@jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com I recall your video about self-driving cars ignoring rules and lobbying for exclusive access as the only mode of transport. Well, that was prophetic: https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

road.cc

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has allegedly told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.But Waymo has denied making such a claim, instead pointing ... Read more

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@odd @kde Going to disagree on that, KDE Linux is supposed to be the best implementation of all KDE has to offer, it makes total sense to name it after the stack it is based on.

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@b9AcE Get a life man. There are plenty of choices, you don’t have to use what you don’t like. Don’t go shouting at people volunteering their free time to an open source project. Pathetic.

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@TTimo@mastodon.social The EU needs large reforms towards federalization. The question remains if we have the guts to make them to unshackle ourselves.

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

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@Avitus@ioc.exchange @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy It's a deal breaker for me, but to each his own.

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

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@fedi @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy That is not really a fair comparison as Firefox is an entire browser, and you are not measuring the individual tab. I'll have my browser open anyways, so that doesn't really count towards memory usage. If you want an accurate overview of what an individual site is using then you should check about:processes.

Additionally, Electron based apps do not support all features on Linux such as fractional scaling properly.

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

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@Avitus@ioc.exchange @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy Everything is a tradeoff of security. I quite honestly do not buy this argument, data can be stored securely, also on a browser, the connection to the web server is also encrypted.

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

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@Sustainable2050 my main problem with Signal is the lack of a web application. I want to use it on my desktop computer, but I don't want to install a heavy Electron based application hogging all the resources.

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

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@Sustainable2050 Yes, that is it. It is based on Electron [1], which is essentially an entire Google Chrome browser just wrapped in a way that it presents itself as a single application, in this case Signal.

When I use WhatsApp I can simply use their website [2] to access my messages.

electronjs.org

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺 @jonkoops@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@littledan@hachyderm.io go outside and touch grass, we don’t do so enough I feel.

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