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Know_not_Scotty_does

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  • DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay

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  • You know what is better than this "gift"? A functional tax system that actually captures and allocates what a fair share of wealth/earnings a person has or accumulates each year.

  • There was no need to ever improve upon THIS

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  • They get really loose. While no slouch, these trucks are not world beaters.

  • There was no need to ever improve upon THIS

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  • First gen tundra controls really are excellent. They and used mechanical linkages for the diverter and for the hot/cold control. The only problem is the knobs get loose over time and can break or fall off when you accellerate.

  • How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue?

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  • In the Galaxy's Edge series this is tangentially addressed, the TLDR is that there are other implications of being on a ship for generations that outweigh the genetic problems. The Savages have a well earned title fwiw both in origin and action. It is a bleak outlook on the concept but I don't think it is farfetched given everything we are living through right now.

  • Older 'Thought Experiments' (Movies) That Warned Us About AI

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  • I would add Ex Machina to that list as well both for the creepy developer and the actual implications of the ending.

  • ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times

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  • The only one I have run into that doesn't work is pubg. What are you trying to run?

  • Sen. Mitch McConnell falls in Capitol hallway

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  • Our bare minimum goal as humans should be to live a life where people across the world don't celebrate when we fall or get hurt. Mitch didn't get that message.

  • One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

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  • So it was just looking for a payout or to avoid governmental pressure got it.

  • One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

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  • Genuine question for the business people here. Would it have been possible to say no to this sale? If I remember correctly, publicly traded companies have to do certain things for their shareholders but I would assume you could essentially say no of you had reservations about the sale for ethical/financial reasons right?

    I am not sure if Dominion is publicly traded but I have to wonder about this sale given the lawsuits they went through and won as well as the pending ones.

  • Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?

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  • I have noticed more people inferring things from a small part of a reply and rather than read and try to understand it, they insted get upset about it and reply back about what they think the op said.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • No, I am saying if you disable or tweak the sensors that feed the onboard telemetry system on a modern car which include sensors for the accelerator pedal position, vehicle speed, individual wheel speed sensors (for abs, traction control, and stability control), the car will probably freak out and enter limp mode.

    If you screw with the stability or traction sensors, they can cause the airbags to not trigger properly or predictably. Remember, there are basic impact sensors for airbags but there are also angle sensors and accelerometers for rollover detection now. If you disable any of that, the car will not work properly.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • I agree 100%.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • Yeah that isn't an option unless you want the dash to light up like a Christmas tree, your abs not to work, the stability/traction control to freak out and disable your accellerator, or cause an airbag fault, or cause the seatbelt pretensioners to fault.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • You should double check that. There are lots of non-insurance apps that share data through data brokers where it gets back to insurers. You personally may not use them, but some people will/do.

    I want to re-re-re-iterate that I am not advocating giving up on the idea of securing your car, I am just saying if you are going through the exercise of making sure your car is secure or offline that you also need to be realistic about what your phone shares even when locked down.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • Its not the sensors that store the data, the ecu/pcm/bcm do that. Yes, there is essentially a black box function in most modern-ish cars that logs the last X minutes of driving. It likely also has an "event recorder" for when certain conditions are triggered.

    I know for a fact that most have reflash counters or log when the ecu was written to last. That is more to do with tuning or warranty stuff but still.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • I'm not doing anything, you are inferring what I meant without asking... Again, all I am saying is that the car is one vector for tracking both via location and activity and you should not ignore one and think that you are not being tracked.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • If you think your wireless cell phone that constantly is in sync with cell phone radio towers around you does not allow your location to be known or calculated, I have some bad news for you.

    Again, I am not saying I am giving up on anything. I mention that because the action of securing your car without being realistic about what your phone is doing while in your car or in your pocket is an half baked exercise.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • I'm not arguing you shouldn't try and be secure. If you are going to the effort to secure your car, you should also make sure your other devices are secure because these sources share much of the same data.

  • EV that does not track my every move

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  • The article is from 2023, it is likely several orders of magnitude worse now.

    Imo, the sweet spot for reliability and unconnected tech is the mid 2000s to 2015ish. Good engine control, simple user interfaces with buttons, nice creature comforts, good fuel efficiency, and still good safety (generally)

    I have a 2019 wrx that while I like it, I know the subaru telemetry is both significant and easy to access, there has been a number of articles about it published in the last year or two. There are opt out procedures through subaru but let's not kid ourselves here do you really trust them to do it? How do you prove they have stopped?

    That said, your phone shares all that data already, it being shared by another device is not really much different than coming from one source.

    (Edit: since some of you missed what I was trying to convey here, I was trying to point out that the exercise of securing your car is half the battle, yes you SHOULD do that, any reduction in data sharing is a positive thing. You should also be realistic about how much that actually accomplishes when you are also carrying your cell phone with you in your car.)

    What I really don't like is the driver aids. My mom has a newer Mercedes suv and it is realllllllly intrusive. The auto brake function as awful, it auto does corrective steering. I am sure in an actual panic situation I would welcome it but I absolutely do not like it on normal situations. I also don't trust it from a cyber security situation.