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lontrachen

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Wannabe techie || I have no idea what I'm doing here || Kann Spuren von Musikwissenschaft enthalten

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alper, to random
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Cool that we can regulate electric scooters into uselessness in cities but to digitally regulate the speed and parking behavior of cars (almost all of which come equipped with onboard GPS and electronics) is not something that’s even being discussed.

Instead carmakers put forward proposals to GPS tag school kids so that their cars might avoid them.

Scooter app notification about designated low-speed zones.
Scooter parking ban notification (“Sorry you can’t park here”) in app in an area where there are designated cluster areas.

lontrachen,
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@alper well. A car can be town away resulting in the owner having to pay a lot, even if doesn’t work in 100% of the cases. The scooters are just there obstructing the walkways + pedestrians have no peace with people riding those things where they shouldn’t.

lontrachen,
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@alper The question is: What does work in Berlin? 😂

lontrachen,
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@alper Berlin is weird. My neighborhood in Hamburg you can only park your car if you are resident and even inside the neighborhood you can only park in the direct area of your address. All others need to pay. And the guys checking do come a lot even in the night (since it is a party area). I already saw many cars being towed in front of my house.

Unlike the E-Scooters: I can’t exit my house without first looking carefully, almost got hit many times by them.

lontrachen,
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@alper Also they annoy exactly there, where people have already a lot of options. People living in areas far away who could really need better transportation don’t have them.

It’s not a meaningful way of making things better, it’s a very annoying business model.

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Digging this striped gradient look... 🎨

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lontrachen,
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@BasicAppleGuy the reddish gradient reminds me of 16-Bit era car racing games’ sunsets

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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#StarTrek

lontrachen,
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@nocontexttrek Star Trek or Austin Powers?

aral, to Germany
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So it turns out Yanis isn’t banned from Germany and it was just a lie told by the German police to stop him from speaking at the event?

🤔

https://diem25.org/chronicle-of-the-betatigungsverbot-against-yanis-varoufakis/

lontrachen,
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@aral or maybe he wanted to make a case out of it? Because he loves to do it

aral, to random
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lontrachen,
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@aral We have this one daily in northern germany

nixCraft, to random
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This is the largest theft in the United States. The NYT reports that: OpenAI built a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to train its LLMs. Greg Brockman personally helped scrape the videos. OpenAI knew it was a legal gray area. Microsoft is funding this project. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik0.RaCf.bqzjdn7Qj4Gg&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=u&sgrp=c-cb

lontrachen,
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@nixCraft this whole AI story is an interesting phenomenon. Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson point the laws protecting intellectual property on their works „Why Nation Fails: The Origin of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty“ as one of the key factors for the success of industrialized nations as the USA.

I wonder if this behavior will make people create less because at the end only big tech can make money out of intellectual property. We may be experiencing the downfall of capitalism right now.

nixCraft, to random
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privacy and security 🤓 via https://www.instagram.com/_yes_but/p/C5WbOJFMBgx/?hl=en

lontrachen,
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@nixCraft only that my clothes aren't harvesting me for data. Yet.

aral, to SmallWeb
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So given it’s Saturday night, I thought I’d have a little fun with Kitten and make a tiny collaborative drawing toy.

You have a 20×20 grid and only black and white to draw with and everyone shares the same canvas.

https://draw-together.small-web.org

Have fun + looking forward to seeing what we all, umm, draw together.

:kitten:💕

PS. It took about 60 lines of code.

