u/bostonshopper said that he was staying with friends, not living out of his car.

They weren't. They maintain a permanent residence in Virginia but spent a month staying with friends in Boston. https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/11xsve9/update_after_visiting_boston_in_october_the_rmv/jd4ne5h/

Vanadium is more toxic than lithium.

Tell that to Fermat.

I could've sworn that I got to keep my old NH plates when I moved back to Massachusetts and got MA ones.

Your registration is the piece of paper you got from State 1.

The vacuum isn't cold, but the water trying to boil away in the low pressure would suck the heat out of anything it touched (since boiling takes energy), including the remainder of the water, which would cause it to freeze.

It would do both. Some of the water would flash boil, which would suck the heat out of everything around it, causing the rest of the water to freeze. Once the boiling stops you'd be left with a bunch of ice which would slowly sublimate away.

Am I the only one who's been able to login and click a single button to cancel their ATK subscription?

Yeah, his story didn't really add up.

L-I-B said that he was appointed as moderator to twice, once by /u/ky1e and once by the reddit admins (probably applied at /r/redditrequest saying that the existing mods were inactive). Not sure what happened between those times.

Yeah, I have a home-built kit for my Chevy Volt that has kept my sump pump, furnace, router, and freezer going during storms.

I also doubt producing and constantly replacing the CaOH2 or LiOH filters is carbon neutral.

Lots of real cars from real manufacturers do this, including the Nissan Leaf (although it's only on fleet vehicles), F-150 Lightning, Hyundai Ioniq 5/Kia EV6 and the Outlander PHEV. You can also get kits from places like https://www.evextend.com/ for other cars.

Not quite. That system was the people would enter through any door and then fight there way up to the front to pay at the the kiosk by the driver. With the new system there won't be a kiosk at the front. There will be touchpoints throughout the car, and when you get on you tap at any touchpoint. There will be inspectors boarding the trains at random and checking people's cards/phones, and if anyone didn't tap in they get a fine. This is the same system that many European cities use.

Phones don't get hacked, but phone accounts do. Just google "simjacking" or "Sim swap fraud". All it takes is a little social engineering to get the representative at your phone company to move your number to a new phone, and now all the 2FA and password recovery texts from your bank are going to the scammer. T-Mobile has been hit with this pretty hard recently because scammers are able to use the data from the data breach to get into people's accounts.

The new system will allow any-door boarding on busses and fare validation once on board, so it should be just as fast.

