There are two things hidden here:

1. People totally got killed by doing their own maintenance
2. There is a difference between physical maintenance and, well, you know that people will install some buggy self driving app

It kind of makes sense to not allow people to do that - just imagine what horrors people will create that totally will kill people. Cars are dangerous.

It feels like some edgelord 4chan trolls have taken over the government

Not what you’re searching since it has no social components and is not for gym workouts, but I really like Geoactivity Playground. It takes your Strava Export or uses your GPX files and does really interesting statistics with it. Kind of like Veloviewer, but selfhosted

https://github.com/martin-ueding/geo-activity-playground

It depends on what your goal is: If you want to preserve the music that is important to most people or to the era, you should start with the most popular stuff. And Spotify has a big spam problem. Everybody who thinks he is a DJ wants his music to be on there and there is so much AI music flooding the scene. So it does make sense to backup what people are actually listening and not some AI-generated music spam nobody cares about.

Publicly admitting they are the origin of the torrents is definitely a risky an insane move. I don’t think they want Sony going after them

Let’s be honest: Everybody is trying to go after Annas Archive. Every book publisher wants to get them, the US government, too and it really doesn’t matter if every music publisher wants them also. I hope that they are based in a country where the western systems can’t get them

Not really:

Short/medium-haul economy flights: roughly 240–280 g CO₂e per passenger-km. long‑distance economy flights, roughly 100–130 g CO₂e per passenger‑km Average petrol/diesel car: roughly 160–200 g CO₂e per vehicle-km (tailpipe only).

So you might be able to create a scenario where driving around in your american pickup alone produces more CO2 per km than sitting in a long-distance flight. But: If you’re not sitting alone in your car and you’re driving something reasonable, that flips.

And flying will cover longer distances. Yes, there are a lot of people driving to spain in the summer from the netherlands, but nobody is driving from Europe to Thailand or from New York to Bali or from London to Sidney. Flying is faster and you will cover more km. And that means that even if flying would be as efficient per km than a car, it will always be worse

Also, global aviation serves an extremely useful function. Not sure that compares to fancy code autocomplete and media generation that either invalidates digital evidence in legal courts or looks like an insult to life itself.

Isn’t it both? There are great use cases for global aviation (like visiting your family back home) and bad use cases (like sex tourism in a third world country). There are also great things you can do with AI and bad things.

Yeah, YCombinator is not a good company. Just take a look at what they are funding and how evil some of that is and how negative all of that is to society. And Hacker News is their outlet, so it kind of makes sense that you wont find much negative reporting about their companies there

Just a little warning: US copyright works different than copyright in other countries. So be careful if you’re not living in the land of the crazy orange one and look up your local rules. Publishers will defend their copyrights even if something is public domain in the US.

The figures show the estimated greenhouse gas emissions from AI use are also now equivalent to more than 8% of global aviation emissions. His study used technology companies’ own reporting and he called for stricter requirements for them to be more transparent about their climate impact. “The environmental cost of this is pretty huge in absolute terms,” he said. “At the moment society is paying for these costs, not the tech companies. The question is: is that fair? If they are reaping the benefits of this technology, why should they not be paying some of the costs?”

So that’s actually not that much? After everybody was screaming that AI is boiling the world, 8% of global aviation emissions is kind of low. And you might hate AI, but it is really more useful than Katie from Sales getting skin cancer on a beach in Thailand or that dude getting drunk on Mallorca or whatever those billionaires are doing in their private jets

And it kind of makes sense to have the taskbar at the right or left on a widescreen monitor as there is so much space there

Redeeming a gift card should never, ever lead to an account ban. Even if this card wasn’t bought in a legitimate chain, but on the sketchiest website ever. It’s in the nature of a gift card that the one who redeems it, is not always the one who bought it.

I really would like to know if AAA games are bombing because they are overpriced microtransaction hell or if they are bombing because many people haven’t been able to buy their new gaming PC because of those GPU prices in the last 5 years and now we do not have the install base to run them

It totally makes sense to have one running with HomeAssistant. Humidify the air based on a sensor reading. Don’t run in certain timeframes, f.e. when nobody is home. Track the air quality into nice graphs. Give an alarm when the water is low. That totally makes sense. Using a chinese cloud doesn’t

Things from outer space are confusing our thinking sand! Our flying metal was disturbed! Quick! We need to teach the thinking sand a better way of thinking!

Why not? It’s a great project. You take an old device and use it for something that still makes sense. In this case he is using it as a media player and why buy a new device when you have one around that can do the job?

Dude, we are talking about Verwaltungssoftware in a federal state. Are you ok?

Thank you for proving that you have no idea what you are talking about here.

Feel free to share your sources, dude.