Yes, all that #techwank in your car is indeed spying on you - reporting on conversations within the car, it's location, your location, direction, acceleration/braking/speed, camera feeds, including inside the vehicle. Why yes, she might be crap off-road, but in that respect, I do love my twenty year old Mazda. She doesn't even have an AUX port, let alone a live feed for smart iris recognition straight to ASIO.

#spyware #telematics #NotesFromADyingCulture

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-09/car-brands-are-tracking-and-sharing-your-data-with-third-parties/104440742

Thanks, #Outside for messing around with bullshit #datascraping "update" to my GPS without telling me in advance it'll force me to reauthenticate everything and sync my account with your wankfest. Nah, just let me find out when I'm in the middle of a trail, with barely any mobile service (craptastic regional service as always, #Telstra - I appreciate the consistency) and I just want to get to my frikkin *offline* map to check I am not wandering half way to Brisbane.

#Techwank #crapitalism #enshittification #NotesFromADyingCulture

#ElonMusk and his #Neuralink #techwank definitely won't kill people horribly...

@howtogeek techbros reinventing the satellite phone. Who wants to tell them we've had #Inmarsat and #Iridium for decades? We don't need #techwank all over an essential bush service.

#SpaceX

Say it ain't so! Shocking revelation as techbros reinvention of train turns out to less super-mega-diswuptor awesometastic than originally believed. #Hyperloop #Bullshit #Techwank

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/hyperloop-one-to-shut-down-after-raising-millions-to-reinvent-transit

@suttonart @harleygold Tesla is single handedly responsible for the insane #BatteryBloat of EVs... Convincing people that unless theyve got a $85,000 100kw/h battery and 500km range that they can't possibly manage their 40km commute. End result is they are literally clawing a hundred tons of rocks out of the Earth to blast with acid, chemicals and heat to extract a single ton of exotic ores, to haul around in a battery that they will never use more than 20% of, only to get scrapped when it degrades. Absolutely stupid. I had a small iMiev city EV with a 16.5kwh battery that did absolutely everything I needed when living in town, and could hire a car or take the train when going long distance. Sadly that car is no longer made and the only real replacement is something like the Dacia Spring (small but super practical hatchback, 28kwh battery, no frills or BS #techwank, cheap and simple with a tiny, low power motor that means fewer rare minerals for its smaller magnets), which isn't available here and will soon be discontinued, despite being wildly popular in Europe :(

We need smaller, simpler vehicles (EVs or hybrids) built around #AppropiateTechnology as part of *reducing* our footprint, not just "transitioning" it from one horrific extractive practice to another. Also, vehicles that can easily have their design shared and assembled locally and easily repaired and rebuilt over and over again in the field. We want vehicles that can be kept running for decades and half a million KMs, with a set of hand tools and parts made in the field.

#degrowth #EVs #Tesla