

The EUVD service builds upon the CVE system and vulnerabilities in the scope of the CVE numbering service receive a CVE. In addition, the EUVD data aggregates and enriches the vulnerability information and lists an EUVD ID on top of the CVE when new vulnerability entries are created. To allow further cross referencing, the CVE identifier and additional vulnerability identifiers are listed when available. -https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/faq

And because, you know, standards.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes. Directly if you have root, or with a workaround where you bring up the power menu and then use either virtual keyboard commands or the AutoInput plugin to tap the reboot button.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yep. Getting hit means you are burned.
Back when I was a kid, polttopallo was always what the US calls "Circle dodgeball", and not the team variant. We have one like that too, with the twist that when you get hit, you run behind the opposing team and can start throwing them in the back. It's called Kahden Tulen Välissä - between two fires.

In Sweden they have a variation called Killerboll. You probably don't need a translation for that :)

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

That's exactly it, he knows what it means - all. L5 is easy like that.

He's delusional thinking that he could ever actually achieve that, but that's why L5 is so much simpler of a concept than L4, as with L4 you can argue about semantics and details about what exactly it has to be able to do to qualify. Level 5 has no exceptions, it has to be completely autonomous with zero human interaction required other than telling it where you want to get to. If it can't do it, it isn't L5.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

“All Russia fed us are lies. They’re fake. Russia isn’t as strong as they claim, and Ukraine isn’t as backwards as they say.”

And, nothing has changed. Two weeks march to Helsinki to save those poor backwater Finnish boys from oppression and starvation and all that.

Did you know: the famous molotov cocktail is named such because when ussr was bombing the Finns, they publicly claimed to be dropping humanitarian food aid, and definitely not incindiary bombs. The Finns decided to give them the name "Molotovs Bread Basket" - after the foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov - and named our incendiary weaponry consisting of a bottle of booze the Molotov's cocktail, a "drink to go with the bread".

Also the official name for it is polttoPullo, burnBottle. Definitely not to be confused with polttoPallo, which is dodgeball.

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