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woelkchen, 11 months ago

Wolff and Mercedes have literally nothing to offer to him that goes beyond GT3 racing and test driver after Mercedes quit even Formula E. Even Susie Wolff is no longer at Venturi/Maserati MSG Racing.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

All public content on the web is heavily surveillanced through crawling bots by Google and alike.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Talk to the “Defederate from Threads because it will steal all the Fediverse data” crowd about that even though a federated instance sees as much as Google’s crawlers.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Yes, of course but a very large chunk of the super vocal crowd demanding that everyone defederate from Threads is claiming that federation somehow transfers private data to Meta.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

iOS and Android as well as modern browsers actually limit a lot what an app or a website can gather and if Mastodon instances were to federate with Threads, Facebook would not even be able to see anything beyond public data which actually makes federation with Threads a privacy tool.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

But federation will definitely be handing it to them on a silver platter.

Not really because all those big web companies already have crawlers already anyway. It’s literally more work for them to support open standards than it is not.

Plus they already have 100 million Threads users. They don’t care about the 2mil Mastodon users.

The real concern is that federating with Threads might create network effects that pull Fediverse users more and more into just using Threads

“I can’t follow all the cool entertainment accounts from here, so I follow them on Threads instead.” <-- more likely.

Another concern I’ve seen mentioned is, a lot of instances have rules against advertising.

Threads cannot make other instances run ads.

And finally, Facebook is just a garbage corporation.

Facebook is one of the biggest contributors to OpenStreetMap and makes lots of open source software. I can say with 100% confidence that you’ve used software by Facebook even if you never ever visited any Facebook/Meta service. Just because parts of a big corp suck bad, doesn’t mean that everything they make sucks.

I find it so hilarious that so many freak out about stupid Facebook, yet fucking Truth Social by Trump (which is literally a Mastodon instance full of neo-nazis) is barely blocked by anyone.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

it would be a treasure trove for Facebook/Meta

Given the tiny user base compared to Threads: No.

They’d be able to monitor real time activity of users outside the platform just by subscribing to communities, and wouldn’t need to waste time developing scrapers.

They’re “wasting time” developing ActivityPub support when they could just as well deploy a Mastodon Docker image on an inconspicuous domain name.

stalking users en masse

Maybe all Fediverse instances should block every single Chrome and Edge user. Also every instance hosted on AWS should be blocked. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are every bit as stalkery if not more.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Linux kernel is Linux kernel. Few desktops run Android, though.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Linux market share is not the same as Grub market share. Torvalds is against the GPL v3 because he explicitly does not mind locked bootloaders and signed kernels.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Wenn man die Dinger nicht sehen kann, funktionieren sie nicht.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Wenn man blind ist, sollte man nicht Autofahren.

Wenn sie beim Ausparken aus dem Fenster nicht sichtbar sind, sind die nicht sichtbar. Man hätte die auch einfach groß, orange und reflektierend machen können, statt nach Ausreden zu suchen.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Wurden die gerade erst gebaut als er dort geparkt hat? Oder hat er vergessen dass die da waren?

Hättest du die Bildunterschriften gelesen, wüsstest du die Antwort.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Man kann auch einfach hinschauen, stat nach Ausreden zu suchen.

Wenn sie durch das Rückfenster nicht sichtbar sind, sind sie nicht sichtbar. Nicht jeder hat eine Rückfahrkamera.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Ich verstehe nicht diesen Widerstand gegen hohe orangene und reflektierende Pöller nicht. Man könnte glatt meinen, dass es euch nicht primär um physisch abgetrennte Radspuren geht (die ich ja auch befürworte), sondern um möglichst großen Schaden an Autos.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Die Frage ist bereits beantwortet. Der Fahrer war im Urlaub und hat den Bau nicht mitbekommen. Steht so im Artikel, den du nicht gelesen hast.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Wieso denn so viel Aufwand betreiben?

Wo ist ein Poller mehr Aufwand als ein Zementblock?

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Die Zementblöcke stehen schon

Die Polizisten aber nicht, die jedes Mal von Steuergeldern rausfahren müssen, weil man die Blöcke nicht sieht. Pöller ist da auf lange Sicht einfach sinniger, zumal sie auch Radfahrer vor überragenden Hecks schützen würden. Aber naja, es geht ja eigentlich nicht um Schutz hier, sondern bloß um Schadenfreude. Da kann ruhig auch mal ein Radfahrer vom Heck erfasst werden, selbst wenn ein Rad die Linie nicht überquert hat…

woelkchen, 11 months ago

The good thing about Nobara is, should it ever be discontinued, it’s easy to convert it to regular Fedora.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

With Mesa compatible GPUs it’s objectively better to get Mesa updates ASAP and not wait for 6 or so months. The constant feature and performance improvements are especially crucial for gaming.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

That’s if you use opensource drivers, good for AMD but not so much for NVIDIA.

Yes, that’s why I wrote “Mesa compatible GPUs”. NVidia and Linux don’t mix well.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

Verfassungsfeindlich.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

There’s calkey for a fediverse version of Tumblr, if I’m not mistaken about what either does.

From a user’s perspective Calckey is basically Mastodon with better features.

woelkchen, 11 months ago

many people are selling them for around $20-30 shipped.

KingKong 2 Pro with its $60-70 price point is not outrageously expensive, though, and has hall effect thumb sticks, is compatible with Nintendo Switch in addition to PC/smartphone, and also comes with a case (which is a bit flimsy but much better than no case).

woelkchen, 11 months ago

0.18.2 is out, btw