Thoughts on Technology

This interview has the best discussion I’ve come across about Rivian’s decision and rationale behind not implementing CarPlay in their vehicles. Read the post on my site for more thoughts on it.

I bought this when it was a Kickstarter, and have enjoyed it. If you have a geek in your life and you are looking for a gift idea, this would be a good one. (No affiliate link on my end—I just like it.)

Dye’s departure really has been celebrated by every Apple pundit I follow.

I agree with this entire article: I’m glad Dye—and others on the design team at Apple—are moving on, and hope that this allows a new generation to step up.

I’m literally sitting in a rental with CarPlay right now, and we’ve been using it nonstop this week while traveling for the holiday. CarPlay is great for daily life, but it’s a lifesaver when traveling.

Those statements are contradictory: [end-to-end encryption means that only the sender and recipient can view the plaintext messages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption). If a man-in-the-middle—including X itself—can read it, it’s not E2EE.

I don’t trust this report—and wouldn’t buy a Tesla in any case—but this would be quite the reversal. Maybe it would signal to others going down this path that they’re making a mistake.

It sounds like this wasn’t material to the theft, but man, how embarrassing.

AI spending (and AI drawing available venture capital investment) is more responsible for cutbacks than AI doing the work of those who lost their jobs. As anyone who reads this knows, I believe that AI can help developers be more productive; I don’t believe that it can do developers’ jobs.

It really sucks that people who have “recorded” shows on their “DVR” have lost access to those “recordings”. It’s just another reminder that these services just aren’t as good as ones that actually put a recording on a device you own, like a TiVo.