shaggyb
@shaggyb@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 4 hours ago:
I didn’t keep track of how that lawsuit turned out.
That said, it is labeled “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” on everything in the car.
Supervised as in you have to be ready to stop this kind of thing. That’s what the supervision is.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 6 hours ago:
I wouldn’t have had time between pumping iron and getting head, myself.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 8 hours ago:
Driver failed to control their car and avoid a collision.
FTFY.
I’m sure the car did actually take the action. But there are TONS of unavoidable warnings and reminders to the driver to supervise and take control when FSD goes wrong.
Which you can do by such super-technical means as “hitting the brake” or “steering the other way” or “flipping the right stalk up”. Rocket science, I know.
Driver’s fault. Bad technology, yes. Worse driver.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 8 hours ago:
Yes.
You hit the brake.
- Comment on JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports 4 days ago:
Nobody fucking cares.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 week ago:
YouTube might bite me
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 week ago:
You might be a tad zealous, but you’re not wrong.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 week ago:
I had a model I can’t remember which was an emergency replacement from my OnePlus 3T years ago, then two G Powers of… Some years, then my Pixel 5a and then 8, and now a Razr 2024.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 week ago:
All of which can be disabled.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 week ago:
I mean, you’re getting a lot of downvotes, but I’ve gone Motorola -> Motorola -> Motorola -> Pixel -> Pixel -> Motorola.
Both my Pixels died in less than a year. Each had battery life which, while it did improve over a few weeks as Pixel’s optimization stuff took hold, never reached an entire day. Both were unacceptably fragile. Both failed randomly, just out of warranty.
And the Motorola I’m using now has none of those problems, was cheaper, is faster, has a better battery, has a better screen, and in some ways is more customizable (fuck that unmovable search bar).
Like, really. Motorola is a sleeper brand. Not perfect, but damn good.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 week ago:
Being weary of open source is like being afraid to eat food that you watched somebody cook for you.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
Yes. Reddit allows payola posts. Of course they are.
- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Name and shame. Whatever fucker came up with this deserves to be ostracised.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 3 weeks ago:
If you struggle with pronouns, apologize casually when the pronouns come up.
As a fellow old, the kids don’t seem to necessarily get it that my brain is wired pretty hard not to change pronouns, but they do seem to appreciate the effort and the discussion that it’s a challenge rather than just fucking it up with no explanation.
Otherwise, be mindful that they take a lot of shit for parts of themselves that are background attributes for the rest of us. They can get pretty tired of it. A friendly person who regards them as just people may be the best thing they can get from anyone.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
We don’t understand villages, you don’t understand football. We’re just different.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 4 weeks ago:
Star Wars did for a while.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 weeks ago:
30-50% if its an actual physical item is pretty normal. If it’s something like a discount card or coupon book, profit approaches 90%.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 4 weeks ago:
If you think messages you post anywhere on the internet are private, you’re in for a bad time.
- Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo 4 weeks ago:
40 here. Pretty much what I was thinking.
The way you behave in public is visible by the public, kids. No matter how you feel about it. If you don’t want it read, don’t post it.
- Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo 4 weeks ago:
I mean, okay.
If I already said something publicly, I expect it to be read publicly.
The block tool is because I’m tired of dealing with their bullshit, not because I’m afraid of them reading what I’ve posted.
Still nice to know though, I guess.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 5 weeks ago:
I couldn’t give a single shit what any Starbucks executive thinks about any decisions anyone else makes.
- Comment on WIZ ACQUISITION PUTS ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE IN CHARGE OF YOUR GOOGLE DATA 5 weeks ago:
This is a very big claim for you to not fucking back up even slightly.
- Comment on Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience 5 weeks ago:
please no
- Comment on Republicans Want You to Die | Common Dreams 5 weeks ago:
Feeling’s fucking mutual.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 1 month ago:
All of those things you mentioned were right wing power grabs.
Taking the high road was letting that shit become mainstream.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 1 month ago:
I remember how this worked in Sweden where I live
Yeah, things don’t work that way everywhere.
We tried being nice in America. It got us here.
You just go back to enjoying your ivory tower. We have actual problems here and your high road is not the solution.
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 1 month ago:
Here’s the thing.
The last 10 years have proven that organized online hostility is VERY EFFECTIVE at dictating public opinion.
That’s how we got the new fascist movements. Trump and the like. Because right wing hostility and bigotry went not only unchecked institutionally but unchallenged socially.
No solution has emerged for that from an institutional level.
So yeah, my socialist ass is fighting back. I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend the rest of my life under these fucking wastes of flesh and their bullshit antiquated opinions. I’m done taking it and I’m done tolerating it. Fuck every last republican and homophobe and transphobe and complicit liberal. All of them. And wouldn’t you know it, little by little they’re backing down when we stand up to them like the cowards they are.
Yes, I am deliberately far more hostile online, because it WORKS. And clearly nobody with institutional control cares enough to try anything else.
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 1 month ago:
Parents need to do their fucking jobs and keep their shithead kids out of my business.
- Comment on On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages 1 month ago:
The nation of origin is completely meaningless when it comes to software distributed over the internet.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 month ago:
Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.