7heo @ 7heo @lemmy.ml

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Oof.

Too real, man. Too real. 😞

From this comment from this 2009 doomworld forums thread:

It was an in-joke, and don't feel bad for not understanding it completely... I don't really get it either :P

If you were wondering just in case of writing a story or some such, I doubt anyone would care if you re-define what the letters AGM mean.

In 2017, an issue has been open on GitHub, and a related freedoom forum thread was started with a poll.

Someone has then proposed a back story in 2018, in a separate doomworld forum thread, calling it

Advanced General Mechanics

Finally, last year, a new doomworld forum thread asked the age old question once again.

Personally, however, I would give it the meaning:

###Applied Genetics Manufacturing

(I also thought of "Apex Genetics...", but I dunno, it sounds more sci-fi, but also a lot more gaudy)

Edit: funny enough, the domain agm.earth is available to purchase, and isn't even prohibitively expensive (USD 30.36 to register and renew).

"Religion for yourself" in the age of internet of called "personal belief". So, the term "religion" now only means, like it or not, "institutionalized religion".

This is 100% caused by the fact that people "identify" as Y (not using X as a variable, as it is now a fucking confusing buzzword), and are subsequently grouped together in "echo rooms" by various platforms algorithms. This happened so overwhelmingly that in less than a decade, it redefined the default behavior of people, online, and you will now see people automatically seeking those echo rooms. Even on Lemmy, where people are literally seeking instances that will validate their own beliefs, and block those they do not share.

TL;DR: stay away from trustpilot, they are anything but trustworthy. The EU federation really has to provide such platform, and not rely on a private corporation, if they want to promote trust in the EU. In the meanwhile, we should really get a review website aggregator, to spot the inconsistencies.

If I learned anything recently is that trustpilot is essentially an online "private security" firm at best, and an online "protection business" at worst, where they abuse their market dominant position, and wait for users to post damaging (however truthful) reviews of a business to then "offer" said business an opportunity to "manage and display"[^1] their reviews (what is there to manage about reviews third parties left of your business, aside from removing them?) for a modest sum starting from 250E a month, more than doubling for every tier, and going to undisclosed amounts, for the "enterprise" offer.

However they will also do nothing against fake positive reviews (as evidenced by the sheer amount of different websites offering them), and you can buy several dozen online for around 250E (or see here).

I discovered all this recently after seeing concerning patterns and doing tests (with the means available to me). In the process of doing said tests, I discovered a very well rated (essentially 5 out of 5) company (that I won't name), that straight up lies about their entire offer, and merely sublets (without disclosing it) the offer of a much larger, and much, much cheaper company; all the while offering broken basic features.

[^1]: taken from their website:

Manage reviews for stores and branches

Stand out in local search as you manage and display content on each of your sites

Well, as in let's say instance A is federated to B, B federated to C, A blacklisted C.

So, clearly, A isn't getting data about C. It will drop it on ingress (I expect).

But, will C have access to the exact same data about A, through B, that it would have access to from A if not blocked by A?

If you are the owner of that website, you might wanna fix your CSS (on ddg browser on android):

(Otherwise, neat article 😉)

I'm actually curious to know if federated instances share the data of their federated instances... if so, there is a proper reason to be actually alarmed, as ACLs would essentially be cosmetic only.

I hope the "published" column is the time at which that user downvoted you and not the time at which you posted the original content... there is less than 2s in between some.

No budget was stated, and I'm not gonna assume you don't want a "good piece of hardware" because you looked at something 2 orders of magnitude cheaper. If I had the cash, I would definitely get one (or more!) of those bad boys, and would run all my infra on them... I might however in such case still look at an additional SBC just for plugging to the IPMI interfaces and turn the machines on and off at will.

No. A simple website won't help, it needs to be a Lemmy instance. Moreover, it needs to be a federated one.

And then, that "invisible" data being available to other admins, is a problem with federation, not with Lemmy.

Now, there could very well be efforts made to make the cleartext data of each instance users available only to the admins of that instance (and only share aggregated data with other instances), but that would also require a lot more consideration wrt mutual instance trust in the network.

Right now, since votes and other actions are public (to the federated instances admins anyway), it is doable to detect and assert foul play. The downside of this is that it allows abusers to malevolently collect data and do the same bad things that you are so certain the alternatives to Lemmy don't do (yeah, as if).

If the instances shared only aggregated data with one another, it would be much harder for abusive small instance owners to spy on any user on the network (still possible, but it would essentially would be as hard as for anyone else, as it would involve heuristics and lots of intelligence, to interpolate the missing information); but it would also be much harder for legit admins trying to enforce moderation to inspect what happened on federated instances. They would have to take those instance's admins at their words.

