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I could live with an ad before every video

I can't live with that. Often I don't even know if I actually want to watch the video or not, and if I have to sit through three minutes of ads, only to close the video five seconds after the ad because it's not what I expected... yuck. Preroll ads are often a deal breaker for me unless it's content that I'm very familiar with.

Mid-roll ads I'm OK with - by then I've already decided the content is worth watching.

I don't think I'm alone and YouTube seems to be very aware of this issue. They are selective about which videos have a pre-roll ad.

The headline misses the real controversy - they tried to cover up the incident and only reported what actually happened after the government came back and asked questions, because the reports from first responders didn't line up with what Cruise themselves had reported.

There are also rumors of internal people who felt the cars weren't safe, with a list of scenarios they didn't handle acceptably. The cars really should have had human safety drivers ready to override the car while fixing those issues.

Every community has rules about what content is on topic, and if you post something else it will be removed. That's not censorship.

A government statement is a government statement. It is not news. A proper news organisation would, for example, fact check whatever statement the government made and consider if the reader should be given additional context - perhaps details the government might be omitting in order to increase their chances of being re-elected.

On an issue as politically charged as this one, it's especially important for the full journalistic process to be followed. You're essentially attempting to post to the community as if you are a journalist yourself. But you're not... and even if you were there's no team of people fact checking what you wrote.

There are communities where you can do that, but US News one one of those communities.

The title should be "the person who reported a vulnerability denies it's existence."

Those batteries in your photo are NiMH batteries... which discharge on their own at a fairly rapid rate even if you're not using them at all. They're also pretty big and heavy for the amount of power they provide (which, due to the self-discharge issue, is effectively a lot lower than the official number on the battery).

I strongly recommend investing in devices that use 18650 batteries. They're about the same size/weight, and they last much longer (both in terms of from full to flat and also the number of years (decades?) of use you'll get from the battery.

18650 batteries are similar to cell phone/laptop/electric cars/power tools/etc. In fact a lot of those literally use a bunch of 18650 batteries wired together internally. It's worth investing in good ones - the quality varies significantly from brand to the next.

Reddit is one of the most valuable websites on the entire internet. It's being miss-managed, and therefore it either needs new management or it needs to be replaced by something else.

The reddit community has tried to get new management put in place and seems to be failing, so plan B is to replace Reddit with something else.

I don't think just "getting rid" of reddit is an option at all. It needs to be replaced with something better. And that something is not Medium.

Sure, it's all about capitalism. Nothing good like this could ever come from advances in technology:

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/08/425986/how-artificial-intelligence-gave-paralyzed-woman-her-voice-back

ML is a tool and like most tools it has broad use cases. Some of them are very, very, good.

We should ban police cars too - because allegedly an empty police car was also blocking the ambulance.

The AV spokesperson said they reviewed the footage and found there was room to pass their vehicle safely and another ambulance and other cars did so.

Who doesn’t want to promote and advertise how profitable they are to potential shareholders just before an IPO.

They might want to, but it's illegal.

The "quiet period" is a reference to an SEC law that forces any company to be radio silent for a strict 40 day period during the IPO process. Reddit is in that period now and therefore they cannot say a word.

JPMorgan was fined almost a billion dollars for answering questions on a phone call during their quiet period.

Um, isn't everything everyone does on the fediverse public? I assume it's all being tracked already. By search engines as a bare minimum, but anyone else (including Meta) who does any kind of research/etc. And they don't need to be federated to do it, they can just crawl the network with HTTP.

As for "forcing networks to play by their rules" I don't see that happening, and Google hasn't done it with email. Gmail doesn't have enough marketshare for that. At best they've forced people to make sure they have good outbound spam filtering. That's not just google, every email provider (including small on premise office mail servers) has that policy.

I'm not saying we should federate them (personally I'm undecided) but your explanation hasn't convinced me.

I'd bet sites blocking ChatGPT will regret it when (not if) Bing starts using it for search engine relevance.

Beehaw already isn't really federated since it has blocked lemmy.world, which is 10x the size of Beehaw now and will likely be more like 100x the size of Beehaw at some point.

