krayj @ krayj @lemmy.world

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Go look up "28-week baby" on google images and get back to me about your bullshit.

For those who did not read the article:

She was 28 weeks (6.5 months) pregnant. The survival rate for babies born at at 28 weeks is 80%. ( source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117667/ ). This wasn't a fetus, this was a fully formed baby.

I fully support right to choose, but this wasn't abortion...it was murder followed by coverup. Everyone getting riled up over the social justice of this has plenty of things to be riled up over these days, but this isn't one of those things.

I keep half a dozen of my own chickens in my backyard...which means about half my daily protein intake comes from eggs (which is a great source, btw). And my chickens free-range in my backyard and largely take care of and feed themselves (supplemented with chicken feed but they get most of their daily intake from the bugs/plants in the yard). I still do eat meat almost daily, but the quantities are a lot less than what I was doing a decade ago, and beef is less than a once-a-week thing for me. Like you, I'm trying to get back in shape and watching macronutrients (like protein) very carefully and trying to hit certain daily minimum numbers.

This crucially important caveat they snuck in there:

"Prof Scarborough said: “Cherry-picking data on high-impact, plant-based food or low-impact meat can obscure the clear relationship between animal-based foods and the environment."

...which is an interesting way of saying that lines get blurry depending on the type of meat diet people had and/or the quantity vs the type of plant-based diet people had.

Takeaway from the article shouldn't be meat=bad and vegan=good - the takeaway should be that meat can be an environmentally responsible part of a reasonable diet if done right and that it's also possible for vegan diets to be more environmentally irresponsible.

Did you create the attached photo? If so, then I disagree with most of your labeling...and call some of it into question as outright denial of reality.

The world cannot be all puppies and unicorns. But, if that's what you need it to be, there are communities that will serve that purpose and all you need to do is subscribe to those and only browse subscribed.

Do you normally browse all? I just browse subscribed - and this isn't a problem for me. "All" is a measure of what's popular, and porn is popular.

At least it would be pretty easy to test out.

I recommend the android client "Liftoff" because of the amazingly useful "nerd stuff" menu item for posts. After actioning on "nerd stuff" for a post, choose "tap to show" post details and you can see the under-the-hood nsfw flag setting for that specific post.

It seems that you believe that just because Lemmy is federated

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that because federation is a two-way street and can ben enabled or disabled between any two instances, it will always be possible to have instances that are unaffected by threads. Certainly, some instances will choose not to federate with threads - and so there will always be the possibility to join a community (or create one) that shuts itself off from that influence. Take beehaw.org for example - they didn't like the influence lemmy.world had on their community so they defederated. They are no longer influenced by lemmy.world. The point I am trying to make is that because of that fact (that possibility), there is no reason at all to desire to limit the total scope (userbase) of all of lemmy. If you want a private/closed community, then make one or join one - you don't need to suppress everyone just to achieve your own personal goals for a community.

You are young it sounds like.

No. But it's humorous to me that you immediately go there for anyone who disagrees with your take. I'm >5 decades.

If Lemmy becomes that size, all good things about it goes away, and we get ads and corporations moving in to profit from it. That turns the entire thing into the same shit as everything else.

Sounds like massive speculation. Especially for an open platform system that anyone can self-host. If you don't like ads or paying for service, light up your own instance and self host. That is, by definition, why lemmy works the way lemmy works. I hate to accuse you of making shit up, but you are making shit up.

It happens over and over and over again in tech. It’s a pattern that all older people knows about because we have lived it.

I've probably lived through more of this than you have. I've made my career in the tech industry and have been at it since 1991. Again, you keep trying to imply that you somehow have more experience or more time in industry just because I disagree with you. That's awfully pretentious.

So I hope Lemmy stays small. Bigger than now, sure, but not big enough to attract corporations.

That's elitist. And it's self-defeating. Sounds like you'd be happy just joining a few email list servers...because you aren't going to get any more value than that out of the self-inflicted handicap of keeping community sizes tiny.

You seem to have equated what you think is superior age and experience with superior wisdom. You're wrong on multiple counts and committing numerous logical fallacies while you're at it. Larger platforms are more successful because they have the community sizes needed to make even niche topics relatively engaging. There's a critical mass of users needed to make that happen. Lemmy is a few orders of magnitude too small for that yet, but that's what it will take to be a viable alternative. I'm not suggesting that Lemmy should get so big that it causes places like Reddit to disappear...just that it gets big enough to be a viable alternative. If it's not big enough to be a viable alternative, then what's the point? To just be an elitist circle jerk for for a few people discussing a few popular topics somewhere outside the mainstream so they can think they are some kind of techno-hipsters? What a waste.

