Does anyone know of a way to buy an EV that doesn't relentlessly spy on the driver/passengers and send the data to whoever the carmaker feels like selling it to?
Related: Does anyone know of a service in the Bay Area that will disable all the surveillance that was, without my knowledge or permission, built into a 2008 Prius?
I’ve said this before but apparently it hasn’t sunk in but if you say “Biden has lost my vote”, don’t expect anyone to listen to you or be surprised he’s not out gunning for it. The election is 6 months out. If there’s no way you’re voting for him, nobody fucking cares what you want.
You can enjoy likely a 7-2 or 8-1 conservative SCOTUS that will be grinding down our rights for the next generation or three. Enjoy that.
@hotdogsladies I loved hearing about Spider-man and how he was contracted for 3 movies, but thought it was over when they killed off his character only to be brought back 17 years later! I still can't believe they pulled that movie off so well. Loved it.
@MLE_online It seems like her ears are disproportionately large compared to "average" cats, they are more along the axis toward fennec fox or corgi ears.
One of my jobs at with a rescue I work with is to take pictures of all the surrendered animals so the placement person has something to work with. Anyway, I have a lot of pictures of cats. It seems to me you can sort of draw a line from the point between the eyes to the tip of the ear, and see where the outline of the skull intersects.
@merchantHelios I bought my first android phone a couple of years ago, a Galaxy A13 5G. Cheapest Samsung at the time with 5G. $275 + a big memory card. Fits in pocket with smaller screen, superb battery life. The fingerprint sensor may be broken, and did not work well when new, unlike my former iPhone. I deliberately avoided a phone with facial recognition.
This is only slightly worse than the dog businesses you see somewhere like silver lake. Where it’s often ‘crystals and healings.. for your dogs!!’ Douchey private dog clubs meh but new age stuff for dogs, god no and if they weren’t rich people they’d all be charged with animal abuse
I hate it how transit apps will have a mode that lets you say you're about to get on a bus and then tracks your trip but if you're already on the bus and you just want it to estimate when you'll get there this is always awkward or impossible in the UI
@SnoopJ hmm I was just poking around in that app but couldn't figure it out. I'll try again. The trip mode in that one has always seemed a little oblique
@mcc My kingdom for a tool that can be used effectively for hybrid bicycle-transit navigation.
Taking both distance and transfer delays into account, with user configurable weights for least riding vs least fare vs quickest arrival. And the ability to persistently mark (crowdsourced plus local preferences) certain areas or road sections as "I don't want to bike here due to unsafe traffic conditions/road design or poor road surface quality, either cross via transit or route me around them".
After 5 years of WordPress, I have rebuilt my website using @eleventy! I've been using Eleventy for years now on other projects (including one for NASA) and I'm super stoked to be using it for my personal website.
@bw@box464 I’ll probably have to move my search index eventually since it’ll just get larger over time— maybe to Supabase since I dumped all of my music data there.
Musk and Dorsey want to turn every bar into a Nazi bar so they can force people to hang out and listen to them.
They can sense how much they suck as human beings, but their egos make them incapable of grappling with it. So they try to make it our problem instead.
@gwynnion@jwz the real tragedy here is that in objective terms, they have millions of fawning fans and could easily be surrounded by nothing but obsequiousness if they so chose. But to do that they would have to have confidence in their selfhood, real self-esteem and self-respect. Instead the whispering, gnawing void at the core of their beings knows that we are right, that they do suck ass, and thus they are driven interminably to silence us all by a self-loathing they can never escape
@OftOverthinking A typical article is around 3000ish these days, for reference.
And tbh, I'm not surprised. Amanda Roman's piece had a huge impact for questioning folks. I didn't find it until I was well past that stage, but I saw the impact it had on people... and how it want able to speak to some of the most important stuff. So, I spent a few months, did a lot of research, and ran it past some psychologists for prerelease feedback.
I knew there was an unmet need. I just didn't expect I'd--
@OftOverthinking
--actually be able to effectively meet it, and certainly not to the scale I did. Like, when it premiered, it did, on its first day, about twice what most of my articles back then did, and it really hasn't slowed down since.
For a sense of scale, it's been out for about ten months. That means it's gotten, on a monthly basis, more readers than a typical article of mine gets total.
I wonder what would happen if we let rich people stay rich, we just made sure no one was in poverty. Everyone had a house, everyone had food, medicine, recreational stuff.
i'm so goddamned angry at myself, i reinstalled windows on my tablet to create a recovery image for someone but it also updated the firmware and now i can't get any linux distro to boot, fuck me, i dont want to fucking use windows 11, i think i fucked myself godfuckingdamn it
@DrGravitas Grub works, but the handoff from Grub to the actual linux kernel/initramfs/whatever causes UEFI to step in and say "no." and it hard locks the system to prevent the boot
I'm happy to say that Starter Villain is a finalist for the Locus Award this year, in the category of science fiction novel. Here is the complete finalist list for my category, along with a link to the full award categories and finalist list. Congrats to everyone who is a finalist this year!
I have an old iMac from a friend that had a dead harddrive that I was able to replace pretty cheaply and has worked fine ever since, though it's topped out at an old OS.
I got another iMac from a neighbour suspecting it may be a harddrive issue as well, which could be an easy fix.
BUT, with both of these stopping at much older OS's that don't get updates any longer and won't run more modern programs, the question came up today...
I will warn you if you want to connect an Apple account please make a fresh one for these because weird things can happen when "unsupported" devices are on your account. It caused my friend a ton of headaches
I have heard reports of people successfully installing unsupported newer OS releases on older hardware manually. There are limits, of course.
I'd suggest searching for your specific hardware paired with the first OS to drop official support then work up from there. From the Apple menu go to About this Mac and look for something like "iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015)" for your hardware. In that specific case the oldest OS to drop support is MacOS 13 Ventura. See https://www.macworld.com/article/673697/what-version-of-macos-can-my-mac-run.html
