It's been forever since I looked at resilio so this may be an unfair appraisal but... I seem to remember it's one of those OSS projects that feels a lot more like free tier commercial software. Do you think that's the case or nah?

Honestly just a dumb rsync client would be enough for me.

God this is sad.

The parts of tech that are useful and elegant are contracting, while subscriptions and ads just get more obnoxious.

They said somewhere that the play store thing is not the reason, it's just one of the more recent issues.

What is this alternative of which you speak?

It doesn't work as a deterrent though. In states that have the death penalty people still do bad things.

I did enjoy watching that.

Maybe you're right about the body shaming.

To be fair though there's a lot of memes celebrating Trumps hero-like physique. Like the cowboy or fireman things in the video.

That does kinda make it part of the conversation.

Yes!

That instance just has a stink on it.

I'm sure there's some normal users or communities bit there's a lot who are just plain unpleasant to interact with.

Yeah this is pretty much how I feel.

I loathe musk, and despise twitter, and I'm happy about anything they will be unhappy about.

That said, I don't have a lot of respect for anyone who is still there. Journalists, politicians, anyone who has to be there for their job... I still just don't have a lot of respect for them.

Yeah. I tend to agree.

Being able to drive without killing someone is only one aspect of an autonomous vehicle, and security is one that I'm not confident about in the least.

I've noticed that my wife's Level 2 car is just hopeless outside of the city. Sure that's where most people live and it's fine for most people.

Driving on country roads it spends more time having self-disabled it's autonomous features than not, simply because it can't see the road or what have you.

You're not wrong, but that's not really what I meant although perhaps I didn't explain it very well.

Another way to say the same thing, if you group together all the various components or aspects of "driving", 95% of them might be solved relatively easily, but getting the last 5% right is extraordinarily difficult.

It's deceiving because the first time you saw a Level 2 car in 2018 it's natural to think that if they've made so much progress seemingly overnight, then surely in the next few years we will have Level 6 cars.

I do take your point that humans are also good drivers 95% of the time and mistakes only occur within 5% of situations. The issue there is the imperative that autonomous cars must be better than a human in all circumstances. If a human makes, on average, 5 serious mistakes every 500,000km, but an autonomous car makes 6, you'd probably not want to put your family in that autonomous car.

It's this.

To me, saying "this too shall pass" reminds me that life is a journey of good things and bad things my purpose is to experience them all as fully as I can.

Yesterday was great because x, today is shit because y, tomorrow will be new and different because z.

When I'm obsessing and disparing about y, saying "this too shall pass" reminds me that there's a bigger picture, and that y situation will change just as x did.

Oh fuck me. I hate this one.

Looks like I have both fossil and Aves and use them interchangeably.

Now. What about open source camera apps? They all kinda suck. I'm using Libre Camera but wish there was a better alternative.

I just do whatever I feel like doing at the time.

I've never heard someone's strong opinion about it. Do guys really diss guys for sitting down?

The tech hasn't regressed, it just hasn't progressed while the marketing has.

Look up the automation levels: https://au.pcmag.com/cars-auto/94559/is-your-car-autonomous-the-6-levels-of-self-driving-explained

My wife's car is 6 years old, and is level 2. Nothing amazing now, but kinda cool in 2018.

Since then expectations have increased dramatically, and the problems you're hearing about are cars expected to have the higher levels of automation but failing to achieve that.

It seems like this is one of those technical problems that gets exponentially more difficult to solve, the closer we get to solving it. What I mean is, suppose a human averages 100,000km per "incident". It was easy to make a car do 90,000km per incident, less so to have it do 95,000km per incident, but we're finding it very very difficult to get that last 5% performance.

Obvious shill gonna shill obviously.

A few years ago mastodon seemed to be awash with bots posting... young scantily clad anime girls.

Whether or not you find it offensive, it's not really ideal for building a community around and it's a shame admins just let it go.

Yeah I don't know enough about the technologies involved to have an informed opinion but solutions involving nuclear always seem like this...

"Just let us keep doing what we're doing while we invent a new technology that will solve all our problems."

Obviously, the answer is... we absolutely should invent this new technology but while we're doing that we can transition to renewables and avoid grifts that rely on absurd energy usage like crypto and AI.

I don't think "slave" is a very helpful term. I'm not defending slavery in any way. The general consensus is that while some slaves may have been present and assisted in the building of Egypt's mega projects, the majority of the work was performed by paid labor. That said, "payment" was likely good food, beer, lodging, and some credit at the local brothel.

That link is talking about tabs?

That's just css. Every soft fork messes with that. You can yourself in user.css

The big deal with tabs is getting UX right. It's more about how it looks and whether it's intuitive, rather than implementation.