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Facebook's data is way more valuable to Facebook; it doesn't sell data to third parties. If you think they're going to sell the non-monetisable data to third parties, you have to believe they're willing to introduce this (which is likely to be unpopular) in apparent compliance with data protection laws, while still flagrantly violating them in secret, without any of their many employees nor any of their partners' employees blowing the whistle (and Meta as a company leaks all the time). If they were doing that, why would they bother setting up the fake "pay to not be tracked" flow, when they could pretend to honour people's free requests not to be tracked?

There's a big intersection between conservatives and people who find it very important to support the military. You don't necessarily have to get them to engage with an argument so much as associate him with something they don't like.

I presume they're thinking about electricians' and heating engineers' jobs. Seems a bit over the top though because no-one's forcing you to use the service (i.e. this is not the kind of problem that affects people who object personally) and because there are already online services which act as a proxy to help you find people to do jobs at home which have not led to a slew of domestic gas explosions (i.e. this is not the kind of problem that is likely to have a big effect on society)

OCaml allows you to specify return types, but doesn't force you to.

Well, it's just dodging the same question yes - but doing it a lot of times! I was going to mention the story behind it but realised someone else would fill it in ;)

Yeah but it doesn't cross function boundaries so it's more limited.

My line of thinking is really wondering about what optimisations are necessary to allow Lemmy to scale in this way. Large social media sites have very interesting designs to deal with the huge amount of data flowing through them, caching as much as possible close to where it will be needed. I don't know about Lemmy's design though and I don't really have a good idea of how that would impact optimisations.

To take an example I remember from reddit (actually I had to re-read about it because I didn't really remember it...) reddit caches ordered lists of things, for example, the list of posts on the homepage. The problem is that the ordering has to be reevaluated all the time because it can change whenever someone votes. (Let's assume we're looking at a listing which incorporates voting). To make that work efficiently the reddit programmers made vote processing actually update not just the backing store and invalidate the cache, but modify the "cache" directly, which is now more like a denormalised view of the backing data. The way this was done meant that later, when the rate of votes increased, there were again problems because all this processing was contending on these denormalised views. I'm thinking this is probably going to be complicated by the federated aspect, because that's a separate source of updates from those local sources.

I would also say that you can't expect linear scaling for donations: early adopters are going to be enthusiasts, and correspondingly more enthusiastic with their money!

Where I am there are no fixed-for-the-life-of-the-loan mortgages, so I will have to remortgage at a higher rate in 2025. I expect by then things will have calmed down a little from the worst this year, but will still be significantly more expensive than they are now. However, I will have had five years paying very low interest rates (about 1.6%) and am overpaying. It makes more sense than renting and the place I bought has been a great place to live during the pandemic. I don't know how much the value has increased since I bought it - despite small falls though the wider area has seen average property prices go up about 25% over this time so I'm not in any danger of being stuck unable to move. Even if prices collapsed I would likely be safe from negative equity due to having had a large deposit.

Did you threaten to overrule him? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqU77I40mS0

Yeah most likely.

Here's what interests me: obviously on a single instance you need to scale the infrastructure as more users join. But how much do you need to scale to account for the usage of federated instances?

I ask that because the answer in this thread is broadly "it's sustainable because each instance is low cost, and you can always add more instances" but that doesn't work if, after the number of instances grows 100x, all existing instances face an increase in costs even if they didn't gain many more users, because they're receiving more messages from federated instances, and need to download and store stuff from those other instances for their local users.

The joke is that almost everyone calls them vegetables because the botanic categorisation of parts of plants is niche jargon that is not useful in everyday life, whereas the culinary categorisation is useful, and so your shopping list correcting you is worse than unnecessary.

The groupthink on reddit is not imposed by the monolithic entity in charge of reddit; it's imposed by the average of redditors and by subreddit moderators. The fediverse may support a better diversity of participation such that the average is less representative, but I think if Lemmy (say) got larger - let's say at least as large as reddit was 10 years ago when there was plenty of groupthink and toxicity - you would see major Lemmy communities take on similar characteristics to major subreddits. I think what you're saying is that you'd get various communities with overlapping areas of interest and different moderation policies and groupthinks, allowing for more diversity. But I think that network effects provide a strong opposing pressure to that kind of diversity, and even where more than one community can survive, I think you're more likely to see the equivalent of /r/politics and /r/conservative emerge than /r/leftofcentre and /r/rightofcentre or something. So you still have groupthink, people are still liable to get downvoted into oblivion or banned for expressing the wrong opinion.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at with the trolling aspect though: I don't really see why diverse moderation policies would discourage genuine trolls as I don't see how that "smooth ramp" would be any discouragement. Maybe you reckon it would be too much admin to keep track of where the line lies in each different community?

I'm new to Lemmy (I am assuming it will be better than reddit for a long time due to being smaller and the userbase having a different average, and federation meaning other influence from a monolithic controlling entity won't affect it) and very interested in this though so do share what you think.

That's what people not on reddit say about people on reddit, and probably so on for all sorts of social media.

Less flippantly, bits of reddit definitely are domains of trolls and edgelords, and when slashdot was at its height, being edgy was way more popular across the entire internet. In addition there is a fundamental tension between preventing groupthink and preventing trolls: in a diverse community there will be people who so vehemently disagree with others that they interpret their good-faith comments as trolling and so will use whatever tools are available to suppress it, leading to groupthink. (I mention groupthink in this context because of the point of "sharing ideas and getting at the truth" if that wasn't obvious.)

So I don't remember much about the comments the last time I checked in there but I am a bit skeptical.

Thinkpad X13 with a Ryzen 6850U.

I actually need to send it in for repair - I think the GPU is fucked as I get irregular crashes where the screen(s) all go black, audio keeps playing but input is broken, and other weird things, like sometimes an external monitor flickers and shifts so the left third is actually shown on the right hand side of the screen...

I think but haven't done any proper investigations, that some sites only store your cookie response if you accept a certain kind of cookies. Basically every site now divides cookies up into functional, optimisation and marketing, and I have at least observed:

1. go to website, receive prompt
2. decline all non-required cookies
3. go to next page within website, receive prompt again
4. decline all but functional cookies (or similar wording
5. go to next page, no prompt.

Rules around preventing a hostile work environment don't place an obligation on anyone to prevent it at all costs. It means that if an employee or - more relevantly here - a customer - is being hostile, then the workplace needs to make sure the employee or customer stops. But if you work in a call centre cold calling people, your company isn't going to get fined if you get an earful of abuse. (They might get fined for cold-calling depending on specifics :P) Same here.

I get 8-10 on my AMD laptop, but yeah it's nothing like Apple unfortunately.

What phone call are you talking about? There was a call relating to the explosion at al Ahli hospital where some people claimed the audio was edited but the only reasoning they had was that one speaker was in one channel and the other speaker in the other channel. That is exactly what you would expect from a wiretap though - the signal for the two speakers is not present in the same wire at the same time, so it needs to be assembled from two separate data sources.

I don't think repressed gay people have that many abortions, do they?