This was linked in the discussion there, and I think I’m a fan: https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/

I’m definitely considering adding something like this to my projects.

The law actually specifies a maximum wattage, which back before all the new technology like LEDs and Xenons actually did limit the brightness… But the laws haven’t been keeping up with technology for quite a while…

Probably because most of them aren’t even under the same rules as cars: https://www.jalopnik.com/2111008/how-non-passenger-work-vehicle-became-family-car/

I disagree, depending on the animation. There was this BMW SUV (I’m not really sure which model) driving around here and their turn signal looked nearly indistinguishable from a sunlight reflection. It faded both IN and out, with a slow transition across, and I personally barely could tell it was on unless I was staring directly at it. It doesn’t catch your eye like a turn signal should.

I think animated signals are fine, but there should be some rules to it, like requiring it to flash on, but allowing fade outs or transitions.

Signal gets me all the privacy I need. I don’t care if they know my phone number uses Signal, I don’t use it as anonymous chat, I use it with friends and family.
As others in this post have said, Signal handles privacy perfectly fine, it does not provide anonymity.

Unlike several other users here, I actually view Signal’s contact discoverability as a feature, not a security flaw. All it means is if someone I know installs Signal, they can easily send me a message without a complicated back and forth through some other medium.

Signal is actually good, still, but there are even better alternatives.

… Would you care to list some of these alternatives and how they are better?

Every alternative I’ve looked at has some major drawbacks that would prevent me from getting any of my friends to move. Having to selfhost my own chat service isn’t really a positive in my mind due to the maintenance required and the higher possibility of outages.

The audits determined they don’t have any user information to provide. You can see this in previous government requests where the only thing provided was a timestamp of last connection to the network.

The government already has access to every phone number in existence. They can already track every phone to figure out who attended a protest or whatever. Filtering down to “all phone numbers who’ve ever connected to Signal” doesn’t exactly narrow anything down. They don’t have any metadata about who you were chatting with.

The critical part is that the electrons moving consumes energy from the incoming light, reducing the heat being generated while current is flowing. A disconnected solar panel will heat up a bit more than a connected one, but the difference in Watts per area is low enough the panel can just dissipate the extra unused heat to the surrounding air without any issues (unless you’re in the desert, maybe it’s possible they could overheat there).

Modern solar panels are only about 20% efficient, so the panel would only heat up an extra 20% if disconnected in direct sun

A lot of those things list, especially around deletion, seem like issues with federation in general. I’d love if they suggested an alternative, because quite a few of these are just general issues with encryption/privacy in any system.

shocked pikachu face when they can no longer finish a marathon.

If anything my personal experience is the opposite. When using AI the way work wants me to, with multiple agents going in the background, I’ve completely lost any sort of “flow state” I normally get when focused on a problem. It’s no fun anymore, and the only thing keeping me going is working on my personal projects without AI in my free time… I didn’t get in to this to become an AI babysitter.

I’ve seen it personally at work where the AI generates its own metadata files containing uuids that it made up, and they end up being duplicates from elsewhere in the project. Unfortunately I can’t really share links.

I’m sure you could find examples in GitHub issues

There’s actually lots of evidence of people using AI to generate GUIDs that are infact not globally unique.

First time?

It’s things like this that make me glad I’m still renting. Anything that breaks is the landlord’s problem.

Can confirm, my linux server has 1040 days of uptime now without a single issue.

I still don’t think vaping in public is a great idea. Vape “smoke” still does have a smell until it dissipates (your lungs aren’t a perfect THC filter), and if you’re in the room with someone you would definitely notice. At least it doesn’t stick around for too long after like actual smoke.

This checks out with Linus Torvalds saying most OS crashes across linux AND windows are caused by hardware issues, and also why he uses ECC RAM.

I’m just not sure. It seems contradictory to me, since the manufacturer of a physical device is also “a person or entity that controls the operating system”. Unless they sell the hardware with no OS installed? This exemption doesn’t seem to mean anything.

With how they’ve defined “App Store”, basically any product that can download applications is affected by this, including devices that don’t even have the concept of a user account. I’m a little unclear still on what’s required of an entirely offline OS.