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i_am_not_a_robot ,

Would it though? It's just vans on tracks instead of roads.

It's not going to be more energy efficient with individually powered cabs. It's not going to be more convenient unless your origin and destination are near a station. It's not going to be more time efficient because of the extra distance getting to and from tracks and because you aren't going to drive highway speeds in tiny self-balancing cars on old rails, especially when passing cars going the opposite direction. It's not going to be more cost efficient because it's more total moving parts requiring maintenance per person per trip.

It sounds like they are solving the problem of turning around only for terminal stations. This might make sense for trains that carry many people, but if you're making cars on tracks there is no good solution. If you need to spend money on a system that turns the cabs around, then you either spend more money installing those systems at most stations or you spend money maintaining cabs that are driving around empty. Either way, cars on roads are cheaper.

They say it's good for people who don't want to wait for public transit, but they don't say how this solves that problem. With public transit, you know when the train will be there. With this, unless they have a way for the cabs to wait at the station without blocking other cabs going the same direction, you have to wait for a cab to come and you can't time your trip to the station around when the cab will be there. Maybe they have one? It would be a disaster if you wanted to get on from near the middle and needed to wait for either a cab that has already been vacated to come or for a cab to come all the way from the start of the track.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

If your options are waiting at the station up to 2 hours for a pod or waiting anywhere else 3 hours for a train, are the pods better?

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Isn't this just Reddit with more steps?

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Linux has had LDAP and other ways to use the same credentials across multiple machines since forever ago.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

That sounds like Cloudflare is giving you certificates intended only to be used for talking to Cloudflare.

You might be able to do it if Cloudflare sends a different SNI. It's probably better if you get real certificates from Let's Encrypt and just use those.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Some bad still ISPs don't provide IPv6 connectivity. (Verizon)

i_am_not_a_robot ,

They don't allocate you a prefix. The website says they give you 5 addresses.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Bluesky uses a non-standard protocol and isn't really federated yet.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

I can't because my instance blocked Threads. I guess it's time to find a new instance.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Facebook is not (yet?) negatively impacting the fediverse. Fediverse users are.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

It's not that easy.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

I have the Aqara G4 doorbell and supposedly it works with WiFi and Frigate (via go2rtc), but I haven't set up Frigate and I haven't verified that it fully functions with the internet turned off. It uses Homekit but supposedly will receive Matter via a software update.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

This sounds like immature project drama. I've seen it before where there's a large, professionally maintained product and people make forks to add small changes and then different forks start fighting with each other over because it's their features and they don't want other forks to incorporate them. You should probably just avoid Floorp if possible.

Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?

I haven't used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...

i_am_not_a_robot ,

I'm pretty sure this difference isn't real. On both, the UI is supposed to be for the UI and anything that takes longer is supposed to happen on a different thread. Even Windows Phone had that. However, in practice developers don't always do it and this isn't as great as it sounds. If you're scrolling or something and scroll faster than the background threads, it will stutter. If the app has a resource leak, it will stutter. If the graphics are too complicated, it will stutter.

RAM requirements depend on what you're doing. I had a Pixel 4 and it always ran great. I had to get rid of it because it was physically falling apart and Google stopped releasing security updates for it.

Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems

After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company. Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at scale for thousands of...

i_am_not_a_robot ,

My favorite is when IT deploys software that replaces all the links in your e-mails with https://example.com/phishing/YiCdMdsY so you can't tell whether the e-mail is phishing or not, frequently sends you very obvious fake phishing e-mails that interrupt your work by going straight to your priority inbox, and punishes anyone caught clicking on phishing e-mails. Then HR sends out e-mails that have all the indicators of low effort phishing and you're supposed to click on those.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

New action items have been assigned to you:

  • Remedial cybersecurity training (4hr): due by Mar 22
i_am_not_a_robot ,

Freedom of speech? Yes and no. The government has freedom of speech, but American TikTok clones do not. If TikTok users are successfully forced to use YouTube Shorts instead, they'll get stuck with YouTube's censorship and content control for corporate friendliness and user engagement. People like Elon give "free speech" a bad name, but it is actually a problem if for most people "the internet" is controlled by a small number of big technology companies and those companies use their positions, intentionally or not, to suppress ideas and control public discourse. TikTok users will still need to use words like "unalive" on platforms owned by American corporations.

