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Happy Sunday everyone. Your #dad #joke for the morning:

How much does the aurora borealis weigh?
Not much, it’s pretty light.

#joke #dad

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

#opensource #fediverse #Mastodon #socialNetworks #JoinTheFediverse #socialmedia #community #trust #bsdcafe #digitalfreedom

#SilentSunday

#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #fog #squared #minimalism

This square black-and-white photograph with a white border captures a foggy scene characterized by minimalism and contrast. A tall power line tower is positioned on the left side of the frame, its structure partially obscured by the dense fog, while its delicate wires stretch diagonally across the upper left corner, gradually fading into the mist. In the lower right corner, the silhouette of a solitary person walking adds a sense of scale and evokes a feeling of solitude. The flat, dark ground contrasts sharply with the light, misty atmosphere above. The white border emphasizes the clean, minimalist composition, enhancing the quiet and contemplative mood of the image.
#photography #BlackAndWhite #monochrome #fog #SilentSunday #minimalism #squared

My wild friends keep me sane. I’m grateful.

#EllisSquirrel

One of my friendly eastern gray squirrels perched on the railing of the kitchen door steps, asking for good nuts. He’s like a bushy tailed prairie dog, absolutely adorable. He has one tarantula like hand forward on the railing. The background is the leafless elm sapling branches, the wooden fence, and the blue sky with a few marshmallow clouds.
#ellissquirrel
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Really happy with how my latest embroidery project turned out. I used a pattern from a magazine (credit to www.lucyfreeman.co.uk) Learned some new techniques, my favourite being sewing with multiple different colour threads on the same needle to blend colours together!

#embroidery #mushrooms #embroideryHoop #toadstools #fibreArt #fiberArt #MastoArt

An oval embroidery hoop containing a mushroom themed design, depicting a diverse array of fungi on a navy blue background.
Close up photo of an oval embroidery hoop containing a mushroom themed design, depicting a diverse array of fungi on a navy blue background.
#mastoart #embroidery #mushrooms #embroideryhoop #toadstools #fibreart #fiberart

Unlimited! I worked for a company that had unlimited PTO, I used it without fear. My mental and physical health is important.

#work #pto

Corporate America be like: "yea we will give you unlimited PTO. But we will make you afraid to use it."
#work #pto

The #spotify app for windows surprises me over and over. I remembered it as a big, weird you need to tab around a ton of times ap. But now I must say, it's really comfortable to use!
#spotify
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Oh really? Don't you need to turn virtual cursor on and off anymore?
in reply to André Polykanine

Jonathan
Jonathan
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Well what I do is open the app, arrow down to my library, go out of browse mode, and click through it with the arrows, select the playlist, tab in to the table, and just play the songs. If I need I tab to the mini player, but I remembered it to be way more difficult. Also some useful shortcuts include CTRL+left/right arrow, skip to previous/next song. CTRL+UP/DOWN, volume. CTRL+SPACE, well that one is obvious. Surely there are more I don't know of.
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I have enjoyed Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast for years. This fall though he is shipping a fictional piece about a revolution on Mars in the 2200s. Having listened to his historical accounts, I do quite like him using the same tone with a fictional revolution.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes as they say.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/…


11.0- Welcome to the Martian Revolution

Podcast Episode · Revolutions · S12 E2 · 6m
Apple Podcasts
in reply to Mike Gifford

Anders Lagerfjärd
Anders Lagerfjärd
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It was incredibly strange to hear the start of the Mars story, in the exact same format and voice as the ten revolutions covered in the main show, but I quickly got into it. He's a great storyteller.

Unpopular opinion: if you still use substack then you are just helping fascism. Which mean....
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Jérôme Carretero
Jérôme Carretero
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Started a list of ethical centralized cloud services, here it is:

1. @Framasoft stuff
2. TODO FIXME

@Framasoft

Zajtra mám kontrolu u doktorky a pravdepodobne zruším PNku i keď ja neviem, budem sa musieť zamyslieť nad tým čo dávam do pľúc lebo to bude asi riešenie.

