Notices by Dan Herbert (danherbert@mastodon.social)

@timnitGebru As is common, The Onion predicted this pretty accurately. https://youtu.be/qBYmyYK4Kcg

@mcc I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure the API Oracle sued over pre-dated them open sourcing Java. It's one of the reasons the lawsuit was so petty. By the time it had worked its way through the courts, Google had switched over to the open API so they were suing for stuff that no longer applied.

(One of the many reasons why I have strong negative opinions about Oracle)

@futurebird Assuming Tesla has sold 6 million vehicles in total (the exact number is probably lower, but not far off) that bonus is equivalent to almost $10k for every vehicle they've ever sold.

That's on top of his existing compensation. Even if one were to argue it was "deserved", I don't see how that works out financially. The company's revenue has been slowing down; that kind of compensation bump seems irresponsible just looking at the business side of things.

@thomasfuchs @malcircuit Isn't the 2023 Lexus RZ450e a steer by wire vehicle? From reviews I've seen, it works well but I also trust Lexus to make it safe more than I trust Tesla to.

I swear I've been practicing my French skills this week and actually been spending a fair amount of time both mornings & nights practicing (on top of non-app based practice)

But last week was the final round of a #Duolingo tournament and I really wanted to win so by comparison this week looks like practically nothing 🙃

@thomasfuchs KOSA has an exception in it for non-profits that means they don't need to comply with the bill, which I think will protect Mastodon instances somewhat.

But it's still a terrible bill for the Internet in general that doesn't actually protect kids and needs to get dropped.

@thomasfuchs I think a more and more common problem is that software teams are doing exactly that, but then assuming "we know what's best" for the people using that software. Or they end up using excessive amounts of AI to "solve" for the problem they introduced.

@thomasfuchs It's more suboptimal than you'd think. Part of the update size is because Apple chooses to have a single disk image for all supported architectures, so ARM & Intel updates are included for everyone regardless of your system type, which makes updates even bigger.

@thomasfuchs That's thanks to a MacOS security feature introduced in Sierra 10.12 called "Gatekeeper*" that requires whole disk images to be signed to protect from being modified. It means even small patches have to completely replace large chunks of the system to update.

*Gatekeeper has technically been around for a while, but only added that extra feature starting in Sierra.