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exadeci commented on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer gill.net.in/posts/my-ques... · Posted by u/mygnu

braunshedd · 4 months ago

When I was commuting daily in the SF fog, I discovered that putting on of these [1] on my helmet did wonders to keep cars further off my tail. It moves the brake light up to eye level for people in SUVs and also triggers on engine braking.

Wish it were cheaper, but was a worthwhile investment for me.

Also, consider looking into airbag vests if you ride regularly. Also expensive but (supposedly) make a huge difference in crash outcomes.

[1] https://www.brakefreetech.com/products/brake-free

exadeci · 4 months ago

There are some ridiculously cheap "smart" bicycle brake lights that already react to slowing down

exadeci commented on A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy texasmonthly.com/news-pol... · Posted by u/wallflower

hristov · 4 months ago

Not entirely on topic but a relevant warning. Extasy is used nowadays as a rape drug. Be careful. I have had extasy three times in my life, none of them consensual -- every single time it was slipped into my drink. I described the symptoms to my psychiatrist and she said that it was extasy for sure. I am a middle aged man and not incredibly attractive. God knows what is happening to young sexy people.

So if you are having a drink somewhere and you suddenly unexpectedly get this really happy, warm and cozy feeling, as if everything is alright with the world, there is love everywhere and you just have to hug and kiss somebody, anybody .... well do not hug or kiss anybody. You may have just been drugged.

There is a very troubling lore about MDMA, in that it apparently it is not such a bad drug, etc. I don't know about this ... I do know that a lot of MDMA deaths happened at the extasy fueled raves that were popular in the 90s and the early 2000s. They say those deaths were from other causes ... I do not know if this is true, but I have a feeling that this mantra of "MDMA is not that bad it is all about love, etc. " has been taken up by would-be-rapists to convince themselves that what they are doing is not that bad. That MDMA is not really a rape drug like Rohypnol, so there is nothing wrong in slipping one into a person's drink.

Well they are wrong. It is a serious crime and it is attempted rape if intent is established.

I confronted one of the guys that slipped me MDMA. It is not difficult to guess who did it, they usually make sure they are close to you when you are having those "I need to hug and kiss someone, anyone" feelings. He essentially admitted it without saying it outright and started laughing. Thought it was a cute thing, like something out of a romantic comedy.

I wish I had proof to send all those f*ckers to jail but of course when you are happy on MDMA you do not think to save the evidence for the police. But next time I will. I have thought about this enough that next time I will recognize the symptoms and do what needs to be done regardless of how happy I am feeling.

If anyone cares, none of these events resulted in sexual assault, I am a very careful person and I do not easily give in to strange feelings.

exadeci · 4 months ago

So you have repressed feelings towards men that are only able to come out when taking XTC?

XTC doesn't make you want to kiss anybody, you might lower your standards, but won't make you attracted to men if you aren't already before taking it.

exadeci commented on GPT-4.1 in the API openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/... · Posted by u/maheshrijal

SweetSoftPillow · 5 months ago

Switch to Gemini 2.5 Pro, and be happy. It's better in every aspect.

exadeci · 5 months ago

It's somehow not, I've been asking it the same questions as ChatGPT and the answers feel off.

exadeci commented on Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week 9to5google.com/2025/03/26... · Posted by u/josephcsible

mainecoder · 5 months ago

I hope they make it closed source and make us much money out of it as possible for shareholders that is their job and their duty, why are they giving this away for free they have already captured market share by claiming opensource and building a community now all they have to do is make it proprietary and the old opensource version slowly wither and become unstable, then they can charge money for the operating system just like mircrosoft but this time on phone millions and billions of phones, $$$$$. /S (I obviously do not agree with this)

exadeci · 5 months ago

If you actually read the article, they explain that it isn't actually that big of change to how it was done.

" For a while now, Google has been developing most parts of Android behind closed doors in its “internal branches,” with the “AOSP branch” only having certain other aspects of Android’s framework (including Bluetooth, kernel, and some other core components). As such, it’s been quite a while since the current state of AOSP is at the same level as Google’s internal builds, leaving developers and others to wait on Google to make a public release to get all of the new changes.

