You’re completely right about the half-truths not being a good look for the left. It only serves to erode trust in media and rhetoric. The reason it worked for the right is because that type of propaganda works on idiots that don’t bother to investigate or can’t actually comprehend what is going on. It’s not going to have the same effect for those that haven’t fallen for the rights tricks.

What we actually need is more truth to be reported and more democratic politicians to actually have a backbone or getting replaced by a leftist who does.

I completely agree with you about mixed use zones. If there are likely to be pedestrians in that area, then they should not be going over 15 MPH or whatever a reasonable speed is in that area. Those people are just negligent assholes.

The 80 MPH portion was to just grab clicks. The bike likely cannot actually reach those speeds except during a freewheel test where you pick up the back wheel and pull full throttle, as other commenters have stated.

Like you said, the reason that it was spotted, pulled over, and confiscated was because it was keeping up with traffic at 35 MPH. Why should that be illegal? Even if the bike could go 80 MPH, cars can go 110+ MPH and yet they aren’t pulled over for going 35 MPH. Why do these classes exist when bikes are forced to ride with cars and are punished for attempting to keep up with them?

Ultimately, all I see are conventions/laws that are too old to apply anymore that are used to limit or punish anyone that isn’t using a car.

The real problem is that this article and the argument that it supports is framed from the perspective of a car-centric mindset; which is hilarious since the website is for alternative methods of transportation.

Saying that using fast ebikes forced to share the same space as other larger, faster vehicles (that still can barely keep up with the larger vehicles) will ruin it for ebikes in general is such a mind-boggling statement.

I honestly could give less than a shit if people were going over 35 MPH on a bicycle on a road. As long as that’s under the posted limit who cares?

There’s a lot of reasons to make your own project even if something similar exists. Differing codebase, feature roadmap, UX/UI direction, contributor politics, or even because they want to make something from scratch to add to their portfolio.

More options are better for everyone.

I think an open source paper cnc machine similar to a cricut would be way easier to replicate than a standard printer.

He embraced Trumps inauguration by performing at the MAGA “Crypto Ball” in celebration of him.

Definitely check out GrapheneOS. It pretty much addresses what you’re asking about, aside from root access.

Its all about the disruption. But protesting isn’t the only thing that people should be doing. Community building is just as important if not more so.

Source-available isn’t the same as free and open-source. You might not be able to distribute or modify as you like to the former and may have any sort of license provisioned with further restrictions.

I’m sure it would persist even after an event of malicious activity. It may just turn out like email with servers needing to be added to an allowlist at worst and more moderation. I think scalability might be the limiting factor at some point though and as a result we could end up with several disconnected islands of server clusters instead of globally meshed servers.

They were new in the 1700s. They are not a new thing for humans today. If you don’t use vaccines you are an outlier to modern society.

I think OPs question is still relevant in that context. Does that case reduce their effort towards privacy? I believe the answer is yes.

I’m pretty sure you can load the model using RAM like another poster said. Here’s a used server under $600 that could theoretically run it: ebay.

I think I read somewhere that you’ll basically need 130 GB of RAM to load this model. You could probably get some used server hardware for less than $600 to run this.

Looking at the policy on the website here it looks like it’s actually fairly reasonable. If you make less than x, are using a listed governmental assistance program, or qualify for the low-income isp plan then the cost is $30/month for 100Mbps Internet. The benefit that’s listed in the article is the current subsidy that would remove the rest of the cost.

Does anyone know why they won’t hear this case?

You’re right, something like what I described wouldn’t necessarily need networking to work like that. However, think if you had to manage 100 or more of these devices for people in an assembly plant. Deploying new torque specs to all of the workers’ tools wirelessly would be much faster than having them bring them in individually after each batch job had been completed.

For efficiency and quality of service. If you have to tighten a hundreds of fasteners with specific amounts of torque then this would make the work go much more quicker than using a manual torque wrench.

This really isn’t shocking news. Tons of industrial devices have poor or out of date security. This is why you always segment off your Operational Technology on your network.

Nah, what they described is more like SSO between websites.