For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

I have a slightly different view of this history. Instead of: "The history here is that this project was very popular on cloud providers (e.g. AWS calls their offering "Elasticache") and the original authors got pissy that they were being cut out of whatever money was being paid for using their free software. So they changed the license and here we are.", I would say: "... and the original investors got pissy that they were being cut out of whatever money was being paid for using the free software in which they invested, although 70% of it was written by others. So they changed the license, they disbanded the Core Team after the original developer left, and here we are."

Redis was not written by Redis Ltd (the company). It was originally written and released more than 15 years ago by Salvatore Sanfilippo (a.k.a. antirez) who was soon joined by a community of developers who loved this open source in-memory database and started contributing to it. The project was sponsored by VMWare/Pivotal for a while, but in 2015 it was bought by a company that had renamed itself Redis Labs (originally Garantia Data). Under the new ownership, Redis continued being open source but in 2018 some optional modules were converted to the proprietary SSPL license. This caused some controversy but the company promised that the core of Redis would always remain free and open source. This worked for a few years and this even survived the departure of the original developer. The Redis project continued being developed by a community led by a Core Team of developers coming from various companies (the main ones being Madelyn Olson from AWS and Zhao Zhao from Alibaba Cloud).

But last year, things changed even more. The company that had renamed itself again from Redis Labs to Redis Ltd decided to break their 2018 promise and announced that they would release the next version of Redis under a proprietary license. They also decided to disband the Core Team and take complete control over the core of Redis. The former members of the Core Team left the Redis project and moved to the fork that eventually became Valkey. According to Madelyn Olson, 70% of the Redis code was written by people outside Redis Ltd, so this story is rather different from some other projects in which the original developers wanted to stop the evil cloud hyperscalers who were profiting from their code without giving anything back. In the case of Redis, some of the core code was actually written by people paid by those could companies and only a minority of the code was written by Redis Ltd.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Thanks.

Getting a chip made IS the big hurdle. Soldering the chip is trivial by comparison.

https://downloads.aaronia.com/datasheets/solutions/drone_detection/Aaronia_AARTOS_DDS_FAQ.pdf

You might have missed that Musk made the same claim about 2016, with the 1-camera sensor system. The 2017 claim was with the newer 8-camera system, and the claim was made before Tesla even had software for the new sensors, and the Tesla then lacked adaptive cruise control, adaptive high beam, self parking, summon, and other things that the prior model did have. I'm embarrassed that I actually believed these claims.

A Sprinter is a tradesman's van. Outside the US, Mercedes aren't a luxury car maker, they are a general vehicle maker who also makes luxury cars. Aside from normal white vans, they also make buses, trucks, and cheaper cars that are popular as taxis.

The box is small and cheap, and is much easy to change when some new codec comes along making it obsolete, and you can keep the existing display.

If data can be charged (not something I've heard of) no one is actually charging for it. I can roam anywhere in the EU with no roaming charges on Vodafone.

How much does it cost for the user, though? Is it metered? If it is metered, you'll want a good proxy setup in front of it to block things like requests for ads, block the operating system's "phone home" and software updates while connected, block videos etc. as these can chew through gigabytes without the user really knowing.

British cars from the 70s maybe. But there is no British mass-market car industry left - the last British manufacturer went out of business years ago, so you don't have anything to worry about.

Incidentally, Audi use Lucas electrical parts (that Lucas, as in Lucas prince of Darkness). So you better cross German cars off your list too.

I don't disagree. I think crimping gets a bad rap because people are used to cheap crimp tools and cheap connectors which do a terrible job (which even un-strain-relieved solder joints will actually outlive). People see that a moderately decent crimp tool will set them back £100, so go for the cheap Chinesium non-ratchet one that costs £6, and the connector fails after 3 months because the wire just falls out the improperly crimped connector, so conclude that crimping is rubbish.

Since the login page is going to come from at least the same organisation (and likely the same server), if it's been compromised then that won't help - it just means the attacker has to do marginally more work adding a bit of code to the stuff sent to the browser to harvest the plain text password there instead.