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Is credential stuffing considered a "data breach"? This seems like the blame is more on the users for reusing passwords than on the company, no?

Related: I would love to have this testing done, but only under the condition that I could get my results and then the data would be deleted immediately and entirely from their system.


Well, got skunked #BikeHerping  tonight. So far I have found all the reptiles well after dark, so I went out later tonight. Short ride, only 8 or 9 miles. It's plenty warm enough for them, being in the high 90s during the day and probably 80 outside right now. Maybe they're all at the bar?

#herps #Snakes #NoSnakesInSight


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WTAF is that cursed place?!😱


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This is like an earworm for the eyes, except the difference is that I can actually look away from this and turn it off 😂
Too much time with this could drive a person mad.


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And this is why we need well funded regulatory agencies. These snake oil sellers should've been required to have the product tested *before* being allowed to take it to market. The fine is some pale consolation to people whose kids ended up in the hospital with liver failure.


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I bring a large packet of freeze dried water on my desert hikes. Same thing. Just add water.


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Makes sense.


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Okay, thanks 😂
But...so...in their universe, the moon still revolves around the earth? Is the moon round? Is the sun round? I'm so confused.


There's a cool free app called Totality Big Kid Science for iOS that's good for planning where to be for good #eclipse viewing.


How do #FlatEarth people explain solar or lunar eclipses?

#eclipse


Looking at the eclipse map, the shadow goes right over Monument Valley which will be saturated with tourists, no doubt. Also goes over Chaco Canyon, which will likely also be a zoo. Shiprock could be an amazing photo op, but unless you have permission from tribal members, you'd have to stay on the road to the NW. The wackiest place will probably be Roswell, NM. I hadn't paid attention to the fact that Roswell will be near the center of totality.

I'm seriously tempted to go there just for the human zoo of alien watchers that will inevitably descend on the place.


Whose going to be #Eclipse watching in a week?

I had been planning to go back to the #ColoradoPlateau #CanyonCountry

In the last couple weeks I was scouting photo op sites, ideally where the sun would appear over the edge of a slot canyon, begin the eclipse and then un-eclipse as it goes over the opposite canyon wall. That would make a cool timelapse, right? But now I'm honestly wondering if I shouldn't go somewhere nice and...just watch it?


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I think you're totally right. I looked at my other photos of sidewinders. I was trying to keep far enough away and still get a photo while holding the phone and the light so I didn't take a super good look at it. It didn't immediately move like a sidewinder, so it didn't register as one. It was big for a sidewinder! All the others have seen have been dinky.


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Oh, I might have to change that. The tail isn't as dark as the blacktails. I hadn't noticed the horns last night because I was concentrating on holding my phone with one hand, the light with the other, and keeping out of a striking range. Usually, sidewinders are so distinct by the way they move, but this one was moving more like a "regular" snake.


By the way, I made a "snake stick" out of a $2 golf club from a thrift store. Saw the club off and put a flat wad of tape on the end to make it easy to scoop under snakes to move them off the road. I'm going to jam-in and epoxy a metal hook on the end when I get around to it.


Just finished Brave The Wild River, about two botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, who did the first complete botanizing of the Colorado River including Cataract, Glen and Grand Canyon on a boat trip in 1938, when very few people had ever completed the then-dangerous descent.

They were also the first *women* to run the river. At the time, their gender got all the attention, the press ignoring their important scientific work in just one example of the pervasive sexism they faced as scientists.

Author Melissa L. Sevigny does an excellent job of bringing the story of their epic lives together. It had me teary at the end.

I started the (audio)book on the drive to a 6-day Cataract Canyon raft trip last month. As mentioned in the book, two previously unnamed canyons, tributaries of the Colorado in Cataract Canyon, are now informally called "Jotter" and "Clover" canyons by river guides who hope the names will stick. They pointed them out as we floated by.

https://melissasevigny.com/books/brave-the-wild-river/


Found another little blacktail rattler tonight. Much bigger than the one last night, but still pretty small. It was off to the side of the road, so I didn't have to flick it off like the others last night.

So far, I have found all of these snakes annd the gecko after dark. So maybe I'm going out #BikeHerping too early? When I was doing this this spring, I would start at dusk and come back after dark but find plenty of snakes before dark as well.

#herps #snek #NoRunOverSnek #Rattlesnake #Reptiles

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😂  They will get bigger and more numerous each night, until one night I go out on my bike... and am never seen again.


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What does the caption say?


