China would ask “why not?” and “who’s gonna stop us?”

Still shit for the SW engineer job market.

My device “fails verification” wtf

Every Door is another editor that is simpler than Vespucci.

Gömmer?

I was looking for a tech positive outlook and found solarpunk for myself. Since then I’ve learned a lot that doesn’t have to do with tech, but also on the topic of how technology can empower people. It helps I was already an environmentalist before.

I started looking a lot more into contributing to open source projects. I started looking into decentralized networks like lora radios. I self host a lot more. Got rid of Google on my phone…

Biggest issue is the job. With my attitude change my well paid corporate tech job has become soul sucking.

I mean… yes of course. Being socially inept I read up on it and try to use it, not for some nefarious reasons, but to actually build a connection. But if any conscious alterations of speech is “manipulation” then, yeah. It’s why I don’t like it in a sales call.

It feels more personal to use names. I use them to remove distance between and the other person. I wouldn’t like that for a sales call either, but otherwise I think it’s important for building relationships.

Sounds like trans people are an indicator species.

They don’t care about HW. HW is just a “distribution line” for their software. They care more about people using their software and giving them data. Most Android phones sold are not Google’s Pixels but third party vendors. If a particular device doesn’t sell well they won’t care as ling as the Google ecosystem gets strengthend.

Nice! Good laugh this morning. Where would we be without this clown?

If you don’t differentiate and keep the two in the same pot you won’t be able to fund research into the useful stuff. It’s true that consumer hype and research funding decisions are not the same, but they may be indirectly linked. A public fund may fear public outrage if it continues funding X millions of AI projects even if they’re not LLM related.

So the reputation damage may affects viable, net positive applications.

Without knowing the usecase too much you need vary the following variables:

• contrast (simulate colors and different lighting conditions)
• shadows
• blur
• viewing angles (perspective distortion)
• occlusions
• different QR code versions (v1, v5, v20 etc.)
• noise (introduced by camera gain)
• camera lens distortion

Maybe not all is relevant to your usecase, but these are the main challenges.

As a European this is how I read it too. Politics in the US are so driven by “team sport” and grand personalities the actual policy sometimes gets forgotten. “He says what I think” and “I’ve always voted for party X.” are very common arguments and you may occasionally hear about some wedge issue, but really understanding how these people would govern?

AOC has policy goals and fight for them regardless of her title. If she thinks she can there as President she will run, if not she will do something else.

… or to get all these cupcake recipes. If all that matters not to get fired is active agents…

Sounds to me they will be charging more for their services. Or do I need to purposely misunderstand the statement to be useless?

I think this idea was floated and partially implemented by Uber already.

People need to realize that it doesn’t need to be profitable. Public transportation is a service with many beneficial side effects and efficiencies. The money you lose providing the service to the public reduces other costs. This is why corporations can’t and shouldn’t take it over.

Just to be clear: it doesn’t need to be free. But it could “lose” money.

Oh we have to do exactly that, but my point is that just electrifying the cars is far from enough. We need fewer cars, not just have them be electric.

However the real transformation we gotta do is to move to more public transportation (which can also be electrified) but these budgets are all gone under Trump.

Bought the Fairphone with e/OS.

Problem is many see Android equivalent with Samsung and Samsung is the worst when it comes to customize your HW because they really lock down their shit.

For my phone I just bought a new battery after many years of use and it’s back to working as if it’s new. Before that I had a Shift phone (with Google, I think) which allowed me to replace the camera module once the autofocus in the camera broke.

Not sure if I’m old fashioned, but I like to own my devices and modify them if I please.