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Yep.

This is a touch UI problem in general not specific to an EV.

For specifically the HUD, I'm often on dark rural roads at night where deer are extremely common.

The HUD is bright enough to affect my night vision in these roads so I turn it off when driving on them.

The GMC Acadia(gas burner) I rented had HUD controls as physical buttons on the dash to the left of the steering wheel. I push 1 button and the HUD is off.

The Ioniq 5? I don't have an exact count but it's 3-4 menu levels deep, probably takes 5-6 touches to get to it.

After seeing everything that was touch on the one I drove I was thankful at least the turn signals and wipers were physical.

Can't imagine trying to drive safely without those.

The layout of the touch UI was better on the Tesla. I question the I5 design teams sanity for making HUD controls and seat warmers take 5-6 touches to access.

I have an ioniq 5 as well and recently drove a 2023 model 3. It had some nice features but overall reaffirmed my decision not to buy a Tesla when I bought the Ioniq 5.

The braking algorithm for the adaptive cruise control on the M3 was not nearly as good as my Ioniq 5.

False alarms for collisions, times to "TAKE CONTROL NOW" were massively increased over my I5. I have essentially no false alarms on the I5.

Thr driver attention monitor seems based on steering wheel deflection vs torque. Extremely often it decided my hands were not resisting it enough on the steering and commanded me to move the wheel slightly. Except the force required to do so enough to satisfy it was very near the force needed for it to automatically disengage. It was also enough force for the car to noticably swerve in the lane and the passengers to notice.

My I5 just needs a slight jiggle on the wheel. It still false alarms, thinking my hands were not on the wheel when they were, but massively reduced from the Model 3.

Then there was the time that I unbuckled my seatbelt to take off my jacket. The Model 3 had an absolute meltdown. Screaming alarms, autosteer disengaged immediately. It was a WTF moment compared to my I5.

Any time the lane would widen to accommodate an upcoming exit, the model 3 would move to the right to stay centered in what it thought were it's lane markings. Very dangerous. My I5 doesn't do this, it will stay going straight and alert you if it loses confidence in its ability to identify the lane.

The only thing the autosteer did better than my I5 was navigating curves. I think this is because the system in the I5 is limited to the turn rate it can command, and anything more than a gradual curve exceeds that. It will disengage and run you into the guardrail or ditch, if you are not payjng attention.

Many times I got a "corrective action applied for your safety" in the model 3 and never could figure out what was actually done or what the danger it was avoiding was. Many times it mistook parking lot line markings as obstacles.

It's the collision avoidance braking when parking in close quarters.

It applies the brakes automatically when you are within about 6 inches of an obstacle and moving towards it. Often false-fires when parallel parking in tight quarters or reversing with a bike rack attached.

This is a different, ultrasound-based system that had been on cars for about a decade now. It has limited range.

Not to be confused with the newer autonomous emergency braking systems that are radar-based(believe mm-wave radar) that has range more appropriate for road and highway speeds but has the limitation of not being able to differentiate stationary objects from terrain.

ssh/web works fine for me for 10+yrs and many thousands of devices

v7 has a REST API. Much easier to use.

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/REST+API

Are they that good though? Can they really say "show me the brother of ___"

Or can they just say we know these two people are closely related?

But good point regardless.

I haven't done a DNA test before, but I assume the identity verification is lax at best.

Would it be practical to just generate a "burner" persona to attach your test to? Yes your data technically will exist, but will be effectively anonymized

I can get a car loan for 0%-5% interest rate

In most market I feel you can safely earn at least an ~8% return if you invest fairly conservatively.

Why would I forego an 3-8% return on my money by paying cash for an asset that's just going to depreciate?

If they stationed them near the edge of current coverage, the ship could be the inter-satellite link until the actual inter-satellite links are working.

Well yea, you could blow it apart with explosives, melt it with acid, or beat the key holder with a wrench until he gave you the key. But I think the idea around "picking" is to nondestructively operate the lock without using the key it is designed for or a copy of such.

