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I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

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This is generally what I say about news reporting on any technical topic. Just look at any report on a subject you understand, realise how much they get wrong. Now, assume the same level of accuracy on a subject you don't understand.

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Nice try Mr Manager! I'm not falling for that! Nice effort though, making an account on the threadiverse just to catch me out!

I of course totally work every hour of those 40 hours a week.. <cough>.

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You need to wake up earlier in the morning to catch me! :P

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The fire ovh had created this problem for many. Some people's backups were in that data centre and they lost everything.

Yes, home backup and or cloud backup with a separate provider.

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The beauty of the fediverse. You have the choice of multiple projects and for each project many instances covering political, technical and other points of view. Each of those able to curate and moderate the experience to fit in with expectations.

If none of those suit you, you can make your own.

I totally understand what beehaw are trying to do. If there was no choice there might be a problem but, there is plenty of choice.

Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?

I am dissapointed in my peers. For years I have always been told to stay away from Apple devices and the company in general. However, no one who said that actually used their devices, or used them but not recently (some had like iPhone 4s in the past). Their knowledge was always based on some 3rd hand impressions or internet...

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Yes! That huge wall of text made my eyes hurt.

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First, you really shouldn't let your friends tell you what to buy or not buy. Advise yes, but nothing more.

Personally, there's a lot about the Apple ecosystem I just don't like. I have no doubt whatsoever that their products are probably great and work together well. But their pricing and the way they treat users when it comes to repairs are the main problems I have with them.

I think it's just better to use what works best for you.

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Well, I was thinking more that apple generally just want you to buy new stuff. So stuff is made as unserviceable as possible. Yes, in recent years this seems to have been duplicated by other manufacturers. It's quite annoying.

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I don't think 2 years is correct. I've got Android 13 on my 3.5 year old device, and I'm getting a "security update" right now.

I think the real point is, that Apple have probably burned too many bridges, they've made the anti-consumer behaviour the norm too. So even if they are technically the better option, many people are just not going to trust them anyway.

What I did look at is current models (iPhone 14 vs S23, iPhone 14 pro max vs S23 Ultra). For less money, the S23 beats out the iPhone in most areas. With the iPhone 14 pro max vs s23 ultra, the iPhone is still more expensive. I'd call it a draw, with both phones better at different things.

The other reason I personally would say Android wins out is the budget/mid-range market. The iPhone 14 being the lowest tier of the current batch (tell me if I'm wrong) being out of the price range of many people. Many people don't need all the bells and whistles of a high-end phone. £150-£250 gets you a perfectly usable android phone. Again, I don't know all apple models now, but for the current range is there something cheaper than the iPhone 14?

At the end of the day, people should get what suits them most. I'm not in the Apple ecosystem, the kind of things I do with my PC means I'm not really the target audience for the mac range and to get something comparable would likely cost me close to double. Otherwise thrre's not too much in it between the phones and I am just used to and prefer Android. I don't have the problems you originally described either.

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Ah yes, they're standing in x-crement.

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I think it only recognizes as "valid", lemmy instances. But kbin will be searched and it at least listed those instances federated with me.

Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days. (www.businessinsider.in)

Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

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My main problem with this is, that this becomes like the huge online behemoths like youtube etc. I think most people have seen incidents where youtube cancelled a channel or applied copyright incorrectly, and getting a human to review things is next to impossible. The reason is clear, the sheer amount of content breaching the rules is too big to cost efficiently deal with by humans.

One camera catching 300 people in 72 hours. We don't see how many it triggered, how many were reviewed and found to be false positives.

The problem is going to be if a whole police force takes it up, or it goes national. The amount of hits generated would be far beyond the ability to confirm with humans. I see it going a similar way to youtube. They just let the AI fine people. You report it as wrong, so they send your petition to another AI that pretends to be human and denies you again. The only way to clear things up is to take it to court. But, now the court system is being flooded so they deny people the right to a court case and the fixed penalties will be automatically applied.

