2FA where one of the factors is Bluetooth to the fob might be OK, assuming the Bluetooth link is secured in some way.

It’s not a thing a car should require, and even for nice-to-have value-add features, it should be tightly secured, not only from external access but from the manufacturer.

The comical part was that anyone could go through a completely vanilla registration workflow and become a registered dealer. What the hell were they thinking?

as the Administration refuses to level with Congress

Any plan, classified or not, shared with the Republicans will be in Putin’s sight within seconds.

You don’t have to care about AI safety when you’re unconcerned over civilian casualties and false positives.

From a UX perspective, those things are cancer.

And I’m behind four firewalls!

Which also has nothing to do with what’s being discussed.

I got an earlier variant purporting to be from a friend who was stuck in London, had their wallet stolen, and needed cash wired to them so they could get home. That was remotely plausible based on my friend’s recent travels. I replied asking them to tell me where and when we first met and what we did the following day. They tried going back to reciting their story but I wouldn’t move until I knew it was really them. Fucking scum. They should be made to drink cold hotdog water that Satan’s hemorrhoids have been soaking in.

Another verification that works is “I’ll call you, let’s talk. What number can I reach you on?” They’ll usually drop contact at that point.

Nothing deep about it.

It’s really not a hard screening algorithm: do I know this person, or have I done business with this company? OK, does the URL check out? Then I’ll respond to that person’s email or go log into that company’s website, not using a link from the message I received. Otherwise, it’s spam.

Also, there are no pictures of my dick online, or of me having sex. Anyone claiming otherwise doesn’t know me. Nice and easy.

I’m sure, for a price, someone could set you up with a placebo stick shift.

Accuracy, consistency, explainability.

Greed.

Leon.

One Big Union.

The problem is that all voting systems have undesirable corner cases and anomalies. The voting system isn’t really the main problem, it’s the political culture, corruption and the inconsistent application of rule of law.

Fascists don’t have the foresight to think of consequences of climate change. They’re also in denial that climate change is a thing at all, since one of their sources of funding is fossil-fuel extractors, including a certain large Eurasian nation-state.

Their real motivation for being anti-immigrant is that they are racist scum who are always looking for vulnerable populations to victimise.

I had a Japanese-American girlfriend for a couple of years who would gladly dispose of the prawn heads for me. I tried them (“how bad could they be?”) but it was a taste I could never acquire. And I’m open-minded about food-- tried natto and got to enjoy it, same with uni, even managed to have Taiwanese stinky tofu. The only other food I could never stomach was balut.

The commonly used optical disk technologies degrade over time. CD-RW more rapidly than CDR. It’s even worse for higher-density media.

Paper doesn’t last centuries. Anyway, punched cards don’t have a storage density that’s adequate for modern data volumes. You need something that’ll durably store nanometre-sized marks.