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I think he's more than happy that the libs are leaving. He'll be even more happy when the journalists all leave his little Nazi bar.


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When you control that much money, who cares if you lose some of it? Meanwhile, if you can buy a powerful global communication platform and twist it to to serve your ideological ends while still remaining a *billionaire*? Priceless.

That seems to be his point, not making money off of it.


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Um, it's mostly been built.

And, yeah, there is a term that even some in law enforcement I've spoken with use: Border Industrial Complex. They all know it's a big joke, but a very lucrative one for many.


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Back last winter when I was photographing the #ContainerWall in southern Arizona, most conversations about the future or the San Rafael Valley section of the border seemed pretty unanimous that Biden would try to build more wall there at some point. Or, if not Biden, whoever the next president is, R or D. They all want it.


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Thanks. Yeah, this place is just...weird. I'm spending today offloading and sorting all my cards from my good camera, so will post better pics later.


We need to start calling it Biden's Wall. Lay responsibility where it belongs. This will also piss off Trump and his supporters, who want to claim credit.


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Thing is, *they all know very, very well* that this stupid wall/fence does not "work", other than to drive migrants and asylum seekers into the hands of traffickers who control the easy-to-create access points. I spend much of the year near the border in AZ, doing humanitarian aid and the wall is a very sad joke. Trivial to bypass. THEY KNOW THIS, so the only explanation is a backroom compromise with some Rs or a performative attempt to woo the white center? FFS I have no idea at this point.


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No, it's just a somewhat predictable perverse incentive created by cutting off access to legal entry which then leaves limited chokepoints to undocumented entry that can easily be controlled by cartels.


As someone who spends a good portion of the year living a short distance from the southern border in Arizona and doing humanitarian aid work here, I promise you that walls and fences do not stop undocumented immigration. They do not even slow it down by very much.

What walls and fences do is force people into the hands of the cartels and help maintain the border industrial complex.

It's also really important to keep two things in mind when you read these numbers coming out of the Border Patrol: one is that many of these "apprehensions" are repeats. In other words, the same person was caught several times and therefore counted several times. The second is that many if not most of these people are asylum-seekers, crossing the border and turning themselves in. This is legal, other than not crossing at a port of entry.


Here is the department of homeland security document unilaterally waving all local state and federal environmental laws to build more ineffective, boondoggle, racist, destructive border fence.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-22176.pdf


At first I thought this was old news. When it comes to the southern border, the main difference between the parties and their policies is that one is loud and belligerent and the other is sneaky and gaslighty.

After protesters' experience successfully stopping the "shipping container wall" through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona last year, it's likely that any attempts by the Biden administration to build that wall will be met with direct action protests. Hopefully Texans will feel the same way about this gross violation.
#Border #BorderWall #FuckTheBorderWall

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/biden-administration-waives-laws-to-rush-border-wall-construction-through-texas-wildlife-refuge-2023-10-04/


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Yeah, much better than last night (nothing). I still wonder where all the big snakes are.


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What did I just watch?
*goes back out looking for rattlesnakes because they are way less freaky*


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Yeah, I was out river rafting and slot canyoneering around Moab a week ago and every time I got back to town I checked to see if they had come in yet. Got it first thing in the morning when they did. Other than a sore arm, no side effects.

So grateful.


Shorter #BikeHerping ride tonight, probably under 10 miles. Found a baby gopher snake when I was almost back to town, then a block from home found a baby Blacktail rattlesnake in the street and then on my gate post found this cute little #gecko

#herps #herping #SonoranDesert #Reptiles #Snake #Rattlesnake #snek #NoStepOnSnek

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Oh, that is a very good thing to know. I got the alert, but for part of the year I'm at a place where Wi-Fi calling is the only option. That area is highly prone earthquakes, floods and wildfires, so it's kind of significant. Seems like there should be some kind of workaround, no? (The workaround is to mandate that cellular providers build out infrastructure in rural areas, but, well...)


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I mean, I really hope this works better than the first vaccines in 2021 that have Bill Gates' microchip in them. I'm not sure what's worse, Covid or Win 95.


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Not to mention plane fares.


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This and CAN attacks are a perfect illustration of "blue team has to be perfect every time, red team only needs to find one mistake." Until car manufacturers become liable for the thefts, they have little incentive to find and fix the vulnerabilities they've created.  Being perfect is expensive.

Pro tip: drive an older car and put in a hidden fuel pump cut off switch. (I'm guessing that's probably too complicated in motorized computers.)

