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Don’t all modern cars have an always on cellular connection anyway?

I’ve got as big a tinfoil hat as anyone, but I think this battle was lost a long time ago. Automobiles transportation will become closer to flights, where everything is logged.


Income or total wealth?

Whichever Sweden uses, idc - because if not it’s just disproportionately hurting those that have less

I think the Great Leap Forward famine killed a lot more, but I guess it wasn’t a massacre: just super weird and bad leadership from Mao.

Aaand if you like birds, Listers documentary is a lot of fun https://youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo

The funny thing is I got into birds because of the app. I hike alone often. Identifying the bird and then challenging myself to identify it correctly from memory going forward (before double checking with the app) is a fun game that draws one into the environment. Then, once you remember the bird (or, in my case, whatever nickname I came up with) you start learning and remembering facts about the bird.

Yeah, birding can be such fun once you have a small repertoire of birds under your belt. Some people get that from their culture or family but I didn't, so made a little game to get me going.

It's so satisfying to hear/see a bird and actually have a chance at getting it right


Even if you don't like birds... It's one of my favorite things I've ever watched.

Best movie of the year hands down

At the startup I worked at in 2023, Azure was considered the only “safe” way to use OpenAI APIs in prod (eg agreements that the data couldn’t be used for training).

Working with Azure was one of the worst parts of that job.


Antivirus wasn’t mandatory in 2007 after the 2003 Blaster Worm, that required no user action to compromise the PC? Wild

On the other hand there was e.g. CVE-2021-1647 where Microsoft's antivirus would compromise the PC with no user action.

(At least I think that's the one I'm thinking of. It's marked as a high-severity RCE with no user interaction but they don't give any details. There was definitely at least one CVE where Windows Defender compromised the system by unsafely scanning files with excessive privileges.)


People forget that prior to Microsoft releasing Defender, antivirus on Windows was universally bad. Like "make your machine almost unusable" bad.

This was also before SSDs as well.

With local build times already measured in multiple hours (large C++ code bases, lots of caches obj files loaded from central build servers to make local incremental rebuilds even possible), Microsoft didn't want to make things worse by forcing any bloat on developer machines.


Maybe they fired everyone who was working there in 2003. Would explain some things.

My 401k has BrokerageLink set up and invests in VT/VTI. It takes less than 15 days so if your company offers BrokerageLink, you can avoid investing in SpaceX.

Tesla has entered the chat

And speaking of product names, I hope no one here is using Claude.

Would be neat if more continued the tradition in FOSS that creators of projects names the projects after themselves, like Debian or Git.

I get the reference to deb and ian (two people), but not git ?

For those not in the know

"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git." - Linus Torvalds

Git

noun - derogatory

An unpleasant or contemptible person (typically used of a man).


Linus famously named git after himself.

There’s a good reason common advice is to not time the market

Kinda reads like the Dropbox launch thread

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