cerevant @ cerevant @lemmy.world

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Well, LED lights are half-wave rectifiers that light up, so you wouldn’t add one. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a half wave rectifier referred to as a bridge rectifier.

A bridge rectifier flips the negative current to positive, so instead of a sine wave you get a series of humps. Then a capacitor acts as a battery like you describe to smooth out the dip between humps.

If it won’t work in a docker container, I need a real server anyway.

That’s kind of my point - if he can turn something positive out of a no win situation, then he might have the charisma to stand up to the gop.

My LED burn outs were almost certainly defective, not normal wear.

Also, cheap ones run directly on AC, so they flicker at 60 Hz (50 in Europe) because the current is only flowing for half the cycle.

I’m not a big Newsom fan - I have a grudge against him for some of his decisions as governor- but if he pulls this off looking good, I will definitely be impressed.

I used to use the chart from AdFontes - I preferred its granularity, but they have gone to a login wall. I don’t need more accounts and tracking.

The first thought that came to my mind was internal solid state power storage (good for an hour or so, but will outlive the rest of the phone) with an external MagSafe battery. Call it MC, but that’s definitely a more Apple UX than disassembling your water resistant phone.

The most amazing thing to me - I’ve been using leds for 10+ years, and I think I’ve had to replace one or two of them. It is a wonder that prices can come down with demand dwindling so much.

That’s my point. The AI isn’t an independent subject to be criticized, it is a cultural mirror.

I almost listed CBC, but most USians would consider CBC to have a liberal bias. Then again, many USians think math has a liberal bias.

Do you want information or rage bait?

For information, go to AP and Reuters. Maybe the BBC. That’s what’s left. Everything else is “entertainment “.

The bias isn’t in the software, it is in the data. The stock photos of professional women that were fed in were white.

That doesn’t say anything about the AI, but rather the community that created those biases.

“91% of Fox viewers conditioned to never say anything bad about someone with a R next to their name, regardless of what they actually believe”

FTFY

Good call. I was recruited by a NASA adjacent company, and I turned them down flat because they are based in Jesusland.

Federation is the future of social media for exactly this reason, especially in the twitter-like realm where who is saying it is as (or more) important than what is being said. These people and organizations need to control their brand outside the scope of commercial pressure from the platform.

I think what you are seeing is a small number of users making a large number of posts to certain communities in a short time. Lemmy isn’t large enough to have an organic flow of content from different people, given that most users are lurkers.

Not in All. The traffic in all is proportional to the number of subscribed communities of an instance, which is roughly proportional to the number of users.

Users concentrating on large servers benefits all the servers where content lives by reducing the number of connections they have to make to update data. Large user servers also act as a cache for the content, reducing storage duplication. Finally, large user servers improve the UX for the Fediverse’s biggest weakness: figuring out how to get your instance to talk to a community on another instance.

Meanwhile, the current situation is helping the developers refactor the software to scale to actual large user bases - the tens of thousands of users on Lemmy.world do not constitute a “large” user base by any internet-scale metric. It also concentrates the DDOS jerks on a target with the skills and resources to fight back. Finally, small servers going offline are a substantial burden on the instances that remain.

Big, robust, secure instances for users, smaller distributed instances with limited direct access for communities. That’s the real practical architecture for Lemmy.