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wizardbeard , 21 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year

Just like the "tesla hyperloop" or whatever they're calling it, it's not about innovation. It's about keeping his brands in the public eye as a form of marketing. Even if on a logical level we all know it's horseshit, it still keeps himself and Tesla salient.

He can afford to burn an incomprehensible amount of money on stunts for outcomes most people would consider inconsequential.

I'm not saying it's 4D chess, it definitely isn't. He's not particularly intelligent in that way. That said, I do think there are some very simple reasons for him to do this that go beyond his absolutely insane delusional ego.

He has enough money that he can continue funding whatever he wants regardless of public opinion. He literally exists at a level where any press is good press as it keeps him fresh in peoples' minds.

wizardbeard , 21 days ago to linuxmemes in Many such cases

If it was valid, do you really think people would be talking about it being a problem here? Please use your head a little.

Also, two entitely different meanings of the word signing being used here. Signing as in signing a bill vs. Cryptographic signing. Adobe has some weird "halfway" thing that's more than painting the sig on the image, but isn't gpg.

Hooray for proprietary shit becoming accepted for legal use! Yuck.

wizardbeard , 28 days ago to Memes in agile is far left too. I will die on this hill

whose workers work on them entirely based on their need to be done

You mean there's projects out there where it's not a bunch of individual devs all working on their personal pet features and ignoring all else?

wizardbeard , 29 days ago to Privacy in Internet Archive is in danger

Archive has been around for well over a decade with no issues outside of sporadic DMCA claims against user uploaded content. For many many years they have been left alone, despite hosting a shit ton of copyrighted material.

Occasional legal battles that they've handled with no problems with the help of the EFF. This is the first "existential threat" to them in quite a long time.

This is absolutely because they pulled the emergency library stunt, and they were loud as hell about it. They literally broke the law and shouted about it.

Libraries are allowed to scan/digitize books they own physically. They are only allowed to lend out as many as they physically own though. Archive knew this and allowed infinite "lend outs". They even openly acknowledged that this was against the law in their announcement post when they did this.

I can absolutely say this is their own damn fault while disagreeing with the law they broke. There, I just did.

wizardbeard , 29 days ago to Privacy in Internet Archive is in danger

This is the worst kind of misrepresentation of tech. Nothing you said is explicitly false, it sounds true in passing, but it sure is effectively false.

The amount of data you can actually store in any single node/transaction on a given blockchain is traditionally very small. Even most NFTs are not truly "on the chain" as in the image data fully stored in a node/element, it's instead a "smart contract" which just says X identity owns Y (with Y itself being stored elsewhere). There have been many many attempts at actually storing data on various chains and there hasn't been any successes significant enough to come even close to being able to store the classic 90's Space Jam website, let alone the fucking Internet Archive.

Beyond that, you absolutely can take down nodes in a chain, so to speak. Numerous major "heists" have been "rolled back" or had their nodes/transactions flagged to be ignored by marketplace admins.

wizardbeard , 29 days ago to Privacy in Internet Archive is in danger

Exactly. I hate fucking everything about this. I love the internet archive and ^nearly^ all they do.

In principal I love their "covid-19 emergency library" or whatever they called it. In practice? They absolutely know better than to pull stunts and I'm terrified that this will spell the end for one of the greatest knowledge and media resources of the modern age. For shit that was effectively already available to the public through ebook piracy sites.

They already operated on shaky ground, hosting downloads for a metric ton of shit that is unquestionably still under copyright (despite their claims to only be archival of things that are not), skating by on technicalities and by not drawing too much attention to themselves.

Plus, there were so fucking many better ways to do the "free digital library" thing without jeapordizing themselves.

• Have some volunteers "misuse resources": load an SSD up with the book files, "borrow" some compute power to decrypt/remove drm, pass batches off to existing ebook "dumping" groups to stagger releases and obsfucate the true source. This would ensure that any material they had which was not already available on the high seas would get there.
• Make a big red banner on the site to a blog post with the generic "While we would never condone piracy or copyright infringement, we understand that times are extremely hard right now [blah blah] here are some links to community guides on how to access learning literature (pirate ebooks) during these trying times [blah blah] Please abide by your local laws."

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in No, I don't want to design a logo for a coffee shop in fucking skype.

It went from direct connections between user computers to all routing through Micrsoft's centralized servers. I wonder why everyone started having connection and lag issues after that.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in *opens calculator app*

Yes, but until such time that is happening, you are also an asshole for not tipping where people are being paid under minimum wage.

Amazingly, both of these concepts can be true simultaneously!

You not tipping the service worker will never have any impact on the company's decision to be assholes and pay less than minimum wage.

Working with local politicians and boycotting said companies might. But most people in the US complaining about this shit want to have their cake and eat it too.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in *opens calculator app*

That's a completely separate situation.

Yes, tipping culture is out of control and needs to be abolished. But screwing over the wait staff or delivery driver currently providing you service will never have any impact on the big wigs that made the decision to play them less than minimum wage.

Why is this so difficult for people?

Pay reasonable tips for reasonable service people paid under minimum wage. Also work with your local politicians to eliminate tipping. Do not withold tips from people working under minimum wage unless you just want to be part of the boot stepping on them.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Sharing creative stuff on Social Media

Who hurt you? No one was talking about people doing this shit for a living or for the entertainment of anyone but themselves.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Privacy in export from invidious to piped. don't mention mobile frontends.

Don't have a direct answer, but have you tried making the same short playlist on each, exporting as json from each, and comparing the files?

JSON isn't a specific filetype that is interchangable between multiple systems. It's just a way of organizing data as text. You can open it up in a text editor.

The format that invidious is exporting is for invidious. Invidious won't have the data in that json file organized in the way that piped expects, which is why it says it's not valid.

You might be able to reorganize the JSON or rename the property names to match the pattern that piped expects. You'd probably be looking at scripting something yourself though.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Technology in YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers

On android I use Revanced. It patches the official Youtube app (patches are open source) to greatly expand the base functionality and offer a lot more customization of the UI.

For me the best features are ad block, sponsorblock (skips in video sponsored segments), and complete excision of shorts from all aspects of the app.

It also works on Youtube Music, effectively allowing free premium (just don't get the local downloads of your most listened tracks to help save data, but I have unlimited anyway).

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in Usernames in the Fedivers 😫

Man, it seems so alien to me to use anything related to your legal identity as a username online.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Technology in Does One Line Fix Google? - A “Web” filter that presents what Google used to look like a decade ago | tedium.co

There's at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the "sponsored" results at the top of the search page.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago to Technology in Does One Line Fix Google? - A “Web” filter that presents what Google used to look like a decade ago | tedium.co

There's at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the "sponsored" results at the top of the search page.