Ex-mil, ex-sec, ex-treme, & ex-plosive.
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Ditching Windows as it has become spyware and adware.
Flipping to Linux.

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Cake day: November 19th, 2024
  • Fuse@infosec.exchangetoAustralia@aussie.zone•An unwritten 'country code' is putting Rob's life at risk on the road, and all he's doing is turning right
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    11 hours ago

    @Zagorath
    Generally, truckies just talk to each other on UHF40 (or 29) to arrange safe overtaking.

    But a turn signal has always been a warning signal. It points to where one should never be.

    It’s not uncommon, though, for a truck that has *already* executed an overtaking manoeuvre to ‘thank’ the vehicle now behind them with an R-L-R-L combo of single flashes, *after* they’re back on the correct side of the road.

    Some truckies add a ‘flourish’ of one or two ‘hazard light’ flashes to the end of the sequence.

    But, in all my years on the roads, I’ve only heard of recently deceased idiots who’ve tried overtaking a truck that has had its right-hand indicator on.

    Things may have changed in the last decade, but FIIK why!

  • Fuse@infosec.exchangetoAustralia@aussie.zone•An unwritten 'country code' is putting Rob's life at risk on the road, and all he's doing is turning right
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    12 hours ago

    @Joshi
    (In case it isn’t obvious, the following applies to Australia, where we drive on the left.)

    I’ve done hundreds of thousands of clicks on country roads, and the right-turn signal has NEVER meant that it is ‘safe to pass’. Never.

    Most indicator stalks allow drivers to apply pressure and thus activate a turn signal’s bulb, without “locking on” the relay.

    This allows drivers to manually produce two or three pairs of LEFT flashes of the LEFT indicator. Like, L-L (1 sec pause) L-L (1 sec pause) L-L.

    That has always been understood that the driver in front is saying, to the following driver, “I know you’re there. I’m not turning off, but if you want to pass, it’s clear ahead, and I’ll be looking out for you.”

    The right-turn signal has ALWAYS ONLY meant, “Danger. Do NOT overtake me.”

    More than a few times, I’ve been in trucks with several tonnes of explosives and an impatient passenger coach, or cara-bloody-van, starts showing too much of their grill in the right hand mirror.

    Giving them the L-L pattern has let them know it is clear to pass, but the right-turn signal coming on has ALWAYS meant, “Nup. No way. Don’t be a bloody fool. Cool ya jets.”