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"
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.
Do you have an article or something on this story? I wanna read more about it
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.
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.
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.
And this is also why capitalism doesn't actually do major technological innovations. Less profit to do all the necessary testing.
you can crowdsource speed limits, or get your speed limits from an app that already crowdsources this info.
that's what i was gonna ask, waze already keeps a database of speed limits lol
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
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.
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.
Someone in my neighborhood vandalized all the One Way signs to say One Wank
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.
Why waste money on this boondoggle when buses and trains exist
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
Tell them they can have luxury cars and cabins straight out of an Agatha Christie murder mystery
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Then :gui:
I thought I had to learn to code to be a cool hacker, turns out my electrical tape is good enough
Who would win? World’s most wealthy man or a single 5cm strip of tape
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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.
