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  • bstix@feddit.dktomemes@lemmy.worldElder scrolls
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    10 hours ago

    The issue with 1988 is that it isn’t intuitive what the background color is, and thus if the bar is up or down.

    The middle years are obvious because of the 3d effect. The last one is obvious because the background is the same for both the arrows and the bar.




  • A luxury resort is the perfect cover for a lot of criminal activity.

    It’s gated off, so nobody from outside can see what’s going on. It’s basically an entire city, so they use all kinds of services and nobody asks why they need weird pool cleaning chemicals or expensive art which may or may not even exist. Clean money comes flowing in from guests who prepaid the entire stay, and nobody can audit what services were actually provided.

    They can also house all the illegal immigrant workers, so they don’t need to go outside in the real society. These workers can also be moved to other locations easily, when the “Illuminati” needs new blood in MarLago or Epstein island.

    So if you want to whitewash money to pay assassins and dispose of dead bodies while cooking meth and trafficking prostitutes: A luxury resort might just be the thing for you.




  • I think it’s an update from January. The first produced R5s doesn’t seem to have the camera on the A-pillar. It’s part of the media system which is used in other models as well.

    I can’t imagine that rentals or fleet cars will throw a warning every time someone new uses the car, so I want to bet that the warnings can be disabled somehow with the right access to the ECU.

    Renault uses their own ECU computers, which are quite expensive, but previous versions have been accessible using an OSB dongle with other software.

    I’m sure someone will eventually figure out how to get into the system once these cars get old enough to reach the used market.



  • bstix@feddit.dktoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDriver facing camera in cars
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    It’s an EU decision. It will be coming to many more cars as it will be mandatory from July 2026 for all newly registered vehicles. Renault 5 is simply one of the first new cars to feature it.

    According to the same law, it is illegal to use the system in a way that can identify the person, it may not save biometrics, and it must function in closed loop without sharing the data. It’s looking for things like head nodding or looking away from the road for more than 3.5 seconds while driving over 50 km/h. The camera is likely using infrared lighting as it should also work at night.

    Anyway. According to the manual, it can be disabled by double tapping a button on the steering wheel or through the touch screen menus, though it will default to being enabled everytime you start the car as per the legal requirement.

    If you cover it with tape, wear a mask or drive somebody else’s car in which you don’t have a profile saved, it will simply use the last previous profile and show an icon in the dashboard as a warning that the function isn’t working.




  • Ok, so Sunvox is also an instrument, and can be used for jamming. Sometimes the simplest sounds can inspire you to make more.

    It is a lot like trying to write the first words on an empty page. However once you get started, one sentence leads to the next.

    I like to draft a track by using a basic sound. Build up more stuff around it and eventually remove the draft. Like, the important part isn’t the sound design, it’s the structure and progress of the music, and just getting started on something that is more than a one pattern loop.


  • I try to consider what would happen if someone actually had the integrity to stand up to this shit.

    They’d get outed for holding back the budget. Media would be all over it framing them as being obstructionist.

    It’d require some balls and connection to the media to set the story straight.

    But it’d also require that they even know about what they’re voting for. These kinds of changes are deliberately being shoveled onto the cart after train has started running. You’d have to hire a team to read everything as soon as it written and demand that changes are published before voting, which it is sometimes isn’t, so this is something that also have to be addressed all the while the media is shooting at you.

    The best thing would be to allow a complete breakdown. Don’t pass anything. See what happens and who the people support when they’re hungry.