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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Just like modern cars… I wish there was some kind legislation that would limit phone-home telemetry to emergency service telecommunication frequencies, and be opt-in only. That way any OEM operating under commercial cellular frequencies would thus be unlicensed, and subject to FCC violations and import bans. Like what OnStar was originally pitched as; only auto dialing to 911, and 911 only, if you were unresponsive after airbags deployed. OEM couldn’t use the telecommunication frequencies for anything other than networking with emergency service endpoints on the same VLAN.

    Anything recorded by the vehicle would be required to stay on the vehicle due privacy regulations, like the black box recorder for warranted forensic investigations. OTA updates could also be distributed offline for users to download and flash via USB, like any motherboard bios, so transactions would be write only.







  • I would also guess the smaller range of hardware revisions is easier to keep track of when considering something as device specific as microphone frequency response curves or approximate intrinsic camera calibration values, thus simplifying the post-processing or data ingestion from an aggregate deployment of recording equipment.

    While Android devices are probably significantly cheaper, they’d vary quite a bit in terms of microphone, camera, and lens manufacturers, not to mention ADCs, gain to noise ratios and cheapest firmware, depending on what the OEM felt like swapping to for that minor product revision.

    Not sure how precise these researchers are trying to calibrate and rectify field measurements, but if they’re using internal phone sensors rather then external AV peripherals, then homogeneity across field computers would simply matters of data uniformity.







  • That’s just what I supposed the parent comment was referring to by missing an apparent joke as a kid.
    Thus my uncertain question mark. I suppose the OP could clarify their personal revelation.

    I agree in doubting that Gary had any intention for such an interpretation, simply depicting classic absurdity instead.

    However, anatomical and impossibilities aside, you can’t say that sexual slang is well known for it’s grounded realism.
    Eating or choking on pussy isn’t exactly an uncommon euphemism, especially those who love to boast about their face-sitting escapades.



  • Did anyone else growing up have a vinyl record player as a kid? My dad brought his out of storage one year because it had a number of old Christmas albums. So over the Christmas holiday, I’d rotate through the entire collection, yet some of the records we’re much shorter like singles, or much older in production precision, so they came in smaller diameters and took faster feed rates. When switching back from the smaller to the larger diameters, I did forget to turn down the rotary speed, and so we’d inevitably start listening to old Christmas carols and ballards as if they were being sung by the Chipmunks.