𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
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we’re middle age… like halfway to 75… boombooms stopped teaching zoomies math?
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?English82·1 day agoThey implemented an alt method IIRC but you must go out of your way to search and find it. I just recall seeing a bunch of post headlines about using email or something like that a year or so back.
They send an initial SMS message that is a main expense and funded by some rich person and donations. I think that has some significance to encryption or something but I’m not sure of the details. I could be wrong on that one, it has been years since I read the details.
The only thing that stopped him was the price of US bonds. It is all we should be focused on tanking
Prohibition made a very rich black market as will tariffs.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Funny@sh.itjust.works•When humanity isn't doing so well and you're next in line for world domination...English2·5 days agoWe are all just shuttles doing the bidding of the microbes
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•people whose have been through Long Distance Relationship, before internet is very accessible, whats your story?English41·6 days agoI’m 40, and so I experienced the naughties 2000-2010 in dating life. Everyone was just getting cell phones when I was in high school. Cell phones ended the expensive long distance phone calls over land lines. Prior to that, writing culture was the primary form of communication. My parents sent each other letters in the mail. Life was much slower, but information was much harder to come by. Entertainment sucked and was just whatever was on cable TV. Music and movies were monopolies that were largely dictated by a few elites.
People were more social though. Everyone is getting their endorphins from idiot bricks like we are doing right now stranger. There is very little actual motivation to socialize and without the deficit building up for days or weeks to motivate socializing, humans are less likely to put out enough effort or value their opportunities. Now the problem is connecting with someone in the real world while disconnecting from the zombie feed in equal measures as individuals to focus on each other.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Dad Jokes@lemmy.world•Two cargo ships collided in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One was carrying red paint and one was carrying blue paint.English3·7 days agoacxtuaallly… in automotive class paints there are a great many factors involved. In old skool candies, they are all dyes and everything turns to baby diaper brown when mixed. The opacity has a lot of impact on how colors will mix. Red can be very odd at times, especially the more they edge towards blue. There are a few dozen reds and blues in a full mixing system for automotive paints. There are many that will act very unintuitive when mixed. Like it may look red, but it actually has a lot of white, with concentrated yellow and has some small amount of a brown that ends up red… but this is a mixing base paint and not something mixed manually. I used to think of all of my mixing paints in this kind of heuristic breakdown of how they act when diluted or mixed with other colors. There are many maroons or magentas that mix reds and blues. Even white is almost always yellow or blue and occasionally red. Pure white is very very rare. There is even an ultra bright white that is even brighter than the base white tone using UV trickery and a small amount of blue-violet. Not that anyone should care
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•What is the dead-simple(est) way to onboard compeltely new people to Lemmy/FeddyEnglish6·7 days agoShare something useful from Lemmy with someone not on Lemmy, when that something does not also contain toxic negativity or vitriol, but is positive, inclusive, and cordial.
oh pun door & exit
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia TimesEnglish21·9 days agoYou are a child that cannot handle being wrong, but you are and you have no argument or you would make one. Block me as I have done you. I do not care to engage with children of any age.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia TimesEnglish31·9 days agoHave you ever worked in industry. I spent a couple of years as an operating engineering out of local 12. I worked at asphalt plants as a groundman and loader operator. Most heavy equipment is basically a rental contract with caterpillar or whatever manufacturer. Once the operation is above a certain size, the company is in a position to negotiate contracts that are tens of millions of dollars or more. When a loader or other equipment has an issue, the cat rep sends their team in to do the fix. The only things that are done on site are basic filters maintenance type stuff and when the contract is up, the equipment is replaced.
In this situation, there is no potential for exploitation because ownership was never part of the equation. There is no room for manipulation because the contract covers everything except basic maintenance. This system is already feudalism. When a feudal lord interacts with another feudal lord, of course they can come to terms because each possesses considerable power. The stupid peasantry has no such negotiable position. Our only power is in democracy where we become the largest power against exploitation. This is how the real big picture world works. There have been various democracies in the past where citizens had power against exploitation, and all of those were fumbled by idiots and fools that allowed consolidation of wealth and assumed that giving power to potential exploitation was okay and that those in power would do the right thing. This NEVER turns out to be the case. Ownership IS democracy and a founding principal of autonomy and self determinism. People that fail to realize this critical factor are ushering in a neo dark age in the exact same fashion as what created the last. The future will look back on our era dumbfounded about epic and unrivalled stupidity of the people that ended post WW2 democracy by just giving it away for nothing of substance. It is unfathomable brain rot on epic scales.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia TimesEnglish32·9 days agoIt is quite a bit different in robotics like this. Check out James Bruton on YT for a practical example of open source larger robotics. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbDcUPed50Y_7KmfCXKohA
The motors used are almost always brushless because of the speeds accuracy and torque required. That means everything has software and electronics. This stuff gets very complicated fast. Most traditional auto makers are also outsourcing most of their software development and certainly not full stack or ground up oriented. This kind of thing needs to be designed from the start with every potential feature and future thing as part of the initial project. These types of things cannot be expanded easily. Like this is why China is actually good at EVs because they invested in building the whole thing from the bottom up the right way, instead of hack patching garbage and outsourcing.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia TimesEnglish103·9 days agoThis isn’t internal combustion. Every motor drive will be unique. Robotics are nothing like cars or motorcycles. I’m excellent at working on cars. I’m pretty good with electronics. I mean my bedroom is a Maker lab set up for design and etching my own circuit boards and I have messed around with robotics a bit. I have also ported heads for nostalgia drag, pit for unlimited class sprint, and owned an auto body shop building my hotrod stuff on the side and owned a couple bikes.
