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Well the whole bit about backing out the nut is to cause it to fail in a manner that looks more like a maintenance problem and not a driver problem. Even when stuff like that only happens on one cab, it's not enough to point at a singular driver.

And yeah all of that advice comes with the rider that "you may be unemployable" afterwards.

Yeah and to act like we weren't bashing each other's heads in with clubs for access to the better fruit trees during those 290,000 years is nonsense. It was just less organized. But scarcity was a thing and the concept of morals and ethics weren't a thing - so head bashing to steal land and the raping of women and the taking of slaves were probably the norm.

That form of anarchy today with the advent of small arms would be basically the same if we were to remove all the militaries from the world. And whoever stole the best fruit trees would amass a bigger group to go steal more fruit trees and you can see where this is going.

Militias and other forms of organized violence are really hard to reconcile as an anarchist. Even from an academic view - how does anyone defend against an antagonistic, coercive power imbalance? They can't just be exiled because they'll kill you for whatever resources they want and then you'll be the one exiled from your lands/life.

That's why anarcho syndicalism is a thing right? I'm no expert on it but I think that a syndicate would be the right tool in this instance.

In the distant past, anarchism worked because everyone knew each other and bad actors had nowhere to hide to build their power structures and grow in strength.

Sure they did - in the form of their own neighboring state. Then they invaded your peaceful anarchist society and you are now the great-great-great-(great....) descendant of their rape.

It sucks but you're absolutely right. Read Ursula K Le Guin's The Dispossessed. The only way anarchism worked in that story was on an entirely separate planet that everyone agreed to leave alone because it was a fucking desert and not worth conquering.

Usually they just flag events like really hard braking or other high-g events, speeding, travelling off-route if you pay for that module, and operating hours. At least that's the easy to tattle stuff. They're not smart enough to do anything like drive for you.

But some operators DO need to calm the fuck down and just obey the speed limit. These things usually let their manager know they're shitty drivers before the police let them know they're shitty drivers and they subsequently lose their DOT certification.

They phone home over cell. Usually 4g LTE with relatively high gain antennas. You wont jam it with that.

These things are smarter / dumber than that. They talk directly to the engine and transmission with canbus to record operating conditions. And they have a dedicated GPS antenna. Then they generate a live report from that data that is sent over a dedicated cell connection.

Talking nonsense to it or driving in circles wont fool it. I recommend physical sabotage that mimics installation failure.

That's definitely going to change in this political climate. There will be states where the head of the unemployment insurance will just stop paying at Trump's direction and ignore court orders. MMW

I program tattling programs for non-logistical industry. It does let us know if people mistreat equipment or even break speed limits. But what pays the bills is predictive maintenance or responding to reactive maintenance needs more quickly. We can reduce scheduled maintenance for longer and prevent failed parts from causing too much damage.

Sure it's a different industry but generally employees are expensive to hire and even more expensive to lose. Losing a job because of a number in an algorithm that decides to tattle is rare unless that employee is a total piece of shit that we were looking to sack for other reasons. Usually its a "Dude samsara told us you blew the speed limit in this town and we're going to get fined out the wazoo and you'll lose your DOT license. Dont do it again". If they do stupid shit again and get caught by the police, they might lose their DOT status for some number of months and be unemployable until it is restored. So really it is a safeguard to prevent that from happening in the first place and helps them KEEP their jobs longer.

Those Solera devices you've got are relatively common automotive IoT fleet trackers. They usually have gps antennas. They talk to the engine and transmission directly over canbus. Then they process that data and report what they see over a cell network. If they see nothing, they report that too with a heartbeat signal and various error codes.

Depending on the model, they sometimes have external cell antennas connected with a mini coaxial cable. Find it and unscrew it all the way, then re-screw it in by only 1 and a half rotations so it'll hang on but barely. Then clip the nearest ziptie so the cable wobbles free. It'll cause the nut on the coax to get a stress fracture in under a year. They will have to replace the gps/cell antenna module and those are like $300 a piece through Samsora. In the meantime you'll get iffy signal responses. Don't let them catch you cutting the zip tie on camera or you WILL lose your job.

Your truck will be in the maintenance shop relatively frequently at the request of whoever reads the reports for repair of that cell module. They won't find anything wrong with it, scratch their butts, then just screw it back down and replace the ziptie.

Unscrew it and clip it again.

Yeah "You've got stage 4 cancer. You won't make it through 4 more years." is probably the only way to get those old bluedog democrats to gtfo of office.

Oh I misread your comment as "1tb in one day?"