Moon 🌕

If there is *any* area that #curl is not best-in-class, we should put in more work and improve curl in that area. While at the same time keep up and polish it in all other aspects.
#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Force of Habit
Force of Habit
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Thank you, if you say this, I shouldn't even try. I would be wasting my time. Cheers!

I'm about to buy the Kindle book UK Christmas Number Ones - 1952-2023: The history of the nation's favourite festive hits and the stories behind them by Felix Mensah.
Two years ago I bought 70 Years of Christmas Number Ones by Andrew Burford. That was very good. So I'll see what new things I can learn from this one.

My sister wants to de-Google as much as practical. She's not a programmer or sysadmin, but I can set up stuff for her. For file storage, including both documents and photos, should I set her up with SyncThing, self-hosted Nextcloud, both, or something else?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Dave🌱
Dave🌱
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if you and/or your sister want to make use of several of the features Nextcloud offers, more like a Google Apps replacement, it's probably the best self hostable choice.
For me I went with a hosted email solution six or seven years ago that takes care of all my email/calendar/contacts needs (Fastmail), so went with SyncThing as a Dropbox replacement, with most of its global discovery stuff disabled.
I think I've only tried the former, but Jitsu Meet and BBB both seem like nice solutions.
in reply to Matt Campbell

mosttoast
mosttoast
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I'd also add Proton and Pcloud both have pretty good android syncing. Pcloud has really nice backup integration across devices.

Signed up at #BlueSky, just in case. And guess what? I had to ask my wife to help me dealing with gods damned #HateCaptcha. I wish the person who designed such pseudo-accessibility at #HCaptcha was obliged to work without a monitor and without a mouse for a whole month, just for justice.
#bluesky #hcaptcha #hatecaptcha

victor tsaran reshared this.

Ten years ago I explained why #curl defaults to stdout:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/11/17…


Why curl defaults to stdout

(Recap: I founded the curl project, I am still the lead developer and maintainer) When asking curl to get a URL it'll send the output to stdout by default.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Christen Lofland
Christen Lofland
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I always feel embarrassed, alone at home in my office with nobody watching me of course, when I run curl, see it dump my file to stdout and then use wget instead because I cannot immediately remember how to properly make a file with curl, even though I could spend 30 seconds looking it up. 😅

Join the amazing team of Tuta Legends ❤️ Click on this link 👉 tuta.com/black-friday to SAVE 62% on our Legend plan.

#Blackfriday #Tuta #Encryption #Germany

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deal. Go Legend paying the Revolutionary plan price.

Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta

Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.
Tuta
#encryption #Germany #blackfriday #tuta
in reply to Tuta

Stal
Stal
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Personally, I'm saddened by this. I remember a sense of relief reading this blog post 2 years ago. It made me belief Tutanota was on a different path.

web.archive.org/web/2022112810…

But we've gone from:

"The Cyber Monday hype is just another method by marketers and advertisers to keep you buying. ... At Tutanota we have decided not to join the Cyber Monday hype. Instead of advertising regular discounts, we prefer a pricing strategy of a fair and transparent low-priced standard offer. To put it frankly, for being able to drop the price on Cyber Monday, we would have to raise the standard Premium price in the first place.
...
Having a low entry price is essential so that anyone has the chance to upgrade and benefit from Tutanota's Premium features."

⬇️ To:

"We at Tuta are thrilled to offer an exclusive Black Friday and Cyber Monday discount! You can now upgrade to our Legend Plan - with 62% off for the first year."

😥


Every day is Cyber Monday at Tutanota.

Cyber Monday is not about getting the best deal. It's about selling you stuff you don't need.
Tutanota
in reply to Stal

Tuta
Tuta
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@stalpomi Hi there :) Unfortunately, everyone else is doing Black Friday promotion and a lot of users are jumping on the deal bandwagon or waiting for Black Friday. If we don't do anything now, they'll go to the competition... However, we have planned the offer so that most existing users can also benefit - not just new customers. I hope you understand that.
@Stal

amen on this one. O wow you are kidding me. This is the 99999th reason why the mobile version of Facebook shouldn't hav gone away. So on the PC that site defaults to the full FB and it doesn't list the names of the "people you may know". it only mentions how many mutual friends we have got with the person; wow! #accessibility or lack of.
#Accessibility

