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Spouse • UAW member • Pell Grant winner • 1stGen • Controls engineer [Fanuc, Siemens, Rockwell] • Licensed electrician • Often found in the Great Lakes Basin

Avi: illustration of an imaginary creature's head
Header: photo of myself on a picket line
Not a great argument for allowing the parasite to continue burrowing ever deeper. It must be excised eventually.
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Ellison has been bribing and corruptly aiding Trump as much as any other CEO alive, and Oracle itself is not something worth protecting anyway (and in fact in need of a sharp lesson much more than any other tech company in existence, because it mostly isn't a tech company at all, just an IP troll).
December 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
@greentheonly had retrieved the snapshot locally from the car.

“We didn’t think we had it, and we found out we did… And, thankfully, we did because this is an amazingly helpful piece of information,” said Tesla’s lawyer, Joel Smith.
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
person, it was obvious the data was there.”

During the trial, Tesla told the court that it hadn’t hidden the data, but lost it. The company’s lawyer told the Post that Tesla’s data handling practices were “clumsy” and that another search turned up the data, after acknowledging that
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
system and autopilot control unit to a Tesla technician to diagnose, but at that time the local collision snapshot was considered unrecoverable.

That’s where the hacker, only identified as @greentheonly, his username on X, came in. Greentheonly told The Washington Post that, “for any reasonable
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
copy on the car was marked for deletion. Then, “someone at Tesla probably took ‘affirmative action to delete’ the copy of the data on the company’s central database,” according to the Post.

Tesla only acknowledged that it had received the data once the police took the Tesla’s damaged infotainment
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Specifically, the lawyers for the family wanted what’s known as the “collision snapshot,” data captured by the car’s cameras and other sensors in the seconds leading up to and after the crash.

According to the trial, moments after the collision snapshot was uploaded to Tesla’s servers, the local
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
That’s until a hacker was able to recover it from the crashed car, according to a report in The Washington Post.

In the past, Tesla has been famously quick to offer up customer data stored on its servers to rebut claims made against the company. But in this case, the company said it had nothing.
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Here’s the whole article:

At the beginning of the month, Tesla was found partly liable in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a pedestrian in Florida in 2019. The automaker—which could have settled the case for far less—claimed that it did not have the fatal crash’s data.
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I don't want to know what my personal microplastic levels are, but I feel like I'd kind of whistle appreciatively if I saw the number. "Damn," I might say, "the equivalent of 314 GI Joe figures?" I don't think any number would surprise me, but I am not going to pretend I wouldn't be impressed.
December 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM