Fees are no longer a problem on Ethereum if you use one of the sidechains. Sub penny.

They might till be higher on mainnet if some big event is happening, but are otherwise relatively low.

They stopped using Bitcoin when the idiots in control of development/online communities kicked out/banned all the dissenters and scammed everyone into thinking we couldn’t raise the blocksize beyond 1mb, which caused massive congestion and delayed transactions, which resulted in complicated failed payments/refund problems. Their ‘leader’ cheered when transaction fees skyrocketed.

Steam was 100% right to stop accepting it given the problems the congestion caused. Steam wasn’t the only one to stop accepting it after that manufactured clusterfuck. Mainstream adoption which was starting to happen died at that point.

You can just use something like Ethereum instead now and avoid that entirely, and you can avoid the volatility by accepting something like USDC

Full home address via recordings of where you live would be PII, or with the “home address” option set for automations.

Don’t these keep a video record

those are saved on external drives. That being said, they could also have it set to save something like this to the external storage if it was too large for the internal memory as well.

Videos aren’t saved without the external drive.

I saw a post saying /r/period required an age check.

They’re gonna censor as much as they can with this.

You gotta remember we’re also back in 2019. Most of the talk back then was about what it was going to be able to do when FSD was ready, but no one got access to it until 2020 and that was a very small invite only group, and it lasted like that for years. I’d say the potential for confusion today is immensely more.

I have used AP back then, and it was good, but it clearly made lots of little mistakes, and needed constant little adjustments. If you were paying attention, they were all easy to manage and you even got to know when to expect problems and take corrective action in advance.

My \ the big beef with this case, is that he kept his food on the accelerator, and the car tells you while you do this, that it won’t brake, and having your foot on the accelerator is a common practice, as AP can be slow to start, or you need to pass someone etc, so it’s really unfathomable to think that the first time this guy ever did this, was when he decided to try and pick up his dropped phone, and thought, I should keep my foot on the accelerator while doing this! No amount of marketing, should be able to override “Autopilot will not brake. Accelerator pedal pressed” type active warnings with the screen pulsating some color at him. He knew about those warnings, without any doubt in my mind. He chose to ignore them. What more could you write in a small space to warn people it will not brake?

That being said - The NHSTA has found that Tesla’s monitoring system was lacking, and Tesla has had to improve on that because of that in recent times. People would attach oranges to the steering wheel to defeat the nag to pay attention type thing back then, but this goes well beyond that IMO. Even the current system won’t immediately shut down if you decided to not pay attention for some reason, it would take time before it pulls itself over, but you might get a strike against future use where it will prevent you from using it again.

Had his foot not been on the accelerator, this would have been a very different case had the accident still occurred (which is also still possible)

Sure, the fine print might have said having your foot on the gas would shut down autopilot

The car tells you it won’t brake WHILE you do it.

This isn’t a fine print thing, it’s an active warning that you are overriding it. You must be able to override it, its a critical saftey feature. You have to be able to override it to avoid any potential mistake it makes (critical or not). While a Level 2 system is active, human input > level 2 input.

It’s there every time you do it. It might have looked a little different in 2019, but as an example from the internet.

(edit: clarity + overriding with the accelerator is also explained to every user before they can enable autopilot in an on screen tutorial of basic functionality)

Just a further follow up - you actually can appeal that the jury was just outright wrong, but that would be an really hard impossible case to win here, i doubt thats what they would try. But just as an FYI

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/judgment_notwithstanding_the_verdict_(jnov)

A judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) is a judgment by the trial judge after a jury has issued a verdict, setting aside the jury’s verdict and entering a judgment in favor of the losing party without a new trial. A JNOV is very similar to a directed verdict except for the timing within a trial. A judge will issue a JNOV if he or she determines that no reasonable jury could have reached the jury’s verdict based on the evidence presented at trial, or if the jury incorrectly applied the law in reaching its verdict.

edit: Added emphasis there as well, which they could maybe try I guess given their error of law comment.

Well, their lawyers stated “We plan to appeal given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial”

They can also appeal the actual awards separately as being disproportionate. The amount is pretty ridiculous given the circumstances even if the guilty verdict stands.

There was some racial discrimination suit Tesla lost, and the guy was awarded 137 million. Tesla appealed the amount and got it reduced to 15 million. The guy rejected the 15 million and wanted a retrial on the award, and then got 3.2 million.

This is correct. And when you do this, the car tells you it won’t brake.

FSD wasn’t even available (edit to use) in 2019. It was a future purchase add on that only went into very limited invite only beta in 2020.

In 2019 there was much less confusion on the topic.

This is gonna get overturned on appeal.

The guy dropped his phone and was fiddling for it AND had his foot pressing down the accelerator.

Pressing your foot on it overrides any braking, it even tells you it won’t brake while doing it. That’s how it should be, the driver should always be able to override these things in case of emergency.

Maybe if he hadn’t done that (edit held the accelerator down) it’d stick.

I’d use ethereum with a USDC token for anything that didn’t need to be ethereum specifically. Then you’re not subject to the volatility of the crypto itself, but still gain the ability to pay for things or transfer money globally. Unless you actually want the crypto exposure of course.

If you wanted stronger privacy, you could put the ethereum/usdc through Tornado Cash first. The SEC tried to sanction it and lost in court.

Also staying in USDC is easier for tax purposes.

Customers aren’t happy when the call in!

Also

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2617767/hp-forced-callers-to-wait-15-minutes-before-connecting-to-support-staff.html

The Air Canada AI chatbot gave wrong policies to someone around bereavement flights, went to court, and Air Canada lost having to refund the ticket price difference.

They tried to claim they weren’t responsible for the Ai.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416

So at least in Canada we have some precedent that if their AI pricing fucks up, it’s their own fault.

Delta CEO determined sales decline is related to customers calling in with complaints and the call center not handling them to their satisfaction. Fires entire call center staff and replaces with AI.

might be better to have a bunch of gibberish with a few named places.

They might think it’s code and deploy there, and you’re not actually making a legitimate threat they could come after you for somehow.

All push notifications go through APNS on apple. That’s Apple Push Notifications Service.

APNS requires the device to authenticate with it and can uniquely identify the device by an id. Its how it sends messages to devices.

Firebase cloud messaging acts the same way for true push notifications.

You don’t need to audit a device using APNS or FCM on Android to know that it is not anonymous.

Ya, for sure. My beef was just with people saying you can roll your own, but glossing over the reduced user experience and reliability if you do.

With those trade offs it’s absolutely doable and makes sense for certain situations.

Ya, it can be brutal on battery.

I worked on an app once where delivery was critical, so we gave them the option of the active service+websocket, but for them the trade off was acceptable.

Pushes can be pretty flakey given all the shenanigans OEMs do on the device, even when marked as high priority correctly.

And the even worse part is when OEMs reset battery saving flags the user had set to help pushes get through and they stop working one day because of it.