hahaha can I get off? Can I exit this degenrate ride?! HAHA I LIVE IN DECADENCE HAHA WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAHA STARVING AND DYING UNDER DROUGHT MAYBE I SHOULD HAHA CREATE MAKESHIFT MORTARS AIMED AT PRIVATE JETS HAHAHA no no I’m just joking :) Although…
hahaha can I get off? Can I exit this degenrate ride?! HAHA I LIVE IN DECADENCE HAHA WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAHA STARVING AND DYING UNDER DROUGHT MAYBE I SHOULD HAHA CREATE MAKESHIFT MORTARS AIMED AT PRIVATE JETS HAHAHA no no I’m just joking :) Although…
Phrenology is sooo hot right now.
This is why you should be allowed to hack your car, but not only that, reverse engineered firmware should be freely available and open source, because the vendors and manufacturers can’t be trusted… and here’s why.
TL;DR secret sauce stupid, execs greedy, consumers subjugated, it’s dumb from every angle. Open firmware, NOW!!!
The excuse for these transgressions against the consumer is this: “certain digital features are premium add-ons, but we need to cut cost in manufacturing. We do this by putting these features in all cars and then put it behind a paywall for those who can afford the extra”…
Then why not just adjust the pricing for all and give everyone that feature? Because money, that’s why. Revenue stream go brrr. And before you say “developing those features cost money”, remember that the engineer have already been paid, the code is readily available and the physical features are already shipped with the car. It’s an arbitrary cost added for no good goddamn reason other than milking the consumer.
As it stands, there’s a cottage industry for hacking your own car, outside of the manufacturers power, that also pushes subscription services. In some cases you can’t even change the language of your car, unless you A) bring it in to a service centre and pay a lot for the “privelige”, or B) pay a comparatively nominal monthly fee of like $60 for the access.
Both cases are horribly stupid and shows how the consumer is being subjugated to such an extent that a straw has been permanently installed into their wallets, with the intent of sucking it dry in every way possible, which to me is solved quite easily:
Make all firmware for cars open firmware. “But what about security!?” I hear the executives shriek, as they grasp at their straws, hoping it’ll never stop leaking money. To them I say: what are you, IBM in the 70s?
For anyone whose been paying attention to pentesting - not only for computers , but also for car systems - knows that it’s just another example in a long, long line of examples of why the “SeCrEt sAuCe” fallacy is just that: a fallacy.
Buying simple, cheap little devices from some eBay seller means you could unlock pretty much every Tesla on the block, because, and this is important: you have no control over the authentication mechanism and the manufacturers have to get on that ASAP as they lobby governments to ban said software and devices, knowing fully well that they’ve now shoehorned it into the black market instead of letting people publicly test these things - which is dumb, because now you have to wait for the manufacturers to get their fingers out of their asses to fix the problem.
Much like Apple products, you don’t own anything. You pay a one time lease and pray that corporate doesn’t hand down a new spin-up curve for your AC system that’s better in terms of power delivery, because you know they’ll sell it to you for $2k as an “extra add-on”.
In as much, you have this spiritual corporate valet underling that will open your door for you and enable certain features, if you pay enough. They sit in your car with you, staring into the side of your face, reminding you with certain menu clicks: “you are our little bitch and there’s nothing you can do except give us more money.”
But if their firmware was publicly available, some Joe Schmoe could give you the same curve, and even give it out for free, because said Schmoe wanted his family to have access to better air conditioning without having to pay the toll. You’d basically be exorcising that spiritual valet back to the planes of hell from whence it came.
Hey, if you like this, here’s an idea, how about we democratically control these executives homes, their doors, their AC’s, through democracy? I’m sorry Mr Executive, but you’ve pissed off the masses, so now we’re turning off the AC so you have to sweat in your $30m beach property.
Oh wait, is that suddenly authoritarian?! You don’t say… and what in the blue blazes do you think this is? It’s a physical piece of property. The code should be gratis, complimentary, part and parcel of the sale. If they get to control their property, so should you. I can’t believe we still have to say this aloud.
In the end car manufacturers have to be stimied and slapped with anti-trust suits and the “sEcrEt sAuCe” fallacy needs to be defeated once more to give consumers actual power and control over their own property… it’s 2024 already!!! WHY IS THIS STILL A THING?!?!!
👏 Make 👏 society 👏 not 👏 suck
How about that?
These systems have been draining people for so long, making society a dry, homogenous mess, lacking of any real culture or humanity, depriving local communities of economic development because “too big too fail” also means “monopoly is legal”, people burning out, left and right, expections so high that you’d think the modus operandi was determined by a damn coke head, and the the collective narcecism, sycophancy, the nepotism? Jesus fucking Christ.
Why would you bring a child into this? Like “here junior, enjoy all that mental disease. Please don’t shoot up any schools.”
Vers 69, and oh lord… for the grace of he, she doth hawk a tua on thine thang.
…what’s Baba Yaga doing in the US?
Listen, some of you mfs don’t need a standing desk, you need a running desk, that gets up and runs the second your brain turns on autopilot.
Focus! Or the screen runs away.
Some folks need firing practice… for when these fucks show up.
This person, nay, this legend, has reached across language barriers and opened up entire new worlds to people who suffer from lacking or outdated documentation.
If you or your loved ones are afflicted by bad documentation, please voice your grievances to whatever ticket or email chain deserves to be told their documentation is absolute ass.
Yes, I can read the code API, now delete that old ass mess. If you don’t want to communicate it, let someone else have those search engine results.
Ffs.
Absolutely valid, wholesome and legal activity.
Uhhh pre-modern architecture is uhhh inherently uhhh socialist and is therefore uhhh classified as terrorists.
Neo-liberals, probably.
Can’t we just have a pageant, where each girl dresses and behaves according to a narrative and brand.
“Miss Those Damned Foreigners is this year’s… Miss Information.”
*music swells*
Listen, I swear that cake was singing show tunes and indoctrinating the children with it’s gay agenda. The cake then… disappeared, while the local folk were nearby at a cake eating contest. Mysterious that.
My testicles, my lungs, the brain, my bone marrow…
Seriously, it’d be easier to list which parts of the body that don’t contain plastic.
Oracle is horrible and deserves to lose Java.
The worst part of it is that we had it figured out in Norway. We relied on banks more or less as a form of digital ID. I wouldn’t use it for voting, but it’s good enough to sign contracts, file taxes and send applications online.
Now the EU has told us that the government needs to have their own ID system… and considering what they usually do is apply new public management, so now some other company gets paid millions to do a job we already had covered.
Thanks, EU. Good job.
Same. I’m smashing my face into my keyboard with joy.
This seems like the people’s choice, and also infers that it has to be written with a uppercase initial letter.
Your mom is easy… said the deep-pocketed founding member of the Rust Foundation.