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Manufacturers absolutely do make only-for-sale-in-California-variant cars. Motorcycles, also. They’re not as common as they used to be because emissions laws elsewhere are also starting to become as stringent as the CARB rules these days as well, so it’s becoming more cost effective to just make everything the “California version.”

Throughout the early 2000’s, the distinction was much more relevant. The last vehicle I had to work on that I know for a fact to be a “California version” was a 2014 KLR650. It has additional (unreliable…) emissions control equipment that is not present on otherwise identical bikes from the same model year that were not intended for sale in California.

Furthermore, California will refuse to plate any vehicle that does not specifically have a California compliant emissions certification if it has fewer than 7500 miles on it, i.e. if it is new. Those that don’t meet California’s standards are labeled “49 state” vehicles.

That, and the Internet has been teaching people how to create bombs since the dial-up days. I don’t predict that LLM’s will be either a benefit or a detriment to that particular strain of natural selection.

Neat.

I haven’t dug into the docs much. This really does return vectors? Because all of the OSM servers and services I have seen return tiles that are bitmaps, which for the type of data being displayed always seemed like a rather moronic way to do it.

You did, at least eventually. This could be argued to be a very early, not to mention analog, form of enshittification.

Like content recognition can’t recognize text, if that’s what it’s been configured to look for?

That would require us to deal with both Reagan and Nixon over and over again, though.

I guess their bullshit would be reverted when each loop resets. But still.

I’ve got my tricorne hat on and everything.

Right under the Tree Of Liberty.

I found this on the matter:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/column-mass-arbitration-target-valve-accuses-law-firm-litigation-funder-2023-12-08/

religious reasons

I’ve just remembered. We’re all Shakers.

Why yes, the rest of my deck is Millstones, Ancestral Recall, and Ball Lightnings. Why do you ask?

With a Nixie tube display like that, you’re usually looking at much earlier.

I found this on that model: https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/monroe620.html

That blue spell was probably Ancestral Recall, but I’m sure there were others of its ilk.

Anyway, while we’re at it I like to trot this one out every now and again for everyone to gawp at.

At least I can generally go into Microcenter and they’ll have what I need.

And TigerDirect also obtained the rights to the CompUSA name. That didn’t last long in the retail space either.

In my town, TigerDirect resurrected the actual physical defunct CompUSA location and reopened it, and then that location tanked again shortly thereafter.

Apropos of nothing, our long-abandoned Circuit City building is apparently finally being revamped into… An Aldi. For fuck’s sake.

And here we thought baraminology would never be useful for anything.

You should probably have some safeguard to prevent jokers from uploading 14.2 gigabytes of absolute nonsense into your system’s password field just to see if they can make it crash. But I think limiting it to, like, 8 kB ought to be quite lenient for anything with a modern internet connection.

As others have noticed, various hashing functions have an upperbound input length limit anyway. But I don’t see any pressing reason to limit your field length to exactly that, even if only not to reveal anything about what you might be feeding that value into behind the scenes.

Ooh, ooh. And for implementing any Javascript or jQuery or whatever that pops up some kind of smarmy message when you right click: Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Plus, that kind of thing is not going to prevent anyone from scraping images from anywhere if they have the capability to lift a finger to press F12.

Characters are characters. The system I just wrote will accept anything, because the first thing I do with it is hash it. If you want to make your password:

░▒▓█ ʥ۞ݔݯݲݸݴݺ '; drop table users; 🤣💩ʩ █▓▒░

Then go for it. More power to you for typing that out or, more likely, letting your password manager remember it. Make your password as entropic as you can manage, I don’t care how you arrive there.