Not a tailscale user so I am a bit lost here: where does SSH fit into a Wireguard based VPN service?

As added candy to their daemon to get you into their ecosystem

The linked text is very light promo for a book.

However, it does remind me of the supposed push by China to sell its Orwellian surveillance systems to African nations propping up despots while feeding data back to China turning them into puppet states.

At first I thought the same thing and started to wonder if American Power Conversion was involved in areas I was unaware of. That acronym has got to be burnt into every tech adjacent persons brain who's been around long enough.

I have a friend who did the same recently. Worked at MS for 5 or 6 years, felt that it became a boring grind of nothing, then quit and took a job at a small company. The work isn't awesome, but it doesn't fill him with dread or anxiety and he feels like he is doing something productive.

> For example, when you agree to Mazdas TOS for the connected services app,

Is there a database of car models that foist this bullshit on you so I can activly avoid ever buying them?

mozilla used to: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-...

Yes, it's the database of car models.

It's basically all manufacturers aside from Tesla. Tesla does not sell user/driver data, and only provides info to police when they have a warrant.

"Tesla never sells or rents your data to third-party companies. This includes your personal data and driving history."

Most manufacturers either sell this to brokers which cops easily consume, or only require subpoenas instead of warrants.

> The cops already knew who they were looking for because a car parked at a casino for a couple hours is not suspicious and definitely not suspicious enough to follow.

The above is key to understanding that part, they KNEW who the smuggler was. They just needed a legal reason to pull them over.

Right but the travel pattern they used to determine that this person was a smuggler is "frequently drives to/from the rez", as if there's no legit reason to be doing that.

Right but you and I do not know the details of the investigation so there is no point speculating.

So far my AI usage has been a better search engine. I also don't have an account as I'm not paying by the token for what amounts to 1-900-GIV-CODE. The few times I need it the free version has been perfect. I don't use it generate code that I use, only give examples as I need them. This way there's no input or work to steal from me.

> I should get my home automation to just print _something_ every couple of weeks

Or a cron job if you run the HA server on something that looks like Unix.

Or an esp32 powered through the printers usb port? Mmmmmm

Same. Fought with a Brother color laser at work that kept eating drums, fusers, transfer belts and cartridges even though we never printed much color. I feel all the mechanics needed to drag a page through four toner stations is the achilles heel of those machines. Switched to a B&W Xerox and so far its been fine for the half year we have ran it.

> And although using otvdm does feel like cheating, I thought it was cool enough to include in this post.

Honestly, if NTVDM was part of Windows then it seems fair to use it, even 3rd party clones.

Yeah I was kind of on the fence with this, but since the last version of Windows that shipped with NTVDM was Windows 10 32bit, and Windows 11 doesn't have a 32bit edition, I decided that using 3rd party tools would be cheating

I was aiming for something you could double click on vanilla Windows and would just work out of the box