ORbituary

@orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · Joined ⁨Jun⁩ ⁨2023⁩

Replying to @⁨fizzle@quokk.au⁩

My 1975 was tuned for distance. When I drove it from Key Largo to Seattle, it did 35mpg average over the 3500 miles I drove. That car was lost in an accident, sadly.

25 miles per gallon. 30 minutes would be 12.5 miles on half a gallon.

My current one does about 25-30 mpg. It weighs 1950 pounds. So, yes. It can comfortably do half an hour on one gallon or so and have fuel left to get me to a refill.

They have flat 4 two liter VW engines. Extremely efficient if tuned correctly. One top of that, there is a direct 1 to 1 drop-in electric kit for these. When my current engine dies, I have an electric kit I’ll put into it to make it an 914E.

Replying to @⁨new_otters_raft@piefed.ca⁩

I am repeating what I said elsewhere on a different comm:

I call FULL bullshit on this being Iran.

I personally worked on the cybersecurity incident that happened to St Paul municipal and water systems last year as the Incident Response Technical lead.

The threat actors were not Iranian then. They were Russian.

I personally rebuilt most of their networks, VMware hosts, storage, and servers. The majority of the VMware environments did not have config backups and were running 5 and 6 branches of VMware, only two had 7+.

Their network was insecure. They had IPSEC VPNs between the various location, but there was no further security in that respect. Their firewalls were not being kept up. AAAAND… I warned them that we thought they were still compromised.

In fact, the forensics team called them out as being clean on a group call one week into the incident, but while we were on the call with leadership, they got RE-infected.

I had my team compile a massive set of recommendations for them and I wrote the report. Water Systems specifically. They did not listen to us, apparently. The forensics team also did this.

They had FBI, national guard (fucking incompetent), and law enforcement (useless) in all meetings.

If they got into Water, they’ll get back into city and municipal again. I guarantee it.

This is not Iran. It’s the fucking incompetence of city government and Russian threat actors.