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Nostalgia... Rasterman was light years ahead of his time with enlightenment. Same programmer's league as Torvalds and Bellard.

Actually not wearing a helmet is very clever advice. In the Netherlands almost nobody wears a helmet and yet it is one of the safest places to cycle. In fact we all tend to overcompensate safety with more risky behaviour. A car is basically a 1.5t full body steel armor. And then we go and drive at speeds far beyond of what this armor can protect us from. If you'd remove the body work and make it a buggy, people would drive a lot slower.

Personal anecdote: I bought a helmet a few years ago. While it was still in delivery I came into a situation where I was not sure what a car was doing and I caught myself thinking: "with a helmet I'd not braked" - but rather taken the risk.

Thus I have never worn it and it is sitting there collecting dust.

Another abstract example: no country is more obsessed with "low carb" and "low fat" than the US. Yet no other country produces more plus sized people than the US.

Yet another example is Michael Schumacher. Without the helmet he may not have taken the risk to go into unknown terrain.

I feel vulnerable without a helmet and that keeps me alive.

I did 24km one way in hilly terrain for a few months last year. The ebike was really a god send in that situation. Track is here: http://cyclehikemap.eu/view.php?id=95

The Github account is from CMU perceptional computing lab. Thus I'd consider it reasonable to assume that CMU is behind.

Quick feedback: it's the first time that I have looked into GCP and compared to AWS the UX is by far sub standard. Even with $300 credits I am not tempted to make use of it.

> NEver let anyone profit from your efforts if they have done nothing to contribute.

Don't focus on the "bottom feeders". Focus on those to whom you have brought joy. Github would be an empty place otherwise...

The mission statement of the project is "privacy with ease of use but without zealotry" and the project is 99% based on existing projects. That looks to me what Ubuntu is to Debian.

Just by chance I looked the other week into installing LineageOS on a slightly older LG but then decided it was too much hassle - although I have experience with Cyanogen, i.e. it would not be the first time for me to install a custom ROM.

All I use on my phone are maps, email, messaging and a browser. I can easily do without Google Play Services and I am sure there are many others.

He is french and in France there are many people thinking like him. It is easy to get press coverage and therefore should be possible to create a user base of a few 10.000 people with little investment.

Because phones have in my opinion become a privacy nightmare. I think we all got used to it as the new normal because it happend in lots of tiny steps. However, 30 years ago people would have screamed at being constantly and at every step under surveillance, all their contacts recorded at every moment. I simply don't think that modern life with smartphones and internet must be like this. I'd like to have my private life back.

Edit: I recently signed up for LinkedIn and it was outright scary which contacts I got suggested. There were people that don't have my email address nor have I ever been in electronic contact with - I just met them plenty of times in real life. Best explanation is that smartphones correlate location and/or bluetooth MAC addresses. In other words, my phone is spying on me. I don't see any reason to give this information to unknown 3rd parties without my consent.