Constitutional protections for your home and property? Not really. Many people are renting and protections for renters vary by state. Property can be stolen by police through civil asset forfeiture.

The opportunity to improve your socioeconomic standings, ie The American Dream, is largely a myth. Recently, the poor get poorer. Real estate values and cost of living are climbing much faster than wages for those at the bottom. If you're at the bottom, it's even more difficult than usual to get the four year degree and years of prior job experience required for many entry level positions with better pay.

America has legal slavery enshrined in the constitution. If somebody is convicted of a crime, they can be sent to private prisons to do slave labor for somebody else's profit. This disproportionately affects poor people and minorities.

I want to bring some attention to Slidge XMPP Bridges ( git.sr.ht )

It seems like an awesome project that fulfills a lot of the requirements for bridging many popular messaging platforms (like FB messenger, WhatsApp, discord, signal, and more). I wanted to share because I know a lot of us have friends and family who still use antiquated/proprietary communication platforms. Fair warning, I have...

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Isn't puppeteering, aka self botting, a bannable offense one some of these networks?

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002192352-Automated-user-accounts-self-bots This article is only half true. Bot accounts do not have full access to all API routes, but you can still be banned for botting regular accounts.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

They're competitors.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

If you're already using systemd, do not switch to Docker. Use Podman instead. Docker runs all your services under the Docker service. Podman can both run the same containers as systemctl services.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

This whole document is disturbing. Apple tries to frame it as all about protecting users by removing their choices and skimming profits. They even start including e-mails from users begging Apple not to let them use their expensive phones.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

They say they won't block apps because of their content, but that they will protect users that use too much energy, which seems like a loophole for blocking emulators and alternative browsers.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Normally this is bad advice, but if you already have CGNAT you'd be going from double NAT to triple NAT and it probably won't make anything worse. At least it shouldn't make things worse for IPv4. If you have 5G internet with CGNAT there's no excuse for your ISP not giving you proper IPv6. Putting a second router between will complicate your IPv6 setup.

There are some tricks you can do for IPv4 in the precense of hostile DHCP servers. Serious OSes should allow you to configure a second IP address on the same physical interface, so you could have a dynamic 192.168.0.x assigned by the ISP's DHCP server and a static 192.168.1.y assigned statically by you, and then you should be able to set up an additional route table entry to access 192.168.1.0/24 using the source address 192.168.1.y. As long as the ethernet/wifi switching between devices doesn't filter ARP packets based on IP subnet, you should be able to communicate between your machines using fixed IPs on the second subnet.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

That's complicated to do correctly. Normally, for the server to verify the user has the correct password, it needs to know or receive the password, at which point it could decrypt all the user's files. They'd need to implement something like SRP.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

That sounds kind of like CWE-836.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

You're not OK. Not all forks are labeled as forks.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Openwrt/ddwrt are used for routers.

In the US you usually need to use your ISP's modem. Even if you buy the modem, it needs to be one that the ISP supports and the ISP will have more control of the device than you do. Even if it were running openwrt or ddwrt, you would not have access to use it.

I have an Arris modem and it works fine now, but for months there was a bug where it would randomly crash. I don't know when the bug was fixed, but firmware updates are controlled by the ISP so I had to just reboot it when it would crash. In other words, even if you have good modem hardware, whether it works correctly is up to your ISP.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Asus TUF-AX4200 is a router/AP, not a modem/router.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Supporting PPP does not make something a modem. It's a hardware capability that the device does not have.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

I don't know the details. My modem that I purchased exposes a management interface to the cable operator. I have a read-only view of the connection status and can't change anything meaningful. In the US if you buy the modem you loan it the ISP for free while you're a customer, as opposed to the ISP loaning you a modem for a monthly fee.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

And the licensing that's supposed to ensure that everything is kid-friendly.

Reddit is licensing its content to Google to help train its AI models ( www.engadget.com )

Google has struck a deal with Reddit that will allow the search engine maker to train its AI models on Reddit’s vast catalog of user-generated content, the two companies announced. Under the arrangement, Google will get access to Reddit’s Data API, which will help the company “better understand” content from the site....

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Google shouldn't have to pay. Whatever I may have posted on Reddit was public information. Nobody should need to pay Reddit to read it.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Who would have thought that their truck would need a $5000 extra to be usable outdoors? Who buys a truck to keep it indoors?

