This is actually a super smart move, from an evil genius point of view. The plaintiffs now have an interest in the company growing instead of shutting down.

Though I really hope some judge somewhere stops that deal.

I've upvoted your post because I perceive you as respectfully voicing your opinion and mentioning supporting observations. I don't get these vibes from @Grail@aussie.zone's rants at all.

Inclusion and tolerance are important, but I feel like @Grail@aussie.zone is abusing these concepts. And that may or may not be a part of their diagnosis (who could even tell for sure), but the point is, people can't expect everybody around them to accommodate each and every aspect of their state of mind all the time. Just as @Grail@aussie.zone has a right to voice an opinion (withing the boundaries set by the community's rules), so does everybody else. And that means people have a right to disagree with each other and/or call out obvious BS.

TL;DR: This is generally an extraordinarily tolerant community, but most people here are not therapists or psychiatrists looking to do pro-bono work.

I really can't tell whether you're trolling or genuinely misled. Either way, can we please stop using faux political correctness to try & suppress any legitimate idea that just so happens to rub any self-declared militant snowflake the wrong way? It's a stark abuse of (and disservice to) the legitimate fight against discrimination.

Yes, Trump is obviously a narcissist. Yes, anybody who claims that that statement has anything to do with ableism either doesn't know what either of those words mean or is intentionally trying to cause trouble.

I am genuinely not sure what you mean by the current state of affairs.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound mysterious, I just didn't think it was necessary to elaborate.

The thing is that there are three overlapping discussions on pronouns and the choice of certain words now, and as much as I appreciate the mutual exchange of ideas, I feel like a lot of what I'd have to say could be interpreted by some people as (re)starting arguments that lead nowhere... in other words, the return on investment in this thread is rather low.
Not to mention that I've started finding the whole topic tiresome. I'm all for people being who they want to be without judgement (and I have decades of past actions to prove that), but I also have the right not to care about other people's perception of themselves or have that perception imposed upon me. And I'm invoking that right now for the sake of my own wellbeing. A few days without social media sound just about right.

You take care too, and see you in another thread sometime!

Garmin Explore has a bit of a learning curve but offers a variety of very good maps and (once you've discovered where the web developers have hidden them) tons of nifty features. One of them is waypoints: you stick a flag somewhere and can give it a name, icon and colour. That sounds like the thing you're looking for.
The downside is that it's made for outdoor stuff so you get street names and some POIs, but no turn-by-turn navigation.

I use the website (https://explore.garmin.com/) to plan my tours and import/manage GPX files, and the Android app and an inReach 2 Mini satellite messenger while underway. The three sync seamlessly.

Since I have a paid subscription (required for satellite access) I can't tell you what (if anything) you get for free, but it should be relatively easy to find out if you think it might be what you're looking for.

For car navigation I used TomTom Go - it costs something but the quality of POIs and navigation is far superior to Google Maps in my experience. You can also add your own locations but have to do it on the phone by hand.
In my new car I use Google Maps because it came with the car and there's no real alternative at the moment. I do miss my TomTom app.

TL;DR: Meta has been tracking your every move on the web for years and probably won't be stopping anytime soon. Now they've announced a feature to share the information they're collecting with you.

I suspect that's a lie. From a technical point of view there are way easier and cheaper ways to detect potential customers. A simple LDR would probably do a better and more reliable job and cost hundreds of times less.

The spokesdroid also stated that the machines do not take pictures. Duh. It's a camera, what else would it do. May they meant it doesn't store images, but the statements made so far don't exactly instill trust.

I say sue them into oblivion. Make an example out of them.

Yeah, right? Looks like you need a car to get from your parked car to the entrance.

I'm going to have to side with Apple here (and I think I just threw up a bit in my mouth). iMessage is a service that they provide, and they're well within their rights to restrict access to paying customers. iPhone users pay for it when they buy their latest shiny object; users of other brand devices don't.

If you really want iMessage that desperately, buy an iPhone. That's not worth it to you? That's fine, but you can't have it both ways.

At this point at the latest it would be much easier (not to mention more reliable) to get your iPhone-owning friends or family to use another messenger that's not restricted to one single manufacturer. There are several apps that offer more features and more privacy than iMessage and are officially supported (not relying on unofficial hacks) on every modern smartphone.

IMHO the full title should read, "Hertz replaces shoddily built and expensive-to-fix cars, which just happen to be EVs, with more reliable models, which happen to be ICE cars."

That, and there was something about charging infrastructure.

TL;DR: NSA accused of doing that thing that it's been doing for decades, again.

IIUC the title is misleading. Meta will still grab any data it can, it just won't (or at least promises not to, for whatever that's worth) complement whatever it collects with additional data from other sources or share your data with its partners.

I should probably care about this way more than I do, but this is a fight I've largely given up. The 'right' thing to do would be to boycott all DRM-encumbered content, but that's a fight that very few people outside of a comparatively small circle of tech idealists would even about, much less care... and boycotts have never worked for CDs, DVDs or even VHS tapes. The sad truth is that DRM does work as designed for the overwhelming majority of less tech-savvy consumers who either aren't aware of or can't be bothered to try alternatives.

