Yes, good parallel, didn’t think of that. Perhaps there’s just a limit on how much you can decentralize without things breaking down for either social or technical reasons.

It’s a fair question but people must remember that there are no good options if they leave Firefox: the Gecko-based (i.e. non-Chromium FOSS) alternatives like LibreWolf rely on the Mozilla team upstream to keep them secure. In a sense they’re freeloading. IMO that is generally not a sustainable path to be on.

This feels like satire (but I worry it isn’t).

Imagine thinking that cheap oil is more important that standing by your neighbor who’s suffering a literal invasion (both Hungary and Slovakia share a border with Ukraine). Absolutely shameful.

Very interesting, thanks.

Atproto scales quadratically, […] harms performance AP scales horizontally

Clearly true. But this suggests to me that ATProto might still work well with, say, 5 or 15 "PDS"s. That is still enough IMO to guarantee a high level of pluralism.

In a commercial market, let’s say for telephony or cars or web browsers, we readily accept that there are only a handful of players. Indeed, there’s generally an optimal number, high enough to guarantee competition but low enough that we can keep track of the brands and trust that they won’t go out of business tomorrow.

And nothing is stopping at least one of those few brands from being a “good guy”, akin to Mozilla’s historic role in the web-browser market. It could be run by say, Wikimedia, for example. At least we would know that it would not disappear tomorrow, which is more than can be said for most Lemmy instances.

I agree that there should be enough space for both ATProto and AP to thrive.

The crucial point to understand here is that “the left” did not exist in France even before Macron. There are at least two lefts, possibly three, and they’re divided by genuinely unbridgeable disagreements. They’re capable of uniting to “win” an election but absolutely not of governing together. And none of this is particularly unique to France, it’s similar across Europe.

Surely correct for the average user. But we shouldn’t overlook the possibility of a feedback effect: range anxiety might be what’s stopping people from being more adventurous.

its motor will be restricted to an output of 250W on its impending European launch

More of this please.

Thx for the tip.

Gonna check out Brouter and the Osmand plugin, thanks.

But yeah trip is over, back at work.

There’s only one solution - a pigeon photoshoot!

Very useful, thanks.

As I see it, Bluesky is fundamentally different from Xitter and it is a major step in the right direction. It is short-sighted to reject it because of some technical imperfections.

The fundamental question IMO is whether there is enough mindshare (i.e. users and attention) to allow ATSocial (AKA partial federation) and ActivityPub (AKA total federation) to both be successful. I’m thinking there is. After all, the vast majority of people are still on ad-fuelled corporate social media, with all its internal contradictions.

Yeah, my general experience with bikes is that the more the tyres look chunky and solid, the more likely they are to get punctures!

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There seem to be so many of these apps, did not know about this one. I’ve got some use out of veloplanner.com and velotrain.fr but I’ve tended to fall back on just the basic OSM interface, which has pretty much the same functions and allows easy switching with the rail view.

Capo Caccia is not far from where I was. I’m thinking it would be so hard to look at a pigeon on a rock and see it as a completely wild animal! There must be tons of feral genes mixed in by now, too.

Is your trip over now? If not, keep posting - but do it in a new post, not here! This community is asleep, it’s a great chance to wake it up! I plan to do so myself just as soon as I go away again.

At those prices I’d be wild-camping too! It’s roughly what I remember, I passed thru both Olbia and Porto Torres (in and out by ferry) and stopped in Sassari, and everywhere the value was quite poor. But Stintino was gorgeous and (almost) worth the price.

Lovely photo. No… punctures?! Trip is over now?

This looks roughly like first class on an expensive airline. Which IMO is a good sign: airlines came up with this configuration out of their overwhelming economic incentive to maximize comfort and privacy while minimizing space. So by definition this is likely to be the best solution.

In my (substantial) experience, sleeper trains tend to attract a certain kind of customer: hardy, extroverted types who aren’t too concerned about privacy, i.e. the kind of person who would stay at a hostel.

This new kind of accommodation, like the new Austrian NightJet and others, might at last broaden the market to other groups.

Derailleurs in general are (almost literally) the weakest link in bicycle design and have been for 120 years. Fixies are popular for a reason.

For what it’s worth, I am one of those letters and it is somewhat irrelevant to my identity. My identity is the following: human being.

I consider the identity obsession of Gen Z to be mostly narcissistic self-regard. It reflects our society’s rampant individualism, where kids have become a lifestyle choice and pampered like fragile consumer objects. I don’t have any answers about how to fix any of this. Indeed I’m something of an individualist myself.

Be nice to people, but don’t feel the need to indulge their whims if it feels unreasonable.

Sure, but the third hottest is June, not September, so if the seasons last (12/4=) 3 months then logically summer began 3 weeks ago.

Well okay but the name “Midsummer” does kind of make my point.

Sounds awful. Your situation is extreme (ah rural America!) but I won’t deny there’s something freeing about cars. These days I hate cars with a passion, and I’ve always lived in big European cities where they’re completely unnecessary, but even I had a car when I was 20, and I loved it. But then a couple of years later I got rid of it, and that also felt like freedom and I loved that too… Anyway, just an anecdote. As for your situation, good luck, you’ll find a way out of there.

PS off-topic: I’ve always found “good luck” to be a bit lacking for these contexts, in French there’s the much better “bon courage”, sadly untranslatable but much more appropriate in your case.

For pace, it’s basically directly correlated with the movie’s age.

I have no idea how today’s young screen-addled audiences would even begin to approach the idea of watching basically any movie from the 1970s, let alone the 40s.