Accessibility, by @mgifford (@httparchive@x.com):

almanac.httparchive.org/en/202…


Accessibility | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Accessibility chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, navigation, forms, media, ARIA, and accessibility apps.
Mike Gifford (HTTP Archive)
@Mike Gifford

The Greatest Sci Fi TV Shows of All Time: Fringe (2008) cancelledscifi.com/2024/11/16/…

The Greatest Sci Fi TV Shows of All Time: Fringe (2008) - Cancelled Sci Fi

Does Fringe count as one of the greatest sci fi/fantasy shows of all time or was it too derivative and convoluted?
johnnyjay (Cancelled Sci Fi)

What's All This About NASA Working on a Time Zone for the Moon? cnet.com/science/space/nasa-is…

What's All This About NASA Working on a Time Zone for the Moon?

Coordinated Lunar Time will help with precise space-travel calculations. But first, NASA has to figure out how to make it work.
Joe Hindy (CNET)

MobileX's eSIM service is simple to set up and connects to one of the largest 5G networks in the US for fast, reliable cellular speeds at affordable rates. Here's our review: pcmag.com/reviews/mobilex-esim

AI and Robots That Do Your Laundry and Dishes? Dream On, Folks cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

AI and Robots That Do Your Laundry and Dishes? Dream On, Folks

There's what we want technology to do, and then what it actually can do. Don't put off your household chores while you wait.
Lisa Lacy (CNET)
in reply to David Goldfield

Desiree Renae
Desiree Renae
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Technically kids should be good for that but that doesn't always work out either. Lol

Every now and again, I post this to wind up bigoted americans.
An image showing language selection options that you will often find in software settings. The top part of the image shows a Union Jack flag, and a ticked check box for English with the word traditional in brackets. Below that is the USA flag with an unchecked tickbox with English next to it, in brackets is the word simplified.

Are Identity Theft Protection Services Worth the Money? It's Complicated cnet.com/personal-finance/are-…

Are Identity Theft Protection Services Worth the Money? It's Complicated

In our busy lives, we often forget about or neglect personal security. Having a service to nudge you about best practices can be worth the money — in certain cases.
Neal O'Farrell (CNET)

3 New AI Smart Home Features Arrive With Gemini and Google Nest cnet.com/home/security/3-new-a…

3 New AI Smart Home Features Arrive With Gemini and Google Nest

Gemini AI is coming to Google Home and Nest -- here's what it can do for your home security.
Tyler Lacoma (CNET)

Tired of big tech companies mishandling your data? Switch to my favorite email provider, @Tutanota , for top-notch #security and #privacy protection. Your data is safe with them! 🔐💻
#privacy #security @Tuta
in reply to uon

Tuta
Tuta
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Thanks for the mention ❤️ Happy encrypting!

The true horror of the Nazi regime was not the hateful rhetoric, the atrocities committed or the death toll of the war, it's the fact that ordinary citizens just went along with it even if they weren't themselves evil. Something we should all think about in 2024.

I’m happy to see that the GOV.UK Service Manual’s “Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement” page was updated this week and made it to the top of Hacker News today. The technology industry would collectively save unimaginable quantities of time, money, energy and stress if this single page were required reading for everyone involved in building a web site. gov.uk/service-manual/technolo…

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.
www.gov.uk

Ok, apple, when I've swiped down to delete after choosing edit in any given folder and highlighted an app to get rid of, I don't need you trying to convince me that I'd be better off simply moving it off my home screen instead. When I choose to delete an app, I've done that for a reason, said reason being that I want to, you know, delete the app. Ok, rant mode disengaged.
in reply to Steve Mann

aaron
aaron
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I use pattern unlock on Android, because the pattern I draw is not read out.

I ran UnixBench (github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbe…) on my new Quartz64 SBC (RK3566 SoC, quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB eMMC). I ended up running it four times, with different settings of the Linux CPU frequency governor. Here are the results, in the order that I obtained them:

1. schedutil (default): mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
2. performance: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
3. powersave: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
4. schedutil again: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…

1/?


