We use the same honeypot system on my discord server, and man is it good at catching both basic spambots and the most tedious (or mainly inattentive) kind of user. The newest generation of bots try to only post in the more active channels though, so it’s not a perfect solution.

“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”
- Terry Prachett

Mad Max: Furry R0w0d

There’s so little improvement in the world these days, we can’t really be picky about the improvement we do get.

Yeah, I’ve got a 230V 50A outlet I can hook into easily enough once I get the wasps cleared out. I’d really like to stick a dedicated lvl 2 charger out there, but IDK if my panel can even handle the load from that outlet alone. I’ve been putting off upgrading it for ages, and all the electrician friends I’ve asked for help about it have just sorta stared at my panel for a while then quickly changed the subject to asking about my smoke detectors, which seems like a good sign.

(My Ioniq is new enough to have come stock with the newer, supposedly-fixed ICCU + the software patch, so fingers crossed that it should be fine (I haven’t heard of them failing, at least). Really love the car though - first one I’ve owned that made driving actually like… a fun thing to do. Also damn that charge time on 800v is ridiculously nice)

Upside, you can get a reasonable charge over the weekend on a Level 1 charger alone - something I really wish my ioniq 5 could do (not that I’m procrastinating hiring an electrician or anything…)

That’s awesome! One thing nobody mentioned to me is that EV owners tend to know each other because we’re all hanging out at the chargers, and everyone (with the very notabale exception of tesla owners) is super nice! It’s just generally a pretty positive experience socially as well as economically.

Dang that’s actually a pretty non-bastardy privacy policy. Data sharing with consent for non-operational requirements, explicit consent for 3rd party providers, minimal/no retention for non-operational information. Like it’s not great but it’s orders of magnitude better than, say, google drive.

On the upside, this is driving a huge shift towards EVs in the US. They’re selling out so fast that just finding a unit to test drive was surprisingly difficult. My city is rolling out a huge number of residential grid upgrades to handle the anticipated load increase, which is pretty nice. They’ll even run 3-phase to residential customers in some areas now, which as a machining nerd is fucking awesome

You mean to say FIFA might be… corrupt? clutches pearls

Did they actually say “Genocide”? Pretty big deal if so, that’s about as strong a word as they can use before they have to actually do something you useless fucking cowards god fucking… fuck this shit.

The estimated human median lethal dose of type A toxin is 1.3–2.1 ng/kg intravenously or intramuscularly, 10–13 ng/kg when inhaled, or 1 μg/kg when taken by mouth

fuuuuuck thats… terrifying.

Hmm. Public notice appears to be unavailable…

Personally I think it’s the product of lizard person mind control trying to trick us into making crop circles so we conclude that the real threat are aliens from outer space. Well joke’s on you, lizards! I know you’re down there, and I’m gonna minecraft my way right down and mess up all your vile plans!

… oh, um. If you’re serious, I doubt it. The earth can be made locally flat, we do that all the time for buildings and the like.

Also if you blindfold us and tell us to keep walking “forwards”, we naturally start walking in big circles!

… But there’s two quotations in the title?

“You are a psychopath and one of the greatest threats to the security of Israel and of Jewish people around the world,” journalist Yashar Ali wrote in response to Ben-Gvir.

It’s in quotes because it’s a quote.

For unimplanted tags of unspecified size sure it’s technically possible to do, but I’ll let the article summarize why this is blatant marketing hype:

The ideal lab setup often fails miserably once you mount the reader near a gate or machine frame.

It’s worth saying: 1 meter is an ambitious goal for 125kHz. LF systems are intentionally short-range to prevent cross-talk. If you truly need 1-meter coverage, sometimes the real solution isn’t to push more current — it’s to rethink geometry, use multi-coil zones, or explore hybrid systems (LF for identity, HF/UHF for distance).

and then mention that the interference from the dermis vastly reduces the useful range of the tags, and that the article doesn’t actually specify what type of tag they’re designing for (or if it’s using a set orientation…).

… pet microchips are passive LF RFID tags, they have a readable range of maybe 15cm? Unless they’ve figured out some way to power them at distance (or they’re sticking UHF tags in your dogs, which they arent) without frying the camera and giving everyone cancer, they’re inert. What weird marketing hype.