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Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them
  • The solar/battery stuff was just him saving an almost bankrupt company his cousins had. SpaceX and Tesla had both invested in the company, and he would have lost the money and like faced regulatory scrutiny had it went under.

    Hyperloop was his effort to disrupt California's high-speed rail plans.

  • Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says
  • I guess it is an old argument. How willing are we, as a society, to protect people from being taken advantage of by cons. Musk had been extremely resilient for a con man. Probably because he mainly goes after relatively poor people.

    Musk's companies aren't the only ones making breakthroughs in their respective fields. The only difference between Musk companies and others is that Musk just didn't care about safety, so his companies cut corners to make people think they are ahead. Other companies who are more responsible aren't willing to cut those corners for ethical reasons.

  • Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says
  • That is what makes this even more egregious. Musk doesn't care about this guy in the slightest, except for the publicity that might help Musk raise more investor money. So Musk takes advantage of this desperation without any concern for long-term consequences. We know people left the company because of their ethical concerns. Those that remain probably just don't care or aren't on a position to do anything about the lack of ethics.

  • Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
  • It’s so good many people trust it to much.

    That's the malignant part I mentioned. They trust it too much and end up running into a first responder, motorcycle or kid getting off a school bus. The aviation industry and many other industries have extensive knowledge how to avoid this very problem. Most other car companies implement systems to avoid it. Tesla just doesn't really care that much.

    My thoughts were also about phantom breaking, but I don't know if it is still an issue.

    By the way, I'm not downvoting you here.

  • Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
  • They give 2 statistics, accidents and incidents. Accidents are crashes, incidents are crashes plus tickets.

    Tesla has most accidents per driver. Ram has the most incidents - the report you mention. Tesla has the second most incidents.

    So, Teslas still top the number is accidents. Agree, we would need a study to figure out if Tesla driving assist suite is either incompetent at driver safety or malignant to driver safety. Perhaps this lawsuit will shed some light on it.

  • Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
  • In any case, I think we can dispel the myth that Tesla is one of the safest cars. They have the worst accident rates among all brands and their driving assist features either can't keep idiots from making bad decisions or, worse, even amplify the dangerous effects that idiots create while driving.

  • Columbia students file civil rights complaint against school amid protests. Here are the accusations.
    www.cbsnews.com Columbia students file civil rights complaint against school amid protests. Here are the accusations.

    As protests continue at Columbia University, a group of students have filed a federal civil rights complaint accusing the university of discrimination against Palestinian students and allies.

    Columbia students file civil rights complaint against school amid protests. Here are the accusations.

    Hopefully they can find true justice. Maybe AIPAC's power is starting to wane?

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    Tesla Semi trucks in short supply for PepsiCo as its rivals use competing EV big rigs

    According to the food-and-drinks maker and one of its executives with knowledge of the deal, PepsiCo was using only 36 of Teslas promised 100 electric trucks as of this month.

    The shortfall, which hasn't been previously disclosed, lays bare the challenges for Tesla as it seeks to become a high-volume player in the truck-manufacturing business. Other would-be Tesla customers including food distributor Sysco, UPS, and Walmart Canada continue to wait for Tesla Semi trucks and are turning to rival electric-truck makers.

    The struggles of shipping enough Semis come at a bad time for Tesla, which has seen growth for its consumer electric vehicles slow, forcing it to cut prices and hurt margins. In addition, Reuters reported this month that Tesla had decided to cancel its long-promised inexpensive car that investors had hoped would drive further growth.

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    Verifying -arr Downloads?

    I found an av1-labeled version of a TV show on Sonarr, so I downloaded it, replacing my previous 264 version. I started to play it and realized it was a smaller 264 version.

    Is there a way for Sonarr and Radarr to verify if a download's version matches it's label? Do I just need to stick with trusted distribution groups?

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    New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs
    unraid.net New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

    Unraid is an operating system that brings enterprise-class features for personal and small business applications. Configure your computer systems to maximize performance and capacity using any combination of OS, storage devices, and hardware.

    New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

    Unraid has come out with their new pricing plan.

    I have mistakenly said in some comments here before that they were doing away with their lifetime plan. They still have it, but it is just more expensive. They have introduced a couple of cheaper annual subscription plans.

    If anyone is still on the fence about buying Unraid, you have a week until the new pricing plan comes into affect.

    After seeing so many examples of companies really screwing up their pricing changes, it is refreshing to see Unraid do this so well.

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    Proxmox vs. TrueNAS Scale

    I'm in the process of migrating my system to some new hardware. I was curious on everyone's thoughts about Proxmox vs. TrueNAS Scale.

    Here is some background - I'm currently running a mini-computer, with Debian, attached to an external hard drive. I host Plex, -arr suite, PhotoPrism/Photo backup space, Syncthing and some other apps. It runs fine, but could probably use some more memory. I also haven't had a lot of luck backing up all my family's data (on and off different cloud services) in one place in a way that avoids duplicates. My 4TB HDD is at about 80% full now. I have an offsite synology that I back up to using Syncthing. Syncthing has been having some problems lately, so I'm looking at some other options for that too.

