You can still get delta updates as an F-Droid free user if you link your OSM account and maintain some level of map contribution within the last $time_period. Glancing at the feature matrix, it might only be cloud backup that is subscription-only for an F-Droid user with an active OSM history.

The monthly updates are probably fine for most purposes, though. It's great that you're contributing with donations, too.

The F-Droid version is called something like OsmAnd~ and has some of the "+" features for free. I think there are some network-using "pro" features it doesn't include. Also, Google Auto doesn't work without some root fiddling because Google only trusts apps installed by its store.

That's pretty neat. You've induced me at least to go read TFA and the underlying study. They were measuring cars in a workplace parking lot and admit that it would be trickier to get results on a roadway. I'd be interested to know the 95/50/5% splits for identifying a car in any given time period and the corresponding spacing along a roadway to guarantee capture based on a certain travel speed.

But the use as tested in the study could already be worthwhile. Drop a sensor in the trees near the front of a target location, and you can get the shift patterns of every vehicle that goes there.

Can they spin out Zenimax and Activision/Blizzard before the fatal dose?

The article is pretty cool. The team sometimes gives the "hand" 5 digits in a human configuration and other times 6 digits evenly spaced around a circular palm, leaving room for the wrist connection. Sometimes they put both configurations in a pictorial flow chart, which is rather misleading.

It's a little annoying that they say "One of the primary limitations is its asymmetric structure (Fig. 1a), which affects the range of manipulation strategies that can be employed." Sure, maybe. But when our arms have 7 DOF, the trade-offs for backwards-curling fingers against strength in a single direction are too big. We don't have detachable, crawling hands.

Wouldn't Nazis be the primary source on SS data, leaving aside whether or not Thiel is one?

Seconded. I have a PinePhone, and I've been rather disappointed. If Nex was de-Googled, I'd take a closer look out of amusement (since I need a phone anyway), but the Linux-first approach is what I want to see.

If only.

The text of the article is paywalled, but I could still see the figures in the sidebar.

There are pictures. Go to the Nature link from TFS and click on "Figures" in the sidebar.
Figures 1d, 4m (tiny), 5, Ext 8, and Ext 9 seem to show the material.
Fig Ext 5 shows how it can go from transparent to opaque.

You could also try one of the Servo browsers.

Alien civilizations... How about our own? Have they read the Andromeda Strain?

DOS ain't done til Lotus won't run

Heck, if I invented a serum that fixed Alz, I'd sure as shit be ready to commercialize it.

Thank you.