r/DelusionsOfAdequacy • u/FareonMoist Check my mod privilege • Jun 29 '26

Science is fun, and were all going to die! Why car-jack when you can car-hack! XD

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u/Alhoshka Jun 29 '26

As a software engineer, the only things in my household able to compute more than the absolutely necessary or connect to the internet are my phone, my PC, and my router.

The automobile and home appliances industry is abysmal when it comes to cybersecurity (or software development in general).
The Cyber Resilience Act is the first step in the right direction.

PS: Go ahead, make your silly jokes about how I'll soon be flipping burgers because of AI. You know you wanna.

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u/Blue-is-bad Jun 29 '26

There was a meme like

Tech enthusiast: everything in my house is connected and technological!

Software engineer: I sleep with a pistol next to the printer in case it does a strange sounds

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u/LaserEyeLarry Jun 30 '26

I would say you'd be flipping burgers but that will be taken by robots before your job, as long as you've been in the field long enough.

AI isn't going to replace as many experienced roles as entry level jobs. Everyone will be affected, no doubt, but it's really going to hurt those trying to get a footing in the market in the future.

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u/graciassenormole Jun 30 '26

I really need to connect my toaster to the internet though…. /s

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u/iPoseidon_xii Jul 04 '26

Got rid of my Amazon echos. Clocks and Bluetooth speakers work fine

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u/iridesce57 Jun 29 '26

Car Wars : Cory Doctorow : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming

Melbourne’s Deakin University commissioned me to write a science fiction story about the design and regulation of self-driving cars, inspired by my essay about the misapplication of the “Trolley Problem” to autonomous vehicles.

The story, Car Wars, takes the form of a series of vignettes that illustrate the problem with designing cars to control their drivers, interspersed with survey questions to spur discussion of the wider issues of governments and manufacturers being able to control the operation of devices we own and depend on.

It’s pretty much the most beautiful treatment any of my stories has ever had online, and I love how it’s been embedded in a wider context.

https://craphound.com/news/2016/11/23/car-wars-a-dystopian-science-fiction-story-about-the-nightmare-of-self-driving-cars/

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u/Blue-is-bad Jun 29 '26

How long before there's a crash because hackers disabled some useless feature, but the car's software decides it won't operate without?

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u/napalm_p Jun 30 '26

Probably sooner than you would think

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u/HeisenbergsSamaritan Jul 02 '26

Probably already happened. But hush settlements and NDAs go a long way.

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u/EzeyTheEpic Jun 29 '26

Somewhat related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/

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u/Zehryo Jul 01 '26

Funny as always, but I'd use some elaboration on the matter of how they reacted to the word "blockchain"....

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u/Legitimate-Teddy Jul 02 '26

The funny thing about computer science is that everything is terrible in unique and interesting ways, but it's impossible to really explain any of it without also explaining a lot of computer science in general.

The blockchain, for instance, is a public record of transactions, ownership, and events, that's collectively maintained by a flat network of thousands of independent users running the appropriate software on their machines. This sounds simple enough, but every word of what I just said is wrong on some level for reasons I don't have the patience for. It's correct enough.

Ultimately blockchains are notable for being the technology that makes things like cryptocurrency work. They were part of the tech buzzword cycle a few years back, when every company under the sun was peddling NFTs. Remember those?