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Who said physical buttons cannot be mixed with voice input? Most physical buttons these days are just an interface to the CAN bus, where the function is performed (in software) in the BCM and can easily interface with the voice module.

"Improved" is an interesting term. How much improvement can you make to climate control buttons? Their function in most vehicles has not changed in 30 years and are largely the same aside from styling.

I feel like we just had this conversation two days ago, with the Amazon driver that has to use a touchscreen to open the cargo door in his new EV delivery van. Another ridiculous design courtesy of SV. Maybe the Juicero engineers found a new life at the EV manufacturers.

The article is about authenticating to a Wi-Fi captive portal. So not only is a VPN irrelevant, as everyone has already pointed out and you continue to ignore, it wouldn't even work.

Yes exactly like that.

You'll notice the Ford Transit EV still retains the traditional mechanical key, and also features a simple locking glove box that works off the same key.

But why do that when you could make the glove box electronically locking via bluetooth proximity over the infotainment.

People have deluded themselves into believing that EV's must be packed with superfluous electronics and other futuristic garbage, whilst it's just the drivetrain that's different.

It's pretty clear whoever designed this toy has never driven an actual cargo van or done any blue collar work in their life. That Tesla-style touchscreen for starters. I give it 3-6 weeks before it's shattered or fails. The look on the guy's face was priceless when he couldn't open the cargo door without walking over to the touchscreen and tapping an icon. As opposed to having a simple button on the door itself. Many late model cargo vans do share crappy infotainment systems with their passenger counterparts, but almost never use them for core or upfitter functions, just the radio.

Have you ever seen the inside of a Ford Transit van? They're remarkably pedestrian. Or a UPS truck, made from steel and brawn and not much else. These things need to be engineered to take a beating. Yet this has push-button start with a fob. (Keys are a much better choice for fleet vehicles, if not only for key management, they withstand abuse in the field much better than fobs, which are expensive and difficult to replace.)

What they should have installed instead is a cup holder for the sports drink urine bottle. Which you keep next to the cigarettes and burrito wrappers, to the left of the shitty basic FM radio with real knobs.

How are you supposed to use a touchscreen for basic functions whilst wearing gloves? This thing was designed by office-dwellers.

All they need is for Ford or Benz to turn their bare bones cargo vans electric and they'll be turning these Rivians into beer cans.

I'd wager that rotary phone can dial 911 unlike a Google Pixel.

Constantly evolving UI thought experiments are largely responsible for the sorry state of software today.

Maybe the new-hires need a healthy dose of shut-up-and-listen, and do need to learn how it works.

Clinton was impeached for lying under oath, not for his creative use of cigars.

It's a bit naïve to seriously think this story has anything to do with nudes. The real story was about corruption at the highest levels of government, selling influence, etc. The crack rocks and related pornographic content were a convenient if not shocking distraction. Embarassing? Yes. Scandalous? Sure. But it wasn't what made it news worthy at all.

Why would you "routinely flag Twitter threads" if they are not obvious spam, dupes, or egregiously off-topic? You are not a guest curator. There is a reason you cannot downvote submissions on HN and the flag button is not a substitute for that.

If you don't like something, ignore it and move on. Someone else may find it interesting. It's not your duty to prevent the rest of the community from reading something you don't like.

Lots of people talking about ToS as if it's applied consistently and without bias. Let's assume that the oft-storied "pee tapes" were real, published by a mainstream news outlet and posted to Twitter. Would those same individuals regurgitating ToS violations agree that should receive the same treatment, or would they have been complicit in spreading it as far and wide as possible?

"Corporate coders" is such a perfect, succinct phrase; the antithesis of what I remember from the early days of Linux. It's so well said it requires no further description.

The hacker culture of the 90s and 00s is dead.

Many in the community now fully support censorship as long as it's of the opposing team.

This would be unheard of 20 years ago.

Blocking DMs from sharing URLs to a mainstream news story is CCP-level censorship. I'd expect to read about this happening on WeChat, not here. Yet here we are.

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There has been a cabal of activists that have been mass-reporting the Twitter app on both Apple and Google's app stores over the last week or so, alleging some dubious terms of service violation in an attempt to get it deplatformed. It's a sad, petulant response to Musk taking over Twitter, as he invaded their country club and is shaking things up, not unlike Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.

If you can suppress your laughter at how ridiculous this scheme sounds, the irony is they are organizing this..... on Twitter.

I feel bad for the support staff manning the app store support queues who are dealing with a deluge of these idiotic requests from some of the dumbest, most childish people on the planet. Hopefully they have automation in place to separate the signal from the noise.

This reeks of dangerous propaganda at best derived from circumstantial evidence.

Did everyone forget the AP nearly started WWIII a week ago because of a minor editing error?

Yet the laptop which can't be mentioned was deemed misinformation, only to be recategorized as authentic years later.

The MSM has lost all credibility.

The act of publishing a poll on a very controversial subject may have been intentional. He alluded that the poll was attacked by bots, for which they likely collected large amounts of data.

It's very possible he already made his mind up before the poll was posted, and it was a behavioural data harvesting exercise.

