Are these apps able to track location and accelerometer data from the background? Or does this only apply to people who open something like GasBuddy while driving the car?
Readit NewsFearlessNebula commented on Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/athousandsteps
Flybywire, the creator of the renowned A32nx, released their A380x in alpha today.
CLS?
Google uses a proprietary version control system called Piper
I wonder when a tesla will show up in a courtroom with a situation like this.
I'm not talking about autopilot.
I'm talking about the continuous (past ridiculous) removal of physical controls from their vehicles.
For example, the original model S/X had dedicated controls for lots of functions - turn signals, gear shift, wipers, autopilot, steering wheel tilt, etc. On the steering wheel, there were two buttons and a scrollwheel on each side of the steering wheel. Press the center of the steering wheel for the horn. The door had mirror adjustment and windows + lock
Unfortunately a few critical controls were on the touchscreen - defrost front and back were big ones, but all the climate controls, and other nonsense too - all pretty much hidden with multiple taps, or small targets or both.
not all of this is bad - putting lots of detailed but non-critical settings like miles vs km are the perfect thing to have on a touchscreen.
but it needed more dedicated controls.
When the Model 3 came out, it started removing controls. There are two stalks, the turn signal also sort of controls headlights and wipers, the shifter is overloaded with autopilot. It has two scrollwheels without buttons, you have to push them left and right.
all other controls are on the touchscreen.
It really needs dedicated controls for important things.
And then the updated model S/X came out. wow.
there are NO stalks. turn signals are touch areas on the steering wheel. so are high beams, horn, wipers. the scroll wheels do different things at different times.
shifter? nope - it guesses what direction you want to go. many more things involve the touchscreen, like going into park. (there is also a touch drive selector in the center console, but you have to look down and touch it to wake, then to select)
Just a mess. It makes you a worse driver.
Anton Yelchin was killed due to traumatic asphyxiation when he thought he parked his Jeep and got out of the car and it then rolled into him and crushed him against a gate. Arguably the blame falls on GM for building one of those stateless shifters that always pops back to the center.
FearlessNebula commented on The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers wired.com/story/mirai-unt... · Posted by u/uberm
Building a DDOS botnet out of vulnerable IoT devices, hardly a Web-Killing Monster.
Except for that time it was pointed at a major DNS provider[1] and pretty much killed a good chunk of the internet for the better part of a day.
FearlessNebula commented on Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It soatok.blog/2023/10/02/re... · Posted by u/Kye
Prior to COVID, everyone understood that remote work was supported by some companies and not others. It was also a type of work that was preferred by some employees and not others.
As a result, everyone peacefully self-selected into their preferred employment relationships. Companies got the type of workforce they wanted and workers chose the type of environment they wanted. It was great.
Today, as some companies are changing their remote work policies to be return-to-office, there seems to be a lot of resentment about this, and I don't really understand why. We should just return to the status quo before COVID: choose the type of company you want to work for that supports the lifestyle you want to have. If your employer wants to transition back to in-office work and you don't want to do it, switch to one of the thousands of companies that will hire you.
You have no obligation to stay at a company that is forcing you back in the office, and the company has no obligation to keep an employee working in a remote context that the company doesn't favor anymore.
The market is really difficult right now, most people don’t have the option to just find a remote work company. A significant amount of people who were laid off can’t find any company right now
Sounds like you’ve never used OneDrive. The sync client sucks on every platform, will eat all of your memory and delete your documents.
I haven't used OneDrive but the iCloud Drive and Google Drive clients are similarly terrible. I one time had 5 GB of complex nested file structure in iCloud Drive and it totally froze up. I tried 2 different Mac's, an iPhone, and an iPad and none of them were able to sync up with the server to get those 5 GB out of the cloud. I had to request a GDPR to get a .zip file of my data... this was the impetus for me to switch to Dropbox although after the way they handled their layoffs I am looking to switch to Syncthing as soon as I have the time to set it up and get familiar.
Dropbox is thoroughly analysing every piece of your data in real time. If you rely fully on them to back up your data, just wait until they block you for some silly reason without any possibility to recover.
Hence why I use Cryptomator to encrypt my data. Apparently OneDrive marks this as ransomware and sends you scary emails but does not lock your account. So far Dropbox does not seem to care about Cryptomator at all.
Edit: Not to defend Dropbox, but just saying there is a mitigation if you need it.
FearlessNebula commented on Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option blog.edwardloveall.com/le... · Posted by u/zdw
I think Github have already won the cultural dev war. I hear many a developer saying Github instead of "Git".
A recent example from a mid level dev:
"I'm gonna branch from the github repository" - when the repository is self hosted
Was it a self hosted github instance?