My story about how telematics data from people's cars unexpectedly raised their insurance rates is on the front page today...
... and this is where it started: me lurking on car forums and seeing comments like this.
If this story doesn't convince lawmakers we need a strong federal privacy law, I'm not sure what will.
@mark wait, your engineers get to do math?
@grolmori Sogar "Bahnhof" würde ich nicht verstehen.
@ninawillburger I see that pigeons were as obnoxious back then as they are now.
Blogged: “I don’t think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows”
https://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2024/02/23/i-dont-think-the-cheapest-apc-back-ups-units-can-be-monitored-except-in-windows/
@RoyBrander the apex of the Doonesbury SUV comics will always be https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2003/05/25
@mark Man, I wish this were possible.
@fsf Is it in March or May? The page says "sometime in March" but the registration pages say May 4-5.
@mattblaze @wendynather "one drop at a time" is also the answer to that age old question, "How do you titrate an elephant?"
@colindean You're weird? Then you fit right in with us!
@jredlund @sfwrtr @stevendbrewer @taur10 @alan This is a thing Apple is most qualified to solve.
I won't hold my breath, though.
@mark what minor mode was it?
@trechnex@social.trechnex.com @ebassi
You're mixing up whom they have to convince: they have to convince _you_ to talk to Cortana. They have to convince _manufacturers_ to add a (nother) dedicated Microsoft key. One of these is much easier than the other.
@jameshowell@emacs.ch Greetings from the left side of the state!
I'm pretty sure we could arrange an in person thing over in Pittsburgh, at the Code & Supply office. @colindean
@sil It's cable, Revision 2
@kev Uncle John's Bathroom Reader would like a word.
Another Chrome 0-day patched
36 years ago today was the Max Headroom TV STL hijacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.
Pure art.