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Does Floccus count? It syncs via caldev into the native bookmarks.

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I hope Google gets sued once this inevitably backfires.

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Western Australia

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Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, says focus is ‘long-term product development’ rather than revenue

Cope.

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You only have to work 80 hours a week to get it (or else they'll just fire you)!

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Waze is owned by Google.

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Hell no, not gunna ever go back.

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820 lines, you weren't kidding.

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Jack is a dumbass who ruins platforms, I'm not sure he's very credible.

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Ah, the classic "hive mind" excuse. It's always brought up when someone has nothing else to stand on (that someone is you, if it wasn't clear).

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So, Tesla successfully lobbies the government to get the grant money to apply to NACS instead of CCS, making it the new defacto standard. Now, they're seemingly pulling out? Seems like Tesla just didn't want to have to update their chargers to work with CCS (something that would have been required for that government money, before the lobbying).

On top of that, the lobbying successfully stunted CCS development, even after 700 kW CCS charging had been demonstrated, with future increases planned. Tesla basically killed all of their charging competition with this move.

I'm sure the auto industry is happy to hear this headline after they started to change their vehicles over to NACS and made promises to customers about access to the Tesla network. Rivian, for example, has already begun shipping complimentary NACS adapters for R1 owners, but this will probably throw a wrench into that.

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It was developed by Tesla and they lobbied the government to change the standard from CCS to NACS.

Originally, the government said they'd make CCS the standard, so many car companies made their vehicles CCS. Obviously, this would be mighty expensive for Tesla since they'd have to upgrade their infrastructure. So instead, they claimed that out of the goodness of their hearts, they'd release the NACS specification to all car manufacturers (something that they still haven't done completely).

Once Tesla said that, the government changed their tune and made NACS the standard. While you are correct that NACS can handle more power, CCS was having a newer version developed (with the same connector) which would have likely been the standard moving forward, had Tesla not been successful in their lobbying.

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I absolutely hate that Tesla was successful in lobbying the government to use NACS instead of CCS. You can tell that it was lobbyists because seemingly overnight, the government changed from giving grants for CCS (never owned by a single company) to only giving grants for NACS (a proprietary standard that was opened to other companies so that Tesla wouldn't have to pay to change their chargers). When the government decided to change to NACS, NACS specifications hadn't even been sent to other companies yet. A new, better CCS plug was even being developed, one that on paper could handle more than NACS.

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Sure, that is a valid argument. But it doesn't change the fact that the government was successfully lobbied into changing what their grant money could be used for, seemingly overnight. When the grants were announced, CCS was said to become the standard. Due to that, many car companies stuck with CCS, and no doubt that some consumers (myself included) bought a CCS vehicle expecting it to be further developed.

That's all I was trying to say - I'm more miffed regarding the lobbying than the connector itself.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

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Bluetooth can do it locally, but yes, for things on ZigBee or Z-Wave, it's gotta have an antenna hub. WiFi switches and lights most likely do "phone-home" to the cloud in some way (usually for color or brightness control via app, Govee especially loves this). The down side, other than the obvious privacy implications, is that if your ISP has an outage, so do your switches.

Home Assistant attempts to mitigate both the privacy and offline issues, while putting all of the different brands and hubs into one place.

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    You can also get a KVM (and second machine) and keep them fully seperate that way. Some rootkits may still be able to infect both of your installs if you dual boot. Just depends on your paranoia level.

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    No, I doubt most people care enough to disable them.

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    If it's cheap enough, someone will buy. I'm interested to know how it'll work in this case though.

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    Context, I think:
    https://www.businessinsider.com/mkbhd-fisker-ocean-review-marques-brownlee-video-tiktok-2024-3

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    https://www.businessinsider.com/mkbhd-fisker-ocean-review-marques-brownlee-video-tiktok-2024-3

    AmbiguousProps , (edited )

    I posted this in the other thread, but..

    Now congress can tell any company to get fucked and sell to the highest bidder (edit: via bills crafted to target them specifically)? So much for free market republicans.

    China will just find another company to buy our data from, because as it turns out, the problem isn't just TikTok, it's the fact the it's legal for companies (foreign and domestic) to sell and exchange our data in the first place. TikTok will still collect the same data, and instead of it going straight to China, it'll go to a rich white fuck first and they'll be the ones to sell it to China instead.

    And if the problem is the fact that it's addictive, well, we have plenty of our own home grown addictions for people to sink their time into. You don't see congress telling those companies to get sold to a new owner.

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    It's not even a ban, though. TikTok will just be owned by a US company instead of a Singaporean owned company. Literally nothing else will change, I hate to break it to you - cringe app will still be used by millions.

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    China doesn't need TikTok to do any of that, including the data collection. They can just get it from data brokers (either by purchasing or stealing it). Because guess what? Data collection and/or sale of said data to foreign countries wasn't made illegal with this bill.

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    Ah, so congress can just write hyper specific definitions that only apply to one company (as long as they don't directly name said company). Got it, seems like great precedent to me.

