@rsynnott@cstross Yup, very American. Where I live in a middle-size US city, there's nothing but single family houses for as far as the eye can see. It's a 10 minute drive to a pub, a 15 minute drive to a restaurant, and a 20 minute drive to a bus stop.
@ossmkitty@rsynnott If it's a 10 minute drive to the pub and a 20 minute drive to a bus stop, I can kinda see why American attitudes to alcohol and social drinking are w-e-i-r-d. (I can't even count the number of pubs within a 10 minute walk of here on my fingers. Or the bus stops.)
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
Does anyone know of a way to buy an EV that doesn't relentlessly spy on the driver/passengers and send the data to whoever the carmaker feels like selling it to?
Related: Does anyone know of a service in the Bay Area that will disable all the surveillance that was, without my knowledge or permission, built into a 2008 Prius?
@dangillmor Googled "open source electric vehicle" out of curiosity and found https://www.openmotors.co/evplatform/ which might be part of the solution. It's theory where you are looking for a concrete solution @dangillmor but still interesting.
Incoming! A severe G4 Geomagnetic Storm is expected to arrive around 02:00 UTC Friday night / Saturday morning.
At least 5 Coronal Mass Ejections took place over the past 24 hours, directed towards Earth. These originated from a large and magnetically complex sunspot cluster (NOAA region 3664).
There is potential for disruption of communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.
I would love to get your thoughts and feedback on my #BookCover from my latest book, The Challenges of Being Me. Do you like it? Does it capture your attention? Without knowing anything about the book, what genre would you say this cover best fits? #writingcommunity#bookstodon#authors@bookstodon
@dickrubin716@bookstodon I’ve found that with book cover design, you can’t stray too far from genre expectations. Sure, do it with your twist, but a book cover is the very first discoverability tool we have. Book cover must telegraph genre, which means it has to look similar enough to other genre books that people get a clue.
@dickrubin716@thorncoyle@bookstodon It's rare to see a black and white YA cover, and the ones that do tend to have brightly coloured accents. For example Jennifer E. Smith's books have some doodles and a playful font to indicate YA.
#Israel / whistleblowers claim abuse of Palestinians at detention centre
Three Israeli whistleblowers working at the Sde Teiman desert camp say military responsible for series of abuses.
[…] The witnesses told #CNN the facility, some 18 miles from the Gaza frontier, is split into two parts: enclosures where around 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are placed under extreme physical restraint, and a field hospital “where injured detainees are immobilised, diapered, and fed through straws”.
@dangillmor@jeffjarvis Notice the byline. Clothes communicate in court. Not only is it “not the Onion,” it’s about a topic frequently analyzed in court cases. Is it funny because of the subject’s previous career? Or is this just boys laughing at silly girl stuff, like paying attention to what a public figure is communicating with her hair, makeup, and clothes?
@georgetakei Speaker Johnson is consummate liar and knows he's lying. He doesn't care he lies. He wants the lie to be the story and to republicans the truth. You could not define a worse example of a Christian than Johnson. Why democrats protect him as SpeKer is beyond reason.
@rbreich with his record, I’d be surprised if they took him up on it. I mean, they’re beyond evil, but not stupid. Plus, the legality of such a thing… lol
Yeah, and everything openly, and completely unscrupolous. #Sociopaths like #Trump cannot tell right from wrong. They always think it's okay, what they are doing.
Many people canceled their Openai subscriptions, or it is tough to monetize stuff created with generative AI, I guess, so Sama comes with a new plan to use all those GPUs. They are now going after OF models. WTF OpenAI? They are going to allow deepfake? This company is beyond evil 👿
@nixCraft "We founded the OpenAI Nonprofit in late 2015 with the goal of building safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.".
So non profit isn't true anymore. Safety is also a lie. And benefit of humanity apparently also include porn. 😳
At 5 a.m. #Russian forces tried to break through #Ukraine defensive line in #Kharkiv region using armored vehicles, the first attempt to invade this area in 2 years.