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Cake day: 2023年8月23日
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•what do you think of self driving cars?English
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    2 小時前

    Ooh, I get to geek out for a bit!

    I helped a friend get into waymo as an employee when it was still staff-only/non-public, and later got to attend a private event where I could explore the regional hq building freely, view the cars, the hardware that makes them go, the nav system of all the cars in the region in real-time, see video feeds and diagnostics in real-time, ride in a ‘beta’ style vehicle with wires and sensors very much visible, ask questions directly to technicians regarding details about the software, cameras, lidar, emergency situations… The whole nine yards. I have also been in a public vehicle that was able to override the geofencing and ‘guardrails’ for a couple trips as well, and see how that works, how the car communicates with hq when that happens (‘why are you doing this, is everything okay, etc’). Except for someone currently or formerly employed by waymo, I am possibly one of the most informed people about how it all works. Especially the Lexus and Chrysler vehicles, since I got special access to those.

    That out of the way, you are correct. They run the cars with a safety driver while training/feeding data back to the regional hq while in a new area, so you might see cars with a person at the wheel (and possibly a passenger, sometimes with a laptop) while the car drives around, not stopping for passengers. They note issues and areas for potential problems, log many miles along the same roads at different times of day for an entire area, and will do this with multiple vehicles for 6-12 months, before having enough data, runs, low incident occurance, and high confidence before allowing testers to ride; my last information was that they still retain the safety drivers for several additional months, before letting the cars go ‘solo’ and open the area to the public.

    The friend has moved to greener pastures but this data is between '15 and '23, I believe. I am signed up for the tester program but the service is not yet in my home area; I’m a few miles outside their current zone for my region. I’ll be in the service area this winter though, and am planning on taking a couple rides and refreshing myself on the current situation for the general public.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoSoftware Gore@lemmy.world•Sorry, we can't help sending you spam...English
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    4 小時前

    There are a few places that have ‘critical’ or ‘essential’ account information that is just junk and promotional nonsense, and they don’t even offer an unsubscibe link because ‘it’s information regarding your account’.

    I forgot that Budget Rent-A-Car does this. Book a car, skip the $10/day this and $50/week that, get a confirmation, immediately get ‘did you forget something’ and every couple weeks ‘make sure you have everything’ that does this. There’s no CS I could find so I ranted on their Twitter page, and it’s ‘important information’ so they ‘don’t offer an opt-out’ to ‘help their customers’. Then you get to that rental counter and it’s like a freaking robot on repeat, trying to upsell you the same crap, one more time…

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoSoftware Gore@lemmy.world•Sorry, we can't help sending you spam...English
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    6 小時前

    Unique emails for every service + blackhole for any time that stuff like this happens, breaches, sale of data to other entities… I’ve been doing this for almost a decade and it’s wonderful being able to go “no u” and deal with the situation immediately.

    Use filters, if you want some legitimate communication but not their bullshit, though I’ve only put up with that once and am no longer a customer/account for that company, so in my experience, just rip the bandage off and be done with it.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllersEnglish
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    1 天前

    As someone who bought a Supermicro board 6 weeks ago and was super happy to learn about IPMI: oh no.

    I flashed the latest bmc firmware and bios the day I got it running (also fuck paywalling the bmc UI for bios updates), but… 😬

    E: holy shit it truncates passwords to 19 characters. One of my weakest passwords, in the bottom 10 of like 450 passwords.

    E2: I can’t disable KCS, I can’t disable the IPMI (short of unplugging the ethernet cable), I can’t disable the default user or limit the privileges, so I had delete my user, login as the default, then change the username and password to my user creds. Like, wow.