I have always said "if someone made it, someone can break it"

Nothing is unhackable/impenetrable. period.

or instead of rapping, just a buzzer or something to vibrate the pins while holding them very lightly bound. Just because you can't pick at the pins doesn't mean you can't move them.

wonder if you could pick it just enough to allow the first rotation, to the point the slider binds the pins and then just start rapping on it until they lock into place?

I can tell you first-hand that either it does, or some people are naturally immune.

My family of 4 including me just spent 10 days in a hotel room. One(A) was too young to be vaccinated, one(B) was too young to be boosted but was vaccinated earlier in 2021. One(C) was vaccinated also earlier in 2021 but was unable to get a booster due to scheduling issues. One(D) got a booster in December.

3 of us(A,B,C) tested positive via antigen for Covid. The youngest(A) was asymptomatic. The one(D) that was boosted had several negative tests including PCR and never exhibited symptoms. (B) and (C) were symptomatic and (C) still has a sore throat going on 21 days now.

The booster works and COVID-19 is not something you want to take your chances with.

The Supreme Court should not do anything based on any ideology or desired results.

The Court should interpret the law and the constitution as it is written. If that enables an undesirable result, then the legislative branch can take corrective action.

Either the Texas law is legal or it's not. It's not the Supreme Court's job to fix the legality of an undesirable result just as it's not their job to decide what an undesirable result is.

There exists a similar guide to this for obtaining subscriber information for an IP address.

Including a table that listed which providers would hand over data without a subpoena and what the retention period was for each provider.

One of the interesting things I remember seeing was that it was noted that T-Mobile had never been able to supply such information to LEO.

I have seen it before but never had direct access to it.

Current fiber-containing submarine cables also have electrical lines to power inline amplifiers. Even fiber signals can't travel those kinds of distances without repeaters.

Childcare costs have gone up also. As have most other cost of living metrics. That's what inflation is.

Full time child care in Brooklyn, NY was $2000/mo for 1 child when I inquired earlier this year.

So it's the car companies fault if I crash my car?

They should limit vehicle speed to 5mph so I don't hurt myself or others.

I have used many of these routers. Admin access on the wan port is blocked by default and must be enabled by the user.

And the matching photo is uploaded upon match. So regardless the photo is uploaded. What's the point again of taking this further step?

I appreciate this well thought out and logical approach.

The issue I have is with the way this is presented.

I actually really like the local-only features related to making underage users second-guess sending/viewing potentially harmful content. IMO this is a huge problem especially since most do not have the context to understand how things live forever on the internet, and is likely a source of a large percentage of this "Known CSAM material" in circulation. I think it's a great step in the right direction.

But the scan-and-report content on your device approach is where it becomes problematic. It's sold as protecting privacy because of a magic box "the cryptographic technology" somehow prevents abuse or use outside the scope it is intended for. But just like this entire function can be added with an update, it can also be modified with an update. Apple pretends the true reality of this feature is somehow solved by technology, glosses over the technical details with catchphrases that 99.9% of people that read it won't understand. "It's 100% safe and effective and CANNOT IN ANY WAY BE ABUSED because, cryptographic technology." They're forcing their users to swallow a sugar-coated pill with very deep ramifications that only a very small percentage will fully comprehend.

I'm 100% for doing anything reasonably possible in the advancement of this cause. But you're correct in that this is "one fear is more important than another fear." And I don't think anyone can say how slippery this slope is or where it can go. I also don't really feel like you can even quantify in a way that they can be compared the harm caused by CSAM or mass surveillance. So a judgement call on "which is worse" really isn't possible because the possibilities for new and continued atrocities in both cases are infinite.

But at least in the US, a line is crossed when something inside your private life is subject to review and search by anyone else even when you have not committed a crime. If you want to search my house, you must, at least on paper, establish probable cause before a judge will grant you a search warrant.

