NeoDB has fairly comprehensive data import from numerous sites that catalogue media so I don’t think I’ve run into not finding something even once there. Haven’t used it much for music though.

I also use Pixelfed and it’s generally good apart from occasional bugs. There’s also Vernissage (vernissage.photos as flagship instance).

Waymos do try to find somewhere to park too which has also been the subject of stories like this when the place they choose seems unusual. Neither types of taxis can always be parked since they may be in areas with little legal parking space available. Since there are incentives for drivers to be in busy areas where they might pick up customers it isn’t very uncommon for taxis in general.

Waymo behavior just stands out because the system isn’t concerned about how things look and there is more coordination/consistency. A human driver might choose a less efficient way to circle around in the area using congested roads etc. and every driver makes their independent and almost always different decisions. Waymos on the other hand can get allocated to the same area in anticipation of demand and then go to the same streets because the system deems those to be the best option available at the time.

not virtualization, the dev says in the thread: “This is bare metal, no VM. m1n1+u-boot deal with the Apple-specific parts of booting, so we can boot UEFI images from USB like any PC”.

This was later in the thread than the linked post so you had to read further down to see it though.

seems much more likely to be a devkit and that nothing much can be deduced from it when it comes to a release timeline.

Chinese pony.ai is also starting this with Verne in Croatia.

Well, the general concept is no different from what regular taxis already do. What makes this stand out is that they are robotically going to the same otherwise little utilized areas…

Seems like blatantly obvious creation of a false pretext considering that we’ve known for a while the US is thinking of invading.

Axios has become a joke. They’ve been the admin’s lapdog uncritically publishing their claims of negotiations going well with Iran etc. weekly and at the specific times possibly intended to influence the markets. It’s become clear it’s all just lies they’re using Axios to lend credence to…

they may not want to do it because perception shifting to them being the more stable and trustworthy superpower especially in the eyes of developing countries while they’re actively doing the work of building relationships the USA has now abandoned benefits them immensely and their own special military operation would speak directly against that.

You obviously know it but worth still saying this current admin and the Republican party certainly isn’t… Trump’s friendly with the dictators more than the traditional allies most of which are democracies USA used to have and he’s actively trying to end democracy at home.

they’re already testing in Tokyo so I think that is likely to be the next location outside USA/UK.

Probably a big part of it is the internet emerged from the USA and Silicon Valley already was a strong tech hub in the 90s when it really started becoming worldwide. Back in the 80s and into the early 90s UK used to also to have a pretty big concentration of talent but for some reason that started going away as the 90s progressed.

well searx is just metasearch so you still depend on whatever you’re getting the results from.

My understanding is that this is basically just presenting Google results. Certainly better for privacy but doesn’t do much for tech sovereignty.

I’ve been using it for a couple of months and while I agree the results can sometimes be interesting to compare I think it seems more primitive and result quality worse to the point that I have to go to other searches relatively often. It isn’t as smart about my native language and is only able to search for the exact word typed instead of different variants of it for example.

Forgejo is leading the charge on that. Version 16.0 is going to have some early bits of federation functionality.

Democracy isn’t dead even when the system has been gamed to an extent if there’s still a way to win even unfair elections. Hungary is a very recent example of that. Poland is another from a few years back. It’ll be dead if they ever get to a point where it’s like Russia and the results are that in every election Putin gets a 99% victory but until they do elections are a viable way to fight back.

What they’re doing now shouldn’t be conflated with what they used to do (which was arguably more mutually beneficial) and if the hypothesis OP makes was correct it would be a recent thing.

But yes, I think the Trump admin wants to make Europe a subject just like they want to do it with Venezuela, Iran etc. even if the method is thankfully different. I don’t think it’s going to work.

the midterms and what happens after that will be a test of that but I wouldn’t declare it dead yet. Just like recent events have shown Orban did not manage to kill Hungary’s democracy in his 16 years of power.

At the same time Trump and the Republicans are certainly moving much faster than Orban was so I’m definitely not saying it will take as long as that if they manage to finish the job.

The more troubling turns are far more recent than his nomination so him having bipartisan support back then (as tended to be the standard) does nothing for this argument. I don’t believe for a second that the Democratic party is happy with the clear bias he has shown by pushing through anything the Republicans want and obstructing the Dems. Especially not when it’s Trump he’s enabling.

They must know what they’re doing because they’re engaging in acts that are clearly exceptional in the history of the court.