@jakobpunkt if it came from the dealership, I will arrange for the practice to end

@jakobpunkt I removed the battery for now. I'll run some tests to see if it came from the previous owner, or from the dealership.

I suspect the battery is empty (they only last a year?) and the infotainment system was still paired to the original owner's phone so I have their mailing address to send it back.

Does everyone get a free airtag hidden like an Easter egg when buying a used car, or just me?

@mhoye did you get a ticket number from them?

“From 1952 to ‘66, 7,715 aircraft were lost and 8,547 people killed. Most of these accidents were blamed on pilots[..] [T]he Air Force did not take [alternative explanations] seriously until they began to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles: there were no pilots to blame for the frequent and devastating explosions of these liquid-propellant missiles. In having to confront factors other than pilot error, the Air Force began to treat safety as a system problem”

via https://www.rethinkingpower.info/how-interpretive-labor-straddles-the-gap-between-rules-and-reality/

@raganwald I noticed! I used to teach a class on what it's actually for, lemme know if you have questions!

@raganwald @c_dan4th that was an 815km flight, very impressive! The pilot posted some photos as well: https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=9958958&f_map=

@owen do it with a throwaway email address because complaints are public records?

@mhoye instead of a client, I'd recommend a cron job that watches your Flickr rss feed for a specific hashtag and then posts to Mastodon as a bot.

I could look up the bot code I used for @sosaglidingbot if you like

Very important kitty business :blobcatbusiness:

Business cat has important kitty business to attend to (sleeping 20 hours a day) :neocat_flop__w_:

As always, this was me while en-route.

To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.

Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

#ai

@raganwald that pilot also killed his own commander, who knew he was a menace but wasn't allowed to ground him, so he took the right seat himself

True humanitarian disaster is unrolling in #Russia as the authorities are switching off mobile Internet in places even very distant from the front line to stop Ukrainian UAVs. It has the unintended consequence that without mobile Internet you can’t buy vodka.

Since 2019 Russia introduced very strict regulations, according to which each sale of alcohol is registered in real-time (!) in an on-line system run by tax administration. This regulation is intended to enforce time restrictions on alcohol sales, so you can’t buy it after 23:00 and before 08:00, plus many more - for example on some holidays, in some locations etc.

If Internet doesn’t work, shops can’t register sales so they can’t legally sell alcohol. Risking huge fines and losing license, they won’t even offer “delayed registration” and widespread snitchery makes it really difficult to bypass these regulations.

On Tuesday, June 17th we're watching Jolt (2021, 1:31)!

The zoom and download links are now posted at http://cinema.tion.ca for you to join in.

Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

The greatest of the thanks, though, is owed to @jakobpunkt for reviews and feedback!

Also tagging @gvwilson for additional credit

Tagging @johannab for credit

In March of 2025, an unknown number of people in Ontario were sent letters with the name, address, bank account number, and medical diagnosis, of a complete stranger… printed on the back of their own letter. What were supposed to be single-sided letters were unintentionally printed double-sided.

I blogged about how that can happen, and how it can be prevented: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ontario-ministry-health-privacy-breach-pr25-00020-rob-russell--zdruc/

#onpoli #privacy #incident