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by pbasista 1y ago
Please do not intentionally conflate the two concepts. Connectivity is one thing. Using connectivity for surveillance is another. If a car is connected to the internet, it does not automatically mean that it is also collecting car data and
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by pbasista 1y ago
> 0 of you pay That is an overly broad generalization. > no hesitation to pay AWS, Netflix, Amazon, etc. Again, an overly broad generalization. I am unsure what kind of conclusion you can objectively make out of such generic statement
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by pbasista 2y ago
> engaged in a trade war with ... half the EU That is generally not possible. All EU countries share a common trade policy. Another country can either be in a trade war with the entire EU or with none of the EU. According to the Wikipedi
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by pbasista 2y ago
> Our Earth is a limited resource Of course. No one disputes that. I was just trying to point out that you can get better cells for less money. > being able to reuse batteries instead of discarding them to the trash is a desirable pro
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by pbasista 2y ago
Yes, of course, this cost consideration is only relevant today. I can imagine that ~9 years ago there might have been very little reasonably priced LiFePO4 cells available and if someone could get their hands on used 18650 cells very cheapl
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by pbasista 2y ago
I am also in the EU and last year I have purchased a YIXIANG DIY battery case and 16 EVE MB31 cells for a combined cost of less than 2000 EUR without VAT. It was shipped from China so I had to wait ~2 months to get it which is a disadvantag
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by pbasista 2y ago
> spend hundreds of hours building a home battery system That is, in my opinion, the worst feature of this entire project. It is cool and nice and fun. But it takes a lot of time to research, acquire skills, get tools and build. > you
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by pbasista 2y ago
> You end up with inferior tools, higher costs, and more complexity Possibly, yes. These are the tradeoffs that the businesses are sometimes willing to accept. In exchange for achieving something else that is beyond their own short-term
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by pbasista 2y ago
> They are entirely different business models, run with different profit motives. Why should that be taken into account? > don’t let other bullshit that isn’t relevant to the business affect your decisions Why not? If you only conside
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by pbasista 2y ago
I think that it should be sufficient to create content identifiers of all unitary parts of the video, e.g. parts between keyframes, and skip over the ones which are not supposed to be there. These identifiers could be collected automaticall
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by pbasista 2y ago
Having an emotional reaction is natural. We are intelligent species. We can deal with outbursts of emotions and tame them. The problem is if such emotions materialize into physical actions like hate speech, bullying behavior or worse.
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by pbasista 2y ago
I do not understand these kind of hate-promoting acts against the Tesla car owners. If someone owns a car made by a Elon Musk's brand, it does not automatically mean that they are also supporting Trump's BS policies or Elon Musk&#
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by pbasista 2y ago
To clarify, are you saying that these segments were marked incorrectly? If so, then it is a plain case of internet vandalism. I would just ignore such segments. But if the segments were marked correctly and there were too many of them in th
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by pbasista 2y ago
Of course Google can do this. And more. They could, if they wanted, to embed ads into the video stream itself with no way to distinguish them from the actual video content. But they do not do it. They had so much time and opportunities to d
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by pbasista 2y ago
> we all use it to find work For what it is worth, I do not. I have only had an account there for a brief period of time when I was first looking for a job after university. Then, when Microsoft bought it, I deleted my account. When I wa
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by pbasista 2y ago
> assuming a Japanese child will have patience where an American will not is the same weird thought ... I agree that it is weird. And I did not read the article. But I would assume that this is not the point it was trying to make when re
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by pbasista 2y ago
I would suggest checking out their Table of Hardware [0]. You can filter it by various fairly detailed criteria. From my experience, given the local availability constraints, I often only get a handful of practical options to choose from. F
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by pbasista 2y ago
An excerpt from the linked comment's own TL;DR summary: > X11 has no cursor vsync and tears. Wayland compositors use atomic cursor updates synchronized with vsync.
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by pbasista 2y ago
> HDMI forum refuse to let open source GPU drivers implement What? How can an entity "refuse" to let others implement something? It seems to me that the HDMI forum does not have any say in what someone decides to implement.
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by pbasista 2y ago
> the country where the parent company is registered Ok. But then, if the country of the platform's owner is the issue, why only ban TikTok? And leave other Chinese social media platforms unaffected? In other words, how is e.g. RedN
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by pbasista 2y ago
I am not sure. I am unfamiliar with the consumer camera segment. I have heard about some "firmware enhancements" like Magic Lantern or CHDK for Canon which, if I understand correctly, are some kind of extensions that could be load
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by pbasista 2y ago
This is another case in point that people should research the software capabilities of the devices they purchase. Typically, that can be reduced to one simple question: Can it run custom firmware or custom operating system? If it cannot,
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by pbasista 2y ago
> ban Tiktok I would be really interested in how someone could spin advocating for less moderation and at the same time asking to ban the competitors' social media platforms.
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by pbasista 2y ago
> complaining about APIs like Web USB, but I never got why I think that these people are not complaining about the API itself, which might be well-designed. The problem is, in my opinion, elsewhere. It seems to me that the main reason fo
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by pbasista 2y ago
That is a fair point. But the car manufacturers have no influence over whether the charging spots are going to be built or not. Even if there is no mandate to have them at the apartment buildings, the customers will naturally prefer those d
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by pbasista 2y ago
Since most solar panels, charging equipment, inverters and batteries are made in China, I would be very surprised if they did not utilize it on their own buildings, provided that they have sufficient money to fund it. That being said, China
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by pbasista 2y ago
> People who don't deny such things would not be Nazis for long. Interesting thought. It would imply that denying one's own wrongdoings is a necessary prerequisite for being actually evil. I am wondering what it means in the co
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by pbasista 2y ago
> I'm grateful to be getting a car from another manufacturer this year. I have no illusions about Tesla's ability to deliver an unsupervised self-driving car any time soon. However, as far as I understand, their autosteer syste
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by pbasista 2y ago
From what I understand, one of the factors to not focus on Asahi Linux on M3 for now is the lack of an M3 Mac Mini which supposedly makes the development easier.
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by pbasista 2y ago
I understand the sentiment. But the people who could work on the Asahi Linux graphics stack are generally not the same as the people who could e.g. bring up Asahi Linux on M3 chips. I would not consider the lack of activity in some Asahi Li

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