jimswhims

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Depends - i looked into it (with chatgpt's help) recently after getting quoted 270 euro for a spare fob for a second hand car I bought that only had one key.

It seems like a kind of niche field with a lot of pitfalls and poor availability of information but it seems like it's possible to do if you buy some budget key programmer, as long as you can figure out which encryption type the immobiliser uses. There should be an FCC id on the key fob somewhere, then it should be possible to figure out which type of encryption it uses, there's usually some codename like ID46 or something like that.

From that article it seems like it was easier to do for that car than it is for most new-ish cars.

These are 2 of the programmers i'm looking at getting, also expensive but worth IMO, if you can get the right one, make a couple of spares for yourself, family, friends etc, then sell it on or maybe even run a (less extortionate, hopefully) side hustle yourself.

https://www.xhorsevvdi.com/wholesale/vvdi-key-tester.html https://store.autel.com/products/autel-maxiim-km100

Comment · 1 year ago

Thanks, for a minute I was wondering how to register for the online version of the course, as the dates seem limited, but looks like you can actually just jump into the content with the "Basics" and "Advanced" and work through it.

Comment · 1 year ago

There's an "Examples" tab in the top row with some nice examples.

Comment · 1 year ago

Think it comes from the german word for salmon, "Lachs", or at least an earlier version of the word.

Comment · 1 year ago

https://archive.ph/LM998

Comment · 1 year ago

Yep.

Comment · 1 year ago

I agree, just posted to the same effect before I scrolled down and saw your post ;-)

Comment · 1 year ago

What I'd like to know is: who's flagging legitimate articles like this, and why..?

Comment · 1 year ago

As well as video games, he's very influenced by sci-fi.

My own theory is that he sees himself as a kind of Hari Seldon figure (can't remember for sure but think I saw him wearing a "Foundation" t-shirt at some event). Or someone like Alan Saul from Neal Asher's "Owner" series.

This delusional belief, along with typical emotional/ego issues, may be what gives him that righteous fervour for "making life interplanetary" or whatever.

Comment · 1 year ago

A coup by any other name is still a coup.

Comment · 1 year ago

I'm guessing it's too late, first thing they'd have done is back up all the data somewhere..

Comment · 1 year ago

Ah i see, i had tried right click and it wasn't working, but that was because I had a planet selected with its details showing, in the normal view it's fine. Makes sense not to pan when an object is selected, i guess.

I just had the browser window maximized while I was away from it for a while. This would make a nice active desktop, though I don't know enough about the software stacks involved with that to know whether it's possible.

Comment · 1 year ago

Beatiful, maybe add a pan control, and configurable starting time + dt?

Comment · 2 years ago

It's on gnu/linux as well, works great.