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Really? Average commute distance in the USA and in the UK is 20 miles each way, which is going to be about 1h20 on an e-bike going 15mph. I would imagine that millions of people buy groceries regularly that is too bulky to transport by bike without a trailer, and I think that if you do allow a trailer, millions of people are still transporting bulky items like flat pack furniture, appliances, waste etc several times a year.

All of that amounts to more frequently than "almost never".

I don't know what frequencies are annoying for dogs but I'm guessing it's above 24kHz so no sound file or sound system is going to be able to store or produce it anyway.

There will certainly be some way to get rid of the watermark. But it might nevertheless persist through common filters.

Yeah, which is why it's the reasonably wealthy people who have cars and not bikes. But that includes almost everyone in developed countries.

E-bikes are kind of a red herring here anyway; there's little practical use-case for them that isn't already covered by unpowered bicycles unless you live somewhere very hilly. (Even in moderately hilly places you get used to hills quite quickly). It's not unreasonable to do a shopping run on a bike as long as the shop isn't far away... But if it is, an e-bike won't help you get there in a reasonable length of time.

Unsurprisingly there is a cost-benefit analysis going on. How often do people use their cars to do something that would be difficult by e-bike? For many of them, quite often. How often would people get use out of a cargo truck that they can't use their car for? Almost never.

Sure, some people have cars unnecessarily. Many people could use and afford a bike but don't have/use one. But there's an obvious behaviour going on here which means that electric cars are important.

If you're not that wealthy you might be able to afford a car but not want to buy a car and an expensive e-bike. A car is useful for short distance trips in bad weather, longer trips that might not be the majority of your travelling, and transporting stuff that won't fit on a moped (or an e-bike unless you get a trailer... or bigger stuff than that.) In that case you're going to buy the one tool that covers your needs.

Well, encoding stuff in the spectrogram isn't new, sure. But encoding stuff into an audio file that is inaudible but robust to incidental modifications to the file is much harder. Aphex Twin's stuff is audible!

That's exactly what a "desktop" client would be anyway: a crappy, memory hogging electron app.

Sounds like a bad journalist hasn't understood the explanation. A spectrogram contains all the same data as was originally encoded. I guess all it means is that the watermark is applied in the frequency domain.

I don't think a good response to " breaks " is to say "yes, because was designed to work with and hasn't been updated to use ". Part of the task of replacing something old - onerous though it be - is to provide a smooth route to support old programs and functionality.

Wayland deliberately broke everything, but then was rolled out prematurely at least on some distros, before giving the vast X ecosystem enough time (which was guaranteed to be a long time, due to how large and entrenched it was) to update. Besides which, the "OUTDATED" post has an awful lot of things you acknowledge are still issues!

It wouldn't be great to spend my work week writing code for FOSS projects - it would be great to spend my "work" week coding whatever the hell I want. In my previous job I got code upstreamed into one or two major open source projects which did occupy my work week and it was just the same as any other work - I was working on the company's priorities, not my own. Now obviously we all try to find places to work where those priorities align because that's what makes work pleasant, but that is the real difference. From a personal perspective, how the code I'm writing is going to be licensed doesn't affect my enjoyment to a great extent.

My reaction to the blog post is to question who it's aimed at, and how it's meant to change their behaviour. For-profit businesses, maybe, to encourage them to open-source more of the code that they write? Well, that might be worthwhile, but I think a lot of tech companies already understand open source and incorporate it into their strategy. Google and Meta undoubtedly do. My current and previous employers do. For them it's a business decision whether to open source their code and whether to assign developers to open source projects, and this post doesn't seem focused on that business decision. Surely the post isn't aimed at individual contributors, because the action they can take is to withhold their time unless paid for it, which is absurd, because those people are for the most part contributing because they enjoy it. Sure, that means that companies can benefit from the passion of people making things for free, but that's not a bad situation to be in.

Not only that but several of them are a bit weird looking (sorry to those people...) as in, 37 and 47 have obvious asymmetries, 31 is a bit bug-eyed, 18 seems to have been taken with a super telephoto lens or have a really flat face.

Not OP, but I develop software for a living, and I also contribute, for free, to open source projects. The idea that I should be paid for some random project that I enjoyed is a nice one but also rather absurd.

XD

Conservatism is essentially about keeping things the way they are or restoring things to the way they were believed to have been in the past.

So rights and liberties that people have enjoyed for a long time will be defended by conservatives; rights and liberties that are only newly gained will be opposed by conservatives. New technologies may well be seen with suspicion due to what they threaten to disrupt: the status quo in America is that there's lots of cattle farming and if lab-grown meat makes the farming of real cattle unprofitable and leads to many cattle farmers losing their jobs, a conservatives focus will be on the job losses and instability, not on the opportunities to produce meat more efficiently, ecologically and without cruelty.

Do you mean you want separate sets of workspaces on each monitor and to be able to switch through them independently? Just having "workspace 1 on monitor 1 and workspace 2 on monitor 2" sounds no different than the default behaviour with no extra workspaces.

I mean you see most of the women in it naked already so I'm not sure what the modders are going to be doing 🤔

I would write it "Select all the images of the type which is warmer than the other type of image"

It's the "of one type" that gets me - to me that says I should be examining either the outdoor or the indoor pictures, not comparing between those two types of picture. So I should somehow pick the warmest outdoor or warmest indoor pictures.

Thanks for this detail - I didn't know it included IP address and accurate Lat/Long (though I guess only if you enable location services)

I agree that that would be very de-anonymisable and probably does fall under the remit of GDPR etc.

In the present context, I think whether or not Meta is using such granular data for real time bidding currently, they'd be arguing that all the RTB data is sufficiently covered by their privacy policy. But this new dialog says "your data won't be used for ads" which categorically rules out this possibility. I don't doubt that Meta could be breaking the law where they have a legal argument they can use to claim they aren't - what I do doubt is that they are breaking the law when all it would take is a single leak to demonstrate that they are lying in their privacy policy. 4% of global revenue is not to be trifled with!

That information is not Personally Identifiable Information and so it's out of scope of privacy protecting law like the GDPR and is probably not what anyone should be worrying about when it comes to data companies.

For those not familiar with the terminology, this means that an advertiser may receive information like, "there exists a person who is 25-30 years old, likes animals, is politically left wing, lives in Michigan" etc - they don't get that person's name or other details that allows the advertiser to go away and advertise to you separately. Nor does it allow the government to find out that you like animals by grabbing the traffic.