I should have added /s.

Voting is better than not voting in my opinion. That being said, this is a topic I would not throw to the internet to help you decide. The way you have written your post you’re opening yourself up to a lot of partisan replies from the good people of both sides that will probably not aid massively in your decision making process.

From my Monday morning armchair, I think it’s a fair assumption that their business was already in a downward trajectory. The automobile industry used to be the plow horse of the German economy and plenty of businesses down the supply line have suffered for their inability to move with the times and ditch internal combustion engines. Automobile gets a mention in passing but thanks to various more or less elected madmen doing their mad things in various crises on this planet I doubt any of the other fields mentioned were putting them in a better position. So either they were dumb about their IT security or the diminished security was due to their economical situation in a confounding clusterfuck.

I find it fascinating to think that you could ruin a competitor now simply by hiring a ransomware as a service outfit. If you know they’re on the ropes, they probably cheap out on IT. Send the bitcoin fueled North Koreans in and soon you can buy it up for cheap. I don’t think that’s overly paranoid to consider today.

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It’s probably worth paying attention to this to see what information they release eventually. However, if there was indeed a hacker attack of some sort, it was probably illegal to do, and it’s also very possible that their infrastructure wasn’t up to par and they were aware of that - these are just two legitimate reasons why they were counseled to be tight lipped about this at this time by the police or their lawyers respectively.

Since there is a power imbalance, I would not put much stock in praise like that. People not wanting to leave, not calling in sick a lot, not going to HR to complain are probably some better indicators, with the caveat that every job is different and those are not universally applicable criteria.

The gained advantage in your theory lies in drivers being unaware that they’re being “scanned.” They are not doing a great job at hiding this then, are they. A motorcycle could evade this all together, a car might also be able. And the solar panel could better be used to power a camera and/or a license plate reader if they wanted to know who is passing.

I’m sure if we put enough lab coats on the task they can come up with a system that can ID a model by the reaction in the coil. But at what cost? A light switch is cheap. A light switch that can tell who is using it surely isn’t. And why go to this length and not just do the cameras? Ockham’s razor.

You’re answering your own question.

For an immediate fix try “00” in place of “+”

In North America it may be “011”

And either way, followed by the phone number omitting any leading zero on the area code.

and they’re also easier on the eyes

I found that’s the ultimate decision criterion for me. If you’re fine reading on your phone, i.e. you don’t lose sleep because of the extra light spectrum you beam into your face, just stick with the phone. It’s always there and you are already trained to keep it charged around the clock.

Reading ≠ reading; people have different concepts in their heads. There are people who need the haptics of an actual book. Some may think reading on your phone kind of cheapens the experience. It’s where the diarrhea stream of social media also comes through. Or work emails. I’ve talked with a colleague once and she insisted on a reader device because she didn’t want to give the impression she was on Instagram while reading at the airport. So you need to figure out these preferences as well.

I don’t disagree with your thought per se. I’m looking at your train reservation example and think that soon you won’t be talking with a real person but two ChatGPTs in a trenchcoat. So corpos aversion to privacy tools drives you to corpo’s desire to cut overhead. And I’m sure there are plenty of examples where the phone in option simply does not exist. Or where it cannot exist because they can’t find people to staff it or a model to fake it effectively.

I see a future where you sadly have to feed one of these agenetic models, when proven much safer to use than today, with the minimum of information necessary to get your train tickets or whatever, and then let it fight with the other side while you do something else.

Because an engineer tested this and found the correct water pressure to lift the sphere just a little bit on the water. And the craftsmanship needs to be spot on. No dents or big imperfections on the sphere, a perfect fit with equal water dispersal on the pedestal.

It can happen to cars too when rain water accumulates on the road. If they go fast enough the tires lose contact with the ground and the car will become unsteerable.

You are so awesome. Not a single fault in your conviction, your reasoning, or your personality. Who among us mere mortals could ever change your mind? The answer: none. Because we do not hold a candle to you or we simply do not care. Thank you for rage baiting with us today.

You can degoogle your phone but think this is a reasonable question to ask? On a three day old account? You don’t know the difference between a client app and Lemmy? This UI design doesn’t stand out since the heydays of third-party reddit apps. Occasionally, this community’s title appears to be proven wrong.

It’s only $1.

Personally, I don’t think there is a solid plan. Any plan. They are throwing very expensive spaghetti at the wall, mostly undercooked, and little sticks. They are the gamblers at the roulette table betting the house on double zero.

Proven usefulness is rare. Helping people with disabilities leading a more independent life is one of those. Are those the folks with deep pockets? I think film making will include this in one way or another. Does that justify building all these data centers and the costs attached? The only area where I would say to hell with the costs is if this can help in the fields of medicine or pharmacology but I don’t think they have proven usefulness there satisfactorily. So who will pay back the insane debt this pie in the sky is baked with? Answer: anybody, as far as the so-called-AI peddlers are concerned. But that wasn’t the plan. That’s probably already pivot plan T at this point. It’s not built for normies, but it’s marketed towards them, out of necessity at this point. To the detriment of overall ability to think critically and for the environment.

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I don’t think that’s either/or. You’ll inevitably get the folks determined to defend their houses, those who underestimate the danger, those who were surprised by fires, those who were incapable of moving to safety faster. All of the above. Once a fire started, they can kind of forecast where it will be going. But you don’t know where it will start exactly.

I think the only sensible thing is to encourage the elderly and those who might need help evacuating to do this up front. That is before the season starts or better still permanently. Move care facilities out of forested areas. Inform the public about the dangers. And hope for the best.

Edit: I just read that the victims are probably mostly foreign tourists. So I add as a recommendation: make information available in other languages.

47, like his erstwhile buddy Epstein, deals in favor/counterfavor. The sheiks who paid for the jet scratched his back in exchange for a US favor, possibly pushing the repeat Nobel peace laureate runner up into war on Iran. And if he and his own can get rich in the process, no, wait, that’s plan A. All the rest is just theater and headline generation. I suspect the ballroom is just helping direct tax funds into construction companies that are owned by his former fixer’s neighbor’s third cousin’s dog’s groomer’s husband. The NYT will enlighten us in time.

I think the US military will be able to inspect the plane and discover any hidden bugs. You don’t really need to track the plane; it’ll be on the news. As for the White House, even if a republican wins the next election, I’d fire the entire staff and send the military counterintelligence outfit through there with a fine toothed comb. A Democrat incumbent will probably sleep somewhere else for a while, pointing to “necessary” renovation work. I don’t think that that would be paranoid.

There is a lot of talk about bringing back the wooly mammoth that way but they are collecting funds and not delivering so far. I think some celebrity cloned their dog but IIRC they took samples while the OG puppy was still around. To be fair, I am not sure about that story.

Technically, it’s probably possible with a human but the science isn’t quite there yet. They like to test this first on other creatures before they graduate to bringing back Napoleon or whoever. And that is saying nothing about ethical and legal restrictions on top of that.