Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere - They were supposed to be the future. But prominent detractors—including Anthony Levandowski, who pioneered the industry—are getting louder as the losses get bigger.

keenedge422 · 2022-10-11T16:20:27+00:00

That sounds cool for the trucks but awful for people having to share the road with them. But maybe if they could use their own special lane... Oh wait, that's a train again.

SecretlySwedish · 2022-10-09T03:59:08+00:00

I just flew back from the UK to Australia a couple of weeks ago. I had put AirTags in my luggage as I’d heard Qantas had been doing an amazing job of losing peoples bags recently – especially from Heathrow. Well, they didn’t lose my bag, they just didn’t bother to put it on a plane. The AirTags ended up being a double-edged sword, as I could see my bag sat in Heathrow’s Terminal 3, for 2 weeks! But knowing where it was didn’t help Qantas find it any quicker, nor did they seem to care that I could track it. So, I was just fixated on looking at this bag that wasn’t moving, for a fortnight. Not to mention, the number Qantas gave me for their London based Baggage Services was no longer in service (provided to me in an email and listed on their website). When I flagged this with them, they basically shrugged.

Edit: For those asking, the bag did finally turn up, 2 days ago, and 2 weeks after I left the UK. 14 days it sat in the same spot in Terminal 3. Couldn’t believe it when the AirTag had moved a couple of metres after doing nothing for a couple of weeks.

Never-asked-for-this · 2022-10-08T10:46:40+00:00

This is because SpaceX geofenced Russian-held areas to prevent Russia from using Starlink. Ukraine captured the areas so quickly that SpaceX haven't updated it yet.

Shitty_Watercolour · 2022-10-04T14:58:22+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/b7Ga2cw.jpg

UrbanAbsconder · 2022-10-04T13:13:00+00:00

Apple smirks and lifts up a small item for all to see, "We present to you, the dongle USB-C adapter."

degolfer02 · 2022-09-30T14:51:38+00:00

Just block the dns sources in your router.

YSK if you own a Samsung smart TV that has ads, you can block them by adding ads.samsung.com to your block list on your internet router

Have a Samsung smart TVs with ads that were annoying as hell. Found out they can be blocked and tried it. It worked!

another link you can add to your block list is samsungads.com. Combined with the above link you should be entirely ad free.

LG: To disable LG ads that appear in "My Content" tab, LG store etc. blacklist/block the following domains on your router:

ngfts.lge.com

us.ad.lgsmartad.com

lgad.cjpowercast.com

edgesuite.net

us.info.lgsmartad.com

Roku: If you go into the privacy settings on your Roku TV you can turn these ads off, but it also turns off the more ways to watch feature. To turn this off go to your Settings and select Privacy. There you will find an option to “Use Information From TV Inputs.” Turning that off should disable these pop-up ads. (Not the best but its something)

Amazon Fire Stick: This requires you to download an app but it will work. Go to downloader and search for http://blokada.org via Downloader instead, scroll down, install the latest———That’s it!

Everyone’s router is going to be different when it comes to blocking/blacklisting domains (websites, etc) as far as i know there’s no “one size fits all scenario” BUT there’s hope.

Locate your router and flip it upside down (literally) on the bottom there should be a URL/website you use to login to your router and make changes (this is how you configure your WiFi names, create passwords, etc) within the same settings there should be a “security” tab or something along the lines (Netgear has the security tab under “Advanced”) from there you should see a block sites/block services tab. Click on the block sites tab (Netgear) and type in the domain (the ones I provided) and add them. That’s it. Let me see if i can locate the instructions for more popular routers and I’ll be back!

Open your router's configuration page. If the sites you want to block aren't encrypted, you can usually block them using your router's built-in tools. To access these, open the router's configuration page in a web browser on a computer that's connected to your network.

Common router addresses include:

Linksys - http://192.168.1.1

D-Link/Netgear - http://192.168.0.1

Belkin - http://192.168.2.1

ASUS - http://192.168.50.1/

AT&T U-verse - http://192.168.1.254

Comcast - http://10.0.0.1

If you have a router that’s not listed, do a quick google search and you will find your router login information

Enter your router's login information. If you never changed this information, enter in the default administrator account information. For many routers, this is usually "admin" or blank for the username, and "admin" or blank for the password. Check your router's documentation if you don't know the default login information. (THIS IS ALSO A GOOD TIME TO SECURE YOUR ROUTER WITH A STRONG USERNAME AND PASSWORD FYI!)
Find the "URL Filtering" or "Blocking" section. The location of this will vary depending on your router. You may find this in the "Firewall" menu, or in the "Security" section. (SEARCH AROUND, ITS THERE I PROMISE)
Add the URLs that you want to block. Enter each URL that you want to block on your connected devices. (THIS IS WHERE YOU ENTER THE ADDRESS I PROVIDED)
Click save and thats it!

Sony/Android TV ad removal

1- Go into Settings &amp;amp;gt; Apps 2- Find "Android TV Core Services" 3- Roll back all updates on it (will warn you that you're rolling back to initial version... skip over that... you don't want it.) 4- Return to the Home screen and remove the Sponsored "channel" by clicking far left on the row and using the minus (-) button. 5- Return to Apps in Settings and look for "Android TV Core Services" again. 6- Force Stop it and then DISABLE it.

Here are more Samsung URLs to add to the block list since everyone has a different model Tv

www.samsungotn.net

www.samsungrm.net

www.samsung.net/ads

JonLockPicking · 2022-09-30T15:07:16+00:00

He is too humble to say so, but the above commenter is one of the worlds best lockpickers… come over to r/lockpicking if you are interested in high security locks being picked… lockpicking lawyer shows a lot of us how insecure your average residential/commercial lock is (especially in North America) - but the likes of u/reinderr are doing the same on really advanced/high-security locks.

