I can be at peace with the fact that we have different understandings of electrical safety, but I don't think you started from a place of reason. That's why I came out so strong.
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I can be at peace with the fact that we have different understandings of electrical safety, but I don't think you started from a place of reason. That's why I came out so strong.
In fact, this is being used to detect overheating on charging adapters. The control pilot pin is routed through a thermal switch which will open if it gets too hot, cutting off the CP signal and initiating immediate shutdown.
Correct, unless the control pilot pin is connected between the car and the charging station and they are communicating, there is never any voltage on the cable at all. And if for any reason the signal on the control pilot pin is lost, the charging station will immediately power down.
And on top of *that* the charger on the other end of the cord is in constant communication with the car it's charging, is constantly monitoring for signs of electrical faults, and will isolate the cable the moment something seems wrong - and this is a big reason charging sessions get interrupted!
1000V capable CCS stations have been on the ground since 2017, and there are now over a hundred thousand 800V-class EVs on the road. Drivers don't need to take courses on how to handle these big scary cables and connectors because *they are not scary* They are power cords like anything else.
As far as I know it's not! I'm not aware of any injuries from electric shock of any kind when using DC fast chargers. With how many folks out there have a vendetta against EVs, there'd for sure be a ton of media coverage if these chargers were hurting people.
Many many thousands of these charging stations have existed for a very long time. They are charging people's cars every single day. If you are actually worried about this, maybe do some searching for the prevalence of DC arc flash injuries at DC charging sites. Don't imagine things to be scary.
Do you think I'm the only person with an electric car or something? This is why I'm calling it performative paranoia. You are afraid about a thing happening which hasn't happened. You are making it out as if it is some kind of a mistake that these chargers exist.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
And unfortunately, I do not believe the users have the self-awareness required to shift those vibes to better places. Or at least those who do are very outnumbered.
We don't disagree about the fundamentals here, but I don't think you have a very good understanding of what the AT protocol is seeking to do. Look into Blacksky if you haven't. There are already alternative services.
It is Not Great!
I recognize that I have a big following and my experience is going to be very different from the average person, just to be clear. I'm just not sure I vibe with your test of goodness there.
I mean, everybody wants something different out of Bluesky but I must say I don't think that's a very common use case for social media.
Some of this is differences of opinion, but some of this is also differences in who we are following and how we use the platform because this does not represent my experience at all.
Well for a start I find your argument pretty confused, or at least I don't understand the point you're trying to make. I do think we need to make this place better, that is up to us. But second, how much do you know about the AT protocol? Because that's the main reason I'm here.
Let's just say the only thing I do there now is post my new videos on YouTube and usually the first comment is someone asking me if I could post my videos somewhere other than YouTube. I'm trying to offer a place to have discussion there but it's so exhausting.
Absolutely, and fun fact: Mastodon has a whole special other layer of work for me, a large YouTuber who posts videos on YouTube, a centralized corporate platform. I am so not welcome there. It's fun.
And the world is better for it
I'm curious what you imagine the product on offer here to actually be.
TikTok (and YouTube shorts) have created a new kind of channel surfing. Their success says to me there's a craving for that kind of experience. It's a craving I absolutely don't understand and think can lead to some bad outcomes.
Yes but no k, just Alec
my time has come
I heard some guy made a video about that
Nah, it's not entrapment when you can escape on your own at any time. It's complacency.
Same
Yeah, and it's the worst experience here.
You would think, right, that more people would have a general awareness by now that a lot of the easiest experiences are always kinda crap. It's not called slop for nothing. Anyway, form real connections. Seek to understand why ideas are popular or unpopular with the crowd here. And have fun.
In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here. That work is the social part of social media.
I'm afraid the actual method for how this got done was far dumber. Let's just say I already did the screen recording and I couldn't be bothered to do it again
Um, don't you mean banger?
also shoutout to @mattgrayy.es for giving me a packet of custard creams from Tesco at Open Sauce honored to have won mystery biscuits (and they were delicious)
I've (or I guess you've) set a new record for least-noticed visual gag in my latest video. Only 10 comments about it so far! Something about visiting websites across the pond...
Like, I don't know what to say man. My car is a 2022. It was just having 720 volts DC pumped into it, and this is something that happens all the time without incident. I really don't understand what this performative paranoia is about.