This is mere speculation but certainly possible.

Compatibility with a terminal from 1971 yet I can't run a copy of Logic Pro 9 I bought 10 years ago - and haven't been able to for years - because Apple.

Gonna disagree with you here.

Musk is only doing with Twitter what Fark.com did over 20 years ago with TotalFark - you pay a small monthly fee for admission, and you get a shiny badge next to your username, along with a few perks.

Just like Something Awful forums did before that - paid admission - it's an excellent tool to weed out the obvious bots and low effort trolls.

Twitter has no "creators" - it's just a fancy message board.

Everything old is new again. The Gen-Z kids on Twitter and TikTok were still pooping in diapers when these sites ruled the Internet, and now have sadly been relegated to a dusty corner thereof.

> > It's now down to 15 people.

> This restriction is part of a broader plan to freeze Twitter’s software code to keep employees from pushing changes to the app during the transition to new ownership. Typically this level of access is given to a group of people numbering in the hundreds, and that was initially reduced to about 15 people last week

It's unclear from the article but this could be referring to the number of people allowed to push code changes to production. (Does Twitter even have a dev/test environment?)

Of course the blue-check journalists have officially (R) interpreted and are now disseminating these facts for us, and as we know journalists are never wrong.

> the surge in hate speech

The media is pushing this angle really hard, as this feeds the perpetual outrage machine that keeps them in business, and Elon is this week's target. In reality, the head of T&S at Twitter reported that there is a coordinated bot-driven trolling campaign going on. It would not surprise me if this was a smear campaign against Musk. Fabricate some hate speech, then craft a narrative in the MSM that it was all his fault. Unfortunately for them it seems they overplayed their hand and the campaign was uncovered.

https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1586542286342475776

I'm sure Taiwan will start rolling out those land acknowledgements.

So you never install security updates? Because all Apple updates require a reboot due to their SIP "update the frozen image offline" nonsense.

Obviously, he's never worked for Contoso.

You can't keep paying new college hires > $150k/year with zero experience and not assume the money won't run out some day. That bubble had a slow leak and now they've finally run out of oxygen. I'm surprised it took this long. Zuck losing his goddamn mind with this metaverse nonsense didn't help matters.

The opening of Apocalypse Now would look like dog shit at > 24fps.

For a good comparison, watch the few Twilight Zone episodes (the original from the 60s) from season 2 that were shot on videotape, as opposed to film for the rest of the series. They look downright weird.

Because audio for 23.976fps film is playing at the same speed as 29.97fps video. Which is really interlaced video at 59.94 fields per second. 3:2 pulldown is used to synthesize extra video frames to transfer to NTSC video so for a given instance of time, for every 4 frames of film you get 5 frames of video. (23.976/29.97 = 4/5) The instance of time remains unchanged so the audio is playing back at the same speed. This is all inherited from the CRT days before progressive video playback on flatscreens, and the video fps was tied to the local electrical frequency (50 Hz in Europe vs 60 Hz in USA / Japan) which is how the CRT timings were derived.

Coincidentally PAL video plays back at 25fps, to convert film to PAL they just speed it up from 24 to 25fps, audio and all, which is why if you watch a Euro DVD release of the same film all the actors sound like they just ingested helium before the scene because the audio is playing back ~4% faster. This was largely fixed with Blu-Ray as films play back at their native rate[1] on progressive displays but our European friends who have only seen films on VHS/DVD or TV and not in the theatre or Blu-Ray have been done a disservice, because the video and audio is sped up on playback and not as the director intended it to be shown.

[1] A notable exception is some unscrupulous distributors abroad release shitty PAL 25fps Blu-Rays of films which are simply upscaled PAL DVD versions that they then market as Blu-Ray but are worse than DVD quality but at marked up prices. This is more common than you think. Official releases from the studios are encoded at 23.976fps on the disc. TV shows shot on PAL video (native 25fps) will always play back at 25fps.

The whole point of mail order delivery is the convenience factor; you don't have to be home to receive the package. I've seen the promotional video for this thing and it could be one of the dumbest ideas this side of the Juicero. The whole concept relies on you being home at the moment of delivery to greet the thing, walk outside, and pull your own package out of its cargo bay. No fancy catapult or anything. It's a miniature Amazon Locker on wheels. Just a remotely-controlled toy wagon (it's not autonomous, it has a pilot). From the size of it, how many packages could even fit inside? Two, maybe three? The real crime here is that people were paid actual money to develop this abortion of an idea.

WOPR-ski?

Does everyone here just suffer from exceptionally shitty IT departments? I've used Citrix for years and not experienced any of the chronic issues described here. Remember Citrix was developed in the 1990s... the days of Windows NT 3.5/4.0 [1] & Dial-Up connections and to be able to function well in these low bandwidth environments (we're talking kilobits here people, a 10 Mbps LAN was considered glorious at the time). For years ICA was superior to RDP due to its better compression over such connections. It sounds more like whoever setup your environments didn't know what he was doing and the results are what you would expect.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNJiWPU4HEU

Basically all PHEVs work this way.

I regret to inform you that plugging your EV into a tree to charge only works in cartoons.