GitHub - kdlucas/byte-unixbench: Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench - kdlucas/byte-unixbench
GitHub
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I ran it with the schedutil governor twice to make sure the first result wasn't a fluke, because what really stood out to me about the first result was how far the Pipe-based Context Switch test lagged behind the others on the single-core run. Bear in mind that the baseline is a SPARCstation 20-61, a 90s machine with a CPU clock frequency of no more than 200 MHz (if Wikipedia is correct). 2/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Regardless of CPU frequency scaling, it's clear that context switching performance hasn't improved as fast as raw computing performance. That's no surprise. But when comparing the results, it seems that the Pipe-based Context Switch test, when running in single-core mode, doesn't cause the schedutil governor to scale up the clock frequency beyond the minimum. So I guess that governor, at least on that processor, wouldn't be good for workloads that are heavy on context switching. 3/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I forgot to mention, this is on Debian 12 (bookworm), using the Debian generic ARM64 kernel (currently 6.1.0-27-arm64). It's nice that this SBC has decent support in the mainline kernel, at least for the functionality I currently need. 4/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I'm going to boot my M1 Mac mini into Linux (Fedora Asahi Remix), run UnixBench there with the different CPU frequency governors, and see what the results look like. I'm sure the M1 is in a different performance category than the RK3566, though they're both ARM64.

BTW, this is an improvised thread, not an artificially split-up long post. 5/?

in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I just remembered, though, that the Apple Silicon SoCs have two kinds of cores, performance and efficiency cores. That makes a generic benchmark like UnixBench less meaningful, unless I can pin it to one type of core or the other. 6/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Going back to the Quartz64 SBC, if I correctly understand the intended use case of the ARM Cortex-A55 microarchitecture from Wikipedia, then the RK3566 SoC in the Quartz64 effectively only has efficiency cores, not performance cores. 7/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

David Machaj
David Machaj
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Switches to the kernel context took a big perf hit when spectre/meltdown mitigations were put in place. Those impacted older/slower CPUs more. More caches and predictors and such need to be flushed before the switch is safe to continue. (Unclear if your particular device has these mitigations but this is a larger point about perf scaling over time)

AzuraCast 0.20.3 is now on the Stable release channel. This version includes improvements to the AutoDJ scheduler, playlist priorities, the ability for system admins to set maximum bitrates for stations, and many bug fixes and tweaks.

This is the last stable release that will be on Liquidsoap 2.2.x. Now that this release is out, our Rolling Release will be a test platform for 2.3.x, which has reached a stable Release Candidate stage. Help us test this new version if you can!

Máte vy nebo někdo ve vašem okolí (defaultně) aktivní Mobile Advertising ID? Pak počítejte s tím, že jste díky němu sledováni a tato data si může někdo koupit. Využití je mnoho...

#soukromí #kybez - #Google a #Apple v roli pasáků

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/th…


The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a…
krebsonsecurity.com
#apple #google #soukromí #kybez
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Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🐧
Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🐧
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Navazuji na včerejší tip.

Tady je porovnání iPhone a různých odnoží Androidu. Většina lidí má "Android" - distribuci plnou šmírovátek od Google obohacenou o bloatware výrobce, který nejen že šmíruje po svém, ale často zavléká bezpečnostní chyby, zabírá místo v úložišti i RAM.

V GrapheneOS mimo jiné vůbec není položka "Reklama" s Mobile Advertising ID.

Zdroj: youtu.be/lb1BbT5fpwA

#soukromí #kybez #Google #Apple #grapheneos

What Is The Most Private Phone?

What is the most private phone and what makes a phone private? That is the question... and we have answers! Please support my work: https://www.patreon.com/t...
YouTube
#apple #google #grapheneos #soukromí #kybez
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Let's roll! 🇨🇿