I personally'd prefer if Beehaw was fully federated (especially with lemmy.world), but I think this weird half way point is bullshit. Fully defederating would be better than the current situation.

As for arguments/etc... I don't think the quality of discussion here is any better than Lemmy.world.

"how do I build a bomb” or “how do I make napalm"

... or you could just look them up on wikipedia.

honestly, “efficient” can imply several things, and they don’t seem to clarify what (at least from my first pass of this doc).

How would you like to define it?

How about this for an analogy - which of these two is more efficient:

1. Plant some wheat in your back yard, buy fertilised eggs to hatch into chickens, plant tomatoes and basil, plant an olive to grow a tree, and eventually, years down the track, you can make yourself a bowl of pasta.

2. Notice your next door neighbour already cooked some pasta and made more than they can eat. Ask politely and they'll just give you a serving.

Obviously - the second option is more efficient, and that's effectively what a heat pump does. They don't heat up your home, they just take a bit of heat from the air outside and move (pump) it into your home. It's far far more efficient than creating new heat from scratch with a gas system.

Exactly how much more efficient will depend on the outdoor and indoor air temperature, and on the brand/model of heat pump you buy, and other factors (such as the length of the pipe between the outdoor unit and the indoor unit). You really should ask for specific advice on your home - but in general, a heat pump is extremely efficient.

Where I am, electricity is pretty cheap, but natural gas is tremendously cheaper per jule… so we can actually pay less by using the “inefficient” fuel for our home.

Have you actually looked into it, or are you just making assumptions?

I can tell you that my heat pump, in my house (yours will be different), in my climate, adds about $5 per week to my electricity bill. Is your gas bill less than $5 per week?

Or at least - that's how much it cost before I had solar panels. Now that I have solar... it uses about 20% of the power typically produced by the solar panels on my roof leaving plenty of excess power that we sell to the grid for about the same amount of money as what we spend buying power overnight. Since we installed solar our entire electricity bill is about $0 (and we use power for a bunch of other stuff, including to cook breakfast and dinner when the sun typically isn't shining*). We don't have a large solar system either - in fact, installing solar cost less than installing heat pumps.

(* our solar system comes with instruments and software to measure our consumption - and I can tell you that heating up a family meal with an electric cooktop uses more electricity than heating an entire house with heat pump... because the cooktop is creating heat, and the heat pump is simply moving heat)

I paid $5k recently without the battery - it's not just affordable, it's cheaper than drawing power from the grid. Pay off on the upfront investment will be about 7 years and it has an expected life of 30+ years (we paid extra for long lasting panels).

Battery prices will come down - in the mean time it's still better to just get that power from the grid.

free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity

99% of open source software development is part of a commercial activity.

As I understand it - the act essentially makes contributors to open source software legally responsible for any security flaws. If it passes into law, I'll stop contributing to open source. I'm not going to risk having to defend myself in court — it's just not worth it.

I agree, but who’s going to pay for it?

How about police/the tax payer?

If university researchers can find the stuff, then police can find it too. There should be an established way to flag the user (or even the entire instance) so that content can be removed from the fediverse while simultaneously asking for all data that is available to try to catch the criminals.

And of course, if regular users come across anything illegal they will report it too, and it should be removed quickly (I'd hope immediately in many cases, especially if the post was by a brand new/untrusted account).

the method of enforcement should be to arrest the perpetrators

To do that, you have to know who the perpetrators are, which is routinely impossible.

This isn't a hypothetical situation, we are living in a world where servers are kicked off the internet, SSL certificates are revoked, vast quantities of emails are deleted without even sending them to a spam folder, lemmy communities are closed down, etc.

In a perfect world, none of that would be necessary and we could simply send the perpetrators to jail. But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in one where censorship is the only option.

It uses whatever rending engine works best on the platform you're using - Chromium's main advantage is the extensive plugin library so that's the one they use on most platforms, though they have said they have internal builds that run on other rending engines and those work fine (except for plugins). If there's every any reason to drop Chromium they will.

