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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How the fuck do you think gas pumps work?

  I’m done feeding the trolls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but it’s on the list.

  If it saves even one human life it’s worth switching to an alarm instead of immobilization, even if that means hundreds of breakaway cables get snapped by morons driving away from chargers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. It’s about hitting electric cars, self driving or otherwise.

  2. Cars can still move with punctured tires, at least far enough that a would-be robber or carjacker could get dragged a good distance.

  3. You smash the window and open the door. Now the panicked driver is speeding away, leaving you high and dry or dragging you along.

  Being able to completely immobilize a vehicle while keeping it intact is a criminal’s wet dream. It’s incumbent on car manufacturers to consider that while implementing safety features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pry bar to open the hatch, like I said.

  And yes, today people are walking around with angle grinders to chop off catalytic converters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference being that not being able to start the motor with the door open is only a problem if the driver was being attacked in a parking lot.

  It’s not too big of a leap to imagine a world where a person could immobilize a car at a red light with the plug cut off from a public charger. Wall up to a stopped car, open the hatch (maybe it needs a pry bar) and put the dummy plug in. Now the car is immobilized. Smash the driver side window and they’re in business.

  Sure, there are some safeguards that can be added like requiring a current to immobilize the vehicle, but it’s far from the simplest or safest answer. Car manufacturers need to stop putting in hard limits and just use alarms instead. I bought a new Subaru that has collision detection standard. The hedge next to my driveway was overgrown, but I drove right through it. The car sounded an alarm and flashed a bunch of lights, but it didn’t engage the brakes, I was able to blast through an obstacle that I knew was minor even though the car thought it was a threat. If a manufacturer feels compelled to add a safety system, it’s possible to do so without taking control away from the driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could always pay attention to road signs and remember the last speed limit sign you saw.

  Just saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to look at laser printers. If you’re just doing black and white documents, whatever the latest Brother printer is will do a good job, do it fast, and not screech at you about your cyan running out.

  It’s a few hundred bucks up front, but the toner cartridges print a ton of pages and don’t dry out if you don’t use them. I can’t recommend it enough if you have even a passing desire to make hard copies of documents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a lot easier these looking at a beautiful person these days and not feeling a bit of jealousy know there is a decent chance they would vote for fascism.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is full of lunatics. You found one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonebooks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, OP might just be a dumbass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dreams come true⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will take some people’s professions. People who write click bait articles, schlock product reviews, and pulp romance novels, and the things modern Hollywood describe as scripts might be out of a job.

  Quality novels, hard-hitting journalism, and innovative storytelling of all sorts is outside of the capability of LLMs and might always be. There’s a world where nearly all run-of-the-mill writing is done by LLMs, but truly original works will always be made by people.

  At the end of the day, though, if a person can’t out-write an AI they might be in the wrong line of work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risky Buisness⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s goddamned hilarious.