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Cake day: November 23rd, 2023
  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash BagsEnglish
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    14 days ago
    1. City installs trash bags because they’re contractually obligated to keep the devices installed and powered on
    2. Someone hosts an impromptu Office Space fan meetup, with a fun reenactment of the printer scene
    3. City sees this, responds with an obvious but legally non-actionable tweet response suggesting it continue (e.g. “Fartsburg loves Mike Judge films, too! So nice to see our citizens enjoying the various forms of recreation and socialization ths city has to offer.”), along with some conspicuously-placed garbage cans near all of the cameras’ installed locations.
    4. ???
    5. (No) Profit. (for Flock)
  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMWEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Seems like none of y’all even read a few paragraphs into the article.

    A human-sized, human-shaped robot can integrate into an existing production layout without having to redesign how the factory works. That’s the sell.

    To me that’s a thinly-veiled way of saying “these things are purpose built to uproot human workers as soon as fucking possible,” which would be a great thing if the intent were to remove humans from dangerous and/or unfulfilling jobs and pipe the earnings from the cost reduction/efficiency increase into taxes/ubi/assistance programs so that people can pursue their own dreams and interests without needing to wage slave their healthiest years away trying to survive.

    But that’s never the intent; it’s always to add more zeroes to the balance sheet of the people at the top.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Ford Energy plans to deploy at least 20 GWh annually, with first customer deliveries planned for late 2027English
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    1 month ago

    Go watch the Aging Wheels Silverado EV road trip video. Charging infrastructure is fine, and even when the truck itself broke and wouldn’t charge at the proper speed it was still fine.

    EVs aren’t being adopted because the fast charging infrastructure is lacking. Improvements can be made, sure, but that’s not the reason. 95%+ of people do not need fast charging.

    When (slow, 120 or 240V) charging is more available to people without garages/driveways (read: at apartments and in workplace parking lots) you’ll see EV adoption in the US ramp up substantially: new car buyers will opt for the thing that’s less likely to suddenly cost double-per-mile next week, and used car buyers will have an increasing supply of 3-10 year old EVs to choose from.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Everything is a FileEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I resisted so much the concept of systemd, and certainly there still are some aspects of it that I think are objectively bad (looking at you, binary journal), but as I’ve been forced into using it for work I do think it’s a better system on the whole than sysvinit… at least for servers. I don’t know if it’s better or worse on desktops because I never really need to think about my init system on my own PCs.