    I've been wanting to move my storage to an internal HDD, so I bought a larger used computer and a hard drive so that I can clean my setup a bit. It has an i3 8100, 500GB M2, 256 SSD, 8TB HDD and 24GB ram. To experiment, I've been running Proxmox and set up a few VMs including TrueNAS.

    Proxmox has been pretty amazing. I thought I would have a TrueNAS VM, my Debian-based Plex/-arr VM, and then another Debian vm where I could just test different software that I wanted to host. I haven't really experimented with the LXMs yet.

    I started testing out TrueNAS and saw that it also offers virtualization. If so, I probably wouldn't need Proxmox for my purposes.

    With all that, here are some questions -

    1. What do you think about Proxmox vs. TrueNAS? Any reason to prefer one over the other?
    2. What do you think about having a Debian VM to host my Plex and -arr suite? What are the pros and cons of that method vs. hosting the apps on my TrueNAS or Proxmox as containers? I think mainly it would just be portability and isolation.
    3. Currently, my external HDD is formatted so you could also plug it into Windows and read the contents. If something happens to me, I would like my family to be able to easily access the data. I need to figure out a good way to ensure it is easily accessible to them.

    Thanks in advance!

    Edit for posterity: after this post, I tried TrueNas, but was annoyed because the HDD was constantly being accessed. I tried unRAID after that, but had a similar problem with HDD access noise. I tried several cache drive configurations , but I couldn't escape the constant 5-second access pattern. I finally went back to Proxmox and will cobbler together my own NAS setup. We'll see how it goes.

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    Can't upvote

    Is anyone having a problem upvoting comments and posts? I'm unable to after the Lemmy. World update.

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    Shooting Down 11 Jets In 11 Days, Ukraine Nudges The Russian Air Force Closer To Organizational Death-Spiral
    www.forbes.com Shooting Down 11 Jets In 11 Days, Ukraine Nudges The Russian Air Force Closer To Organizational Death-Spiral

    The Russian air force lost another Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber on Thursday, the Ukrainian air force claimed. Its seventh in 11 days.

    Shooting Down 11 Jets In 11 Days, Ukraine Nudges The Russian Air Force Closer To Organizational Death-Spiral

    An overview of the recent losses by the Russian air force and overall situation for their readiness. Kind of a follow-up on some questions I asked on other posts here.

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    When Pi-hole is down?

    I have an asus router with a pi-hole on the network.

    I was doing some work on my server and noticed that when pi-hole was down, I couldn't access the internet. I was looking for some ideas online how to deal with this, but they said to have a second pihole on the network in case one is offline. Is that the only way to do it? Is there any way to have the network go back to normal if the pihole is offline?

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    Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever
    scitechdaily.com Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever

    A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt. About the size of a standard paperback book, the completely soil-powered technology could fuel underground sensors used in precision agriculture and green infrastruct

    Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11549319

    > Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever > > Northwestern University researchers have introduced a soil-microbe-powered fuel cell, significantly outperforming similar technologies and providing a sustainable solution for powering low-energy devices.

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    Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever
    scitechdaily.com Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever

    A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt. About the size of a standard paperback book, the completely soil-powered technology could fuel underground sensors used in precision agriculture and green infrastruct

    Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever

    Northwestern University researchers have introduced a soil-microbe-powered fuel cell, significantly outperforming similar technologies and providing a sustainable solution for powering low-energy devices.

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    Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads
    www.androidauthority.com Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads

    Chromecast with Google TV is now serving some users with full-screen, auto-playing video ads for physical goods on the home screen. Read on!

    Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads

    Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through once.

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    New Porsche Taycan Buries The Tesla Model S Plaid With 7:07 Ring Lap Record
    www.motor1.com New Porsche Taycan Buries The Tesla Model S Plaid With 7:07 Ring Lap Record

    A 'pre-series' Porsche Taycan rounded the ring in just 7:07.55, handily beating the Tesla Model S Plaid's old electric sedan record of 7:25.231.

    New Porsche Taycan Buries The Tesla Model S Plaid With 7:07 Ring Lap Record
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    NASA May Have Just Stumbled Upon the Mother of All Space Navigation Solutions
    www.autoevolution.com NASA May Have Just Stumbled Upon the Mother of All Space Navigation Solutions

    If you think finding your way on Earth without help from Google Maps or Waze is difficult, just think about what that's like for people planning mis...

    NASA May Have Just Stumbled Upon the Mother of All Space Navigation Solutions

    GIANT stands for Goddard Image Analysis and Navigation Tool, and it is basically an optical navigation software. That's right, it uses images snapped by cameras, lidar, and other sensors to find the best way forward, kind of like we humans do when we use our eyes to see where we're going.

    Simply put, GIANT only needs a picture of the target to be able to determine distance, the mass and center of a spinning object, and even identify landmarks on the surface of a celestial body. Three-dimensional maps of potential landing zones can also be generated, complete with potential hazards.

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