heh sorry i left my tin foil hat at home when writing this :P

Musk’s deadlines always have been pure fantasy. But i’m seeing real life hands on reviews of autonomous driving in various places, even Amsterdam with a mayhem of canals and cyclists, it’s not entirely there but damn impressive.

The rollout of the cars themselves will be a non issue, they control the factories to pump out the vehicles as they need it, unlike waymo’s retrofit way of doing things.

I can’t predict the future, had a company car tesla model 3 from 2019 with “full potential for self driving” and after 4 years when the leasing contract ran out, it was still barely on the level of a teenager on their 5th driving lesson. They might very well never reach the point where it’s good enough for the real world and stay on really predictable paths.

look, i don’t like tesla either, but assuming a linear progression here is probably really naive and wrong. they know how to scale up, once their tech is on point, look at the rate falcon 9s deliver starlink sats in LEO.

tit twat tenet thought tenderfoot

You could pay me and i still wouldn’t want to use any of this.

I can write my own texts, I can read long ones without having to get a summary. I can draw, I can take pictures, I can do online research. All by myself without a spicy autocomplete to prechew it for me.

yeah that’s so weird that it never happens

Baptized catholic by my parents, did all the ritual things all my youth until i was 16. Then i was old enough to try to understand it, got exposed to other schools of thought, and it all collapsed like a house of cards.

I am now fully atheist, and I find religion ridiculous, like fairy tales for adults, based on nothing. Organized religions are also usually structures of power for men. This can all go.

My spirituality would be:

We are made of star-stuff. Temporary piles of molecules which work together and stop after a while, to recombine into something new. I don’t need to be remembered, I don’t need to leave my mark. Just try to do no harm, any maybe help others along the way, while on this ball of rock and water, tumbling into the immensely empty void.

trust me bro, we’re almost there, we just need another data center and a few billions, it’s coming i promise, we are testing incredible things internally, can’t wait to show you!

rat erotica

aah thank you! now I can make sense of those last jumbled letters, quite the unusual word combination for sure ^^

Newsweek - The True Story Behind ‘Last Week Tonight’s’ Rat Erotica Painting (archive link)

good initiative but uh what’s up with that domain name?

Of course, when you’re young you don’t think about it, then comes the time that your grandparents pass, or a pet, and you get to experience a form of grief. As time goes by, you start losing more people you knew, a school friend, a work colleague, an aunt… And eventually death comes closer and takes away your parents, your social circle shrinks, you think of your own mortality.

Then you eventually think what will happen when you disappear. What if it was tomorrow, when crossing the street? What will people you leave behind remember of you? How can they deal with your stuff? Can you make it easier by lessening the amount of stuff you hoarded? Can you put down the important information to your online accounts somewhere? Will they be able to let the friends you made over the internet know that you’re gone?

Statistically, I lived half my life, and those thoughts come and go. I look at stuff in my cupboards that i haven’t touched in years and decide what to do with them. I start making preparations for the legacy of my many accounts for social media, banking, internet hosting, image backups etc. We’re all here on borrowed time.

Das letzte Hemd hat keine Taschen.

German saying: the last shirt has no pockets.

What you wear on your last day on this Earth doesn’t need pockets because everything stays behind after you die.

The website itself doesn’t seem to have a problem with its certificate: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.fosslinux.com&s=155.138.208.156&latest=

it might be related to the root certificates available on your device. you might be able to click the barred icon and read details about the error that’s encountered

so far just a casual “fuck elon” drawn in the dust with a finger, but i’ve seen photos of spray painted swastikas and there’s this website where you can order stickers for free to cover teslas: https://www.stopelon.eu/stickers

we’ll see, our area is really quiet and we have good relations to everyone living around, but it could happen anywhere when parking in town.

yeah i’m conflicted about it, we have a leased tesla through my so’s company and 3 years left on the contract. it would cost so much to get out of it right now that we can’t seriously consider switching the car. but we wake up every day wondering if we’re going to have to scrape off stickers, or wash a fresh spray painted artwork off the hood.

that sucks so much because we really enjoyed that car, and nothing really came close on the market when we got it. Polestar or Ioniq look better and better and we will probably switch to one of those when we give the Model 3 back.

because the police has army grade weapons and vehicles and will wreck dissidents like its Tien An Men 2.0

Of course it can’t work right away for everyone. But it’s a conversation you can have, explain your concerns, why it would be better to move on to a different software.

I used to talk to my family over WhatsApp, until they had a 24h outage and we switched to Signal, to never come back. But I still have dozens of other people there who won’t switch. At some point it’s a tradeoff you decide to make

fair point, i’d recommend going as far as we can, we f’ed up big time on the way!

transitioning isn’t legally recognized anymore, per executive order, you may only use the operating system assigned at birth /s

i’ve moved my communication to Signal, it’s been good so far and i haven’t heard of privacy-related incidents

yeah it’s probable better not committing additional information, they won’t collect more about you if you never use it