Posts by Richmond Avenal

How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker

Re: Solution in search of a problem

"Running over pedestrians whilst displaying Disney marketing may not go down that well.."

Good job I wasn't drinking any tea, because it would have gone on my keyboard.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

#blazeofglory

CEO told to die in a car crash after firing engineers who had two full-time jobs

Re: Judge on results, not appearances

I have a beard.

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

How terribly gloomy

What ethical dilemmas we face, between the swank giants who make riches from our very souls, and the sententious clerics of wokeness whose products just work and whose words can be ignored. How does one choose between them? There is no good. Only darkness.

Voyager 1 data corrupted by onboard computer that 'stopped working years ago'

It wasn't just Alfa

There's no question that Alfa have been plagued with by far the worst corrosion problems, but other makes were not routinely rust proofed and would develop their own issues over time. I remember my Dad complaining when replacing the sills on a Vauxhall Chevette. He had to cut out so much metal before he could find something he could actually weld to.

I had an Alfa 147 for a while, absolutely lovely car, and notably rust free. I believe most manufacturers began using galvanised metal in the early 2000s, before mine was made. Good to keep an eye on the subframes though.