FernandoMax's comments

If nothing changes, the risk is of a modern-day tragedy of the commons. The shared resource of the open web will be over-exploited, leading to its eventual exhaustion. If that process is not stopped, one of the great common properties of humanity could be gravely diminished. The tragedy of the web would be a tragedy for everyone.

Minute 3:30 University of Toronto Press Conference - Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Yes, they are testing autonomous driving, but still legally is mandatory to have a real driver, and probably what they are doing now is training the AI and testing it against real driving conditions.

They specify their (very logical by the way) strategy here: https://www.moia.io/en/innovation

Because we are talking about a completely new technology with autonomous ridepooling, we cannot fully rely on existing empirical values. A special feature of the pilot project is therefore the early combination of technology, operation and customer experience. It allows us to test the operating procedures under real conditions in a safe and systematic setup. We will start in an initial test area in Hamburg: East of the Alster, it includes parts of Winterhude, Uhlenhorst and Hohenfelde and a route network of about 50 kilometres.

With complex road conditions and many traffic challenges, it offers ideal conditions for us. In addition to public transport, autonomous ridepooling can also relieve traffic congestion. To prepare for the deployment of the autonomous driving vehicles, it has already been started surveying (mapping) the service area. Intensive test drives with and without passengers as well as testing of the now increasingly automated tasks in the vehicle, which are currently performed by our drivers, will also follow up until 2025.

I've been in Hamburg and found these mini-bus. They are kind of passenger vans, but with specific interiors for easy operations for a bus-like usability. They are autonomous, but with a driver for test-legal-security reasons. Routes are on demand, not fixed. So it's like the Carriot service (long time ago, when web 2.0 was a thing) but now aiming for self driving. Interesting, among other things, is that it's a Volkswagen company, but a totally new brand and the busses-vans have no VW brand nor exterior design, they are full new designed vehicles.

A man in Galicia (Spain) forgot a lighter in a pocket, filled with gas. When in the dryer it caused an incredible explosion that would have killed him, saving his life by seconds.

Thanks Thomas!

Which tool is used to create the circle distribution? I was trying to find a tool to create something like this one https://cdn.howmuch.net/content/images/1600/world-gdp-update... which is similar in the sense of distributing the shapes inside the circle. Could anyone help me?

Spanish Competition Commission fines with 10.25 million to the pharmaceutical company that multiplied by 1,000 the price of an essential medicine

I also like it.

Stripe provides SCA as a standalone product. They connect with the bank issuer of the CC, prompts the Challenge asked by the bank, and then Stripes sends if it's ok or not.

Question: Wouldn't create that noise for others, while cancelling most of the noise for you? The sound waves you create for cancelling cancels sound at one point, but keeps moving and creates noise beyond that. Isn't it?

specially because it is asymmetric.

Great technique to push people for selling houses, so accepting down price deals. So maffia can buy the properties for the cheap and then do whatever to make a profit.

Step two: Repeat at next neighbourhood.

Solution: Noise isolation windows and walls. Costly, but it works. Isolate from the outside world, including installing an AC machine.

And I think this is the main reason Google Killed Google Reader. It was controversial (or illegal or ugly) to put ads over the third party content. And it was way better to have Adsense on the websites directly. Such "spring cleaning" was an alibi, not the reason. It was abandoned after some attempts to build a kind of social network inside, and probably they preferred people to create content on +1 instead of on blogs. But Blogger still exists, and there's a strong contradiction why to kill the reader for the blogs except one: Ads. Google Reader was bad for Ad business. And that's a big business in Google. And terribly sad.

I loved blogs, I loved the vibe (like newsletters today) and I loved RSS (way better than email for receiving information. IN fact I am creating a project, and It will have updates by RSS. Why? Because I f**ing love it.

Apple shows products, including new OSs, that ship just around the corner or that very same day or week.

I was surprised how many "products" presented by Google were merely "concepts" or has a 2023 "estimated" ship date.

That's like car prototypes in car shows: they are not real cars, only concepts and divagations. From a professional point of view, there's not much interest in that comparing to real-new-car launches.

You can't bet on Google effectively delivering the products they announced in Google I/O. Or if they really launch some of them, they can be sunsetted in a really short time, like a coupe of years, or languish without progress like zombies (as Google Travel, comes to my mind).

That's a problem as a user, because Google creates increasing uncertainty over their new products and launches, even with some old ones (like the free Google G Suite under your own domain). And as a developer, it's hard to invest heavily in most of the stuff Google presents.

In contrast, Apple presentations are interesting as a Developer, as any other kind of professional who uses Apple products, or even an average normal person who uses some Apple devices. And they present REAL stuff and when they do present it, it's because they are committed to it.

It seems more like "free sub-domains" not domains.

EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative.

These things are quite unstable. I've seen URL shorteners (even one from goo.gl) and URL "redirectioners" and a lot of things like that disappear. Like Geocities in the wind.

Sadly only archive.org is a source of memories.

Google checks Spaniards an average of 426 times a day to get information about their location and online activity. This is evidenced by an investigation by the Irish association Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) based on the leak, which also shows that the average number of daily intrusions among European citizens is 376 (Spain is higher) and American, 747, almost doubled.

To add insult to injury, they coined the "Don't be evil" mantra. Good for hiring, for onboarding users... And then the daughter of Eric Smith, from all the companies in the world, she chose Cambridge Analytica for the internship. AKA: the best social profiling algorithms in the world based on personal data (eroding your privacy). https://www.businessinsider.in/Emails-link-Peter-Thiels-Pala...

Media has too much fear to talk openly about what's happening with Google from some time ago.

From the authors of Google Reader, it-was-free-for-a-decade-but-now-pay-or you'll-lose-all-your-domain.com-emails-handled-by-previously-free-workspace-product, the secret agreement with Facebook for limiting competition in programatic advertising https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo... now arrives "Work for us for free in our proprietary product in exchange of a badge". What a big load of shit.