“Today is August 4, 2026”

-- Ray Bradbury, There Will Come Soft Rains

As an Open Source person I am apparently expected to keep doing things for free so I get invited to participate in EU policy events in Brussels, with not even an attempt to offer me compensation for travel, lodging or time.

So I decline.

🔌 Slate Auto's electric truck ships with no modem at all, and that's the privacy story.

The startup's $24,950 EV pickup has no built-in cellular connection, so the company physically can't track your location, remote-access the car, or pull data from it. A phone app handles settings and charging info, but it only works standing next to the truck, and Slate says app data is opt-in and never sold. Their words: "We collect data to make ownership better, not to turn the owner into the product."

The context matters. Mozilla's 2023 review called cars the worst product category it has ever reviewed for privacy, with 84% of brands sharing or selling driver data. The FTC banned GM from selling driver data in 2025 after OnStar collected location every 3 seconds. Meanwhile Ford published a patent application for in-car cameras that can read lips and facial expressions.

A policy can be rewritten next quarter, but hardware that doesn't exist can't be switched on. That's the durable part. One caveat from the EFF: the app data policy can still change as the company scales.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/slate-says-its-electric-pickup-will-never-track-you/
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

#privacy #EV #cars

As I told Monica Torres of HuffPost, "As [women] grow older and more mature in their careers, they lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that. Men will allow women into the workplace ... and will be supportive of women in the workplace to the extent that women are compliant, supportive of the men, and they don’t push back.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/age-discrimination-women-goog_l_6a6ba2e0e4b01948ae9a97fd

Pletkų nauda įmonėse: susiskambinom su vienu kitu kolega, persimetėm keletu žodžių su kitais, ir iš nuotrupų kam ką šefas sakė ir su kuo nekalbėjo, atrinkom kas eis atostogų, kas eis pakaitiniu ir kada veiksmas vyks pagal kalendorių.
Kitaip gyventume nežinioje, tamsūs ir nelaimingi.
O dabar žinioje, šviesūs ir nelaimingi 👍

and here we go: čia atsakymų nėra: matyt neklausėme?

No, Mastodon, I don't want that noncapitalized hashtag. I want to keep my capitalized letters so it's easier for ereaders to understand. When are you going to get that?

yeah Reagan will save us

Senai naudojama programėlė „Valiutų kursai“ ėmė ir atsinaujino. Bet tai reiškia pasikeitė dizainas. Vietoj aiškaus classic dabar nesąmoningas material.

Bet aš jau pakankamai senas, tai prieš atnaujinimą pasidariau seno apk kopiją 😉

Pati programėlė yra šauni, rekomenduoju:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joku.valiutukursai&hl=en-US

Ruginienė yra darbo liaudies priešas. Čia tiems, kas galvoja, kad soc bebrai yra „už darbininkus“:
„Minimali mėnesio alga (MMA) turėtų būti nustatoma dvišaliu susitarimu – darbdavių ir profesinių sąjungų kolektyvinėje sutartyje, sako socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministrė Inga Ruginienė.“
https://www.tv3.lt/naujiena/verslas/is-ruginienes-zinia-del-minimaliosios-algos-n1539520

#kvass test 4

🇱🇻

Valmiermuiža kvass

Very good 👍

Maltiness 👍
Sweetness 👍
Fizziness 👍

The best commercial kvass. Dark and malty, slightly bitter.

€1,70 for 50cl

Most "Smart" TVs use Automatic Content Recognition (#ACR), essentially taking snapshots every 10+ms of what you watch and hear, then forwarding & selling that data to companies for ads, etc.

I now feel it's only a matter of time before this "feature" finds its way to our ever "smarter" PC monitors.

#LG with the help of #Windows is already installing adware when the right Device ID is detected.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/microsoft-responds-to-lg-monitors-installing-mcafee-ads-on-windows/

☑️ To disable ACR on #TV:
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-disable-acr-tv/

#news #Tech #Technology

Lrt vatnikų lizdas rašo: „Pareigūnai: sprogimas Maskvos restorane – teroro aktas“.
Transliuoja rašistus tiesiogiai.
Lrt kurios šalies visuomenę atstovauja?

Kaži, ar ponad Bubbelis buvo kada nors užėjęs į Lidl? Ypač gėrimų skyrių?

🐦‍⬛

#motoG82 #motorola disabled 100 preinstalled apps list on #android13, gplay still works so you can update your apps or buy them if there no FOSS alternatives on #fdroid
https://www.nudgehost.com/f/6dw7sty4

upd:
to get list -
adb shell pm list packages

to get list of disabled -
adb shell pm list packages -d

to disable -
adb shell pm disable-user package.name

to disable annoying ones -
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 99 package.name

Holy shit did this dude sum up MAGAts absolutely beautifully. 😆
#USpol
#FucktRump
#FuckMAGA

Excellent Danish documentary on the practices of Ikea and the FSC in greenwashing the clearcutting of forests in Romania:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSV7RlgQtWc

Well worth watching. Especially as they got Ikea to respond and send someone with very strange answers to every question. Or the sudden appearance of oak seedlings in plastic tubes after someone has been asking inconvenient questions.

Also plain Mafia methods of intimidation against anyone investigating.

#Ikea #FSC #Forestry

PSA: uBlock Origin's EasyList has an AI Widgets option that doesn't get turned on by default, including if you had other EasyList items selected already before it was added.

Enabling it removes a number of various AI buttons, nags, prompts, etc. across various sites.

#AI #LLM #Firefox