Showroom7561
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- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 13 hours ago:
Tesla vehicles are specifically singled out, because as far as I know, they are the only autonomous vehicle that uses cameras instead of Lidar.
And the Tesla company has a habit of cover ups, falsifying or manipulating crash data, and fraud.
I don’t trust any autonomous car on public roads, but some are considerably more trustworthy than Teslas.
FWIW, you can buy robot vacuums for your home with more advanced object detection than a robotaxi. 🫤
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 17 hours ago:
I mean given their track record
That’s my point. Tesla (the company) has been notorious for pushing forward their deadly “self-driving” technology. It’s one of the worst automated systems on the planet, with plenty of tests, reports, and real-world incidences to raise red flags all over the place.
They SHOULD NOT be on the road, so are they only on the road because Musk was able to influence someone?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 19 hours ago:
I mean, if they weren’t as buggy as they clearly already are, then sure… do a point system.
But as they stand, they shouldn’t be on the road.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 day ago:
Ah, Ok.
I agree with accountability, but not with the point system. That’s almost like a “three strikes” rule for drunk drivers.
That’s not really accountability, that’s handing out free passes.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 day ago:
Was it? I didn’t read a single hint of adding accountability in the article.
But that begs the question: shouldn’t accountability be in place now, and not maybe at some point in the distant future? They are already on the road.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 day ago:
How about we leave the driving to people, and not pre-alpha software?
There’s no accountability for this horribly dangerous driving, so they shouldn’t be on the road. Period.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 day ago:
Fucking hell. We don’t let drunks drive taxis, and that goddamn thing drove like it was under the influence.
Does Tesla get sent tickets for traffic violations, or are we OK with this?
- Comment on YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers 4 days ago:
Yeah, isopropyl alcohol is probably the best because it doesn’t leave any residue behind like oil, wd40, and other adhesive removers do.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 1 week ago:
You don’t even have to be old. Death or serious illness/injury can affect us at any age, and it would suck if your family lost access to all the self-hosted photos and videos, for example.
“Make it usable” is a great idea.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Sounds good, but if I search “microwave repair” or “improve vo2max” , it comes up with zero results.
That’s the sort of stuff we’d lose if creators don’t move away from YouTube. 😟
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 1 week ago:
Simplify as much as you can.
And remember, if you’re also self-hosting for family, someone will need to take over all that software and digital clutter when you’re gone.
I’ve been trimming as much as I can on my NAS, including only keeping the most important self-hosted software and heavily purging old files and backups.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.
But I’ll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I’ll archive important content in the meantime.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
Bookmarking “headscale”!
I only recently started using Tailscale because it makes connecting to my local network through a Windows VM running in Boxes on Linux a hell of a lot easier than figuring out how to set up a networked bridge.
This sounds like a great alternative, and it looks like it can even work on a Synology NAS.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
Pirates are winning over my empathy.
- Comment on Release FreshRSS 1.26.3 - Sorting improvements, loading spinner, and bug fixes 2 weeks ago:
Yes!! That would be really helpful, too.
- Comment on Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music? 2 weeks ago:
According to the dev, Play Services is only needed for casting:
“…you only need play services for Chromecast.” SOURCE, replying to a GrapheneOS user
He even offers an option to install without the play store (via Aurora) and to contact him for the license. SOURCE
- Comment on Release FreshRSS 1.26.3 - Sorting improvements, loading spinner, and bug fixes 2 weeks ago:
The only feature I want (because it really does feel all my other needs perfectly) is the ability to DELETE articles.
Some of the stuff that gets by RSS before it’s moderated out from the source, can be awful. Since I keep an archive of my feeds, this becomes problematic.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
I use a case. And every phone I’ve owned over the last 15+ years has looked like new years after buying them.
Not only do they keep their value (if sold), but if given as a hand-me-down, they are “like new”.
Worth it, IMO.
- Comment on Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music? 3 weeks ago:
Symfonium
What didn’t you like about it?
That’s what I’m using after looking at a bunch of other options based on my requirements, and while I didn’t want to go with a closed source, paid app, it does everything.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 3 weeks ago:
AI LLMs have been pretty shit, but the advancement in voice, image generation, and video generation in the last two years has been unbelievable.
We went from the infamous Will Smith eating spaghetti to videos that are convincing enough to fool most people… and it only took 2-3 years to get there.
But LLMs will have a long way to go because of how they create content. It’s very easy to poison LLM datasets, and they get worse learning from other generated content.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 weeks ago:
Given Teslas only use cameras
This still blows my mind. My fucking robot vacuum uses LiDAR, and multi-ton vehicles on public roads use cameras? Jesus Christ.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 weeks ago:
I guess there’s going to be a lot of heroes popping Robo-Taxi tires. To protect their community and all that.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 4 weeks ago:
Is this how CEOs will escape giving away “tells” when they lie during these meetings?
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 4 weeks ago:
I miss the 90s. 😞
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
My wife is the Kobo user, so I don’t know what tools are available.
But seeing how there’s already a self-hosted sync service available, I’m sure it’s not impossible for Pocket (or something like it) to be developed in the open-source community.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
You mean, perfect for self-hosting? 😀
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
While the CD checks are absolutely annoying, nothing, and I mean nothing, was more inconvenient than having to go to a certain page and a certain line and a certain word in the manual to unlock a program you paid for. Fucking infuriating.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
I’ve downloaded software that I had paid for, simply because of the bullshit involved with DRM, licence unlocking, etc.
If the user experience of a paid software or service is inferior to a pirated version, then the developers are doing something wrong.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 5 weeks ago:
We use AI models processed on-device
If it’s opt-in, and the processing is done on-device, then I have no reason to be outraged.
But the skeptic in me asks “what’s in it for google?”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
JuryNow doesn’t store any personal data or persistent user identifiers. The questions and votes are not linked to individuals in a way that would allow tracking behavior over time.
Great to hear!
There is a User Agreement, Liability, Disclaimer etc…
Are these currently in place? I don’t see links to them on the homepage, or during the sign-up screen.