With this change to move everything to its internal, private development branch, Google isn’t changing the speed at which these new builds arrive. Rather, this will potentially streamline the process and prevent conflicts when merging the branch"

exadeci commented on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/saaaaaam

crooked-v · 8 months ago

It's less the app, more the business decision to tell people who had spent thousands and thousands of dollars on elaborate sound systems to go throw it all in the trash and start over, all at once.

Even Apple has never been that bad. They drop support for things over time but even their roughest transitions (x86, Apple Silicon) have come with extensive day 1 support for previous functionality.

exadeci · 8 months ago

That's not the app change you think it's.

The app update they're talking about is the one that got released last year which is terrible, it keeps crashing, doesn't work with time zone and a bunch of other stuff

exadeci commented on They see your photos theyseeyourphotos.com/... · Posted by u/vladyslavfox

Retr0id · 9 months ago

This would be pretty great for generating descriptions for the vision-impaired, but it doesn't provide any profound insight beyond what you can tell from a glance.

It has a lot of "trying to sound smart" waffle, for example, it had this to say about some tree branches:

> A careful observer will also note the subtle variations in the thickness and texture of the branches, implying a natural, organic growth pattern.

Gee, thanks, I might've thought it was an unnatural inorganic tree otherwise.

exadeci · 9 months ago

Facebook has been doing for years a basic alt-text generation (not the best but better than nothing) eg: May be an image of 4 people, people smiling and text

exadeci commented on Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link raspberrypi.com/news/valv... · Posted by u/Venn1

artimaeis · 9 months ago

It idles down to 2.7w. Obviously it's not a desktop class system still, even when consuming its max rated power draw. But it idles low enough to be a fantastic little local server for simple applications.

exadeci · 9 months ago

Pine64 boards have been beating Raspberry for years in both performances and price.

I've got their first board since 2016 and it's been running cooler than a raspberry pi 4 (2019) with the same software on it.

exadeci commented on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/vladyslavfox

gweinberg · a year ago

Does anyone know who is targeting the Internet Archive, and why? I get the impression the attacks are too sophisticated for it to just be vandal punks.

exadeci · a year ago

Maybe some WhiteHat hackers telling IA about all their security issues being ignored so they hacked them to force them to do something about it as nothing seems that have been badly damaged

exadeci commented on OpenAI Announces SearchGPT chatgpt.com/search... · Posted by u/notyouralias

skydhash · a year ago

Search engines for me is keyword based. I want to type "pizza <town> near <street>" or "<function> <library> <language>" and get sensible result. Anytime a search engines tries to interpret my query with something far semantically and ignoring my own keywords, it's a worse experience.

exadeci · a year ago

How often did Google Assistant and Siri get your questions, rarely.

AI terrible until OpenAI released ChatGPT so I'm personally excited to see what ChatGPT can bring to search

exadeci commented on Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years venturebeat.com/games/gir... · Posted by u/ushakov

elric · a year ago

This is such a difficult topic. When I started my undergraduate in CompSci, the department of 300 students had exactly 3 women. The faculty had way more female instructors than it did students. The Commucation Sciences department, which was on the same campus, had the inverse student population.

I'm all in favour for letting students making their own study (and career) choices, but when the imbalance is this great, I can't but help think that valuable perspectives are lost. And that's just looking at the sexes, that doesn't even take into account what could be gained from interacting with folks with different socio-economic backgrounds, who were equally underrepresented.

Trying to keep barriers for entry low seems worth while. Organizations which help people break into non-traditional fields (for their background/sex/whatever) also seem to be worth while. Funding them seems like a no brainer. This isn't limited to girls in tech. Also boys in nursing, poor kids in law school, brown kids in politics, whatever.

exadeci · a year ago

My high school back in France was offering 1000euros each to girls who'd pick STEMs for the last 2 years of their studies and had 12/20 or more on their final exam.

Out of 200 girls 2 picked it, there's only so much you can do but the truth is most women prefer to work with people.