Thank you.

Which FOSS video editor did you find?

Yes. It has a reduced tax, thoough.

No tax on food? That’s nice, we should copy this.

Is $1.43 the complete tax? If so — how is your government financed? All countries I know of add a VAT of ~ 20 %.

No bad guys are good guys. And most good guys are not good guys, either.

The Shadows, the Centauri and the PSI Corps are introduced as “bad guys” but gain a lot of positive aspects during the show without becoming “good guys”. The Nightwatch and the Earth Governement under president Clark are “bad guys” – but quite a few of there supporters/members become important “good” characters, like Zach Allan, Elizabeth Lochley or Susanna Luchenko.

That’s my point about the Babylon 5 series – they deconstruct the good guy/bad guy meme. Mostly.

It’s Me, Myself and I.

Achieving a state of complacementness in an unperfect world full of suffering and joy.

Yep – that’s what I like about it. Good and bad are fluid, like in reality. Even Bester is shown to be a caring character striving for the good of his people.

Ah! Makes sense for them to be unmutable, then.

Where do you encounter ads in Lemmy?

Not exactly a story. I just watched Babylon 5, and it’s fascinating how the good guys are the bad guys are the good guys are the bad guys…

/dev/fb0 is the framebuffer. So yes, you can feed data into the filesystem and you’ll see it on your display.

For Unixoids, being a file does not mean that this data is stored on a hard disk, but that all data, processes and hardware are accessible with the same toolkit. /dev/fb0, for instance, is part of the file-like interface of your graphics card.

Depends on where you are in the world.

Did they screw it up? Hypoxia causes convulsions, that’s a well known fact, so I don’t get all the fuss about witnessing normal body functions in a dying body. Especially as people convulsing are unconscious.

The real torture here – and with all death sentences – is the years and decades long psychological torture while on death row. And rspecially in this case of course the first, botched execution attemped. Ramming needles for four hours into someone!

The only problem is that that’s just the theory. There are lot of steps that can and will go wrong in practice and turn this method into torture. What is the rate of botched executions by injection? I don’t know, but well above 0 %.

I can use the same tools/scripts on my phone that I use on desktop (using mostly terminal apps there, too)

Even better!

Which way shall we choose

• substitute pedestrians by autonomous bipedal robots?
• develop autonomous exoskeletons which have to be used by pedestrians?
• Or aim high and develope injectable nano-sized neuro implants that take care of the autonomization of pedestrians?
• other options?

🤔difficult choice.

Well, I do use a car that is able to drive (almost) autonomous on a highway, so I know that the tech to drive on highways exist since several years.

All the difficult stuff – slow traffic, parking cars, crossings, pedestrians… – does not exist on highways.

The only problem that still remains is the problem you mention: what to do in case of trouble?

Of course you have to stop on a highway to prevent an accident or in case of an emergency. That’s exactly what humans do. But then humans get out of the car, set up warning signs, get help &c. Cars cannot do this. The result is reported in this article.

I’m not sure your idea of 70s and 80s IT infrastructure is historically accurate.

50 years ago it was technically impossible to rent time on a mainframe/server owned by a third party without having physical access to the hardware.

You, or to be more accurate, your company would buy a mainframe and hire a mathematician turned programmer to write the software you need.

Even if – later in the course of IT development – you/your company did not develop your own software but bought proprietary software this software was technically not able to “call back home” until internet connection became standard.

So no, computers did not start with “the corporate elite” controlling them.

Computerized cars, on the other hand, are controlled by their manufycturers since they were introduced. There is no open source alternative.

Open standards for computerized cars would be great — but I’m very pessimistic they will evolve unless publically funded and/or enforced.

Just ban pedestrians. Problem solved,

The discussed incident does not involve driving assist systems, driverless autonomous taxis are already on the streets:

A number of Cruise driverless vehicles were stopped in the middle of the streets of the Sunset District after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park on Aug. 11, 2023.