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New comment by wpsimon3 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

wpsimon3 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:49:58 +0000

Can’t speak for the EU, but the companies I’ve worked for in the US explicitly state what they do not track in their privacy/use policy when giving out laptops/phones/tablets.

E.g. their anti-virus or firewall system may ignore URLs related to banking, medical, or political affiliation and chose not to log or decrypt that traffic

New comment by wpsimon3 in "MacBook Neo"

wpsimon3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:38:19 +0000

That's fair...actually totally slipped my mind that today this would be much more feasible to do on a single device.

New comment by wpsimon3 in "MacBook Neo"

wpsimon3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:31:18 +0000

I used to use both...laptop for quick typing, and then the iPad for hand-written notes or annotation.

The OneNote app sync is quick enough that I could type lecture notes on the laptop, and then quickly switch to the same document on my iPad to sketch out a diagram. It was overkill for sure, but very useful

New comment by wpsimon3 in "Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album"

wpsimon3 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:53:45 +0000

We kinda got something like this working for a relative. They have an "Aura" frame, and in their app you can set a watch folder/album. So we have a shared iCloud album set as the source and it automatically updates based on the images in that shared album.

New comment by wpsimon3 in "All of the vehicle license plates available in America"

wpsimon3 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:19:58 +0000

I always assumed they could be used by the dealer to "mark" a car that was delinquent on its lease/finance payments.

New comment by wpsimon3 in "All of the vehicle license plates available in America"

wpsimon3 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:13:59 +0000

But the real question is did they design a special license plate only available to those people?

New comment by wpsimon3 in "All of the vehicle license plates available in America"

wpsimon3 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:11:36 +0000

The white on black is so popular that I've heard people inquire about it at the DMV and get upset when the person working there tells them it doesn't exist!

The Reviver "RPlate" is strange to me. I can't imagine paying that much myself. BUT, I can see a huge market if they're marketed toward lessors. I have to imagine I'm not the first to think of this, and maybe this is already out in the wild...but if someone missed payments and the car was to be repo'd, it'd be hilarious if the Reviver plate changed to "REPO ME" or something.

New comment by wpsimon3 in "All of the vehicle license plates available in America"

wpsimon3 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:05:09 +0000

Tangential story time on how I "accidentally" got out of numerous parking tickets that would have prevented me from graduating university.

I went to school in a state that required both rear and front license plates. My car, however, was registered in my home state...one that only required a rear license plate. So, I affixed a vanity plate to the front of my Jeep.

Our University also had some requirement that you pay all parking tickets in order to be eligible to walk at graduation.

Well I found out pretty quickly that the parking authority mainly only checked the front license plate when writing parking tickets. And as it turns out, I was fortunate enough to receive three (3) parking tickets my senior year, ALL ticketed against the front vanity plate (two for exceeding time limits, one for parking in reserved parking that ironically my actual plate granted me access to). They never recorded my actual, rear license plate. Never recorded my VIN. Just the front vanity plate.

Some 10+ years later, to this day, if anyone in North Carolina has a legitimate Colorado license plate with the tag "VAIL" on it...well, my bad...hope you aren't trying to graduate!

EDIT: turns out, NC does NOT require front plates...so maybe the parking authority people were just cutting me slack. Or lazy. Probably lazy. Either way, I appreciate it!

New comment by wpsimon3 in "Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light"

wpsimon3 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:33:07 +0000

Unfortunately, yeah, seems that way...just like you said "they chose to do nothing" and luckily no one was in/approaching the intersection.

Look I'm all for knowing this information, that something like this can happen. But to be clear, in no way do I condone how it was done. This seems reckless for the sake of clicks.

New comment by wpsimon3 in "Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light"

wpsimon3 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:19:13 +0000

...yes? It's pretty clear from the video this was done as a "test." The article mentions the drivers experience working on FSD and they have a YouTube page dedicated to stuff like this linked in the article.

New comment by wpsimon3 in "Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light"

wpsimon3 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:51:52 +0000

I suspect the driver, based on their commentary in the video, was trying to see if this was a one-off fluke or something more consistent (they mention the car already blew through that light once before).

I would hope a driver using FSD or any other system like it would be alert/aware to intervene...but for this video, it looks like they were trying to see how the car would react.

New comment by wpsimon3 in "Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video of Full Self-Driving Running Red Light"

wpsimon3 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:46:54 +0000

True, but I suspect a human driver would take a moment to assess the situation instead of just continuing on confidently.