Tesla Tidbits

Many are missing the point. While the $8-$15k paid by some for FSD outright hurts, the real issue is the full purchase price of the car. The only answer is retrofit or full refund of the car, for ALL CARS. Because anything else falls short of the promise that @elonmusk and @tesla made that these cars would be able to do unsupervised FSD. My 2022 Model 3 Long Range only replaced my 2015 Model S 85D because I was led to believe I would be able to use the subscription that was available to have it drive itself autonomously some day in the future. This is $54k of ill-gotten revenue in Q4 2021. All customers must be made right, not just those that purchased the feature.

@JULEZ_91 Two guys in the same faction with the same injury, what are the odds?!?

Man WTF. The Vision truly is cursed.

I'd call it the Xbox Omega, because it's going to be the last one 👍

Update on the car situation. I finally had to do some serious driving, and have discovered that despite the car saying it would limit maximum charge to 50%, it lied and is limiting to 31%. So effectively I'm now driving a much nicer looking Gen 1 Nissan Leaf until June 1st. 😡

@DanhausenAD No!!!!!!!! Take it back! PLEASE!!!!!!! instagram.com/reel/DYiiw1WAS…

OH MY GOD THEY'RE COMING FOR @kingdavidotw!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 instagram.com/reel/DYfunQxBI… @IronLordPodcast @LordsGamingNet @LordCognito @LordAddictILP @LordSovILP

Unsure who makes @BrockLesnar's pants, but he's gotta find a new brand, LOL! This is becoming a regular occurrence!

Michael Cole to @OfficialEGO : "Why do you act like this?" I snorted.

@Fresh62610 Unsure. Will definitely be asking, and will be asking if it resets the battery pack warranty as well.

@teslatidbits Annoying. Any idea if Tesla replaces with brand new batteries or refurbished batteries?

Well, uh, that's a pisser. Under warranty though. Will keep everybody posted. 2022 Model 3 Long Range, put in service December 23rd, 2021.

@JULEZ_91 I use grok a lot as my primary AI, so I have the synergy of no ads here and grok benefits too.

@teslatidbits The subscription cost is way too high for what is provided. Not worth it when there’s replica apps for free.

Elon is officially killing this app. Why would anyone pay for Twitter when free alternatives exist? Threads is basically a replica and while I don’t use it, these limits will force us all over there. Unreal. What a stupid business decision.

@JULEZ_91 Yeah, this isn't even a real question.

Grits is not food.

@welter_117 @longislandviper Xbox can, yes. The issue is that you cannot make that your only sign in method, which would be awesome. (I know, I'm constantly getting random multifactor challenges that I deny)

@teslatidbits @longislandviper I have a passkey on PlayStation now Im not sure Xbox has a system like that. I'll have to look into it.

My PSN account was hacked, seemingly as part of an ongoing sophisticated series of moves against both random and "prominent" users. Indeed, I was told by someone a few days ago that I was going to be targeted, and he was right. (He was also hacked.)

@welter_117 @longislandviper Authenticate IS 2FA. There are many methods for 2FA, Authenticate is known as a time-based one time password. (TOTP) Its weakness is that it can be socially engineered or phished from you. It's better than nothing, but not the best 👍

@teslatidbits @longislandviper Could I use Google Authenticate? This is more secure than 2FA Im assuming?

When you sign in from the browser on a phone or computer, I THINK they've been prompting you to set up a passkey. If not, once signed in, go to your account settings, then Security should be the second option, which will take you to a new page. The first section under your email address will be the passkey section. I'm guessing the button will say Setup (mine says edit, so I'm not sure) and you can set it up there. You'll need either a compatible device that can save the key, or a password program like Bitwarden or LastPass that can do so. I recommend the latter, since sometimes using the native device can restrict you to signing in only from that device if it doesn't propagate it to other devices you own.

@teslatidbits @longislandviper Could you go into a bit more detail on how to do the passkey? Im gonna change my stuff up right now. I was getting weird emails a few months ago but I changed passwords and it stopped.

@Fresh62610 87k.

@teslatidbits Miles?

I hate that this happened to Colin, but I'm going to use this unfortunate incident to reiterate some Cybersecurity best practices. 1 - If you have the ability to use a passwordless workflow on any site, use it. No credential means nothing to compromise. 2 - Multifactor authentication (MFA) is only as strong as the related account recovery process. This is nearly certainly how Colin got compromised, and how many others do as well. Password plus MFA is pretty bulletproof as a technology as long as you use a strong MFA method (see next bullet), so that's not what gets attacked, it's the ancillary workflows. 3 - Never use SMS as an MFA method. It is trivially broken against any mildly motivated threat actor. Use an authenticator with a real time challenge (preferably with some token you must select as a correct answer) instead. (But ideally, see bullet one.) 4 - If (as Colin did) you suddenly get a huge abnormal influx of mail to your email account, your Spidey senses should be tingling. Comb those emails for account change alerts. Don't just Ctrl-A, Delete. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

@JPlayzCasual @longislandviper Passkeys is the best solution. The problem is the account recovery process is the weak link. But it makes it impossible for you to be phished or social engineered by signing into the wrong site if that's the only way you sign in.

@longislandviper Does setting up Passkeys help avoid this? Or is it the same as setting up 2FA?

Cybersecurity professional listener here: It is highly likely (though not certain) that your email was first hacked. This permitted them to abuse the account recovery process and delete that evidence. I'd highly recommend changing your email account password yesterday and re-establishing your multifactor authenticator in the event they somehow have your private keys for that. (This is unlikely, but possible, so better safe than sorry.) For the Sony side, IF they get your account back, establish a passkey and only sign in with that in the future. This is impossible to be phished or social engineered in any way because if you're on the wrong site to sign in, you're totally unable to even provide it. And even then, the technical way it works is impossible to use even if it were to be intercepted. If you want, happy to chat, hit my DMs.

Some important information: 1.) I wasn't phished, didn't click on any links, didn't randomly put my password somewhere, etc. I am completely positive of this. 2.) At the time this happened, my email started getting spammed with hundreds of random emails from all sorts of sources (SubStack, EA, AliExpress, Slack... shit I'm not even signed up for). 3.) I then got a text message that my @PlayStation Network email address was changed. Then I got a text message saying 2FA was turned off. Frankly, how can any of this even be possible if someone isn't feeding information from the inside or has some sort of bespoke access to things they shouldn't? Makes no sense otherwise. I don't want to speculate, but it seems like a pretty serious technical and security breach. @PS_Support_US was zero help (though the person I spoked with was perfectly nice). Said my situation has to enter a queue, it will take a week for them to see -if- they can give me my account back, and they seemed to not at all be interested that I was positively not phished, that my email address was randomly changed, that 2FA was shut off, and all the rest. I did try to explain that I'm a prominent "media" person in the PlayStation space and that I'm likely being targeted as a result, though this has been happening to random people as well (as we've covered on Sacred Symbols). They seemed totally clueless about any of this, even though it's been circulating for months and people have already been targeted and been dealing with account issues. Needless to say, if I don't get my account back, I'm retiring from gaming and podcasting forever. So let's hope it all works out! In the meantime, be vigilant out there! Not that anything I could have done whatsoever would have stopped this. <3

@JULEZ_91 I've heard, and it's ridiculous. Or, at the very least, the same insider trading rules that would put us in jail damn well need to apply. It's weird how politicians seem to be the greatest stock pickers of all time 🤔

@teslatidbits Oh good 😂 But apparently politicians are tryna block the bill to stop them from stock trading, go figure.