As for being "just another" anything - it really isn't. The way tabs work is fundamentally different to any other browser. At a glance, it just looks like a basic browser with tabs in the sidebar instead of across the top but it's so much more than that.

For example most browser have three types of tab - Regular, Pinned, and Incognito. Arc has "Today" tabs, Pinned Tabs, Favourite Tabs (these are closer to "Pinned" tabs in other browsers), "Little" tabs, Split tabs, Popup Tabs, and Incognito tabs.

Notice there is no "regular" on that list - none of the tabs in Arc behave like a regular browser tab. Arc also doesn't have bookmarks - tabs replace bookmarks. Here's the breakdown:

• Today tabs go away at the end of the day (you can change this to be longer, I don't recommend doing that). They go into an Archive and can easily be recovered.
• Pinned tabs aren't like pinned tabs are synced between all your devices/browser windows and they stick around until you get rid of them. The process to create and remove a pinned tab is really simple and they are organised in groups and folders. Pinned tabs won't necessarily bne running in RAM, so in a way they're almost like a bookmark.
• Favorite tabs appear as just an icon instead of a full tab, and they appear in all of your groups (within a profile). They are also pre-loaded — handy for web apps that take a while to load.
• A Little tab tab doesn't have tabs - it harkens back to the old days when the web was a lot simpler. It's useful for quickly looking something up and then closing it a few seconds later. Links from other apps open in this mode by default.
• Split tabs are a single tab that contains multiple webpages - e.g. you might have your zoom meeting and your notes as a single tab.
• Popup tabs are similar to "little" tabs, except instead of being in a separate window they are embedded in a tab. If you have, for example, your issue tracker as a pinned tab, and you load up a link to a different domain name, it will open in one of these. You can go back to your issue tracker by closing the popup tab instead of hitting the back button six times... but it will still be a single tab for both your issue tracker and the link that the issue tracker took you to.
• Incognito works the same as any other browser.

Yes - it is closed source... but it uses an unmodified open source rendering engine and for me that's good enough.

No, the car did the right thing.

Removing pressure from her leg could have meant bleeding to death before paramedics could arrive. As horrifying as it is to have a car parked on your leg, she was stable and as safe as she could possibly be. Removing the car from her leg wouldn't have reduced the pain - chances are it would've got a lot worse and I bet emergency services didn't remove the car from her leg as soon as they arrived, they would've done a bunch of prep work first (especially given her drugs for the pain).

When there's a serious accident, you stop what you're doing and wait for help. Only act if you're trained or if it's very clear that something needs to be done right now (e.g. if a car is on fire and someone is inside it).

This. The countries where Meta only has "a lot" of marketshare are the ones that were early to make SMS available for free to everyone.

In countries where they were late to that, Meta controls the market.

Honeslty - see a doctor.

The advice peole are offering here will either help or do nothing or make your problem worse and if you try all of them - chances are pretty high you'll stumble across one that will make it worse.

Your pain is a symptom, not a problem. You need to find out what the problem is before you can fix it.

Drive to the right edge of the road and stop until the emergency vehicle(s) have passed

That is a direct quote from the California DMV and from the sounds of it that's exactly what the autonomous car did.

The right answer, in my opinion, is to allow the first responders to take control of the car. This wasn't just a lone ambulance that happened upon a stationary car. It was a major crash (where a human driven car ran over a pedestrian) with a road that was blocked by emergency vehicles. A whole bunch of cars, not just autonomous ones, were stopped in the middle of the road waiting for the emergency to be over so they could continue on their way. Not sure why only this one car is getting all the blame.

ChatGPT 4 is estimated to use 700GB of “High Bandwidth Memory”.

… which will set you back about half a million dollars at current prices (which are high, because the manufacturers can’t keep up with demand). Or, you could just pay 20 bucks a month.

The Yandex N.V. "head office" is conveniently located in the third largest airport in the world, so people can pick up mail sent to that address without having to actually live in the country.

Their headquarters are very much in Russia, and the Netherlands address is surely about avoiding political sanctions.

What’s your opinion? Does google really “not work” anymore?

Depends what you're searching for. For some searches I've given up on using it. For example I just purchased a new TV and one of the features wasn't working. It took me several hours of Googling to figure out how to fix it — almost every result offered by Google didn't contain an answer to my question.

Are there any better search engines?

ChatGPT works well for some searches. Especially if you pay for GPT-4.

It's pretty impressive how ChatGPT is better than Google despite never being designed as a replacement for Google. I think when someone applies the same technology to a proper search product, the result will be really awesome. Time will tell who manages to pull that off - it might even be Google.

Why did the quality of search results go down?

The main issue, I think, is all the websites these days that exist exclusively to show banner ads. Many of them are packed with information that Google's algorithm determines might be relevant to the user, but the algorithm is wrong.

The websites want you to click on an Ad, and you're a lot more likely to click an Ad if you give up, don't find what you're looking for, and decide to buy a new weight loss gadget instead.

I'm sure part of the problem is Google itself is an ad company. A lot of the things they could do to fix this issue would harm their own revenue.

When I browse All on Beehaw I see a bunch of topics that I'm not even remotely interested in. I'm sure most of it is interesting to the members of those communities, but it's definitely not how I use Lemmy.

When I go to my "Subscribed" tab on lemmy.world, it's full of great content that isn't available on Beehaw.

I would question wether "good" and "inexpensive" are possible at all on a wrist tracker. Measuring your heart rate from the wrist is technically difficult - it's just too far from your heart and requires expensive sensors, a large battery, and even then a massive R&D budget (as in hundreds of millions) to get the software algorithm right.

Get yourself a chest strap - those are technically much easier to implement. You'll need to look at your phone to view your heart rate, but it should be accurate unlike most wrist trackers.

Even thousand dollar wrist fitness trackers (like the high end Apple Watch models) are often paired to a cheap chest tracker and those watches generally will trust your chest tracker over their own measurements - because even with billions spent on the best wrist tracker possible they still can't be as good as a $30 chest strap.

Look for one that supports the "ANT" standard. They will allow you to view your heart rate in real time on a variety of other devices (phone, watch, gym equipment, etc). ANT trackers just use bluetooth, so they won't send anything to the cloud (unless you pair them to a phone app that does that).

When did Apple brag about that? All I can think of is a brief ad campaign where the "PC Guy" had a cold. That's hardly a claim that Macs have perfect security.

Apple has, in fact, gone on the record as saying they don't think the Mac is secure enough, and that's why iOS is locked down as tight as it is.

If they block Google, they will likely block DDG an every other search engine.

You'll probably need to be logged in to see anything with rate limits so bots can't crawl the site.

for the “Rate I currently pay”, which is 0.08c/kwh

How did you get that rate? We pay 33 cents, and it was 24 cents just a few months ago... wouldn't be surprised if it goes up again next year and the year after since even 33 cents is government subsidised (so - there's no cheaper option available).

otherwise I would have not have pulled the trigger on a 50,000$ project

Ooof. Why'd you do that? We simply put (a bit over) 5kW of panels on the roof, and a good 5kW inverter. One day of sun generates about as much power as we use in a week, and even if it's overcast we still come out ahead.

We're basically only paying for overnight power and pretty easy to keep that to a minimum (with good insulation, efficient overnight appliances, avoiding unnecessary overnight power consumption - such as putting the beer fridge and hot water heater on a timer).

It’s a tough call. Many forums have a rule against changing the title at all.

Those forums are wrong. A title should accurately reflect the content. We can't choose the title other websites choose... but we can choose a title for our posts and we should take advantage of that.

Also - if you find yourself posting on a forum with that rule, just ignore it. And then tell them the title you typed out yourself was copy/pasted. They'll have no way of knowing since so many news services A/B test titles anyway.

Here's the tile I would've used: "Police Alert Parents to iPhone's Automatic Contact Sharing Feature" — I think we can agree it's more accurate than the deliberately unclear title this post currently has.

I'm not jumping on you - I'm just pointing out lemmy.world isn't a total write off. There are about 20k monthly active users on that instance and about 20k of those people are polite, reasonable people who post interesting content.

