it’s a very narrow view of accessibility to think the whole problem is solved by making an accessible bus you can get on with a wheelchair. Limited mobility affects your ability to get to the bus stop and it comes in many forms. Visually impaired people also benefit.

Spend a little time watching footage of the weird stuff Waymos sometimes do you and you’ll be easily convinced they’re absolutely not being controlled by humans all the time.

We do still have taxis even in countries where mass transit is well maintained and popular. They’re also not the perfect form of transportation for everyone as people can have disabilities causing limited mobility etc.

Automating things like trains also seems to have been a very slow process.

One thing they have noticed and will keep noticing is the inflation and fuel prices.

NeoDB has fairly comprehensive data import from numerous sites that catalogue media so I don’t think I’ve run into not finding something even once there. Haven’t used it much for music though.

I also use Pixelfed and it’s generally good apart from occasional bugs. There’s also Vernissage (vernissage.photos as flagship instance).

Waymos do try to find somewhere to park too which has also been the subject of stories like this when the place they choose seems unusual. Neither types of taxis can always be parked since they may be in areas with little legal parking space available. Since there are incentives for drivers to be in busy areas where they might pick up customers it isn’t very uncommon for taxis in general.

Waymo behavior just stands out because the system isn’t concerned about how things look and there is more coordination/consistency. A human driver might choose a less efficient way to circle around in the area using congested roads etc. and every driver makes their independent and almost always different decisions. Waymos on the other hand can get allocated to the same area in anticipation of demand and then go to the same streets because the system deems those to be the best option available at the time.

Chinese pony.ai is also starting this with Verne in Croatia.

Well, the general concept is no different from what regular taxis already do. What makes this stand out is that they are robotically going to the same otherwise little utilized areas…

they may not want to do it because perception shifting to them being the more stable and trustworthy superpower especially in the eyes of developing countries while they’re actively doing the work of building relationships the USA has now abandoned benefits them immensely and their own special military operation would speak directly against that.

You obviously know it but worth still saying this current admin and the Republican party certainly isn’t… Trump’s friendly with the dictators more than the traditional allies most of which are democracies USA used to have and he’s actively trying to end democracy at home.

Probably a big part of it is the internet emerged from the USA and Silicon Valley already was a strong tech hub in the 90s when it really started becoming worldwide. Back in the 80s and into the early 90s UK used to also to have a pretty big concentration of talent but for some reason that started going away as the 90s progressed.

well searx is just metasearch so you still depend on whatever you’re getting the results from.

My understanding is that this is basically just presenting Google results. Certainly better for privacy but doesn’t do much for tech sovereignty.

I’ve been using it for a couple of months and while I agree the results can sometimes be interesting to compare I think it seems more primitive and result quality worse to the point that I have to go to other searches relatively often. It isn’t as smart about my native language and is only able to search for the exact word typed instead of different variants of it for example.

Forgejo is leading the charge on that. Version 16.0 is going to have some early bits of federation functionality.

It’s not that it can’t be true they’ve expended a significant part of the stockpiles, it’s more that the implication isn’t that they won’t be able to prosecute the ongoing or another war, just that they’ll be somewhat limited by it and that if shit really hit the fan in the form of China for example they want to have a stab at it too then they could be in more trouble.

Reminds me a lot of the similar stockpile counting with regards to Russia in Ukraine.

the reviews are good

I doubt the first poster who mentioned was talking about that. It’s a pretty common misconception about the Budapest memorandum.

they’re not really breaking Budapest memorandum (not that they wouldn’t break any treaty in a heartbeat) because it did not say the other signatories would have to defend Ukraine from anyone else. It’s still a bad precedent for nuclear disarmament of course but then again the Trump administration has done every fucking thing they can to make literally every country in the world want nuclear weapons now because they’ve completely broken the old order where countries had at least some faith in USA mostly upholding and abiding by international law and supporting their supposed allies.

My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be “broken” (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.

Well it’s a bit more complicated. A really significant reason search isn’t that comprehensive even on a big instance like mastodon.social is that Mastodon prioritizes privacy and has made it optional to be included in the search results with mastodon.social also opting to make it disabled by default when they added it.

A second problem is that if you’re on a smaller instance you may not be seeing enough posts because they don’t propagate there. This also affects hashtags. There’s projects like Holos Discover fediverse search engine and Fediscovery that are addressing this problem but they won’t change the fact that many users simply have indexing their posts for full text search disabled.