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Yes exactly, "fuel follows air" (have worked on ECU firmware, and current ride is a 2003 with a wire between the pedal and throttle). As you said, a sensor (and computer) measures air -- volume, temperature, etc. -- estimates oxygen content, and (of course there are many other factors) then calculates how much fuel to squirt in.

I used to race cars, and I still have the old 2003 5-speed turbo, but the idea of an electric car without all the hoses and fluids and spinning pieces is attractive.

Hate to do a hit & run post but here we go...

Both AT&T and Apple transferred (albeit both temporarily) ownership of my phone # (AT&T) and my Apple ID (OK you know the company) from purely social engineering.

The AT&T one was basically like this post. A phone call with a convincing person. Eventually (through threat of legal action) I was able to listen to the recorded call where it happened, and it was simultaneously infuriating and fascinating.

The Apple one was more sophisticated. Too much to write here, but essentially to pull it off all the thief needed to do was have Apple call my number on file and have me answer it. I suspect I know the attack vector, but all I got from Apple was a very quick reversal, not an apology but an acknowledgment, and an explicit message that the details on their end wouldn't / couldn't be shared b/c of corporate policy (which honestly I think makes some sense if a novel vulnerability via social engineering has been found & exploited).

"The meatbag in the loop is the weak link" is said often, isn't always true... but sometimes it is indeed.

N.b.: I work in firmware & electronics security & cryptography.

(somewhat) unrelated to this kerfuffle, but I can say I've ordered thousands of dollars of stuff from Adafruit, and the quality of the electronics, the speed of shipping, the prices, and the customer service have been consistently outstanding.

Hope common sense prevails and Adafruit can go back to doing what it does best instead of dealing with this (IMO) distraction.

Pretty much the same story here. I'm on my 2nd Targus TXL617 (holds 17" laptop) in 18(?) years and I use it for everything every day. I've even used it for a short 3-day international business trip. I've used it at a dusty shooting range in the desert. It's been dropped, dragged, kicked, bitten (friend's dog) etc. and it still holds up.

I think Targus stopped making this model (maybe a trend towards smaller laptops), hopefully this one will keep working for a while before I need to find a good replacement.

Yes, absolutely this is fiction. It's a combination of his fantasy of how he'd like to "get back at the system" and also it's written to be clickbait ("poor helpless disabled guy gets back at the evil system trying to keep him down")

I'm sure he deals with a lot of crap every day and I'm sure there's a grain of truth in this, but it's pure make believe. But it probably made him feel better writing it and he probably gets some clicks and some followers, so in the end it was probably a reasonable tradeoff. But anyone who thinks in 2026 that an office (government, private corp, etc.) has a stupid 9600 baud paper-eating fax machine spitting out pages is not living in the real world.

Sarah Adams (ex-CIA, The Watchfloor podcast) literally discussed this possibility yesterday in a podcast titled "Your Phone Isn't Safe Right Now"

Most people here are tech savvy and understand VPNs, location sharing in apps, privacy agreeements, metadata in shared/posted JPEG files, etc but the episode I mentioned is like 20 minutes & provides maybe 100 different things you can do to reduce your footprint & increase your security while traveling abroad.

According to her, the biggest threats were fitness apps & dating apps (both of which are mentioned heavily here in the comments)

I noticed all the feeders seem to be similar / same. I'm in California, I feed 3 strays in an area where the average outdoor cat's lifespan is about 4.5 years (fires, traffic, hawks, coyotes, evil people).

Right now my process is very manual but it's a labor of love. All 3 cats only show up after dark. Ring stick up camera, bowls out (clean them every day), run out on a motion alert, etc. problem is I also have racoons, opposssums and skunks. (I'm not in L.A. highrises, I'm close to the ocean).

Where can such feeders now be purchased (US customer). Thank you!

Yes and I would swear that 1700 of those 2000 must be in Westwood (near UCLA in Los Angeles). I was stopped for a couple minutes waiting for a friend to come out and I counted 7 Waymos driving past me in 60 seconds. Truth be told they seemed to be driving better than the meatbags around them.

Everything you say is correct. There is one other significant cost that isn't mentioned here: liability insurance and legal counsel. If a little kid (sorry) loses an arm, or worse (don't ask me how I know) because of a ride, there is some serious $$$ involved. I may or may not know one of the most high-powered attorneys who ever represented (past tense) amusement park companies.

And no, this isn't going anywhere. I'm not going to contact anybody for an interview or write a blog. This is everyday life in the real world. So much stuff going on that no one ever thinks about...

This is (unfortunately) very, very true. I don't have firsthand experience, thankfully, but 2x secondhand experience, and I cannot think about those two cases without getting tears in my eyes. It's not common, but uncommon things happen all the time in large populations.

Yep, been there... made that mistake ONCE. Never again. Never.

>> x =- 5

I think you mean: x -= 5, which indeed is different.

I left a very good job 7 years in (digital design) to go out on my own. That was more than 2 decades ago. I could write paragraphs of the rookie mistakes (business-wise) and the financial ups & downs, but one thing has never changed...

The "temporal freedom" I have in my work (Gad Saad, if you don't know the name). I love being the master of my own day, of my own time. I don't sit in Zoom meetings or have daily standups. I can get up at 5am and work until 11am, and then go hike, play with my dog, get ice cream with my daughters, workout, etc. and then work again from 7pm until midnight or whatever.

Having (almost literally) full control over my daily schedule, week-in, week-out, year after year, is invaluable to me.

One disclosure: a few times a year I do very hard things where I have very little freedom, but they allow me to have lots of freedom the rest of the year.

Not to be a jerk, but I won't be elaborating. And I realize this life isn't for everyone!