During the whole API debacle all the RSS feeds in my reader got rate limited or blocked, so I just stopped using Reddit. Maybe I'll give it another go if they actually started allowing RSS again.
I've given up on Reddit, after all of their moves that seemed to be explicitly hostile to their users. I know some people still get value out of it, and I'm happy for them, but I'm not particularly interested anymore.
It's more bots / paid actors than real conversations at this point anyway. They're just milking the honeypot for that LLM training money until it runs out.
Most people seem to be in Discord. The quality is just as bad as Reddit, but at least it's not overrun with bots and there isn't an upvote system causing an echo chamber effect.
The quality of the content is terrible too now that you get banned for saying the wrong words. And I'm not talking about "woke" stuff - you can get a permanent site-wide ban for saying things like Elon Musk is a Nazi, or just at random.
Well, Teslas use low cost consumer cameras. Not DSLRs. Bad framerate, bad resolution and bad dynamic range. Very far from human vision and easily blinded and completely washed out by sudden shifts in light.
You can compare the size of the cameras used in Tesla with the size (of the lenses at least) on the Waymo rig, and they do not look like they’re in the same league, optically.
I’m consistently surprised by how my Tesla can see a traffic light with the sun directly behind it. They seem to have solved the washout problem in practice.
Even if you buy it, they will still constantly nag for you to get their subscription service. And they arbitrarily lock most new features behind it, like 3D views and such.
Mostly it's about milking app sales with the app store fees. Apple for instance get's about 15-20% of it's gross profit from app store fees. For Google it has been estimated that play store fees make up about 13% of their Google services profit.
I think initiatives like this are a form of "marketing" to show that "hey, app stores are important because we protect the users. We shouldn't be regulated away."
A more sensible approach to this law would be to require adult sites to include a clear marker in either an HTTP header or an HTML meta tag. For example:
This would allow locally run browser content blockers to automatically detect such sites without blocking them individually, and it would be trivial for site operators to implement. Since it would be mandated by law, sites that refuse to comply could be subject to legal action.
Of course, this would still rely on parents taking the basic step of setting up a content blocker before allowing their children unrestricted internet access.
People figured this out when they specified HTTP 1.1 in 1997. A prioritized list of the languages the user knows. They even allow a q-factor weighing so the user can specify a factor of how comfortable they are with a language. All modern browsers already support this, but 99% of websites fail to use it properly including Google.
It's like modern apps have forgotten all lessons learned about internationalization.
Same in Windows. The "modern" system apps use just one setting (Windows language) for internationalization, ignoring the old date format and time format settings. So if I set my Windows language to English, I get AM/PM and dot as decimal separator in some parts of the UI and not in others.
Google is notorious for ignoring browser language preferences not only in Youtube but also in its main product, and inferring from the (often faulty) geolocation.
> were also the economists who claimed that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy.
This is _very much_ up for debate. It's been a couple of years since Russia went completely dark on publishing key numbers on their economy. [This was three years ago.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRgS6gpiMX0). They had a large war chest ready before they went to war (part of which has been frozen in the west), and there are a lot of signs that they are on their last stretch before things go really bad for them.
Predicting _when_ things go bad is very difficult, so I do not hold that against said economists. The most telling sign is that the first thing the Russians ask for is for sanctions relief before any peace negotiations.
I mean it's estimated that 1/5th of Russians have no access to indoor plumbing.
This is a country where its leader/president/dictator/mafia don/caporegime is quite literally a multitrillionaire.
Russia asking for sanctions relief is just relieving pressure for Putin as the people who keep him in power (the oligarchs) need access to the money they've stolen and want to be able to buy more yachts and football teams. Putin and his circle, as well as the oligarch class, don't give a fuck about the average Russian.
Who says he won't? I think he is just waiting for the market to stabilize first. When the DOW has flattened out and started to rise again, he will do it.
That would require him to not be in the media long enough for people to forget. He loves the attention he's getting, so don't expect that to happen any time soon.
No, we are not thinking Elon will voluntarily leave; we are thinking Trump is very fickle and could easily dump him. Remember what happened to Steve Bannon in Trump's first administration?
It doesn't seem to be going down very well in the US either.
One factor is that even if you think Musk was just mucking about or misunderstood, there is still the embarrassment of other people thinking your car choice endorses that.
Note that GP used "whilst" which is British English, and previous posts seem Euro-centric and talk about renaming "American football." So it sounds like this person is Europe's problem.
The post had a number of grammatical errors too, so if "whilst" we're at it, should we criticize all of European education? Please don't post low-effort negative nationalism. It's cheap and the subject (the richest person alive is apparently a nazi) is a serious matter.