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    I didn't completely misunderstand, I just used the term hyper specific (rather confusingly, I admit, since you used it too) to refer to the wording of the bill. I would be surprised to see this used for other companies - the recent happenings with Kaspersky are not related to this bill.

    to prevent anything similar from ever occurring

    What are you referring to here? What occurred? Do you mean the creation of another foreign TikTok?

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    It's not really a ban though, it's a forced sale. Cyber attacks come from more than just China, and there are more companies selling data to China than just TikTok. I also see (and protect against) cyber attacks every day at my job.

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    I mean, you are correct that a complete ban is unpopular. But I don't think that's the exclusive reason the forced sale was provided as an option. TikTok (and the data on it) is super valuable. Someone will most likely buy it, and the data collection and foreign sale (or theft) will continue.

    China is a threat, and so are the data brokers. This benefits US-based data brokers, but does it really benefit the individual citizen? I personally don't think so, at least not from a data collection and personal privacy perspective.

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    Indeed.

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    It's always annoyed me that it's been commonly referred to as a ban, when it's actually a forced sale.

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    We'll see, I suppose. I'm highly doubtful at the moment.

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    *It's not actually a ban

    Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

    When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

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    The idea of a truck EV isn't bad market wise, look at Rivian for example. It was purely poor execution, no doubt attributed to Musk.

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    Does your bank not have autopay?

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    Maybe they should try slashing their scumbag CEO

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    Very good read, thanks.

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    Yay!

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    If they still phone home to Facebook, no thanks.

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    DNS is literally distributed by design. It's how it works. Even if a deployment was done for some reason, it would not take more than a single engineer (an engineer really isn't even necessary for this, because again, it's built into DNS).

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    The ability to change address records at global scale is built into DNS. It's not a new thing.

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    That is not what they do, though. Just because a non standard configuration is possible doesn't mean that's the best thing to use. DNS, by design, uses authoritative nameservers, which is what cloudflare and quad9 host. These authoritative hosts distribute their records to caches (usually just recursive DNS resolvers) to ease and distribute the load. It's literally in all of their documentation, and explained in pretty plain english on their pages.

    https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-dns/
    https://www.quad9.net/about/

    Much of the Quad9 platform is hosted on infrastructure that supports authoritative DNS for approximately one-fifth of the world’s top-level domains, two root nameservers, and which sees billions of requests per day.

    When a record is updated in your domain (or cloud) provider, it is distributed via an authoritative nameserver hosted by that company. These get distributed to the root name servers, which then distribute the records to other authoritative nameservers.

    I don't know why you're arguing over this, when it's one of the first things you learn in information systems and networking. Sure, there's a lot of stuff for the infrastructure. But the way DNS works on these hosts is still the same, and blocking a single record is not difficult and does not take extra engineering effort. The authoratative hosts simply change their records and it's done. DNS takes care of the rest.

    There's an entire wikipedia page on this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_blocking

    AmbiguousProps , (edited )

    What you said here is not really on topic, but it is literally part of DNS. I already explained it in my other comment, but here:

    DNS, by design, uses authoritative nameservers, which is what cloudflare and quad9 host. These authoritative hosts distribute their records to caches (usually just recursive DNS resolvers) to ease and distribute the load. It's literally in all of their documentation, and explained in pretty plain english on their pages.

    https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-dns/

    https://www.quad9.net/about/

    Much of the Quad9 platform is hosted on infrastructure that supports authoritative DNS for approximately one-fifth of the world’s top-level domains, two root nameservers, and which sees billions of requests per day.

    When a record is updated in your domain (or cloud) provider, it is distributed via an authoritative nameserver hosted by that company. These get distributed to the root name servers, which then distribute the records to other authoritative nameservers.

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    but then once you’ve thousands of servers running the same piece of software across the globe deploying updates and features becomes way slower and way harder. You’ve to consider tests, regressions, a way to properly store and sincronize the blocklists across nodes etc…

    This is what we're trying to explain to you, this is how DNS works. Those thousands of servers? Recusrive DNS resolvers, ran by Cloudflare. All watching and caching the records from Cloudflare's authoritative nameservers in near real time, because that's how it was designed. You don't need to test for regressions, figure out how to properly store and synchronize the "blocklist" (it's not a blocklist, it's changing a domain record or simply using a CNAME to point to the registrar) or whatever else, because DNS is continuous, and it was designed to do what you're describing, in the 90's.

    Yes, if you're updating your infrastructure, you'd want to test. But this isn't that.

    Ever ran into an expired domain and thought about how the registrar can just park an expired domain and make it an ad for themselves? That's just them adding a CNAME in their authoritative nameservers, which gets distributed globally. The prior delinquent owner can still be hosting, but because they don't have the authoritative nameserver they can't use the domain anymore.

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    They can, because that's how DNS works. This is why when you update a record for your domain it's updated globally in near real time with multiple providers. I don't know how else to tell you that it already works this way. I work in the cloud, and deal with this stuff on a daily basis.

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    Correct!

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    You're clearly going keep nitpicking and changing the subject to things that don't matter and you're not willing to learn. Your misunderstanding of the fundamentals of DNS is no longer my issue.

    Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

    Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

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