He will sue you!!

That would make sense. Especially being that a penny-farthing is all of the worst things of fixed gear… made more difficult and dangerous

I agree mostly but whats really funny about this episode is the meta around it.

They actually attacked a lot of things in the episode and every joke is actually pretty good

I like to think that the episode wasn’t for fans as much as it was for Trump and team

I think the pay off (whether in real life or in the show itself) will be amusing in the end

I don’t imagine stopping too fast on a penny-farthing is much of an issue.

They are brakeless so its all about pedal resistance… with no mechanical advantage

She is a tank though; her leg muscles are massive I bet she has great control and can get it stopped no problem at reasonable speeds

WD40 don’t lube shit!

Its good for getting seized things unstuck but you should always follow with a grease or oil after cleaning.

Getting into bicycling lead me down a rabbit hole of lubricants, anti-seeze compounds and grease… I can’t stop!

Tri-Flow is my go to in this house

Neocities is it’s own vibe all together.

There wasn’t much JS used on Geocities pages typically

That said, Neocities is the shit

If you are really good at what you do you could avoid a lot of the mess by driving a classic. (Scouring junkyards)

The real challenge though isn’t just that the parts will have tariffs; It seems like auto parts in general have taken a massive hit in quality

Tariffs are new.

They will push average prices even higher but the average new car price has been around 40k for a few years now.

It’s crazy to me. I just focus on my personal debts and pay off timelines and ignore my credit score these days.

Banks were willing to give me mortgages a couple of months ago that I in no way could afford based off my score (it’s actually good). None of this is grounded in reality; prior to 2020 those same fucks wouldn’t even pick up the phone for me.

… Try that shit in a small town?

Not the arbitrary made up numbers that some how go down every time I pay off a car loan!!!

I like cars, and even some luxury cars…

but it takes a special type of person to purchase a car that’s 2-3x as expensive as a basic commuter to own and costs 2x to operate.

Think about all the Hellcats you see (not luxury… but)… 70k and under 10mpg for a fuckin 2 door

And by GTA V The Grove was taken over by ballers :(

I know SD and HD are separate universes… but it would make sense that no matter what GSF gets pushed out

Likewise, it fits well as GTA storylines never really have a happy ending

My point is that this would wind up breaking things along racial, gender, religious lines inadvertently (at best).

That looks like a pretty good meal, nice job

I like to think of it as a lower case “t” when I see that it means “time to leave”

Yes, it’s going to be biased by design.

You are correct, I can’t think of a way that it wouldn’t also be discriminatory.

Thanks friend

Isn’t it great?!

I love innovation.

All that aside, how do they intend to prove that their per customer pricing is not biased?

Its actually amusing as I was listing out potential biases… I couldn’t actually see how it wouldn’t be.

I have been on the other side of the equation professionally speaking.

I think we mostly agree.

The auditors were certainly not malicious, they can simply only see what they can observe.

Appealing to authority without explaining the caveats is risky to do and disingenuous to people who need to take security very seriously right now.

A potential vector or matter of concern does not mean there is a compromise. Without evidence of a hack or compromise you just have the idea that something could happen.

The app model in general has meant that we have given up tremendous amounts of privacy and security in general for the sake of connivence.

If I were the developer of this app I would’ve approached things from the inception with the question of “How do I get people to trust me who absolutely should not trust me?”

That said, it is always easier to tear down than it is to build.

If I were an at risk individual I would likely opt to use the app myself assuming I could share general location instead of specific location. In areas like LA there is likely a lot of data flowing in that would not help a malicious actor if the location is not specific.

When you do business with companies in certain industries not only is your software audited but your entire development process, business processes and staff are audited.

It’s not unreasonable to question a closed source application for something like this as one version was audited, but what about the next?

How do we know their dev process hasn’t been compromised? Or the person building app wasn’t compromised? Or that the entire thing was not compromised from the start?

Likewise, an audit without full access to code isn’t useless, but hiding behavior from an audit and for a certain period of time would be straight forward. How do you know there is not a dormant command and control system in the app that will cause it to behave in a malicious manner after a set amount of time or after a specific push notification is received?

I am not saying this is present, just that Audits like this are only able to catch what they can observe and the existence of an audit does not mean to blindly trust something

Having the App be open source would be a big step towards providing the transparency needed to address these concerns users would not have to trust anyone and can confirm the builds on the app stores match what is on their Git.

I am not pointing this out to jump on the “Don’t use this app” bandwagon. I am pointing it out to say that there are reasons to be skeptical of these sorts of things in our current political climate.

Remember Sabu and LulzSec