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watty

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  • Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

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  • they'll block all servers that host Mastodon

    This will be a never-ending game of whack-a-mole.

    Like how China tries to block VPNs that get around their firewall. There's always another VPN that China hasn't blocked yet, and there'll always be another fediverse server that any other authoritarian regime hasn't blocked yet.

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • Someone mentioned the last mile problem, and someone else responded as if it doesn't exist based purely on their own situation (right now). I'm pointing out that it does exist with my situation as an example (right now).

    That's all. Should we pretend like there's no last mile problem?

    Maybe in some ideal world, the last mile problem could be solved purely with public transit. We don't live in that world. Investing as of we live in an ideal world is foolish.

    If one approach is effective for more people, that's great, but shouldn't we also invest in solutions that fill the gap?

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • Here's a summary of this thread:

    Guy 1 - why is anyone doing waymo when there's public transit

    Guy 2 - last mile problem

    Guy 3 - it works great for me in the city surrounded by bus stops, no last mile problem

    Me - it doesn't work great for me barely outside the city. (My point being that it'll take a lot to get public transit to within 1 mile of where I am, let alone to someone even further from the city)

    You - that's your own fault so stop complaining

    Me - so fuck me and everyone farther out than me apparently.

    That's how we got here. I simply stated my situation as it relates to public transit, and you tell me it's just my own fault and I should shut up.

    We have a long way to go to get ubiquitous public transit in America. I doubt we will ever get there. It makes sense to consider other options as well.

    I'm saying we should go to the moon AND develop nuclear fusion.

    You want to know what's harmful to discussion? Pricks like you telling people that their opinion is irrelevant.

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • So fuck everyone who can't afford to, or doesn't want to, live in the city?

    I can, do, and will vote for officials that want to expand public transit. I also appreciate other efforts being taken, because I don't let perfect be the enemy of the good, and I recognize that no one solution works for everyone.

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • I live on a 40mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. That is connected to a 45mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. My nearest bus stop is 3.2 miles away.

    I'm not even that far out, I can drive to a major city downtown in 30 minutes.

    That's great that you have all this infrastructure around you, but not everyone does. Like you said, a lack of perspective is not an excuse.

  • Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship

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  • I think you are coupling a centralized voting system with one that gives equal access, and I don't think that's necessarily true. Being a centralized system makes it consistent, but not necessarily fair.

    An independent body could be easier to undermine (single point of attack), and be just as likely, if not more likely, to reduce voting access across the country all at once. I think we'd have corruption either way. The inefficiency of the decentralized system could be slowing it down.

    I think you are looking at the system with hindsight and assuming that because the current system is suffering problems, that a different system wouldn't suffer those same problems. I don't think you can justify that conclusion

  • Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship

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  • I think the states handling election in theory makes sense. It's a decentralized system that is harder to undermine. An independent body may bring consistency, but I don't think that helps at all in combatting Trump's tampering.

    Also, many states are using paper ballots and always have been.

  • In possession of a "modded" Ender 3, how to begin?

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  • Like others mentioned, it doesn't seem far off stock. The things I can pick out that are mods are:

    • bl touch (or something like it). This is an automatic bed leveling tool. So instead of spinning the little cogs under the bed all the time to get the bed level, it will probe the bed before printing to build a map of the bed position, and print accordingly.
    • general parts upgrade. This is a simple upgrade kit that's just an increase in quality. Better springs, stuff like that
    • mainboard upgrade. Might just be upgraded to a silent board. Might be upgraded to something more.. hard to tell.

    I don't see much else that stands out as being particularly modded. Hope that helps.

  • Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers Slated For Introduction In Linux 6.15

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  • Ah, that's a good workaround.

    Does that work pre-os boot? I had to boot my Linux Mac into safe mode, and the way to do that is to press the escape key during boot. I had to plug in an external keyboard to do it.

  • A confusing plot hole from Planet of the Apes

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  • Clearly, the statue was carried by ocean currents south from New York, through the Panama canal, then back north where it washed ashore at the tip of the Baja peninsula in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

  • Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers Slated For Introduction In Linux 6.15

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  • I have a couple touch bar macs, and the touch bar is fine.

    However, I installed Ubuntu on one of my touch bar macs. The keyboard has no physical escape key; that would be on the touch bar. So, my Ubuntu touch bar Mac now has no escape key, which is a bit problematic, so having a fix for that would be cool.

    It is not a big deal for me, since I'm just using it as a server, but it could be a deal breaker for using a touch bar Mac with Linux as a PC.

  • Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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  • I just got this stuff up and running in the last week. Here's the basic stuff I'm using and a quick breakdown:

    1. Jellyfin. This is just a media server. Got media files on a hard drive? Point Jellyfin at them, and it will index and serve them in a pretty web UI on your local network.
    2. qBittorrent. For downloading media files based on torrents.
    3. Sonarr/radarr. Keep track of shows (sonarr) and movies (radarr). Keeps track of the content you have, what's missing, and keeps up on upcoming releases. Is able to use torrent indexes to find torrents, and sends them to qBittorrent. Once the download is done, automatically moves the files to your media library to get picked up by Jellyfin
    4. Prowlarr. Easier way to find torrent indexes. Browse indexes, pick some, and it hands them off to sonarr and radarr so they can find torrents.

    This is generally how my setup is working at the moment.

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    Built on Bluesky, Pinksky brings its Instagram-like app to Android

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  • The person you are replying to is talking about pink sky being built on bluesky, and you equate that to Lemmy being based on Reddit. One is a hard technical dependency, and the other is a conceptual inspiration.

    You are engaging in an equivocation fallacy, and I think you know that. You even try to sneak it in by switching to a different but similar word (built->based) with a different meaning, then you switched back again to "built" while using the term in the same way you used "based", then you start using other phrasing to obscure it even more. You are gaslighting with word games to try and get people to not notice your fallacy. It's super dishonest.

  • How JavaScript Overuse Ruined the Web

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  • Seems like you read the first two sentences of my post and stopped there, so you completely missed the point.

    It's not JS that is the problem. It's an issue of client resource use. That would be true no matter what language is being used.

  • How JavaScript Overuse Ruined the Web

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  • That's not necessarily special to JS. It's special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.

    This isn't an argument against JS, it's an argument against misuse of client resources.

  • We're RIGHT HERE :(

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  • I used to think that the perceived complexity of the fediverse was creating a hurdle for more adoption.

    Now all these fucking people are learning Chinese to better use RedNote.

    Apparently convenience isn't actually a barrier? I'm baffled why so many people are flocking to anything other than the fediverse.

  • Any good alternative Facebook mobile clients out there?

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  • I was just playing with setting up an account on friendica.world, and so far that shit is pretty rough.

    I'll go play with Signal and see how I feel about it. Thanks for the suggestion!

  • Any good alternative Facebook mobile clients out there?

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  • Yea, part of the challenge is that the average age in my hobby (kite flying) is somewhere around 50. So I'd need something with a low barrier to entry.

    I like the concept of Friendica because its the most parallel to FB, but it doesn't seem to be a very popular platform and it has little/no mobile apps :/

  • Any good alternative Facebook mobile clients out there?

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  • I've thought about trying to host my own Friendica instance, but haven't gotten there yet.

    Have you had much success in migrating a hobby community to the fediverse? Any tips on what approaches worked well?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    watty @lemm.ee

    Any good alternative Facebook mobile clients out there?