You know, if you actually saw what using one of these chargers was like and you saw it go through all the verification steps such as "checking cable safety" you might appreciate the engineers who have actually thought of all this stuff
that ☝️
I think some of these dispensers have an e-stop button there
They were flying at a rate of 235,000 joules a second for a few minutes there
I like these "octane" stickers on the chargers at the Flying J
yeah but it is a dry subject
In other news, here's a new video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzCl... We'll see if releasing on labor day weekend Sunday is a good idea...
ngl I think a lot of bluesky is stuck in that scenario where there's an emergency and everyone assumes somebody else is calling 911. it's why anyone who gets decent training on how to deal with emergencies is told to point at someone and say "you - call 911" not a perfect analogy but it rhymes
I don't necessarily disagree but I use language the way I do in large part because I agree with Jamelle here bsky.app/profile/jame...
and on this day a great term was coined
wouldn't put it past 'em
mayhaps all the incredibly stupid slippery slope arguments we've witnessed in the last couple of decades have made us blind to the actual slippery slopes we're careening towards at the moment.
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
okay henry
it's the new e pluribis unum!
this doesn't seem great
There is, in fact, quite of lot of Stuff That Is Wrong here which was caused by white people in positions of power. In this context, I believe it is more descriptive than it is sneering. But I will say that from where I stand, self-aware white people acknowledging the shitty past is a good thing.
I decided to reword this. "You problem" was unnecessarily rude. I think you're not appreciating all of the context which US-based urbanists have. Most people in these circles know the history of redlining, of bulldozing Black neighborhoods to build expressways, and who made those decisions.
If you've not seen the non-enterprise side of Windows in 10 years, then you've probably not seen what I can identify as real progress. And now that I'm dipping my toes into macOS, I'm finding more issues than I was led to believe there would be. And there is *definitely* user-hostile stuff in Macs
Well, we undoubtedly need our computers to do different things from each other but also (and more importantly) I also have near zero trouble with Windows! If you're going to admit that the trouble you have with macOS is also *not* zero, then we're probably at the same point.
the reason you're getting piled on here is that everyone understands bathrooms are vulnerable spaces, but also we tend to expect some kind of privacy when we use bathrooms. trans people existing and using bathrooms does not violate that privacy, but you sure seem to want to violate everyone else's.
to actually enforce this reality you seem to want, we'll have to hire a whole bunch of genitals inspectors and that's fucking weird.
yeah, well bsky.app/profile/tech...
(if you don't know what that is, it's a kind of plastic piping. there are endless debates about copper vs. PEX in the plumbing trades, but someone having an active issue with their plumbing isn't interested in that debate and taking it as an opportunity to start one is, uh, unwelcome)
I don't know if this is a good analogy or not, but the reaction I *know* will be coming to "here's a weird thing my computer did" feels similar to someone who posts online about having a leak in their copper plumbing and PEX fans responding with "I don't have these problems because I used PEX"
there's so many things about the culture of linux that I really appreciate, but it also fosters a ~culture~
basically there's a compulsive need to make a loud proclamation that "switching costs weren't important to me and I can't see how they might be important to anyone else" and thus the largest problem is self-awareness.
ten million brownie points to you
many linux users have a hard time recognizing the exceptional level of fluency they have as exceptional.
I also feel like anything remotely power-user adjacent can be weirdly complicated in macOS for reasons I don't understand. Getting the Mac to see my NAS was fairly straightforward, but macOS requires you to give permission to apps to actually use it and that was both non-intuitive & keeps resetting
It's an M2 machine. I bought it mainly because I wanted to see how good the processors were. The issue was that it just wouldn't connect to my office WiFi any longer. I had to change the SSID on the router. That could be a problem with the router, but I've never had that happen. Ever.
I largely agree. The most sensitive information on my PC is my tax documents which, uh, well I'm not exactly imagining are that secure right now for ~other reasons~
I have a Mac Mini and not only do I find macOS to be annoying but it has been just about as problematic as my Windows laptop. I've had a surprising number of network issues with it.
I have had way too many network issues (suddenly won't connect to my WiFi no matter what I try and the resolution was CHANGE THE SSID ON THE ROUTER, constantly having to re-connect to my NAS or figure out why Premiere can't see it) for It Just Works to actually be true.
