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The whole point of federation and open protocols is that you aren't tied to any specific piece of software, or any single provider, or any single set of features. People can experiment and innovate and collaborate and expand to build new things on top without losing access or interfering with people who prefer the old methods. People or software that abuses the system on the other hand, can be blocked or defederated.

A healthy software ecosystem should have many different pieces of software all written by different people with different goals, but all implementing most of the same things. Some will be more popular than others, and the popular ones might not agree with your own personal tastes, but that's just life. The point is that we (and software developers) all have the freedom to choose how we interact with this system without any formal rules or maintainer group deciding what is allowed and what isn't (except within their own software and/or instance).

and they will be cross compatible enough that it won’t be much of a deal what project is running underneath?

They are already cross-compatible enough, they are as cross-compatible as they need to be. It's not clear what more you could ask for. If you want them to all look and work exactly the same then what's the point of having different software at all? You're acting like the different features and choices are a downside when it is in fact a benefit. Pick the one you like the most and use it. If you like Piefed's hashtags, then use Piefed, it's great! There's nothing "locked away" in Piefed, everything in it is available to everybody, as it should be!

That's the fun part. No due process means no answers to those questions or any other details are needed anymore. Detention is now arbitrary, deportation is arbitrary, and crime is arbitrary. If you're not either appalled or terrified or both, you're not paying attention.

Really nice that they're doing a sunset period with advance warning instead of just randomly going dark. As Lemmy's first major "shutdown" we need to accept that this sort of thing seems inevitable from time to time, maybe this can set an example and open a conversation on how to handle this sort of situation in the future. I'd hope this creates some pressure to Fediverse developers to improve portability for users (and communities!) moving between instances, maybe even some kind of immigration/emigration mode for people or communities who want to apply to transfer their account and history rather than simply sign up a new account while posting a link from their old account. Federation should be able to do better than that.

Well those are definitely some thread titles I'll never be able to unsee. Fucking hell. Going to bleach my eyes now brb.

The only ways to have peace with a tyrant that denies your right to exist, are to surrender, or to soundly and overwhelmingly beat them. Anything else is just going to prolong the conflict and the suffering.

We did this with Nazi Germany, then we did it with Imperial Japan too, if we have to do it again with Soviet Russia it's only because we didn't do it thoroughly enough in 1991, because we keep trying to imagine there's a nicer, easier, smarter, gentler way to do it using economics and politics maneuvering, by being patient and subtle and sneaky. There isn't, it just delays the inevitable conflict while giving your enemies more time to prepare. Regimes like Putin's do not acknowledge anything other than force, and anything less than force is a weakness to take advantage of, which they inevitably do.

We need to stop acting like oppression, despotism and dictatorship are valid ideologies and forms of government. They are not. We cannot tolerate them because they are simply intolerable. They are a violation of basic, fundamental human rights, they are not merely an "alternative to democracy" or "countries going their own way". We must fight them not because we are trying to be the "world police", nor because we alone are responsible for making the world a better place. We must fight them because it is absolutely required for self-preservation, because they deny and make a mockery of the very existence of the human rights and dignity that we consider non-negotiable, including our own. We are obligated to fight them not because of treaties and organizations like the UN or some international laws, those are all things we developed to codify the fact that we are obligated to fight them because it is in our own self interest and our own survival depends on it. Making the world a better place for everyone in the end is just a side benefit.

You are conflating a bunch of different things here and it's hard to tell exactly what you're even asking. HTML is completely separate from Javascript and CSS. Together, they are web technologies and typically all three are used to display a webpage, but only HTML is actually required. The others provide additional functions, each in their own way.

More to your point. HTML is not a programming language. It is not turing-complete. It is a markup language. It does not get "compiled", it gets "rendered". This may seem like a semantic difference, but these are actually different things and they are handled differently by code and in fact by completely different engines within the code. HTML rendering engines are still very complex beasts, and while you can draw some similarities with a compiler, they are not the same thing.

Most web standards are defined by the W3C, that includes HTML and CSS. But there are many different standards, even ones defined by the W3C, and many versions of those standards as well. All of these are handled by the browser's rendering engine. However, there's also a lot of bad code in the world that still needs to be rendered correctly, and you might be surprised how recently some of these standards actually developed. The browser wars have flared up many times and each time "standards" were usually the casualty. Mozilla has this brief explainer of the three different "quirks" modes currently used for compatibility on the modern web.

Javascript engines are their own whole different ballgame, as Javascript/ECMAscript is indeed a turing complete programming lanaguage, and all the big players (V8, Spidermonkey/Warpmonkey) are highly sophisticated JIT compilers with multiple layers of on-the-fly optimization. The deeper technical details are frankly beyond me.

Modern web browsers are as complex, feature-rich environments as any traditional operating system, and they have as many different aspects to them as any complete operating system does. They are not "one engine" or "one compiler" or "one standard" as much as they are an ecosystem of engines, compilers, standards, protocols and libraries all working together while remaining compatible with each other and all the other software that is out there, to ultimately present the user with a coherent, consistent and accessible representation that hides most of the immense complexity of what is going on behind the scenes.

There was literally a commit only a few hours ago and there doesn't seem to be any announcement about it being archived or abandoned. I feel like this has to be either a mistake or some disgruntled ownership drama but I think it's pretty fair to assume it's not abandoned, however this shakes out there will still be people working on it or some fork of it.

