Standard in 2008 If the auto manufacturer offered OnStar or Sirius, earlier.

I wish it wasn’t true, and I definitely feel like a nut job when I bring it up.

GM’s OnStar, I believe, was just EDS’s tech at the time of their rollout in '96ish

Originally the D.A.I.R. project (Driver Aid, Information and Routing) was conceptualized in the 60’s. It wasn’t until Hughes assisted EDS in the 90’s that they were able to create a beacon that could communicate via Satellite and Cellular.

I myself didn’t realize this was a thing until about a decade ago when I was trying to create an automation for my lights to turn on when I pulled into my driveway. I kept getting a ping about 5min after my phone connected to my WiFi. The MAC matched nothing I had in the house, I just blew it off.

When an associate stopped by to work on a HoneyPot project we started seeing a bunch of random MACs attempt to connect to the open wifi, we wrote that noise off as people walking by my house and their cell phones were just trying to connect. It wasn’t until the garbage man showed up and stopped to talk to me that I was able to find his truck listed with an address connected to the open wifi, sent a few packets, then left. We made the correlation that the MAC’s could be from cars so we started researching the manufacturer of those device MAC’s

That pretty much opened a weird rabbit hole leading us to find out that almost every car has been tracked since the mid-90’s.

Joking aside, I would move to Amish country if it weren’t for the whiskey and bitches. But in all honesty; my family lives a much more comfortable life than I ever imagined I would with working in the IT field.

GPS had been implemented in vehicles in the 90’s. Most people are now finding out about the modems.

I don’t think enough people have mentioned that Auto manufacturers have been able to locate vehicles since the 90’s.

I’m fighting for a 3-Day work week 20hrs and no more. It can be done.

yeah, my bad.

I created a report generator, When I open the app it welcomes me to a drop-down menu where I select the customer name and click generate and it opens a .pdf with some charts and graphs.

I could have done it with .js or in excel but it takes about 5 or 6 seconds in python where as anything I’d done in .js was adequate, it would seem like it took too long to print/render. And well, excel would have given me some idiotic error a few months down the road.

But other than that? Not much really.

what were they thinking???

thank you for the visual representation ☺️

CoPilot with Gemini plugin did.

You think I make “16th Century Jewelry” money??? I’m out here fightin’ for my life.

I wasn’t raised with cable so TV isn’t my thing, but I was fortunate enough to live by a $1 theatre and watch all kind of movies in a theatre, I’m just gonna go back to that. Once I find a dollar theatre.

I miss the old Netflix, where discs would come to my house.

I prefer to shave so individuals can see that I have a chin / jawline.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around a decentralized git so I can release a pokemon rom hack.

oof Fortnite kills another franchise for me 😭

Reviewing his career and accomplishments - the guy was a real life Michael Douglas in Falling Down… but followed through on a larger scale. And deaths, a whole lot more deaths.

Osama bin Laden

Linus gets that this is a joke, just like Windows.