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this reminded me of WoW classics: Leeroy Jenkins

yolo!!!

not affiliated. have used ODB eleven on my vw eup (2021). They have curious payment strategy. Basically you buy tokens and then use them for each enable/disable operation.

https://obdeleven.com

You can use OBD2 dongle to change default setting of lane assist to be off by default (after car starts) And many more setting that are decided for you as if you were using a rental car not your own. Like always reseting air conditioner to 22C after starting a car. God dammit i want 20C. Let it stay like that when i start a car.

why do you call paying someone legally a "bribe" ?

In some sense all commodities are "important for national security". Generic drugs are important for national security. Computer technology is important for national security. Im not sure what we arguing about. Im saying that AI is good thing to have like other commodity and it should net be one provider worth gazillion money.

well all commodities are like this. replace AI with milk, or plastic. It's easy for me to just move to different milk provider, this does not mean that milk industry is not a business.

And yes, its good that "its good for buyer" after all we do business so that living would be nicer, not the other way around (live to do business)

good thing that brothels are legal in germany.

We could call this "generative adversarial network" (GAN) :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network

i would rephrase "Force multiplier" as "Force power up".

If your "force" is above 1 then its ok to have AI power up your force. 2.3 to the power of 3 is 12.169.

But if you're a beginner and your "force" is bellow 1 so power upping this makes it worse. 0.2 to power of 3 is 0.008

I would say to push frontier of human knowledge forwards. Its not a high school anymore where you learn to learn. PhD is already a place where you should deliver value. (By "value" i don't mean commercial product)

Read AI summary what “Never Split the Difference” is about. And its a bit scary that you think its suitable for talking with kids. Its pure manipulation technique. If you need to do this to your its most likely you were unable to create a real connection with them before.

OG internet was not swarming with multibillion dollar predators ready to exploit every single psychological trick to manipulate you for profit. If you can solve this, i welcome the OG internet to be free and open place to share ideas. Let me know your suggestions.

to be clear is the "paying" part or "google" part a problem to you?

When docs say "no backend", but git (GitHub) is actually your backend :/

wait until AI starts publishing printed books :)

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dave-Gary/author/B0BY6Z6HP8/al...

These measures are directed outside of russia.

Its been discussed for long time already how russian methods work :

The ex-KGB defector you're thinking of is Yuri Bezmenov (also known by his alias Tomas Schuman). The strategy he described is called "Ideological Subversion" (also referred to as "Active Measures" or "Psychological Warfare")

Their time scale is measured in decades.

1. Demoralization Undermining the moral and cultural foundations of a society — making people lose faith in their own country, values, and institutions ~15–30 years (one generation)

2. Destabilization Exploiting the demoralized state to create social, political, and economic instability — polarizing the population ~2–5 years

3. Crisis Pushing the destabilized society into a full-blown crisis, creating a situation where people demand radical change ~6 weeks

4. Normalization After the crisis leads to a power shift, the new order is "normalized" — a totalitarian system is established and accepted as the new normal Ongoing

If country boundaries were Voronoi diagrams with respect to their capitals.

well, we are also a bit of pleasure machines also. And most of vacations are relaxing. So again optimisation.

digital mdma

synthetic, pure, overly stimulating, taps into base mechanics of joy creation, prone to abuse but on the same time you still want it and tell yourself that you can control it. and sometimes you really do.

If we can build skyscrapers that can survive tornadoes, can wind turbines be made tornado proof?

cable TV would like to have a word with you :)

Well, might be depending on model. I own eUp and it was free for first year.

By the way, regarding additional profit stream, to access VW data before you still needed WeConnect subscription (100€ a year), just that before you could use another app or automation to access the data. Now you MUST use exclusively WeConnect and partners to access same data even though you paying already for subscription.

Definitely not. you cant have T&C that are against the law, event if consumer has agreed to that. Like you cant sell your kidney even if you want to. Its illegal.

This comment has really nice translation of corpo-speek to human language :

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarn...

Why are they shooting them selves in the feet? Is this really a tangible income stream? Is it really increasing security?

Agree. Its like in some countries you put a sticker on the mail box "no advertisement, please" and its illegal tor postman to deliver you ad brochures. Same could have been possible with browsers, but oh no, now you have to go out to each postman ant tell him explicitly that you do not want ads, and postman has no memory, if you tel him that you don't want ads. He can come back ten minutes later and you have to tell him again.

Yeah, but they now have new owner who might be having different plan.

... damn, when you say this like that ... i'm now in existential crisis ...

well it is. what if you found out that your wife is actually a robot that you cant tell apart from real human. your real wife. well at least not by cutting her open. would you feel the same being with here?