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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites
  • Unless every browser ignores them. Then what they’re going to fine Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla and declare the internet illegal in France?

    It just seems so absurd I can’t take it seriously. There’s zero way to make this actually work. If they want to ban websites they’d have to go full China on it.

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    Drug war shakes France’s Marseille as rival gangs shoot it out
  • Are these deaths only in this gang war?

    Really puts in perspective how atrocious American cities are for gun deaths…. This is barely the typical first quarter of the year.

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    Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection
  • Oh my god. Absolute dumbasses at the record companies actively trying to act evil. Barely anybody will stream these and it sure isn’t so malicious of the ‘store’ selling these records is doing it for free.

    I mean how many people are actually going to buy these ever again? Also their damage claims are per usual pulled from the oceangate depths of their ass.

    If anyone remembers when torrenting was big and the riaa was essentially claiming something like 20%+ of the US economy’s value in lost profits. These people don’t munch on crayons, but they really should start because it would be a more intelligent hobby to take up.

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    Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters
  • Yup. This is really the worst part. I am a village idiot. So if i do it at home that’s fine.

    But then again the shit I see at work sometimes…

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    Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters
  • Yeah they do. The device current issue is one of time. If they coded it properly they could keep the pi asleep at almost all times, but seeing as they used one in the first place I have my doubts.

    Essentially it would make the scooter drain from just sitting vs being able to sit for weeks until a rider hops on.

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    Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters
  • But why not an ESP32 or something that’s really well supported but better matched to their use case? Rpi screams ‘I read an article on how to connect my leds to Wi-Fi once’ levels of competence.

    But I suppose if it was a half baked grift of sorts then it checks out haha. Even if that grift was more of an egotistical and not intentionally sourced grift.

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    Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters
  • This is what I mean. It’s not like they are running some kind of image processing or literally anything heavy.

    Just seems way over the top. Also my bet is it they didn’t bother with bespoke hardware they probably didn’t do much to power optimize.

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    Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters
  • This is such a terrible application. These things would drain their battery just running the pi and electronics. Why such a high power platform for such basic functionality?

    This screams of free money flooding startups. Amateur hour.

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    Every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person has been Black
  • Predictable. Biased datasets and company execs who can tell AI from their own ass.

    The sooner assholes who don’t know the pitfalls and limitations of AI get punished for this stupidity the better off society will be.

    But I’m not holding my breath based on the money around it.

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    Capitalism CookBook: Take an invention which the inventor wanted to be accessible to everyone and make it 57 times more expensive than it costed to make it 🧐🎩
  • The one time congress actually did a case study on drug pricing they found that in all the internal discussions a drug company had while setting the price R&D costs were not mentioned even 1 single time.

    So it’s got nothing to do with profit.

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    Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
  • This is actually awesome to see. Sadly the main thing holding Linux back is still just momentum. And for a lot of people MS word. Even if the free suites are pretty good nowadays.

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    Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks
  • People often forget what the medical research and medical authorities say are not always the same.

    See heart disease for another one of these fun ones.

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