Bas Alblas ⭕️ 🇺🇦

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[Bas Alblas ⭕️ 🇺🇦 @BasAlblas]

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[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

In the new Tesla update 2026.2.9.9, this pops up if you cancel your FSD subscription and doesn’t go away until you pick one of the options

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Google has a pirate enemy.

He's one guy. His name is Raymond Hill.

He built uBlock Origin. The world's best ad blocker. 63K stars. GPL-3.0. He literally refuses every dollar you try to send him.

Then Google did the unthinkable.

July 24, 2025. Manifest V2 disabled everywhere. The full uBlock Origin stopped working on Chrome.

The world's biggest ad company nuked the world's biggest ad blocker on its own browser. They called it "security."

Coincidence.

Here's the wildest part:

Raymond didn't fold. Latest release: March 11, 2026.

Still alive on Firefox. Still alive on Edge. Still alive on Brave. Still GPL-3.0. Still refusing every dollar.

One developer vs. the trillion-dollar ad empire.

But DO NOT install it. We should all keep Google richer.

100% Open Source.

(Link in the comments)

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Netherlands 🇳🇱

This is gloriously bonkers. Car racing in reverse back in the 1980s.

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

It’s a bummer… but it was a MAJOR update from Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings call today with Elon confirming that Hardware 3 will not be able to achieve Unsupervised FSD.

“Unfortunately, Hardware 3, I wish it were otherwise, but Hardware 3 simply does not have the capabilities to achieve Unsupervised FSD. You know, we did think at one point it would have that, but relative to hardware, it has only 1/8 of the memory bandwidth of Hardware 4, and memory bandwidth is one of the key elements needed for Unsupervised FSD.”

Tesla plans to fix it for customers who bought FSD by:

A) Discounted trade-in toward a vehicle with full Hardware 4

OR

B) Direct upgrade by replacing the HW3 computer and the cameras to bring the car to HW4 spec

To make upgrades fast and scalable, Elon also told us that:

“…we’re going to have to set up like, kind of microfactories or small factories in major metropolitan areas… So we basically need like many production lines to make the change.”

He also said over time it makes sense to convert all HW3 cars to HW4 bc this is what will enable them to enter the Robotaxi fleet and have Unsupervised FSD.

Sorry for HW3 Tesla owners… but thanks for the update Elon.

[Steven Peeters @aikisteve]

More extreme roadwork situation that @Tesla #FSDEurope has probably seen only for the first time and had to figure out what to do. Bug deviation from the normal path and a steep bridge that blocks the view. It feels that @KRoelandschap and I came across all the corner cases in a single day 😆 @Tesla_AI @teslaeurope @SawyerMerritt @wholemars @TeslaOwnersNL

[Tesla Owners Club Nederland 🇳🇱 @TeslaOwnersNL]

Amsterdam streets are crowded and a challenging play for FSD. The Bollenstreek (Tulips near Keukenhof) has many small roads that aren't realy 2 way roads, many tourists, bikes and pedestrians, giving FSD a massive challenge that it handled much better than I expected. Watch the Model S conquer this challenge without being in the way of anyone and raising some thank you's. There was also an encouter with the Bollenstreek classic tour convoy.
The visualisation is a bit hard to see, as it's only on the instrument cluster, but you can see FSD is on all the time.

@teslaownersSV
@KRoelandschap
@aikisteve
@wholemars
@SawyerMerritt
@teslaeurope
@elonmusk

[Steven Peeters @aikisteve]

Testing @Tesla #FSDEurope with @KRoelandschap in Amsterdam. Driving through this chaotic little street, with cyclists and pedestrians behaving erratically. And FSD just takes it as a champ. Human would be nervous, FSD just say "nah, I got this"! It sees everything around itself and reacts very safely to the vulnerable road users. Awesome! @teslaeurope @wholemars @SawyerMerritt @elonmusk @TeslaOwnersNL @Tslachan @aelluswamy

[NL FSD Inside @TSLA_inside_]

A Tesla is driving on a priority road in the Netherlands.
Everything is normal.

