danc4498
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- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 11 hours ago:
I doubt they’re doing a full OS wipe when an accident occurs. So PII data would still be on there.
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 11 hours ago:
Yeah, this is a good point. Also, another comment said it’s possible the data snapshot is very large, so it’s not intended to be stored locally.
Either way, if you are sending data about my car to a server, it better be easy for me to get this data if needed.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 13 hours ago:
I took a shot of everclear one time and felt my throat close up immediately. I couldn’t breath and felt panic for what felt like 2 minutes but was actually just 10 seconds. I imagine adding hot sauce would have ended me.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 21 hours ago:
Not Spotify’s fault here, though. Shit legislation.
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 1 day ago:
Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers, the “Mothership”, and received an acknowledgement. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.
Holy fucking shit. What is the purpose of deleting the data on the vehicle other than to sabotage the owner of the vehicle?
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 days ago:
While Tesla said that McGee was solely responsible, as the driver of the car, McGee told the court that he thought Autopilot “would assist me should I have a failure or should I miss something, should I make a mistake,” a perception that Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk has done much to foster with highly misleading statistics that paint an impression of a brand that is much safer than in reality.
Here’s the thing, Tesla’s marketing of autopilot was much different than the reality. Sure, the fine print might have said having your foot on the gas would shut down autopilot, but the marketing made autopilot sound much more powerful. This guy put his trust in how the vehicle was marketed, and somebody died as a result.
My car, for instance, does not have self driving, but it will still brake if it detects I am going to hit something. Even when my foot is on the gas. It is not unreasonable to think a car marketed the way Tesla was marketed would have similar features.
Lastly, Tesla’s valuation as a company was based on this same marketing, not the fine print. So not only did the marketing put people in danger, but Tesla profited massively from it. They should be held responsible for this.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 1 week ago:
Lots of wind farms out there
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
I’d love to boycott them, but literally everything I do uses one of those 2.
- Comment on The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI. 1 week ago:
Good point. This is a pilot program for Microsoft. All negative press gets associated with King. Even the Wikipedia shows “Activision” as the parent company as if to buffer negative news from Microsoft.
- Comment on The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI. 1 week ago:
While most companies replacing employees with AI usually ends in failure for the company, I believe AI will be able to make games like this just as effectively, if not more.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
I very much get the first point. Victims need to be protected at all costs. Even if it means the public doesn’t get to know things.
To the second point, the way Trump handled it felt very much like “case closed, nothing to see here”. This does not feel like justice is going to be served.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible they were protecting their own. You don’t release only the parts that implicate your opponents and leave out the parts that implicate your friends.
I think it’s also possible there wasn’t any smoking gun that directly implicated anybody. Only loose associations to Epstein that we already were aware of.
So if they did release it, Republicans wouldn’t believe anything in it that made them look bad, and Democrats wouldn’t care as they want a real smoking gun before they react. So it wouldn’t help in the election, and the release would have zero impact.
Instead, let the next administration deal with it. With Trump now in charge, it really is a rock and a hard place. If there are “loose associations” that make him or his people look bad, and they are the ones to release it, Republicans would not be able to question its authenticity.
Notice how Trump is now claiming Obama and Biden were manipulating the documents, which is why he won’t release it. This is giving his people a reason to be skeptical even if he does release something that looks bad.
TLDR, either Democrats are implicated and Biden was protecting, or Biden felt it was better to let the next administration deal with it, especially if the next administration was Trump.
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 2 weeks ago:
Probably same applies for most people. Those books are very slow at times and hard to get through.
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 2 weeks ago:
It’s interesting that Peter Jackson’s depiction was so good that people now just assume that’s how it always was.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
I was typing from memory and got it wrong.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
Damn, I’m just dumb.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
Right, I got that wrong. Scandalous makes it sound like it’s more import than it is. Most people sharing these memes had no idea this company existed and are not even thinking about legal ramifications.
Their reaction in the video is priceless. Lead singer commenting is hilarious. All the other details is the cherry on top.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a big deal, just a fun story that blew up. Guy pops up on Jumbotron, looks horrified cause he knew he was cheating. Lead singer even comments on the fact that they’re having an affair. Turns out he was a CEO and that was his secretary (tail as old as time). Internet loves it.
- Comment on Every time 2 weeks ago:
Cheeeeeeese!!!
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 3 weeks ago:
Ok, Elon will lay off the Epstein jokes for a little while.
- Comment on jobaphobia 3 weeks ago:
Obesity probably fits this same issue.
- Comment on Corederella 3 weeks ago:
Room full of spiders. Then let every one bite me!
- Comment on Fun new game 3 weeks ago:
I definitely was not that smart. That was a very interesting read though. I would totally be the guy that drops a brick on it…
- Comment on Fun new game 3 weeks ago:
I’m not smart enough to understand this…
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 5 weeks ago:
I made all my money myself. After I graduated from private school with my personal trainer and one on one tutoring and my car I didn’t have to work for and my apartment I didn’t have to pay for I definitely earned my first job myself. I mean, my dad didn’t interview with his good friend from the country club, I DID! Give me the credit I deserve! I am a self made man!
- Comment on Hey.. 5 weeks ago:
I used to have dreams that I was driving a car in busy traffic, but for some reason I was sitting in the back seat. Controlling the car from the back was very disorienting. Like my reaction time was lower cause I was further back. And I had no peripheral vision cause I couldn’t really see out the sides of the car. I wasn’t exactly driving a lot at the time, so I’m not sure what my subconscious was trying to tell me.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
I’m assuming they are removing the headphone jack cause the internal components take up too much space. I can’t imagine these companies removing the jacks cause they cost too much money.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
What about the internal connectors of the headphone jack?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
Probably not a popular thing to say on here, but I think you’ve lost the battle for the earphone jack. It probably just requires way too much real estate to be practical on a modern day cell phone.
- Comment on Dino-sore 1 month ago:
I am t-rexed!