halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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Traded my Tesla for a Polestar 3. While it does have some weird software quirks and issues, it's overall been great. Tesla has had a long time to polish their software compared to just about everyone else.

I expected software issues from a company still early into their ecosystem, but it's base is Android Automotive so it's not entirely the terrible in car systems like most legacy automakers.

There's a very distinct difference between anti-China and anti-Chinese.

Blurring that line is what the Republicans rely on to pass their bullshit. It is the same as the Israeli government blurring the line between their actions and general anti-Semitism.

Taking a plea deal doesn't really change their bullshit explanation in any way. They'd just say that plea deals are how the woke left punishes the innocent without even needing a trial.

That actually is a stronger explanation honestly, it's based on truth.

A reminder that accepting a pardon is admitting guilt.

Faster to take the plea deal then pardon.

How do you know they have access to the archived data? That's possible... but requires making assumptions that the application sends the archive data back to the company, which is not a guarantee by any means. Not everything operates via vendor-run infrastructure, most enterprise applications are designed to work with an enterprise-run solution for exactly this type of reason. This isn't a program aimed at the general public.

They make the client application, it is entirely possible that the client simply sends that data to a specified database, and the apps on these devices are set to a server run by the US government. It's not hard to verify where the archive info leaving a device via any network interface is going. You can't just hide a connection from the phone to an additional random server, especially if you're looking for weird connections when validating solutions to implement.

Is it possible that they have it running to a server run by the company? Of course it's possible. That doesn't mean it's plausible, or even likely here. We don't know how the app is set up or where it archives to. Assuming it must archive back to the company though is ignorant of how anything remotely related to these types of things work.

On a side note... When was the contract for this application setup? Was it signed by the Trump admin or has it been in place for years to archive these types of communications and we're only talking about it now because of the Trump officials being idiots brought it into the news cycle?

An archiving application isn't inherently insecure just because it's third party, or even made by a foreign company. There's a shit ton of technology bought from foreign countries because that's the best option.

The point they're trying to make seems to be that the specific unofficial Signal app they are using does archive those messages. So the fact Signal by itself doesn't, is irrelevant. The government is paying TeleMessage for this Signal app instead of using the official Signal app... The only reason for that would be for the archiving capability.

I mean... If they're using Signal specifically because it doesn't store messages, and they are trying to hide the communications and not archive them... They wouldn't be using the app capable of archiving them in the first place, they'd just use the official Signal app.

Not sure why this is hard for people to understand since the article is explaining exactly what this app is and does and how it bypasses the "Signal doesn't arching texts" issue entirely, because it doesn't matter what the official Signal app does or doesn't do.

Keep in mind the Tesla board is filled with sycophants and close friends/family type of people. If they're looking and he didn't know, that's a pretty deep betrayal from his perspective.

The fact he's alive is a miracle, the fact he looks like almost nothing happened in interviews, etc. is absolutely fascinating.

So a few possibilities.

1. The board started looking and are lying about looking once it leaked.
2. A member of the board started and that leaked, possibly on purpose.
3. Someone leaked that they started looking just to gauge what the response would be from shareholders and the general public.

FYI, this is one of the major reasons to use digital wallets. Like Apple Pay and Google Wallet. They don't use your actual card info when paying, but a generated virtual card instead.

Likewise one of my accounts provides both a physical card and a separate virtual card, so that's what I enter whenever making online purchases. Easier to cancel and reissue a virtual card if there is fraud.

And again the white house shoots themselves in the foot.

They could have spun this as a transparent way for Americans to see what products they are purchasing from overseas versus American. It would have still been filled with lies, but they could have made it sound like a good thing. Instead they just look like idiots and Amazon leadership just look like cowards. Amazon is large enough and ingrained in the economy and everyday lives of people to tell the Trump admin to go fuck themselves on this and have the back of Congress and the public, especially if they spun it right.

Your reminder that Fox News hated Mister Rogers and everything he believed.

https://youtu.be/29lmR_357rA

If you're fine paying $50-60 for what amounts to a community graphical overhaul mod that's fine. I expect more from an actual developer with access to the source code.

A remaster should be releasing Oblivion with an updated engine and graphics, and bringing in some gameplay enhancements from newer games. Technically this meets those requirements, but only by the bare minimum and all of those can be achieved with community mods for free.

A remake would be completely abandoning the decrepit Gamebryo/Creation Engine that's clearly dragging all of their games down now, and has been for over a decade, and actually giving us something that doesn't feel like it came out 20+ years ago.

I love the Elder Scrolls, Oblivion is one of my favorite games of all time, and the only one I ever bothered to get every achievement for back on the 360. But I won't accept a half assed remaster for nearly full price just because it's what Bethesda wants to distract everyone from the fact that Elder Scrolls 6 isn't coming out anytime soon and they couldn't just release Skyrim for the 12th time.

Don't accept paying for mediocre products just because you're desperate for content.

More than a coat of paint. They didn't actually port the game to Unreal 5, they just used it to make the graphics look better. The modding community could have done this years ago if that's all they wanted to do. Skyblivion is more of a remaster than this official one.

With all of the resources of the original development and sources, I expect more than the modding community is capable of.

It's not even much of a remaster. They just slapped a coat of paint on it.

The Gamebryo/Creation Engine is still there running the game, it just uses Unreal 5 for the graphical elements. And they updated some of the levelling to work more like Skyrim, because the Oblivion system sucked in comparison.

It's still the same 20 year old Oblivion under the hood.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but calling it a remaster is a bit disingenuous.

No it's not. There's an absolute metric fuckton of evidence of Russian Disinformation and foreign Propaganda programs have targeted nearly all Western countries. Some more effectively than others.

Even if you choose to completely ignore the direct evidence of not only Russian leverage against high level politicians, but even full intelligence asset control, the fact that Russia has teams manipulating online conversations with fake information is a known fact with no basis for denial.

Unless you have no capability of critical thinking like the antivaxxers that is. But if that's the case you have bigger problems like probably being one of the many idiots that fell for the obvious bullshit.

It was intentional until it leaked. They'd rather look even more incompetent with classified info than just admit whatever the real reason is or make up something fake to cover.

Looking even more incompetent is the best option they thought. That should be extremely worrying. Having yet another classified information scandal is the best option.

God I hate this click air partial truth bullshit.

A reminder, since it is cut off in the image... That comment from her is from 2019. A lot can happen in 6 years to change a person's mental state. COVID for instance happened after that comment was made.

Not to mention she was apparently in a bad bus accident a month ago.

On Sunday, March 30, Virginia said on Instagram that she was in the hospital and near death after the car in which she was riding on March 24 was struck by a school bus going more than 49 mph.
“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure," she wrote next to a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed, with her face covered in bruises. "They’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.”

And she recently came forward about her husband allegedly abusing her. Much more likely he did something than anything related to Epstein.

In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, Virginia said, "I was able to fight back against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, who abused and trafficked me. But I was unable to escape the domestic violence in my marriage until recently. After my husband's latest physical assault, I can no longer stay silent."

Assuming that's even accurate, because her husband has recently gotten a restraining order against her.

Robert recently filed a family violence restraining order against her, alleging that she had become violent with him, they say.

So this is far from a clear case, and trying to claim this is in any way related to Epstein means ignoring a ton of other shit.

Basically, except the newspapers of today no longer care about reputation. They only care about clicks, the bottom line, and speed. Accuracy is no longer a primary focus.

The sharks were just trying to do us a favor by getting rid of the New Jersey population.