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itsmartapuntocm commented on User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality   plus.flux.community/p/ban... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
neilv · 3 months ago
> While the ATProto system has been criticized as overly complicated compared to the ActivityPub system that powers the Fediverse, it has one key feature that ActivityPub lacks: the ability to transfer servers while keeping all of your followers and posts.

FWIW, it looks like Mastodon software has some features for moving servers, including bringing your followers, but not your posts:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

itsmartapuntocm · 2 months ago
Some implementations, like GoToSocial, do support importing posts from another instance.
itsmartapuntocm commented on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model   blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
mh- · 2 months ago
If you're talking about the ones I think you are, those are preemption signal devices [0] for emergency vehicles.

[0]: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop08024/chapter9....

itsmartapuntocm · 2 months ago
No these aren’t optical sensors like those, they’re full blown cameras.

Cobb County at least on their website says they use camera sensors as well as buried induction loops.

itsmartapuntocm commented on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model   blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
mh- · 3 months ago
Traffic cameras, yes. Traffic cameras that are used to influence traffic signaling? I've never (knowingly) seen one in the US.

What US cities have these?

itsmartapuntocm · 2 months ago
I see them everywhere in Metro Atlanta. You can tell because there’s what looks like a little camera above each direction facing traffic light.
itsmartapuntocm commented on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model   blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
apwell23 · 3 months ago
> the cameras you talk about have become increasingly popular over the years

cameras are being used to detect traffic and change lights? i don't think thats happening in USA.

which country are you referring to here?

itsmartapuntocm · 3 months ago
They’re extremely common in the U.S. now.
itsmartapuntocm commented on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data   neowin.net/news/report-mi... · Posted by u/bundie
throwaway290 · 4 months ago
Yeah, including enterprise grade SSDs and HDDs;)

If you push an update that bricks your customers machines you have failed and you have no QA clearly.

The best they can do to save their ass is say "actually you know what these SSD and HDD are all incompatible with W11" and start a new hardware certification program.

itsmartapuntocm · 4 months ago
This was the reason they built such an extensive application compatibility shim system into Windows 95. If a poorly coded application breaks on an OS upgrade, the user is going to blame Windows, not the application.
itsmartapuntocm commented on Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets   scmp.com/news/asia/southe... · Posted by u/belter
bdhcuidbebe · 4 months ago
Disgusting war profitering.

Sweden should not make such deals with a country attacking their neighbor.

itsmartapuntocm · 4 months ago
Good thing Sweden isn’t selling jets to Cambodia then.
itsmartapuntocm commented on VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
vtbassmatt · 6 months ago
As a Hokie, it drives me crazy that journalists (and ESPN) continue to use the non-name “VA Tech”. It’s VT, Virginia Tech, or the full name, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. https://brand.vt.edu/licensing/university-trademarks.html#tr...
itsmartapuntocm · 6 months ago
As a fellow Hokie I'm just happy they aren't calling us Virginia Tech University.
itsmartapuntocm commented on Riding high in Germany on the world's oldest suspended railway   theguardian.com/travel/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
lmm · 6 months ago
Monorails are somewhat cheaper than elevated trains (if you don't have extreme disabled-evacuation laws) but more expensive than a conventional train at ground level, and junctions are a nightmare. So they only work where you have a single isolated line and would need to elevate most of the track anyway (and suspended rather than straddle-beam improves cornering performance but at a cost, so is only worth it if your route has many sharp corners as well).

For Wuppertal, where the town is pretty linear along a river valley, it works. (Even then, a straddle-beam monorail would probably be more cost-efficient if you were starting from scratch). For most places it doesn't.

itsmartapuntocm · 6 months ago
Bangkok changed the plans of its two most recent transit lines (Yellow and Pink) from standard rail to monorail for the cost savings - since they're completely elevated. I guess they solved the evacuation issue by making the space between the two rails a solid platform.
itsmartapuntocm commented on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV   cnn.com/world/live-news/n... · Posted by u/saikatsg
skissane · 7 months ago
> There’s never before been a US citizen who is also a foreign sovereign.

Éamon de Valera was born in New York City in 1882, and served as President of Ireland from 1959 to 1973

Bhumibol Adulyadej was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1927, and served as King of Thailand from 1946 until his death in 2016

That’s just two US-born individuals who became head of state of another country, there may be more.

I assume both were US citizens at birth (de Valera was born into poverty, abandoned by his Spanish father, reputedly an artist; Bhumibol‘s father was a student at Harvard)-whether or not they ever formally renounced their US citizenship, I don’t know

itsmartapuntocm · 7 months ago
I believe King Rama IX was not technically a U.S. citizen because his parents were considered foreign diplomats. In any case he never tried to claim citizenship and was only ever considered Thai.
itsmartapuntocm commented on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft   theregister.com/2025/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn
mixmastamyk · 8 months ago
Not an obligation, but ReactOS exists and needs help:

https://reactos.org/donate/

Surprisingly close. I recently tried its package manager and installed a recent Python! So better than the original XP-era Windows in some respects.

itsmartapuntocm · 8 months ago
I’ve been watching ReactOS development for years and and progress is slow but steady. I’m excited for the point where it will be fully usable as a drop in replacement for old Windows software.

u/itsmartapuntocm

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