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  • xkcd: Perseids

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  • Is there more light pollution in that spot? That could be why you aren't seeing as much as before, if the light polution got worse since then

    It was a nice time otherwise.

    You are in this comic strip too :)

  • Decimen Lets You Send Files Through Light, Not a Network

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  • That's my bad for writing it poorly. I meant to say that about the premise of not needing internet, since someone who has internet on both devices might have better ways to transfer the files.

    Someone would need to plan ahead and install the PWA (or some compatible tool) in order for this to work

  • Decimen Lets You Send Files Through Light, Not a Network

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  • I wouldn't use this day to day, but what I found cool was:

    • it doesn't require cables or any additional equipment (including routers, cell towers)
    • it can't be detected by anything, assuming you toss a blanket over the transfer

    The downside is that if you wanted to get it truly offline, you would need to have the an app installed on both devices ahead of time, if I understood it correctly. (Edit: bolded bits are new)

    It did lead to some fun discussion in this thread :)

  • Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters

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  • You don’t actually care about that.

    Disabled people are not your fucking pawns

    I didn't intend for it to sound like that, and reading my comment again I see that I should have expanded on it further. I'm hoping my posting history can show where I stand on issues like this.

    What I should have said was that delivery services can be helpful for the elderly or those with disabilities, and that legislation on delivery services can help us improve access to those without the harms of these current robots.

    For what it's worth, we don't have these robots where I am, so I didn't know how bad it was. In person, I've only seen a few that were sitting around our university plaza last fall. I looked online, and it looks like we don't currently have any here. I will keep what you've mentioned in mind when talking about these bots moving forward, especially if our local politicians are going to be deciding on them in the near future.

    To expand on where my thinking was coming from, I have read first person accounts from people who can't leave their homes easily, and also how existing delivery programs are helpful but don't have the capacity to meet everyone that needs it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/seniors-grocery-app-delivery-anjel-vancouver-1.4938035

    Often with these discussions, automation is brought up as a way to bridge the gaps that current public funding can't fulfill.

    I also recently read about how some cities have a thriving bike/scooter sharing program, while others are suffering from mismanagement, excessive prices, and chaos; and how it came down to whether the programs were started as a public project or if they were led by tech companies. So in my earlier comment, I was tying information to this story and saying that regulated and/or publicly managed delivery options might be a better thing to focus energy on

    https://bikehub.ca/about-us/news/bike-share-dilemma-why-metro-vancouver-needs-regional-bike-share-system

  • Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters

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  • These bots can be helpful for the elderly or those with disabilities. It's probably more effective to legislate them at the municipal level.

  • Heliboard + Google Swipe Lib + FUTO Voice input

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  • Check out the article in the post, it walks you through adding it :)

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ant

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  • New anti-bot rules

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  • Would it be possible to slowly build a whitelist for users that you confirm are legitimate?

    For context, I subscribe to web comics through RSS feeds, and sometimes I'll sit down to look through the feed and then schedule out posts for the few good ones. I can totally keep it to the 2 posts per day limit, but I'm worried that I might forget one day in the future. It's hard to keep track of community specific posting rules 😅

    I totally understand if the extra posts get removed, this is more about not getting banned by an automated system.

  • New anti-bot rules

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  • Can you reach out to admins on any instance that the accounts are made on? Vote manipulation should be an easy instant ban. Putting together a list of accounts would help the instance admins figure out a pattern.

  • Donʼt buy fancy wall art city maps, make your own with this free script [powered by OpenStreetMap]

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  • PNGs by default, I'm not sure if vectors are possible yet but it seems like it would be easy to implement

  • Donʼt buy fancy wall art city maps, make your own with this free script [powered by OpenStreetMap]

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  • Did you try it with venv? That might reduce the chance of interference with your system