With any large community like that there's always going to be some people who're problematic, but either the moderators on lemmy.world are deleting them before I see them, or else it's happening on communities I don't subscribe to (probably a mix of both).

I think Beehaw should re-federate lemmy.world as soon as the moderation tools are better. In particular the cross-instance moderation issues should be sorted out. The key to a functioning fediverse is to ensure that everyone across instances can work together to tackle bad content. Many hands make light work.

I don't really care about "growth". Lemmy is a community not a corporation. What I care about is when someone starts an interesting discussion, are there "enough" people who take part in that discussion? I see threads on Beehaw (and even on Lemmy.World) that get zero replies. That sucks.

They don't literally mean no batteries. They just mean small batteries. The 50Wh battery in my (modern, efficient) laptop lasts about 18 hours for example.

You'd also have battery powered lighting.

The real challenge is heating and cooling. If you want to be able to keep your house a comfortable temperature, your food cool in the fridge, your food hot when you eat it... that's not easy to do with small batteries. But it can be done, e.g. with good insulation and by changing your habits a little (cook during the day, etc).

You can also, as it says in the article, use "non battery" storage. We already do that. For example lots of people keep hundreds of litres of hot water next to their house. That hot water can be used, for example, to keep warm overnight. You can also fill empty air space in your fridge with water - unlike air, which is instantly replaced with warm air every time you open the door, the cold water will stay in the fridge and help the fridge stay cold much much longer. Easily overnight.

Of course, you could also just use gas for all of that... but if one of your motivations is to avoid carbon emissions then that's off the table.

At a guess - they're likely selling those laptops at a loss and making the money back on (hopefully) service contracts or (probably) selling your data. As soon as you install a custom OS they won't support you (so you won't buy support) and they won't be able to sell your data.

I don't even know what Turbo 8 is

Maybe you should find out?

The idea behind Turbo is your server sends HTML/CSS to the client, and when the content needs to be updated... the server simply sends new HTML which Turbo will inject into the page. You can also annotate links so they fetch new content from the server instead of navigating to a new URL.

Your server side code can be written in whatever language you prefer... Turbo being a 37Signals project I assume they're using Ruby. It'd work fine with TypeScript too if that's your thing. Turbo just uses HTTP / JSON to talk to the server and doesn't have a server side component.

You can have client side code, but AFAIK there's pretty minimal interaction with Turbo - you might for example add an event listener that processes the HTML and as converts ISO date/times into Date.toLocaleString().

If you're writing complex client side code then you shouldn't be using Turbo at all.

This change doesn't affect, at all, the language used by users of Turbo. What's changed is the Turbo dev team themselves have chosen to write Turbo in vanilla javascript. And there are advantages to vanilla JS - it removes the compilation step from one language to another, for example.

As a rule, I don't watch or read things with clickbait headlines and this is clearly one of those.

I'm happy to take part in the discussion though - because it is an interesting (and important) debate.

I've watched/read plenty of articles on this topic. But if they can't write a good headline, then I'm not going to encourage more of that by giving them an ad impression.

When someone posts on Discord, they will often get an answer within seconds. I don't recommend or use Discord, however I absolutely do recommend every project use a realtime chat service of some kind.

With GitHub or a forum it's likely to be overnight if you get a response at all. That fundamentally changes the type of content people are willing to post.

Projects should eventually have a website and an issue tracker and a chat service and an email address and a mastodon account. But you don't need to create all of them at once...

And a chat is always where I start. In fact I usually start discussing my idea in a chat room of some kind before I've even decided to start work on the project at all. 99% of the time the discussion ends with me deciding it's not a good idea.

You think teenagers care about insurance? Even if they did, they certainly can't buy any.

I'm pretty sure the teens my neighbourhood that go as fast as they can at night on the wrong side of the road around blind corners with their lights turned off are uninsured. I love my eBike. Not a fan of how I see other people riding them every day though (and not just kids).

Generative AI (for writing text, coding,… ) is of course no where close to being useful, but it can interesting to try. It is just a toy, expensive one, but still a toy.

I disagree. It's absolutely useful... in certain industries, for appropriate tasks.

That doesn't stop it from also being used as a toy.