The thing is, it isn’t an app strictly for what the article says some people use it for. Plus there’s a lot of differences between what is “street legal” vs what is race track legal. I know people who buy cars specifically to track them. They may change the tune on their car as a result. Doesn’t necessarily mean they are removing parts or doing anything illegal.

Hell. You can use this app if you happen to build a kit car.

I understand that you’re upset about the potential impact on the environment. But this is a fishing expedition.

It’d make more sense to subpoena companies selling deletion kits (and outlaw the sale of those in the US).

I’m tempted to install this app just because. I’m not going to use it (I own two perfectly good scanners with tuning ability), but I’m always up to fuck with the government.

The problem is that the situation isn’t strictly new for Liberty, and has been dragging for the better part of two decades. Per the Fortune report, Liberty was supposed to have started buying power from other sellers as far back as 2009, when NV Energy sold Liberty its California assets. A temporary agreement was set in place so the situation could be resolved, but that was extended repeatedly in 2015, 2020, and 2025, a fact that Fortune says it verified via regulatory documents.

Danielle Hughes, a local resident and CEO of the nonprofit Tahoe Spark, also points out that at only 49,000 strong, even if the area could get a good short-term deal on power coming from the west side, it wouldn’t be able to find affordable long-term pricing competing with giants. Understandably, Spark and another local interest group want the California Public Utilities Commission to fully oversee Liberty’s procurement process, except that the entity has no actual power over NV Energy.

For its part, NV Energy is building out its Greenlink West 525 kV line and intends to transition Lake Tahoe to this pipe, but watts are only expected to flow on it come May 2027, making for the closest of shaves. The operator says that the transition was set “well before data center load growth was a consideration,” and “not a reaction to recent developments,” but at the same time, there’s no telling if the schedule could slip.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/49-000-lake-tahoe-residents-could-be-left-powerless-as-ai-data-centers-inhale-electricity-supply-power-company-looking-to-redirect-power-to-12-data-centers-high-demand-plus-a-regulatory-limbo-equals-a-dim-situation

If we could stop reposting this every hour or so, that would be great. The outrage over data centers aside it looks like this problem has been ongoing for more than a decade.

No. This is literally me comparing their law to our law.

They claim where they are from (not the US) doing this kind of deletion is FAFO territory.

I’m pointing out that it’s illegal (Federally) in the US as well. I think there are ways to use the app legally that don’t involve deletions, but the government is gonna do government things so the expectation should be that the government does in fact target random individuals to hold accountable.

Myth #1 – Deleting or Tuning a Truck is Legal

There is no way around this; it is 100% illegal to tamper with or modify the emission system on your truck in any way. It isn’t a state or local law (although those exist, as well), but Federal law. When we mention this, the first thing customers say is that “it’s for off-highway use only” or “it’s for tractor pulls.” They have the idea in their head that this will allow them to skirt around any laws, and that’s hardly the case.

Yes, you can legally have your emission system removed from your vehicle, but it requires recertification by the manufacturer and a new emission label and certification issued. You can’t just sign a piece of paper and proclaim you’ve re-certified your engine. You would need to go through the costly process of having your engine re-certified by the original equipment manufacturer.

Another common misconception among clients is that the EPA doesn’t go after small businesses. For reference, the EPA provides a list, by year, of every single resolution that is brought up against the Clean Air Act for vehicles. You will find cases ranging from providers of tuning equipment being charged over $4 million to a single owner performing a DPF delete on one vehicle.

At a best guess it’s because up until now Bitwarden was conducting public audits.

This meant people could check their work and also highlight problems if they were found.

That’s part of being fully transparent.

Changing that language may mean changing that transparency and that’s bad because it means the public will have a harder time holding the company accountable if something is wrong.

Technically, a lot of states do ban driving distractions which this obviously is.

But I’m sure that it’ll have to be decided in court or in amendment to current legislation to carve out/specify that this actually counts as that.

In the state I’m from, underbody light kits are illegal for use on public roads because they’re a driving distraction and you actually can’t use LED signs and so on for the same reason.

That being said I’d also like this to apply to billboards. LED billboards should be outlawed.

In a closed loop cooling system for a water cooled PC you use distilled water to prevent things growing in it which would require the system to be purged and cleaned and refilled. Which would use more water. So for cooling a data center I’m sure it’s a similar deal.

They can probably use grey water for the construction (which is where the 29 million gallons of water were used in this instance), so I don’t know why they didn’t other than the sheer amount of water needed and whether or not grey water was available to be used.

The problem is that’s not what happened here. This data center is under construction. It’s not operational yet. So the construction used this water over a period of months for dust control and mixing concrete and so on and weren’t billed for it.

Also, the way data centers are supposed to use cooling is something called a closed loop. It’s similar to what you have in your vehicle. Or a liquid cooling setup in a computer. So the water isn’t supposed to go back into the cities water table or their treatment system.

The water from the construction will do that but it is no longer potable so it has to be retreated to be safe to drink etc.

So did I until I had to go through the whole process. I recommend it if for no other reason than it’s easier in the long run than keeping your credit locked/frozen forever.

The chances are the places that would be most at risk (and have a risk profile that would warrant that kind of paranoia) are already taking measures to circumvent this.

I think you have a typo. But I agree.

Once again. I don’t owe you an explanation for what I’m doing and I’m certainly not going to give you one now that you’ve gone through the trouble to harass me over it. Get lost. Seriously.

Weird that you need me to provide solutions to you.

I don’t know whether this is some weird purity test or if you’re just looking to copy my homework and either way I don’t care.

You’re not a good person. You’re actively creating a hostile environment for the purposes of trolling at this point.

Go away.

Lol. My dude. Quit projecting. You don’t know me. You don’t know anything about what I do and don’t do. You made an assumption based on misplaced vibes and now you’re doubling down.

Which is hilarious because that kind of vibe based nonsense is exactly what I’m sure you would accuse your political opposites of doing.

Do me a favor and get lost. I’m not interested in whatever nonsense you’re spewing since you’re not here to provide solutions.

Make credible suggesting or GTFO.

I didn’t ask.

But since you’re wanting to give people directions, maybe start off with that in a place and time where it’s appropriate. Instead of assuming that someone who doesn’t owe you this information must not know and must be talked down to.

You come off as an asshole. Just thought you ought to know.

It costs you nothing to make suggestions about what people can do.

Instead you’re here to smugly try to gotcha randos on the internet for your own self righteous hate fetish. You can miss me with that entirely.

Yeah. The thing about new phone numbers these days is they are generally reused numbers someone else didn’t want. So you’ll still get the same spam calls, they just won’t necessarily be addressed to you.

I take it you have a list of things we could be doing that you’d like to share with the class?

Are you asking for tips?

I don’t think that’s the point they are making. What they are saying is this type of crime is becoming more successful with the help of AI, not that the perpetrator couldn’t have done it without AI.

Same as with phone scams. They are becoming more successful all the time with the help of AI because of its ability to emulate human conversation, voice match, etc.