put it on PPV, I’d watch it

Yeah, if they could keep you out of it, that would be different. Wonder what happens if you don’t have internet.

We’re not talking about calling a tow service to help you out. We’re talking about calling a tow service for improperly or illegally parked cars.

They operate under a completely different set of rules, where they’re very concerned about chargebacks.

The ones in my metro area only take cash, You’re not even allowed to get your wallet out of the car.

They also have ATM’s in their lobbies and they charge $6 to make a withdrawal.

I love it, but it’s all fun and games until someone makes a self driving towtruck.

ohh no no. When Police call a tow truck, the tow company comes, takes the vehicle off to a lot and the owner has to come to collect it, generally with cash.

I’m not saying just do it maliciously, but if they’re asked to drive the car off, they should just block it and call a tow company.

Waymo pays for that toe and an outlandish amount of daily fees until they pick it up.

To them, it’s no big deal, a few hundred dollars.

but compound that with the car being out of service for a few days. hiring someone, or flying someone in to unlock it… easy peasy

win-win, tow companies fill their lots with waymo, people from waymo need to come get the car, pay hundreds in cash (because all those places are cash only) there’s no room in the lot for normal tows.

The passengers should get free rides for a year.

Super small compared to their income, but a GREAT reason to make all the users age validate.

sounds like they needed to call a tow truck…

And if I don’t want to use their smart features?

this seems like it might be a win

They’ll nail us to the wall for using lemmy before they nail us for making routers :)

if that ends up being the case, us linux nuts can start making and selling our own routers!

Side Hustle!

pay a fee for the courtesy of dodging the law

Not that i’d be suprised for it to be so, but conditional approval doesn’t automatically mean pay a fee and we don’t check.

Jesus that’s a lot of tokens.

Even if I was trying to do everything in my power to make burn tokens for real work I’d be hard fucking pressed to burn more than a couple thousand a month and that’s just being wasteful.

That would keep routers.ca from reselling Temu routers, net win.

I just hope that part of this doesn’t include mandatory backdoors for US agencies. This might be the start of the great firewall of the US

That’s kinda what’s going on. They’re pulling the FCC logo and making it illegal to resell without authorization. Hopefully, (but not assuredly) part of that authorization will be to make sure they comply with security.

Though I’m absolutely certain those ‘agreements’ cost a pretty penny and it’s lining someone’s pocket as well.

I hate to say anything that would defend any of this, but cheap Chinese routers are very prone to security issues. There’s a guy that has a youtube channel built arond taking apart and reverse engineering all kids of electroncis. He’s found some pretty bad stuff in generic routers, static logins, telemetry sent home, remote executable code in the admin portal while not logged in.

I agree there’s a lot more here they hope to gain, and that those gains are their primary objective, but there are some real issues from consumer network electronics.

TBF the more stupid ideas we give them, the less time they have to do really bad things

This is absolutely the case, and honestly, at least for now how it needs to be across the board.

Noone should be using AI to do things you’re incapable of doing (or undoing).

well pricing them out of reach of the population wasn’t working, so soon

not reading it either, but if they don’t say how, you just configure hostapd