stop buying tesla, stop supporting spacex, and stop buying starlink
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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...Ok, now what? Is evil defeated yet?
^^ this. In America the only vote that really matters is the one you do with your wallet.
But what launch provider should I use then?
Boeing? No, I don't think so.
And stop using Xitter.
There's no laws against profiteering?
Tesla is an American company, in Texas, at that.
It wouldn't matter if there were.
Something to note: Tesla has two vehicle APIs, the Fleet API for commercial accounts and the Owner API for individuals. This change currently only impacts the Fleet API.
If you are an individual owner who accesses your vehicle data from the Owner API (usually via a self hosted tool like TeslaMate), this does not affect you. Yet.
I'm not a developer, so excuse me if this is a dumb question. Is the API supplying data that is provided by the OBDII interface? Or is it more than that?
There is most likely an overlap on what you can get from the OBD port, but generally speaking the API will provide more high level info e.g driving status, mileage, live location - and the OBD port will provide more low level data e.g. detailed battery stats from the BMS, energy usage, etc.
I see. Thanks.
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Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.
Virgin API user vs chad scrapper.
Really the lesson is, don't run a business that 100% depends on another company.
This. It's a recipe for disaster. I think enough (tech-related) companies have shown now, that they first want to lock you in, and then if they got you, want to bleed you out...
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Its Tesla; y'all should be dumping that shit anyway.
API pricing is such a shitty obnoxious dogshit practice that is now of course becoming standard because of course it is. internet barely costs money come the fuck on make a quality product
It used to be a respected standard for developers and hosts to be somewhat open and friendly to 3rd party devs, because ultimately they're customers and they're helping recruit and retain customers, they should be treated with respect. just because it's innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn't mean it's good
just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good
That's a great Maxim.
I didn't think there would be a pun in there but, man, you found it! 👍
Well, I am a Prodigy at that sort of thing!
The internet (ie bandwidth) is cheap, but running servers, providing documentation and tech support all costs a decent amount of money.
However, treating an API as a profit center is a joke. These are literally companies developing software that makes the experience of owning a Tesla better. Making things unaffordable for those companies is putting short term profits over long term success of your product
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Si musk pulled a Reddit spez?
Not surprising as musk is a scammer who got incredibly lucky, always has been.
Fuck spez and fuck musk
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