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Depends - i looked into it (with chatgpt's help) recently after getting quoted 270 euro for a spare fob for a second hand car I bought that only had one key.

It seems like a kind of niche field with a lot of pitfalls and poor availability of information but it seems like it's possible to do if you buy some budget key programmer, as long as you can figure out which encryption type the immobiliser uses. There should be an FCC id on the key fob somewhere, then it should be possible to figure out which type of encryption it uses, there's usually some codename like ID46 or something like that.

From that article it seems like it was easier to do for that car than it is for most new-ish cars.

These are 2 of the programmers i'm looking at getting, also expensive but worth IMO, if you can get the right one, make a couple of spares for yourself, family, friends etc, then sell it on or maybe even run a (less extortionate, hopefully) side hustle yourself.

https://www.xhorsevvdi.com/wholesale/vvdi-key-tester.html https://store.autel.com/products/autel-maxiim-km100

Thanks, for a minute I was wondering how to register for the online version of the course, as the dates seem limited, but looks like you can actually just jump into the content with the "Basics" and "Advanced" and work through it.

There's an "Examples" tab in the top row with some nice examples.

Think it comes from the german word for salmon, "Lachs", or at least an earlier version of the word.

https://archive.ph/LM998

Yep.

I agree, just posted to the same effect before I scrolled down and saw your post ;-)

What I'd like to know is: who's flagging legitimate articles like this, and why..?

As well as video games, he's very influenced by sci-fi.

My own theory is that he sees himself as a kind of Hari Seldon figure (can't remember for sure but think I saw him wearing a "Foundation" t-shirt at some event). Or someone like Alan Saul from Neal Asher's "Owner" series.

This delusional belief, along with typical emotional/ego issues, may be what gives him that righteous fervour for "making life interplanetary" or whatever.

A coup by any other name is still a coup.

I'm guessing it's too late, first thing they'd have done is back up all the data somewhere..

Ah i see, i had tried right click and it wasn't working, but that was because I had a planet selected with its details showing, in the normal view it's fine. Makes sense not to pan when an object is selected, i guess.

I just had the browser window maximized while I was away from it for a while. This would make a nice active desktop, though I don't know enough about the software stacks involved with that to know whether it's possible.

Beatiful, maybe add a pan control, and configurable starting time + dt?

It's on gnu/linux as well, works great.

The fact that so many people believe in a supernatural deity.

Looks very good, thanks for sharing!

Nice. I wonder if the models could examine a transcript of a human debate and label the various fallacies invoked?

I don't really have a workflow but a nice tool is the OneTab browser extension (https://www.one-tab.com/) which will store all the tabs from the browser windows, they can be restored later, links can be moved between groups etc.

I had a go at getting chatgpt to classify them by pasting in the link/title pairs from the onetab export tool and asking it to group them into similar topics. It was promising but didn't really scale due to the limit on message size. I'm sure a tweaked/retrained AI would do a pretty good job, not sure if there's tools out there already to do this.

FYI There was a good related article shared here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40290447

It's irritating that many of the people who resist EV adoption because "it won't work, there's not enough chargers" seem to be more amenable to the idea of hydrogen, despite all the extra infrastructure/energy needed for production, cooling and transport, when electrical infrastructure is already ubiquitous. I don't know if it's that people are more conditioned to the idea of putting liquid in a tank to power a vehicle than plugging it in.

Nothing against hydrogen per se, I'm sure it'll have its uses, but electricity has a much shorter lead time to take up the current energy deficit from cutting fossil fuels.

Coal vs. nuclear is the other major head-scratcher, but I guess that's down to the green movement's own lack of awareness of the severity of global warming back when they were campaigning against nuclear.

There was an interesting series on TV, "Downey's Dream Cars", where Robert Downey Jr. did conversions of some of his gasoline cars to various renewable-driven engines, electric, biofuel etc. On one of these, the original plan was to put in a manual electric drive, which I was looking forward to seeing, but unfortunately that got cut as there wasn't room for the manual transmission.

Anything that gets petrol-heads on board with EVs is good IMO, hope they don't get burned for it.

I saw this article years ago and a switch flipped in my brain regarding plastic. https://izismile.com/2009/10/20/to_know_why_albatrosses_die_...

It's egregious the way plastic is thrown at every problem. Diligently cultivated by decades of industry marketing, it seems the meanest transient need by a human seems to justify some plastic container, which could have a much longer and more meaningful useful lifetime, that gets thrown away immediately and will be floating around in the environment for centuries after. A bottle of water, mouthful of yogurt, A thimbleful of cosmetic cream or sunscreen, a single meal etc.

Even the longer use stuff is appalling when you think of the relative time-scales of use and breakdown. Toothpaste tubes, toothbrush, floss dispenser, one or two months, then centuries in the environment. All those tech gadgets and kitchen appliances, CDs, monitors, furniture. Our species has too high a regard for itself in some ways. On the one hand we consider ourselves the only species with the capability for empathy, love etc, are undoubtedly one of the most conscious, but somehow completely blind to the suffering we cause.

YES! They could start immediately with items for which there's an alternative, e.g. cellulose kitchen sponge vs. the plastic ones. That should be at least as doable as the carrier bags and plastic straws and knives/forks that are finally getting replaced.

This should be right up there with global warming. At least with this, the problem is easier for anyone to understand and care about because of the direct threat to our own health. Just you'd have a lot of pushback from the industry.

Wow, nice of him to go to the effort of telling this fascinating story and just put it out there for free.

It's really a crime the way so much useful technology gets dumped as soon as one weak part fails. I had a microwave that stopped working, most people would immediately have dumped it but out of curiosity I opened it up (yeah i know, possibly unsafe, even when unplugged) and found there was just one slightly corroded connection, everything else worked fine.

This repairability movement needs to become mainstream, although of course vested interests from this disposable age will oppose it. Of the approximately "one credit card worth" of microplastic we all ingest every week, a lot of it is (and over time will be even more) down to plastic from ditched broken crap. Not to mention the animals that will be choking on all this stuff centuries after we're all gone.

Yeah, I'm also not sure why the group is characterized as "left-wing", as it seems to play more into a regressive right-wing agenda.

I lose sleep over climate change all the time and I don't get this. Surely there are targets more worthy of these protesters' energy.

Losing forest isn't good, of course, but Tesla is what made the current EV revolution, and its associated positive potential for CO2 reductions, possible. Before that it was in the realm of science fiction. Not that it solves all our problems, of course, far from it, but it's a huge step.

Musk has the right of it in this case IMO. I know he can be abrasive, and his Twitter/X misadventure and right-wing conspiracy leanings are saddening but, for me, his positive contributions far outweigh those issues.

What's best, in your opinion.. C, Golang, Python..?

I recommend you take this offline IMMEDIATELY until you get it in a safe form - I just saw images that can only be categorized as paedophilic in nature.. not exaggerating, i'm talking 5 year old here

I just puked a little in my mouth..

This is part of the reason i'm vegetarian and not pescatarian - with the way we treat the oceans, we simply don't deserve fish IMO.