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Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16 (abcnews.go.com)

Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval....

n2burns ,

/s ?

n2burns , (edited )

From the article:

Google Wallet, a pioneer in the NFC payments space…eventually got combined with Android Pay and rebranded to Google Pay, only to become Google Wallet again for most users, even though Google Pay stuck around in the US, India, and Singapore.

EDIT: And I assume you don’t live in the US, India, or Singapore.

n2burns ,

Nah, he’s already 64 years old. Unfortunately, the current game is nominate Justices who can hold on to their seats for decades and decades.

n2burns ,

Antifa is a movement without centralized control. There are no chapters, website, or membership. That is core to the movement, so questioning why no one can provide that information is really silly.

I also have never met a member of Antifa, but there is enough evidence of their actions to make me certain the movement exists. Some people believe it exists, but as a false-flag movement, but I think that’s just conspiratorial thinking.

Using, “I’ve never seen one,” as evidence is the kind of BS Jan6 insurrections use to say the election was stolen.

n2burns ,

I don’t agree with the root comment, but Wikileaks has repeatedly ignored leaks of Russian classified info and many of their sources appear to be Russian Intelligence.

n2burns ,

Have you heard of StreetComplete on Android?

n2burns ,

I’m confused. You posted it…

n2burns ,

That’s not modern games, that’s brand new hardware. It’s a good suggestion, but different than what you originally said.

n2burns ,

“Completely inappropriate,” Blanche said. “Over half the population of this country believe the election was stolen. This trial is not going to solve that.”

That’s a lie. I don’t think at any time a poll showed >50% believed the election was stolen. The most recent ones I can find show somewhere in the 30-40% range. It’s still a ridiculously high number, but it’s nowhere near “over half”.

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Dude, where's my self-driving car?

A good look at The Verge about the history of false claims made by the Silicon Valley hype machine around self-driving cars:

"In 2015, the then-lead of Google’s self-driving car project Chris Urmson said one of his goals in developing a fully driverless vehicle was to make sure that his 11-year-old son would never need a driver’s license.

"The subtext was that in five years, when Urmson’s son turned 16, self-driving cars would be so ubiquitous, and the technology would be so superior to human driving, that his teenage son would have no need nor desire to learn to drive himself.

"Well, it’s 2024, and Urmson’s son is now 20 years old. Any bets on whether he got that driver’s license?"

https://www.theverge.com/24065447/self-driving-car-autonomous-tesla-gm-baidu

@technology

n2burns ,

AVs don’t have a driver, instead they have 1.5 operations staff per vehicle.

It’s not happening.

n2burns ,

That’s the whole point of this post: When? 'Cause it’s not happening now.

n2burns ,

I haven’t heard about Waymo being below 1:1. Do you have a source? I’d love to read it.

n2burns ,

Thanks for the links. As I read it, none of that is saying their ratio is below 1:1, just that they switch between vehicles as needed.

And the “what their operators do” link sounds like they are the equivalent of a driving instructor sitting in the passenger seat, giving instructions but not “directly controlling” the vehicle.

n2burns ,

Yup, it’s tax avoidance, not tax evasion. It’s morally wrong especially because he has the power to influence the system, but it’s not legally wrong.

n2burns ,

Governments allow tax deductions or credits for activities they want to encourage, like the ones you listed. Using those is not tax avoidance at all. In this case, he’s changing jurisdictions to avoid taxes, a completely different situation.

n2burns ,

Those are two very different things, which I think you’re failing to see. At least where I am in Canada, donating to charity doesn’t eliminate the tax on that income but only reduces it. Retirement contributions are deducted now but will be taxed when they’re withdrawn. This encourages people to support themselves in retirement instead of being seniors on welfare.

The big difference is tax havens are generally encouraging people to move their wealth after earning it elsewhere. The only benefit they gain is increasing their tax base by undercutting other jurisdictions.

Charity & Retirement contributions are assumed to be on income earned in the jurisdiction and encourage good behaviour. Some other tax mechanisms (like preferring dividend income over employment income) are harder to defend but are still trying to an encourage behaviour (like investment of wealth to grow the economy instead of simply hording it/spending it frivolously). While there might be cons to these mechanisms, both the pros and the cons stay within the jurisdiction. Tax havens internalize the benefits while externalizing the harms.

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. (insideevs.com)

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here. All seven of its California...

n2burns ,

Cars aren’t being eliminated completely, but we can significantly reduce their usage if we look to your home city as an example. In Copenhagen, only 44% of commutes are made by car. In the Bay Area, probably the least car-centric area of California, 85% of commutes are by car (I removed the 33% WFH, so 58/67=85%).

n2burns ,

A little column A, a little column B. Mostly, we can have gentle changes to our cities, like removing Single-Family Home and other exclusionary zoning, removing mandatory parking minimums, as well other initiatives to encourage higher density, mixed-use buildings, and active transportation usage.

n2burns ,

What model? I’m running Linux Mint on a ThinkPad x201 and love it!

n2burns ,

I figured, I was looking for the model number so we could see specs, age, etc.

Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)

Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

n2burns ,

Isn’t the whole point of BitLocker protection from direct access? When a computer is turned off, encryption should keep the data safe. Also when a computer is turned off, basically no remote vector is going to work. AFAIK, when the computer is on, the drive is mounted and BitLocker provides no additional protection over an unencrypted drive.

New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option (www.howtogeek.com)

Ubuntu’s popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I’ve highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.

n2burns ,

What about Ubuntu derivatives for desktop? My go to recommendations are Pop! OS and Linux Mint (which I use).

n2burns , (edited )

As a Canadian who just got a heat pump, it’s because natural gas is so cheap here in North America.

