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What on earth does a car need curl for?
by danaliv 10y ago
What on earth does a car need curl for?
- dorfsmay 10y agoProbably libcurl, to access websites such as weather or manufacturer.
- __s 10y agoREST APIs on the automotive intranet highway gonna blow your mind piping JSON to your nodejs eval like a doll on stilts this message overpassing makes your microkernel look like a toothpick
- Chris2048 10y agocurl somedomain.foo/latest_car_software.sh | sh
- mnx 10y agohttp://somedomain.foo http://somedomain.foo obviously, wouldn't want to have to deal with certificates and all that.
- coldpie 10y agoHow else is weev supposed to control your car from his home?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoRadio/infotainment devices in automobiles are the wild west of development. They're not tightly engineered software like firmware controllers. Its usually a shoddy linux distro with some window dressing and as you can imagine a bunch of scripts keeping it all together. I imagine curl is used to grab some information from the web like updates, weather, etc. Because the copyright must be displayed somewhere, I imagine enough button mashing gets you that notice with his email pretty quickly on the radio head-end, thus the emails.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoTo call REST APIs.