Vodulas
@Vodulas@beehaw.org
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 1 day ago:
I 100% get where you’re coming from. I don’t even disagree that it is a simple excuse to ignore responsibility. From experience, I know police departments simply don’t care about that. Look at Seattle Police. They spent 13 years under federal oversight, marginally improved, then the feds ended it, despite still being incredibly horrible to non-white, non-straight people.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 2 days ago:
I don’t that level of faith in the court, especially the SCOTUS, to have that level of optimism.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 3 days ago:
I understand it is unconstitutional. My point is that it simply does not matter to the cops. Again, the easier thing is to not have cameras at all. Systems can be circumvented. Not having the cameras at all makes it so nobody can abuse them. Mass surveillance is not necessary or good.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 4 days ago:
Stalking is also illegal. Doesn’t seem to stop them
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 5 days ago:
Should, yes, but they won’t. Cops in the US are some of the most corrupt people. The simpler and safer solution is to not have the cameras at all. Mass surveillance is never the answer
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 5 days ago:
Consider the ridiculous amount of stalking from cops using these cameras, no, I don’t think people would be OK with only local cops having access
- Comment on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives 2 weeks ago:
Yup, especially on EVs
- Comment on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives 2 weeks ago:
My car has eco, standard, and sport modes. In my case all they do is adjust the amount of initial acceleration available.
- Comment on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives 2 weeks ago:
Very much vehicle dependent. Mine does fine with both, but my partner’s car sucks at lane assist. It feels like it is bowling with the bumpers on. Just bouncing in the lane between the lines
- Comment on Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they are meant to survive being hit. I already said that. They are also meant to indicate a no car zone, which it was clearly in. A small mistake would have been a slow speed bump from the side it was supposed to be in and not driv8ng through them
- Comment on Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads 2 weeks ago:
They are not meant to be hit. They are meant to indicate not to drive there, and not cause damage when hit. They often separate bike lanes and sidewalks in the US. It got itself into a spot a car should not have been, then hit the bollards to get out of it. This is not a small mistake.
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 4 weeks ago:
Ugh, that sucks, and seems like a distracted driver waiting to happen
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 4 weeks ago:
From what I understand that has more to do with the amount of money they are putting into R&D, not cost of materials for each vehicle. Media has been spinning it, but it is not a 1:1 thing
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 4 weeks ago:
They are likely using LFP batteries instead of ones that take some of the more expensive minerals like cobalt. That is a huge part of the cost of EVs, and LFPs should help keep the price down
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 4 weeks ago:
Wait, they took out the toggles? That is a ton of the personality of the Mini
- Comment on Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company 5 weeks ago:
Men, not that weird. It’s marketing BS. Just trying to inflate their value (or deflate others) by saying, “Pfft, we can do it too”
- Comment on BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian 5 weeks ago:
That’s not how mortgages work. You own the house, the bank owns the loan.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 1 month ago:
I did. That is the one thing the article said without citing a source. It is a common anti-EV talking point and like the person you responded to said, it has been debunked. On top of that, most of the time the environmental impact of transporting and refining oil are not taken into account.
www.ucs.org/sites/…/driving-cleaner-report.pdf
It’s kind of a shame, because overall I agree with the point of the article. Increasing the ability to use bikes and improving public transit are way more efficient, but EVs are a good option in areas where those are not currently viable.
Are EVs perfect? Hell no. Should we throw the baby out with the bathwater, though? Battery technology is getting better. Batteries that don’t use high impact resources like cobalt are becoming viable.
Sorry for a bit of a rant, but sentiments like this are hampering progress
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 1 month ago:
Mmmhmmm. And Microsoft
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 1 month ago:
They tend to be concentrated in my experience. Big tech hubs have a higher concentration. I see a lot of them around Seattle for example.
- Comment on Memdeklaro - A privacy-friendly decentralized identity framework 2 months ago:
Not much as far as I can tell. Seems to be sov-cit ideas but wrapped in leftist buzzwords
- Comment on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection 2 months ago:
Why the hate for beehaw?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It’s no biggie, just wasn’t sure if it was on purpose. Easy to navigate to the main site from there
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Looks super neat! Will definitely be checking it out. FYI, for some reason your link goes to a screenshot, not the main page for the game
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
ok? It was not about which is a worse offense, it was about a history of being shit asses
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
AFAIK, it was not sent to people signed up for the German language newsletter. Filtered via language, not location.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
Good to know!
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
No worries at all. To me it felt more like fetishization but that is a totally fair take.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
Of course! polygon.com/…/gog-twitter-wontbeerased-hashtag/
polygon.com/…/cyberpunk-2077-trans-advertisement-…
kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-tweets-transphobic-joke…
I included CD Projekt in there since GoG is owned by them
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 months ago:
How many layers of people did this go through? Between their history of transphobia and now this, they are painting a pretty bad picture of themselves