Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

This. Is. Amazing.

Montréal suburb Brossard has a traffic light in a school zone that defaults to red, and only turns green when an attached speed camera detects a car driving under the speed limit.

The light is on a 90-day trial, on a 2-lane residential street. Similar signals are widespread across Europe.

Before it was installed, average vehicle speeds of 40 km/h. But in the past week, average speeds have dropped to 29 km/h.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/

#Montreal #VisionZero #WalkTO #BIkeTO

The social network is always bluer on the other side.

@ariadne making software for other people is overrated

Pushing around these little robot soccer players, from DeepMind’s “Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning” paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653
https://sites.google.com/view/op3-soccer

The clear message I am getting from Bluesky is that black people felt unsafe on mastodon. Black Twitter was a huge part of what made it special, and it's been notably absent on mastodon. I will be sad if mastodon loses to a less-open alternative because it couldn't figure out how to be welcoming to everyone.

Just get in a car and find somebody on a bicycle you'll be fine

Some initial thoughts: The next iteration should decouple user content and instance. Right now your data is not under your control. You can migrate your account to another instance, but the data remains at the old place. If we could find a way where content is more tightly coupled to the user, not the instance, that would be a big step forward, IMHO.

Every app on the Fediverse could talk to Bluesky if they really wanted to, and Bluesky really was as decentralized as they say they want to be.

For example, look at Friendica. It uses at least four protocols to talk to other server software:

1. DRFN
2. Diaspora
3. OStatus
4. ActivityPub

In theory, adding AT protocol shouldn’t be a big deal—it’s open source.

The question is whether Bluesky actually wants to federate with other servers.

*tap* *tap* Is thing thing on? 🎙️

@anildash My strong suspicion is that Bluesky (or any similar corporate product that preaches federation) will use federation for their initial growth spurt, and then find a way to pull up the drawbridge once private equity or the Saudis decide that lock-in sounds more profitable.

I don't know why I would be so cynical, except for my lying eyes and the entire history of Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, RSS, XMPP, OpenID, and even Open Graph meta tags.

Say hi to @Podman_io and @pipewire! Check them out if you want more details on those projects. #Fedora #Podman #Pipewire

Using a Steam Deck to control a Ukrainian automatic turret, now I've seen it all https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/using-a-steam-deck-to-control-a-ukrainian-automatic-turret-now-ive-seen-it-all/ #SteamDeck

It does not pay to BS for a living.
Tucker Carson (and Alex Jones) represent the classical case of SHORT OPTIONALITY. BS brings more viewers (fiction is by construction more interesting than truth), more money, but then you suddenly lose those profits back via hidden legal liabilities.
Just like the Thanksgiving Turkey.