I recently crossed paths with an acquaintance in the parking lot who pointed to her new truck and excitedly told me how cool it was that she can control the entire thing with her phone... 😱🤦♂


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Grrrrr this grates on me. Many places in the Bay Area won't let you order or pay except by QR. I've walked out more than once. There are the usual data and security issues, but what a lot of people don't consider is that mandatory QR scanning discriminates against people who, for whatever reason, don't have smart phones or credit cards. My elderly parents couldn't eat at those places. Seriously fuck that.


Well, dang. 15 mile #BikeHerping ride tonight and not so much as a gecko. No snakes at all. I hope it isn't too cold for them already. This is the same road I was riding in May and always found somebody hanging out on the warm asphalt. 🦎🐍 #herps #herping


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This funky little wannabe art town where I spend the winters in the desert has everything I need within a five minute *walk*: two coffee shops, two restaurants, bar, library, gym, post office, two thrift stores, not to mention hanging out and watching whatever is happening on the plaza (usually just the javelinas grazing on the lawn, but whatever). Hardware stores and grocery store are a 10 minute bicycle ride on 25 mph streets.

This is what Joe Biden's fascism looks like! The horror.


Uncle Ralph was very tasty.

#WhyYouShouldHaveFriendsProofReadYourDatingProfile

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The P stands for privacy.


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I climbed Sahale and Forbidden decades ago. I love that place!


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Could be, yeah. I did see actual tadpoles in another one.


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I didn't get in.


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Lol I finally gave up trying to be literal. Like, how to describe something that is so completely surreal?


The last shot before leaving, earlier tonight. This place is soooo weird!

#Geology
#ThisIsYourGeology #ThisIsYourGeologyOnDrugs #RoadTrip #LandscapePhotography #Dirtbagger #ColoradoPlateau

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You're obviously an extremist.

/s

There are so, so many good reasons to de-car the world. Now we've got yet another one.


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White Pocket, Arizona. In the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.


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They are books!


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Thanks. Everything I'm posting here are unedited phone snaps. I'm out shooting with my 'spensive camera and high end lenses, so once I get back home, I'll put a little story and a gallery up on my website with even better pics.


There are dense clouds on the horizon, so I think the sun is done for today. But now I'm tempted to spend the night and see what the morning brings. I'm tired but, ya know, I'm already here and it's a 7 hour drive back 🤷♂


I was feeling tired and it seemed like the rest of the afternoon/evening would be dull and cloudy, so I packed up, intending to start heading back. I've been on the road sleeping in my truck for a while, low on food and out of clean socks and shirts. But I thought, well, maybe there will be one last sun break for some dramatic afternoon light, so I grabbed my camera a couple of lenses and a tripod and headed back out…

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Are you familiar with John McPhee's five part series called Annals of the Former World? Hiiiighly recommended! He really makes plate tectonics and the specific forces that shaped the continent accessible and easy to visualize, especially when you are on site and can see these places.


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Yes! That's it. Wikipedia has a great write up on them. They're pretty amazing and I can't believe I've never seen them or heard of them before.


Ok biology fedi, WTF are these? They look like a miniature horseshoe crabs. I have never seen them before! These are in an ephemeral pool in the slickrock in SE Utah, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, about 5,000 feet elevation. They are a couple inches long. From above I first thought they were tadpoles but I didn't see their tails wiggling as they swam so I went down for a closer look.

#arthropods #Invertebrates #WhatTheFuckIsThis

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Its origin is lithified sand dunes. There is a lot of that in the Colorado Plateau, because at one time this area was one of the biggest dune fields the Earth has ever known. But why it erodes in this pattern here, I don't know. I've been meaning to look it up. The lithified dunes are also where are you find the slot canyons.

It is interesting that the fracture pattern almost exactly resembles basalt columns and about the same size.


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Tooootally! 👁👁


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Following you for this post alone. My god how I have wanted to smash those things with a hammer.

Here's my question though: how stupid do you have to be, as an advertiser, to pay actual money to have your ad blasted at somebody's face like that. Has anyone, anyone ever, across all of recorded history across the universe, ever bought anything because of a gas pump ad?


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Ah, you must've seen a cached post from a thread that I have since deleted. But, yeah, next time that is a good trick.


A storm whipped up, so I've finally got some more dramatic skies. The wind is rocking my truck, but I'm nice and warm and tucked inside. Small chance of rain tonight, but I'm hoping it pours and fills up all the pools in the rock tomorrow. Just before dark tonight, I caught some shots of lightning bolts in the distance, over by Fredonia, AZ.

