Israel should be able to do war crimes because america does war crimes is lizard brain logic. both countries need to cut it out.

The claim is they used CF-ABS with a transition temperature of 105C, but that pretty clearly seems to not have been the case.

The douchebag putz looks almost healthy there.

enshittify the product, saddle it with debt, strip of parts

You're clearly not talking about American cars. What's a 1-tonne Ford Escort? I did have a 1983 Dodge Ram D150 half-ton pickup truck with a Slant-6 and an A-833 manual transmission; that thing would get 25MPG and hold 75MPH all the way westbound across Michigan... of course, it took it a while to get to 75MPH, merging was just like driving a Peterbilt with a 53' trailer full of anvils. That exact same engine and a comparable transmission were available for the Dodge Trucks line from 1960 to 1987 and was renowned for durability and reliability.

The key point is that Americans typically don't want them. To this day, in Canada, gasoline is cheaper than water. I'm not sure if that's a statement about gas prices or a slam against the sort of fool who feels the need to buy their tapwater in PET bottles, but I digress. So people buy horsepower. People buy large vehicles based on truck platforms.

As CAFE forces vehicles to become more fuel efficient - without addressing the underlying consumer demand problem! - manufacturers are being forced to use smaller and smaller engines. This means adding turbochargers to cute little aluminum blocks, narrower cam lobes and variable displacement oil pumps and smaller oil control rings all to reduce the internal drag, and thinner oils which offer zero cushion on connecting rod bearings. All of this gets stuffed into a full-size pickup truck with a trailer hitch. They're intolerant of real-world conditions and use, and because of their complexity they're expensive to repair. These vehicles will not have a long lifespan - sure, you might get a good fleet average mileage, but if 50% of the vehicles don't make it to the 100,000 mile mark, they're getting replaced faster with all the environmental damage of producing and disposing of the vehicle.

Maximizing vehicle life is an important part of reducing the vehicle's overall environmental impact.

There's a great YouTube channel where the owner of a full-service used auto parts business takes apart modern engines and shows you what failed. No prior knowledge of engines is required to understand this. Some engines are spectacularly broken. And Eric talks about what will last, and what won't, with an entertaining sarcasm.

Recycling? The lead-acid primary battery gets removed, then the car gets crushed and shredded. Only the steel and the aluminum get recycled. Anyone who thinks that any other material in a car gets recycled in any quantity has never seen a car shredder in operation. ASR (Auto Shredder Residue) is a special waste stream now consisting mostly of mixed plastics, smashed safety glass, and the crap people leave in their cars when they junk them. All that plastic gets landfilled.

I don't feel Microsoft engineering quality has been declining. It's the same crap again and again.

Maybe I'm just a weirdo but I am very annoyed at them for trying to take away the option of local-only accounts. Why do I need to let them be a third party to everything I do starting with logging in? Nobody asked for this.

At this stage, the best way forward is to apply the "Debian" patch to your system to restore local accounts, and strip out the all the daft AI guff

Like I said, I usually "find content" on Youtube by someone else embedding it in something they wrote. I don't generally browse it without a reason. Occasionally I'll use the search for something specific, although lately that works better on Kagi.

There is no practical way to do that. Seriously.

In order to do it properly you'd need to have a process similar to declassification redactions, where a human can reason about real-world context. And you'd need a lot of bodies to do that to 20M chats in any reasonable amount of time.

"De-identification" automation can sometimes give you a dataset that by itself is anonymized. You really need structured input data for that, though, and the real problem is that there are frequently ways to "enrich" an anonymized dataset by finding other datasets you can join it to.

And here we're talking about freeform chats with multimodal inputs, those tools really can't cope with that sort of thing.

Further, the "enrichment" for this sort of thing could be weird. I could theoretically have described a situation to ChatGPT that didn't have identifying names/numbers in it, but that you could recognize, thus outing me. There's no way to redact that sort of thing.

So you're sad that people you don't like, don't like your idol.

Just go buy some new vaporware feature from him, or maybe he's selling in-car robot porn or something.

I'm sure it will make you feel better.

Or more specifically, to own your digital artifacts and identity.

Making you authenticate to the mothership makes it far easier to:

- surveil everything you do on your machine and over the network
- progressively make it harder to save files locally - they really want your data in Onedrive
- add metered billing for certain features
- and of course record details about how you respond to ads, which is the ultimate goal of every software company now

I understand some folks use them as a TV substitute, so in that case I get it.

But for casual users, why? I mostly view videos embedded on other sites, no account needed. Sometimes I'll run a long video in a different tab to listen to an interview or something, still no account needed. I see no reason to care about being logged in.

If this is them "adding value to the logged-in experience", yeah, still no reason.

How many hours of an Asian font designer'(s) time can you buy for $20k? It'd be funny, if it turns out that firing the font company pays off in less than a year.

A vocal minority in the US has pretensions of aristocracy, and a lot of awfulness flows from that.

Most of the south actively suppresses labor and wages with the direct goal of being "good for business" - e.g., cheap labor with no recourse or way out.

Now we also have people like Musk and Theil all but openly demanding an end to any political power for anyone but them.

There's a reason guillotine T-shirts are selling well, and there is a certain segment of society that should take it a lot more seriously than they currently are.

Wouldn't doubt it at all.