Is it not safe to expose externally with ssl yet?

So how long till the Supremes rule that CBP is not only allowed to search your phone but also to perform colonoscopies at checkpoints 100 miles inland and sell the resulting videos to extremely wealthy perverts?

Beyond any issues with the owner of the company, these cars have multiple dangerous issues.

You cannot treat a company that makes physical stuff that can endanger lives the same way you treat a software company that makes a leisure activity platform.

Iterative design for a purely software environment is way more forgiving than iterative design for physical hardware or even software that interacts with physical hardware. You can profoundly fuck up the backend for a website and take the whole thing down until you could roll back to last known good production, you won’t kill anyone, but you’ll make the line go down temporarily.

If you profoundly fuck up an iteration on an embedded vehicle system and don’t catch it because you don’t respect safety regulation or existing engineering norms you can and will kill people.

Analogue doesn’t have firmware that can reject a device based on id.

So you can reverse engineer a replacement part if you absolutely have to.

That’s crazy. You can’t do six. It’s seven! SEVEN MINUTE ABS!

It’s a surprisingly good comparison especially when you look at the reactions: frame breaking vs data poisoning.

The problem isn’t progress, the problem is that some of us disagree with the Idea that what’s being touted is actual progress. The things llms are actually good at they’ve being doing for years (language translations) the rest of it is so inexact it can’t be trusted.

I can’t trust any llm generated code because it lies about what it’s doing, so I need to verify everything it generates anyway in which case it’s easier to write it myself. I keep trying it and it looks impressive until it ends up at a way worse version of something I could have already written.

I assume that it’s the same way with everything I’m not an expert in. In which case it’s worse than useless to me, I can’t trust anything it says.

The only thing I can use it for is to tell me things I already know and that basically makes it a toy or a game.

That’s not even getting into the security implications of giving shitty software access to all your sensitive data etc.

Welcome to late stage capitalism where the game’s made up and the points don’t matter.

Privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

I’ve tried to use “AI” to help me with minor programming tasks, or to start basic projects, it’s really bad. As in, it takes me more effort to fix the garbage it outputs than it would have to write it from scratch. In addition to that, it writes things badly in non-obvious ways. Junior engineers make similar mistakes to each other, because they’re working logically. “AI” makes weird mistakes because it’s not working in the same way a human mind does.

I’ve just rejected firmware updates and will continue to do so as long as possible. If it gets to where I can’t do that anymore for some reason I might leverage my professional expertise into remedying the situation more permanently.

They’re getting worse too. Retroactively blocking third party toner cartridges.

I’m working on moving to local control as much as possible for my smart home stuff. Switched to zwave for my thermostat from nest, excellent move, I don’t lose connection (and automations) randomly anymore.

Also ripping all my optical media for jellyfin to avoid relying on these assholes deleting stuff from their streaming catalogs for tax breaks.

It’s not just google, it’s all of these companies.

Google is not an endpoint if you wanna be a money-laden tech bro. To get real cash you gotta create a startup and grift some money out of VCs. To do that, it helps if you “innovated something totally new” at someplace with name recognition like Google.

Everything except search and ads are simply practice grifts before the real grift. You cannot rely on any Google product to last for any length of time, even properties Google purchases will lose reliability as they fall into disrepair and neglect, see Nest.

I used to love Google everything, I was on the wave beta. I was one of the first with a cr-48. It is sad for those of us that want to contribute to something big, cool, and impactful, watch for fuschia to implode next, I think it already started when they “had” to layoff “over hires.”

One or two person teams don’t put a man on the moon. It takes a lot of really smart people working on very small specific things together to make world changing stuff happen, the culture of Big Tech is not conducive to “real” work anymore. It’s big grifts run by little grifters.

Zwave is great too, but still no video. Wired is the answer.

Didn’t they accidentally send supposedly private video to the wrong users recently?

Who could have predicted bootloader drm wouldn’t go well?

Interconnected hardware and software systems do affect each other. It’s not magic, it’s physics.

And yes, your graphics card spewing garbage onto the pci bus can affect the rest of your system.

It actually does work like that.

Dollars to donuts their infotainment system shares a CAN bus with nodes that affect control systems. If they can’t handle the easy stuff, what the hell else are they fucking up?

It’s not about the infotainment system, it’s about the culture that leads to this problem.

This company will not end because of this issue. Boeing is still kicking and you can actually count the number of people they’ve killed with shitty software/system integration process.

I’ve spent my career working in embedded systems and embedded test and verification. This issue is not the first or only issue to get by. Maybe they take this like the red hot poker it is and fix their problems, maybe not. I’m not gonna gamble on their products though.

Anyone who builds software that runs on actual hardware should know that you NEVER deploy builds that haven’t been fully exercised on actual hardware.

This tells me that their software QC process is non-existent at best and actually malignant at worst.

If their software is supposed to be their defining feature this is the equivalent of McDonald’s “accidentally” shipping frozen discs of literal shit instead of burger patties to franchises who then serve them to customers without question.

If their company dies because of this (it fucking should imo) they 100% deserve it for the countless unknown dangers they’ve exposed their customers to. It’s not this particular thing, bricking the infotainment system, it’s the demonstration that they have no or bad process.

Maybe that’s a good thing?

The only caution I’d add about doing it as a hobby too is that it’s super easy to burn yourself out. I think that’s why so many of us get into woodworking and gardening lol

“if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room”