This is the dystopia I fear. Actually catching people committing driving crimes? I don't have a problem with that. Aside from maybe the increasing number of driving crimes coupled with the knowledge these cameras exist could lead to less concentration while people make sure they're sitting upright, looking attentive, eyes straight ahead hands at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Did I indicate for that lane change back there? I guess that remains to be seen.

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"You're through to the AI's AI Manager how may I reject your complaint?"

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They're not buying a plane though. They're buying a car with an autopilot that is labeled as "full self driving". That term does imply it will handle a complete route from A to B.

People are wrongly buying into the marketing hype and that is causing crashes.

I'm very concerned about some of the things I've seen regarding FSD on Teslas. Such as sudden hard braking on highways, failing to avoid an accident (but it's OK it disengaged seconds before impact so the human was in control) and of course the viral video of FSD trying to kill a cyclist.

They should not be allowed to market the feature this way and I don't think it should be openly available to normal users as it is now. It's just too dangerous to put in the hands (or not) of normal drivers.

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Well, if it's just the lane assistance autopilot that is causing this kind of crash. I'd agree it's likely user error. The reason I say if, is because I don't trust journalists to know or report on the difference.

I am still concerned the FSD beta is "out there" though. I do not trust normal users to understand what beta means, and of course no-one is going to read the agreement before clicking agree. They just want to see their car drive itself.

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Pretty good answer but there's no periodic sync. From the moment a community is subscribed to, the instance that is home to the community will send all activities in that community to the subscribed instances as they happen.

That's why you don't see old content all being synced. Just new content (and some old content if it is liked or replied to after subscribed)

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Well, the answer is "it depends"

For the community as a whole, I would say that the instance that hosts the community must be up to federate any new posts to other instances. Because it works a bit like:

Instance A hosts Community 01.
Instance B user posts to Community 01.
Instance B federates the post to Instance A
Instance A federates the post to Instances C, and D.

So, if instance A is down, the post will exist only on instance B.

But, federating the posts and comments themselves is not the only way an instance will get posts and comments. Consider the following situation. The post above exists on instances A-D. But after it is posted, Instance E subscribes to the community. Instance E will not have the above post. They will only start getting new federation events.

However, say for example someone on instance C likes the post? The like event will be sent to Instance E. Instance E will see the like, try to find the post (the post/comment URL is included in the like event) and fail. So, it will then look up the original post. Here's where it gets interesting. That URL will not be on Instance A where the community lives, but on Instance B where it was posted. So, in this case, if Instance B is down, Instance E will not be able to fetch the post.

However, if all the instances are up, Instance E will get the post add the like and add to database. This is why when subscribing to instances you will get some old content appear but not all. Because if the old content is interacted with, it will be fetched to render the interactions.

This understanding is based on my understanding of kbin federation. But, I would be very surprised if lemmy did not work the same.

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To be clear, to see what already is federated no other instances except the one you're visiting need to be up. For federation of live events happening to a community, the instance hosting the community must be up and to fetch content needed for a federation event (for which the referenced object was not received via federation), the instance the content was created must be up.

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What info do you think they will get? The only info is what you put in the public info on the user profile on your instance. So they can get your username (well user@instance), avatar, about info. That's about it. Anything else like email address and password hashes are only stored on the instance you signed up to.

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Yes, I discussed this in another thread. There could be ways to protect this info. But, it would mean totally changing (and agreeing with all other threadiverse apps) the way this is handled. Even then, I'm not sure you could prevent exploitation if the full info isn't sent. On kbin this info is visible anyway. You don't need any fake instance to do it.

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Where are you getting email and ip from?

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Special "landing" operation.

$2 to cut a sandwich in half: The outrageous rip-offs targeting tourists in Italy (www.cnn.com)

An Italian holiday may be a priceless experience for those who have enjoyed all this country has to offer. But the summer of 2023 will go down as one of the priciest in history after a slew of price gouging scandals at cafes and restaurants that have affected foreign tourists and Italians alike.