The good news is that it's relatively easy to remove the DRM from ebooks, especially compared to other types of media. As long as this remains possible with just a few additional mouse clicks, the status quo "works for me". I'm all for paying the artist/author, I just don't want the thing I've bought taken away from me as soon as the publisher decides to pull the plug on their DRM server.

And what I've noticed here in Switzerland, even though it's non-representative and anecdotal evidence, is that more and more ebooks are sold DRM-free.

Seconded, or thirded, or whatever. I've only just realized that lemmy.ml posts are the reason I've kept a healthy distance from this place during the last couple of weeks. Is that instance like a testbed / launchpad for China's latest trollbots?

I wouldn't start worrying yet. Elon might 'invent' a feature next week that does a similar thing, only it costs something.

I get what you're saying and I'd have no problem admitting to what you're describing, but can honestly say that I'm really not attracted to her. Apart from the age difference (which is a real turn-off for me) and the fact that I'm married to her mother, she's just not my type. (And I'm thankful for that - I can only imagine the ways it would complicate things). I wouldn't consider her to be my daughter any more if I were her biological father.
Even my dick agrees, and he's known to have made some wildly inappropriate statements in the past.

I for one support this trend, and I know for a fact that Charles Darwin would approve.

Long-time Opera user here (I paid for Opera 5 - yes, that long ago). Opera was a truly visionary browser up to version 7 or so based on its own Presto engine, but nowadays it's just another Chrome clone with dubious features IMHO.

Opera's successor in spirit is probably Vivaldi. I use it as my standard browser on Windows and Android and am very very happy.

I may be a bit cynical here, but to me, current smarthome systems are about two things: a) vendor lock-in, and b) holding your house hostage to push you away from one-time purchases and onto subscription services, much as is already hapening with computers/smartphones and modern cars.

From the seller's point of view, subscription services have several huge advantages: they can milk you have a guaranteed revenue stream for the lifetime of the system, they can collect/sell lots of data about you, and they can ram any TOS changes down your throat which you will accept as long as you care about being able to turn on the lights in your kitchen.

Interoperability is really bad for vendor lock-in, so I'm curious as to which supplier will implement it to what degree.

As for our house, it has some smart things, but none of those are connected to the internet, nor do I expect they ever will be.
For all its faults and risks, a smart home can still make your life a lot easier.

The EU knows fines of 'up to' 4% of revenue for privacy violations, which means the company still gets to keep 96% of whatever it's made by breaking the law. The fine should be a minimum of 50%, plus jail time for the managers responsible. Any punishment that does not make the shareholders cry with fury is too low and will do nothing to change the situation.

I see several issues with your SMTP session.

First, gmail.com will be protected by SPF and DKIM and your message will likely be flagged as spam (or outright rejected) because it's clear that you're not sending on behalf of the real gmail.com.

Second, commands should be in all-caps. A server may accept or reject lowercase keywords.

Third, you need to leave a blank line between the mail headers and the body, so that part of your session would look like so: ...

DATA
354 Go ahead
From: ...
To: ...
Subject: ...

This is the first line of text.
This is the second line.
.
250 Queued

Having said that, many servers will require an encrypted connection (SMTPS), many ISPs will block port 25 for residential customers as an anti-spam measure (so your local mail server may accept the message from your script but be unable to forward it), ESMTP should be preferred over SMTP etc.
If at all possible, you should use a full-featured mail library for this and use your ISP's own mail server.

Doesn't Pop_OS come with a sendmail command?

Did I miss the part where they differentiate between minor issues such as paint problems or YouTube crashing on the middle screen, and actual breakdowns where the car doesn't move when it should? According to the original article, they've included reliability issues such as drivetrain problems, irregular paint and broken trim in their ranking.

Losing in-car entertainment or comfort functions is still undesirable, but if given the choice I'd rather have a car that runs without music than a stationary car that lets me stream movies until roadside assistance arrives.
And concerning the former, the infotainment systems in most ICE cars are just as cutting-edge as those in BEVs. I would expect differences in quality/reliability between different manufacturers, but not within the same brand and model family where the only relevant difference is the engine.

(Edited for clarification.)

Unfortunately, studying any form of therapy doesn't automagically remove all of your own issues. Just think of all the therapists and doctors having a screw loose themselves. This subject is one of my blind spots and that's why I'm looking for outside opinions.
Knowing her, bringing it up like in the original post would probably make her uncomfortable, and I wouldn't want to do that without a good reason, so I've decided to have my feelings challenged in a neutral place first. If Beehaw decides that there's nothing to worry about, I've learned something about myself and there's no need for that talk!

You bring up an interesting point, and I have an answer in my head that makes perfect sense to me, I'm just not sure I have the vocabulary to convey it.

A lot of sex- or genitalia-related things (or intimate things in general) depend on the context more than on the act itself - e.g. even though my urologist has seen & handled my wedding tackle in the past (and I've even paid him for it!), it would be considered rather unprofessional of him to want to do exactly the same thing if we happened to meet at the pub. My masseuse only touches my butt during a massage, etc.

