TheOneCurly @ TheOneCurly @lemmy.theonecurly.page

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La Haine. Really well shot, very interesting drama about 3 young French men in the poor parts of Paris.

To get knowledge from scratch there really is only observation. We are pretty limited as human beings, we can only take in information about things we can directly sense, we can sense through indirect observation, or that we can build instruments to sense for us. After that its the same thing I mentioned above, use some method to refine that observation into a repeatable, testable theory.

The bad science that many people try to do is to start with a theory, usually with some social or political agenda attached, and work backward collecting evidence that "supports" it. That's not a way of gaining knowledge though, it's just a way of emulating the look and feel of science.

The Scientific Method is currently the best way humans have for taking observations about the world and deriving meaning from them. There have been other methods before and it's entirely probably that there will be another one in the future.

Scientific methodologies provide a framework to develop and analyze experiments. Without one you may end up doing a test and coming out the other side not really knowing what you were testing in the first place. You may also take experimental data and start analyzing it for things that the experiment couldn't properly capture. This can lead to meaningless or misleading results.

1 in the garage, 2 in the basement. Plus a pocket knife on each floor.

That's great for an emergency kit but you never know when something will happen and if you'll be in a position to get back to your kit. Seems pretty worth.

As long as you have a channel with that person preconfigured and funded right? Otherwise you need to do an on chain transaction with on chain fees to set up that sub one cent transaction.

You blame the people trying to warn everyone because they didn't push one specific point hard enough?

Everything else I was ok with, why didn't they warn me about the olive oil!?

A good example for metadata and privacy that might be applicable to you is photos. Phone cameras attach a ton of useful data to your photos, often including the exact gps coordinates where it was taken. Sharing those files directly with people could potentially leak your home address. Most online photo hosting services (Facebook, imgur, Instagram, Lemmy, etc) strip that data for you but that wouldn't be the case if you directly emailed it to someone.

Nothing to be super paranoid about but it's a great example of metadata leaking unintuitive information.

I think you missed the mark a little bit on what voting is on a forum like this or reddit. Voting is crowd sourced content curation/moderation. Like content creation it brings value to a site, limiting it or making users pay for it seems counter to achieving a well curated community.

Extremely, that tire is going to blow at any moment. Probably the next time they hit a bump at high speed.

Your instance would have connection logs for whatever browsers or mobile apps you used, but other instances talk directly to yours and know nothing about you. So use an instance hosted in a jurisdiction you're comfortable with or like you said tor or another basic vpn is plenty to anonymize you.

startrek.website is the best instance according to dessalines.

I don't know if you've looked through any banned book lists recently but Mein Kampf doesn't tend to be on them.

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-banned-books-in-america/

I've been a pretty heavy torrent user for years. I'm not sure when everyone came to the conclusion that VPNs were necessary. If you stick to slightly older media on public trackers and private for really new hype stuff you're very unlikely to get hit. Plus one letter from your isp isn't the end of the world and you can always kick on a VPN after your first one.

Lemmy federation only starts when a user on your instance searches for and subscribes to a community on another one. So unless a user on your instance goes searching for cp it's not really an issue.

If you've ever taken public transit in the US, you know no one is asking for perfect lol.

I love how well received pipewire was/is compared to the drama systemd and Wayland got.

They also host their own f-droid repo if you want one built by the developers and not f-droid. https://fdroid.fedilab.app/repo/

Or I get to interact with cool people from all around the world that I'd never get to meet otherwise. But ok go be edgy outside if you don't like it here

I couldn't find a good one on their site so I downloaded the app. It's a fancy notes app with templates for a bunch of different things. The hook seems to be the decentralized sync system.