Open source, open training set?

Owned by a company owned by billionaires, many of whom seem to like political manipulation in a certain direction.

Not a trusted party to do that.

I’ve owned several recumbent trikes like that one, all of which lifted the inner wheel in sporty driving below my preferred speed.

At which sideways acceleration will Aptera roll over? A heavy battery between the front wheels will help somewhat.

“Millions” is cheap in car making. It buys you just enough design for manufacturability to make it good enough and cheap enough for people to buy.

Less design -> worse result while more expensive to produce. Example: Podbike (I like it, but the price)

Then register it to the next vehicle class, semi-light or whatever. Have the lawmakers fit the laws to the optimal vehicle designs with 2025 technology. How old is the law with the weight limits? Time to update and fit law to existing reality? Isn’t it tradition to let the industry write the laws that apply to itself? Aptera is industry.

If the weight limit were to be adhered to, then the four-wheeler’s structure would have to be redesigned around lighter engineering.

That law is lawfare from the traditional car industry and has to be changed.

Trikes are only good for saving pennies at the cost of driveability and usability - they should not be incentivised by law. Four-wheelers are more stable and should be under the same law as trikes.

Aptera is stupidly shooting itself in the foot with an awkward three-wheeler instead of making a good, light, safe, illegal car and attacking the harmful law with it. A quad could have a cargo space or back seat between the two rear wheels.

Riversimple Rasa

Renault Twizy

HP Velotechnik Scorpion

Trikes are less stable than 4-wheelers, slow and teetery around curves, unless very low centre of gravity.
Trikes can’t have a cargo space or back seat between the one rear wheel.

https://www.quora.com/When-a-3-wheeled-car-is-being-designed-how-will-it-be-calculated-if-the-car-will-topple-How-will-the-maximum-turning-speed-and-radius-for-safe-turning-be-found-out/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Sabotage through lawfare is being done to velomobiles / pedal cars:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-the-Sinclair-C5-one-person-battery-electric-velomobile-failed-to-take-off-during-the-1980s/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

https://xfwnofqagsnmdxuf.quora.com/Lawfare-against-tiny-cars-velomobiles

I’ll start respecting it the moment they add the fourth wheel.

Plausibly deniable attacks on political opposition.

StreetComplete helps improve OpenStreetMap.

Leadership: What is important, what redundant projects should be joined or axed and their developers merged.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Who made this?

• I’d like it if it said Matrix is federated, Signal is not.
• Meta should be grouped together.
• Aren’t there other alternatives to Reddit than Lemmy, so there should be more arrows going out of Reddit?

Something should be said about fringe servers (I’d never say “instance” except “server = instance”) and defederation both ways being common, so your home server choice matters. The email comparison is broken and should include “in principle” and then continue with “in practice [real situation]”. This is a start:

I like the yellow bubble here, but it’s inaccurate in many ways:

The infograph we’re looking for should also say at least:

• Manipulation can be done by outside forces making fake users, not Fediverse programmers.
• Censorship is done by server administrators and community moderators, but (on Lemmy at least) community and its server censor your post, not your home server. Might show a scale of servers where lemmy.world is at the strict end.
• Your votes are public, you can be tracked, but it’s not done by default.
• On Lemmy, you shape your default firehose (‘all’) feed by muting (users, communities, servers), not by up/downvoting or following. A normal person will have to mute tens of communities for the feed to start looking tolerable. This is one of the many prices of freedom you will have to pay, as are bugs and user experience issues. (AFAIK, no fedi platform uses votes for feed shaping, but many commercial ones do.)
• The choices between apps or web-ui should be shown for each fedi platform.
• …

Let’s not clone trash. Tinder sucks because it has no matching mechanism to filter out incompatible people. To find one interesting profile on Tinder I have to swipe about 500 profiles. To get more matches, I risk some false positives and like ~2% of profiles. Then I need to filter the matches in person. Very inefficient, a waste of time.

The opposite of that was OkCupid before Match Group destroyed it.

You might prefer confabulation, or bullshitting.

Not all places went eternal September:
Some sites/apps had filters to hide low effort people.
Some had strict rules that were enforced, so even if you were clueless coming in, you would upskill fast while using it.
Some had a good onboarding course making upskilling a breeze.

The blame can be placed accurately: https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Side topic; why are there any squares? They’re not stiff because they skew, unlike triangles.

= flexible

= rigid

Real name policy was a big reason why I joined Quora. The policy became a victim of enshittification.

There could be a real-name portion of the whole internet. Check a box to view anonymous content too.

Why is a blocklist of 7 billion user accounts not doable? I have terabytes of storage space for that list.

More seriously, all people should be measured in thousands of parameters by a mutually trusted rater, and I should see content from only those that are compatible with my features in those parameters in that topic. Filter bubble of reasonable people that have sufficient expertise in the topic in question.