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I once accidentally ran over my credit card with my car after a mishap at a parking garage pay station. Still works fine, though it does have some road rash. Lets see an iPhone do that!

There’s probably a bunch of permissions errors, filesystems warnings for cross-filesystem mounts or links, etc. all going to stderr. Linux output streams are a bit odd, 1 is stdout and 2 is stderr. So the command is redirecting the “noise” to null and just printing the actual command output. That would be my assessment, but OP could probably give a more correct answer..!

Yay, London back in the news for being losers again!

That didn’t really stop Canadian dealers from being scummy. I saw a bunch of “used” lightnings that were ~2 mo old and had ~2,000 km on them, being sold well above MSRP.

Aren’t loads of embedded devices still using the old school edge network? Like car remote systems, electric meters, weather stations, etc?

Don’t our bills have to go through a legal review process? The charter is pretty clear on stuff like this… It’s pretty obvious this is dead in the water whether our MPs like it or not. But they’ll keep trying until they get what they want.

A very effective first step is to put it on a vhost with a domain you control, and drop traffic to the default vhost. 99.999% of scanners are just going through IPs looking for stuff, so don’t give them anything. Better yet, block any IP that scans you more than a dozen or so times.

Obviously some stuff will find you through cert issuance logs, but most of the bastards don’t bother with that level of sophistication.

I’m not an expert, but I think it has to do with AC vs DC electrification. With a DC third rail subway you can just feed it back into the lines no problem, but with AC you have to get the phase sync exactly correct or it will cause pretty serious problems. It’s the kind of thing that depends a lot on how old the system is, how energy distribution works, etc.

If there is an actual expert here I’d also like to know more..!

Something interesting about locomotives is that they do quite a bit of braking by using the motors as generators, but it’s NOT regenerative braking! There’s basically no electrical storage system that can handle that amount of energy that quickly, all batteries available today can NOT handle that kind of power surge safely. Some catenary systems can handle back-feeding, and it’s becoming more common, but it’s not something a diesel-electric can do. Instead they have massive resistors and radiators at the top of the locomotive and they bleed it off as heat. It’s less wear on the brake pads, so it’s often preferred when they don’t need to stop quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_braking

You’ll always catch me strapped with a F-91W

The cool thing is that you can make basically any combination of parts into a router if you install Linux or BSD on it. Not terribly helpful for end user consumers that will get shafted by this, but at the end of the day it’s just a small computer.

Otherwise, smuggle some “foreign routers” in from Mexico or Canada like it’s the prohibition era?

It is THE e-commerce site I like to show people what I mean when I say “good UX”. It’s basically perfect. You can find the perfect part in less than 10 clicks, It’s lightning fast, no useless white space, no pop ups or cookie banners. Every site should be built like that.