VectorLock

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by VectorLock 1y ago
Theres a video on YouTube of some people who got to drive a bunch of Chinese EVs/hybrids in Alaska and aside from some quality and i18n issues, the US is absolutely cooked here.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
macOS with its popups that iCloud is full with no way to disable it.
63.
by VectorLock 1y ago
You touch it. You're not actuating any mechanisms.
64.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Man I've been using MacBookPros for so long I forgot how many greebles laptops used to have on the bottom.
65.
by VectorLock 1y ago
If you've ever dealt with home insurance you try very hard to not have to deal with home insurance. To say your goals are cross-aligned with theirs would be an understatement.
66.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Thankfully functionality isn't usually necessary to get a successful scan, unlike living targets.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
The vaping community was basically shorting the cells. I'm not sure how a modern 18650 or prismatic cell would handle that.
68.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Or there are 64 modems that can switch between 4 SIM slots.
69.
by VectorLock 1y ago
In some countries you can find entire office blocks filled with people who do nothing all day but participate in scam enterprises. I don't think the scale of this phone bank, if its as described, is that surprising really.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
I think the author does a good job of showing how commoditized this kind of crime is. There are no special insights here that someone who wanted to do this thing couldn't easily find on their own.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
The device is probably 256 of those, or similar, chipsets on a board with integrated SIM slots and connectors for SMA antennas. You'd have a hard time producing something like this cheaper than China.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
Better in what way? MobileX may have some properties that are attractive to criminals.
73.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Common carriers are usually absolved of the malfeasance of their customers.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
Probably a lot of places to buy MVNO sim cards from with cash as well.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
Each one of those units is probably ~$6k for the device and sim cards. I don't think there were that many of them in the pictures to add up to $900k.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
I don't think that would contribute to much demand to run it on Windows ARM64.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
I'm sure the driver devs have at least some interaction with the game devs when they do this.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
Sounds pretty click-baity but if a company put the name of my software on an opaque list that ships with the OS that makes my software behave differently than I expect it to and didn't even TELL ME about it I'd be way WAY more pis
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by VectorLock 1y ago
Space Station 14 is the same though but it might use some 3d stuff for rendering based on the comments in the blog about issues with OpenGL (or might just use OpenGL's 2D stuff) I know it has some 3d-ish things for visibility shadows b
80.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Man I gotta give this person props, that is a LOT of effort to get your game to run native ARM64 on Windows. How many people out there are trying to game on ARM64 Windows devices?
81.
by VectorLock 1y ago
I like where their head is at here, especially the "superset of JSON" part. Some of the things I'm not _in love_ with like the %% ending blocks or how maybe a bit of significant whitespace might make things a bit less mislea
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by VectorLock 1y ago
US bought a big stake in Intel; the US is quickly attempting to replicate China's system of State Capitalism. If you can't beat em, join em, I guess.
83.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Having done some work with building graph representation of compute resources (by importing tfstate & syncing from aws) and its a very useful representation for building things like visualizations and detecting dependencies. Moving tfst
84.
by VectorLock 1y ago
The TLDs run the whole gamut from completely open to almost impossible to get.
85.
by VectorLock 1y ago
There's like 1500 TLDs, now some of them are restricted and country-code TLDs but now it makes me wonder how much it would actual cost per year to maintain registration of every non-restricted TLD. I'm sure theres some SaaS compa
86.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Oops you hit a pothole now your car won't go. Terrible analogy.
87.
by VectorLock 1y ago
What about the space you're using? Do they delete it? Remove all your configurations? Prevent you from doing anything with your account until you up your limit or wait until your month resets? If you're worried about getting a
88.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Yes, a sign of resilient architecture is to shut down when it encounters some stress.
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by VectorLock 1y ago
Its not expensive for them, its expensive for their customers. If you went over your spending limit and they deleted all your shit, people would be absolutely apoplectic. Instead they make you file a relatively painless ticket and explain
90.
by VectorLock 1y ago
Amazon refunded you and you hate them for it? I think one of the reasons I appreciate AWS so much is that any time there has been snafu that led to a huge bill like this they've made it pretty painless to get a refund- just like you ex

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