For technical issues I’ve come to the conclusion that if there are no other people asking the same question, then I need to re-think my approach, because I’m probably doing something silly.

That’s even more infuriating than when you used Google to find a thread where someone asks the exact question you have, and there is only one response and it’s someone saying “use Google”.

I thought they did have a stop button. I recall a video James May made of a Waymo that had one. I could be wrong. But, the article doesn’t say anything about whether one was present and if the occupants tried it.

Edit: I just got home and rewatched the video. No, there’s no emergency stop button. There is a “pull over” button on the passenger touchscreen console and the app, but that’s about it. A bit concerning!

Public institutions would be better using something like Mastodon for announcements. They’d have the option to retain full control over their instance and citizens wouldn’t need an account to access it.

Depressingly, I suspect an executive would consider me far less productive because I only did 5 lines of change and the junior dev would have done thousands…

Probably the very same execs that use phrases like “Do more with less!” and then completely miss the point when true efficiency stares them in the face.

Any time they get asked questions like “Are my messages visible only to me?”, they answer with a very canned response like “Your messages are encrypted from end-to-end and can’t be read by anyone while in transit” … or words to that effect. I have never seen them state that no analytics or telemetry is happening on the unencrypted side by the client. Which has always bothered me.

Back at the start WhatsApp wasn’t free, although it was pretty cheap. Then Meta bought it and made it free. Some time after that, the founders left and started Signal.

The E2E encrypted protocol WhatsApp used to use was the Signal protocol. When the OG founders left and created Signal they revamped it, calling it the Signal V2 protocol. Whether WhatsApp still uses that original Signal protocol or not is probably not known to many people outside of Meta, but WhatsApp definitely used to be E2E encrypted prior to Meta’s purchase.

I deleted my WhatsApp account around the time Meta announced they were merging all of their messaging stuff together, e.g. Facebook Messenger, Instagram etc.