No sure if this is a serious question, but .btw is not a TLD while .fyi is.

I don’t think that’s a fair assessment, and I’m someone who’s pretty invested in both projects (I’ve been using Beeper for almost a year and I’m still wearing a Pebble).

Signal is only officially distributed through Google Play, so their APK isn’t reproducible, and I believe it still contains binary blobs.

Sure, but any messaging app (including Signal) could have these backdoors in place. Heck, there’s even vectors for unrelated apps on your phone to read this data once unencrypted.

Would it not be E2EE? Isn’t that one of the reasons for using the Signal protocol?

Thanks for the links. As I read it, none of that is saying their ratio is below 1:1, just that they switch between vehicles as needed.

And the “what their operators do” link sounds like they are the equivalent of a driving instructor sitting in the passenger seat, giving instructions but not “directly controlling” the vehicle.

I haven’t heard about Waymo being below 1:1. Do you have a source? I’d love to read it.

That’s the whole point of this post: When? 'Cause it’s not happening now.

AVs don’t have a driver, instead they have 1.5 operations staff per vehicle.

It’s not happening.

@davidpierce@mastodon.social has been pretty bullish on the fediverse for quite a while now. It’s come up a few times on the vergecast over the last year or so. I’m not surprised he wrote this decent explainer!

Because he’s heavily invested in Nebula and believes their system is better for him and other creators in the long term. That doesn’t mean he believes YouTube monetization doesn’t work at all, just he prefers to keep bonus videos on Nebula to entice users to join.

He is using YouTube’s monetization…

In this case, it doesn’t seem like the patents are “awfully broad”. Masimo is actively selling products using the patents, and it seems likely that Apple stole their technology.

I live on the planet where corporations will do the right thing when it’s cheaper. Making drastic changes to infrastructure every 4-8 years isn’t cheap, and some (though not all) will decide it’s not worth the hassle and bad publicity.

I don’t think I’m agreeing. I was saying many businesses will give up and just follow net neutrality all the time, instead of changing constantly with new regulations.

I disagree.

1. Even if this change is only temporary, it still improves things for that time.
2. Businesses don’t like having to change back and forth based on Federal policy. Even if congress can’t pass net neutrality, many businesses will give up if they have to adjust every 4-8 years.

While imperfect, it’s far from irrelevant.

That is a rather big ask and maybe that effort would be better directed elsewhere.

Also, think of it this way. Isn’t it a bit crazy we send lines of pressurized, explosive gas directly to most homes in North America? If we do need to keep burning natural gas, we can do that in power plants and get about the same, if not better efficiency by using this electrical generation with heat pumps.

I haven’t seen this argument listed yet, but my reason for wanting to go off natural gas is how much we lose in transmission. I don’t feel like finding sources right at this moment but most estimates I’ve seen are ~2%, and methane is a pretty potent greenhouse gas.

Technically, they aren’t doing anything. This is “just” an announcement if you’re going to be pedantic.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is going through a similar process of lowering speed limits in residential areas. The planning staff said they needed the speed lowered so they could implement these traffic calming measures, otherwise the speed limit would be higher than the street design can accommodate. Obviously, the devil is in the details, but it’s a good and important first step.

They’re not just lowering the speed limit. From the FAQ:

Will the roll out involve money being spent on speed bumps?

There is no plan to include traffic calming (including speed bumps) as part of the change to speed limits. There are other ‘softer’ measures that might be introduced, such as using buffer speed limits, removing the centre line, narrowing the carriageway visually, using planting etc.