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Cake day: August 28th, 2023
  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Waymo’s robotaxis are now available to everyone in Los AngelesEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It seems that LIDAR based self driving tech (the one that Waymo uses) is miles ahead than 2d camera based tech (the one that Tesla uses).

    I’m really excited for this being implemented for city buses. Currently, in lower density areas, there are two choices - have smaller buses with more frequency, or have larger buses with less frequency. The problem with smaller buses is that you need more drivers. The problem with larger buses is that frequency becomes low, thus disincentivizing usage of public transit.

    Self driving city buses would be really cool as driver costs would be 0. This would mean, that smaller buses/vans would be able to run at fixed routes at really high frequencies.

  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social mediaEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I don’t understand why the knee jerk reaction for everything is just “ban it”.

    You want to reduce the exposure of children to predators? Moderate the platforms. We can agree that Reddit n Lemmy’s moderation is a lot better than Instagram’s moderation. Why don’t we start with that???

    The biggest way predators do their predatoring is by sliding into ur DMs. You could restrict this by requiring approval for all such new DMs by a parent’s account or something. There r just so many ways that social media can be made safer for kids.

    Social media is a digital townsquare. Sure, there r some malicious actors lurking about. Does that mean that kids should just be banned from this townsquare? No. The townsquare should be made safer for kids. There must be some hand-holding for kids in the beginning so that they can learn how to make the best use of this infrastructure in the future.

  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social mediaEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Governmental overreach. Good luck trying to enforce this shit.

    Social media isn’t bad inherently. Addictive algorithms, violation of user privacy, etc. is bad.

    Kids should be taught how to make use of social media for good. I was bullied quite a lot as a kid. Social media is what kinda brought me out of it.

    Social media told 13 year old me, that it is alright to be gay. Social media is what made me interested in politics. A huge part of who I am today is because of the nice people I met online. Fuck the government for trying to take it away from others like me.