#DirtbagLife #RoadTrip #IWonderIfTheyDeliverPizzaOutHere #LivingTheLife #DirtBagPhotography


Before wandering around on the Brain of the #ColoradoPlateau this afternoon, I started with a morning hike to some more hoodoos in Wahweap Creek.

#LandscapePhotography #Geology #ThisIsYourGeologyOnDrugs #RoadTrip #Dirtbagger

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Sandstone.


Y'all. I have found the brain of the #ColoradoPlateau and I can conclusively state it is on LSD. Or maybe I am. This place is nuts!
#WhitePocket AZ
#RoadTrip #LandscapePhotography #Dirtbagger #DirtBaggingIt
#Geology
#ThisIsGeology #ThisIsGeologyOnDrugs

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I have had this experience a lot in southern Utah, where I am out in the middle of BFE and have cell coverage. I never have it like this anywhere in California and not all that often in Arizona. It seems to be a Utah thing.

Best guess is that the telco made a deal with some powerful senator to get big tax breaks or something in exchange for actually providing service.

I'm 11 miles down a dirt road, in a wide canyon, quite a ways from Page, AZ, the nearest town. Not complaining, mind you, but I wish it were like this everywhere.


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Also, "danger path" is my middle name. Maybe this is why I am always doing these things alone 🤷♂


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This is actually a little tame. Those warnings "may" happen or "could" happen. I want the sign that says "This road will fucking kill you. What are you even thinking? Turn back now, you fool."


A sign that I'm headed the right direction.

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100%
😂


I'm not sure if it's amusing or annoying, but the air is too damn clear! Normally the Southwest is famous for fabulous sunrises and sunsets, but with clear air and no clouds, the light stays super flat till a few minutes before sundown and then it just dies. Same with sunrise. I mean, it's nice weather for hiking but for #photography  it's kind of dull 🤷♂


Today's #CanyonCountry hike: toadstool rocks/hoodoos in the Rimrocks formation in the #Escalante area.
There are a bunch more on the other side of this ridge that I think I'm going to visit tomorrow. I love hoodoos! They are the funnest geology and are common on the #ColoradoPlateau
#Geology #Dirtbagger #DirtBaggingIt #RoadTrip

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That seems super lenient, so I'm guessing he must know a lot and now he has to tell it all.
*popcorn emoji*


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Wahweap Creek area. Going to look at some rock formations. Not doing any overnights.


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Nah. Heading over toward Paria tomorrow to find some toadstool rocks I saw in photos.


View southeast from tonight's camp spot, Muley Point, overlooking the Goosenecks of the San Juan River. Monument valley in the distance. I tend to wake up before dawn, so I'm looking forward to the sunrise across this wild landscape. I was hoping to get here for the sunset, but missed it by about 15 minutes.

#RoadTrip #CanyonCountry #Dirtbagger #DirtBaggerForever #PublicLands #BetterThanAFiveStarHotel

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Sure. But this study is so different than what virtually everyone is facing now that it tells us how it "works" within very constrained subset of people, not how it works *now* for you or me. That's why if I were posting it I would add context.

Obviously doctors and scientists might be just posting for their colleagues and are under no obligation to take time to explain it to the rest of us lay people, so 🤷♂


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True.
This study is probably very relevant for people infected early on and suffering from long Covid. I should probably quit being concerned about it whether something has relevance for contemporary risk assessment.


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Yes, like I said in a comment to someone else, that's exactly what I'm wondering. I'd love to know if there are studies that are immediately relevant to the situation most of us are in now. That study is highly relevant to a large population of people who were infected early on, for sure.

It might be that I'm just paying attention to all the wrong people, but I keep only seeing studies done on patients with a bunch of confounding factors that make it impossible for me to adequately assess risk today.


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Not to mention that they were infected with the ancestral strain, we're (likely) not vaxed and had pre-existing conditions! Every one of these is a massive reason not to generalize at all unless studies on people infected with the current strain, with no pre-existings, who've been either vaxed or had a prior infection corroborate these findings. Right?

I'm going to start pointing these things out because of personal frustrations with trying to understand my actual risk, today, and what, if any, precautions I and others should be taking.


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Context here is very important. These were all older people (n=8) with pre-existing conditions, infected with the ancestral strain and mostly before vaccines were available (<May 2021). Some context for lay people and the extent to which these findings can or can't be generalized to our current situation would be helpful.

