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  • ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered

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  • ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered

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  • This has nothing to do with aesthetics and everything to do with reducing production costs. The sensors themselves add to costs, but then the data processing for all of this data adds to the computational needs of the system, sensor installs requiring calibration and flexibility for changes in sensors add costs. The list goes on.

    Musk and Tesla are standing firm on their position that LiDAR is needless and that others will follow their lead here, but so far in practice the lack of LiDAR in Tesla vehicles has shown to be a serious disadvantage compared to other systems.

  • ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered

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  • Tesla's used to have LiDAR - they turned them off in software and stopped adding them to newer models.

  • Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

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  • I think everyone jumping on this and trying to argue that Apple is so very wrong in this assertion that people will get bombarded with malicious garbage is coming at this from the wrong angle. The part that I think we should be pushing back on in the argument that, in order to protect them from themselves, we should allow Apple to restrict them unilaterally.

    People, in general, make just awful decisions in terms of security and quality of the apps they download. We've seen it since the very first app store and it continues today. "But Android apps can be side loaded and it's not that bad" Yes, it is that bad. The fact that you, someone that is more informed and experienced than the average, can navigate this successfully and safely is not an indicator of the general population.

    Ultimately, the argument that people will mess this up is objectively true. The place we should push back is the argument that we should allow Apple to protect us from ourselves.

    If Apple believes they can cultivate a safer and higher quality app store, they should take that message to the people. Convince them that if they stay in Apple's app store ecosystem, they will be happier and safer. If you can't convince them, though, the law should not allow you to force them into compliance. If we have a variety of marketplaces, they will need to differentiate themselves from one another somehow. That's most likely going to be on price, but we could also have someone step up to make a market focused on security, privacy, or some other value proposition.

    "It won't expose people to bad apps" is just the wrong argument. We should instead just say "Yeah. And?" The freedom to make that decision, and possibly make those mistakes, isn't the problem - it's the point

  • Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac

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  • NSFW subs are exactly where my mind went as well, but monetizing some of that content could prove legally fraught. Instead, I'd wager the scope narrows a bit to a very specific OnlyFans type of model. Weren't they already looking at paid awards that provide a cash reward to the recipient? Sure sounds like a tipping model to me 🤔

  • U.S. sues TikTok for collecting kids’ data without parents’ permission: Justice Department calls TikTok’s age-gating methods ‘deficient in multiple ways'

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  • The best case would be to protect everyone’s privacy, not just the children OR teens

    The difference is that an adult can consent to having their data collected by these companies, making the investigation and enforcement a more nuanced endeavor. A child cannot, so it all becomes far more straight forward and easier to go after the offending companies.

  • To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says

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  • There's nothing magical about the 15th reboot - Crowdstrike runs an update check during the boot process, and depending on your setup and network speeds, it can often take multiple reboots for that update to get picked up and applied. If it fails to apply the update before the boot cycle hits the point that crashes, you just have to try again.

    One thing that can help, if anyone reads this and is having this problem, is to hard wire the machine to the network. Wifi is enabled later in the startup sequence which leaves little (or no) time for the update to get picked up an applied before the boot crashes. The wired network stack starts up much earlier in the cycle and will maximize the odds of the fix getting applied in time.

  • The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming

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