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adespoton , 6 days ago to Privacy in They lied to you about car surveillance

Theoretically, the SIM has its own MAC that’s used for routing on the cellular network; however, the network is required to route 911 calls even without a SIM, and that’s done via IMEI.

adespoton , 7 days ago to Privacy in They lied to you about car surveillance

Why exactly does vehicleprivacyreport want my VIN instead of year make and model? That’s me giving an unvetted third party website the unique tracking token for my car….

adespoton , 7 days ago to Privacy in They lied to you about car surveillance

And only some e-bikes have a built-in cell phone.

adespoton , 8 days ago to Technology in Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete

I remember when I had to set my VCR to record a program I wanted to watch; if YouTube gets that bad, I’ll just do the same thing; pre-record the video stream and skip the commercials.

adespoton , 8 days ago to Technology in Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete

The difference is that my ad blocker is quick and painless to set up, where TiVo involved some capital and planning.

adespoton , 14 days ago to Technology in Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

Perplexing.

adespoton , 29 days ago to Technology in Adobe Announces That They Can Use Your Content for AI

Once upon a time print shops would only accept files in Quark Xpress format. Eventually, they came to accept InDesign documents too. They have licenses for the software and workflows and toolchains set up to integrate those files into their existing prepress and press systems.

LaTeX is purely for academic markup for postscript printing. VivaDesigner and its kind? Only niche and hobby layout and print.

That said, I only share in PDF now, so I use other software for the layout phases and don’t care that it isn’t portable to other shops.

adespoton , 1 month ago to Privacy in Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub

I miss the roflcopter.

adespoton , 1 month ago to Technology in Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape

It’s in the article; newer gen chips will have extra DRM that will prevent the hacks from working.

Oh, you meant when will the anti-hacks stop?

Bless your heart….

adespoton , 1 month ago to Technology in Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price

Dual PIN is a great idea; I’d also love an emergency PIN that invalidates the token silently (so you can enter it under duress).

adespoton , 1 month ago to Privacy in Looking for a VOIP service to replace Google Fi

I guess my suggestion wouldn’t be useful then… I was a GrandCentral customer in 2006. When Google bought them I became a Google Voice customer and still am. It’s been convenient to have the same US numbers for 18 years. I wouldn’t run anything private through the service though.

adespoton , 1 month ago to Technology in Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

Anything faster would be a safety issue.

adespoton , 1 month ago to Technology in Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

How else are they going to win the rail pod challenge?

adespoton , 1 month ago to Technology in Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

A train is a collection of rolling railcars propelled by one or more locomotives. These are individual self-powered railcars.

So no, there’s no train here. Just monorail pods that will get congested as density increases.

The whole concept of a train is that all the cars move together and the only congestion is at the switching yards, where it can be optimized.

adespoton , 1 month ago to Technology in Online Content Is Disappearing

This isn’t helped by most websites reinventing themselves every couple of years so the old links 404 even though the content still exists.