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General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that...

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IDK, the ability to remote activate climate control, start/stop charging and control charge power to match my solar power are all quite good reasons for me to have my car connected.

We should be able to have nice things without surveillance. We shouldn’t refrain from these things, we should legislate so they’re not allowed to collect data and share it without explicit consent.

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Honestly I disagree. That kind of features should absolutely be included and standard. I shouldn’t have to buy 3rd party hardware to modify my car and pay for extra cellular service for it.

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Are you not paying the manufacturer for the cellular service to run the climate control?

No, I’m not.

I obviously would prefer open protocols and/or APIs for these things, but it should be possible without modding the car with additional hardware.

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Yeah, that kind of goes without saying…

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I start the AC from my office which is probably 2-300m from my car with a large building between. That’s far outside the range of a key FOB, but it’s nice and cold in the summer (or warm on the winter) when I get to it.

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To be fair, 3G cellular is technology that is more than 20 years old now, superseded by 4G which is almost 15 years old. It’s not like there haven’t been viable replacements for 3G for more than a decade before it was retired.

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2G is still operational pretty much everywhere. It’s still the lowest level fallback for telecommunications.

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This is probably rather US specific, 2G is used for emergency services many places in Europe so it’s not easily disposed of.

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This feels like an advertisement article…single port USB-C PD chargers with 20-30W output in the <$10 range are not at all hard to find already.

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Exactly, this is definitely not going to be quality electronics.

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It took me one google search, and a filter at the first vendor that popped up to find one.

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IKEA 30 years ago was also making better furniture than they are today though. All their entry-level furniture is absolute shit these days, thin veneer on cardboard strength fiber board and screws made of metal softer than warm butter.

Anything in a quality that will last more than a few years costs almost the same as any other furniture store.

In only have experience with their ZigBee lightbulps, and they suck ass.

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It’s even better, using the much superior kolowats over the deprecated kilowatts

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The ZigBee lightbulbs I have are definitely not high quality.

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Hvis de så i det mindste lavede tjenester der fungerede ordentligt. Men det er altid en buggy langsomt shit-show at bruge deres apps. Hvis de insisterer på at tvinge os til at bruge deres tjenester til adgang, så skal de også sørge for st de tjenester bare spiller.

Hvad tænker I andre om den nyeste version af Reddit-gate?

Jeg ved ikke, om I andre har fulgt med i den seneste udgave af Reddit-gate, hvor Politiken har kastet sig ud i et angreb mod de de to danske gossip subs. Specifikt er problemet, at anonyme profiler kan bringe sladder til torvs uden at skulle kunne verificere deres påstande, hvilket går udover et ret bredt spektrum af...

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Men er det så størrelsen på det offentlige rum det ytres i der skal være afgørende? Og hvornår skal grænsen så være? Og hvad hvis det er et lille forum det starter men så efterfølgende deles uden for det forum? Sidstenævnte er jo det der er sket her, det er delt i et relativt lille gossip forum på reddit, men har spredt sig uden for det nu.

Jeg mener ikke rigtig at størrelsen på det offentlige rum det deles i er et meningsfyldt sted at lave grænser, da det er alt for flydende i en digital verden hvor information kan deles så nemt som det kan.

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Jeg synes størrelsen betyder noget

Men hvis størrelsen skal betyde noget, så skal der være klare grænser for hvornår det så er stort nok og hvornår det ikke er. Og så følger hele problemstillingen med, at noget som er slået op i et mindre forum måske deles i et stort forum eller landsdækkende medier efterfølgende.

Derfor mener jeg, at størrelse ikke er en brugbar grænse når vi snakker digital kommunikation. Rækkevidden er alt for variabel er totalt ude af kontrol for personen der lægger det op.

Edit: jeg er sådan set enig med dig i, at størrelsen på ens publikum er relevant ifht. injurier. Men jeg har svært ved at se hvordan man skal lave en afgrænsning der giver mening og er klart defineret ifht. online fora. Og hvis det ikke kan defineres utvetydigt så mener jeg ikke man kan bruge det.

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Det er bare enormt problematisk når man som borger ikke kan vide om det er ulovligt eller ej det man gør. Det er mildest talt dybt kritisabelt, hvis lovligheden af ens handling er ukendt på forhånd og så står eller falder med dommerens humør og subjektive vurdering på den dag det kommer for retten.

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Most races are not against time though… They’re against other competitors. The time it takes you is pretty irrelevant, as long as the others are slower.

It’s more or less only time trials that are races against time.

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They absolutely don’t need to detect the country of their users. Simple popup asking, if you’re in an EU country, and then adapt according to the users answer.

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Maybe home assistant a few years ago…I have a fully functional setup with loads of automations and haven’t written a single line of YAML for it.

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None of my custom integrations are configured with YAML anymore, they’ve all moved to the GUI. Even a couple of my templates have been made directly in the GUI.

“Not a single line of YAML” is a bit hyperbole, but the only YAML I’ve got left in my setup are a handful of custom sensors, I haven’t checked if that can now be done from the GUI. It’s around 100 lines of YAML in total or something like that. But all the home automation stuff is done purely with GUI.

There has been huge improvements on what can be done from the GUI in the last few years since I started with HA.

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I use the KNX integration, which must be configured using yaml

This is probably because of the devs behind the integration though and not the fault of HA.

I have my all my cards and dashboards defined through GUI as well, you van make plenty sophisticated interfaces without YAML. A lot of tutorials are probably not up to date with what you can do though and use YAML.

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Funny thing, most modern refrigerators use DC motors for their compressors so that they can run at variable speeds

No they don’t…they use AC motors and a VFD to control the speed.

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