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I've travelled to Italy quite a bit. In every case yes, prices on the main tourist thoroughfares are high. Sometimes eye-wateringly high.

But invariably you do not need to go very far to get off the beaten track and find much better deals. Explore and profit.

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When we visited Florence, it would have been maybe 10 years ago now though. We were staying right off the main square. I think the only thing we did in that square was breakfast. Otherwise, it was always places off the main roads. Great city, not sure I could climb the dome 10 years later though!

Lovely city to visit though, for anyone reading.

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I don't want to be that asshole Andy. But 0.1% of 1,000,000 is 1000. :P

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Well mobile data is very different. With fibre optic you can generally keep provisioning more cables and a single cable already carries a huge amount already.

Radio has an absolute efficiency limit for the bandwidth of a signal and we're pretty damn close to that now.

5g uses wider bandwidth channels, with more cells closer together and uses things like beamforming. But there's still always going to be an upper limit that is considerably lower than fibre.

This is why they likely want to discourage 5g becoming a full alternative to wired, because there's just not the capacity to do it on the same scale.

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Ah man. MIDI on my sound blaster awe32. The good old days.

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I had the memory installed and played with it. But didn't have anything amazing in terms of custom stuff. As I recall it had several synth wavetables as standard. I vaguely remember being able to choose between MT32 and GS (and maybe something else too) giving somewhat different sounds to each "instrument" available.

I know if I loaded a midi file, to get the best sound you'd often need to choose between those options. But at the time, I knew very little about the technical side of the midi capabilities.

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It was my instant question when I saw this. Who blocked him that upset him so. But then it occurred to me. It's probably the number of people that blocked him.

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It only has an effect on reputation, if you're in the minority being anonymous. If the vast majority of us are using pseudonyms, then we're all on the same starting point in that respect.

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They just refused to act for 3 years (where 17 babies died mysteriously or had near-fatal unexplained events in one year) - except silence, threaten and bully the doctor and seven (!) pediatric consultants who repeatedly raised the alarm and called for outside investigation. Since the murderer was removed from the neonatal ward in 2016, there has apparently been 1 baby death. In total, in 7 years.

They also made them write and sign a written apology to her.

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Yes. It's a disgusting story from start to finish.

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Big brother isn't watching you because you're not a party member, merely a lowly prole. Deal with it!

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I've heard this talk where I work. Senior plebs describing things that are obviously algorithms as AI. And this of course means we had AI before it was cool.

Nothing new here. Buzzwords are the only thing senior managers can understand.

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Four eels, you don't know?

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It is a closed system. I tried to look at a company's news the other day, they post it on twitter/X/musk-vanity-project.com. If you're not logged in, you cannot (as far as I can work out) get tweets in chronological order any more. They DO have tweets made in the last few months. But I'm seeing 2019/2020 for pages and pages.

If you're not a user, that site is entirely useless now. Better to just wait for businesses to realise this and GTFO to a proper website. Not this Mickey Mouse toy of Musk's.

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No wait! Boris came on TV and said it was all over. He wouldn't lie, would he? Oh, yeah.

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Just a being pedantic and a stickler for detail. I'd expect modern tracking to use trilateration/multilateration.

It can be done in real-time and really needs 3 towers that have accurate time (GSM towers to my knowledge do use GPS derived accurate time). For this rather than direction/signal strength it uses the minute difference in arrival time for a signal between towers and works like an inverse GPS to calculate position.

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I think perhaps you misunderstand. Most people don't think parents bring their kids along to deliberately disrupt travel. At least, I certainly hope that's not what people think.

But, intent is irrelevant. It doesn't stop it being annoying for some/many people.

