Notices by David Chartier (chartier@toot.cafe)

Fun idea for rethinking what we “know”

Sure, ship it

Whoa, back in may someone in Brazil used an iPhone 16 Pro Max to film a Volvo’s LiDAR sensor. It fried the phone’s camera sensor. Like, permanently.

I guess don’t film car LiDAR sensors y’all.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64781017/ex90-lidar-iphone-16-pro-max-sensor/

A legitimate alternative for age verification #Lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/34136796

Stop

using

#Substack

There are tons of great alternatives and it’s super easy to move your subscribers elsewhere
https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114939115888742842

If you need receipts on why to stop using #Substack: it deliberately hosts white supremacist and fascist content.

It’s been called out and interviewed about this problem multiple times. They just say dumb techbro crap like “the marketplace of ideas.”

Substack has a Nazi problem - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/

Substack won’t commit to removing Nazi content - TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/substack-nazi-content-policies-controversy/

Substack has plenty of great alternatives. Wired wrote about a few: https://www.wired.com/story/best-substack-alternatives/

Did a U.S. law change recently or something? All of a sudden these stations that can duplicate car key fobs have appeared at our Costco (in Chicago) and local grocery stores. I think they’re automated, like making house keys at Home Depot.

Interesting new #Mac utility that can tell the version and speed of your connected cables. #Apple
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/usb-connection-information/id6747853674?mt=12

I have gone around that big dumb sun 45 times and just now figured out such a silly simple solution for doing my laundry that I’m mad about it.

I’m sick of my t-shirts wearing out so fast. But I also hate doing my laundry so I never turn them inside out.

Now, JUST NOW, I figured out I can turn them inside out at the point where I take them off, then just toss them into the basket that way.

BAH

Change my mind

Reminder that, once investigators got past Elon’s tactics of hiding real driving and accident data, #Tesla cars were found to be the most dangerous and lethal cars on US roads.

But I’m sure the new taxis will be great.

https://fuelarc.com/cars/tesla-robotaxi-freaks-out-and-drives-into-oncoming-traffic-on-first-day/

“Evil, I think, is the Absence of Empathy”

Thinking about this quote from Gustav Gilbert, the psychologist who interviewed Nazi prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials after WWII

They came from all backgrounds, all walks of life

Gilbert concluded the one trait they all shared was a lack of empathy
https://dirkdeklein.net/2019/05/22/evil-i-think-is-the-absence-of-empathy/

So angry at the "just turn the iPad into a Mac" crowd right now

A curse on all your dumb stupid houses

#Apple

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/10/ipados-26-no-split-view-slide-over/

Anyone know if this is on a t-shirt, ideally from the original artist? Found it on #Lemmy 😄

Hey

remember grumpy cat

To clarify

#capitalism

"If you illegally download a book or movie, you are labeled a pirate, but if you illegally download millions of books and movies, you are labeled an #AI developer"

via: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShowerThoughtsRejects/comments/1kijvp1/if_you_illegally_download_a_book_or_movie_you_are/

It’s that easy

“Were you homeschooled by a pigeon?” #tarrifs

Meaningless hill I will still die on: You did not write a new blog today, you wrote a new *post* for your blog.

You do not drive your car on the car. You drive your car on the road.