Is Sony actually a good guy for holding this patent so that no one else can go and do this shit either?

Non anti-adblock-wall link (oh, the irony): https://archive.ph/GVLfj

This is where we say switch to Linux, right?

You get to drink from the fire hose!!!

Wordpress is just the worst

Automated scans of everything everywhere for exposed credentials is nothing new?

That’s security theater for you…

I will (and have been) doing my absolute to avoid buying any kind of physical device that requires an app to function

Same. It’s becoming more difficult every day.

Oof, yeah, didn’t think about that. Much more complicated.

We need a wiki of EVs that.has a section on each model enumerating which components are used to spy on you and videos showing how to neuter them.

I have been thinking we need something like this but for all new vehicles, not just EVs. Like instructables but for how to locate and rip out the cellular radio/antenna on every make and model that has one.

Foof. Nightmare fuel.

It’s just a fun coincidence that the azure outage was around the same time.

Killin is my business, ladies! And BIZ NESS IS GOOD!

I went down a rabbit hole of shower head research recently and ended up with a Hammerhead. Been pretty happy with it.

True yeah. Downtime has gotta be especially problematic for fleet usage.

I feel like I usually hear this in the context of bodywork or collision repair, which is just as likely as any other car to be needed. Like the lead time on replacement body panels is months long because no dealers so sucks if you get in a wreck. That may have changed since however many years ago though.

Steve Buscemi

Makes it easier to not eat that trash.

Thanks for writing all that out.

Monitor Internet Service Outages

This one is interesting. I wonder if that means they can enforce some kind of minimum uptime? For areas that have a lot of outages.

Anyone know what the actual changes are, what they mean for us? Is this just preventing ISPs from prioritizing/throttling certain sites?