My friend still uses Google Maps on her iPhone. Itâ(TM)s CarPlay-native, almost as smooth as my girlfriendâ(TM)s Google Maps on Android Auto (at least when she gets her Pixel to connect to the Hyundai â" finicky but smooth once it decides to connect to the HUD).

I rented a Tesla once. I like the navigation, but I planned holiday events in my calendar (which feeds into Apple Maps), sat down in the Tesla, and wound up listening to directions blindly over Bluetooth. Great drive, awesome car with full self-driving, but navigation the way I wanted was clunky compared to my aging Bolt.

Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and nothing else. Car makers, stop wasting time and money developing your own software stack. You suck at it. Present the touchscreen and audio devices to whatever device I plug in. No built-in podcast apps. No built-in music apps. My device, your screen; my ass, your seat; my foot, your pedals. End of transaction.

Weâ(TM)ll see how deep a Pixel Tag can go.

But I will say, good riddance to half an hour of ads. I've been to a theater post-COVID, and it's worse than ever. I'd rather sit at home with a beer, freshly-made dinner, and sweatpants, with something on streaming or the latest thing gotten from that... probably can't say it out loud... the cove of marauders' ships? Good for Sen. Looney for bringing this up. It doesn't do jack about housing prices or inflation, but this also pisses me off, so hey, gun for some theater legislation.

Or, theaters can get around this by showing the ads before the scheduled start time instead of promos featuring the same two trivia questions repeated over and over, and an ad telling us to go to the snack bar that we just literally came from. Hollywood's corporate interests would never allow that, though.

As hard as interviewing is, I've never ghosted a job that I've worked hard to get. But having lived through the worst of the worst of the corporate world, I have to say -- more power to Gen Z! I only hope this Millennial's children either have the guts to do that when they're old enough, or the working world improves as the Boomers die off and GenX retires to their mansions and boats.

L1 is not fine. I did my research and knew this when I bought the car. Don't get me wrong. A fat 10-gauge extension cord and my EVSE can definitely top off the car overnight when it's a little run-down. Because I respect my neighbors, I don't want to leave my car outside of my parking space during the day, but two or three overnight sessions in a row can refill my battery as long as it's not close to dead.

That being said, I would kill for a 240V outlet in this apartment somewhere. Assuming I can get the power outside with an overkill, oversized, overspecced extension cord, I'd double my charging speed from the voltage alone. That'd be before increasing the current to whatever this nonexistent circuit would provide.

Perhaps, in the future, apartment buildings will be designed with 240V running into the parking lot. A nice landlord could install outlets for bring-your-own-EVSE, but in the real world, they'd opt for a row of pay-per-use L2 public charging stations.

(In before Level 3 charging only exists in Europe where three-phase power is common. The author of this article confused L3 with DC Fast Charging.)

(In before someone telling me the owner's manual says not to use extension cords. I'm not using some el cheapo extension cord I've had for years. A 120V/20A circuit calls for 14-gauge wire, so I went two sizes up and got a 10-gauge extension cord. Works well, rain or shine, doesn't get hot to the touch even in the summer, and I plan to replace it at the first sign of visible damage.)

My Chevy Bolt EV is still going strong. Thankfully, I suppose, mine was too old to get the range-crippling patches, but I wasn't immune. I did have to go get an obtuse software update for whatever is happening inside of Hybrid Powertrain Control Module 2's Advanced Diagnostics System. GM, despite building OTA software update functionality into the Bolt, has only used it once -- to remotely disable video playback capabilities in the infotainment system. So, I drove to the dealership, waited an hour drinking surprisingly good coffee, then left with my underhood computers reflashed.

Now, I know the OTA update capability can only handle the infotainment system, and I guess it's a good thing that the car's ECMs are not connected to the Internet, either directly or through the GMLAN CAN bus. Still, I look at Tesla owners who can get their ECMs reprogrammed remotely while they sleep, and I'm a little bit jealous at times.

So, GM, who's pretty good at making cars (they break more, but tend to be cheaper to fix, thankfully), has removed Android Auto and Apple CarPlay entirely, and forced everyone to use the institutionalized spyware that is their custom distribution of Android Automotive. Yet, from what I read, they still haven't figured out how to deliver OTA updates to critical systems. Most computer BIOS makers figured out digital signatures on firmware images a long time ago. Verify the image, flash, verify the image again. GM has contributed to this article substantially because they don't want to piss off their dealer network, who's already pissed that they'd dare make a car that doesn't have to show up every 5,000 kilometers for four or more liters of the world's most overpriced oil and a $50 filter that's $5 on RockAuto.

While my dealership's coffee is quite good on a cold winter's day, I'd rather sit at home in my underwear with my own coffee looking out the window at a car that completed a safe, secure software update overnight. Perhaps if GM could figure that out and just push it, they could avoid the negative press of a little recall like the ADS software.

Thatâ(TM)s weird. I have Spectrum (cable) on the east coast, and I can only get a single /64 from them. Are you residential or business? That being said, my /64 rarely changes. Itâ(TM)s not static, but it hangs around for months at a time.

Agreed. Hertz has all of these EVs, but I don't see a charger anywhere. Would it kill them to install a couple of chargers at each location, so that people dropping off their cars after-hours can simply plug it in and let it fill up overnight?

I rented a Tesla from Hertz, and they told me I'd pay extra if I returned it below the same charge level -- kind of like not refilling a gas car, I suppose. I picked it up at 94%. Fortunately, I have an EV at home (that's currently in the shop, hence the rental) so I filled it up, drove it back, and returned it at 95%. Whoever returned it near empty probably had to pay an exorbitant surcharge, not that it did a damn thing for you.

Massachusetts had them, too, all along the length of I-91. Theyâ(TM)re being removed now.

Firefox has an option to anonymize the WebAuthn/U2F information that it sends to the remote server. I tried doing that, and my anonymized key failed the Cloudflare Challenge. From reading the article, I think it's because I didn't disclose my device attestation. Can anyone explain to someone who's only halfway-decent at understanding crypto?

You don't need a fancy Yubico device to take advantage of this anymore. I bought a cheap U2F key on Amazon for less than $25. Heck, I can even unlock my Linux desktop with it.

As opposed to Android device manufacturers, who are forcibly pre-loading these apps and making them unable to be removed by the end user. This is probably Apple kowtowing to the government while maintaining their focus as "The Privacy Company."

That being said, I'd like to know if these apps made by Russian companies are undergoing the same security and privacy review as any other App Store app.

That's what the TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV "cipher" is supposed to solve. If a client has asked to downgrade the TLS version, the server will include that canary with the list of supported ciphers. If the client sees that but did not ask to downgrade, the connection is assumed compromised and immediately terminated. Of course, this does require both client and server support. It's been in all of the OpenSSL derivatives for quite some time, though I believe it's still missing from Microsoft's SChannel stack.