I can't speak about these cars, but I know that Waymo's cars identify the siren/lights to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Because without the lights and siren, there's no emergency and no need to yield, so they get treated like any other vehicle on the road.
Not sure why Zoox is identifying based on body color. Surely they know paint exists?
The original Kbin dev is Polish, so English is likely a second language for him. Also, it's still very early in development, so a lot of terminology put in use are likely placeholders until something more natural-sounding could be finalized.
But I'm sure Lemmy/Mbin probably won't federate with Pixelfed, or Peertube.
Technically, they do! It's not fully-integrated yet so the process is a bit hackish, but because the ActivityPub protocol works mostly the same on the backend, content from any of these platforms can appear on the others without much issue.
The biggest issue just has to do with the way you actually interact with each platform may not translate well on another compatible platform. For example, Pixelfed typically nests replies to comments only one layer deep, whereas Lemmy or Mbin will nest many layers deep. The actual nesting still works just fine when you view Pixelfed comments on Lemmy, and if you join in the conversation and reply in the middle of the thread, your post will nest properly for you and will show inline as normal for Pixelfed users. So in some instances, you may need to know a bit about what platform you're posting to, on top of the platform you're posting from.
There's other quirks like Mastodon replies typically being preceded with @ing the user they're replying to, which isn't a thing on the Lemmy side of things. It doesn't really change the way posting works, and you can choose to not do it and things will still work fine.
It sounds to me like perhaps the store has bluetooth beacons in place. It's a fairly under-utilized piece of tech, so there's a strong likelihood that your custom ROM doesn't support it properly. It's mostly just used for customer tracking, anyway, so the devs of your ROM may have either ignored the feature or deliberately disabled it in some way.
I mean, how else do you expect things to work? Internet platforms aren't free to operate. Isn't paying creators directly supposed to be the ideal solution, instead of infesting pages with ads?
Ask your vet what they think about a vegan diet for your pets. They will tell you "no". That should really be the end to the discussion, but I guess these guys think they know better than actual experts.
For those who enjoyed the Kbin experience, Fedia.io has been fantastic! It's running Mbin, a fork of Ernest's Kbin. It's stable and online reliably!
Hopefully Ernest is able to take care of himself. I've only ever had limited interactions with him, but he seems like a good guy, and I hope he's able to get back to work on fulfilling his vision for the project.
Talk to a lawyer who specializes in employment and labor. Many firms will offer a free consult where you can speak with somebody, explain your situation, and they can then tell you whether or not it'll be worth pursuing further. If they tell you you have a case, then congrats, get ready for court.
If they tell you that you don't have a case, then most likely you should drop it. You could always try asking another firm for their opinion, as well, but if the first firm turned down a case with you, then there's probably a good reason for it. It sucks, but sometimes that's the reality of it.
You also mentioned not being able to afford the time off work to handle a legal case, which is also a really big concern that you should consider. Sometimes the most unjust part of justice is how much it costs to get it. While standing up for your morals and ensuring that those who have done wrong are punished for it is great, just make sure that you don't take yourself down in process.
I don't mind there being an emoji for cryptocurrency. It's a relevant thing in modern society whether we like it or not, so there's no reason it should be excluded. But just not Bitcoin, specifically. Even though Bitcoin is the one that kicked off crypto, it's still a brand name, which would result in auto-rejection according to the Unicode Consortium's guidelines.
If there was a more general-purpose icon/symbol that could represent cryptocurrency in general, that'd be more appropriate. But it can't be Bitcoin.
Is the luge still an Olympic sport? If so, I'd probably say that's the easiest to get into. I'm sure there's actually a lot of technique and nuance to it, but it really does look like you just kinda ride on a really dope sled.
Yeah, it's strange just how readily the blinders go up wherever Mozilla is concerned. They're a corp, just like any other; if they had the money and leverage, they'd be just as aggressive as Google. Have people already forgotten that time they laid off 200+ employees and then gave all the execs bonuses?
E: Apparently y'all have forgotten. In 2021, Mozilla laid off a few hundred employees. CEO's salary doubled that year. Fuck Mozilla, they're no more your friends than Google or Microsoft; they're the same evil, just smaller-scaled evil, is all.
I believe that currently, Mbin isn't making any drastic changes, and relying mostly on Kbin's existing code as its base. As far as I'm aware, the Mbin team are mostly just doing maintenance-level development; fixing things as they break and making optimizations, but not so much in the way of developing new features. Mbin is currently just basically a copy of Kbin, without much distinguishing the two.
Since Kbin doesn't seem to be moving much at all, I think it might be a good idea for Mbin to start flexing their own muscles a bit, and making it into its own separate project. Otherwise, having a copy of a stale project just leaves you with two stale projects.
Ernest, the lead dev for Kbin, has had a lot of big events happen in his life recently, so he has a tendency to just kinda disappear for weeks/months at a time while the project gets put on hold. He'll usually come back, announce new plans for development, maybe push out a few updates, and then inevitably go radio silent again.
I believe he's got a few people assisting him now, but development has definitely slowed to the point of becoming concerning. I think it might be time for the Mbin team to start getting a little more free with the fork.
Lemmy's still small enough that if you're even remotely active, you start to recognize just about everybody. I like that, and I kinda miss that about the smaller communities/forums of the old internet.
I can't speak about these cars, but I know that Waymo's cars identify the siren/lights to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Because without the lights and siren, there's no emergency and no need to yield, so they get treated like any other vehicle on the road.
Not sure why Zoox is identifying based on body color. Surely they know paint exists?