The assumption was that you might have grandchildren. Not that you want them 😉

Some want their own kids, some not. Some don’t know them…

The value of working in my home office. Since the start of covid, and ongoing. Maybe I am overvaluing it now. But maybe not?

If all they do is put ads on their site for your searches

I think we should not believe it in a literal way. I guess this was simply the only kind of processing that this guy and/or his source knows and found worth mentioning.

this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US

You got that right.

puts ads based on what you’re searching.

they don’t actually […] process it in any way

Well, this is processing the data, isn’t it?

Back in the days, some decades ago when Amazon “invented” the tracking and processing of every single mouse click in their online shop, it was big news in the IT world. First from a technical point of view, because it needed some serious computing power on their end, and it used up some bandwidth on the user’s end, which was much more limited at that time than today. And from a data privacy point of view, because it was a huge step towards this world of total surveillance, constantly ongoing manipulation, behaviour based advertisement, George Orwell etc.

Today we have gotten used to all that, even so much that such extreme statements have become possible, somewhat…

they don’t actually do anything with the data

Level 5 is easy to understand even for musk

Disagree.

He says “all” and he probably thinks “all”, but the meaning of it is always “nearly all”. I say, he is unable to grasp that the standard’s requirement actually includes all the rare conditions that happen in the real world.

Rain, snow, thunderstorm, earthquake, vomit on the dashboard, no internet…

Elon Musk claimed that it would mean Tesla owners would eventually receive a software update that would turn their vehicles into “robotaxis” capable of level-4-5 self-driving

Wait… so he actually knows what the standard levels 4 and 5 are??

:-)

You don’t cost them. You benefit them by giving them all the knowlege about what you want, how you search for it, what details are the most interesting for you etc.

Thank you.

Are you happy in general?

Usa continues to sail away from all the rest of the world.

Tech companies have more

I really really want them to prove that

Don’t be afraid of your son.

Be afraid for your old bones when your little kid needs you to play some sports with him.

Isn’t Hollywood going to unleash armies of lawyers on them?

When a car ran over the person who walked right next to me.

For about three weeks I was having bad thoughts going round and round in my head all day long, and I was barely able to do my work.

It is giving false ideas.

As we can see here in the comments, people understand it as security. But it is only a method for identification.

It cannot tell you who carries the knife. Even if it’s connected to the databases of three letter agencies (or worse), it can only produce suspicion. Which is false, most times, and helps only the ones who sell surveillance tech.

And even for identification it is less reliable than people like to think.

What do these idiots think they’re gonna do when a good chunk of the population loses their homes and comfortable lives because of them?

They buy your houses from you and rent them right back to you. That’s what Nestle has done with the poor farmers and all their land (not just their houses) in Romania.

The world is beyond capitalism. It is a new feudalism now. Yanis Varoufakis was right.

They employ even more police (and more guns for them), so that you don’t get no funny ideas.

But if you get funny ideas anyway, they have surveillance of all phones and internet. You have read your George Orwell, haven’t you?

Btw I wasn’t aware XOR was encrytion…

It’s even better than ROT13, because you always need to apply ROT13 twice for getting the good results…

how do I know it’s manufactured to other international standards and not specifically American standards?

Well, you don’t need to know anymore now :)

But if you are in Europe, the standards are still in force. No cars may be sold that do not meet these requirements. The manufacturer must declare the conformity for each model, and in addition they are tested by independent organisations sometimes.

Stop Disenshittification.

Whoaaa… that’s a lot of logical negatives in just 1 line.