n2burns
@n2burns@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory 1 week ago:
Mmm yes, business news
about unionsat acartech company. Definitely why I subscribed to a tech community.FTFY. Tesla is a tech company that makes cars. Their union busting practices are business decisions, which in turn affect the industry, which again, is technology.
- Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon 1 week ago:
I’m a pretty junior contributor (I spent a couple years completing quests on StreetComplete and only have been adding new buildings, etc for a few weeks). I don’t know a ton about how the organization is run, so I can only talk from my experiences. I’ve been able to upload changes which will be live before they will be reviewed. I know there are reviewers who go through areas regularly, but they definitely don’t cover everywhere. I’m not sure if OSM has the ability to lockdown areas with frequent vandalism.
- Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon 1 week ago:
I know this seems like Niantic is free-loading, but this is intentionally-allowed by the ODbL license and honestly, might be a good business decision even without considering the licensing fees. OSM is almost 20 years old and as a community led project, is probably more predictable and stable than a Google license which could change drastically from one contract to the next.
As a OSM contributor, I’m more than happy to see my work used this way, and as @QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world pointed out, OSM has seen a lot of benefit too.
- Comment on Lemmy instances die twice 3 weeks ago:
No sure if this is a serious question, but .btw is not a TLD while .fyi is.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 3 weeks ago:
So far, SpaceX has been run with much less Musk involvement. That could change on a whim, but so far it seems to be a pretty well run government-supplier under Gwynne Shotwell.
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 5 weeks ago:
AFAIK, most of the pan-European plans cover the whole Schengen Area (including Switzerland), and the most of the former USSR boarders aren’t all that porous, unlike the NAFTA boarders.
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 5 weeks ago:
I’m always cautious about comparing the US to the EU too closely, but in this case it fits, as both are continent-wide common markets.
The rest of North America would like a word with you…
- Comment on Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s offered as as an exe as it’s server-client model where you access it through a web-browser or app. If you want to just run it on your laptop, it can be both your server and client. The installation instructions are here, and there are also instructions for Docker on the left-side menu.
- Comment on Banana Pi's $31 BPI-WiFi 6 router runs a fork of OpenWrt - Liliputing 2 months ago:
no mystery blobs.
Maybe they’re not “mystery blobs,” but I think you still need binary blobs with MediaTek chips. I’d be happy to be proven wrong though!
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 2 months ago:
Unironically, yes. As part of Reddit’s deal with Google, they’re supposed to get access to some of Google’s search tools.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 2 months ago:
There was a discussion a couple of years ago around gasoline taxes and how they are supposed to pay for roadway maintenance.
I just want to point out, even if they’re supposed to, gas taxes do not pay for roadway maintenance, not by a long shot
- Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried 2 months ago:
Everyone involved with that project is also probably dead.
Literally, the FIRST sentence of the article is talking about someone who’s been involved with Voyager I from the start. Yes, the project has outlasted many of it’s original engineers, but to say, “Everyone involved with that project is also probably dead,” for a major mission that launched 46 years ago is obviously untrue.
- Comment on 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. 3 months ago:
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.
- Comment on 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. 3 months ago:
Cars aren’t being eliminated completely, but we can reduce their usage significantly 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 car-centric area of California, 85% of commutes are by car (I removed the 33% WFH, so 58/67=85%).
- Comment on Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi 3 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 3 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 3 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else 3 months ago:
Sales suggest, “Yes.”
- Comment on The Verge - The fediverse, explained 3 months ago:
@davidpierce@mastodon.social 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!
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 4 months ago:
You’re talking about a different situation though. I have old apps that are no longer supported so I can’t install them on newer devices. However, I can still install them on old devices with a supported OS version (or trick the Play Store into installing on a new OS and deal with bugs).
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 4 months ago:
For myself, I’m always carrying around a Type A block, so it’s not an issue right now and probably won’t be an issue until the batteries die. I just want to carry around 1 less cable.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 4 months ago:
USB PD can currently do up to 240W. From what I understand, there’s still more headroom, so if/when devices need more power they can continue to extend the standard.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 4 months ago:
Small appliance. For example, 6 months ago, I was looking for a new bike front light and finding one that charged by USB type C was difficult. I thought I might replace my rear light too, but all the simple, reasonably priced ones were micro USB, so I gave up.
- Comment on 7.1 million miles, 3 minor injuries: Waymo’s safety data looks good 4 months ago:
Yes, but speed limits are also limits, not required exact speeds. On residential roads, people drive slower for a reason and Waymo probably should too!
- Comment on 7.1 million miles, 3 minor injuries: Waymo’s safety data looks good 4 months ago:
But I’ve also seen the Waymos go faster than other cars in more narrow roads since people were going slower than the speed limit.
So, what you’re saying is Waymos either drive too slow on arterial roads or don’t drive to the conditions of residential roads. Got it!
- Comment on Canada to announce all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035 4 months ago:
Tire and road wear are not “as bad as exhaust” like some people suggest, but weight significantly increases road wear per the Fourth Power Law. So even 20% more isn’t great.
And as pretty much everyone transitions to EVs, I expect the ratio of trucks in EVs to come up to the same as with ICEV. I know some people have come down to the decision “Do I buy an EV car or an ICEV truck?” but as more EV trucks come on the market, I expect the size of vehicles to continue to grow.
I’m just trying to point out that EVs aren’t purely good and we as a society should be reducing our car usage in general. If alternative transportation (walking, biking, public transport) is possible, we should be facilitating and encouraging it.
- Comment on Canada to announce all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035 4 months ago:
We’re talking about 11 years in the future, and there’s a ramp up included in the legislation. That’s a long time, 11 years ago Tesla started selling the Model S, basically kicking off the current EV industry.
- Comment on Canada to announce all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035 4 months ago:
Then there’s tire and road wear, which increase substantially with the heavier weight of EVs.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 4 months ago:
Now if they’d just sell the baseline Golf or wagen Golf in Canada, I’d consider buying another VW!
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 5 months ago:
I don’t use multiple devices anymore, so it’s not an issue for me.