As an additional note: that "invisible" data that other platforms allegedly don't share, is for sale. That's what surveillance capitalism is all about... At least with Lemmy, the barrier of entry to get our data is "federation", not "money".

Edit: WTF bro, a day and a half before writing this wrong comment I'm answering to, you wrote a properly worded, technically correct (top level) comment... Were you half asleep on this one??

Edit 2: nah, the reason why your other comment was technically correct and properly worded is that you stole it (would have been so easy to give credit...) SMH. 😮‍💨

Edit 3: So I checked your comment history (after seeing that other comment of yours about the user that mass downvoted you, I was legit curious how bad it could have been), you seem technically knowledgeable, and also educated. Thus, I reiterate, this specific comment, what gives!?

Edit 4: lol at your edit. 😶‍🌫️

Supermicro latest H13 servers are good pieces of hardware. They also can run jellyfin. For optimal longevity, I recommend a Supermicro AS -2025HS-TNR fit with 2 9654, 12 dimms of 64GB DDR5, and 12 20TB HDDs.

So that would be my pick, with the stated requirements.

The article explains that. You will find that it is caused by something called "education" (or, in that case, the lack thereof). Look into it, it's literally empowering.

Also: "extrinsic" which comes in opposition to "intrinsic", means, quite obviously, "coming from outside". Now, if you add the term "values" to it, "intrinsic values" means "contributing", while "extrinsic values" means "profiting". It is literally a fancy term to designate selfish, kleptomaniac, toxic behavior. And this type of behavior is caused by the intimate conviction that one is unable to provide for oneself, and so, must take from others or suffer. This is, in turn, due to a lack of skills and knowledge, stemming from poor education.

Also, not even correct... Apparently, VPNs are magical solutions that cannot spy on your traffic, while using the hotspot of someone you know, and can ask questions to, is potentially exposing you to "malicious" operators; and also cloudflare is somehow "trustworthy"... 😮‍💨

Edit: I checked the company behind that quiz website, and they are quite obviously marketing and UI oriented, so with that in mind, the quality of the quiz and of the offered "advice" is less surprising. I know that "privacy" and "security" are pretty trendy those days, but pretending to offer a training when you don't have the knowledge yourself is doing more harm than good... I wish they would humble themselves, take a step back, and reconsider.

The video has many inaccuracies.

While the gist of it is correct, and physical OSI layers separation is indeed better for control (there is a valid reasons for "hardware" firewalls to exist), a lot of what she says is vastly extrapolated at best, or arguably wrong at worst.

And then, yes, regardless of the content, I'm pretty sure YouTube videos will be downvoted here.

Buying it is the exact reason they can afford not requesting a warrant.

The logic chain is as follows:

1. You wilfully pay for services and content with your data (you don't pay with cash, and you keep using services that you know use your data instead)
2. Those services do use the data as advertised (for advertisements, too)
3. Anyone can then buy the data. Your data. It is by design, and you agreed to it.
4. The NSA is among "anyone". They absolutely have the right to buy the data that you sold for services. The irony in their case, is that they are using your own money, that they got though taxes, for that.

They would not have the right to get that data otherwise. And for the most part, they probably wouldn't get it (the amount of data generated by the surveillance capitalism is properly staggering and mind-blowing). But you sold it, and it's fair game, so they might as well buy it with a tiny fraction of your taxes, right?

Also, and keep in mind I have never killed myself using this method, so I don't know first hand, but, nitrogen is lighter than carbon dioxide, so if the person had 100% pure nitrogen to breathe, and no carbon dioxide, and is maintained with their head near the top of the pod, they would have died fast and allegedly without feeling it.

However, I am absolutely convinced that the people responsible for this execution did research on how to make this method as painful as possible (done right, it is apparently euphoric, and there is NO WAY they would even remotely take the risk of this happening), so they probably went out of their way to have a nitrogen-oxygen mix (like our atmosphere), but with lower amounts of oxygen, and forced the person to stay in a position that would guarantee they would die from CO2 asphyxiation rather than nitrogen.

It is even more inhumane than just using CO2 (as is done in meat "production"), because it prolongs the suffering quite a lot... The whole point of using CO2 on animals is to expedite the process... at the expense of their suffering.

OK I'm officially too tired to actually contribute to Lemmy. I'll be on my way... 😭

I don't see how a repair that causes the nose of a plane to "fall off" would not be considered a "bigger repair"...

I'm not saying that Boeing would be involved in the replacement of a tire from the landing gear. But something major enough to make the actual nose of the plane to literally fall off? That sounds important enough to me.

The real reason is that OVH put the backups right next to the systems, so when the latter went up in flames, the former also did.

But yes, that, too.