ramble81 @ ramble81 @lemmy.world

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Yeah Sync hasn't gone done yet, it's been the instance which lately is lemmy.world being the target of DDoS attacks. When that happens I switch to an alternate account and things are running fine again, so it's not Sync related.

Hear me out on this one...

Trump signs the pledge. Since the RNC is a private body they can technically choose anyone they want and choose someone not Trump. Trump sues them bringing the question of the RNC/DNC into play. Trump further runs independent causing the RNC to sue him to keep him off the ballots (again also putting the RNC/DNC into question). While things work their way in the courts, Republicans have a split ticket problem.

That's a problem when you have one group trying to do what is remotely morally right and another who doesn't care and wants to "win" at any cost.

Stop trying to throw statistics into sensational headlines!

You went Tiananmen Square on it.

The ship of "Lemmy must be entirely FOSS" has sailed. You can either invest time or money and even then there are some tradeoffs of things that can't be swapped out. Datadog and Cloudflare are two of those such things.

Lemmy (including lemmy.world) are at a critical junction to continue to grow or lose momentum. These DDOSs are one such thing that caused it and everyone going "FOSS, FOSS, FOSS!" are another. If they have time in the future there may be a possibility, but when playing the growth game sometimes you have to go with the best tool available even if it doesn't meet your ideals.

Sync for Reddit is another such tool. I've seen so much hate for it because it's not pure FOSS, pay no mind to the sheer number of people that have downloaded it, are using it and have helped drive traffic to Lemmy and the Fediverse in general.

Nothing is stopping you from using a fully FOSS front end with your own server, that's the beauty of the Fediverse, you can choose what you want and still interact with others, but don't get on their case when they select something you don't like.

Trying to be glib that most technological products are made from silicon, which generally can come from sand.

Yeah to add to that it is pronounced more like "Mass-tah-don" rather than "Mass-toe-don". The "tah" portion makes people think it's spelled with a "ta" since that would give you that pronunciation normally instead of "to". One of the many insane quirks of the English language stealing from other languages over the centuries.

Sees the word "critical" in a command, doesn't think to look up what might just be "critical" about the command....

Is this really any different from Spectre and other types of attacks? Except those targeted predictive execution.

Nation favors local incumbent, news at 11....

But, but, it's contributing to the entropy of the universe!

Gives new meaning to "sliding in to your DMs"

Control is another thing. I can't tell you the amount of execs I've heard say "they're losing control of their company" or "I don't feel I have the same control over my people". It's crazy that they think that. What do they think the past 3 years have been when they've gotten record profits "oh, but our profits would be even better if we had people back in the office". Sadly no amount of data will override the entrepreneurial "it could always be more" what if that they throw out.

Keep going back much, much further. I remember hearing that phrase back in the early 2000s, and wouldn't doubt it if if was referenced as early as 1999.

Steve Buscemi

10-15? That's childs play. I honestly read probably an order of magnitude more than that.

Ironically Sync can block entire instances.

I live dangerously. I have it set to show NSFW and to not blur it in my feed. Give me all of Lemmy unfiltered.

MHz refers to the samples per second, not the pitch. CD audio for example is 16-bit/44.1kHz. What that means is there are 16-bits of sampling (audio) taken 44,100 times per second. DSD on the other hand is 1-bit samples taken 11.2 million times per second, this is referred to as DSD256. What that translates to is a digital wave that looks a lot closer to an analog wave than a CD does. It has nothing to do with the frequency of listening in this case.

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