Nudity is not a bad thing as such. It's just that we're not a nudist family at all, and so if anyone walked around in the nude, it would be way beyond the social norms (for lack of a better word) that we as a family have been practicing for years. I would at the very least expect them to give us a heads-up and explain to us why they suddenly want to stop wearing clothes.
The social norms we have don't always make perfect sense, but may still be important to either maintain or challenge as a group because other people's comfort zones depend on them.

Also, as a male in the perfect age group for a mid-life crisis interacting with impressionable young females that are somewhat dependent on me, I always feel like I need to be super-duper extra cautious.

I hope that makes sense.

As a European, this article has explained a lot of things about US car culture to me that never made any sense... including the Cybertruck. The author has a lovely way of taking you by the hand and leading you through the history of America's cars not as evolving pieces of technology, but as an expression of their respective time's culture.

Musk’s emphasis that the Cybertruck is an “armored personnel carrier from the future” is likely driven by his belief that “the apocalypse could come along at any moment.”

[The Cybertruck] is the perfect vehicle for a culture where everyone is afraid of their neighbor. Musk’s bulletproof wedge-shaped machine is the physical manifestation of America’s fear, and whether it is good or bad, we deserve it.

It's really just a well-marketed workaround for a design flaw that gave some phones a unibrow.

She does make some good points further down the line. Give the article another chance. You may disagree with the author's views or conclusions, but it's difficult to argue that cars are not an expression of their time's culture one way or the other.

Same here. I turned the phone 90 degrees (to landscape mode) to answer this question. It looked fine there (no wrapping). Probably a Baserow bug as already mentioned.

Edit - For reference, these are the answers (same order as in the form):

• I dislike federation, and do not consider it necessary
• I dislike federation, but consider it necessary
• I like federation, but do not consider it necessary
• I like federation, and consider it necessary
• I have no strong opinions on federation either way

Cue the people cheering who still have at least 500 rolls left in their basement from last time.

I share your sentiment, but personally I don't like the GPL's Borg-like assimilation of anything it touches.

How about "every crawler using the API must provide the same API free of charge for "?

I don't know. It's commonly accepted that their lyrics have a bit of an anti-estabishment sentiment, but statements such as "believin' all the lies that they're tellin' ya / buyin' all the products that they're sellin' ya", or even "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" (stated by the machine) can just as easily applied to most situations where a printer is involved. Maybe there's somehing to it?

Not too bad, actually!

It's been a while since I've last said that, and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe I should appreciate the seemingly insignificant things more.

It's summer here, and the sun has shown no mercy for a week now, but we've got A/C in the bedroom and living room so we can actually (mostly) enjoy the hot weather.
I've built a PC from spare parts and set it up in the shade next to the pool. This has been my office this week. I can watch the dogs wander around and sniff things and spend the work breaks scuba diving to depths of up to 150cm (5 feet).

Yesterday it dawned on me that this is probably as close as most people I know will ever get to "living the dream". It's awesome. And I'm feeling a bit guilty for having "made it" when so many of my friends haven't (yet).
Has this really happened to me, of all people?

I've made a breakthrough at work to automate one piece of particularly stupid and repetitive work, and I can't wait to get it through testing and discuss it with the person having to do that work.
The teenage kids have been mostly content and busy, so no unnecessary drama for a while. This alone is a massive improvement of our quality of life.

Now all SO and me need to do is find ways to better defend our free time against work and the kids, and we're pretty much exactly where we've always wanted to be.
Oh, and sleep better.

Apparently they've been somewhat inconsistent with that. From what I've read, deleted comments have been more likely to be restored than edited comments, though either have been reported to have been messed with resp. left alone by Reddit.

I for one have replaced most of my posts with a "I hope u/spez grows tastebuds on his rectum" standard text some three weeks ago, which they appear to have left alone so far. But that's a sample size of one user so by no means representative.

In other news, metereologists suspect the tornado near Unity HQ has been caused by furious backpedaling...

I sincerely hope that at least one of the people who made the hateful comments gets a box of these

That would be the icing on the... well. ^^

Same here. Milei as an experiment could go either way, but staying the course would have led to certain disaster... and to be frank, the country as a whole doesn't have a lot to lose at this point anyway.

Android's notifications are actually a great concept for their simplicity - every app with notifications is one icon in the status bar - that's being somewhat abused by a feature added in later versions of Android: background activities have been increasingly limited with every major Android version to save battery, except for apps with active notifications. Hence the seemingly unnecessary notifications by apps that use them just to stay alive.

Plus the sheer number of apps that want your attention keeps increasing.

As a workaround you can ask Android not to show certain types of notifications from certain apps (except for some system apps). Swipe the notification slightly left or long-press it, and there should be a cog icon or button that takes you to the available options for the respective app. Or depending on brand and model of your phone, go to Settings and search for "notifications" for additional options.

I concur. I'd be sad to lose Jerboa (I'm slowly getting too old to get used to new stuff and the current web interface looks a bit cluttered on my phone), but if that's the only thing keeping you from switching to Even More Awesome New Beehaw, then so be it.