2FA where one of the factors is Bluetooth to the fob might be OK, assuming the Bluetooth link is secured in some way.

It’s not a thing a car should require, and even for nice-to-have value-add features, it should be tightly secured, not only from external access but from the manufacturer.

The comical part was that anyone could go through a completely vanilla registration workflow and become a registered dealer. What the hell were they thinking?

as the Administration refuses to level with Congress

Any plan, classified or not, shared with the Republicans will be in Putin’s sight within seconds.

Too bad he was too decent to name the place. Any retribution that might happen is richly deserved.

You don’t have to care about AI safety when you’re unconcerned over civilian casualties and false positives.

That’s how it should work but not how it works.

It’s more like an open-source project going closed-source. They can do that at any time.

Open source products, back in the day, competed against the giant corporations of their time, which spent vast sums on R&D, and yet succeeded. That’s because massive organizations lack agility, suck at innovation and fail to inspire people with real talent. They might make a few prestige hires here and there, but who wants to work for Microsoft or for a greedhead VC tech bro, even if it means a big payday? And there are more ethical organizations around that are not controlled by Altman or other greedhead tech bros like Zuckerberg.

Sociopaths and toxic narcissists comprise only a small percentage of the population, and most of them lack even rudimentary business acumen. I don’t advocate your hypothetical strategy, but if it were sustained, they would eventually run out of those categories of sleazeballs.

“Open” could also mean open publication of papers, open standards for APIs, or (most likely) Altman’s grabby hand always being open for for money.

“Open” doesn’t imply “non-profit.” In fact, it doesn’t imply much of anything In that way it’s like “Active” or “Direct” which are or were used as parts of a number of Microsoft product names.

Everyone with a clue should quit and go over to Anthropic.

The goal is torture.

From a UX perspective, those things are cancer.

Nothing deep about it.

It’s really not a hard screening algorithm: do I know this person, or have I done business with this company? OK, does the URL check out? Then I’ll respond to that person’s email or go log into that company’s website, not using a link from the message I received. Otherwise, it’s spam.

Also, there are no pictures of my dick online, or of me having sex. Anyone claiming otherwise doesn’t know me. Nice and easy.

It’s depressing how many assholes there are out there.

No, he’s a hazard to others and belongs in a cage.

As long as it’s slow and painful, bloodless would be OK too.

I’m sure, for a price, someone could set you up with a placebo stick shift.