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  • Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” mode requires the driver to pay attention the entire time

    This is a BS excuse. You can’t expect most human beings to fully alert at all time when they don’t have to actively need to do something for most of the time. There are several studies that prove the situational awareness always drops over time in Level 3 and Level 4 self driving vehicles.

    The drivers only real fault is activating the self-driving in the first place. The attention requirement only exists to protect Tesla’s bank accounts.





  • I am not an expert, but what I remember from the news with a little refresher from wikipedia, the main issue is that dispute settlement mechanism is broken for two reasons:

    • National security concerns were allowed as an opaque excuse to break the rules
    • Trump and Biden blocked appointments to the bodies that are responsible for enforcing the rules, so there’s no one even trying to enforce the rules inside of the WTO for 6 years now. The EU and some other members have an ad-hoc mechanism to settle disputes, but it’s not recognized by the US.

    But the underlying problem is that US wants rules that apply to others but not them, and nothing short of the Yellowstone finally going off will change it in the short term.



  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.mlPNG is back!
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    10 days ago

    Congratulations, your noob user is now using JPEG-XL. It’s not working on old devices, or any mainstream browser besides Safari. The less mature library also has a bug that allows for RCE and now everyone is running a cryptominer.

    Now you say, but webp is supported everywhere, so let’s go with that. Now the noob is using PNG for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he’s wasting more disk space than before.

    So I repeat, if you need one size fits all, PNG is better, it works everywhere, and it’s even more efficient in cases where lossless graphics matter the most.


  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.mlPNG is back!
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    The title is hyperbole. PNG is lagging behind modern lossless formats in terms of new features.
    This doesn’t mean it’s a bad format or that it shouldn’t be used. In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn’t support or really need to reduce file size.




  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3106: Farads
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    11 days ago

    They were all done by scientists or engineers.

    The meter was defined based on what they calculated as 1 millionth of the length of Paris’ meridian.

    The second was 1/86400 of a day, which makes sense with the angle/circle nomenclature on the clock.

    The gram was initially set to be the mass of 1cm³ of water at 4°C - which is why 1l of water ≈ 1kg.