As for the picture here. I suspect the reason more people are looking this way than usual. It looks to be a business class cabin. I know many people book business class because it more likely puts you at some distance from the noisier cabins. This looks like they probably have a dedicated business class boarding door. So they likely realise they're coming to sit in the same cabin.

If you book in economy, you're used to and expect it more, I think.

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Yes, and I'm agreeing with you. But the animosity is a general illogical (but human) thinking of "Why did you bring them on MY flight?"

Like I say, when people reflect, they're not angry at the people, they're angry at the situation they're in. At least, I hope that's what normal people are doing.

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Encrypted cloud backup! They can take my drives, but the data is encrypted on the cloud.

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I think kbin is still quite new. It's being updated daily and really your choices are larger instances that probably stage updates to make sure they don't break everything and smaller instances that are more likely to be up to date with the latest version.

In my case I'm running an instance that is generally on the latest version but also with some of my latest submissions (pull requests) applied too.

It's a double edged sword. I'm generally running with the latest changes. But sometimes the latest changes break things. I had around 30 minutes downtime today for example.

The fediverse isn't established tech yet, lemmy and kbin are still effectively alpha versions. The whole thing is likely to be rough around the edges for a while. But it's still usually working well I think.

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Wait I have an .exe file to fix that for you right here somewhere!

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It's all a mistake. Someone was told to forward all dick pics to [email protected]. So, they did!

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Phased plasma rifle in the 500kw range.

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I think I prefer the old FFFFUUUU, Derp, Close enough and trollface. The rest, I don't mind :P

Will Corpos try to force all computing on the to cloud and make privately owned local storage illegal?

Seems like the next logical step. Most big games are always-online Games as a Service where your local storage is useless if the company server doesn’t handshake. A lot of business and productivity software already requires subscriptions and is partially online. Every single fucking company wants to have an app on your phone...

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It would be similar. But would actually potentially need even less power. Since it wouldn't even need the web browser. Just enough to decode the live stream and encode hardware back. Which is generally included in a lot of SoCs and if not already, they would be.

The main difference is going to be that the entire desktop of everything will be hosted remotely.

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Their radar is bad at recognizing immobile cars on the road. This means all objects. All obstacles on your road!

I feel like this is bad tech understanding in journalism (which is hardly new). There's no reason radar couldn't see stationary vehicles. In fact, very specifically, they're NOT stationary relative to the radar transceiver. Radar would see them no problem.

My actual suspicion here is that Tesla actively ignores stationary vehicles (it can know they're stationary by adding its known speed to the relative speed) not in front of the vehicle. Now, in normal streets this makes sense (or at least those on the non-driver's side). Do you pay attention to every car parked by the side of the road when driving? You're maybe looking for signs of movement, or lights on, etc. But you're not tracking them all, and neither will the autopilot. However, on a highway if you have more than 1 vehicle on the shoulder every now and then it should be making you wonder what else is ahead (and I'd argue a single car on the shoulder is a risk to keep watch on). A long line of them should definitely make you slow down.

I think Human drivers would do this, and I think an autopilot should be considering what kind of road it is on, and whether it should treat scenarios different.

I also have another suspicion, but it's just a thought. If this Tesla was really using radar as well as cameras, haze or not, it should have seen that stationary vehicle further ahead than it did. Since newer Tesla cars don't have radar, and coming from a software development background, I can actually see a logical (in terms of corporate thinking) reason to remove the code for radar. They would do this simply because they will not want to maintain it if they have no plans to return to radar. Think of it like this. After a few versions of augmenting the camera detection logic, it is unlikely to work with the existing radar logic. Do they spend the time to make them work together for the older vehicles, or only allow camera based AI on newer software versions? I would suspect the latter would be the business decision.

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The question here is, could you see there was a reason to stop the car significantly (more than 3 seconds) before the autopilot did? If we can recognize it through the haze the autopilot must too.

Moreover, it needs to now be extra good at spotting vehicles in bad lighting conditions because other sensors are removed on newer Teslas. It only has cameras to go on.

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