DevDave

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[–] DevDave@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Anyone know of a jail break for Tesla's PowerWall?

My understanding is the battery/inverter will go into something like safe mode after a certain number of days of not being able to call home. I haven't been able to confirm or deny this but I do know Tesla doesn't like you interacting with the battery directly.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... with a flannel like that, the first guy could be Canadian for all we know though the symbols in the back ground make we wonder if perhaps Pakistani-Canadian?

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

There is a premade meal delivery service with possibly the best product right now on the market. Unfortunately after I did a deep dive on them to figure out why their customer service sucked so much, I found the head of their "customer experience" had liked/heart emoji'd these two AI companies.

After telling my experience to another dev, they noticed an advert by an AI company boasting how they provided an service for them.

For tech savy people, the heart of the problem is because they used the user email address as the primary key in multiple places. So not only a varchar primary key but a natural one to boot! Not even a drop in the bucket but they lost ~10K USD of revenue for what should have been a 1 minute begin; update... SQL command by the DBA. Though the large amounts of AI makes me think they fucked themselves on that too. Another reason I suspect that; they had a data breach at the start of the month but haven't made a public statement or warned their customers. Might not even know, might not know how it happened, and how much was stolen.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

Near the bottom of the list of the saddest things I saw last year was a video clip of an "every day" major Musk fanboy coming to terms that their hero was a wackjob drug addict. It looked like Musk had taken a bit too much MDMA, Ketamine, or some amount of both as he was having these spastic episodes of body shakes and eye rolls during the middle of the interview. Mysteriously difficult to find the video clip now.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

Anti-Trust is some bullshit invented by damn socialist commies to keep the money from trickling down. \s

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I thought TMobile bought Mint?

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

~20 years ago I saw someone doxed under a false accusation. Wasn't about racism, sexism, or really anything equal to the amount of abuse this person and everyone around them received.

Another incident, I almost sat down next to these fuckwits but I am thankfully out of frame https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/

The thing is that a lot of people are stressed the fuck out and are aimlessly angry. The goal with managing what you show and tell the internet is to have enough time to run. That's the best you can do.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

just need to hang on for a bit longer and when AMOC fails the heat waves will be a much lower priority! \s

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Identity management and security.

So this username is DevDave but hilariously there are about five (down from seven) different David's fighting over this handle. It's hilarious because as soon as one of us signs up with this handle to a new service, we send a friend invite to the others as a not to subtle "First!" with both middle fingers. Yes it does narrow things down from ~8 billion to five, but since we are all in tech and are interweaving its hard to know who is actually who and it creates an interesting level of chaos. Otherwise this my random bullshit account and I don't type anything here I wouldn't say out loud in public.

The others are more isolated/specific due to reasons.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is my third account in the piefed/lemmy universe and the experience feels a lot like the years immediately after Digg imploded but before the incident with the first censorship revolt (I forget what that was even about). That's when the first big change to the "Hot" algorithm was made that made it easier to moderate but also made the site more stale.

Thinking about what that website was like then vs now is more than a bit depressing actually. I knew a handful of the original reddit dev's at a professional level after meeting them at a couple PyCon's. Still have a couple of the Reddit stickers they would randomly hand out to people. I don't think I ever met Aaron in person but I talked shop with him a lot about the python framework he had made. Bleh.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I often wonder if that is the reason Reddit dropped it, to make controlling and influencing the user base easier? A joke example, seeing +100 to -99 votes regarding the sacrilege or glory of pineapple on pizza is a lot different then just +1 or -1

Reddit's shadow ban system is another part of why I don't trust them. Plenty of times I've seen posts where metadata says there are multiple comments but instead its empty without even the [deleted by reddit] trail. Could be just their distributed database taking its sweet ass time to become consistent or maybe those people are on some sort of shit list?

For myself I know I keep saying something that results in me getting some extra attention from an LLM because I keep getting sub 30 second instant bans and warnings for ambiguous comments that sound threatening but aren't. I lost a 20 year old account because of the comment "We should never have killed that fucking bear" being determined as advocating violence.

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