I have run across two or three instances of federated content from LemmyNSFW not correctly showing up as being tagged nsfw when viewed from Lemmy.world. The one time I actually did some investigation, I found the post was correctly tagged as nsfw when browsing LemmyNSFW directly.

My assumption was that the post might have been created without the tag, but was edited to include the tag later, but that the edit may not have replicated across federation. Maybe if no other content is changed it doesn't correctly populate the edited tag? Just a guess.

That's very insightful. I still don't think that qualifies as being 'public', but given a malicious instance operator they could be exposed if that post is accurate.

I'm imagining the tv from Idiocracy.

The bigger a social platform gets, the more synergy it spawns. That's what adds utility to a social platform.

I don't think anyone here wants it to be 'the next big thing', but I do think a lot of people (myself included) want to see it become 'one of the next big things'. As in...we want it to become big enough to be a viable alternative to the proprietary walled-garden corporate establishments that have become the current standard.

More choice = better, and for as long as this platform remains small and elitist (referring back to your 3rd sentence), it will never truly be a viable choice. There's still a lot of engagement I'm required to use Reddit for - and I hate that - and the only reason for it is we just don't have the community size needed (yes, it's getting closer every day) to be that viable alternative.

It's really moot anyway, imo. Because of the vastness of the universe, the distances involved, and the timeframes involved for traveling those distances and that vastness, the rest of the universe could be teeming with alien life and we'll likely never know it. Not in our lifetimes.

That doesn't mean they get to see how all users from all other federated instances are voting on things...server admins only get to see how their own local users are voting, and this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone - those votes would obviously have to be stored in a local database somewhere and it's a foregone conclusion that server admins would have access to any data stored on the servers they administer.

When someone says "votes are public" that kind of implies 'publicly visible'...and they clearly are not. It'd be like making the claim that your private text messages you send to your friends and family 'are public' because the administrators working for your cell phone carrier could access them if they wanted/needed to.

saves your battery

Maybe, maybe not. For OLED screens, where the pixels themselves generate the brightness, then an overall darker image will save power. For LCD screens with backlights it's the opposite: the backlight is always on and the lowest power state of an individual pixel is to let the light pass through unmodified - the part that costs power is turning the pixel 9n so that it blocks the light to make a black dot. So, your statement isn't true for all (or even most) devices.

Next: I find bright text on a black background to be hardest and most jarring to my vision. Humans have been reading black text on a light medium for millennia; it is natural. Light mode, for me, is easier to read and least tedious for my eyeballs.

I also just think that a light mode look is more polished looking...cleaner.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools have come a LONG way in the past decade and are now very good at thoroughly locking down both iOS and Android devices. Any enterprise wanting to ensure the absolute security of their mobile devices can do so with ease.

At least when it comes to Windows, Administrators have greater control over client machines and can put in restrictions.

This hasn't been true for about 10 years...at least not in the enterprise. Administrators can enforce the same or greater control over client mobile devices using modern Mobile Device Management tools.

How would someone handling infosec in an organization control security on people’s personal phones?

If you take infosec seriously, you aren't going to let your users have access to any corporate data or systems (and that includes email) using their personal devices. If you must, as a compromise, you'll restrict that access only to users of iOS or Samsung devices supporting Knox work profile, and then you'll enable the remote features necessary to monitor and/or wipe everything associated with the work profile in the event the device is lost/stolen or the employee leaves.

When you search 'all' communities on your local instance, the search results are a combination of local communities as well as communities on federated instances that other users of your local instance have subscribed to. But, there might be communities on other instances that have no local subscribers, and therefore would never show up in search results.

Your options would be to use some kind of multi-instance community search tool like lemmyverse.net or, if you happen to know the name of the instance you are wanting to search on, you can just open a web browser, navigate to that instance, you don't even need to create a login there, and then search through their local communities.

It would be an inconceivably-massive statistical anomaly if they didn't. But I think a better question is will we ever make contact, and I think the answer to that is that it's inconceivably improbable.

Twitter was tanking before threads came along. All meta did was read the writing on the wall and release threads on the world with exceptional timing.