Posts by SJA

Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

Re: AdGuard Home

q.e.d.

Re: DHCP

> By doing this, the P-Hole can identify each client individually (by MAC address) and so set up black/whitelisting rules per-client.

> This is incredibly useful - eg, you can whitelist some evil-but-necessary-because-it-won’t-work stuff for specific devices (tv, gadgets etc)

That's a good idea... like blocking any Brother websites for printers so they don't download newer firmware.

Re: AdGuard Home

Do you work for Pi-Hole?

AdGuard Home

I haven't tested the new Pi Hole but for older Pi Holes I find AdGuard Home a much better solution. The interface looks much cleaner and offers all necessary things:

- adding filter lists

- set local domain resolution

- easy un/blocking

...

I know Pi Hole can do a lot more things than AdGuard Home but I'd say for 99% of the people AdGuard Home will suffice.

Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?

Re: Lose your device, lose your access

So, this is not useful to the large amount of people that use insecure passwords. you don't reall expect them to do that right? And since you are savy enough, I assume you use a different long, random password on every site and also different username....

Self hosted Bitwarden / Vaultwarden

I use self-hosted bitwarden (and hourly backups) and it supports passkeys. I use them only rarely because they don't work well. But at least with Bitwarden I am in control of the passkeys.

Windows: Insecure by design

Nixos

I do like my nixos. If all your software needs are already packaged, it's a breeze once you have a working configuration.nix. Redeployment made so easy.

Tesla shareholders agree to pay Musk staggering sum of $48B

Re: So it could turn into a net loss for Elon?

He can chose not to buy the stock options. And it was not just about hyping up the stock price:

"In addition to that, there are 16 operational milestones: eight focused on increasing revenue from $20 billion up to $175 billion, and another eight targeting adjusted EBITDA milestones ranging from $1.5 billion to $14 billion.

Each of the 12 tranches vests when Tesla hits a market cap milestone and one of the two kinds of operational milestones."

So in addition to hype up stock price, either revenue or EBITDA had to be increased as well. As you can see those goals, they're both "roughly" increased 10x to get all stock options.

What makes you think it's a payout. It's not at all a payout.

Why do people here assume he just gets money sent into his bank accounts because of that compensation agreement?

Musk was given 10 years of performance targets to hit, targets that when reached would result in a payout of stock options. Musk could earn 303 million options—the number has been adjusted for stock splits—equivalent to about 12% of Tesla stock outstanding in 2018.

Those options would be delivered in 12 separate tranches, with the board awarding Musk 1% of the stock outstanding for each set of goals completed. To reach those tranches, Musk had 28 targets he needed to hit. Of those, 12 were tied to market capitalization measured in $50 billion increments up to $650 million, eight were tied to earnings, and eight to revenue.

As a result, according to the 2023 proxy statement, Musk has earned all but 25 million of the options available to him.

The entire package is worth $56 billion at current prices. Each option has a strike price of about $23 a share—adjusted for stock splits—and Tesla stock is worth about $650 billion at just over $200 a share. Hitting $650 billion means the value of Musk’s options is worth about $180 each. That’s the difference between the stock price, at $650 billion, and the option strike price. The $180 per option figure multiplied by the 303 million options equals roughly $56 billion.

So in order to get all of the options, Musk still needs to shelf out roughly $6.4 billion that will go into Tesla accounts and he's prohibited to sell those shares for another 5 years.

He deserves the payment

Looking back in time at 2017, Tesla had huge problems ramping up the model 3. At that time it was hardly imagineable that those set goals could be reached. Pro memoria:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/what-elon-musks-pay-deal-says-about-the-tech-industry

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/tesla-shareholders-approve-elon-musks-multibilion-dollar-compensation-plan.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/business/dealbook/tesla-elon-musk-pay.html

https://hbr.org/2018/05/elon-musks-unusual-compensation-plan-isnt-really-about-compensation-at-all

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

Re: Postal Service

They government agency also has to make sure that the right people get the plates - and currently they don't. So if their chosen delivery method does not work, the government agency has to use different means.

