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avidamoeba, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Perhaps get a chunk of non-essential traffic off the Gardiner? There are people who can switch to commute by public transit. Incemtivise them hard to do so.

“It’s a huge drop from a productivity perspective,” Branch said. “We’ve got fleets doing last-mile delivery, right, service and repair. So you can think about – imagine the person sitting in the vehicle, spending that much more time on the road, what it does to them mentally, what it does the productivity of their work day.”

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Branch, meanwhile, stresses that the stats and the science exist right here in the GTA; City Hall simply needs to leverage the technology to help solve the congestion conundrum.

“We have access to this data at-scale, privacy-compliant, all aggregate, that we can help use to make some really intelligent decisions. So it’s management by measurement,” he said.

“We can use management by measurement to help keep Toronto moving."

I see GeoTag is ready to make some cash. 😅

avidamoeba, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

This is one way to do it. Of course everyone will hate it even if the remainder moves faster. I think not nearly enough people are aware of the reality that it’s isn’t feasible for everyone to drive a car at speed in metro areas like Toronto and even most of the GTA. We can’t make the roads wide enough to accommodate all the induced demand and still have enough slack left. If most people get this, then the attitudes towards tolls and other prioritizing solutions would likely change too.

avidamoeba, 6 days ago

You can factory reset it easily. You can’t use it without the previous Google account credentials afterwards. You can’t reuse a stolen Pixel which has Google account logged into it.

avidamoeba, 8 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

When it comes to open source software, market choices aren’t nearly as necessary because new ones can be created at will and very low cost by forking. But in the abstract thech companies are definitely not interested in choices. Choices don’t maximize profits.

avidamoeba, 8 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

It depends on how fat the fork is. While I haven’t worked on Blink, as a developer who works on other people’s very large codebases, including one from Google, I disagree. There are free tools for build automation. That’ll take care of being up-to-date with upstream in terms of security. Patching things can be done using conflict-minimizing strategies. I used to work at an Android OEM and I’ve seen it done with great success. Thinking of Blink specifically, there have been lots of forks during its WebKit days. If I remember correctly there are also thin forks of Firefox maintained by some open source developers. This is all to support thay I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Especially if most of it is rebranding and restoring some deprecated or deleted functionality. Could be wrong. I think we’ll see, because I have a feeling the cost of maintaining a Chromium fork could be cheaper than patching apps to work well on Firefox. Some corpos might even pitch in. Not to mention that it isn’t at all obvious for how long Firefox will be developed by Mozilla. If they drop the ball at some point we’ll be faced with implementing new features in Firefox vs patching features of Chromium. ⚖️

avidamoeba, 7 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

The Debian community already maintains a Chromium fork. How much does that cost?

The human time needed should grow with the number of patches that need to be applied to the upstream code base, because some will fail now and then. This is what I refer to as “fatness” of the fork. The more patches, the fatter. It should be possible to build, packege and publish a fork with zero patches without human intervention, after the initial automation work. Testing is done by the users as it always has been in Debian and its derivatives. You’re referring to a few full-time developers and I simply don’t see the need. Maybe I’m missing something obvious. 😅

avidamoeba, 8 days ago

Did someone at *$ figure out they can solve a labor shortage or something by having a labor union? Or are they working at some other anti-worker scheme in the background?

avidamoeba, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Meanwhile, 5.25% of every TTC fare goes to PRESTO, which is a partnership between Metrolinx and a private company called Accenture.

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I thought Accenture only had a hand in building out the system. Although it’s not clear from the text that Accenture keep getting revenue from fares, it’s kinda implied.

avidamoeba, 1 month ago

A new disruptor going after the disruptors. I wonder when would drivers have had enough of all this disruption. Would be nice for The Drivers Coop to get to Toronto.

avidamoeba, 6 days ago

Yeah I don’t know if the Local feed is useful anywhere but in the smallest, most specific instances. If our instance for example allowed only Canadian related communities. E.g. TorontoCycling but not Cycling.

avidamoeba, 7 days ago

Still way more transparent than Harper’s government ever was.

avidamoeba, 8 days ago

I remember that. ☠️

avidamoeba, 8 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Well in that case the Pixels are simply overpriced there and there’s definitely more hardware to be had in the ones you mentioned.

On a separate note, the Snapdragon based devices simply don’t compare in security update support. That’s the primary reason I’ve been putting up with the first gen Tensor. All of the first gen Pixels in use will be secure till the end of 2026. And the 8/8a series till 2030/31.

avidamoeba, 8 days ago

Except Samsung with Exynos is more or less the same in terms of performance and thermals.

avidamoeba, 8 days ago

This is new development with Qualcomm’s chipsets and they’ve historically been extremely reluctant to sign contracts for long update support so I’m skeptical till proven otherwise. They’ve always been a super profit maximizing company and they’ve typically been the king of the hill for Android and still are for modems, so they have all the incentives to not sign such agreements or not honor them. We don’t know how strong these are. I’d be super happy to be proven wrong. I’ve worked (and still do) on the embedded side with devices built on QC chipsets and Qualcomm behave today as they did a decade ago.

avidamoeba, 5 days ago

I was thinking more along the lines of healthcare benefits and pensions. 😅

avidamoeba, 5 days ago

Immigration to China it is then.

avidamoeba, 5 days ago

I guess the US might have to up their treatment of vets to prevent intel from leaks.

avidamoeba, 5 days ago

A space heater.

avidamoeba, 5 days ago

Firing developers and managers?? 🔥❤️🤯

avidamoeba, 6 days ago

Better yet, sign up for Premium!

avidamoeba, 5 days ago

Why switch from 1Password? One less subscription? Suspicion about 1Password enshitification? Something else?

avidamoeba, 8 days ago

Why not all? Add SFTP (file transfer over SSH) to the mix if needed.