‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test
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Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.
      • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Lipo and silicon carbon lithium batteries are a thing, you can also just wrap some wool around the base of the bike. I use one in 4 foot snow all the time

          • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 months ago

            oh, ive been able to do it just wearing a wool dress in -20c. built different i guess 🤷‍♀️

            my tip is to wear good waterproof (and thus windproof) boots and mittens (not gloves)

                • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I mean, call me crazy but don’t want to go skiing every morning before work, and then go skiing again in the afternoon after I’ve worked a full shift either. Also, never said I was against bikes in the winter, its just not super practical as a primary means of transportation for most people.

  • picnic@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    Woudnt it be a better idea just to offer standard EV kits to turn combustion engine cars into EVs?

    It’s unattainable for a low budget player to create and certify a car, and support it with parts for 20 years.

    Just create a kit to turn your 10 year old VW into an EV, and let VW support the parts outside of EV domain

  • Batmorous@lemmy.worldOP
    9·
    2 months ago

    Additional Comment:

    It seems like the trend of open source is expanding not just more broadly in regions: Europe adopting it. But also in natural expansions: open source hardware.

    Would be interesting if we can get a couple more opensource communities up and running and get more people interested in open source in various ways.

    opensourcevehicles/opensourcetransit seems like the next logical step. (I would like to help with this)

    Extra Side Notes:

    Another area that can be good is opensourcebusiness (Everything related to starting, running, etc a business to make it more accessible for people. Would help more open source companies be made as well overtime)

    opensourceanimation/anime (grow that part of the community to collaborate with for visual presentations of open source projects. Animated Tux would be amazing. An anime Krita mascot intro. We can get really creative), opensourcevalues (teaching values and ethics: hope, empathy, strength, we the people, gratitude, humble, etc) and opensourceuxui (grow that part of the community too to collaborate with. UX/UI community struggles with at times) to expand on main opensource software/hardware communities themselves

    Personal Note:

    2 more being opensourcehealth (To give a baseline of health resources people can make use of), open source housing, opensourcefood, open source water, and opensourcefinances (Baseline of finance resources). All that is more of a personal want but don’t know if there is much want in the open source community for those 5.

  • philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club
    8·
    2 months ago

    I love this idea

    Eventually, electric cars will become the norm. For an open source OS it just needs enough commercial interest. That’s largely what lets down alot of open source projects by the looks of it.

    I saw there is a new open source printer out there now. I’m excited about that and interested to see how it goes.

    Most of the public don’t see the value in open source or the barriers to entry are not worth it for them.

    I’m not a dev so I’m certainly not casting shade on all the wonderful projects out there, more just an observation that you usually need to learn abit about computers to be able to access these projects. I’ve enjoyed the learning experiences

  • duncan_bayne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    A browser. Just make a browser. A FUCKING BROWSER. Don’t bloviate on other topics. Don’t bake AI into it. Just do ONE THING well … make a FUCKING BROWSER.

    • mastod0n@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      I generally get your point and support it but want to point out that the Mozilla Foundation is a different entity than the Mozilla Corporation.

    • Batmorous@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      There can be a couple big things done. A browser being one of them. The open source community is always growing and not everybody has to work on a browser.

      Why you so mad about the prospect of open source vehicles?

  • EugeneNine@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    Growing up my grandfather always had those big thick JCWhitney catalogs. They had nearly ever replacement part of a jeep. So I always wanted to buy one of the fiberglass replacement tubs (body) and make an aluminum frame under it and a bunch of batteries and a couple motors.

    • B0rax@feddit.org
      3·
      2 months ago

      This is only the infotainment. This has nothing to do with the rest of the car

    • Willem@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Incorrect, it is actually the other way around. Tesla’s os is based on Linux and Lucid’s UX os is based on android

      Edit: Yes I know YouTube is bad.

      https://youtu.be/uCYtlijS9Xc?t=790

      He has had direct contact with Emad Dlala, who is currently the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Digital at Lucid. So I think that would be a quite accurate source to say the least. Also the full video in general is very interesting