Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Wow, OK, so I guess a lot of folks don't know what Android Auto / CarPlay do and why it's bonkers that GM is dropping it. So, quick explainer:

Car companies generally suck at making software. Everyone complains at how buggy their infotainment screens are, and getting updates for maps etc. is an awful experience.

So, why not just provide a way for your always-up-to-date phone to take over the car's infotainment screen - leaving the software to the people who are good at software?

It's that.

i love how many of the questions on okcupid are just like trying to suss out whether or not you're a classist shithead lmao

"would you date someone with no car?"

"would you date someone in considerable debt?"

"are you careful with money?"

If militaries were for protecting the people instead of for conquest, we'd all be bombing the coal plants in self defence.

Someone needs to rewrite Monopoly™ to allow tenant revolt as a gameplay mechanic.

tfw you exit Hyperfocus Mode and get hit with every status effect ever

A robust alternative to 2FA has to take into account three super common scenarios:

- you are in a foreign city and have been mugged, your wallet and phone have been stolen from you

- you have dropped your keys down the drain

- you are homeless, your phone has just died, and your only computer is a public access library computer running Internet Explorer 6. you are not able to afford a monthly subscription to Bitwarden

So I've been thinking about offer a trans movement assistint service and what that would look like..

So many people want to leave red states and relocate to blue states at a low cost. What would this help look like and what is needed?

Something like someone to help pack and move, carry stuff, then scam Amtrak for free to go from red to blue then help pack unload then connect people to local trans anarchists could be something.

Tho I'm struggling to find accounts of exactly what people who are tryjng to leave their state need.

I'm just spit balling atm so I figured I'd ask cuz there are people on mastadon who likely have a better idea of what kinda help is needed / struggles to overcome

Boosting is also appreciated so I can get ideas from people who don't follow me. And this isn't super theoretical I've moved and helped people move cross the USA like 10+ times now and think I'm decent. Plus I'm constantly in the move too.

Plus I Cary very little so I have lots of room to carry other people's shit.

robots.txt is a standard file that web masters can use to share their stories and poems about robots

holy fuck people, add alt texts - its not that hard.
use cw's - it's not that hard.

be kind - it's not that fucking hard.

I'm just saying, if there was a 13 BILLION dollar grant available to me to build a company to fix all these problems with Mastodon, we could make some massive headway. But I guess instead we'll convince ourselves that these are outlandish, unsustainable monthly costs:

> On average it cost $.0085 per registered account and $.041 per MAU [monthly active user].

> Communities are not siloed independent bubbles. People are Venn diagrams of lots of communities and interests. Selecting a username can be difficult, deciding which community you want as part of your identity—even if you can change it—is too much. The act of choosing a server has kept more than a few people away from Mastodon.

..surely I am not the only one who also experiences this feeling in offline communities. Has Silicon Valley just convinced people that these aren't problems everywhere?

I refuse to accept that we can't have nice things because they're hard and expensive. The "free" things aren't cheap, the ease comes at great cost to real people and communities, and responsibility is nowhere to be found when shit gets messy.

The tool that's free to you and provides nearly unlimited reach for organizing also enables genocide elsewhere. You either accept that complexity and do something about it or you let someone else renege on your behalf. So much easier to swallow that way 🙄

It turns out that when you pump a spigot of cash into building technology, the quality is significantly better than stuff developed on a shoestring budget by a single person!

We see VC-funded companies take investments for *years* before ever breaking even. Uber lost billions and said they may "never achieve profitability" at their IPO ffs https://techmonitor.ai/policy/digital-economy/uber-profitability-lyft-didi-aurora

"Disruptive", "unicorn" tech gets built because rich patrons want to see it built and fund it. That's the secret in plain sight.

i do not want a "Unified Online Identity". fracture that shit as much as fucking possible thank you very much

Stopping sideshows with infrastructure:
✅ Cheap
✅ Effective
✅ Respects civil liberties
✅ Also calms everyday traffic and makes streets safer in general

Stopping sideshows with cop surveillance drones:
❌ Hella expensive
❌ Probably won't work
❌ SFPD will turn it on protesters
❌ Does nothing to stop everyday distracted/reckless driving that kills people

Of course the reactionaries choose option 2. #SFPol #BikeSF #VisionZeroSF