AM radio is a tried and true technology. It's super simple. I think at the very least they should come to a compromise in which certain emergency frequencies are available/accessible in all cars.
They should expand the use of the AM band to include low speed digital transmissions, and make it a standard for data interchange between vehicles and for warning of road conditions, local alerts, accidents, etc.
In Japan, GPS head units in cars receive such data over FM radio.[1] Nowadays your phone usually provides a data connection to the head unit, but it's still nice to have this official information provided.
My best guess is that Apple won't do it because their plan is to phase out passwords entirely. That's what that whole FIDO Alliance (https://fidoalliance.org) is all about.
I think that ultimately a password tool needs to be available on multiple platforms, like 1Password. Having it just be on Apple stuff just isn't gonna work for the many Windows and Linux machines I begrudgingly have to interact with.
While I'm not sure how they've integrated it so far, I imagine browsers will either implement a plugin API for extensions to handle passkeys, or 1p can override the webauthn api and fallback to the browser when a website is authenticating.
Passwordless future definitely wasn't here just 1-2 years ago. The management of WebAuthn Discoverable Credentials / Resident Keys was so fucking awful on every platform I tested them on.
You want to clear your Resident Key for a website on Windows? Command-line.
I don't think being able to scan this is completely new. Perhaps this specific technique is, but I've heard of this being done at least once previously in the past decade.
Discussing Mastodon is hardly "forced" when the overall topic is a new decentralized alternative to Twitter, since Mastodon is a decentralized alternative to Twitter that's been around for a while.
It seems unlikely that this is astroturf given that the person who posted it has been on HN for over a decade (though admittedly not super-active) and their comments are on a wide range of topics and not just Twitter or Mastodon.
Musk's idea is to piss off 10% of the left and right of the spectrum and keep the middle 80% happy.
The left 10% will hang out on Mastodon or Fediverse, the right 10% will go on Gab or whatever. I think what's happenning is great for all. You do you™.
Gab is a Mastodon fork that's basically locked out of the Mastodon Fediverse by the moderators. There's no reason why Mastodon qua infrastructure should be identified with the "right".
Mastodon is only free of issues because the masses haven't found it yet. Give it a few years and it'll be the same as or worse than twitter, given Mastodon's lack of moderation.
Moderation shmoderation, but irt "the masses" it seems like a lot of this fediverse stuff tops out in the hundreds of users per instance, not in the thousands or tens of thousands. I'd love to be corrected on this, as I'm afraid that if Mastodon gets one good news day, the entire network would instantly crash.
Mastodon doesn't have a lack of moderation, in fact, it's architecture tends to segregate people out into instances by interest, making it easy to moderate as long as you keep your instance small (most of the really bad stuff will be on a handful of instances that allow it, so you can just block them and only have to deal with the minor problems on your own instance). Mastodon also tends to have one or more moderators per instance, so it probably has a lot more people with moderation privileges than a big centralized company, which can only afford to hire so many people in the call center to handle moderation.
The key here is mastodon isn't a business, so moderation isn't entirely focused on being cheap. Mastodon, correctly in my opinion, identifies social networks as community resources not as entities to extraft profit from.
> Twitter pushes content from random users you don't follow
and the TweakNewTwitter browser add-on rejects it, along with "trending" and all the rest. Add in ublock origin and you've pretty much got Twitter the way I thought it should be.
Mastodon has plenty of moderation: every instance has it's own people, when questionable content makes its way from a non moderated instance to others, the moderators of the others can moderate it. If an instance receives moderation requests from the rest of the fediverse and doesn't act on it, it eventually gets defederated.
Having a process that distributes the load of moderation is better, IMNHO, than piling all that work on underpaid people.
What about me, who never used Twitter and wont use this either? Did I make a bubble because I don't want people to challenge my opinions? How many tweets do I need to read a day until I have sufficiently challenged my opinions?
What? If you've never used twitter, why do you even care now? If you use ig, reddit, fb, that's ok. If you like to have conversations with people in person, that's ok too. I just don't understand why people are worked out by Elon buying twitter. If you think twitter is going to become more of a cesspool, then by all means use mastodom, gettr, truth social, etc...
I was just stating that if twitter was bad before, these new alternatives will be 10x worse since they will create truly silos and radicalize even more people. To each their own.
Why would I care that I'm in a bubble? Because I don't want to be. You were just suggesting that by not using these certain apps, the poster was forcing themselves into an ignorant bubble. I'm asking you, is that true of someone that doesn't use twitter outright?
Discovered this book in my elementary school's library when I was a kid in the mid-1990s. It became my favorite book, and it remains so to this day: I absolutely love it!
I use an iPhone and have never experienced any of these issues with blurriness. Do they have specific examples? As others have said, I think I'm good with the way things are right now.
Ask a friend with an Android to text you a video, and see if it looks sharp or blurry.
Using RCS as fall back would literally change nothing for you, except better quality conversations with Android users.