I’m saying, in the real world, shit happens and that adds intelligent perspective on how you’d look at a thing like this when real world stuff has happened. It is hyperbolic for illustrative purpose.
Such a complex system will inevitably be connected to the internet. Anything that needs dealer support as a crutch is not owned by the end user. If this is not fully transparent and open from the start, it is a means of exploitation. Only fools trust others to do the right thing or care about track records so far. That is feudalism and will result in the dark ages exactly like it did in the past. There is no reason for any consumer to trust-, if an honest product is sold. Honest products are completely open source, and parts can be second sourced from an independent vendor unrelated to the manufacturer, and anyone can potentially replicate the parts and sell them. There cannot be any single choke point where if some asshat quits supporting or goes out of business, the hardware that people paid for fails. Trust inevitably leads to this stupidity, and to exploitation of the built in leverage. It is corporate piracy in the end, and that has to stop.
My Linux terminal aliases cat=bat. That is all. This is a very Lemmy comment. It’s okay if you use Wac or Mindos
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia TimesEnglish359·10 days agoI see right to repair nightmare. It’s basically disposable.
- Ask your shade tree mechanic about fixing this one.
- I have one that has been sitting in my garage for three years untouched and won’t start - best offer
- it rides fine there is just a small screeching sound in reverse
- sometimes it powers off suddenly and collapses at 30 MPH
- previous owner used it on the snow/beach
- it fell in the pool once
- it doesn’t have a charger
- it gets really hot while charging
If every instance above is not a giant red flag you’d walk away from, I have a great deal on a bridge to sell you. It is a novelty at best and worthless on any second hand market other than the dealer itself which is basically slavery for the average person. There is not a single standardized part that can be second sourced on such a toy. When the manufacturer no longer supports it, the thing will be disposable. So from a dystopian burn down the world perspective this is a great leap forward. Super cool concept, but unless there is real universal parts standardisation and the thing is fully open sourced, this is like everything that is wrong with the world right now; neo feudalism.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US pulls out of formal peace talks between Ukraine and RussiaEnglish101·10 days agoI don’t know what to do as an American, I don’t even speak good Russian
In my experience running a very active pro eBay store, all you need to do is leave a note if the ordering system has such an implementation. Like even in general, a kind note with an order is such a rare pleasantry when a person sees a couple dozen orders a day and is trying their best to pack it well and keep everything sorted to send the right thing to the right place, that any kind gesture even with a request is a major positive against the monotony. It depends on who is filling orders and all. Like I ran the whole eBay thing solo, so logistics was a joke job title. Some dissonant kid will be very different in perspective. The few times I got any such kind note and request, I went out of my way in packing the item in a way that opened with presentation quality that also presented my note in reply thanking them. Implementing feature details like selecting a feature that may or may not be available at the time is too difficult to manage in the real world at this scale.
I’m sad to hear they are not doing all local production. I haven’t been able to wear flip flops since my broken neck and back. I haven’t been there in over a decade since, but pass by the location often. My big crash was on Coast Highway a half mile from there.
It is a rather small and very old family business. They only make and sell the one product, that I am aware of. The whole thing is in a building smaller than a typical low income house for a family of 4.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldto Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Gamers deciding to accept an internet connection as mandatory in order to play a game (any game) is the root of all that is wrong with the gaming industry.English21·11 days agoOwnership. If it can’t be played 100 years from now on a whim, fuck off – it is a rental. If you pay more than $5 to rent junk, you’re an idiot. People are fine with being stupid, and the thing is, we must stop being nice and okay with stupid people. You’re a problem. You’re making the world go to shit because you have no depth and are a whore for whatever little bitch submissive slutting it takes to play some half finished garbage game that costs a fortune to rent. That makes you the shitty person. You’re trying to escape your shitty family and life, but you are the same problem passed down to all. Break the cycle and stop passing that shit down. You can’t fix anyone except yourself.
I am totally disconnected from it. I would love to play some old counterstrike or 2142 or MW3. But there are no games for sale that I can own. I hope the companies all burn. They get no money from me. I play open source stuff and hack around with the code because I own them. In the present world I play the only games that exist. If you’re worth the oxygen you breathe, you should be doing this too. No excuses. Just fix you, and tell everyone you can that they should do the same and what you have done. You have two choices in life, be part of the solution or part of the problem.
PC/ABS blend is what the laptop’s enclosure is made from too. I’ve already tested with CNN loads that saturate to the point of throttling, and prints are totally unphased.