My system has an auxiliary natural gas backup. Even though my heat pump works down to below -20°C, it’s set up to switch over to natural gas at around -6.7°C (stupid fahrenheit setting) because even at COP of ~2.0, 98% efficient natural gas is way, way cheaper.

n2burns , (edited )

Our electricity is also about 3x the price of natural gas, and the math made sense for a heat pump over a gas furnace (Southwestern Ontario, Canada). We do have auxiliary natural gas and that is set to kick in at 20°F, but even then, the manufacturer’s chart says the heat pump’s COP > 2.0 (200% efficiency). If I remember correctly, it’s COP >3.0 by 30°F.

n2burns ,

Ontario, but I also had cheap natural gas in Manitoba. Obviously you need access to it and only half the provinces are connected.

Given this chart, I’m assuming you live in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, or Quebec?

n2burns ,

If a currency is agreed upon being valid by multiple parties, I’d argue it is “real money”.

That right there. The vast, vast majority of people don’t think it’s valid, therefore it’s not real money.

n2burns ,

Yup, the Climate Action Incentive is a Pigouvian tax, so the government estimates the revenues, divides that up to comes up with a number for each resident, and we receive it back in quarterly payments.

n2burns ,

I’m surprised Disney would be the reason. Epic has enough reasons all on their own.

n2burns ,

Sales suggest, “Yes.”

n2burns ,

@davidpierce has been pretty bullish on the fediverse for quite a while now. It’s come up a few times on the vergecast over the last year or so. I’m not surprised he wrote this decent explainer!

n2burns ,

It’s under 60% and continues to shrink as our energy needs grow.

n2burns ,

It’s at Darlington and it’s more experimental than anything else. It’ll increase the site’s capacity by <10% (300MWe vs 3,512MWe).

n2burns , (edited )

AFAIK, the main issue wasn’t where they’re used but where they’re stored. While scooters riding on sidewalks is an issue, the bigger issue is them cluttering the sidewalk and becoming an impedance to pedestrians, especially those with disabilities.

n2burns ,

… but if you take inflation into account if the price is stable then goods are getting relatively more expensive cheaper.

FTFY

n2burns ,

He is using YouTube’s monetization…

n2burns ,

Because he’s heavily invested in Nebula and believes their system is better for him and other creators in the long term. That doesn’t mean he believes YouTube monetization doesn’t work at all, just he prefers to keep bonus videos on Nebula to entice users to join.

What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?

I’m wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I’m not sure which device to use. I’m thinking a raspberry pi but I’m not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems...

n2burns ,

Jellyfin server itself isn’t all that intensive. My “server” is running on a 13y/o low-end desktop CPU (Pentium E5800, in case you’re curious). However, if you noticed your laptop struggling, as others have pointed out, that’s probably when it was transcoding. While I want eventually update my server with transcoding hardware, I just disabled transcoding completely for now, and it’s pretty workable.

n2burns ,

Per Jellyfin’s hardware guide, that’s only for recent AMD CPUs. If we’re looking at budget options (as OP seems to be heading), then we can go with older, used Intel CPUs.

n2burns ,

If they’re getting a used desktop (unless it’s really old), it probably already has an Intel CPU with a decent enough integrated GPU to do transcoding without the GPU. Not only will that save OP money on their setup, but also on their power bill.

n2burns ,

I think this article misses one of the big downsides to downsizing in California (where this article is focused): property tax. In California, property tax is basically based on purchase price. This means even if an owner can make a healthy profit moving to a smaller home, that profit might be gone in 10 years due to the increased property taxes. Even if seniors are interested in downsizing, it might be financially detrimental to do so, and they stay in place, which constrains the supply of “family homes”, making them more expensive and basically adds to the housing crisis.

n2burns ,

Interesting, I’ve never had any issues. Have you had better luck with other distros? What WiFi card(s)?

n2burns ,

I keep buying used ones. The problem is they’re starting to get harder to find and the price it’s going up.

n2burns ,

Therefore his death was PAINLESS.

Except for the 22 minutes of struggling to breath. Unless you’re discounting those by saying he was unconscious the moments before his death. If that’s the case, most forms of what we consider painful death are after at least a few moments of unconsciousness.

n2burns ,

I want to preface this by saying I am against the death penalty.

The argument

The state tells you murder is illegal. Except when the state does it.

really falls apart when you consider all the other things the state is allowed to do that would be otherwise illegal. The simplest comparison is imprisonment but there are dozens of others.

n2burns , (edited )

So does that mean they’re finally going to make clicking on the address bar compatible with the Linux method of doing things (a single click puts the cursor where you clicked, NOT highlight the entire address, which is completely different from every other application on the desktop)?

I’ve never heard of this before, do you have a source for this? I got this same behaviour on Epiphany, Chrome, and Chromium, so it’s not just Firefox. Is there any web-browser that handles this the “correct” way?

n2burns ,

Since around FF78 they changed it so you have to click FOUR times to finally place the cursor where you are clicking. This is something I use multiple times every day to grab a portion of a URL, so the change in behavior is constantly on my mind.

I think you’re double clicking. If you single click, it’s only 2 clicks. And in your case, if you’re grabbing a section, you can (single) click and hold.

n2burns ,

The craziest part about that too, is that militaries typically acknowledge these poor sight lines and have procedures in place. I drove a Bison in the Canadian Army, and we had to have either a crew command (up higher on the vehicle with a better view) or a ground guide (literally a personal walking in front of the vehicle).

n2burns ,

I mentioned this is another comment, but the crazy thing is that’s the driver’s view from M1 Abrams. Typically, in hatches open operation you’d either have a Crew Commander (and/or gunner) standing with their torso out of the turret for better visibility (and a second set of eyes), or a ground guide watching where you go.

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