Regardless of the context, 20 years for non-lethal assault is a ridiculous sentence (and utter waste of taxpayer money). Fix your penal codes, USA (or at least add it to the list of things that need fixing)

Always online cars are mandated by EU regulations, and for a very good reason: automated emergency calls including GPS coordinates in case of crashes.

Other nice benefits include regular map updates.

That said, there is a lot of garbage being attached to the online functionality nowadays. And the way data is collected and handled in the background it at least partially atrocious, so let’s attack that instead of the proverbial baby in the bathwater.

Also quick shoutout to lollipop Sanji.

Basically me every time I open a website on my work laptop, where I cannot add browser extensions because of IT policies.

I honestly cannot fathom why large companies don’t include at least simple adblockers in their browser configurations. I don’t even need to block youtube ads, the banners on stackoverflow are bass enough). Would probably save fairly significant amounts of bandwidth, too.