Re: Postal Service

Why wouldn't Tesla pay taxes?

Re: Postal Service

Is it too much to ask that the government employees and postal services employees do their job that they are paid for?

Re: Postal Service

If you know that the postal service won't deliver the plates, it's your job as government agency to make sure the tax paying company gets the plates.

Postal Service

Is it so inconceiveable that government employees actually do their job and deliver the plates themselves? I know, doing actual work as government employee seems such a far fetched idea...

Tesla swerves liability in Autopilot death lawsuit

Tesla leard in fatal accidents by assist technology?

"When it comes to vehicles with driver assist technology, Tesla is the leader in fatal accidents by far, accounting for more than 70 percent of the automated driver assist technology accidents logged by the NHTSA."

Do you really mean that? There's so much wrong with it two sentences that I don't really know where to start.

1) Driver assist technology --> The car "supports" or rather "assists" the driver. The driver is still in control and has the responsibility. So the car can't be blamed when the driver does not pay attention.

2) Tesla is the only car manufacturer that knows when and for how long its systems were activated. Hence Tesla is the only one that can provide information as to whether assist technology was run when the accident happened or shortly prior to. Since other manufacturers don't konw, they can't report any of this to NHTSA. But the framing done here is obvious.

US Navy sailor admits selling secret military blueprints to China for $15K

I fail to see what he did wrong....

I fail to see what he did wrong...

Tesla knew Autopilot weakness killed a driver – and didn't fix it, engineers claim

Re: "Autopilot"

Despite having autopilot 70+ years on airplanes, I have yet to see passengers complain about the additional costs of the pilots. Also don't forget that the autopilot in a plane is very simple. Keep direction, altitude and speed. Tesla's autopilot does a lot more than that.

Chinese companies evade sanctions, fuel Moscow’s war on Ukraine, says report

Re: So what?

So what?

So what?

The chinese did not impose sanctions against Russia, as most countries did not do. So what?

But of course it's the best if the US defends the freedom until the last Ukrainian soldier dies.

So?

So what?

InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test'

There is no "Cloud"

There is no "Cloud". There is just someone else's computer.

Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State

Re: Whatever

Autopilot != FSD

One would think so there is more behind it. I couldn't find an article that lists all the prerquisites but here's one that lists a few of them:

https://www.next-mobility.de/drive-pilot-von-mercedes-paradigmenwechsel-wie-die-mondlandung-a-1104283/

"Nur auf Autobahnen und nur bis 60 km/h.

Es werden keine Spurwechsel getätigt, die Temperatur muss über vier Grad liegen, die Sicht muss gut sein. Also Tageslicht, keine Dämmerung, keine Tunnel, kein Regen oder Schneefall."

Translate:

"Only on the highway and only up to 60 km/h

No lange changes, temperature must be above 4°C, sight must be good. Also required is day light, no twilight, no tunnel, no rain or snow".

Some other lists also there must be a car in front of you, the lane marking must be clearly visible. It must not be on a construction area (because different lane markings are used then).... The real achievement of Mercedes is not the ability of their DrivePilot but getting the legal approval of it.

In Germany the Mercedes L3 is a traffic jam autopilot. Only during the day, on high resolution mapped streets, with a car in front of you that the Mercedes can follow, up to 40mph and only on the highway. It does not make sense for Tesla to go for L3 certification. They want L5 directly - and looking at the latest FSD Beta videos by Tesla drivers it's not that far off. But the last 5% are the hardest to achieve.

Curl, the URL fetcher that can, marks 25 years of transfers

curl <3

curl <3

Tesla fires gigafactory staff after someone made the mistake of mentioning unions

Understandable

Who wants unions in the US anyway (and also in Germany). They are just too much PITA.

NixOS 22.11 'Raccoon': Like a proof of concept you can do things with

Wine works with nixos.

