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m463on Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

lol. sarcasm?

Yes, the elephant in the room is the "cutting edge styling".

I drove one as a loaner and I had all kinds of curiosity, but I didn't want anyone seeing me get in and out of it.

I think it was kind of like a pt cruiser, where the designers thought they were recreating the old style trucks, but to the public it was an acquired taste. A very acquired taste.

The bed design is actually kind of interesting. But I thought they demo'd that it could squat down like a loading ramp and I don't think that materialized.

m463on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

Favorites exist, but lockdown just means you can't add/delete favorites.

To change the list just turn off lockdown, add/remove people, then turn it back on.

m463on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

I believe folks in the favorites list have privileges to contact you, so this must prevent random people from doing that.

To add to favorites, turn off lockdown mode, favorite someone, then turn it back on.

m463on Apple Security Research Device

the periodic terms and conditions updates are hell though.

m463on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

It works great for me too.

But there are weirdnesses.

For example, you can't add a person to phone favorites.

m463on macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

a lot of this stuff is already broken.

XQuartz is almost unusable now since new windows don't get focus.

There are a lot of bugs in xquartz marked "macos bug"

Another issue I had is that rsync was quietly failing for a lot of stuff I backed up.

I used to rsync -av machine:dir/ dir/ and it stopped syncing stuff.

Turns out they silently replaced rsync with a less capable openrsync.

m463on SpaceX revenue soars 161% as AI business grows

That thing is called SI now. Maybe AI means Aerospace Internet.

Astronaut Internet?

m463on People are using AI to make smart TVs, dumb TVs

I hope ai models that do these kinds of things always stay available and/or open.

m463on Delivery Robots Accused of Scanning Customers' Faces, Sharing Biometric Data

I lived in an apartment building that required you to sign an agreement with a third party to pick up your packages in the package room.

You had to give them your phone number so they could send you a code to access the package room, then also agree to collection of photographs and videos of you.

I didn't do it.

I think a lot of other people didn't do it. Some would have the packages delivered to their front door. Others got their packages "held hostage".

m463on The reverts will continue until morale improves

> but now we also already have a few nice 80%-ready features queued up for PostgreSQL 20 that just need those remaining 80% to get done!

This is quite a nice perspective to end up on, and a little humor too.

Some of the beauty of linux that wouldn't happen in corp.

m463on Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

Did it actually come in the mail?

I've bought some low-priced things on amazon, just to have them cancelled. Spooky since I figure someone got my name, address, phone number from amazon.

m463on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

It's too bad about nuclear power.

From wikipedia energy density:

  Coal, anthracite... 26–33 MJ/kg
  Natural gas........ 53.6 MJ/kg
  Diesel fuel........ 45.6 MJ/kg

  Plutonium-239...... 83,610,000 MJ/kg

also: :)

  Antimatter......... 89,875,517,874 MJ/kg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

or:

In light-water reactors, 1 kg of natural uranium - following a corresponding enrichment and used for power generation - is equivalent to the energy content of nearly 10,000 kg of mineral oil or 14,000 kg of coal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Fission_reactor...

m463on "In every study that considered the question"

People are driving with lights off.

The real problem is that they get daytime running lights, instead of lights off or lights on.

Daytime running lights give them dim headlights that have headlight patterns so the driver might think his/her lights are on, but to people behind the tail lights are completely dark.

m463on NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

have you ever bought anything from gog.com?

m463on NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

We should give our money to folks like GOG (www.gog.com) who provide DRM-free games, all downloadable and playable offline. no need to be online. No need to create an account. no need to play (heh) by someone else's rules.

m463on Tesla Roadster

I think tesla is all low end right now. 3/y have no dashboard, no stalks and have been minimized from simplicity down to tech poverty.

m463on Tesla Roadster

i think some self selecting populations are skewed.

i remember reading about the first cobra in the 60's, where a huge percentage of the owners didn't live to make the second payment.

m463on Tesla Roadster

i thought the top came off?

m463on Tesla Roadster

You remind me of a friend who bought a nice sportbike. He thought he would attract lots of women.

He complained to me "I keep getting guys coming over to talk about the bike"

m463on Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second

lol.

I think of F-150s that have quickly climbed over 400hp and can pull a giant trailer... but I don't think the brakes and suspension match.

(f-250 or f-350 might be more balanced when pulling those 30'+ trailers)

m463on Tesla Roadster

> The modern economy increasingly does not cater to the “normal person”

Is that a bad thing? Aren't there always a range of products that cater to different levels of interest?

If you're a "normal person" you don't need a 8000dpi mouse with RGB, or a Louis Vuitton purse, or a large big mac meal.

This is not poverty it is prosperity.

m463on Tesla Roadster

Cool, just bring a gps jammer to point at the guy behind you on the straight.

m463on Tesla Roadster

> a big carbon-fiber pressure vessel at 5500psi

Other cars have these tanks, but full of flammable fuel, not just air.

Off the top of my head, the honda civic CNG (3600 psi)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_GX#Specifications

the toyota marai (10,000 psi hydrogen)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai#High-pressure_hyd...

and probably the other cng or hydrogen cars.

m463on Tesla Roadster

mach 0.5 at what altitude?

m463on Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

wow, I kind of wonder...

tree falls over onto your property, you fix the fence.

tree falls over and you clear it, illegal logging you get in trouble.

m463on Tesla Roadster

The Rodenator is an applicable device that injects a precise mixture of oxygen and propane into the dens of burrowing rodents, and kills them with a concussive force that collapses the rodents' tunnel system as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_B_Meyer_Inc.

that sounds quite amazing, and it looks like something out of ghostbusters.

m463on Tesla Roadster

Following a loss of over $250 million (equivalent to $2.72 billion in 2025 dollars) on development, manufacturing, and marketing on the model line, Ford quietly discontinued the Edsel brand in November 1959, shortly after the 1960 model line was introduced

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel

m463on Tesla Roadster

I think the front view reminds me of the old lamborghini countach.

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Lamborgh...

m463on Tesla Roadster

I think it is $50,000 to reserve.