"It's okay, these specially trained agents are only here to look for just drugs. They've promised they won't look at anything else and aren't allowed to arrest you unless they find a large quantity of drugs" -- Would you be okay with these agents searching every house in the nation in the name of preventing drug abuse(which also is extremely harmful to many people including children even when they are not direct users)?

The argument "well just don't use apple" doesn't stand either. A landlord can't just deputize someone to rummage through my house looking for known illegal things to report. Even though it's technically not "my house" and you could argue that if I don't like it, well I should just move somewhere else. But I don't think that can be argued as reasonable. Our phones are quickly becoming like our houses in that many people have large portions of their private lives inside them.

I can't quite put my finger on the exact argument so I apologize for not being able to articulate this more clearly, but there is something with removing the rights of large groups of people to protect a much smaller subset of those people, from an act perpetrated by bad actors. You are somehow allowing bad actors to inflict further damage, in excess of the direct results of their actions, on huge populations of people here. I know there is a more eloquent way to descibe this concept, but doing so just doesn't seem like the right course of action.

And I'm sorry but I am not smarter than all of the people that worked on this, so I don't have a better solution that would accomplish the same goal, but I know that this solution has a huge potential to enable massive amounts of abuse by nations who do not respect what much of the world considers basic human rights.

Pretty sad when you trust the "bad" guys more than the "good" guys.

I'm much less concerned with <random malware> on my device than I am with the governments of the world having access to it.

At least the motivations of the <random malware> are generally monetary and likely don't represent a significant threat to human rights and freedom of speech.

They scan things I send them.

They don't (publicly announce that they) scan things on my device.

Directly from the link:

> ...the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices.

>... The device creates a cryptographic safety voucher that encodes the match result along with additional encrypted data about the image. This voucher is uploaded to iCloud Photos along with the image.

US Government: We suspect the person in this photo of committing a crime. Here is your subpoena, Apple. You are directed to scan all iPhone and iCloud storage for any pictures matching this NeuralHash and report to us where you find them.

Chinese Government: Here is the NeuralHash for Tienanmen square. Delete all photos you find matching this or we will bar you from China.

Apple has at this point already admitted this is within is capability. So regardless of what they do now, the battle is already lost. Glad I don't use iThings.

Not sure why it's so hard for some people.

When Amazon Prime was real 2-day shipping and they'd send something via overnight air just to get it to you in time, it was nice. And would have been hard to give up.

Now that it just means free shipping, and you might get it tomorrow and you might get it in a week, it's much easier just to buy somewhere else. Walmart. Target. BH Photo. Adorama. Best Buy. Tons of options.

because the way downdetector works is it just basically counts how many people are searching/visiting for <site> down and if it's much higher than typical it flags the site as down.

So if everyone searched "is google down" and visited the link on downdetector that was returned in the search, that would add to the downdetector count for that site.

Downdetector doesn't actually know if the site is up or down.

Because it's cheaper than paying $13.5B when it was your equipment that started it. This is nothing more than liability mitigation. And once complete, even if you don't maintain them, buried cabled generally can't start fires.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/06/pge-reaches...

I've seen this so many times.

US Tax law is far too nuanced and complex for this. Just simple things like donations create issues.

Donations to registered 501(c)(3) charities are tax exempt. But how does the IRS know if you gave the Salvation Army bell ringer $20? You have to tell them. On your tax return.

Medical expenses in excess of 7.5% of your income are also exempt. And the IRS has no clue which of your expenses were medical. So you have to tell them.

It's far more involved and complex than even just this. Did you move? Are you a member of the military? Costs related to your move are not taxable.

There are probably thousands of potential exemptions. Few of which could be automatically identified and credited without massive privacy issues. And even then couldn't be perfect.

That cardboard box you bought at the local big-box store? Was it a tax exempt moving expense?

Oh, and the IRS has been sitting on my return for 2 months now and I did all the work for them. Could only imagine what it would look like if they had to track all of this.