fyi: modern vehicles are required to have a e(mergency)Call function (UNECE UN-R 144), therefore all of these cars have a modem with a unique IMEI (that is typically bound to a VIN), therefore you can track the movements of every car pretty precisely.
Disabling the eCall is not possible, and doing so (in the EU) would void your car's registration.
TIL: Generally all plastics exposed to UV start to photodegrade. If you google why old computers turn particularly yellow most sources point to bromine-based flame retardant agents in the plastic, but some people make a convincing case[1] that ABS just naturally turns yellow in UV light.
Not much real research into that topic, interestingly.
I've had a few experiences with retrobrighting and having it come out really nicely, then after being stored away in a box for a couple of years it's somehow yellow again. It's probably different with different plastics but it doesn't seem so clear cut that it's always the UV light causing it.
Not sure why all the fire retardants are needed. Besides, steel probably retards fire more effectively than most fire retarded resins and is probably far more recyclable.
In the uncommon event that something in your computer catches fire, the flame retardant keeps the fire from igniting the otherwise flammable plastic and potentially burning your house down.
I find it interesting that TI still seems to use custom ASIC chips for their calculators.
Any MCU out of their portfolio should be fully capable of driving the display, reading the keyboard. And the math should be lightweight for even the smallest processors nowadays.
Not only is the README.md largely written by a LLM (:emoji: :emoji:), the repo does not contain a single folder but 25 files (.py, .csproj, .png ...) , many of them 0 bytes.
Oh! Makes sense.
I came in to complain over them using SRTM instead of, say, the much better performing, reprocessing/successor NASADEM.
If 95% of publications out there use ol’ S, the stochastic parrot is bound to regurgitate the same.
Seriously, I am saddened that Chromium dominates the browser market as much as it does, but at this point the herd-immunity of Chromium is necessary to keep users safe.
To answer "Tor on Chromium, when?", well - you can actually do this right now using BrowserBox! It has a built-in tor-run function that connects Chrome to a Tor SOCKS proxy, and it wraps any other browsing-related network calls over torsocks as well.
Because it's an isolated remote browser, you also get a lot of flexibility. You can run BrowserBox itself as an onion hidden service connected to the clearnet, or connect BrowserBox to browse over Tor, or even do both at the same time. Since this Firefox IndexedDB vulnerability relies on persisting state, you can completely avoid it by running BrowserBox (based on Chromium), and doing it ephemerally. There's actually a new GitHub action [0] that makes spinning up a purely ephemeral, disposable session incredibly easy and would be immune to this kind of process-level state tracking.
The action runs BrowserBox on a GitHub Action Runner, you can specify whether you want a CloudFlare tunnel, or a tor tunnel (which comes with torweb access). And there's a conveneince script you can use to run from the command-line - which does the setup then spits out your login link.
All you need is a BrowserBox license (not free), but then you can use it.
I would consider this a lightweight Tor-proxied Browser, not a replacement for Tor Browser, at this time as there are likely edges and leaks that the official Tor Browser has long patched. However, as cases liek this IDB bug demonstrate - no security is perfect. If you simply want a way to access tor, and add an extra "ephemeral" hop on a runner, itself over Tor, and not trying to do anything especially sensitive or life-threatening - it's probably good.
The most interesting takeaway from this project and the Mac touchpad actually measuring it's pressure in grams[1] is how Apple seems to prioritise it's ability to deliver new features in later software releases rather than their BOM.
I work in the automotive industry, and for volume products the price-cutting is really brutal. If you can save a cent somewhere you will, because that cent multiplied by 8 million cars a year is a sizeable amount of money.
This seems to be generally true for most OEMs of hardware products, but not for Apple. Apple could have cut costs by just using a magnet and a reed switch/hall effect sensor, because it is not using the exact angle of the screen anyway (afaik?), but they chose not to.
They could have implemented their "3d Touch" by using a simpler circuit which just indicates if the press was really hard or soft. But again they chose not too.
And they sell over 20 million Macs per year, so they really sacrifice a sizeable amount of profit
Disabling the eCall is not possible, and doing so (in the EU) would void your car's registration.
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