Vieille biologiste avec un tropisme pour le DIY, la récup’ dans les poubelles, le minimalisme et les chats.
Fan de Fantasy et de SF, cinéphile et musicophile éclectique , ex-gameuse depuis Steam, libriste.
Ancient biologist with soft spots for DIY, dumpster diving / upcycling, minimalism and cats.
Fan of Fantasy and SF, eclectic cinema and music lover, ex-gamer since Steam. FOSS advocate.
Would that be what is referred to as Eternal September? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I discovered it only a few weeks ago and I am sad to say that 1994-1995 was when I went online for the first time. With an AOL “Free 20 hours access”. I undoubtedly contributed to degrade the quality of discussions, not mentioning choking several dial-accesses with the freakinig 50x50 pixels pictures I uploaded on my very first homepage.
Sorry, I’m so sorry…
Valid point, no offense taken. I did not think about the airbags! As for damages to the vehicle, this is something I understand an am willing to accept. If I do stupid things I have to face consequences.
Anyway, getting the help of a mechanic would be point number 1 on my list. If can find one willing to take the challenge :)
Thanks! Knowing that what I might be searching for would be somewhere under the dashboard is a good first step.
Then I am not an engineer nor have any experience in electronics BUT I know from my dad that taking the dashboard apart is not an easy task. If I would succeed I do not know what I would be looking for… Would tan antenna look like a piece of wire? Or could it be embedded in the ‘copper’ circuitry of a PCB? Do cars use regular SIM cards like the ones found in phones or would they look different?
The maintenance manual would probably be a good place to start before trying to put anything apart.
For recent cars I am afraid you are right. My current and “old” car has a built in navigation system with the map on an SD-card. No need for a connection to a smartphone - which I do not own. Therefore I suppose it is not communicating with the manufacturer.
Then, someone in my family with a more recent car got several “firmware updates” out of the blue, hinting to a ‘permanent’ connection to the manufacturer.
I have the feeling we need to start organizing and claim a “right to disconnection”. Having the car dial for help after a crash is one thing but what Mozilla’s report describes is at another, much higher level.
Thanks a lot for your post ! The future of cars looks grim.
Serious and naive question: how could I get rid of the tracking at the hardware level when I will have no choice other than to buy a connected car?
Is there an antenna or a SIM card somewhere that I could disconnect/remove? Would the car continue to work if the connection to the manufacturer’s server is lost?
Well… Being me I would like to disagree but can’t find a counter-argument. Damn!
Steve is so cute when not working <3
Did you ever watch Kedi, the documentary from 2016 about Istanbul’s cats?
Yup: write down the password when you set up the software and feed it to your “own” RustDesk on your computer.
Although I recently had a case where the password on the remote machine seemed to have changed by its own, but it could be me or the machine owner who did something funny without noticing.
+1. I use it to help non-tech relatives. Apparently works on different OSes, including Android.
Install, setup password, create icon on desktop and name it “Help me” - Done.
Well, at least they got the piece of string right but… No tissues, no nail clipper and file? No band-aids, disinfectant, eye drops, sugar lumps, lip balm?
Anyway, judging by the weight of my hand bag the curling rock definitely IS somewhere at the bottom but I can’t find it. There must be a secret pocket…
Wow! That’s a creative way to use a caliper.
That’s why teaching children about metrology basics is so important.
Do you wish to submit me to a Turing test? I am sure at 92.82293 % that I could demonstrate my appartenance to your species.
Arguments intéressants, merci !
Je suis plutôt pour la levée de l’anonymat mais là tu me fais hésiter :) Tu as raison, quand on se sait ‘surveillé’ on change son comportement, et ça pourrait encourager une forme de chasse aux sorcières.
Hum, pas simple. Pourrait-on envisager que ce soit une option à cocher dans son profil ?
Je downvote peu, jusqu’ici uniquement les bots.
Pas d’avis sur l’anonymat de mes downvotes, je les assume. Éventuellement j’aimerais pouvoir ajouter un commentaire - facultatif - pour expliquer un peu plus que juste « j’aime pas », mais ça se ferait bien aussi via un commentaire.
Pour les personnes sensibles aux downvotes, la possibilité évoquée par plusieurs personnes de ne pas les afficher me semble être une bonne idée. Les downvotes ont indéniablement leur utilité pour détecter les bots ou les trolls, ce serait dommage de s’en priver.
Question sans lien : comment dirait-on downvote ou upvote en français ? Sur Reddit j’ai vu les traductions littérales “haut vote” et “bas vote” mais il y a peut-être d’autres idées ?
Merci pour la rectification, ça confirme que je n’y comprends pas grand chose…
Oui, HP est à la pointe sur l’appariement des consommables. Dymo également avec ses imprimantes thermiques.
La dernière « blague » d’HP sur au moins un de leurs modèles d’imprimantes, trouvée hier sur le Shaarli de Sebsauvage: le port USB masqué par un autocollant « pas de port USB » pour pousser les utilisateurs à connecter leur imprimante en WiFi.
Ne pas oublier non plus Apple qui joue à ça depuis quelques années. Poussé par la réglementation à améliorer la réparabilité de ses téléphones, il fallait bien trouver des astuces pour garder les réparateurs captifs et pousser à la vente. À côté des pièces appariées, aux USA ça donne un kit de réparation loué 49$/semaine, hors prix des pièces. En Europe je ne sais pas. Il y a des boutiques un peu partout qui annoncent réparer les iPhone, je ne sais pas comment ils se débrouillent.
On pourrait aussi citer les constructeurs automobiles qui compliquent les réparations avec des valises de diagnostic spécifiques. Du coté pro, spéciale dédicace aux instruments dont la licence expire annuellement et qui se briquent jusqu’à qu’on rentre une nouvelle clef d’activation vendue très cher par le fournisseur. Enfin, tant que le fournisseur veut bien vous en vendre une. Le jour où le nouveau modèle sort on se retrouve avec un presse-papier.
Thanks for the link, that’s really interesting for a (micro)biologist :) I totally missed it in the past decade.
Scitechdaily being… Difficult to display in my browser I tried an online search:
Right!
If I had gotten 10 cent each time I heard (or said) this I would be close to 10 € by now :D
I switched to Linux back in 2006 but not everyone has the knowledge, the capacity or the motivation to do so.