• Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Are you really a hacker for painting a sign? Soon we'll have "notorious hacker Wile E Coyote tricks teslas into driving into painted wall"

    • Sus [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The very first hacker was a guy who got free long distance calling by tricking the dialer using a Cap'n Crunch cereal toy whistle. Hacking has always been about manipulating systems by use of unintended input.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The term itself comes from model train clubs who would cut up old sets of track to make new pieces IIRC

      The idea of a "hacker" being a malicious coder is sort of a product of 90s movies, it really originally meant people who would fuck around with whatever they were interacting with and was really a lot closer to an experimental DIY punk ethos than anything else. Sort of natural that those types would move into pentesting.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        People always picture hackers as like super intelligent programmers and shit when the reality is closer to what you'd expect from the actual word, just some people with the digital equivalent of hacksaws using them on everything they can and seeing what happens.

  • a_jug_of_marx_piss [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Wait, they actually read signs instead of using GPS and a database of speed limits? That seems like a really bad idea, I pretty regularly see signs that are half-covered in snow.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        And this is also why capitalism doesn't actually do major technological innovations. Less profit to do all the necessary testing.

      • mittens [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        you can crowdsource speed limits, or get your speed limits from an app that already crowdsources this info.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      It's surely fake, but I want to believe.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      that's what i was gonna ask, waze already keeps a database of speed limits lol

    • Hungover [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I mean if I was to design this shit I'd also probably let it read the signs, imagine being the first Tesla to drive at a new construction site when the speedlimit sign is updated, but not the database of the navigation system

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    There's literally a sign on a local road by me where someone has vandalised it to say the speed limit is 300kmph/186mph. Imagine a Tesla driving down there lol.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Oh, in spanish speaking countries, before roundabouts we have "ceda el paso" signs which means "you don't have priority, dickhead", but people always vandalize them to say "ceda el faso" ("pass the joint") so any Teslas will be carjacked and dismantled way before any rich dipshit gets to face a roundabout anyways. I wish I can key the side of one someday.

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Lmao did they just not program an upper limit for the autopilot speed? If the sign said 135 mph would it just take off like a fucking pod racer? This seems very safe and normal.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Rich dipshits don't like to be around poors, and a lot of years ago racists shitstains designed cities in a way that there are no buses nor trains so most fuckers need to have a car to go to their job, or even go groceries

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Tell them they can have luxury cars and cabins straight out of an Agatha Christie murder mystery

        spoiler

        Then :gui:

  • duck [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I thought I had to learn to code to be a cool hacker, turns out my electrical tape is good enough

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Ah so fucking true, if only I had enough will to fucking crack my phone so it behaves like I want it to instead of being a fucking mic connected to google telling it what to sell me half milisecond after I name a thing.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I don't even have a smartphone. I still use a flip phone. This has caused me trouble in the past, and I fully expect that work or social pressures will require me to switch over at some point.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          When you do, go to https://e.foundation and find a device that works out of the box with their de-Google'd Android distro

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Damn but what do you do while commuting or when having to interact with people but you don't want to so you refuge yourself in looking at buttplug memes in a toxic discord channel?

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If he dies in a car crash on the way to his escape rocket I will laugh until I cry every ounce of liquid out of my body and my desiccated husk falls to the ground and shatters to dust like Donovan after he drinks from the wrong Grail in Indiana Jones 3.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      No way I could remember that character's name. I thought it was the second, and the third was the trip to asia or something

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Naw, Temple of Doom is the second one where they go to India and Do A Little Racism. Last Crusade is no. 3 and it has Sean Connery and Indy goes back to socking Nazis in the jaw, which is where that character should have stayed. Edit: Truth be told the reason I know the character's name is because I watched the hell out of the video tape (it might have even been Betamax) as a kid. We bootlegged it off a copy from the local rental store and I went hog wild watching that movie with my sister.