opt your files out

your files?

your files? LOL

Don’t forget, Dropbox belongs to Microsoft. The harddisks where “your” files are stored belong to Microsoft.

HomeAssistant

it’s more like one UI wrapping up all the other protocols.

You buy different bits of kit […] homeassistant will likely work with them

A pretty good explanation!

Apple plans to stop selling some versions of the Apple Watch

Isn’t it impressive?

“Hey, you are doing illegal stuff there!”

…

"OK but I’m already planning to stop with it…

So the earth has an urgent major crisis because Usa has some dependency on China. O.m.g.

So the Americans are following Tesla. Big deal.

Whatever dumb money can do, it will be done.

Nowadays satire can never be as good as reality is.

In the free world outside Usa, Apple gets more legal attacks for that than Google.

And you are sure that ‘someone’ is of legal age, of course. Not blaming you. But does everybody always know that ‘someone’ is of legal age? Just an example to start thinking.

Careful with asking such things, because the boundary to crime seems blurry.

Ample’s model involves the startup owning the actual battery modules—this solves the problem of an EV owner having their own new pack replaced by an older and possibly degraded one.

This does not solve the problem. It just avoids the problem.

AFAIK nobody works on really solving this problem.

how autopilots in airplanes work

That was interesting for some people, before we had autonomy levels defined for cars. Nobody wants to know that anymore.

optical fiber speed record

Isn’t that simply the speed of light, always? ;-)

people working at the San Francisco-based startup “look down on what they consider legacy companies”

I can’t help the feeling Altman is the great leader of all them, who love to look down on us.

Is it really whistleblowing

It is, and it is important.

Employees are usually bound by loyalty and contract not to tell any internals. But public knowledge often needs confirmation, otherwise it is only rumours.

any problem autopilot ejects gracefully and hands it over to the driver.

Gracefully? LMAO

You can come back when it gives at least 3 minutes warning time in advance, so that I can wake up, get my hands out of the woman, climb into the driver seat, find my glasses somewhere, look around where we are, and then I tell that effing autopilot that it’s okay and it is allowed to disengage now!

altering engine performance

They touched THE Holy Cow! 🤣

We’ve noted how BMW has embraced making heated seats and other features already in your car a subscription service

I have heard that BMW has reverted that.

Imho making the OS(es) TPM only cannot be good for their business

It is good for their business.

There are very few people who turn away from M$ because they disagree with the TPM requirement.

There are some more people who whine and complain about the TPM requirement. Note the subtle difference :-) Experience has shown that most of these people have no real problem. They find a way, for example buy new hardware. It was a success for M$ if you buy new hardware.

In the long run, M$ wants to make more use of your TPM. Therefore I do not think that they see any reason to drop it.

Bulky, heavy, stiff, …