It's my "opinion" that a device running a slightly modified Linux 2.6 kernel is literally running Linux, yes. Maybe you're making the point that it's not a full GNU/Linux distribution that most people imagine when they hear Linux, and that's a valid and valuable clarification which I thank you for providing, but you don't need to imply I'm wrong to provide that clarification.

Kobos are pretty nice. They're not cheap, as you pointed out, but you can get an older or used one for quite a bit cheaper and it's just as good. They run Linux. It's almost completely open, and anything that isn't might as well be. That said you really don't need to open it up much, just enough to install something like koreader which basically completely replaces the OS on the thing. It does everything I would ever want to use my ereader for ... granted that's pretty much just "read ebooks".

It is not new. I downloaded (copyrighted) porn movies from my ISP's own Usenet servers in the early 90s. On dialup. It was a decentralized, federated service before anybody even knew what decentralization or federation even meant or why they would want it. It was just assumed that everyone would want to run their own Usenet servers because the technologies of the time didn't allow direct, continuous, real-time connection between everybody. Sharing was expensive but running a Usenet server was relatively cheap and was a good way to share all that data to all of an ISP's users at once. It was ALWAYS an option to use it for piracy, and people did.

Nowadays, sharing is cheap, and running Usenet servers is expensive, so almost nobody runs their own Usenet servers, especially not ISPs. But that's not the technology's fault, it's just the way the world has changed. The internet is a very different place now, and we use it in different ways. Usenet, on the other hand, has not changed at all. Only the people using it have changed.

Deeds, not words.

The good news is, we have already come up with so many interesting ways to almost perfectly self-exterminate, precisely because we can't constructively coexist. We are the problem, and the problem solves itself! ... for the rest of the universe, anyway. This also probably conveniently answers the Fermi paradox, presuming that we have indeed reached one of the great filters and may be about to find out that our species won't get to pass it due to our persistent inability to peacefully coexist.

The US is not really a functioning democracy right now so it's kind of a crapshoot to be discussing what they do now, however if you're interested more in the idea of what they're supposed to do, they propose and vote on new legislation, same as the members of the house of representatives. Generally, bills can be proposed by either group, and both bodies must pass the bill for it to reach the president to be signed into law.

What makes the two different is that the senate is intentionally much smaller, and all states are equally represented (2 senators each), unlike the house which is proportionally represented with more populous states having far greater numbers of representatives and thus votes. The senate also changes members less frequently with senators being elected for 6 year terms compared to the president's 4 years and the representatives at 2 years. The idea for the senate is for it to be responsible for considering longer term effects of proposed legislation, as well as to consider and propose legislation on issues that affect the whole nation equally including the smaller states that have less of a voice in the house of representatives. In theory, it's a very thoughtful and well-balanced system. The reality is... well, we can all see what's happened to it.

The internet remembers forever. Literally. The more you want something gone, the more tenaciously the internet will preserve it and treasure it and amplify it.

You can absolutely create a new fake profile. You can create lots, an endless amount of them. That's trivial. AIs are doing that all the time, some people legitimately believe most of the internet nowadays is just bots with fake profiles arguing with other bots with equally fake profiles. And it's plausible they could be at least a little more right than most people would imagine. See the dead internet theory

But trying to have something removed from the internet is like asking your family to stop telling that embarrassing story at every gathering. All it does is let everyone know there's an embarrassing story, and intrigues everybody to find out what it is. And they won't stop until they do. See also the Streisand Effect.

So far, this seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks so much!

I don’t want to have to dig through 100 communities all spread out to find things.

So don't. Hang out on Lemmy.world. You'll be fine here. It's as centralized as you can get. All you're really asking for is to deny others the ability to choose or run their own instance and still be able to talk to you, like I'm doing right now.

So many bridges in Western Russia in need of collapse. I'm ready for the Kerch Bridge On Fire song again, let's go!

Will there be any tariffs on bees that illegally cross the border, or will we have to deport them to El Salvador?

Federation alone would give a lot of utility. The whole point is not to be a walled garden of discrete silos. If I can post on Lemmy from Mastodon, why shouldn't I be able to post a comment on a model?

If a government raises taxes for something so that working class people cannot buy it, that government becomes richer by exploiting the working class.

Governments don't become "rich", and if they do, that either signals unchecked corruption, or a government that is investing wisely in the nation's present and future, depending on where the money is going. This may seem contradictory, but the reality is, you need a much deeper and broader understanding of your government's finances and economic plan before the accusations you're making will hold any weight. This is not something that can be reasoned about in the abstract and addressed with news-bite talking points. It a hugely complex situation and people spend lifetimes studying this.

A government that is genuinely exploiting the working class should be replaced by the working class with a government that supports and protects the working class. If you do not have the power to choose your government, then you need to figure that out how to organize the working class and acquire that power first, otherwise you're wasting your time trying to change a government you have no control over, and that's not going to work and it's never going to support and protect you.

CO2 makes up a miniscule amount of our atmosphere.

This is accurate.

In the past there have been ice ages while the atmospheric CO2 level was 10 times higher than it is now.

This is misleading disinformation

The notion that eating insects will save the world seems a little dubious.

This is accurate.