View source: https://codeberg.org/aral/draw-together

lontrachen,
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@aral can you crash me

lontrachen, to random German
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„Neben Stempeln und CDs mit Daten befanden sich in dem Rollcontainer auch Rund 150 Aufenthaltstitel – also Ausweise für Ausländer, die in Hamburg leben.“

https://www.instagram.com/p/C4096TDLIEF/?igsh=dHAwdm5pOTBhMGQ0

derpostillon, to random German
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Jetzt reicht's: Bahnvorstand tritt ebenfalls in Streik, bis Lokführer einlenken

https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/03/bahnvorstand-streikt.html

lontrachen,
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@derpostillon mich würde interessieren, wie hoch ihr Streikgeld ausfallen würde

nixCraft, to random
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OMG. This is the real deal. Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful. Bython is a Python preprosessor which translates curly brackets into indentation. Would you use this? https://pypi.org/project/Bython/

lontrachen,
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@nixCraft why don’t you just switch to a real programming language? 🤪

dimillian, to random
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I’ve been in an Elder Scrolls tunnel for the last few weeks. Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. My most played is still Daggerfall, probably between the original DOS version and the Unity engine. The best? There is no best; this is my absolute favorite game series of all time. They’re all perfect in their way. But this is about vibes; some days, I want Oblivion vibes, but others, I want Skyrim vibes.

lontrachen,
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@dimillian I bought Skyrim some years ago without knowing what it was, I got a steel box edition for 20€. I started playing it and got obsessed really fast, specially with all the missions you randomly get by just walking thru the map, sometimes only listening to the NPCs complaining about shit is already funny. Skyrim has a vibe that is hard to reproduce by other open world games

derpostillon, to random German
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Sonntagsfrage: Wen will Markus Söder hier zerbomben? https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/03/sonntagsfrage-bombersoeder.html

lontrachen,
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@derpostillon Alle Nehmerländer, damit Bayern kein Bundesland mehr durchfüttern muss! 😤🤪

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Apple Vision Pro launched one month ago.
How has your view of product changed since launch?

lontrachen,
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@BasicAppleGuy prior to the launch I thought it pointless. After the reviews I'm sure I don't want to have it. I need less screen time, not more.

gamingonlinux, to random
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lontrachen,
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@petrescatraian @gamingonlinux could be me but I want to wait for the next update to re-start my Stardew Valley farm

nixCraft, to random
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Reddit is going public via the IPO route. Last year, the CEO got $193 million, but moderators are not paid and expected to work free past IPO. Only some moderators and active users in the USA can apply for Reddit's initial public offering to buy stock at a special price. Most Reddit users are motivated by fake karma points and likes. Also, they banned all unofficial Reddit mobile clients. Meanwhile, the CEO profits while everyone provides free labor.

More https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-files-to-go-public-reveals-that-it-paid-ceo-dollar193-million-last-year?

lontrachen,
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@nixCraft seems like they are taking a standard silicon valley company path

hbons, to random
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going to need a bigger screen just to read these CSS selectors... you don't want to know how the SCSS is made folks. :P

lontrachen,
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@hbons 360° curved

macrumors, to random
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Mac Audio Balance Bug That Apple Knew About 12 Years Ago Still Exists https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/14/macos-audio-bug-still-exists-12-years/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

lontrachen,
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@macrumors it’s like that Friends episode where Phoebe finds mice in her kitchen cabinet

dimillian, to random
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Now that I have 36 GB of RAM I’ve discovered that those two just use as much as possible. The more you have, the more they use.

lontrachen,
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@dimillian does it at least run smoother?

nixCraft, to random
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Aww. Firefox reminds users to backup data and verify it periodically. Check restore time too, or else backups are useless.

lontrachen,
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@nixCraft Do we already have Firefox plushies?

Gargron, to random
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You know what I absolutely despise? When you find a legal way to watch a movie, say on a streaming service you're already paying for, but for whatever reason the audio track and subtitles are only in German. Just this default assumption that if you're in Germany that's the only language you'll ever want.

lontrachen,
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@Gargron I feel like this is a German thing, back when I lived in Brazil I never had any problem watching things in English, even on normal TV

nixCraft, to random
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Honest question: Let us say Apple is not charging anything for 3rd party app stores for the EU. Do you think app makers will charge less for apps in the EU? Do you think Spotify will pay extra to artists for all streaming done in the EU region? Discuss.

lontrachen,
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@nixCraft I wonder if Spotify is a good example. I think the big players will get around everything, not matter what. They have the resources to build different apps for different continents. They will choose the options withe the best outcome for them.

Also Spotify doesn't care for the artists, they seek market dominance.

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