thanksforallthefish @ thanksforallthefish @literature.cafe

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As per article only in Lancashire and Cornwall. The rest of the UK goes to treasury/exchequer

It has about a 60% usefulness ratio in my opinion but I'd suggest option 2 an auto comment disclaimer that it often leaves relevant stuff out AND to downvote it when the summary isnt useful.

The latter because a) it's a signal to later readers that the summary is misleading and b) if the maintainer is monitoring (prob not) that's a clue as to which summaries need to be looked at

Nope not locked. I have always on vpn (random countries) anti fingerprinting and DDG happily allows the search localisation to my actual or a different country

Doesnt this mean that you're by default agreeing to the cookies though ? I've tested not responding to the pop up on several websites and they all write cookies if you don't respond

Did you actually read the article? It specifically calls out "overtaking on double white lines" which is ILLEGAL for a very good reason. It's not calling ordinary overtaking dangerous.

In case you're unfamiliar with the road rules in UK, Europe where the US has double yellow lines to mark a centre line that is illegal to cross, those lines are white here.

They indicate that it is unsafe to overtake (lack of visibility due to bends etc)

Anyone who overtakes on a double centreline is an utter twat and well deserves to be called dangerous

I don't believe the article anywhere tried to claim that buying a BMW turned you from a safe driver into an arsehole did it ? Therefore your causation comment isn't really apropos.

It's a clear case of effective marketing selecting a sub demographic: drivers who have self perceptions around their driving and certain innate traits (selfishness, lack of concern for others) will prefer to buy cars that are advertised in a way that boosts their ego or enhances their self perception.

Or to quote an (Aussie) friend of mine "maybe not every BMW owner is an arsehole, but every arsehole I know owns a BMW "

Interesting (to me anyway) anecdotal aside, here in the UK it's usually Audi drivers who are stereotyped as the aggressive drivers not so much Subaru WRX and BMW owners (source: reddit sub discussions and pub/work conversations, not scientific of course)

You'd be right. Ram sized trucks literally don't fit down London streets sized for horses & carriages from centuries ago, they're very rare here.

Slanted but accurate.

Neither Lemmy nor Reddit are private, they're both publicly indexable (google et al).

On the other hand reddit goes to a lot of trouble to capture everything about you. Lemmy is not quite that greedy.

One is a for profit willing to do whatever it takes to make a buck. The other is FOSS and run by volunteers.

I think it's pretty clear which is the greater threat.

So just like android ?

Naah there's a nostalgia kick from a slackware install you don't get from linux from scratch

• confession I started with slackware 20 something years ago (oh hell 25 something). It's nostalgic

From the article (did you read it ?)

"Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. "

So yeah at least some of them collecting it are then selling it

Clearly states in article owners can't delete data collected

If "here" is the US, then yeah you do. There are insurers in UK, US and I believe most of western Europe who offer "discounted" insurance in return for fitting a tracking, logging device to the car.

Not really much to say is there ? It sucks.

I'd normally upvote and move on. Upvote to acknowledge that someone posted a useful article. No comment becauae it's just another nail in the coffin. Nothing new in that.

Starmer can't be worse, I'm just praying he's at least a little bit better.

The plural of anecdote isnt data. I've been riding for 45 years and I'm still here.

Data shows the vast majority of 2 vehicle motorcycle accidents are the fault of the other vehicle

Mullvad

You seem stuck on me supposedly not recognising he was a beginner.

I'd encourage you to re-read the two examples I gave as to what perhaps the questions he might want to ask were. I clearly did recognise that was the mostly likely scenario.

When they ignored the suggestion and came back with their "boil the ocean" response I responded with the only answer possible to an unanswerable question and pointed them to ground zero for linux knowledge. Install Arch and read everything you don't understand.

Doing that process will force them to ask specific questions that can be answered.

Of course if you think there is any answer to the question of where someone should go to instantly learn everything then I would love you to post it. I certainly will be bookmarking it.

Yeah no it's not, I offered some gentle prompts to help him refine his question into something that could be answered. As did several others.

He ignored that and tripled down with "I want to know everything"

That's not an answerable question.

You have to want to learn before you can be taught. If you can't listen to the prompt of "ok cool, you're keen but pick a thing" then there's no point me trying to help.