wrath-sedan

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla is only the second product we have ever reviewed to receive all of our privacy “dings.” (The first was an AI chatbot we reviewed earlier this year.) What set them apart was earning the “untrustworthy AI” ding. The brand’s AI-powered autopilot was reportedly involved in 17 deaths and 736 crashes and is currently the subject of multiple government investigations.

  How utterly unsurprising. Also,

  "Consent” is an illusion
  Many people have lifestyles that require driving. So unlike a smart faucet or voice assistant, you don’t have the same freedom to opt out of the whole thing and not drive a car.

  This is the kicker, many people need cars for unrelated reasons and the fact that ALL car brands abuse our data means there is no alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This blog and the Wikipedia are good starting points.

  It’s useful to note that there were multiple attempts to go the “Oops! All kana” route or use romaji, but for a variety of reasons cultural, political, and linguistic, those didn’t pan out. Writing systems are deeply informed by a specific historical and social context, and what at first seems like irregularity or unneeded complexity, are actually the traces of that history marked on the language.

  As for issues like why katakana is used for non-foreign words too, I thinks it’s best to think of language feature less as strict rule followers and more like a species in its ecological niche. Katakana is very good at rendering foreign words in Japanese, but if it finds some unfilled gap that isn’t being better filled by some other feature people will use it to to fill that gap too. When the semicolon was developed in English no one imagined at the time we’d use it to do this ;-) but here we are.

  Take all this with a grain of salt as my expertise is in language more generally and not Japanese specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is RSS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded! Amazing app. I noted in my own comment you might have to go somewhere else for discovery since there’s no in-app search, but as a reader it’s near perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is RSS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the feed xml I use for NYT Breaking News. I get the usually text preview but if I choose to expand the full article it’s always there. This is true on NetNewsWire and Inoreader which I previously used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is RSS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been loving RSS for awhile now not only because it’s private but because it seems to be unpaywalled as well? Maybe someone can answer this, but how is it I can subscribe to the NYT RSS feed and can get completely free articles to my reader?

  PS shoutout to NetNewsWire on iOS which is open source and the developer seems like a great guy. It’s not great for discovery as you have to paste in the web url manually, but if you already know what you want to read it’s a great RSS reader app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know about these and found one in my city. Thanks for the tip!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I trapped a raccoon in my chimney. So... what now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Setup a webcam and wait for Christmas.

  …or call animal control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be interest and support in potentially building an art focused lemmy instance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve really loved the culture of niche instances like startrek.website, lebowski.social, sffa.alliance. I think they provide an interesting and friendly local feed, have a more general federated feed, and then of course you can have your own subs. I say go for it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shazam’ Star Zachary Levi Calls Out Hollywood For Output Of “Garbage” Content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How self-aware of him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Master Chief isn’t going to like this…