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Comment Re: Big picture - privacy (Score 1) 209

An assumption, and an incorrect one at that. I don't carry it everywhere. Except when I'm on-call, which means the location data is somewhere within my 35 acres anyway, which tracks the same as if I leave it at home. And it's a librem 5, so when I want to carry it but don't want to be tracked, I flip some switches and I'm offline. Physical disconnect. Not everyone trades their basic privacy for a bit of convenience. Your asaumption tells me what side of that you're on.

Comment Re: Big picture - privacy (Score 1) 209

The assumption you can't have a quality car without tracking is ignorant. 2015 WRX STI, no onstar, no tracking, 47k miles in perfect condition. 2019 RAM 3500 Tradesman package, 55k miles, no onstar, no tracking (original owner custom ordered from the factory, the dealership apologized for the lack of lojack, I told them that was great). In other words, do your homework, shop around, take care of your vehicles, and you don't have to be tracked.

Comment Big picture - privacy (Score 2, Insightful) 209

I do not, and cannot, understand how a supposedly tech-savy site like slashdot (obviously not what it once was) misses this point in every discussion of the subject. For some people, the issue isn't charging, or range, or quality, or any such thing. There is the major issue of privacy. Do you WANT to drive around in a metal box that spies on you at all times? Do you WANT to park a car on your property that has cameras facing 360 degrees around and inside of it? Is no one concerned that, as I predicted, this "private" footage is accessible to tesla employees so they can have a private slack channel to share videos of people screwing in their cars? Show me an EV with no internet connection. Show me the EV that works when you pull the sim card. Show me the EV that's fully functional in an entirely offline state. Show me the EV that I can troubleshoot and repair without permission from the manufacturer. You can't. Because it doesn't exist. Christ on a goddamn cracker, this used to be a tech community that rebelled at the very notion of persistent and pervasive tracking and monitoring, but when it comes to EVs, no one even mentions the complete and total lack of privacy. Even if it was viable where I live (it's not, the temps get so cold the thing would neither run nor charge in the winter, ignoring the fact that there are like 5000 people in my county and maybe two public chargers within 75 miles), I would not park this invasive spyware at my home, much less drive around in it. And no one EVER mentions this issue. If this was MS Car, would you trust MS to protect your privacy and let them slurp up every detail of your every movement, and put cameras all over the place? No, of course not. Or at least I would hope not. So, why is no one here concerned about the invasive nature of every EV on the damn market?!

Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

Submitted by CmdrTaco
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Submission + - Xiph/Mozilla Release Deep Learning Noise Suppression, Ask for Noise Donations

Submitted by jmv
jmv writes: The Mozilla Research RRNoise project shows how to apply deep learning to noise suppression. It combines classic signal processing with deep learning, but it’s small and fast. No expensive GPUs required — it runs easily on a Raspberry Pi. The result is easier to tune and sounds better than traditional noise suppression systems (been there!). And you can help! Find out how to donate your noise to science.

Comment There's your "careful phrasing" (Score 4, Insightful) 139

I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.

Yeah, that's reassuring. Except, what's being described here falls under neither of those categories. It's not a backdoor, and it doesn't require providing access to Apple's servers. So, Apple is blithely sidestepping the issue with careful phrasing, denying only activities about which they were not asked, while artfully ignoring those about which they were.

Comment Shades of Archer (Score 1) 277

by dark_requiem (#52683543) Attached to: Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash

Sterling Archer: I thought you put it on autopilot!

Rip Riley: It just maintains course and altitude! It doesn't know how to find THE ONLY AIRSTRIP WITHIN A THOUSAND MILES SO IT CAN LAND ITSELF WHEN IT NEEDS GAS!

Sterling Archer: Then I, uh... misunderstood the concept.

Seriously, though, the problem for Tesla isn't just that people will misuse the system. The problem is, even when the system isn't at fault, and the driver knows it wasn't at fault, there will still be a subset of people who will try to lie and blame the system in order to weasel out of fines/criminal charges/general responsibility, because it's new enough, controversial enough, and makes for a sufficiently good sound bite that some media outlet will start screaming bloody murder about it being Tesla's fault, and other media outlets will pick it up and run with it without any form of fact checking.

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