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  • If crossing a indycar race is shameful why would this be considered any less shameful or less dangerous?

    Hell, this was probably more dangerous because a cyclist flying off their bike would be more exposed to broken bones and death then a driver in a indycar.

    The pedestrian could have seriously killed one or more cyclists if they crossed a few seconds late.













  • The buttons are prominently there to meet ADA (Americans with disabilities Act) or ACA (Accessable Canada Act).

    Buttons at intersections help people with mobility issues to cross at dedicated crosswalks or crossways safely, most buttons extend the cross time when pressed.

    For people that have visual imperments the buttons will generally activate a chirp sound, which helps with a “haptic feedback” of where crosswalks might be or in which direction to proceed.

    Anyways, they have become so ubiquitous that they are pretty much expected everywhere, so much so that people don’t see them as accessible infrastructure (which is a pretty good thing TBH).





  • When you host something on LAN only you are not exposing the service to the wider internet directly.

    This means someone would need access to your LAN or local area network first (such as your WiFi password) before being able to reach said service.

    Now when you expose something directly to the internet, in a way that for example it displays a publicly accessible webpage, it makes it easier for anyone to reach that webpage, and potentially figure out your login and password information through brute force. Or some other type of exploit that allows full bypass of the login credentials.

    Some self-hoster’s choose to keep their “more sensitive” services on the LAN only, and then use a VPN (that’s hosted privately) to access their LAN remotely from anywhere in the world.

    With a VPN hosted on your LAN it provides a good layer of security as someone would first need to have access to your VPN to then potentially try and get access into your services.