I need a good way to respond when people imply that technology is all techbros. This meme might be it.

Yeah, all the current events making diesel more expensive suck, and will hurt everyone’s budget regardless if they drive. But we all know we need to use less diesel, right? We’ve just found the worst possible way to reduce the world’s reliance on diesel.

It feels corporate and the essential features like self hosting and federation are roadmapped, which is just a promise. I really get that there’s serious issues with Matrix, but in the “leaving discord” wars it doesn’t feel fair for them to carry baggage of years of real world concerns and issues, only for a project like this to present a clean slate as superior rather than untested.

I think it’s a combo of this and the fact that “intelligence” continues to not scale with the inputs as they’d hoped. I haven’t been keeping up with developments, but it feels like they’re finding new ways to discover that the brain is in fact an miraculously efficient and effective mechanism. Most their party tricks seem to be reproducing brains more minor processing feats in interesting ways. All the promised advancements have stagnated and what remains is just exploitation of economies of scale and its consequences, which is far from the revolution investors were promised.

"WE WANT SAFETY! WE WANT TRUST! WE WANT … regulatory capture for our manufacturers.

Hey! A privleged few will go for ebikes + transit.

Seriously UK and Germany, you guys trying to upstage us or something?

Pots and pans. When it’s for sure I’ll be banging pots and pans as loud as I can regardless what time it is.

Ah, an avid ebook reader I see.

Likely vandalism. Deflock uses openstreetmap but I don’t know their update frequency.

Houses being blurred on streetview is a courtesy, not a right. So for educatianal purposes, here is the house Google blurred.

Minor asterisk: we need to move away from abusive tech business practices altogether. It’s distressing how people can see the problem and recreate it like with Bluesky. I hope we can build better systems now rather than doing this all over again with european monopolists in 10 years.

Transit uses OSM for foot and bike routing. Just wish they’d drop google as the basemap.

I like the idea of a linux phone, but do current options measure up to GrapheneOS in terms of security? My uninformed impression is they don’t?

(And don’t make me tap the security through obscurity sign.)

Not to get too serious for a shitpost sub, but has anyone seen a solid analysis of microplastics anywhere? I’m talking review of recent science, discussion on types of plastics and sources indicated by research?

Not completely unchanged. Someone briefly changed the name before other editors restored it and moved Lake America to the official_name:en-US tag. That’s been OSM’s way of not quite placating people insisting on the name change.

Do they both flee the scene only to run headfirst into each other behind someone’s barn?

Building alternatives can feel like hurling pebbles at goliath, but it is truly a substastial contribution that hacks at the roots of billionaire control.

Really an idiotic comparison. If I start an account with a hundred and regularly bet low stakes, moving ny account up and down without any crazy losses, are they gonna say I placed thousands in bets when my account was always near $100?