Then suddenly: an ambulance from the right.

What does Tesla FSD do?

• Instantly recognizes the situation
• Smoothly slows down
• Comes to a full stop
• Gives priority

No hesitation. No panic. No mistake.

This is not the future.
This is happening now.

This is technology that respects life.
$TSLA

[NL FSD Inside @TSLA_inside_]

Tesla hears a police siren and immediately moves aside. No hesitation. No confusion. It just works.

Tested in the Netherlands. Real traffic. Real response.

In the video I went a bit over the top. But this is exactly the kind of feature that shows where things are going.
$TSLA
@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @wholemars

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

Tesla self-driving works very well on narrow roads with oncoming large tractors!

[NL FSD Inside @TSLA_inside_]

Through the center of Nijmegen.
Narrow street, people walking, cyclists coming toward you.
The Tesla slightly moves to the right in the tight street, very smooth.
$TSLA

[Kees Roelandschap @KRoelandschap]

https://t.co/FNnWTJ6ctc

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken

FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly! 

Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways

No other vehicle can do this. 

We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon

[Mattia Nelles @mattia_n]

Oleksandr Yakovenko, the founder of TAF Industries, one of Ukraine's largest drone makers wrote a good response to @RheinmetallAG's Papperger's irritating statement. I used AI to translate it for you. It is worth reading in full.

"Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall,

When you called Ukrainian drone manufacturers “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers in their kitchens,” you demonstrated how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare.

This is not about emоtions. This is about battlefield reality.

Here are the figures your industry refuses to acknowledge:

In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They accounted for 90% of all combat losses of the Russian army—more than all other types of weapons combined.

A single company, TAF Industries, produces up to 100,000 FPV drones per month. Over any given 90-day period, the products of my company alone have more confirmed hits than your entire fleet of equipment over its entire history of combat use across all conflicts. And most importantly—I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that.

Our drones achieve greater kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century.

Why? Because the battlefield has changed, while your business model has not.

Russian electronic warfare has rendered GPS-guided Western munitions (Excalibur, GMLRS, etc.) almost ineffective.
Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and conventional “peer-on-peer” conflict have become easy targets for drones costing $500–2,000 that attack them from above.
The cost-effectiveness ratio has been turned upside down: one 120mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones—yet our drones still prevail.

This is not a “Lego game.” This is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate weekly. We lose factories to missile strikes and rebuild them within weeks. We print parts in basements and deploy 100,000 strike systems per month, while your engineers still require 3–5 years and hundreds of millions of euros to certify even minor upgrades.

The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms—no matter how expensive or “serious”—are becoming increasingly irrelevant if they do not integrate the very technologies you are mocking.

So when you say “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf offices.”

The hashtag #MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do over full campaigns. And they do so while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st-century prices.

The invitation stands, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how the war of tomorrow is actually fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think:

Those who still believe in 1979 will lose to those who are building in 2026.

With respect (but with facts),

Oleksandr Yakovenko
Founder of TAF Industries
One of those “Ukrainian housewives”"

https://t.co/oZnXASQAYw

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

German TV reporter testing @Tesla FSD (Supervised) V14 in the country as public transport in rural areas:

"I was genuinely impressed. In the situations where we experienced the system, it worked perfectly and safely. I hadn't expected that. Even in the bad weather conditions in the Eifel region. In many cases, it reacted at least as well as a human driver, if not better. If Tesla is ever allowed to roll out this system nationwide in Germany, I think it will have a major impact on mobility. And that will only be the beginning of some very significant changes in transportation..."

[Nieuwsuurbot @nieuwsuurbot]

Opvallende schommelingen op de oliemarkt vlak voor een toespraak van president Trump roepen vragen op. Was er sprake van handel met voorkennis Toezichthouders buigen zich over de verdachte transacties.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[Mykhaïlo Golub @golub]

Exactly

[Hendrik Jan van Dijk @vanDijkHJ]

@AlexanderNL Mooi. En nu een pad voor HW3!