(about 10 mins video - first of two videos) I was fortunate on Sunday to see two of the #BDXdroids on a training walk. They got to interact with some other droids, and showed us how they've been taught to react to royalty. Unfortunately, one of the droids ran out of charge before the end of the training and had to be helped off. (You know how when kittens are sleepy, they just stop and plop wherever they are and take a nap? Droids are apparently the same.) #StarWars
@cstephens2 I was watching them use the controllers Sunday, really funny to see them mash in the triggers to make it do its lil butt wiggle. They’re adorably little things
@virtualbri@potus incredibly short-sighted. If the cars pass all the safety requirements I don't see why they couldn't compete here. It's going back to when they tried to stop early Japanese imports.
The wildest bag someone recommended from this post is the TomToc Navigator. It's 40L, but only weighs 2.8 lb, has water bottle holders, compression straps, great laptop/iPad compartment, and one massive clamshell bucket for clothes. And it's only $80, which concerningly cheap
@christianselig I have a tomtoc bag for my ROG Ally and was surprised how nice it was for the price too. Pretty thoughtful features. Definitely not the highest quality but you know price and such. I’m gonna have to look the Navigator up now
All these small instances that haven't enabled captchas, manual approval or invitations, thus becoming victims to the spambot...
Verifying an email address doesn't really prove anything these days. Too easy to make one. The spambot is taking advantage of that fact, plus the fact that instances don't have to pass any tests to access the network, even if users do.
We can't teach every new instance owner to enable extra checks. We also can't assume that every new ActivityPub server that appears can be trusted.
It would be easy enough to filter problematic content if you ran everything through something like Bogofilter (simple but effective spam classifier) on the way in or out. Could also be used to alert admins to problematic accounts and posts. You can train such classifiers to look for other things than spam, such as slurs and hostile language.
Not something your average #mastoadmin could implement. Such filtering should be implemented by the Mastodon team. But they're allergic to "algorithms" there, so I doubt that's going to happen.
@thor there’s a lot of things it seems people running even moderately sized instances have no clue about and don’t bother learning about until too late. CDN costs, spam, moderation, backups, list goes on. Wish the docs on all projects were expanded to cover these things.
Last night, I was able to pick up the new #MagicKey#MagicKeyHolder#Stitch straw clip for a friend. He's super cute, but it turns out you could only buy one if you bought a beverage too. There was no indication of that in the announcement nor on the #Disneyland app, and none of the prior straw clips required a beverage purchase that I can recall. It seems pretty crappy to take advantage of Stitch's popularity to require you to purchase a beverage you might not want just to buy this.
I did Tesla home service for the first time in years. I was actually shocked how smooth it went. They came out, popped on the new tire and all was done. Having everything done through the mobile app is so perfect.
@mikey It's wild how the quality of service center vs remote service is. The folks that drive up have been amazing every time but the SC all treat you like an idiot that broke the car and Tesla is perfect.
The rules are simple, first one to claim wins. Starting with the next post, I'll be posting a random game key redeemable on Steam. Please respond if you snag it to save others' time. This will be the only post with these hashtags and replies will be the freebies.