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There are three issues:

1. Copyright
2. Trademarks
3. Patents

For copyright, you have to make an exact copy - which OP didn't do. Even then it's not perfect protection, sometimes you're still allowed to make copies (e.g. Google copied Java several years ago, and the court said that was OK).

For trademarks, there has to be confusion over who sells the product. OP isn't trying to impersonate Reddit so they're fine there as well.

With patents... yes, if Reddit owns any patents on their service, then OP has a problem. But I don't think they do. Also patents are relatively short lived. You only get exclusive rights over your invention for a short period of time then everyone else is allowed (indeed encouraged) to copy it.

Giving big corporations control over what other people say or think

Wait... what? Reddit is not a "big corporation". Reddit also doesn't have control over what people say, let alone think. Moderation on Reddit is done by the community.

Honestly I think your service sounds even worse than Reddit. Sure, you're not as big but neither was reddit when they first started out. Unlike reddit it looks like your service does directly control things? You've got one policy for the whole site dictating acceptable content, while Reddit has thousands of policies created by users.

Ultimately I think the Lemmy is the right approach to this type of website. If you think you can do a better job then Lemmy, then by all means go ahead. But I think being on the fediverse is table stakes.

Please direct me to any EVs that actually do this

The Nissan Leaf "actually does this" (though in the UK, it will stop working unless you have a recent model). Obviously it only works if your power company supports it.

It's relatively common around the world and often has nothing to do with saving money. It's often about protecting the energy grid. For example in my city the grid can remotely switch off hot water heaters when they are struggling with demand. And at work we have red power points on the wall that have a higher grid priority - the entire city could have a blackout but those power points should still have power. Not because we have a UPS but because the grid will not cut power to that circuit unless there's a catastrophic safety risk (e.g. the power line fell over and pedestrians are walking all over it - they wouldn't send power then).

Sometimes that works by cutting delivery but increasingly often it's done at the consumption side. The switchboard on the outside of my house has a cellular radio connection to the energy provider so they can do these things.

It's also possible to roll your own off peak system - if you have solar panels on your roof for example you might only charge when your panels are producing power. And you can do that from your EV charger, meaning it will work with any EV.

I guarantee it's a separate piece of hardware. The leaf is sold all over the world and needs different hardware to work on all the different radio frequencies. There would be at least four or five different cell radio modules for the leaf.

Maybe you should try an AI translator. :P

Blender and games run great on my M1 MacBook Air which doesn't get hot even with no cooling at all except via the external case and I mostly play games on the couch with the laptop on my lap.

After two or three hours with all 8 CPU cores and the GPU both pegged under 100% load, I can notice the heat on my bare skin but it's not uncomfortable. And it only does that in games - Blender gives the CPU/GPU enough of a break between renders to keep it cool.

The MacBook Pro, which does have a fan, is definitely not going to get hot. Forget about that issue. The fan will make it run cooler, and also faster since the CPU won't be thermally throttled (my M1 is permanently thermally throttled while playing games... still fast enough to get good framerates at moderately high graphics settings though);.

Just buy the most expensive one you can afford. You're going to love it. The only thing to be aware of is external display support, which isn't very good on the low end models... but the M3 MacBook Air has improved that significantly and Apple has said there will be a firmware update to the M3 MacBook Pro soon to do the same thing.

Let me guess - learned from all those websites about unsafe memory(ies)?

Reddit was open source until relatively recently. According to the source code, editing comments does overwrite your data. Or at least it used to.

Keeping old data is expensive, and usually a waste of money.

Admittedly, I haven't read the TOS... but I don't need to. At least where I live it would be illegal to claim ownership of someone else's work (unless you paid a living wage to create it, or something along those lines. A software company for example can claim ownership of employee created software).

I love containers for this use case.

They allow you to just install and test pretty much anything you want and if it doesn't go well... just rebuild the container and start again. Rebuilding a container takes about 5 seconds to fix problems that would take 5 weeks of headaches if you made the same mistake on your main operating system.

If apt-get install wants to install a bunch of dependencies you're not sure about, oh well give it a try and see how it goes. That's definitely not an approach you can use successfully outside of a container.

Another benefit of containers is you can have two computers (e.g. a desktop and a laptop) and easily share the exact same container between both of them.

Personally I use Docker, because there are rich tools available for it and also it's what everyone else I work with uses. I can't speak to wether or not Incus is better as I've never used it.

Seriously just go with a Mac. iPadOS is just not good enough yet, and I'm not convinced it ever will be. Progress with that operating system is moving at a glacial pace.

