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[–] lgsp@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

EuroNCAP suggested to try to change something, apparently they are not catching in their test, but they acknowledge the issue

https://etsc.eu/calls-grow-to-address-safety-risks-of-large-vehicles-in-urban-areas/

Euro NCAP calls upon the vehicle industry to improve the vehicle crash compatibility of future models and not to accept settling for the status quo. It believes Mobile Progressive Deformable Barrier testing can help manufacturers engineer their cars and vans to better protect occupants in the event of a head-on collision

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But is it an unethical car? It fits a lot of stuff or a lot of people or a fair amount of both, but I guess the same thing is true for the f150. Visibility is much better I guess, but would pick ups be more moral if they had a lower hood?

some thoughts about your post

  • nobody would buy a van if not in need, because it's not cool, it costs more etc. So you would end up having less big vehicles on the road. There is no need to regulate too much something that is numerically not important
  • the hood height for the van is lower and visibility is better: you can find a lot of studies that connect the former with less killings and less serious injuries and the latter with less collisions, so definitely less dangerous
  • i actually think that if pickups had lower hoods, they would be more moral, yes, because they would be less dangerous. (see above)
[–] lgsp@feddit.it 25 points 1 month ago

Slow down your love: this is just a proposal from a bunch of associations. On the other side there are car industry lobbies and their enormous profit margins, which are particularly strong. Let's see what happens

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

Unrequested suggestion:

Lemuroid emulator + apotris is the best (FOSS) tetris replacement on Android

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What are you talking about? That could never happen!

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 2 points 2 months ago

Very cool!

I'm wondering how long until Bluesky locks down its users

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago

First time grow strawberries. Flowers were already there when I bought it at the store

Thank you for the advice

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So cars jump over the garden?

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 7 points 2 months ago

That's the community I cross-posted from, actually 😁

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pocket had this feature, but, well, Mozilla is closing it!

I guess einkbro is good for all Web-apps, like phanpy, right?

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago

Good to see. Reading ifixit post I found it awesome how they read feedback from their readers and are able to change their minds

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago

No, it's the other way around: you actually install your bike on that motor

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Oto Ozols created this aniamtion and other like the one at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThvxCqSIf1c

If it will ever snow again where I live, I will pay attention to this!

crossposted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113661109749394759

 

Based on curated lists from BookBub, Crime Reads, Book Riot and more, suggestions from readers on Goodreads, Quora and Reddit, and recommendations from authors like Jasper Fforde, Sharon Shinn and David Brin, here is a roundup of the 81 best sci-fi crime novels ever written.

 

Italy is a car infested country. I would love to know impressions of fellow users from other countries that visit Italy: do you see this?

We rank in the low part for public transport and rails (except high-speed trains). Which is not surprsing

Moreover, automotive industry is sinking in Italy, so there is not even the justification of helping "economy", for pushing on cars so much.

Finally, there are many more cars than car licenses in Italy. Which, IMHO, is completely absurd

Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/113632796547131119

 

People on bikes may be rude and may not follow the rules, but can't be aggressive.

When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man.

Original stripe from the Onion: https://www.theonion.com/bum-rush-hour-1846606314

Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113615912203015089

 

Shifter is a youtube/peertube channel with lot of great insights on cycling.

Every year he collects stuff to gift to bike commuters and I there are some good suggestion in it.

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/12765092

 

Shifter is a youtube/peertube channel with lot of great insights on cycling.

Every year he collects stuff to gift to bike commuters and I there are some good suggestion in it.

 

Edit: to clarify: the message in the ad is actually ironic/satirical, mocking the advice for cyclists to wear high-viz at night.

It uses the same logic but inverts the parts and responsabilities, by suggesting to motorists (not cyclists) to apply bright paint on their cars.

So this ad is not pro or against high-viz, it's against victim blaming

Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113544508246569296

 

introduzione

Nel mio lento percorso per abbandonare google, mi mancava un'applicazione per sistemare le foto. Google photo con i suoi filtri a portata di dito e strumenti raffinati, era difficile da battere.

Con l'ultimo aggiornamento image toolbox ce l'ha fatta.

Image toolbox è lo strumento FOSS più completo disponibile su android per manipolare le foto. Riesce sia a offrire un'interfaccia veloce per sistemare una foto e prepararla per la pubblicazione, sia strumenti molto avanzati per modificare le immagini.

per un uso veloce

Diciamo che avete fatto una foto, e volete pubblicarla sul fediverso, ma volete fare una o più delle seguenti cose:

  • sistemare luminosità, contrasto, saturazione...
  • ruotarla di qualche grado per raddrizzare l'orizzonte
  • cropparla o aggiustare la prospettiva
  • ridurre la dimensione del file per non intasare i server (formato, risoluzione e compressione) *eliminare i dati exif

Usando lo strumento "single edit", il più in evidenza, potete fare tutto in un colpo. E' incredibilmente potente. Sempre visibile la dimensione del file in uscita. E' anche sempre possibile paragonare la foto originale senza modifiche a quella che si sta editando

usi avanzati

oltre al single edit ci sono molti strumenti avanzati. Qui una selezione di quelli che ho usato

  • applicare filtri su una maschera

l'ho utilizzato per dare l'effetto sfocato allo sfondo di un'immagine. Bisogna prima definire la maschera e poi selezionare un filtro per la maschera tra i numerosissimi disponibili (sfocatura, B/N...)

  • edit su file multipli (batch)

si possono cambiare le caratteristiche di tanti file tutti insieme: per esempio ridurre la risoluzione, convertire formato, croppare etc.

  • OCR

image toolbox integra tesseract: è in grado di leggere il testo dalle immagini così da poterlo copia-incollare. L'ho usato varie volte per scrivere l'alt-text di immagini con testo. Google foto lo fa meglio, ma questo non è male, e fa tutto off-line

  • collage di più immagini

Un semplice strumento per unire varie immagini, con tanti template per disporle sul piano

  • tanti altri

veramente ci sono un sacco di altri strumenti che non ho ancora usato. L'interfaccia è fatta però bene e, nonostante la quantità di possibili opzioni, l'app rimane molto accessibile

Conclusione

Non tutto è perfetto, e certe volte l'app si comporta in modo strano o inaspettato. Inoltre a volte non è velocissima a mostrare la preview del risultato.

Però adesso non ho più bisogno di google photo (la parte galleria l'ho sostituita con Aves) e ho molti più strumenti a disposizione, e più accessibili

 

Ironic video by fairphone reminding is that electronics should be repairable like bikes are... Or aren't they?

A recent article by ifixit highlighting how bikes are getting less and less reparabile too!

https://www.ifixit.com/News/101675/bike-manufacturers-are-making-bikes-less-repairable

 

In a move similar to reddit or twitter, Strava is restricting API usage, and other policy changes.

I think an alternative to strava, which is also federated, would be really cool

EDIT: I know you can record teacks and keep them offline and there is plenty of ways to do so. I think the main aspect of Strava is the possibility of sharing the activities with contacts on strava itself. Like for peertube or pixelfed, the fediverse has the potential to allow any user to share what they like and the other users can see, boost, comment, from their mastodon, pleroma, froendica or wharever accounts. The fact that someone wants to share a track is his own business.

 

@pekkatahkola shared a video to show what many around here envy: super efficient snow plowing of Oulu beautiful cycle path network

crossposted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113511656108191735

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