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New comment by epoxia in "Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests"

epoxia — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:00:45 +0000

I wonder if we're going to see a different spin on dieselgate in the future. Where a car company collects all the data from the NHTSA's test environment through the cars cameras/sensors and then includes that data into the training datasets for other cars/sfw updates. (I'm not implying that this happened, but I imagine it would at some point)

New comment by epoxia in "The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE"

epoxia — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:37:19 +0000

PO boxes have stricter address information requirements but there are other services that are more lax and can pass with a utility bill from a previous rental address. Thus, obfuscating the real address.

New comment by epoxia in "The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE"

epoxia — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:33:08 +0000

Not everybody owns a home, particularly the transient workers who would be concerned with ICE.

New comment by epoxia in "The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE"

epoxia — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:19:24 +0000

I would recommend reading Extreme Privacy by Michael Bazzell if these types of thing concern you. A relevant passage:

"First, I would never provide my home address on any application or W-9 form. This should only be your PO Box, UPS Box, or PMB address. Your employer likely does not care much about where you live, unless the job has residency requirements, such as a police officer. The IRS does not object to the use of a mail box address. They just want their money."

New comment by epoxia in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

epoxia — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:55:17 +0000

You can concoct these make believe hypotheticals, or you can look at countries where this is the reality (South Korea; high elderly poverty), and how there is no "elderly employee accident crisis". Whether it is right, moral, just etc. is the issue. I would just say to not wait until retirement to "live your life".

New comment by epoxia in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

epoxia — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:04:38 +0000

They took down the repository ~20 minutes after OP's comment. Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250423135719/https://github.co...

New comment by epoxia in "Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job"

epoxia — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:24:29 +0000

The "alleged inside job" is pretty clearly clickbait. It could still be a bad leak if that information is for privated accounts as well.

New comment by epoxia in "Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska"

epoxia — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:10:26 +0000

This is at best misleading, but basically disinformation. Here is a better explanation that is also specific to US/CAN trade under USMCA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZvDhayPHxs

New comment by epoxia in "Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think"

epoxia — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:09:34 +0000

I agree, but struggle to find fiction books to read. Most of my reading just consists of a historical period / event that I find interesting and read more about. From that I sometimes come across an "alternate history" type fiction book, but not much else. What do you do for discovery?

New comment by epoxia in "62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year"

epoxia — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:37:36 +0000

An interesting barometer of the tensions, is by looking at Canadian grocers website. All that I have seen, have "buy Canadian" and "produced in Canada" plastered onto most products. Even Walmart has a "made in Canada" tab.

New comment by epoxia in "Sam Altman Returns to Political Fund-Raising"

epoxia — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:04:22 +0000

Could you write your comment better than this? It's pretty obvious you are baiting someone into asking "why?". But your comment by itself adds nothing to the conversation.

New comment by epoxia in "Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP"

epoxia — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:08:55 +0000

Does anybody know how that would work? I know of the 3 ways of measuring GDP in econ basics (All income, All expenditure, All value add). I assume they only use one method and just pull out government? I assume it's expenditure method, but what would it mean for income method. Ignore incomes of gov employees? But then what about contractors. At what point do we start to view the number shifting as untrustworthy like China and Russia.

New comment by epoxia in "A Letter to the American People"

epoxia — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:10:59 +0000

Do a background check to make sure employee has financial security to avoid damaging leaks.

Make employee feel job insecurity.

???

Profit?

New comment by epoxia in "X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks with Ad Giant to Increase Spending"

epoxia — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:26:45 +0000

https://archive.is/qeCpp

New comment by epoxia in "You Can't Solve the Teacher Shortage by Pretending Anyone Can Do the Job"

epoxia — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:01:42 +0000

For reference, the $100k CAD figure in the article from 2014 when USD/CAD was closer to parity (around 1 USD for 1 to 1.1 CAD)

New comment by epoxia in "USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts"

epoxia — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:49:51 +0000

Norway and Singapore are petro-states. Alaska and Texas (to a much smaller degree) have wealth funds off of resources. Whether they're fiscally responsible with that is up to the state.

New comment by epoxia in "I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend. It Was So Worth It"

epoxia — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:47:17 +0000

I imagine that these apps are a valuable target for scammers to hack. People who are open to manipulation/affirmations from an AI are just a step away from victims of romance scams.

New comment by epoxia in "New Bill Aims to Block Pirate Sites in the U.S."

epoxia — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:56:30 +0000

Regarding the going through courts part of this. It seems like they would have free choice in choosing where to sue from. cough 5th circuit cough With little effort from large stake holders they would be able to turn that check into a rubber stamp.

As an aside, I wonder if it would be possible to force a randomization of the court that would hear a case (for cases that are not bound to a location).

New comment by epoxia in "POTUS Tracker – Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed Legislation"

epoxia — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:04:34 +0000

I use a cosmetic ublock origin filter (if you want to generalize it across all sites you need to change 'allowGenericProceduralFilters'). It would be something like ##span:has-text(/trump\b|elon\b|otheridiotwhosaysstupidthingsformediaattention/i).

New comment by epoxia in "Find Your Footing After Installing Arch Linux"

epoxia — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:00:47 +0000

I haven't touched Wayland because of a lack of window control tools, but don't know if the landscape has changed. Specifically to replace autokey, xdotool, wmctrl. I know kdotool exists for kde only which would cover most of xdotool, but I don't know about text expansion (autokey). Isn't most of Wayland's keybindings just remapping and not macros? I've written my own code to read dev files with elevated permissions so I think I'm fine with macros, but that might be too much work for other people. Would appreciate some Wayland users experience.