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i_am_not_a_robot,

China is simultaneously destroying the environment for profit and investing too much money in green technology?

A distinctive feature of purchase subsidies for BEV in China, however, is that they are paid out directly to manufacturers rather than consumers and that they are paid only for electric vehicles produced in China, thereby discriminating against imported cars.

That’s an interesting way to spin subsidies on the production of electric vehicles. Why would China pay companies in other countries to produce cars?

i_am_not_a_robot,

The headline says “digital freelancers,” so maybe it’s talking primarily about small jobs that were being outsourced. A 21% decrease in regular job listings would be more concerning because of the amount of incorrect information and buggy software about to be created than job loss.

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,

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption

i_am_not_a_robot,

We tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Social media is not the cause. There are so many problems that young people are helpless to do anything about. Congress’s desire to restrict and censor internet access for minors has to be more impactful than social media itself.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Are people in this article really suggesting that the 100% emoji is racist? You can never get a perfect score or agree with anything again because a small number of people have used that number to mean something else and now somebody will interpret it as a hate crime.

At first they were arguing that somebody writing “shit” in an exaggerated way, and the occurrence of two other numbers and an elongated asterisk were Nazi symbols, and they could be, but the only evidence is that somebody said they thought it was too many coincidences. I don’t know enough about the circumstances to say it is or isn’t intended that way. Management apparently thinks it isn’t. But saying multiple people reacting “100%” to a message they agree with means they’re all using the number 100 as a sign of white supremacist solidarity is ridiculous. What else are they going to do? React with the “OK” hand? No, the ADL also decided that one is racist. React with thumbs up? No, younger people have decided that one is rude.

i_am_not_a_robot,

ADL make a list that explains what obscure symbols a very small number of people use, possibly ironically, and promote it via their website to turn it into a more powerful hate symbol.

The Roman salute used by Italy and Germany and the Bellamy salute used by Americans were similar but not exactly the same. Americans possibly created the Nazi salute’s use as a hate symbol by changing their own salute to be different and then showing people using either of the original salutes as Nazis in propaganda.

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,

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.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Even if they’re both wrong, it’s worth mentioning. It’s much more common for people to have experience with one than the other. If you think “oh, it’s just like circumcision so it isn’t that bad” then you’re getting the wrong idea.

i_am_not_a_robot,

When was AI first announced? What kind of rules could the government have put in place to effectively prevent people outside their jurisdiction from using freely available technology on their own computers?

i_am_not_a_robot,

Does he have any popularity with the younger generation? The kids I know are smart enough to realize their options are bad and worse.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Doesn’t that make it worse? If he abuses power for the good of the country, at least he has some principals. Abusing power to hurt people he’s personally unhappy with is just childish.

i_am_not_a_robot,

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

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,

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.

realcaseyrollins, to technology

From generative AI to the Apple Vision Pro headset, here are the tech developments that scored big this year.

https://www.engadget.com/the-biggest-winners-in-tech-in-2023-143012912.html

i_am_not_a_robot,

How can the Vision Pro be a winner if it doesn’t exist yet?

i_am_not_a_robot,

Some portion of it likely is. Medium is like Wordpress.com with paywalls.

i_am_not_a_robot,

If the common wire is broken, maybe depending on how the headphones are wired you will hear the difference between left and right instead?

i_am_not_a_robot,

Are they fast now? The cheapest M2 MacBook Pro does not have a fast SSD.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Images are files and are affected.

i_am_not_a_robot,

I don’t know how much of a difference it will make.

It’s easy to host files. Even if the malware “author” is clueless and just buying a customizable malware, either they’ll figure out how to host files or file hosting will be provided along with the service they’re buying.

It may not stop Discord from being the file host either. Malware distributing bot accounts could keep copying a new link to the file, or could upload a new version of the file on demand.

Discord can’t expire webhooks the same way so webhooks will continue to be used for exfiltration. Pointing out that it’s used for exfiltration as if it were related seems like bad reporting. It’s a difficult problem because if they did break webhooks it’d only make things more difficult for legitimate users. These malware packages usually hijack the user’s Discord installation and could send out the information as the user without using webhooks.

i_am_not_a_robot,

It’s been partially live for weeks. If you copy a link to a file, including images, the link has the new parameters on it.

i_am_not_a_robot,

There is already a standard, we’ll known method for putting a business card on paper that doesn’t require electronics: QR codes.

i_am_not_a_robot,

The way those mod loaders work for games that don’t have built in mod support is often by using Win32 APIs to inject the loader into the game process like a virus. It’s unlikely that injection mechanism and subsequently finding the relevant game code works correctly on Linux under Wine. Mod loaders that involve modifying the game files or placing extra DLLs in the game directory might work, but might take some extra tricks.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Photo realistic avatars aren’t possible today. Even if they have the technology for it to work in normal conditions and it wasn’t faked like the leg tracking, it’s going to take more than a smartphone to render, and the majority of people don’t have a computer more powerful than a smartphone, even if they do own a VR headset. The sad reality for PC VR is that most PC users don’t have VR and probably most VR users don’t have a gaming PC.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Bluesky is not decentralized. It’s promised to be decentralized but I wouldn’t be surprised if they never allow open federation.

i_am_not_a_robot,

He might not be the best but he surely wouldn’t be the worst candidate.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Did they also revert the change where most hostile NPCs would automatically flag you on agro? A long time ago you could run through towns without being flagged, and NPCs could kill themselves by attacking players that had some sort of damage reflection without the player becoming flagged.

i_am_not_a_robot,

World of War Warcraft is also unplayable at noon on Tuesdays. It’s an uncommon enough time that the servers might be down for maintenance. They could do a better job explaining that if that’s the case, but it’s early access.

Microsoft Teams is now part of the Xbox Game Bar so you can stream gameplay to friends - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft has integrated Microsoft Teams with the Xbox Game Bar, allowing users to stream their gameplay in real-time to friends over Teams video calls. Up to 20 people can join a call to watch and chat together while gaming. The viewer can see both the game and overlaid video of friends. However, streaming performance is...

i_am_not_a_robot,

Microsoft has a real branding problem with messaging services. First they had Skype and Skype for Business and now they have Teams and… Teams. They’re completely different products and don’t interoperate. This is almost certainly for the home version of Teams.

It’s not even a good name. Who thinks of their friends and family as teams?

i_am_not_a_robot,

If you’re in an Office you might be using a completely different product with the same name from the same company with a similar logo.

i_am_not_a_robot,

It’s the number one change in the patch notes.

i_am_not_a_robot,

On Android, apps use your default browser: developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/

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