The SMS are getting out of hand too, they send you a pre-recorded MP3 in addition to the picture too. At least they don't have enough information to know I don't have a letterbox.

> Related, there has been dozens of private data leaks in the last years in France

Yeah, more and more French people are getting annoyed at it, esp. when companies always say "no worries no payment info leaked". I don't care, I can change my credit card but I can't change my personal informations.

And literally last week it's Bloctel that leaked! It's the government managed list of phone numbers that don't want to receive telemearketing calls, where anyone can add its own number to be excluded. Great idea on paper, goldmine of a data leak.

The American way of handling units is always surprising.

And with the stupid habit of talking about lights in input watts (skimmed over in the article), we’d get what’s described in the article, albeit less dramatic: people would buy the bulb that lasts 50% longer and not notice the lower lumen output.

Consumers are not educated at all in lighting, especially when the industry does not help (re: watts, but also temperature, color rendering, flicker, etc)

On the other hand, it wouldn’t shock me if they had no site redundancy. It’s a free service, it’s not like there’s SLA agreements you paid for on signup.

Nowadays I’d expect them to do AI assisted coding, but the underlying skill set is sound. A shame such good projects delegate blogposts to Claude.

One thing that would be interesting is whether they explored running their automaton in multiple steps, sharing the state across XDP probe invocations, instead of offloading the work to a JS userspace app.

What is special is one time it was a one way lane next to the tram with a concrete stub down. I wouldn't be surprised if the anti-collision kicked in and applied lane assist even with the blinker.

At any rate, the principle of least surprise still applies: heavy machinery must not jerk unexpectedly to the side. Never ever ever.

Any dangerous machine (like a car) must not do anything unexpected out of the driver's control. A lane assist that resists the wheel when trying to get out? Why not, but dangerous. A lane assist that slam you back in the lane? Criminal. (same with anti-collision braking that triggers too strong too early and surprises drivers behind you)

I'm definitely of the opinion that all those features reduce security. The alarm fatigue is real, because the car always finds something to beep at you. Heck, even your hands not being a perfect 10-2 o'clock on the wheel is reason enough on some cars. You quickly ignore the beeps because there are so many reasons for the car to beep it's hard to even understand why.

Still, it pains me to see that practices from the early keylogger era are still "good practices".

Banks are notorious for taking security as a strict cost/savings measure. I would not be surprised if they enforce weak passwords stored in cleartext on purpose to save on support agents for the people that forget/lose their password. Imagine the customer service reviews: "they were able to find my password back, 5/5". Probably enough savings to offset the cost of refunding people that got their account pwnd. Cost of doing business.

I think the worst I ever had was HSBC that asked me for fragments of my password, like characters 4, 6, 7, 11, and 12. Absolute bonkers of a security theatre.

They all are little snowflakes. Compatibility is hit-or-miss. They run hot. They eat more power. They're finnicky. Heck, they plain out lie about what they are (I've got some that pretend to be fibre with 3m of copper, sure).

So yeah, DAC it is for patch, fibre for anything more.