BearOfaTime

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Nah.

Honda has a much better product in the first place, their engineering approach has always been better than Nissan (I say this having worked on every major brand, and some unknowns).

Nissan is one of the better ones, but they're still a big step away from Honda.

And Honda was working on hydrogen nearly 30 years ago now, which seems poised to suplant batteries (again, maybe).

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Not really, they've all had telemetry for probably 20 years.

The cars with satellite radio are even worse (which isn't saying much, since they put modems in cars about 20 years ago)

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jeep/Chrysler have always been banned from my life.

Garbage. Worse than any other American car company. They even managed to screw up cars made for them by Mitsubishi.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Which is why adding Tailscale to this KVM is a killer solution

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Excellent, thanks for the link!

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like your thoughts on runtime and recharge time.

That four hour limit really outs things into perspective for someone just starting out. Most people don't understand the constraints at first.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I'm pretty sure it's solar.

But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).

It's not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).

But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone needs a break, more frequently than most people realize.

I've worked in places where I've really enjoyed my team - still need a break.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A whole video to say the FAA had a no-fly zone around Picatinny weeks before these drones were spotted.

Who requested the zone? Some government agency, of course.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago (5 children)

More than a third of 15-year-old girls in the UK have been drunk at least twice, compared with less than a quarter of boys the same age

How was the study done? Is there an angle where girls are more likely to admit this/click on a button than boys? (Yes, studies should account for this kind of thing, but we know what "should" means).

Interesting either way.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

It's really frustrating there's no proper backup/restore without root - that's my primary reason for having root.

Yea, Syncthing-Fork is still maintained, though there hasn't been an update for a while. The company that makes Möbius Sync for iOS is a big supporter of Syncthing, hopefully they'll help in some way. Alternatively there's Resilio Sync, but it's hard on phone ram - I'd have to manage it a lot more often. Though it has Selective Sync - I can browse a shared folder from my phone and tell it to sync specific files. This is great for my media server - I can grab any movie/music anytime.

I like Syncthing-Fork better because it moves sync conditions to within each folder. So my DCIM folder syncs on any network or battery condition (so I don't lose photos), but NeoBackup folder only syncs on wifi and while charging.

Pretty much all folders now sync 2-way, and I export the Syncthing config on the phone whenever I change something. That export folder is also synced, so when I switch phones I just install ST, import that config, and after a couple hours the new phone has all the same stuff as the old phone. Then I launch NeoBackup and start restoring.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Yep - like an AWD version of a car may use different pressures than a FWD version, to manage traction.

I've seen an AWD version use lower pressures in the rear than FWD - this helps keep the rear of that car from sliding due to a combination of torque transferring to the rear wheels and more weight back there.

 

Cross-posted from Health

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Project Liberty (www.projectliberty.io)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by BearOfaTime@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

From their About page:

Project Liberty is stitching together an ecosystem of technologists, academics, policymakers and citizens committed to building a people-powered internet—where the data is ours to manage, the platforms are ours to govern, and the power is ours to reclaim.

I just heard Frank McCourt on a podcast plugging his book "Our Biggest Fight".

It was great to hear someone with a voice talking about the problems we see with user data and social media, especially the problem of the Social Graph (the map of all your social connections, which includes weights and values).

Their solution to this problem was to develop a social networking protocol that enables any compliant app to use (think how email works - a standard protocol, SMTP), but encrypted and user data controlled by the user. They call it DSNP - Decentralized Social Networking Protocol.

I see both sides of their approach, I'm kind of ambivalent, lots of concern here long-term.

They've already acquired MeWe and have converted some users to this protocol. He wants to buy the US side of TikTok (if it becomes available) and convert it to DSNP, which would encrypt about 30 million US accounts.

I'm always cynical about stuff that sounds promising, but I don't have the tech background to really dissect what they're doing. Anyone understand this better?

 

I have no idea where to even start to combat such things. Healthcare professionals must appease the masses of their peers.

I've seen this first hand in the corporate world, where it's called a 360 review. It's a popularity contest.

While there's value in the idea of such reviews, they're ripe for abuse. It codifies an environment of dishonesty - where people who are good at masking (err, sociopaths anyone) excel.

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