Just saw the take that waymo shouldn't be expected to have tested for an edge case like unpowered stop lights.

That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.

fucking bluesky openwashing

if bsky/atproto isn't fashtech, it works just like fashtech

(y'know apart from the bit where bsky corp is literally rationalists, coiners and neoreactionaries)

so they do a lot of openwashing theatre. they never shut the fuck up about how open and decentralised they are.

while in practice being 99.99+% one single fucking app run by one company

with an "open" protocol they're making up as they go along

that just happens to have a fuckload of central control points, over and over

(including a proprietary database in the central appview, cos postgres doesn't do the job at bsky scale. much open! very decentral!!)

blacksky sets up an entire separate infra! bluesky bans a blacksky user. whoops they're banned on blacksky too

shit like that that shows the whole thing as a lie, and these fucks keep saying "decentralised"

everything that works well about bsky works well precisely insofar as it's a single instance.

the promise of atproto is the fediverse but shit.

it's been two and a half fuckin years. jesus.

The argument shouldn't be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you can surveil me,"

Instead, it should be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you shouldn't surveil me."

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights

Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.

the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html