"The mean age was 69.6 years (median, 71; 59–84), and 75% of patients were male (6/8). Patients had coronary artery disease (8/8); three or more cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension (8/8), overweight or obesity (7/8), hyperlipidemia (7/8), type 2 diabetes (6/8) and chronic kidney disease (4/8); and some had a history of either myocardial infarction (1/8) or ischemic stroke (1/8)"


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Call in sick and take a road trip 😆


Yesterday in a grocery store in Moab, some young guy who looked like a surfer bum or climber bum, carrying a skateboard in one hand and a pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream in the other, hit me and other shoppers up for "50 cents" so he could buy some ice cream. I gave him five bucks and said "good to see someone keeping the dirt bag tradition alive."


A few miles down from Bears Ears Pass and I have a tiny sliver of cell coverage. I found a beautiful camp in the piñon-juniper forest overlooking a vast panorama toward Monument Valley. The air is perfectly still and quiet. Had a simple dinner and a beer. I don't know or care what I am going to do tomorrow but it will be something awesome.

After weeks of river rafting, canyoneering, hiking and rock art exploring, I have a ton of pictures, but not enough bandwidth post any of them.

Going to be writing a whole bunch of short blog posts on my site and linking them here.

#LivingMyBestLife #BearsEars #Dirtbagger #DirtbagLife #DirtbaggersForever
#FuckItIAmGoingFeral


#Geology question!
This is a sandstone slab near Moab Utah in one of the formations that I believe is lithified sand dunes. It is full of embedded, angular agates. How did they get there? Why are there no other types of rock mixed in with the sandstone?
#rocks

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I ran into an acquaintance a few days ago. She pointed to her new SpyMobile and excitedly told me she could completely control it with her phone. I realize in retrospect that I was supposed to say "wow, cool, congratulations on your new car. I'm glad you're happy with it." Instead, in my typical fashion, I gave her the Edvard Munch scream face and mentioned what a privacy nightmare that thing was, thinking all the time about how the row of cameras around the outside of it was probably watching us and listening to us.

She didn't mind. She thought it was so cool. 🤷♂
The 2014 vehicle I now drive will probably be the last one I ever own until we are allowed to disable the spy features on new cars or some hackers can teach us how to do it illegally.


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When I was looking at getting a Toyota Tacoma, I was looking at years 2014 to 2018 or so ( not the newer ones). They send data via a 4G Verizon cellular connection. The module is called the telematic transceiver and it lives under the dash. If you look on the forums, you can find instructions on removing it. But you can also easily disable it by removing the specific fuse. The problem is, that this also disables a potentially useful safety feature whereby it calls 911 automatically in a rollover situation.

We need laws outright banning data collection by car manufacturers. At bare minimum, we need laws requiring auto manufactures to provide a means to hard disable (i.e. mechanical switches, not software) data collection without also disabling safety features.

I doubt there is a politician in this country with the moxie to stand up to the car companies like this. So, at least we need some hackers to come up with pirate methods.


Like, I understand what they are trying to say, but this is why #CopyEditingMatters


No thanks. I don't need to get messed up.

Sincerely, another #WellAdjustedAtheist

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I'm old enough to remember the pre internet era when we actually did this and it was... perfectly normal?


Mikal with a k

Interested in All Of The Things, which is probably why I follow you.

Things I do: #landscape and #protest #photography, #adventure sports, #paragliding, #stormchasing, #border/#HumanRights #activism.

Things I watch from the sidelines: science, security/privacy, online sociality and general internet theorizing. My camera shoots fascists. Photos my own unless noted.

You can write to me at my website or @ me for Signal.


I mentioned it before, but when I recently got on to Instagram and started watching suggested "reels", something I had never done, it quickly went from rad skiing and avalanches to general disasters and then to 30%+ snuff films where people obviously die. Virtually all of them are devoid of context, often with added background music or overlain text like "OMG!!" I watched 45 minutes of it, just to be sure it wasn't an oddball video here and there. The site is full of snuff flics.

Last night I told someone and then opened IG and sure enough, there it was within a few videos. Car crashes and explosions where people obviously die or get seriously maimed, rockslides onto people, falls... on and on.

Why do I want a company like that to snoop on me here? Why do I want to let my videos get interspersed with gratuitous snuff flics for clicks?

Maybe the "I told you so" pundits are right and everyone here will leave. Good fucking bye then, if that's what you want to support. Good. Fucking. Bye.