Also, having become a light Mac user for some tasks, I am convinced that people who have Macs just don't complain publicly about their computers because the amount of weird shit my M2 Mac Mini does is about equal to the weird shit my Win11 laptop does.
but I also have issues with Google who I'm rather tied at the hip to. And Adobe who I'm rather tied at the hip to. But they all make tools and/or services which are useful to me and I'm not (yet - this could change) so ideologically opposed to them to seek out alternatives.
Look, the main reason I have to check out linux is that people are telling me I should check out linux. I don't actually have many problems with my computer. And in this post, the problem turned out to be a not-problem, just a weird thing. I have issues with Microsoft and their practices,
i feel like the jokey structure of the post was pretty obvious...
The reason might be as simple as "it generally doesn't get in my way much, and when you view computers as a tool and not a hobby, the devil you know can be better" Really I need to just stop expecting normal reactions to "here's a funny post about a weird thing my computer did"
Even if Microsoft is McDonald's, sometimes you just need to eat.
that's the thing. I think a useful analogy might be that I view Windows like a restaurant and Linux like a well-stocked kitchen. There are equally valid arguments for both, and even though I usually cook for myself, I don't pretend that's better for all people in all situation.
oh cool. also, oh cool.
we are absolutely on the same page about microsoft being shitty, but I have absolutely no desire to be any more of a computer toucher than I have to be.
it does look like it tried to do an update overnight which failed, but why it failed is anybody's guess
This laptop has a history of getting into zombie states occasionally and other weirdness like suddenly forgetting it has an audio card installed until I reboot so I just expect some level of wtf at this point.
I am increasingly at peace with responses like this but I still find them tiresome.
Honestly I don't remember setting it up! But at least it's fairly straightforward to get to. For those savvy enough to know how to get into their microsoft account and find it anyway... this would scare the shit out of my parents, that's for sure
y'know that thing where your computer is completely unresponsive so you force a reboot and it then demands your bitlocker key so you find it and enter it and then it does some diag thing but fails to connect to a network then shuts down and you power on again and it's normal? that's my favorite
I guess the former, but I think we disagree on it being racist to remind people that it was white settlers and their descendants who drew the vast majority of political boundaries in the US
what the fuck is happening
And since I follow a lot of trans voices who are making clear what their lines in the sand are and are not getting much help from allies atm, I am choosing to be one of those allies. And hopefully I am helping to illustrate to folks that there's a lot of crass knee-jerk whataboutism out there.
I am not trans, if that's what you're asking, but I do not understand the obsession people seem to have with controlling their lives. Actually I do understand it—it's all very eugenics-adjacent and trans folks reveal how artificial our gender norms are—but I am making clear I find it gross.
lol, i haven't realized i'm doing that. huh.
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
Further, there's a lot of middle-school "you have to like what I like or we can't be friends" energy which comes out in these discussions. We both want a politician who will be a bully to the regime. I will not accept a politician who will be a bully to the homeless or trans folks.
I'm going to say this as politely and plainly as I possibly can. This response tells me you don't believe my criticisms (or those of others) are sincere.
i don't expect any politician to be perfect, but i also think there are unacceptable things to do and say. the mismatch some people are seeing between his words and actions is a direct result of his smarm. he's optics-first and choosing some wildly inappropriate things in my view.
[sigh] you're doing the thing. a lot of people are expressing their concerns about newsome and rather than engage with those concerns as valid, there's a rather bandwagony-compulsion to toss them aside because newsome happens to have some good tactics.
when someone knows the right things to say to be agreeable to an audience and will pander with a thin veneer of sincerity, that's smarmy. some folks are tricked by that veneer, others see through it.
no, see, the lesson here is that smarm need not be part of that strategy and mayhaps there's no reason to continue on a tack which disgusts people for no reason. and personally, there's a line you can cross where smarm makes you untrustworthy, and newsome's crossed mine several times.
eh, I disagree. the hair's just a fun coincidence.
actually, most everyone knows what smarm is but they may not be able to identify it as smarm. certain people, myself included, are repulsed by smarminess. certain politicians exude it, and to me it's a huge huge warning sign. regrettably, it's effective on some people.
i know that's probably not a helpful answer, but he comes off as incredibly smarmy to me and is basically the reason i posted this. the revulsion many people feel about him comes from his smarm.
gavin newsome
too many people don't know what smarm is.
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