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SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence in c/[email protected]

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

on my car, there's a fuse you can pull out, which theoretically cuts power to OnStar. check your car manual/forums about your model

Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Gen 2 chevy volt owner here, PHEVs are absolutely not a step back. If I didn't buy the volt, the one car our family could afford would have been an ICE car. IMO, these things help bridge idealism with current reality - for most of my day-to-day, I drive a fully electric car. I just also get the option to toss some gas into it when on a long road trip.

Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

For some good fiction, that puts this in context, check out:

Ex Machina (2005) which is nominally about an AI beating the turing test, but really more of an illustration of that AI in a box problem.
Snow Crash (1992) which is about a future where the two professions remaining on earth are software development and pizza delivery.

FLOSS communities right now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I've had it happen on servers where that moderation option is not enabled. My worst experience was trying to join a friend group's discord via an invite link shared with me. I was prompted to create an account with email, and I did. I was then shown a read-only view of the server: I could see all messages and other folks could see I joined and 👋 to me. I could not send messages myself, however, without verifying with a phone number. Further, I couldn't use a Google voice number (my primary number) to verify, nor my "real" number which was associated to another account.

FLOSS communities right now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes it depends on discord itself finding you suspicious, for some definition of suspicious. perhaps a user agent whitelist? lack of Google cookie?

FLOSS communities right now in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 160 points 9 months ago (18 children)

it's awful and I hate it. I generally prefer not to have a shared identity across communities, and there's no way to create a usable discord identity without a phone number.

Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Very important distinction. When the apple vr battery dies, or the software fails, you're suddenly blind.

Joplin alternative needed in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Why do you need to back up that server data? The great thing about joplin, is that the full content of your notes (and history) is distributed, like a git repo. As long as you have one device left with your notes, everything else can be bootstrapped from there. If your sync server burns down, start a new one and sync your notes to it again.