Are you going there as a hobby or plan to work as a watch repairman/watchmaker? if the latter, how big is the market these days for analog watches? I feel like everyone is wearing electronic watches. I have been thinking of also learning horology as an entry to building automata machines

I love it. Just recently got my first plotter, and it is so much fun. Sadly though this still keeps me near computer.

Not exactly a hobby either

Anything can be misused by the bad actor. Knives, guns. With AI things are getting easier to develop bio-chemical weapons. There was recently a video of a YouTuber creating a portable rocket launcher in <100 USD.

They don't need to. They need just good enough. Don't underestimate "Made in Europe", just like "Made in America"

They should instead focus on their overall software stability and usability. And introduce more physical buttons for climate control. I don't want to click 4 times on a screen while driving in order to enable seat heating.

New Volvos let you “hey Google, turn on my seat heating”. I wish it wasn’t google, but the voice interface is great while driving.

Oh lovely, now my kids can fuck with my seat, assuming the computer can hear one of them over the other one talking about something else. This is a regression in usability compared to luxury cars from 30 years ago.

This doesn't seem like that big of a problem to me. Yeah, your kids are going to be amused when they find out they can turn on the heated seat. Then you tell them not to do that. If they still do it, then you hand out punishments as appropriate. The kids will decide that the amusement of messing with your heated seat isn't worth the consequences and you go on with life.

It'll be pretty obvious if that happens, though.

I guess they don't have hands to press the seat heat button either?

They would need some pretty long hands to reach the dashboard if they're in the back seat.

Seat heat is one click in my 2022 Volvo. Or as others have noted, you can use your voice.

In my Polestar 2, it's at least two presses.

1. Press "heat controls" space on tablet. This "expands" the controls, showing steering wheel heat, seat heat, seat ventilation.

2. Press "seat heat" once to be on High (and more presses to get to Medium, Low or back to Off)

Wish it was a button. Buttons are much better for this sort of thing.

In this video, the Volvo controls are identical to Polestar, and, again, require at least two presses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D29Nm-fwsHQ

While it's great to have a choice to do so, I personally detest voice controls (which require a button press, and a memorized phrase.)

No button necessary for voice: “Hey Google, set my seat heater to medium.”

I would still like to have a button-only option, of course.

I don't use voice so I couldn't be sure, but in the video, the instructor pushes a button to activate Voice. So that may vary depending on the specific year and model.

I have always wanted a super simple local startup job board for my country. No calls, no AI chat bots, no fancy matching. Spending 1-2 hours a week on this

https://estonianstartupjobs.ee

Having worked for different startups for 10+ years and started 3 of my own (eventually failing), I always wanted a job board for local startups. Not necessarily IT-related jobs. Finally built it about a month ago: https://estonianstartupjobs.ee

There are few similar projects too, one is itself a startup which sadly on the verge of bankruptcy, and another aggregates only IT-related jobs.

Why does everyone assume that if something is open source it must also be free and licensed under permissive license allowing you whatever? Briefly looking at their website I got the impression that it was meant for transparency reasons rather than in the spirit of free and open-source.

I didn't assume it must be free of charge. I only mentioned it isn't, to point that this is not a possible reason they chose AGPL.

I did, however, assume the Open Source <=> OSI approved license. How else to define Open Source?

Transparency alone could be achieved with their own Source Available license, so it doesn't seem like a reason for double licensing.

Yesterday I was listening to The Changelog podcast with Steve O'Grady called "Open Source is at a Crossroads". In it he says something along the lines of: We have companies come to us saying they want to release their source under an encumbered license and we tell them that they can definitely do that but they can't call it open source, because open source means something fairly specific to developers. We work with them on getting their specific license terms set up but they come back saying "We really want to call it open source, because developers find open source cool, and we want to attract developers." Developers like it because of what open source means.

https://changelog.com/podcast/558

Thank you, I found the answer to my question posted above in this podcast and the article linked there [1]

So, the argument is simply that Open Source is a branding that attracts developers as a target group.

I wonder when will we start seeing commercial, source available projects posted to GitHub with a single file like stringutils.[ts|go|java|etc] MIT-licensed for a single purpose of calling the entire project "Open Source"

[1]: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/08/03/why-opensource-matter...

You have the right to queue for several hours and present your biometric passport to a human who will take your picture, save it to another database, and then visually compare that to your face.

In the US, returning US citizens have the right to re-enter without a photo or a fingerprint. It's a right I'd like to preserve, and that's getting increasingly harder to exercise as everything in the airport nudges passengers to automated systems with no obvious way to opt out.

Obviously other countries have their own rules.

Have you ever tried refusing to show a passport? As far as I know, US citizens have the absolute right to enter its borders (https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/home.pdf), but whenever I read about that, I wonder how they go about that when a random stranger arrives at a border and claims to be a citizen.

The best example I can find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Worthy#Right_to_travel...:

“He was able to return to the U.S. in October 1961, showing his birth certificate and vaccination record at Miami Airport”

That’s decades ago, though, and he still showed something (but not something that realistically identified him) to get in.

All you need to do is convince the agent that you are an American Citizen.

You can show them any identification documents you do have, like drivers license, to establish your identity. For establishing citizenship, one option is if you previously has a passport (expired, or just not with you) then can look up that record, and if it is recent enough to pull up a photo they can compare to you that can also help.

Other ways of verifying citizenship depends on what databases they have access to. For example if they have access to the Social security numident database, they could look up a number to see the associated name citizenship flags. I'm not sure if they do though.

From what I have heard anecdotally is that it is usually not too hard to convince them if you really are a citizen (except in edge cases like being born abroad to Americans without parents registering your birth with the US.)

In any case they will formally warn you about it being illegal for Americans to enter without a passport (it is, but there is no punishment for the crime anymore). This is to deter you from doing this again in the future, as having a passport makes things much faster and easier for everyone.