FUTO is a bit problematic

Rossman left FUTO (unclear if it was because of their practices) anyway. Best to contribute to projects directly.

One thing that people often forget is TVs / stream boxes and Alexa/google assistants.

Smart TVs all have microphones that are recording (for “voice commands”) and the same with the remotes for stream devices (though probably not unless asked because of battery life), also google and Alexa’s are constantly always listening. They are simply spyware devices that parse everything you say and hand it to advertisers, insurance, governments, etc…

Phones also suffer from the battery life problem, so jury is still out on whether they listen to you because constantly recording audio would degrade battery life quite a bit (though maybe it is factored in). Phones absolutely do share location data and any phones discovered on the same WiFi network or in the same location if that data was available and from there will share entire search history of devices on the same network (well, that is on the data center end, phones likely just send what devices and for how long they were together). From there it is quite easy to advertised based on search history, unencrypted text data, etc…

For example in OP, OP had likely searched around about cars and checked out manufacturers websites and such before meeting with the parents (unless they were going in completely blind to dealerships), so it would have shared exactly the cars that they were looking at and linked it to the parents for advertising.

Still fucked, ethically wrong and legally grey, but “listening” is a bit of an inefficient way to do it, generally.

Can you provide one or elaborate on it?

Embedded developers have tried all manner or wizardry to simply track speed, not even position based just on an accelerometer/gyro, but the sample rate error drift is so large that putting a GPS module in there is 100x more accurate for deriving speed.

I would be interested to see how a browser, which almost certainly doesn’t get the full serialized data, is able to track just based on that which the wearables industry have been trying for decades with bad results.

And is promised to be open, but their hardware is still proprietary closed source just like bambu and they use a proprietary hotend and nozzle that you can’t replace 3rd party, so if anything breaks and they decide not to help you, good luck fixing it.

Almost exactly how bambu started. Seemed to get better once 3rd parties cloned their proprietary parts (not of their own doing), then nosedived.

Looks like an amazing printer at a great price, but so did Bambu in the beginning.

Been using it (not often beyond basics for home server container administration) for years but I always get confused with searching vs search and replace vs global search

/<search> (n for next instances)

:%s/<search>/<replace>

:g/<search>/p (grep was named after this one IIRC, Global Regular Expression Print)

And often I just use :%s to search and highlight all instances and don’t press enter because I forget the others and I often have to search and replace for docker comppse snippets.

Yes, but also on the hardware level.

I don’t know enough about OS programming to know if it is the architecture or the (closed source, as mentioned) CPU design itself that is more difficult to implement.

Looking at the MCU space, even with a known architecture (like ARM), each processor has to be individually implemented in software and firmware which is a ton of work, and the only people who necessarily know how are the processor designers unless it is open source. But take that with a big block of salt, because I have never done it, just looking at industry practices.

Outside of the US here: nearly every insurance company in Belgium (that are coincidently also the banks) are 100% scamming people and literally make their entire business model off of ripping people off as much as possible.

Using any and every excuse to deny people the insurance they paid for when they have legitimate claims is literally how they are “profitable.”

Having used it in the browser, it barely works in a browser. >50% of functionality is simply missing. Pretty much only the very very basics of typing and formatting.

I also use libreoffice and actually like calc better than excel because python support ia a first class citizen for programming within the spreadsheet in Calc, but AFAIK macro spreadsheets aren’t very cross compatible, but I guess I work in engineering so every company I have worked with or for uses excel macros, probably not representative of other professions.

Eh, don’t know about that. Probably a very large portion of people would need word/PowerPoint/etc… For company document compatibility.

For sure a lot of people though could easily get by with LibreOffice.

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I wish I could use Graphene, but the pixel’s pitifully small and expensive storage to force you into cloud storage really makes an SD card necessary. I have around 200GB on my phone + SD already(including OS), and I don’t want only 50 GB for more photos and music in the next 7 years WITH the more expensive option…

Isn’t persona the Palantir (AI powered genocide) affiliated company?

The EU is pushing very similar things…

Literally Meta has been caught paying people through shell orgs all around the world to pass this kind of legislation.

And every year new open mass surveillance worse than the UK and US attempts to be passed and barely fails.

GDPR also doesn’t mean shit if it is barely enforced against large companies or the fines aren’t revenue-proportional… Then it is just a cost of doing business.

I think SimpleX is the only one that fits that.

Sadly, the developers started crypto NFTish integrations last year. It is still too early to see if their use of it will end up being good or a slippery slope into crypto scams.

FYI, there is like a 99% chance that reddit doesn’t actually delete your data if you delete your account, even the comment scramblers only help vs bot scraping. Reddit likely has comment history in their databases.

They should be the default for solar installations and grid-level storage, but are too new.

They can also replace lead-acid batteries for many applications.

Lithium will still rule microelectronics and wearables, but all lower density stuff should switch to sodium.

That being said, for cold environments like Scandinavia and the US Midwest & canada, sodium ion works better in both cold and heat swings than Lithium variants that it might be worth the tradeoff in capacity because in the long cold months, the reduced capacity and performance of lithium chemistries would completely close the gap anyways.

It isn’t open source hardware. It is license-free IC architecture.

The hardware will still be closed source in 99% of cases, but the architecture is “open” and can be used without licensing, lowering the barrier to entry for making CPUs (it is still very high as volume is the name of the game at fans. Tapeouts for testing a design can be €1k on the very cheap end, often more like 10K+)

A step in the right direction for sure, but open source IC designs are still quite limited.

It often gives incorrect maps simply because of update schedule and them encouraging not reporting construction <3 months or whatever.

We have construction all over in Belgium and tons of detours such that it makes open street map pretty much unusable as it will just incessantly reroute you to a blocked path even after you are well on a different route.

CrowdSec could probably catch a moderate amount of them, but that is really geared towards bad actors and malicious probing bots.

Fial2ban also wouldn’t work at all here since they aren’t trying brute force attacks, they are just using high bandwidth stealing as much public data from everything possible.

I think cloudflare is also making an alternative (or has already), but it is a tough problem.