Syonyk

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by Syonyk 5y ago
I can't speak to the person you're asking, but I very much have eliminated Apple products from my daily use as a result of CSAM - though it was on top of a range of other things (mostly China related) that told me I can no longer
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Apple's move is to try and maintain that bargain while moving to E2E encryption. It could be. It makes sense as a precursor to it. However, unless I've missed something, at no point in the entire debacle did Apple say
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Lul your just overeacting! </s>
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by Syonyk 5y ago
The current state of self driving cars can't handle basic, well behaved, standard traffic. There's no way it's ready for the sort of adversarial stuff you'd get hiring a bunch of people to drive around simulating traff
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Seems like a market gap, no? The problem is that the backend analytics they're collecting are worth so much that they would either have to lose a ton of money with subscriptions, or admit just how much they're making from y
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> How do you pull yourself up by the bootstraps if the bootstraps require a subscription you can't afford? Can't have those upstarts worming their way into elite circles now, can we? I thought you'd understand. Once a
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> If this keeps up, some used cars will have a higher value than new ones. That's already the case with construction equipment and farm equipment[0]. Right now, used cars often have a higher or near-new value because you can get o
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I've got some long black traps with a "flag" on them that pops when triggered, and those seem to work well enough. A chunk of rebar to poke around and find the tunnel, a bit of hand digging, and I can start pulling 'em
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Ew. Not surprised you can buy the stuff that professionals shy away from for being too damned toxic, to your door, overnight delivery. Plus good reviews, hard to leave a bad review for it when you're bleeding out in the ER. I don&#x2
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by Syonyk 5y ago
It's probably an electric that has to warm up the battery before going anywhere in extreme cold, though 20 minutes seems short. When I use a block heater, I let it run for a couple hours before needing the vehicle in the cold. I'
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Yeah... go out and start it, for whatever value of "start" you need. I frequently walk out to our Volt and start it to let it warm up the cabin on shore power, though I can also do it through a window with the key fob. Or I&#x27
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by Syonyk 5y ago
We are. We're building the world of 1984, except paying to do it. There are some upcoming requirements that cars "monitor for impaired drivers" somehow - which seems likely to be adding proximity-based blood alcohol sensors.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I think we define "abused" somewhat differently. I consider things like "A Roku TV performing content analysis on inputs from external jacks, so it can report up what DVD I'm watching," to be data abuse. Same goes
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Thanks for reminding me, that book has been on my list of "I should get around to reading..." for a while. It's a long slog, but seems more and more relevant.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Free? At least from their website[1], it appears all the plans are paid. Which is worse. You're paying them to then sell off all your data on the backend, violating the spirit of "If you're not paying, you're the produ
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Of course they are. Everyone is double dipping anymore. Pay for the app, but you're really the product being sold. Any app that can get location access is probably doing something you don't like with it. Your "Smart TV
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> I'm trying to imagine a future, 30-50 years from now... I can only hope it's a future in which we collectively realized that smartphones, smartwatches, smartglasses, smartypantstoilets, smartgloves, smartdiapers, etc, were
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by Syonyk 5y ago
How do you keep things like "power plants" and "water systems" running in this proposal? Either you allow so many exceptions that it's worthless, or you literally shut down modern civilization. It's far fro
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Learn C and dive in. The various "osdev" communities are good places to hang out, though I personally find IRC to be somewhat better than the forums and such. If you can reason about the code you write in a memory-byte-accurate an
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Not just tears. Slave labor, child labor ( cough DRC/Cobalt cough ), and some good old ethnic cleansing thrown in for good measure. It's increasingly hard to justify any use of modern consumer electronics. The whole ecosyste
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by Syonyk 5y ago
If you'd like another depressing read, Derrick Jensen's "Bright Green Lies" is a good one. It does the very uncomfortable math on "Ok, so, you want to power civilization with wind/solar/nuclear/etc?
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> ...the worst thing about MS Word in my opinion is the invisible hand of the phantom formatting characters. WordPerfect says "Reveal Codes!" from the grave... Formatting is being nonsensical? Jump into Reveal Codes, delete
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by Syonyk 5y ago
But Western markets get cheap disposable consumer gizmos, so isn't that a good trade in the end? (not quite sarcasm, not quite serious, but this seems to be the unstated argument for this sort of stuff - yes, the human costs are tragic
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by Syonyk 5y ago
"Dying for an iPhone" is a good read on the state of Foxconn and Apple's labor practices, which seem to generally continue to be "abusive at best." It does lead to not really wanting to touch any of modern consumer
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I've literally heard from Tesla owners that one of the perks of owning a Tesla in a densely populated tech-heavy area is all the industry networking you get at the service center.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
There's been no shortage of "I bought an EV, had an ICE rental, and can't believe how horribly awful this awful horrible car is!" articles in the last decade, just find one. They're all the same. They tend to go on
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I mean, you could put a ton of effort into improving quality, consistency, etc. Or you could just Tweet that anyone critical of your car is a big oil funded Tesla-shorting planet hating shill. One gets you most of the other, for an awful lo
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Now ARM build for Windows / Linux is supported. And there's an ARM Linux download? Even if it's a bit of a laggy pain in the rear on low power ARM laptops, that's worth supporting!
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by Syonyk 5y ago
So, you're admitting that computer-based self driving cars won't be a thing? Clever, but probably not what you think you're arguing for... Silicon Valley has a regular, predictable, very tedious pair of arrogances when it com
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Exactly! I know people who have far more money sitting in their driveways (or garage, though having a garage clear enough for cars is a weird rarity anymore) than our entire property, including house, is worth. They claim it's worth i

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