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Re:Cars and Key Fobs: Attacks on Car Remotes on Thursday April 24, 2025 @06:05PM (#43788017)
Used to be, you could get a seedy OBD cable off Amazon and it came with instructions on how to "acquire" the dealer software, which let you reprogram the car to accept any fob. Not sure if things have changed in the last 5 years.
You set your own display name on Signal. You can also set "nicknames" for each of your contacts, but they're local to your account. If a nickname is set, it overrides the display name in most places in the UI.
Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @06:35PM (#42859574)
This is not a direct response, but as an aside, defense spending really has fallen in recent decades. It's not the War on Terror days anymore: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...