Ha. I missed this. I guess today I’m one of the lucky 10000

I can’t speak to specifics but I can give you some ideas.

So the obd port might have some basic info such as acceleration and turns since and/or at least torque/thrust readings that you can poll since insurance companies and others have devices that use them to track your driving (often paired with GPS which you don’t need)

So some arduino project that lets you plug in and poll that data and to establish a trigger for some audio could be fun.

http://arduinodev.com/connect-arduino-to-a-car-through-obd-ii-port/

Pair that with something else that lets you connect via auxiliary or Bluetooth so you can play it over the speaker and you might have something.

https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

This might be easier since a pi would be better suited to playback of audio and might be easier to get everything connected and to tinker with the Python to respond to certain readings

https://www.instructables.com/OBD-Pi/

There’s the New York Subway if you can stomach the smell

I guess the trouble is that you don’t want to read the volumes where the db files are because they’re not guaranteed to be consistent at a given point in time right?

Does the given engine support a backup method/utility that can be used to copy files to some volume on a set schedule?

Makes sense. And if it’s not relative to the content you just put decorative only right?

So…

Welcome to Firefox ([Logo for Firefox] marked as decorative)

vs

Our sponsors are [Logo for Microsoft] [Logo for Firefox] [Logo for Google]

It’s a neat option but the example proof of concept alt text “The Firefox logo”, as I understand it, it isn’t ideal for describing the image.

Maybe something like this?

The Firefox logo which consists of a Fox wrapped around a sphere

Mom. Thanks for doing this for me.

So yeah, you’re going to open the closet. No, the closet in the hallway. Yeah, that one.

So see the black box on the bottom… the one with wires, like spaghetti? Yes… that’s it.

All the way on the right side there’s two rectangles. I said rectangles…. like squares, yes…

The one all the way to right is a button. You push it in… no, it’s ok, I appreciate you doing this… yes, this would be funny if I were a doctor… no, it won’t break anything. So you just press it…

No no. It’s supposed to make that sound. That means it’s starting up. Yes, it can be loud… but that’s exactly what I needed. Lights? Yep, those are good.

Thanks Mom. That should do it… wait… did I just hear you hit the light switch in the closet?

Can you tell me if there’s lights on the black box… No? And it’s quiet. Yeah… I figured.

Ok Mom, so what I need you to do is turn on the light switch you just hit. Right, that one. Good.

Now… remember that button, yep, the square, I need you to press it again…

for(i=0;i<100;i++){
    console.log("Yep")
}

console.log("uh-huh")

eval('alert("Yep")')

That movie was bonkers… and then they made a game inspired by it? That’s…. Weird

Dude. Everybody needs to relax. Try this next time to get in the proper frame of mind.

Dalek Relaxation Tape

On the one hand that’s ridiculous but it’s nice to see that they didn’t throw the prior owner under the bus or give out their info.

I

Exactly. Back breaking work but this is so much better than any other manual alternatives.

Offloading the data to the cloud and making it accessible on other devices no longer signed into iCloud.

That is so much worse if true.

I wonder if they’re doing that to reduce the write cycles on the cells and since they’re “encrypting” the contents of the cells they figure the overall IO flag of the data being deleted is “good enough”.

So, in a perfect world, when you wipe the phone it’s basically just trashing the encryption key and so it’s useless data.

That’s all assuming that the encryption method/keys are foolproof which is always a bad bet.

And, this here makes me wonder how effective that is.

And a person claimed in a later post that “around 300” of their old pictures, some of which were “revealing,” appeared on an iPad they’d wiped per Apple’s guidelines and sold to a friend.

That’s a huge issue. Not just for photos but also files for sensitive data, secrets, etc. this, if true, is a massive issue overall since it even happening at all shouldn’t be possible.

Here’s the ELI5.

Imagine there’s a set of lockers in a school.

When a student leaves the school or changes lockers they remove the label on the locker but don’t empty it.

A TRIM, however, means that they not only remove the label from the locker by also clean out its contents.

Except this bypasses that I believe.

Keeping in mind that may mean that somebody like a cellular provider could do so. Since your local network in that context would be them.

Basically and then that only makes sense if the company’s going to foot the bill. Otherwise they could just make it very very clear that by using extended mode they’re reducing the lifetime of the battery and doing so at their own risk, yadda yadda.

If it’s, as the article suggests, to use what’s already there (larger capacity) then nah. That’s slimy just like BMW.