cabbage @ cabbage @piefed.social

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So we will have a bunch of trash circulating the earth, left there by opporunistic billionaires. No thank you. What they have done to the night sky alone is a crime against all of us as far as I'm concerned.

And to think that lower orbit is not interesting any more now that NASA wants to build a telescope on the moon is beyond me.

If it is you probably wouldn't be thrilled to find out how.

There are a number of concerns, from hindering science by blocking pictures taken by Hubble to flat out malfunctioning and crashing into the ISS. For every new satellite the risk increases. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellites-spacex-problem-space-pollution

Assuming the same communities are being followed and no users are blocked and all else is equal, one possible explanation is that lemmy.world is using Lemmy 0.19.3, and sh.itjust.works is on Lemmy 0.19.5. Something might have changed in how posts are sorted between the two versions.

One might expect these two instances to be pretty similar, as they both have a bunch of users and are pretty much catch-all. But in general, different instances of Lemmy will display different content by design - the users decide the direction of the instance by following communities they are interested in.

But also, we cannot have so many god-damn satellites polluting the night sky. Starlink should never have been allowed to get up there as a private actor in the first place.

It's a tricky situation, as international cooperation would be extremely difficult to maintain, especially during situations like the Ukraine war. But having private companies compete to fill the orbit with space waste as soon as possible is hardly a good solution either.

Yeah, I was being a bit cheeky - I wouldn't step on any jet plane that hasn't had access to official spare parts for a few years.

I just found it amusing F-14s were bought in the mid-70s, which I guess is around the time many would say the quality of American cars also began dropping.

Turns out America's greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.

confused European sounds

I guess the scammers are also in the process of figuring out how to use the Fediverse. Give them time. :)

Information here is public.

That said, there has been problems of people scraping random fediverse servers and causing a lot of traffic, in turn sending a huge bill to the owner of the instance.

We don't have money, so ransom attacks are unlikely.

If it's state actors and cyber warfare, which I think is fair to suspect, we're probably way under the radar. We're not quite critical infrastructure just yet. :)

For the lols attacks could happen anywhere, but this is not that.

I think it's the first time in my life I routinely check in on the stock value of a company, and it's pure Schadenfreude.

While most news media keeps on endlessly reporting on what politicians say, tech and law commentators by definition focus on what is being done. In a world where what is being said is not only irrelevant, but flat-out weaponized, this is the only kind of reporting that matters.

Never gave this much thought. I've been considering subscribing for Kagi again, but basically they are paying for a Google API subscription, meaning that Google directly monetizes my Kagi searches?

To be completely honest, I'm less worried about privacy and more worried about what kind of world I'm contributing to with my internet usage. I Mullvad sends money to Google for every search, it's probably not for me.

Switched to Qwant now - rather Microsoft than Google, and at least they are working on their own engine.

That's @Daojoan@mastodon.social, for those who can follow Mastodon handles. Worth following!

There are several mammoths (instances) peacefully grazing on the same pastures (the social web), but the pastures are also shared with completely different species of animal. Perhaps they are single-user instances as no birds are landing on them; perhaps they are completely different pieces of the social web, such as Peertube or Lemmy.

Or maybe I'm over-thinking it.

There are good replies here already, but I just want to emphasize the role of bragging. It seems boasting about yourself is quite accepted and sometimes perhaps even expected in the US. In Europe it is not at all, and we tend to react strongly to it.

Whenever I've found Americans to be insufferable they've always been bragging or taking themselves too seriously.

Not all Americans obviously. And I guess a lot of Americans can't stand these people either. But it's still a common American trait that very few Europeans will have patience for. Even our narcissists have learned to pretend to be humble.

Fantastic! Thank you for this. :)

I guess it depends on the art style. But generally, if you want to do it the hard way:

1. Get a drawing tablet. The ones where you draw directly on a screen are the best, but they are also way more expensive.
2. Get some powerful software that can imitate brushes. Krita is good.
3. Practice, experiment, watch videos and gather knowledge on both the art style and your software of choice. Copy pieces of art in the style you want to reproduce until you master it.

With an emphasis on the third point. Digital art done manually is not so different from traditional art - it takes practice.

Of course there are also styles you can reproduce using filters in GIMP or whatever. And you can do the above by drawing over pictures you've taken or borrowed for the purpose. It's really a question with an unlimited number of potential answers.

"We protect your children"

Fourteen wording pieces of shit.