Don't sell the iPad Air. It can be used as a second screen for the Mac and that will allow you to use the pencil in some Mac apps. And of course you can keep using it for native iPad apps. The iPad Air is obviously better than a Mac for reading (and annotating) lengthy documents so you should keep it for that use case. A Mac and an iPad work together really well, for example you can use the Mac keyboard/trackpad to type and mouse around on the iPad screen.

I agree - carrying two devices around sucks. But you're going to spend a lot of time working at a desk and you'll be happy to have two devices there.

I don't think the 13" iPad Pro would be an upgrade - it's a lot heavier than the Air and honestly worse at a lot of the things iPads are great for. Most of the things it does better than the iPad Air are just as good on a MacBook.

The 11" iPad Pro is an upgrade over the iPad Air, but it's not a big upgrade. A bit faster, a slightly nicer screen and speakers. It has face recognition. None of that is really worth the price premium unless you have money burning a hole in your pocket which it sounds like you don't.

Sam Kerr is one of the highest paid female athletes in all of Europe. The idea that she refused to pay for her taxi is ridiculous.

She was also very drunk - drunk people say stupid shit all the time. Police know that, they experience it every day. It's part of the job and what she said does not even remotely justify a month in jail and losing her job/being deported (she's facing all of those if found guilty).

Uh, no. Sam Kerr's career depends on the outcome of this court case. We absolutely shouldn't be moving on, she needs our support.

One of the big problems is that the large language models will straight up lie to you.

Um... that's a trait AI shares with humans.

If you have to take the time to double check everything they tell you, then why bother using the AI in the first place?

You have to double check human work too. So, since you are going to double check everything anyway, it doesn't really matter if it's wrong?

If you use AI to generate code, often times it will be buggy

... again, exactly the same as a human. Difference is the LLM writes buggy code really fast.

Assuming you have good testing processes in place, and you better have those, AI generated code is perfectly safe. In fact it's a lot easier to find bugs in code that you didn't write yourself.

There is also the issue of whether or not it just spat out a piece of copyrighted code that could get you in trouble

Um - no - that's not how copyright works. You're thinking of patents. But human written code has the same problem.

I don't know a good template, but whatever you choose make sure it uses Markdown for the post format. Markdown was originally designed for exactly your use case. The Daring Fireball blog has been using Markdown for 20 years now.

There are variants of markdown, and I'd go with Github Flavoured Markdown which has all the features you require and has quite a few improvements over the original spec:

• Basic GFM tutorial
• Full GFM spec

For the few things it can't do, like embedding graphs — Markdown is a superset of HTML, meaning that arbitrary HTML is valid Markdown. You could, for example, use D3.js.

Personally I would also use GitHub as my distribution method. Write your posts in any text editor, push to GitHub, and then a GitHub action triggers an action that re-generates the HTML and publishes your site.

That approach will work well and if it ever stops working well you can easily move part of your system to something else without reinventing the entire thing.

We have culturally drawn a line in the sand where one side is legal and the other side of the line is illegal.

Of course the real world isn't like that - there's a range of material available and a lot of it is pretty close to being abusive material, while still being perfectly legal because it falls on the right side of someone's date of birth.

It sounds like this initiative by Pornhub's chatbot successfully pushes people away from borderline content... I'm not sure I buy that... but if it's directing some of those users to support services then that's a good thing. I worry though some people might instead be pushed over to the dark web.

If you make bets like that, not just once but repeatedly in a broad portfolio, you will get filthy rich.

But that's based on the false assumption "it's just as likely". The price of bitcoin is not random, and to really get filthy rich you want to use a decision process that better understands market pricing patterns.

A wonderful video on that was posted a week ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5w-dEgIU1M

Compare the success of the programming communities here . Most are empty. Most have no posts and no activities

Lemmy also lacks the ability to edit someone else's post. The best answers (and even the best questions) on Stack Overflow had multiple authors. It's very rare to find one person who can comprehensively understand a problem, but several people can do that.

Distinct posts by several people can never be as good as a single post. There's too much repetition, too many stale posts that are out of date or have errors that the author didn't come back to fix, etc.

Yep - I'm also looking for the same thing. Stack Overflow used to be the most amazing website on the internet... it's not that anymore.

LLMs are working pretty well for me and I'm not sure if anything like Stack Overflow will ever exist again. That ship has sailed in my opinion.

No — they are complaining that the keyboard is parallel to the table - most people prefer the back to be slightly raised. Apple's desktop keyboard is wedge shaped for example.

Back in the day, Apple used to sell laptops with little feet you could flip out to raise the back up. That wasn't necessary with a wedge shaped laptop but they've gone away from that.