Disappointed that the article didn’t touch on supply chains, raw materials, and batteries.

Nextcloud already bit off more than it can chew. Competing with YouTube seems like a bad idea.

I can’t speak to the book, but the article/interview/summary seem a little hollow in places. Some oddities:

1. Manufacturing jobs declined and manufacturing contributes less as a percentage of GDP than it once did, sure, but manufacturing has grown in the US.
2. China artificially deflates the value of its currency. That lowers the cost of goods it exports to other countries and creates a structural impediment to competing with manufacturers in China. I don’t see how any discussion about globalization and manufacturing jobs is complete without a discussion about currency manipulation.
3. Random shots fired at NY and SF.

Also, the US is never going to compete with China for engineering graduates or manufacturing. The population difference makes it an impossible comparison.

This was a lemmy frontend: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

From what I’ve read, repeated plugging/unplugging is not the most likely failure mode. Definitely some issues with cheap sockets though that aren’t realistically capable of carrying the continuous load.

On one hand, it bothers me how inaccessible clear guidance on electric work is. There are so few open resources, and online questions seem to devolve into electricians gatekeeping information to protect the trade. On the other hand, browsing ev charging forums reveals one melted socket after another (not necessarily the result of DIY). The average person can be pretty flippant about the various ways these installations can go up in flames.

I watch a sketch comedy group that gets abused by YouTube’s moderation. Some of their stuff leans edgy, but the moderation and demonetization seems pretty arbitrary. There is no viable appeal process or viable alternative platform. Reminds me of how Google controls the Play store and removes open source projects for arbitrary or spurious reasons.

I take less issue with aggressive moderation and more issue with the lack of infrastructure to handle the concept that the first line ai decision might be wrong.

Adding to that - Google’s effective monopolization of “amateur” video distribution, and coincidentally monopolization of app distribution and monetization on the 70% market share mobile platform, makes it more problematic that the company is unanswerable to moderation mistakes.

I’m not saying that you need to understand every aspect of how something works to use it, but OMEMO provides forward secrecy - it is in the first paragraph of the wikipedia article. Delta Chat explicitly does not. Finding the right tool for your needs/expectations is important. We don’t blame a hammer for failing to cut wood.

Pretty sure that has been a feature for at least 2 years. It seems like a reasonable compromise.

Good to see prose moving along.

Food safety recalls. Source/relevance would depend on your country. Not sure that it meets the criteria for “great”, but I found it better than hoping that relevant recalls would make it to a new source I read.

We put so much important information/data through browsers (and smart phones for that matter), and it is becoming hard to trust third party code running on either. Trust in the publisher has become mandatory for me and the only browser plugin I run now is Bitwarden. Neither the app store operators nor the browser publishers seem to have an answer for reliably thwarting malicious actors. I don’t know what the answer is, other than developing literacy in writing browser plugins and adding functionality through my own code.

Unmoderated user generated nsfw forums were (are?) a beacon for dubious to illegal content. I forget the specifics, but didn’t Pornhub have to pivot from accepting a firehose of free user submitted content after failing to moderate sufficiently? User generated nsfw + free just seems like an impossible balance.

I don’t think the option to put some subreddits behind a paywall is necessarily a bad thing. Hopefully the federated link aggregators are in a better place now to absorb another exodus if reddit does scare off a bunch.

Who would realistically buy Chrome that wouldn’t degrade the consumer experience?

Also, would Google lose incentive to target the web entirely with its properties? In other words, what happens to the web if Google’s focus shifts entirely to Android?

Perfect is the enemy of good. There is no scenario where cars are getting banned in most of the world where EVs are being sold.

If safer is a realistic outcome, perhaps things would further evolve. Ride share cars today are dual-use vehicles that typically carry driver + no passenger or driver + one passenger with the capacity for 3-5. If future autonomous ride share cars turn out to be dedicated to ride share, maybe most would end up being 3-wheel with just one or two seats. Shrinking the size of a substantial potion of cars on urban roads could be beneficial to road safety, power/carbon intensity, road capacity/density (which could also lead to more equitable road use for bikes and pedestrians).

I use rclone to mount the Linux NAS from my Linux and Windows computers - SFTP backend is usually fine. Then I am uniformly reading/writing the NAS files as the local NAS user.

I feel that /r/programming lost a lot of volume and intensity following the API protest drama. This community seemed like a beneficiary. Even anecdotally though, I sit in a couple of language discord servers and engagement seems lower than it was a couple of years ago.

Apple has turned out to “prevent the chrome monopoly” far more effectively then firefox has.

Turns out that owning the platform (Android, iOS) counts for a lot. I like having an independent option.