https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html

iRobot not even on the list despite being the original de facto vacuum robot OEM

I’m surprised Dodge is trying this considering the thousands of memes of BMW implementing pay to use features on their vehicle ever since they added subscription heated seats.

Federation.

There’s a reason why [email protected] and [email protected] are not federated with eachother, yet lots of users are subscribed to both.

If I understand it correctly, Lemmy has a similar “landed gentry” moderation scheme, where the first to create a community control it. This was easily exploited on other platforms, particularly in regards to astroturfing, censorship, and controlling a narrative.

For lemmy, it’s again a federation thing. You just don’t see many multiple defederated examples due to the small user count.

It’s not the most optimal solution, but it’s still miles better than dealing with single instance or single community issues.

China:

Seriously the funniest thing talking to immigrants in the US is them reminiscing about being able to buy high quality produce, food, tools, clothing, gifts, books, etc by walking down the street or taking a bike a few blocks away. Also people daily taking vans, busses, and trains to get to work or school.

Meanwhile our transport setup is so bad, people have successfully marketed ship to your house meal prep boxes which is actually such an insane first world problem when you think about it.

Lol that handbrake start is utterly useless if you live anywhere that’s actually hilly all over.

You’ve got to learn the proper clutchwork from the very start or you’ll be taking years on every hill.

Unless you’re starting from a cold start on a hill without ABS, I guess it could a safety precaution.

They care more about protecting their IP and public image, not end privacy of users.

They make a big fuss anytime a public request comes up like the FBI a few years ago, but they have zero issue funneling everything into the NSA just like every other Silicon Valley shmuck.

I thought it was weird too because the only current foreign user is Pakistan, and Egypt is even more of a US shill state.

A morbillion javascript frontends, data hoarding middle ends, and another morbillion tracker tags all so you can display 5 sentences of text and a default picture which causes the website to take 5000 years to completely render as you watch Wappalyzer light up like a christmas tree on fire. Use static HTML and CSS ffs, it’s there for a reason.

Modern HTTP is such a horrendous steaming pile of crap that I could honestly spend an entire day talking about the horrible ways we accomplish WWW, with about a solid 70% of it being directly attributed to pos Google.

Yeah but they’re fully content in simply delaying the inevitable as much as they can.

China by itself is only really behind in microchip litho fabs which is probably the most advanced and complicated tech humanity has created. What they truly lack is currency stability backing for trade.

For the time being, BRICS will just be a stepping stone because USD still has an iron grip on the global economy. China is playing the long game by letting it slip away slowly via loans and foreign investments to replace stuff like IMF loans. Any huge action to strip USD now would result in country heads getting magically arrested or assassinated overnight (cough Pakistan cough).

The US knows it can’t keep up the control for long, yet their solution is to essentially pretend China will never catch up.

tbf Israel essentially destroyed all of Syria’s airforce the moment HTS captured Damascus to ensure that they have nothing to defend themselves with.

To engage Israel now is a death trap that would also likely get the US involved, which could easily bring the country back into anarchy with a couple of bribes and assassinations.

Israel is pressing in hopes of a response that they can use as a means of escalation. Syria needs to bite the bullet for the time being and repair the country before tackling Israel.

3 years before they even allowed sale of 3rd party F-16s and a nonstop barrage about how effective the 90s era surplus we sold to Ukraine was gonna magically win the war.

I got banned from NCD for sharing this sentiment saying that there was literally no outcome where the US would allow Ukraine to join NATO, regardless of the acting government.

Dedicated magic government doesn’t have a standing army or even an official police force branch to ensure public safety, and relies on essentially a band of mercenaries to take down Voldemort.

Twice

Also:

For me it’s always the unexplained power nerfing that authors do just to advance the plot.

Harry Potter in the first 3 books was fearless, he literally took on voldemort with his bare hands.

Then when the dumbass plan with the port key cup happens, he just stands there like an idiot as the rat dude kills Cedric and revives Voldemort as if both he and Cedric don’t have wands that allow them to cast spells.

I mean they could have maybe had like 20 wizards camping the graveyard to make escaping impossible, but nah they really tried to make the coward rat guy seem like he was now somehow more capable than all of voldemort’s previously defeated plans combined.

Windows on steam deck

Explains the behavior lmao

People have been joking about fake as hell NGOs being used for espionage and misinformation for decades, but its weird they they’re actually throwing away their leverage across the board.

Unless they plan to just move the funding to another organization like the CIA.

Original DS Lite.

I would pay hard money for someone to make essentially a 3DS successor PDA running Linux.

The potential is limitless.

Lol I’ve locked myself out of so many random cloud and remote instances like this that now I always make a sleep chain or a kill timer with tmux/screen.

Usually like:

./risky_dumb_script.sh ; sleep 30 ; ./undo.sh

Or

./risky_dumb.script.sh

Which starts with a 30 second sleep, and:

(tmux) sleep 300 ; kill PID

Haha I meant for WWW forums.

Dunno how many people here remember BBS or having to look up stuff in the library.

That being said damn it’s been 25 years already :O

A lot of it comes down to genre, target audience, and writer’s personal experience. Even MC and DC are characters written decades ago. Batman is basically from the 1930s/40s.

Compare that to last decade’s best selling YA novels. Hunger Games was constructed to be very balanced from the start including a female main lead, same for Percy Jackson.

My hot take is that most of these instances are actually fine as is because Hollywood in general sucks total ass at writing new characters into existing franchises, especially for the exact purpose of introducing diversity without any depth.

There’s literally a 3+ hour series on youtube of how bad the new star wars trilogy is, and a solid third of that rant is about how poorly written the female lead is.

The issue here is that having an equal or majority female (or any other metric) set of characters wouldn’t automatically make your story or writing better. You have to develop each character just like the rest, otherwise you end up with inserts that have no purpose other than to equal out a fraction.

Whether that is due to the writers being able to create male characters easier, or just a perceived audience target, you’d much rather have a well written character than a soulless one.

And that is likely not even correlated with male vs female writers. So much so that some critics even believe female writers are better at writing male characters than male writers, which is funny to think about. Ex: Harry Potter is still a 2:1 ratio.

Again though, there are plenty of good examples (mostly books) with very successful stories with equal or majority female characters.

If it makes you feel any better, this argument is old as hell lol. You can find ye olde forum posts discussing the exact same things mentioned in this entire thread from as far back as early 2000s, with plenty of in text examples from books and screenplay.

The general concencus though, is that if the characters are good, the plot is good, and the writing is good, no one really cares about the number because you’re absorbed into the story. Your attachment to the story is a direct reflection of your own personal identity. If you notice the lack of X whatever while reading/watching and it breaks your immersion, then it’s probably a viable critique of the writing. If it’s something you notice after outside the story, then it might not matter as much as you think.

I am very slightly annoyed that people haven’t moved onto Opus which gives you better compression and quality than MP3. MP3s are still useful for any older devices that have hardware decoding like radio sets, handheld players, etc. Otherwise, every modern device should support Opus out of box.

Hilariously, x264 has the same problem where there are direct upgrades with H.265 and AV1, but the usage is still low due to lack of hardware accelerated encoding (especially AV1), but like everyone uses FLAC for the audio which is lossless lol.