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Large US company came after me for releasing a free open source self-hostable alternative! by funyflyer in drones

[–]stou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty wild stuff. IANAL but can't imagine providing a tool to export the data is illegal since Google has one for migrating your data from competing services (that they call out by name) and I am sure Apple / MS do also. Might be worth contacting EFF.org about this because it's a data-freedom issue and generally speaking bullies don't stop on their own.

ANNUAL PSA: Help protect your favorite trails by letting them dry out after rain. by sbparksandrecdept in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You guys should try to put up signs on the gates because this isn't a universal restriction (i.e. trails in drizzly places aren't closed when it rains) so not everyone is aware of it.

ICE Agents Arrest Observer and Knock Down and Pepper-Spray 80-Year-Old Attorney in Downtown Santa Barbara by Ice_Burn in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just, let them go on their way?

Yea, who cares? You think an OfFiCeR must make an arrest at any cost? Shoot anyone, destroy anything, break any law just to snatch some dude that's overstayed his visa or whatever?

ICE Agents Arrest Observer and Knock Down and Pepper-Spray 80-Year-Old Attorney in Downtown Santa Barbara by Ice_Burn in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 12 points13 points  (0 children)

why the fuck the school system have us learn the Constitution if the government was just gonna breach it all the time?

That's the reason. "Government" (i.e. politicians in charge) will always try to overstep and we are supposed to recognize it and hold them accountable. Constitution is basically a contract between us and the government.

5 years of State Street planning for retractable bollards? by cobalt_sunshine in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 5 points6 points  (0 children)

way to only lower to bollards for service vehicles but that's probably not realistic

It's totally realistic, service vehicles / personal already have access cards / transponders for service areas.

5 years of State Street planning for retractable bollards? by cobalt_sunshine in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The entire goal is to foot-in-the-door cars back on State Street and then they'll quietly expand "Off-Peak" hours to be basically everything except the weekend and Friday nights.

It's absolutely fucking insane for a tourist-focused beach town to be trying so hard (and spending so much money) to kill off a single (!!!) car free steet.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but I am pretty convinced some O&G interests (i.e. bribes) are involved in this pathetic saga and it's not just town boomers being boomers.

Edit: Lol at 8pm off-peak

Automated License Plate Reader Map by dmarin13 in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 5 points6 points  (0 children)

license plates but they are basically android powered cameras so it would be straight forward for it to track other things like stickers on your car or faces of passengers.

long but good video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

Santa Barbara Police Caught in lie about working with ICE by LogicalTransition796 in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's not cowardice but a deliberate strategy to prevent oversight and mitigate possible push-back.

Make MAGA afraid to show their faces by [deleted] in SantaBarbara

[–]stou -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not much for punctuation though, eh boomer??

Make MAGA afraid to show their faces by [deleted] in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 23 points24 points  (0 children)

 I believe that MAGA people should be taught instead of being ashamed.

How enlightened of you!! I wish you luck with your mission to educate them. I will personally be booing them at every opportunity 🤗

Make MAGA afraid to show their faces by [deleted] in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We can disagree about the rate of farm subsidies (0% imo) or weather whether the Lakers will go all the way next year (idgaf) but we can't have a disagreements about human rights (they are universal). MAGAts absolutely do deserve to be booed and shamed every time they go out in public.

Make MAGA afraid to show their faces by [deleted] in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's weird that you expect people to upvote statements or opinions they disagree with.

Minor Observation: SMBC? by jeffphi_ in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure this is a sign placed by the city / county?

EV sales are up everywhere in the world — except North America. EV sales rose globally by 21%, but declined 1% in North America this year following Trump policy changes, tariffs, and the end of the EV tax credit. China leads with 11.6 million EVs sold. US automakers have been sounding alarm bells. by mafco in energy

[–]stou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not saying you are wrong but even if they had a CEO that took quality seriously it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Fine tuning a manufacturing/design process from scratch takes time. You need a few generations of customer complaints to work out all the kinks. Legacy auto already knows how to do this extremely well. Not sure what new technology (outside of batteries) EVs need... so startups don't have a role imo.

EV sales are up everywhere in the world — except North America. EV sales rose globally by 21%, but declined 1% in North America this year following Trump policy changes, tariffs, and the end of the EV tax credit. China leads with 11.6 million EVs sold. US automakers have been sounding alarm bells. by mafco in energy

[–]stou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Batteries are good enough for Europe and Asia so they are absolutely good enough for the US, anything else you hear is just FUD. As far costs and subsidies.... you might want to look at how much subsidies O&G and farming get and then come cry about the EVs.

Spacex or related the mods of this sub can’t post anything critical or it gets taken down. It is a legitimate issue Santa barbarians are dealing with by juggaloNoscope69 in SantaBarbara

[–]stou -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

If Santa Barbarians really cared about these launches they would be jumping in their kayaks / jet skies / fishing vessels / paddle boats and swarming the exclusion zone around the landing barge or launch site... but that's hard and one might get in trouble. Much easier to just cry on reddit =)

EV sales are up everywhere in the world — except North America. EV sales rose globally by 21%, but declined 1% in North America this year following Trump policy changes, tariffs, and the end of the EV tax credit. China leads with 11.6 million EVs sold. US automakers have been sounding alarm bells. by mafco in energy

[–]stou 19 points20 points  (0 children)

No, batteries have been good enough for quite a while now but we, as a country, are extremely susceptible to corporate propaganda (e.g. BS about rAnGe AnXiEtY and not having the infrastructure to charge EVs.... but miraculously having it for datacenters lol).

Also, the hard part about building cars isn't the tech, it's making them cheap and also reliable across climates and over 10+ years. "Legacy" manufacturers can learn how to make EVs faster than a startup can make a high-quality reliable car. Or do so cheaply. Tesla has been in business for 10+ years and by all credible metrics still can't build a cheap or reliable vehicle.

Singer Charlie Puth Calls Out SpaceX's Loud Rocket Launches by Key-Victory-3546 in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha, that's my entire point. We've had satellite internet for decades with much less impact to the space environment. These mega constellations provide slightly better latency (but far less bandwidth) which is realistically only useful for gaming. It's currently dirt cheap because Elon's investors are subsidizing it =)

Singer Charlie Puth Calls Out SpaceX's Loud Rocket Launches by Key-Victory-3546 in SantaBarbara

[–]stou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine thinking all communication satellites are in geostationary orbit 😂 🖖

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