This is going to be an effective way to tank the Google/Yelp review score of your restaurant. And pay toilets are also stupid in Europe, I say that as a European.

It will be done wirelessly. They’re just legally required to call this a “recall” because automotive legislation was written before OTA updates were a thing.

Same here. Lifelong tinnitus in one ear without measurable hearing loss. Presumably due to a severe ear infection.

The EFF is working on all that. And have been for decades. They are allies.

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/fight-overturn-fosta-unconstitutional-internet-censorship-law-continues
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill
• https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
• etc etc

They’re making a stand on blocking because they have a bigger perspective on the issues. Which I thought was quite well articulated in their article.

Net neutrality has been debated for decades and, as the EFF apparently still has to remind people, the entire thing conceptually goes out the window once it becomes acceptable for ISPs to start blocking content on their own volition, even if you happen to completely agree with the block. After some time building blocklists of generally understood to be nasty sites, ISPs with large entertainment interests will block piracy sites. Internet archive? Blocked. Blog which writes something nasty about them? Block. Anarchist Fedi community? Etc. That’s what the EFF is warning about.

Huh. AI writing about AI industry news. AI-ception.

This article is quite restrained while more mainstream media writes about a “potential fifth force of nature”. E.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66407099

At least it seems we may find out relatively soon which is the right answer.

It is my, unsubstantiated, guess that these kinds of standards are kept deliberately complicated and weak to allow the “three letter agencies” to exploit them. I would expect the government itself when needed uses the most secure or even an improved version of the spec which does not have these obvious vulnerabilities.

Great comment. However let’s not forget the history of many exotic materials which were made practical to manufacture after their useful properties were found. Consider many types of semiconductors, blue LEDs, carbon fiber, etc. All once super expensive but now commonplace. This makes me at least somewhat optimistic that if a material is useful enough (and a superconductor would be revolutionary) fabrication will be solved. Hopefully.

Yeah, exactly. Commercial social media sites pay workers in low-wage countries to moderate content. Plenty of stories out there about the toll it takes on them, but it’s easy enough for the commercial sites to just keep finding more cheap labor. Fedi is mostly volunteers so it’s quite different, and much more visible.

My US-made e-Bike is also “dumb”. A regular key to unlock it, a simple onboard trip computer, no apps, no bluetooth, a user replaceable battery… I can see the appeal of a “Tesla-like” e-Bike with a fancy app but reading about these companies going bankrupt makes me glad I got a simple bike.