Just a few notes myself - I have beenusing Nixos for several years now.

(1) It's a pain to get it first running as you want it - but once you have it, it's very nice to work with it and redeploy it elsewhere

(2) Excellent ZFS support

(3) Software that isn't already packaged (available nix-expression) is a pain to package yourself.

I run Nixos on my main notebook and on several servers. On the servers and also my notebook I do have a setup similar to this blog post: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings

Nearly one in two industry pros scaled back open source use over security fears

Log4J

IIRC log4j worked exactely as documented - the main problem was, people would not bother to RTFM and/or try to understand it. Also it's quite a mystery to me, while people seem to believe a black box is safer then OSS.

Tesla Full Self-Driving 'fails' to notice child-sized objects in testing

FSD was NOT ACTIVE

Electrek shows, that FSD was NOT ACTIVE:

https://electrek.co/2022/08/10/tesla-self-driving-smear-campaign-releases-test-fails-fsd-never-engaged/

Philippines logs on to Starlink for remote area internet services

Inlaws

My wife is Filipina and my inlaws live - as you might have guessed - in the Philippines. Since communication is very important (happy wife, happy life) I was pondering to get Starlink for them, as they only had crappy 4G (well, mostly 3G) internet that often had outages and cost only little less than monthly starlink. So after I discovered Starlink in 2019 I think, I did also apply for it in the Philippines. However in mid-2020 they finally got fiber connection. It's also costly but they share a 600/600mbit connection among 5 families. So it's affordable.

Open source isn't the security problem – misusing it is

log4j works as specified

To my konwledge, log4j works exactely as specified. It's just people who did not bother to check what it is and what it does and how it does it.

log4j

To my knowledge log4j worked exactly as specified.

Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault

The moon steals our oxygen!!!

see title

Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle

Let's Encrypt

Why do people still waste their money on useless EV certs when you have an automated way to get Let's Encrypt certs?

SpaceX is about to launch its first Starlink internet satellite sporting a sun visor following complaints by astronomers

still amazed

I'm still amazed at the progress that SpaceX has made in such a short time.

Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'

What disingenious marketing are you refering to?

You keep hearing this for teslas becaue of two things:

a) "sexy" electric cars are still a novelity and there's so little crashes, that every single one of them is being blown out of proportions

b) with traditional cars this happens so often, it's not even news-worthy anymore.

Re: This is a driver assist not an autopilot !

That didn't work in Überlingen where two planes crashed into one another:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision

Re: It is autopilot but not autonomous

There's 1 million Teslas sold. How many "bucketloads of YouTube videos and EV forum posts with Tesla owners" are there? From how many different owners?

Also, plenty of drivers from other brands do stupid things: https://www.slashgear.com/mercedes-active-lane-assist-fooled-with-soda-can-02339580/

Re: I get that the cameras may not have picked out the truck...

Do humans have lidar?

Re: It is autopilot but not autonomous

Please provide proof for that "significatn proportion of their customers" claim? Also, as Tesla stats show: Accidents happen far less often with activated AP than without.

Btw, every day, human drivers cause thousands of accidents and crashes. I'm sure you're also vigorously fighting that no humans are allowed to drive cars anymore, right?

Re: @SJA - Seriously?

Why? Autopilot is the correct term.

Re: I get that the cameras may not have picked out the truck...

Radar does have issues with recognizing stationary things.

Re: It is autopilot but not autonomous

When was the last time you boarded a plane? Didn't you wonder why there's a flight captain and co-captain? I mean the autopilot has been in planes for decades. Sure they don't need pilots anymore if you think it's autonomous.

So, why did you never wonder why there's still a captain and co-captain despite the plane having autopilot?

Re: @SJA - Seriously?

As can be seen in the video, the driver of the tesla failed to detect the obstacle.

Re: @SJA - Seriously?

Since tesla has no autonomous cars, someone must be driving the car.