It's the same way you know the things outside your window are real. You look at the light coming to you from that object and make inferences as best you can. As long as new observations and inferences line up with old observations and inferences, then you can be reasonably confident that your growing model of the outside world is accurate. When something doesn't add up then you revise your model and keep iterating with new observations.
There's no difference whether the object appears to be within our solar system or far outside it. We see something and we interpret what we can from the available observations. Occasionally, if something is close enough and interesting enough, we send a robot to orbit the thing or maybe land on it and gather better observations, like how Rosetta/Philae visited a passing comet.
This looks like the major driver of the project, IMO. The Sublinks roadmap is full of feature ideas geared toward better moderation, both at the community and instance level.
I was talking with my high school girlfriend about future career ideas and she mentioned one that made me think, "Huh, I never thought about that." So I decided to read about it at the school library during lunch one day.
I can directly tie my college degree, all the places I've lived, most of my friends, half the countries I've traveled to, and meeting my spouse all back to that one moment.
I'm told that I first learned to swear by watching Top Gun with my older siblings. Dad was impressed that I even used the words correctly in context. Mom was not happy at all.
As a kid I couldn't decide whether the F-14 or F-15 was the most fucking awesome thing in existence. I mean, just look at them! Those planes are what sexy feels like before you're old enough to know what sexy even means.
I only know about the league from reading the ESPN article a while back. But what the hell, I may as well pick a team. As of right now I'm a Galgos fan since that's the team whose hometown I have been closest to.
Lemmy instances are in the middle of transitioning to a new version (0.19.x). It's been a bit bumpy. You might notice some changes once this instance upgrades. We've been holding back until we're confident that the new version is stable.
Regular CDs and DVDs are read-only. You cannot change the data on them in normal use.
You "rip" the disc by reading the data off the disc and writing it to some other media.
There are rewritable (CD-RW, DVD-RW) discs available. You can delete the data from these discs, but it's not something you're going to do accidentally.
Usually you have to be a resident for a number of years before being eligible for citizenship. Often the process is faster and easier if you meet minimum income or wealth thresholds, because countries like hosting rich expats.
Yep, there must be lots of uncounted lurkers. If you look at the active user charts at The Federation there was a spike in December when 0.19.0 released. I expect we'll see more spikes as additional instances upgrade to 0.19.
Stating this indicates they will never give you an ounce of trust, nor the benefit of the doubt in any situation.