### Issue 1346 - Monday 19th April, 2021

## In Today's Issue

- Two people die using Autopilot with nobody in the driver's seat
- SpaceX gets contract to supply lunar lander for NASA's Artemis mission
- Kid Mode in Edge, BoM wants fibre internet for Antarctica, Windows 10 ARM VMs now a thing on M1 Macs, Washington to ban sale of new petrol cars by 2030 & Ingenuity helicopter might fly around Mars tonight
- AnonAddy is a great way to set up unique burner email addys
- Cheap Kingston SSD, Sony head unit, Coles Mobile, Anker solar USB charger, Tenda smart plug

## The News

### Two people die using Autopilot with nobody in the driver's seat

Two Texas blokes, one 59 and the other 69, were burnt to a crisp whilst using a 2019 Tesla Model S in Autopilot mode on the weekend. The police are "100% certain that no one was in the driver seat driving that vehicle at the time of impact", making this accident even more tragic as it should have been obvious to the car's computer there was nobody in the driver's seat and stopped safely. Either these two jokers deliberately made it operate this way (how?!?!) or Autopilot is a dud. Elon's response? A tweet saying Autopilot is 10x safer than the average vehicle... read the room mate, two people just died thanks to your deathtrap.

### SpaceX gets contract to supply lunar lander for NASA's Artemis mission

Also in Elon Musk news, SpaceX won the contract to build a lunar lander for NASA's Artemis mission. SpaceX will send a "modified version of its Starship vehicle to lunar orbit. Shortly afterward, a crew of NASA astronauts would launch inside an Orion spacecraft on top of a Space Launch System rocket, both of which were developed by NASA. Orion would rendezvous with Starship in lunar orbit, board the vehicle, and go down to the surface. Starship would then lift off from the lunar surface and link back up with Orion, and the crew would come back to Earth in the smaller capsule". Sounds convoluted, but apparently this is because NASA knows US Congress is too invested in the SLS to abandon it.

### Kid Mode in Edge, BoM wants fibre internet for Antarctica, Windows 10 ARM VMs now a thing on M1 Macs, Washington to ban sale of new petrol cars by 2030 & Ingenuity helicopter might fly around Mars tonight

- Microsoft added a "kids mode" to Edge, which limits the sites they're able to access, enables Bing SafeSearch and blocks "the majority of trackers for maximum privacy and minimum personalized ads".
- The BoM wants to run a subsea cable from Tasmania to the Antarctica, which is currently the only continent on Earth not hooked up with glorious fibre optics.
- Parallels Desktop 16.5 now allows you to install Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview as a virtual machine on an M1 Mac - meaning Windows will run way faster when in a VM as there isn't the additional Intel x86 layer on top.
- Washington state in the USA passed a law that "bans the sale, purchase, or registration of non-EVs from model year 2030 and later", 5 years earlier than planned phase outs in California and Massachusetts.
- NASA's Perseverance rover is set to fly its Ingenuity helicopter on Mars at around 17:30-18:00 tonight! We won't know if the flight was successful until the livestream begins 20:15, so that'll be something fun to tune into.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### AnonAddy is a great way to set up unique burner email addys

AnonAddy is a slick way to set up multiple email aliases. You can create a unique email address for each service you sign up for (e.g: 09gmxb03@anonaddy.me for one thing, sj26c0df@anonaddy.me for another), handy if you want to find out who sold out your email address or to decouple your identity as using the same email address everywhere is a pretty easy way to track you across multiple services. The AnonAddy browser plugin makes it a piece of cake to whip up a new random email addy on the fly, then view them all in the AnonAddy dashboard to see which service uses what address and if needed disable the alias so the fuckers stop bothering you.

## Bargains

- Kingston A2000 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD - $134 delivered from CentreCom
- Sony XAV-AX8000 Android Auto/Apple CarPlay head unit - $658 from Bankstown Sound & Marine
- Coles Mobile 12m SIM, 60gb data with unlimited calls & SMS - $99 from Coles
- Anker 15W dual USB solar charger - $54.99 from Amazon
- Tenda SP3 smart wi-fi power plug - $4.95 + delivery from Shopping Square or $11.40 delivered from Amazon (if you only want one)

## The End

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