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Why wouldn't they enhance it themselves, like Twitter has been doing for months? Once they make signing in mandatory and implement per-user rate limits the information will disappear from the internet and will only be available to people who are paying in some way.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

The Vision Pro, despite Apple's marketing, is not AR. AR devices like Hololens allow you to see AR overlayed on top of the world. VR devices like the Vision Pro allow you to see the world behind the headset through cameras. VR isn't really new either, but VR headsets that you can realistically wear continuously like in Apple's ads have yet to come out.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

With the Vision Pro you can sort of see the real world in nearly real time with some distortions because the cameras don't match your eye positioning, and the dynamic range is clamped to what is supported by the cameras and displays, and everything is at the same focal distance, and your peripheral vision is limited. It's definitely not the same class of device as what has traditionally been called AR.

A small number of people have been to varying degrees living in VR headsets and they've been alright, but it's not for everyone. Besides the weight and having to manage the battery, you run into issues like the cameras having difficulty in dark environments or when objects are very close. After enough hours the motion sickness goes away.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

That file is disturbing. Why does it do everything via external processes and shell commands? Stuff like calling ls -l to list files in a directory is not portable, and parsing the output of commands intended for humans and building shell commands without careful escaping is dangerous.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Well less than 30 minutes at a time is good because the Vision Pro battery only lasts around two hours and you can't swap batteries without turning it off.

You can do a lot of things with the Vision Pro that you can't do with other headsets, but I don't understand why anybody would want to manage their calendar events in VR, and it seems like there are a lot more things that you would want to do with the Vision Pro that you can't. If it were really an AR device like a modern Google Glass it would make sense, but with that form factor and a battery life of two hours it can't really become part of you like that.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

You can, but few people will. It's not the image Apple wants the device to have. In their promotional videos, the people are constantly wearing the headset and never plugged in.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Isn't "silent majority" the term used by the American far right?

i_am_not_a_robot ,

That would make sense, but that's not the law. In most states, the electors can vote differently and it still counts, and in only some of those states is it even illegal for the elector to do that.

i_am_not_a_robot ,

Without proportional electors, in a close election where the swing states--the only states that matter--vote near 50-50, the outcome is essentially random. In the states that vote 50.1% for one candidate, 100% of the votes will go to one candidate, and in the states that vote 50.1% for the other candidate, 100% of the votes will go to that candidate. Random noise in how votes are aggregated, from the district level up, can theoretically lead to wildly unfair results. In the worst case, all voters in 49.9% of states (by elector count) vote for one candidate, and then all voters in 49.9% of the voting districts in the remaining states vote for the same candidate, but 50.1% of voters in the remaining districts vote for the other candidate, that other candidate's ~25% of the popular vote becomes a majority and they win the election. The required popular vote percentage is even lower if you factor in how California voters are less than three fifths people (closer to one fifth than two fifths, even) compared to Wyoming.

Foss local music player with google assistant support?

I recently passed my driving test and I need a music app that plays local files and can be controlled by google assistant for handsfree. I've been using AIMP for ages and its worked great but I can't specify any songs or playlists via the assistant, I can only tell it to "play music on AIMP" and it plays whatever I was playing...

i_am_not_a_robot ,

It's not FOSS, but Symfonium should be able to do that.

White House says ‘it’s the right time’ for Israel to scale back Gaza war as fighting hits 100 days ( apnews.com )

The White House said Sunday that “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli leaders again vowed to press ahead with their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group....

i_am_not_a_robot ,

What does Biden's polling or blood matter? Do we get a choice? The red party candidacy will go to Trump and the blue party is apparently planning to skip the election and keep Biden as president until he inevitably dies of old age because they've opted not to hold any debates.

Voting reform hasn't happened, so without a miraculous level of coordination and turnout from like-minded voters, Biden being reelected is the best outcome we can hope for. Without a way to ensure a majority of states will vote third party (remember we still have the electoral college with unequal representation and most delegates are able to vote however they want, and many states first count votes by district), voting for a third party candidate is half a vote against your second choice. If you're in a state where your vote actually matters, you can vote for a third party out of protest or because you really think the third party candidate is better, and then your least favored candidate can win as a result.

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