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filister ,

CloudFlare

filister ,

You will own nothing and be "happy".

filister ,

And now replace your statement with the US, matches perfectly, isn't it?

filister ,

The title is misleading, because nothing stops ICE car manufacturers from adopting the same unicast build bodies of those cars, and then EV will still be more expensive to make but with similar repair and lower maintenance cost.

But I really hope that common sense will prevail, even though I am doubtful.

filister ,

Successful or monopolistic?

filister ,

https://archive.is/QkWna might disagree with you

filister ,

Libre office Draw also works for basic editing

filister ,

Pretty much he wants to turn X/Twitter as WeChat's clone for the West.

As WeChat is both a messaging and payment app used by a couple of hundreds of millions of users in China where people can send money, split bills, pay, etc. using the app.

Visa and MasterCard are extremely profitable companies enjoying really high margins and having very little competition. And this is very lucrative business:

66% operating profit margin for Visa and 55% for Mastercard (four-year average). 51% net profit margin for Visa and 45% for Mastercard (four-year average). 50% per annum return on capital employed for Mastercard and 21% per annum for Visa (11-year average).

filister OP ,

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filister ,

Judging by the general trend I don't think this is happening anytime soon. The overall car industry is obsessed with even bigger cars.

And even in Europe it is sickening to see those half buses on our roads. And this is especially true for big cities, where parking space is very limited and usually those cars occupy park space for 1.5-2 cars.

And knowing that the fertility rate is really going down I wonder what justifies those cars.

filister ,

I am having Firefox with ublock and Libredirect on my Android and believe me, I can't be happier. Apple will never allow you anything like this.

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I think here the point is that the US government seems to be not bothered by Meta's data collection which by the way has already been used by Cambridge Analytica to swing elections in favour of one of the opponents and most likely used on countless more occasions but it is now super worried about Tiktok.

And what did they do against Meta? To the best of my knowledge nothing effective.

If they do this they should apply the same measures against Meta and other companies but they don't. Which is disturbing.

Same with Gaza and Israel. Hamas kills around less than 1 K civilians (mind you a lot of the killed on that first day were military), it is utter tragedy. Israel kills 30+K people, starves the local population, destroys almost completely the infrastructure and their homes and it is business as usual. And every now and then they are scorned to please their voting base while weapon sales to Israel are continuing. Replace Israel with Russia/NK/China or any other country the US considers hostile and they will have them sanctioned to hell, but since it is Israel, nothing of this is happening.

At least have the fucking decency not to have double standards, because the rest of the world isn't blind or stupid.

filister ,

I guess this is Nvidia's reaction to projects like ZLUDA.

And that's a textbook case why monopolies are bad for pretty much everyone except the shareholders of that monopolistic company.

filister ,

Excuse my French but fuck Apple and fuck their closed ecosystem. I will never buy any of their products.

If some company releases an alternative working on different OSes and based on open standards I will be all in, but I refuse to make a multi trillion company richer.

filister ,

I want a product that I don't need to use exclusively with MacOS and the moment I want to switch to Linux or Windows to become a paper weight.

Apple is notorious for not porting their products to other platforms, and using closed standards.

If you are okay with that I am not!

filister ,

Mistral are the new M$.

filister ,

Like every country that has democratic in its name is everything but democratic.

Musk's Neuralink brain implant company cited by FDA over animal lab issues (www.reuters.com)

Musk's Neuralink brain implant company cited by FDA over animal lab issues::U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Elon Musk's Neuralink, less than a month after the startup said it was cleared to test its brain implants in humans, according...

filister ,

Didn't they already implant their device in their first human patient?

filister ,

Dotcom bubble part 2

filister ,

You should also consider the time you will spend configuring and setting up everything in Incus.

If you do this with educational purpose go for it, otherwise I will advise you not to, as Proxmox has a wider support and probably finding information, etc. for it is going to be easier.

Alternatively, why don't you dedicate one of the hosts to Incus and play around with it and decide if it works for you or not.

filister ,

It is not like all the auto manufacturers are trying to do right now. They see this as a secondary opportunity to generate even more money from their customers and expand their SaaS offerings.

The future is grim.

filister ,

WhatsApp is very popular in West Europe, but Viber is more popular in East Europe and that one is currently riddled with ads and annoying pop-ups.

filister OP ,

Didn't see this post, will delete it

filister ,

I guess the monopoly has to be preserved, so that Mr. Jensen has pocket money for another leather jacket.

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

filister ,

Imagine the number of plane crashes if this wasn't the case.

filister ,

So your point is that a FOSS application made in China is sketchy by default or what exactly?

Damn, you Americans are really brainwashed that everything that originates from China is bad.

You know you are free to use TeamViewer or Anydesk and no one is forcing you to use Rustdesk.

filister ,

Can you answer me if he will have questioned this piece of software if it was developed in the US, Europe or any other part of the world? And he presumes that by default if something is developed in China must be riddled with backdoors.

Same with the Huawei's network equipment, that the US forced so many governments not to use. And to the best of my knowledge this was never proven.

