Notices by Damon L. Wakes (damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org)

@pentup @gamingonlinux If someone says "This could hypothetically be useful, but there are all these ethical issues," that isn't putting the ethical issues aside. That would be "Sure there are some ethical issues, but wow look how cool!!!" which really isn't the stance of the article or site as a whole.

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@inthehands I really am astounded just how clueless some of these people seem to be about their users. It's the same with Firefox eagerly aping Google for an audience of people who are exclusively using Firefox because it isn't Chrome. I'd say it's like the Kentucky Derby accepting Pritt Sticks as a sponsor, but I genuinely think that might land better.

@brnrd @inthehands 123m is the figure for 10 years, 0.142m was for a single year. It's a little confusing that they provided those numbers without putting them in more directly comparable terms. Still a huge underestimate, though.

@thekerker @aral

@ricci This sounds neat, but it seems to have a very funny idea of what "global" means.

@ricci It's just done it first try on a fresh start in Firefox Focus (which shouldn't preserve anything between sessions). Any chance it's because I'm searching for mastodon.sdf.org?

@ricci Please do let me know if you figure it out! I'd be keen to have another poke around. It is interesting to see the scale of the servers compared this way.

@ScottishGreens @Infoseepage Yeah. Even if you don't care about people being able to get to jobs etc. without having to own and maintain a car (And why wouldn't you!?), the boost just from reducing congestion must be enormous.

@ScottishGreens @Infoseepage I remember visiting Amsterdam and finding the free ferry the most alien thing on the trip. Just free, dependable public transport running constantly - unthinkable in the UK.

@Strit @gamingonlinux That's at 30FPS. The post says 32GB is the minimum for 60FPS at 1080p (same as the image).

Personally I'd be happy with 30 - that strikes me as a perfectly playable framerate - but the post seems entirely accurate.

@autolycos @ai6yr @paul_ipv6 What's up with the alt-text on this? It seems to bear no relation to the contents of the video beyond mentioning that there's a donkey in it.

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@mdhughes @HauntedOwlbear Is a penguin really less sexy than a vulture, or a Marabou stork, or one of those cliff-nesting seabirds that projectile vomits as a defense mechanism? I feel as though there's a lot of competition for the title of least sexy bird, and I'm just not sure penguins are really putting in the effort.

@inthehands I've been keeping an eye on the USD to GDP exchange rate recently and something really funny has been happening since January for some reason.

@botvolution Oh, wow, that's really concerning. It's immediately obvious this thing isn't me despite much of my input being pretty disjointed and random to begin with. (Admittedly this generator only strings together individual characters rather than whole words, but I'd worry about anyone whose tone could be replicated by anything this simple.)

Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
#MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard

@Rycaut @inthehands I just dug into this myself and found an article that suggests the backup option for doing this from the outside is...a different way of charging the battery?

The article also implies a guy who got stuck inside one is stupid for not spotting a manual release that Tesla seems to have made an effort to conceal, so I find it telling they have to present this as an obvious solution. https://www.carscoops.com/2023/08/man-gets-trapped-in-hot-tesla-after-battery-dies-as-he-wasnt-aware-of-manual-release/

@Rycaut @inthehands The instructions for manually opening the back doors without power are even wilder. Front of the car wedged somewhere following an accident? No problem! Just rip up the carpet in front of the back seat and find the emergency wire you have to pull in a specific direction. Oh, and BTW, there's a risk it'll break the windows when it opens so you probably don't want to give it a trial run at home. And it's different in other Teslas! Happy motoring! 🙃

@inthehands How old were you when you started?