The problem first became apparent to Tesla in March of this year after complaints about unintended hood opening from Chinese customers. By April, it had identified the problem as deformation of the hood latch switch, “which could prevent the customer from being notified about an open hood state.”

Given that China is now an electric car superpower, this situation will not bode well for Tesla in that country.

This post does not belong here. This is not a post about technology.

It’s all about getting users to buy new PCs that can run the AMAZING AI! (I’m being sarcastic here). It’s good for AMD and Microsoft’s pockets.

In the '90s and early 2000s, Microsoft’s business model was the classic one of selling products to customers. Today, it’s all about the cloud, advertising, and AI, where the product is the user.

They will just enable it by default later when the heat passes. They always do. You no longer own Windows.

Brave is Chromium based. UBlock will be affected by the changes.

Firefox is the way. If you haven’t tried Firefox since 2008, you should. It is as fast as Chrome. It has improved significantly since 2008.

Google Search uses a regular search algorithm. Google AI overview will be a product that feeds from Google search.

The WayBack Machine would like a word: https://web.archive.org/

Rationality is out of the window. Ideology is the new religion. They don’t want to become “socialists” even though they don’t know what it truly means.

• Garbage in -> Garbage out (x2)
• Garbage in (x2) -> = Garbage out (x4)
• Garbage in (x4) -> = Garbage out (x8)
• Garbage in (x8) -> = Garbage out (x16)
• …

“Just like the megathread,” an announcement reads, “free-form ads encourage multiple users to come together, get the information they need, and deep dive into the topic at hand.” Reddit explained that the open-ended nature of these ads will give advertisers more freedom to explore creativity and, hopefully, to start conversations with users.

Enshittification to the extreme…

The EU really is a force to be reckoned with. Long live the EU.