Shall I also remind you that the US isn't spotless either https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9bp8/us-spies-allies-south-korea-pentagon-leak

U.S. officials have been scrambling to mend ties with its allies following a leak of secret documents showing that the U.S. spied on its friends—again.

filister ,

So now I got labelled leftist? That's very presumptuous of you, don't you think? You know there are more shades of gray and in normal democracies we have more than two political parties. But nice of you trying to generalise my whole personality, based on a couple of sentences, written in a social platform.

And for the record, English isn't my native language. And surprisingly there are other reasonable human beings living outside the US (surprise, surprise) who might have slightly different world views from you. The world doesn't revolve around the US, no matter what your politicians are telling you.

filister ,

I am not Chinese, I am born and raised in the EU and I am Caucasian.

I am just irritated that FOSS software is being questioned just because it might have been developed by Chinese programmers.

And for the record you can't be sure that any commercial software isn't compromised or it doesn't have backdoors, it just makes detecting those backdoors a lot harder.

filister ,

I can only feel sorry for you and would strongly recommend you to seek some specialised help.

filister ,

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27D1DO/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data

https://archive.is/CFLMV

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/denmark-helped-us-spy-on-angela-merkel-and-european-allies-report

Damn, if only the US government didn't have a proven track record of putting backdoors in commercial software.

But hey, at least they are not authoritarian state so backdoors originating from the US are all fine, right?

filister ,

The most concerning part about Rustdesk is that they delete issues that question the source of the software or Rustdesk's potential to be influenced by the CPP.

Seriously, if you make the effort to create a big piece of software and then you open source it and then someone opens a ticket in GitHub asking you those questions, how would you feel?

Because neither "what is the source of the software" nor "potential influence by the CPP" has anything to do with the software itself.

You are free to conduct a security audit of the project and based on the results you can open this thread but saying that they have deleted issues opened on their GitHub page that have nothing to do with the software itself is a pure form of witch hunt and I am genuinely surprised how many people have agreed with you.

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative... (www.bloomberg.com)

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative...::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit...

filister ,

How someone is calling this innovation is beyond me.

And transporting people in individual cars is the least efficient use of a tunnel. Even his original idea sucked, where a car is placed over a platform.

https://piped.video/watch?v=5WAez2n2lSU - that's what I call innovation.

filister ,

CSS can become tedious, especially if you are targeting mobile device and tablets and building this in plain HTML CSS and PHP is way too much work and the end result will probably still not be very responsive and won't look so great.

This approach is definitely an overkill and if the OP doesn't want to use this as an educational project I will strongly suggest not to go this route. Just use some of the tools the other has suggested here, like Grav, Hugo, etc.

No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on (www.cnn.com)

No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on::Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, arguably a step back from EVs.

filister ,

PHEV in my opinion is a really dumb idea. It got popular, because it was an easy way for car manufacturers to continue making large SUVs and adhere to even stricter fuel efficiency restrictions, while also benefitting from generous state subsidies. Now that those subsidies are either scaled down or completely removed the PHEV sector is shrinking fast.

The benefit of EV is not only that you can charge at your own garage but that you also have lower maintenance cost and even if the upfront cost is higher, your cost over time lowers the more you drive it and depending on electricity prices, etc. you can break even with ICE.

With PHEV, the maintenance cost is higher than ICE, because at the end you need to service and maintain two engines.

filister ,

And that's one damn of a good answer

filister ,

From my experience with ChatGPT it is almost the same when asked what's better. It never answers it straight forward, just list the advantages and disadvantages of both products in parallel.

filister ,

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Damn, and no.

filister ,

You remember when everyone was predicting that we are a couple of years away from fully self-driving cars. I think we are now a full decade after those couple of years and I don't see any fully self driving car on the road taking over human drivers.

We are now at the honeymoon of the AI and I can only assume that there would be a huge downward correction of some AI stocks who are overvalued and overhyped, like NVIDIA. They are like crypto stock, now on the moon tomorrow, back to Earth.

filister ,

Yes, the technology is there but it is not Level 5, it is 3.5-4 at best.

The point with a full self-driving car is that complexity increases exponentially once you reach 98-99% and the last 1-2% are extremely difficult to crack, because there are so many corner cases and cases you can't really predict and you need to make a car that drives safer than humans if you really want to commercialize this service.

Same with generative AI, the leap at first was huge, but comparing GPT 3.5 to 4 or even 3 to 4 wasn't so great. And I can only assume that from now on achieving progress will get exponentially harder and it will require usage of different yet unknown algorithms and models and advances will be a lot more modest.

And I don't know for you but ChatGPT isn't 100% correct especially when asking more niche questions or sending more complex queries and often it hallucinates and sometimes those hallucinations sound extremely plausible.

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

filister ,

Damn, imagine working in the marketing department of Boeing.

filister ,

Try Debian

filister ,

Soon some company will find a way to charge us for the air we breathe.

filister ,

Imagine spending 80K on a truck that starts rusting in days. Oh the poor Elon Musk's s***ers. It might be a really hard blow to feel that betrayed by their idol.

This cybertruck fiasco is getting more ridiculous by the day.

filister ,

Yes this forum sounds a lot like Elon's exclusive club, where you are not allowed to say anything critical of the godfather or his products.

filister ,

If SpsceX was publicly traded, I would have certainly bought in.

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