Yesterday The New York Times unveiled that General Motor's had accidentally enrolled millions of people into its 'OnStar Smart Driver+' program. If consumers chose to not enroll through the phone app – it would do it anyways.

Unenrolling requires consumers to contact OnStar…

I've read a bunch of technical books, but I have yet to find one that was more valuable than actually learning by doing.

If you want to learn how to use a database, just use it. Create a schema, insert some data, query it, find slow queries, search for solutions, and repeat.…

What is this Taco Bell - pretend something’s no charge then change it during checkout? Only barely noticed as it flashed by.

Another serverless horror story 😅

RIP

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Also, Phil Schiller:

“Is no one reviewing these apps?”

“Is no one minding the store?”

“This is insane!!!!!!!”

These people would be up in arms if Microsoft tried to charge a fee per install outside the Microsoft Store, or if Apple tried the same with Mac OS, yet for iOS, suddenly a different, logically inconsistent and anti-competitive mindset steps in.

Wait I was right

My holiday present to myself is open sourcing my sandboxing tool, Callander. It uses some over the top binary analysis to apply beastly (and accurate) seccomp profiles that block shellcode and other common attack behavior. The announcement post covers how: rpetrich.com/blog/posts/ann…

New: a marketing company claims it actually *is* listening to people through smartphone/smart TV microphones to hear what people are saying and target ads. From Cox Media, called Active Listening. According to material online and person pitched on product 404media.co/cmg-cox-media-…

BREAKING - The Apple vs. Corellium lawsuit is finally over, settled after four years of Apple persisting with its copyright complaints despite courts throwing them out.

Critics feared Apple's claims were 'dangerous' to security research on the iPhone.

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Legwork for an upcoming AnandTech review led me to an Amazon listing for a 2TB USB flash drive. 2K+ customers got conned in the past month alone. E-tailers need to curb the sale of obviously fake products like these.

I’m really sad that the new UI 🦊 GitLab forced everybody to is hot garbage and the removed the old UI. Maybe in the future UI people there will rotate out and the new people will care about functionality over “oooh pretty”

Straight up commercials in the middle of the previews at the beginning of movies now. Can we just burn down this timeline and start over from whenever this crap started?

I am often surprised by polling but this one scares the shit out of me.

1 out of 5 people 18-29 believe the holocaust is a myth. How did it get to be this way?

I just broke into my QSW-M3216R switch and got a usable interface. In case anybody else needs access I forked Marcan's repo off github and modified it to support this switch. QNAP changed access methods significantly. Code and instructions are available at github.com/sbingner/qsw-t…

Apparently Amazon is randomly deleting all side loaded content from Kindles now. That’s some BS, they have no right to be touching any of my data without permission. Kindle isn’t just an amazon display device, we actually load other books on it too…

Trung Phan Although this functionality is impressive, but it is exactly what made me go back, to buy a new Canon DSLR + a pretty decent lens.

Since Apple camera updates, I realized that's the only way to capture real moments, like those little details of my kids and my wife while they are…

The fall of Black Friday has been amazing to watch in real time.

We're petitioning the FTC to permanently protect our Right to Repair.