With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today's connected cars.

If they actually follow through on making the Slate as privacy friendly as they claim in this article, and it doesn’t have any major flaws, I’m gonna go ahead and say this is perhaps one of the best options for someone in need of a mini-truck/SUV hybrid.

  • MinnesotaGoddamEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    part of the reason i picked that one is because my local library has old car repair manuals and that’s one of them. I legit don’t know anything about its copyright (you can use buzzwords but that is the legal term) but like, this stuff has never been that hard to find.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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      6 hours ago

      Making it easy to find is not copyleft. And copyleft is a concept that doesn’t exist in the concept of copyright.

      Making something copyleft means I and you would have permission to make copies of the designs and the manual and make changes to them and sell a product based off of those designs. And that I would also require the same from my designs.

      It’s a license that encourages collaboration (I take someone else’s work rather than reinvent the wheel, and if I improve it I share that improved design back with the world and let them do the same) rather than competition (where the original designer would sue me for using or improving their design)

      • MinnesotaGoddamEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Automobiles is one of those area I feel like Chipotle copy left does not work in practice. It’s a two ton death machine, so we really want contributions by Claude?

        • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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          10 minutes ago

          Copyleft licenses wave warranties.

          And there’s loads of open source projects that don’t allow AI contributions. Just because someone writes a shitty PR doesn’t mean it will be merged.