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Audited financials would be released with the S-1. But it's very unlikely that they are not audited given the amount of money they have raised.

Allowing private right of action means this will be weaponized by attorneys in the same way the ADA has. Just scanning the bill, any small business in the US using dynamic pricing, targeted discounts or "VIP pricing" on their website would be open to suits from Colorado residents. The definitions are extremely broad and there is no safe harbor for small companies either. Damages are also uncapped and apparently Colorado allows treble damages for CCPA violations.

That's good news!

Based on the links in the articles, it's personal photographs and a resume from an old Gmail account. The resume dates from 2017.

I love Proton but it's really low on usability since their calendar doesn't integrate with anything (by design). If you are used to managing a busy calendar it's quite a shock. And their docs and sheets apps are extremely minimal and basic.

And of course the recent allegations that they hand over your metadata on >90% of requests. See https://x.com/DoingFedTime/status/2030108076531995016

My understanding was that it's very difficult to reliably fingerprint iOS devices. Apple limits access to identifiers and specifically disallows fingerprinting. For this application of tracking people, you'd need decent reliability or you'd just get noise.

And no, I don't have any Meta published apps on my phone for exactly the reason you outline. I'm very aware of how IDFV and IDFA work.

You can buy eSIMs that aren't linked to your identity at https://www.phreeli.com/

Nobody has explained to me how iOS ad SDKs across different apps can track individual users given that there hasn't been an accessible GUID on iOS for many years now.

IDK how many people on HN have read When Prophecy Fails, but it's a seminal paper as I understand it. If you want a more contemporary and readable book on the same topic, When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Cult by Diana Tumminia is very readable and covers the same ground.

Super interesting to see the original research challenged.

It's not the best EV site when all of the coverage of the US market leader is so incredibly slanted due to personal politics of the editor.

Electrek is a highly biased source, the editor has a grudge against Elon and Tesla. It's really unfortunate since it used to be one of the best EV sites.

It doesn't seem like Brave's fingerprinting prevention includes extensions, so on my first pass I would say no.

It sends alerts to the thief's iPhone or Android (if you have Apple's Tracker Detect Android app) that they are being tracked within 30 to 60 minutes. It also enables the beeping so the thief can find and remove the Airtag.

If the Airtag can't reach the thief's phone, it starts chirping by itself within an 8-24 hour window.

Apple has removed all mention of theft tracking from their site once they added the stalking protection. Airtag is for people who lose things, not finding stolen things. You have less than an hour before an Airtag alerts a thief they are being tracked.

Unfortunately the anti-stalking features have made Airtag mostly useless for theft prevention. You have less than an hour to retrieve your item before the tag alerts the thief they are being tracked. I've seen it trigger as quickly as 30 minutes.

You can turn it off without resorting to a local account, although it's non-obvious.

GPEdit -> Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → BitLocker Drive Encryption → Operating System Drives → “Choose how BitLocker-protected operating system drives can be recovered”

Repeat for other drives.

This is the same model Computer Associates used to run back in the day. Find product with marginal profit but dedicated user base, cut costs, increase pricing and milk it until the next product comes along.

To stop third parties selling your location information.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/...

Anonymous SIM cards are available e.g. https://www.phreeli.com/

How would an SMS code sent to a phone number be traced to the specific user? Anonymous VOIP numbers are plentiful.

There are hundreds of popular games with mod support. See https://mod.io/g

If anything, we are in a golden age of mods!

One of my first jobs I worked in a government agency that still had Tektronix 4054 series used for capturing paper street maps point by point into a GIS via a large digitizer and puck that sat next to the system. These models had the dynamic graphics option 30 module which gives you both the static vector display (that required you to clear the entire screen), and a dynamic vector display which could be updated in real time for text entry etc. The Option 30 worked by driving the screen at a lower current and refreshing just those vectors constantly. Given the low res pixel displays of that era, even these dated displays were a great solution for that task, because the resolution was extremely high.

I remember being skeptical that all that electronic map data would be very useful to anyone outside the agency without all of the required hardware. How little I knew!

I agree, it's a huge HR risk. It used to be common with British companies sending people abroad. I can't imagine they still do it today.

Denmark loves their 'wet' bathrooms in hotels, no shower door and a drain in the center of the room. I spent a lot of time in CPH and would stay at the Marriott because it was one of the few with American style bathrooms.

Why? Almost all two seater vehicles sold in the US are sports cars and trucks for a reason. The demand for two seat subcompacts is very low and previous attempts to sell them have been unsuccessful. The Smart car was available in both ICE and EV models and still failed despite trying for over a decade, and that had the advantage of a smaller parking footprint than the EV1. The Scion IQ was similarly unsuccessful.

Despite being a two seater the EV1 is not that small, it's a fraction longer than the Chevy Bolt. I can't see any reason the EV1 form factor would sell today.

Sure, but the OP was specifically referring to party politics and this is a bipartisan issue.

None of this is new. The article states that CBP got authorization to track license plates in 2017 and concerns about law enforcement use of ALPR date back to at least 2010. The ACLU sued the LAPD in 2013 on ALPR.

Rather than just rage at the automobile industry and other drivers for creating this problem, I bought a pair of yellow tinted night driving glasses and now it doesn't bug me as much. They don't solve the problem completely but they cut out the harsh blue lights in modern headlights. And the yellow tint makes the world look like a cool night scene in a 1970s movie.

Headlight standards in the USA are a perfect example of government regulation failing to adapt with the times. Until recently the NHTSA was still using 70s era regulations, until Congress forced them reluctantly to update.

No successful company is issuing 40 million shares to new investors from a base of 10 million. Why would investors or founders sign off on that level of dilution?

And ultimately, if your product is the torment nexus, nobody is going to make money regardless of valuation.

FWIW, I remember the dot com bust very well.

Yes, it's completely backwards really. In most successful companies, a VC's holdings are likely to decrease over time, not increase, as the company raises more money and existing investors are diluted. And investors are (in general) motivated to introduce you to new later stage investors because it increases the value of their holdings, even when diluted.