Thoughts on Technology

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.

Yet another reason to not trust GM with their commitment to do anything other than attempt to extract subscription dollars from people who buy their vehicles. They don’t care about their owners’ experience, they just want the money.

It’s definitely in my head.

I’m using Claude Code on the Web, and it’s pretty neat so far. The option of having a few different sessions all working in parallel in the cloud, and being able to check in on their progress from mobile, is a nifty one. It’s worth checking out with the free credit until Nov. 18.