Venator

Also how big is it...

Maybe would be less true if the pedestrian pic featured less car infrastructure 😅

E.g. Catharijnesingel in Utrecht, Netherlands.

I don't get why he thinks reducing car dependancy is incompatible with being a "car guy": it's always more fun to drive when there's fewer people driving, and thays what reducing car dependancy achieves...

Also, car dependency leads to car companies focusing on the most boring cars to drive: crossovers and suvs without any offroad capability, and governments building roads that are the least interesting to drive on: big highways.

I like to drive, but not when I have to drive...

What's a bluecoat?

Also get one that says "inverter" in the marketing(all microwaves have an inverter, but what they usually mean is it varies the power with a variable inverter, instead of just turning on for 5 seconds and then off for 5 seconds when at 50% power)

Windows 10 was ok-ish until they announced

Windows 11 and ramped up it's enshitification... They improved the tiles idea a lot over windows 8

Windows phone 7 was great too...

I use Linux now though too, I've found flatpak isn't a silver bullet though: depending on what distro you're using and what distro whoever made the flatpak was using sometimes strange issues happen such as not loading in dark mode or losing settings on close/shutdown...

Please drink verification can

Side note: I thought that meme was from idiocracy, but apparently it's actually from a 4chan greentext and I had made a false memory of it being in the movie 😅

The road layout there is absolute garbage but at least there's some decent density around there😅

That's one of the more walkable areas of Auckland(region)... 😅

Moderation kinda depends on identity, as the trolls who want every room to be toxic will enter every room and make sure it's toxic if there's no rudimentary identification.

I don't see how it's more expensive or less safe for authentication to be signing with a private key and publishing the public key...

it enriches the pocketbooks of the techno-fascists that run those datacenters.

Depends, in a lot of cases it costs them more money to service the query than they charge 😅.

Although it's all borrowed money so it doesn't matter to them...

Still causing all that havoc on the environment and poisoning with potentially proprietary stolen code though...

They're gonna be running those data centers regardless though, as most of the compute time is spent on training new models...