>The MBTA does not expect to fully implement its nearly $1 billion automated fare collection system in 2024, as previously planned, effectively pushing back a project that was already three years behind schedule.
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>This project, when completed, will replace the 2006 CharlieCard system with a modernized contactless payment approach, allowing riders to tap or board at any door with a fare card, smartphone or credit card, with an additional aim of cutting down on fare evasion.
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>To that end, electronic fare gates were introduced at North Station in October, and will eventually be installed at South and Back Bay stations.
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>“The Healey-Driscoll administration has undergone a preliminary review of this complex project to assess its current status and timeline for completion,” MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo told the Herald on Saturday.
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>“Based on the review so far, it’s clear based on the contractor’s most recent schedule, it is unlikely to meet the current 2024 timeline for full implementation. As the review process advances, more information will become available.”
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>It’s the latest setback for the T’s fare collection overhaul project, which is being implemented by Boston AFC 2.0 OpCo LLC, a subsidiary of Cubic Transportation Systems, per a 2018 contractual agreement.
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>The original contract called for full implementation by 2021, at a $723.3 million cost to the MBTA, but the T’s Fiscal and Management Control Board amended the deal in April 2020, pushing that timeline to 2024 and driving up the final price tag to $935.4 million.
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>Pesaturo did not address a Herald inquiry about whether the extended timeline would increase the cost of the project, but a source with experience in the fare payment industry said a price increase is likely.
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>“It came out that it was $200 million over budget, for a total cost of just under a billion,” the source said. “And that’s the last update we’ve had. I think we can all expect that there’s going to be future cost overruns that are going to get this project over a billion dollars.”
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>Brian Kane, executive director of the MBTA Advisory Board, said the board has been asking for a project update as part of its capital budget oversight process for the past couple of years, but has not been getting much of a response from the T.
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>“It looks like they’re trying to do this incrementally and not make a big deal about it, and have this be a whole big, giant program or project that’s subject to systemic failure issues,” Kane said. “I think they’re going to incrementally phase in stuff over the next three, four or five years.
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>“And by 2026, ‘27, ‘28, you will see a wholly transformed fare collection system out there. But you won’t have a giant ribbon cutting.”
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>Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets, said the contract is overly bloated and complex, making the project’s “endgame” more difficult to accomplish. The MBTA should have focused on its fare policies first, she said, before implementing new fare payment technology.
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>“The MBTA must start putting policy before technology because at the end of the day, we have a fare collection system that is off-track, is costing us a billion dollars, and we don’t have low-income fares,” Thompson said.
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>“We haven’t figured out our fare policies in a post-COVID world. None of that work has happened. Technology will not save us.”
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>Pesaturo said the MBTA continues to review fare policy, “through the lens of equity, to deliver a project which modernizes the fare system to reflect customer payment choices, such as mobile devices and contactless credit cards.”
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>Charlie Chieppo, a transportation watcher at Pioneer Institute, said a big part of the problem is with the vendor, which has control of a large share of the market, in terms of transit agencies seeking to implement this technology.
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>In May 2022, Pioneer Institute published a report on the project, which cited a 2017 Governing Magazine article that described problems and delays that had occurred in other transit agencies that had contracted with Cubic for similar technology, including Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
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>“If you want this kind of fare system, you don’t have a lot of other places to go,” Chieppo said. “So I think they’ve done a lot of overpromising and under-delivering.”
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>However, an observer of the T’s project pointed out that in New York City, the much-larger Metropolitan Transportation Authority was able to get its contactless payment system up and running faster and at a lower cost than the MBTA.
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>“They’re up and running and going and the T’s system is nowhere to be found,” the source said. “So it’s not exactly a situation where the T can blame the vendor … because the vendor successfully rolled out a similar procurement at a much bigger agency in the same time frame.”

> NYC did their rollout pretty quickly and efficiently… years ago. How are we 3 years over projections and a quarter billion over?

Part of the problem is that we're using the same company NYC did and they had to wait for the NYC rollout to finish in 2021 before they even started working on Massachusetts.

That's the compliance dashboard, not the slow zone one.

How about a link to the actual dashboard?

Sure, it would just take longer than the age of the universe.

There are two different parts of the URL, one is a 4-digit hexadecimal number that has 65,535 possibilities, the other is the 16-digit serial number that has 43-thousand-million-million-million possibilities. The "researcher" was only able to brute force it in 65,535 tries because they had physical access to the camera and were able to read the serial number off the label.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486753/anker-eufy-security-camera-cloud-private-encryption-authentication-storage

If you read in between the fearmongering:

> the way we initially obtained the address required logging in with a username and password before Eufy’s website will cough up the encryption-free stream.

> that address largely consists of your camera’s serial number encoded in Base64

> On the plus side, Eufy’s serial numbers are long at 16 characters and aren’t just an increasing number. “You’re not going to be able to just guess at IDs and begin hitting them,” says Mandiant Red Team consultant Dillon Franke, calling it a possible “saving grace” of this disclosure. “It doesn’t sound quite as bad as if it’s UserID 1000, then you try 1001, 1002, 1003.”

That article is really misleading.

> The encryption scheme on the URLs also seemed to lack sophistication; as the same researcher told Ars, it took only 65,535 combinations to brute-force,

It only takes 65,535 guesses if you already know the serial number, which is a 16-digit non-sequential alphanumeric string that would take longer than the age of the universe to guess.