Koenv3 · 2022-09-26T12:41:50+00:00

This is stupid. If you just use the same AI on DSLR pictures it will still always be better due to the bigger sensor and infinitely better lenses.

Nethlem · 2022-09-21T21:42:34+00:00

It's because the pandemic messed with the energy markets, and thus electricity prices, in major ways.

The massive global lockdowns in 2020 lead to a massive drop in energy demand.

All that spare supply ended up depressing the prices to record lows in 2020 and the first half of 2021.

In 2020 the prices even went so low that big chunks of the supplier industry went bankrupt, as they started/ran their business on the expectation of rising or at least stable energy prices.

What all that cheap energy also did was make crypto a super popular investment vehicle, at least for a hot few months.

The thing is; The story doesn't end there. The pandemic made energy cheap for a short while, and killed parts of the supplier industry in the process. Now the pandemic is mostly over, economies everywhere are going back to "normal", but "normal" means wanting and needing increasingly more energy.

A somewhat sudden massive rise in demand that's now meeting a supplier side that massively shrunk in 2020 with barely any recovery since then, ergo; Energy is now getting way more expensive, further exaggerated by that whole Ukraine situation and certain economic blocks sanctioning one of the worlds largest energy suppliers over it; Russia

In a way, it's like a perfect storm of coincidences of the worst kind.

LightningRodofH8 · 2022-09-17T13:46:45+00:00

The price never changes so there’s no incentive to wait a few months.

I knew I was getting a new iPhone this cycle at least 6 months ago.

And to go from the 14 Plus to the Pro Max was only $300. That’s like what, a handful of Bananas?

Edit: Thanks u/SneakyGenious for the gold! Much appreciated.

Deruji · 2022-09-16T13:16:31+00:00

I waited 6 hours in the queue in London and when I got to the front it wasn’t a phone but a dead queen..

joaopeniche · 2022-09-14T12:50:09+00:00

phoenix1984 · 2022-09-09T02:29:43+00:00

You know what. You're right, and I was wrong. It was started by and heavily backed by Google, but it is no longer Google's Intelectual Property. Sorry for the mistake, and thank you for calling it out. I'm going to delete the original comment.

Frost-Wzrd · 2022-09-09T03:45:50+00:00

my guy lives in a Costco warehouse

MenaceTheIntellect · 2022-09-08T17:37:14+00:00

it’s honestly hilarious because nobody talks like they do in real life, so they’re just seething online for no reason LMFAOOOO (apple > whatever bot phone they’re typing on as we speak)

also thank you for the gold bro wtf 😭

MenaceTheIntellect · 2022-09-08T17:01:51+00:00

LMFAOOOOOOOO let them know 🗣

_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ · 2022-09-06T10:41:00+00:00

AirTags are the only ones that notify the victim if they’ve been unknowing tagged.

The gift to stalkers are all the other, cheaper, options from other companies.

Janky_Buggy · 2022-09-07T13:03:05+00:00

I’d like to see the PS5 redesigned on the outside.

sarduchi · 2022-09-06T15:29:56+00:00

"Looks like you're trying to commit a war crime!" - Clippy

ManyArtichoke · 2022-09-04T21:14:37+00:00

Apple has been using a very clever marketing technique that I'm sure we've all witnessed.

Apple intentionally gives its users a negative experience when interacting with non-iPhones (the dreaded green bubble). No other phone company does this.

Howevever, rather than blame Apple for that decision, iPhone users actually blame Android.

Apple has managed to recruit its own users to pressure their friends and family into switching to iPhones. Apparently among Gen Z the peer pressure has been especially strong.

Think about what's happened here. Apple is getting iPhone users to actually spend their time and energy convincing other people to use iPhones. It's pretty astonishing if you think about it.

aeroplane1979 · 2022-09-04T15:15:40+00:00

I was an Android guy from my Droid Eris (2009) through my Pixel 2 (2017-2019). I had many Androids, getting a new one every couple years, but once my Pixel 2 seemed to get outrageously buggy the minute it hit 2 years of age, I decided to try iOS with an iPhone 11. I'm probably less engaged with my phone, due to the lack of customization and such, but overall I find that iPhones just work better than Androids. I'm not saying I'd never go back, but I'd have to have a pretty compelling reason to do so.

Bitlovin · 2022-09-02T13:26:01+00:00

Yet another comment that shows how most people who throw the word monopoly around don’t know what it means.

Monopoly doesn’t mean popular, or dominant, it means exclusive control of a market to the extent that there are no other players to choose from.

A large market share is not a monopoly.

Nowadays people just use monopoly to mean “a company I don’t like is making money.”

TheLittleBelowski · 2022-09-02T15:21:15+00:00

Aww, that's so sweet

Horatius420 · 2022-09-02T13:49:21+00:00

Ehhhh maybe read up on the Wikipedia page of monopoly, there are multiple definition and the definition by law doesn't mean exclusive.

Here is what the FTC has to say on it https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/single-firm-conduct/monopolization-defined

Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area. Some courts have required much higher percentages. In addition, that leading position must be sustainable over time: if competitive forces or the entry of new firms could discipline the conduct of the leading firm, courts are unlikely to find that the firm has lasting market power.

Maybe look into it a bit more before you find the first definition of Google, law is a tad more complicated.

Wikipedia: In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with a decrease in social surplus.[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

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