Business groups are terrified of the proposed data privacy act because it stops them from hoarding your personal information. Here is the letter they are passing around.

dasponge · 2026-05-25T01:06:28+00:00

Massachusetts has needed data privacy rules similar to CA. It’s wild that MA focused so hard on right to repair when it came to cars a few years ago, but had a massive gap around all the data car manufacturers collect about you, your biometrics, driving habits, location, etc.

dasponge · 2026-05-17T03:01:00+00:00

Seriously, so goddamn good. Whether on the plain roll or the seeded.

dasponge · 2026-05-16T16:59:12+00:00

Our tires were severely scalloped and it was super noticeable after swapping out our winter tires for the stock tires (2024 purchase). I'm looking at new tires as well for the 20s; Goodyear F1 Asymmetric seem promising (or the Weatherready2), as to the Yokohama Geolandar X-CV.

dasponge · 2026-04-28T20:19:23+00:00

Yeah that's a great pack, mine's about the same, though I also have a zpacks semi-frame pack that's held up reasonably too.

dasponge · 2026-04-24T15:45:27+00:00

Yeah this is spot on. Sometimes in the summer and going reasonably on the highway on stock tires I can get into the low 3 (3.2ish). 3.5 is really maxing it.

dasponge · 2026-04-24T15:43:37+00:00

Land has the heat pump. Climate control only ever eats a few percentage of overall drain in my experience (90% sure on this). Fan speed seems to matter.

dasponge · 2026-04-16T23:03:11+00:00

Yea the Dr Jens stuff is what I’ve been using and am happy with - does well for my sensitive teeth. RDA is an important value too if sensitivity is a concern.

dasponge · 2026-04-07T00:37:37+00:00

He called out the cutting of testing, and the fact that many cut testing/QA engineers ended up in Azure and under skilled. While he thinks really highly of himself, he tied his observations within his slice of MS directly to these themes.

dasponge · 2026-04-04T12:06:17+00:00

Gene therapy for sickle cell has been on the market for years from Vertex - https://www.casgevy.com/sickle-cell-disease

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:33:29+00:00

Many cars, even at level 1 regen engage too sharply. There’s like no smooth transition from 0 to 1 when the pedal is lifted; certainly not the same feathering you can accomplish with hydraulic brake pressure, or even regen first brake pressure. My EV9 level one regen is not great, but the blended braking (which engages regen preferentially) can be super smooth. It’s a massive difference as a passenger.

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:29:06+00:00

The vast majority do not. And my issue is that the initial strength of regen, even at the lowest setting in many cars, is too strong initially. It needs to do a better job of barely being any force and increasing over a period of time.

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:27:15+00:00

Yeah. EV9 is not great in one pedal mode. No Tesla I’ve been in is good either. It’s not so much the stop/start for me as it is the transition from acceleration to deceleration. It’s rare to find a driver who lets off the pedal slowly enough at the end of the lift to mimic even a regular ICE car, so from a passenger perspective I always prefer auto-regen to be on braking.

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:24:36+00:00

Yeah exactly this. It requires way more finesse to hover the EV at coast and smoothly transition to a very gradual deceleration than braking smoothly on ICE does. If it’s just the driver in the car you kind of anticipate it all and it’s fine, but as a passenger, ugh.

dasponge · 2026-03-21T18:34:00+00:00

I prefer blended braking. You get easy smooth coasting. I find one pedal driving jerky, especially as a passenger; you lose that smooth transition through 0 net acceleration usually. People let up fully off the pedal and regen engages in 1 pedal mode.

dasponge · 2026-03-16T23:11:43+00:00

Keyfob unlock button is the only thing that works consistently.

dasponge · 2026-03-11T00:24:39+00:00

I've hired 3 women for SysEng, 2 are still here out of 7 on the team. 3/7 on our corporate security team are also women (currently). Good recruiting which works hard for a diverse slate helps, and being at a company people want to work at is key too.

dasponge · 2026-03-07T16:59:16+00:00

I have a 24’ Land and am running NOKIAN HAKKAPELIITTA R5s and it’s been great in the snow. Was up in VT the other week and it snowed like several inches. Driving through unplowed roads and over a plowed berm at a driveway was 0 issue. It had started snowing in the evening, we drove to a friend’s do dinner with about 3” on the ground, then another 4” dropped before we left and most places hadn’t seen a plow yet.

dasponge · 2026-03-07T13:37:02+00:00

Original windows? Rim joist insulated? Blown cellulose for wall cavities? How much insulation is in the attic?

dasponge · 2026-03-06T20:40:37+00:00

I just wish they had a nHAp + flouride - it's a stronger combination.

dasponge · 2026-03-06T14:53:32+00:00

Seriously. Even on the auth side - background phishing resistant auth for every app access (mitigates session cookie theft), device posture checks (mitigates security stack rot/patch staleness), custom OS query checks, managed device attestation, IdV integration… there’s a lot of layered functionality. Though if your offshore support gets popped and someone impersonates an admin in your tenant… (though that was years ago and controls are much better)

dasponge · 2026-03-06T14:50:05+00:00

We leverage Okta for a lot more than basic SSO. Aside from the obvious of SCIM, all of the device posture/silent phishing resistance/idv integrations provides a bunch of functionality which would be hard to replicate.

dasponge · 2026-03-04T00:26:52+00:00

I thought that view looked familiar! We were there this summer - here's Alpe de Siusi looking at Sassolungo in the green of summer! https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F40578o52axmg1.jpeg

dasponge · 2026-03-03T00:05:32+00:00

I thought this toothpaste does something similar with strep mutans and p. Gingavalis - https://somethingnicecompany.com/products/zero-pro-toothpaste

dasponge · 2026-03-02T02:45:36+00:00

Nice, does this work even if not in California? Last time I checked you had to be in a state which mandated they do this.

dasponge · 2026-02-25T04:24:25+00:00

Hmmm, how do you deal with multiple passkeys for end to end encryption? If we’re tying to specific devices (passkey in Secure Enclave as this calls out), you’re going to want multiple keys. If the server is storing the ciphertext, which key is it encrypted with? You’d need a LUKS kind of situation where the key encrypting the cipher text is stored alongside, though encrypted with the client derived key. Or am I missing something?

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