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TROM II: We can automate almost anything


Watch the entire documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…


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These days I will start to post snippets from TROM II on our Peertube and auto-reshare on our TROM Friendica page. There are around 50 such snippets and are all relevant.

I was planing to do this for some time.

Let's see if anyone wants to help out to share them on ytb and fb too, just in case... But I will not touch those platforms. We still have some legacy TROM accounts there that are not quite managed/updated but let's see...

I will do as much as I can by myself, however I need help to do more than I currently do. I do not have several heads with brains, and multiple arms....

#tromstuff

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Abby Martin Speech on Julian Assange at National Press Club


On December 9, 2023, The Belmarsh Tribunal featured Abby and several other journalists to expose the targeting of Julian Assange. Chaired by Amy Goodman & Ryan Grim–and sponsored by Reporters Without Borders, Freedom Of The Press Foundation, The Nation, The Intercept and more–speakers laid out the urgent argument to Free Assange.

youtu.be/pafy7yYuAfA?si=Nr1jUY…




Cómo la IA podría salvar (no destruir) la educación


Sal Khan, fundador y CEO de Khan Academy, cree que la inteligencia artificial podría desencadenar la mayor transformación positiva de la educación jamás vista. Comparte las oportunidades que ve para que estudiantes y educadores colaboren con herramientas de IA -incluido el potencial de un tutor personal de IA para cada estudiante y un asistente de enseñanza de IA para cada maestro- y demuestra algunas nuevas características interesantes para su chatbot educativo, Khanmigo.

ted.com/talks/sal_khan_how_ai_…



Oh look if you buy a "modern" car that has a "cool-screen" and useless features, it costs you money to update that shit.

How cool. New business opportunities for the traders. Since you can't really make these boxes on wheels more useful than they already are, now they are adding more and more useless "Features". That's the incentive in a trade-based society.

#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #money #cars

in reply to Tio

those look like basemaps for the navi, which are outsourced to TomTom (who at the same time have managed to enshittify the otherwise reasonable standalone satnavs by using poor quality batteries in later models)
in reply to Tio

to be entirely fair, satnav companies have been doing this since the early 2000s at least, it's just that with modern cars the manufacturers can cut out the middle man there and just run the annual update racket themselves instead.

The far more dodgy aspect is that eg. BMW lock features like remote heating (so you can turn the heating in your car on in winter from your house so the car's warm by the time you get in) behind a literal monthly subscription

in reply to the baader-minecraft gang

like with maps they'll be licensing the map data from someone else and passing the cost on (and of course that in itself is a Capitalism Problem), but for things like letting you turn on the heating via an app it's just pure greed
in reply to the baader-minecraft gang

Yes indeed. This is just an example, but since the navigation is perhaps the central point of such a screen, and can be useful, it is ridiculous that you have to pay to update it. Because if you do not update, then it becomes entirely useless. All of those GPS modules, the hardware, and everything else. Pointless.
in reply to Tio

Should have got a Kia, they provide the map updates for free.
in reply to Mark

I suspect that's "for now".... but I had no clue about these. This is a car my parents bought and honestly didn't consider the GPS to be that important since you can use the phone for nav anyway. But thanks for the headsup I had no clue.
in reply to Tio

@mark I would quite like to swap out my current dinosaur burner for an FEV at some point but also even this car which is almost a decade old now has an infuriating amount of extremely locked-in technology about it and :angery:

like what are the chances that EVs don't even have DIN form factor dashboard computers anymore so you just straight up *can't* switch the manufacturer's audio/satnav system with one that isn't, as they say, a physical instantiation of a business model

@Mark
in reply to the baader-minecraft gang

@mark like on this car I could buy an aftermarket fascia and just stick a 2-DIN Android radio thing in there to have OpenStreetMap and a Subsonic client to use with my home server and connect a reversing camera that doesn't cost hundreds because the manufacturer radio will only work with the manufacturer's cameras

and somehow I highly doubt any of that is possible on a modern FEV

@Mark