#17listopad #November17 #35let #35years #demokracie #democracy

Trikolora
#democracy #demokracie #17listopad #november17 #35let #35years

I wonder how CPU makers decide the minimum clock frequency that a CPU can scale down to for power management purposes. For example, I'm playing with a Quartz64 model B SBC with a RK3566 SoC, with four ARM Cortex-A55 cores, and the minimum frequency, according to the Linux kernel, is 408 MHz. (The maximum is 1.8 GHz.) Did they determine that lowering the frequency any further wouldn't save any power? I assume that number is set by the hardware and not by the kernel driver.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Radek
Radek
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I don't know about big application processors, but in an MCU there is usually no arbitrary lower limit of the CPU frequency. There are often limits on ratios between different clock domains. However, you have two parts of the power consumption: Static (or leakage) and dynamic where the leakage current doesn't change with frequency, so at some point it's better to just turn off the power - not just gate the clock.
in reply to Matt Campbell

cesarb
cesarb
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Some kinds of CPU logic do have an intrinsic minimum clock frequency. For instance, quoting @kenshirriff at righto.com/2020/08/how-8086-pr… "[...] Because the 8086 used dynamic logic, it also had a minimum clock speed of 2 MHz. If the clock ran slower than this, there was a risk of charges leaking away before they were refreshed, causing failures."

How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally

One under-appreciated characteristic of early microprocessors is the difficulty of distributing power inside the integrated circuit. While...
www.righto.com
@Ken Shirriff

@RaccoonForFriendica a new version 0.2.0 has been released.

Changelog:
🦝 feat: add support for MastodonRedirect;
🦝 feat: export/import app settings to/from JSON;
🦝 feat: export contact list from profile;
🦝 feat: allow changing markup mode in post creation;
🦝 fix: retain scrolling state after navigation;
🦝 fix: newlines after titles in Markdown preview;
🦝 fix: avoid self mention when replying;
🦝 fix: retrieve source to edit post;
🦝 enhancement: populate current app icon value in settings;
🦝 chore: update manual and project documentation;
🦝 chore: typo in Fastlane metadata.

For those who have lost it, there has been a 0.1.1 in the meantime, which was mainly due to a metadata issue which blocked the submission on F-Droid, but it also included:
🦝 feat: add support for alternate (classic) and monochrome app icon;
🦝 fix: rendering images of different heights in carousels;
🦝 fix: rendering GIFs (or images with unbound constraints).

After the app gets published on the stores, we're going to move towards a more predictable release cycle (e.g. monthly stable versions and weekly betas).

Hope you are having fun on Friendica (or Mastodon) and as always #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #procyonproject

#friendica #foss #opensource #kotlin #androiddev #Compose #androidapp #multiplatform #friendicadev #kmp #FediverseApp #livefasteattrash #procyonproject @RaccoonForFriendica
in reply to ❄️ freezr ❄️

𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕
𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕
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@❄️ freezr ❄️ potresti mandarmi il link al post e uno screenshot per favore? i sondaggi in sola lettura dovrebbero almeno essere visualizzati e l'ultima volta che mi sono imbattuto un un sondaggio sembrava "ok"...
@❄️ freezr ❄️

"Tesla's vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America, according to a recent study that analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System."

Tesla's fatality rate is double the national average. Driver behavior is a contributing factor to the high number of deaths (i.e. shitty-driving assholes are more likely to buy Teslas and die or kill someone else while driving them).

roadandtrack.com/news/a6291913…

#Tesla #DeathTrap #cars #CarAndDriver

Road & Track Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report. By Joe Kucinski Published: Nov 15, 2024 11:11 AM EST
#cars #tesla #Deathtrap #caranddriver

Winamp users, how am I meant to navigate the main UI with a screen reader? V 5.9.2, build 10042.
in reply to Stu

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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why? there are newer and better tools out there. People use it for nostalgia and familiarity these days, I don't know anyone under the age of 25 who'd want to bother
in reply to Sean Randall

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@cachondo I switched to Foobar2000 a few years ago, now I keep winamp around for... Reasons I don't even know why. Not sure the last time I used it in fact. I have zero uses for it.
@Sean Randall

Špaček je dnes najlepší lebo chodí hore dole po centru Prahy.

Mráz je nemilosrdný.....
in reply to Archos

Kateřina
Kateřina
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@archos Díky. Jen, fotograf by měl hustou fotku se správným foťákem. Takhle jen mobil, ale úžasný moment. 🤷‍♀️
@Archos
in reply to Kateřina

Archos
Archos
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Náhodou, hustá je i fotka mobilem. Hlavně když jsi ve správný čas, na správném místě 👍👍
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