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Yes, all of that. They move in all kinds of directions and at differend speeds and heights. Some are fixed in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit

Satellites are spaced in height so they don't collide.

Most move somewhat towards east and not in the other direction because rockets use earth's rotation as a speed boost if they can. But there are exceptions to all of that and I'm not an expert.

What I know is there are lots of use-cases. A communications satellite probably wants to be fixed in a geostationary orbit so it stays reachable and you can watch TV all day without moving the dish. Or a satellite needs a low orbit so the latency or your internet or phone connection is low. A weather satellite may use an orbit that is in sync with the sun so it takes pictures everywhere at a fixed time of the day... Other measurements can be done better if a satellite has a high speed compared to the ground it is observing...

I know. I've been watching Lemmy since 2021 so I've been around for quite a while before the Reddit exodus happened. Before that Lemmy was mainly a wasteland. There were a few communities that would connect you with people but the majority of it felt just like talking to yourself. I think all the people coming from Reddit was necessary to lift it beyond a small Linux forum with 100 infrequent visitors. But it definitely was problematic. The state of the project wasn't prepared for that kind of growth. I'm sure a few devs and admins spent their nights handling that instead of getting some sleep... And we only get by as of today. I'm still waiting for bugfixing and new features, but that won't happen before the foundation is in good shape and it seems we have to be patient with that.

I'm a bit split on the version number thing. Sure, you can poke around with your hobby project for 10 years and slowly build something in peace that isn't actively used by anyone... But this approach doesn't deliver the goods. If you want to create something useful and get to a point where it actually provides something for someone, you have to have users, grow with your community at an adequate pace.

And from the user's perspective: We want a platform to communicate. I like this style of discussion and there isn't some other, superior federated alternative around. And I want to do it now, not in 5 years time. So the expectations might clash a bit, here.

I think fighting spam is the job of the instance admins. The developers are indirectly responsible, their job is to provide the tools to fight spam and moderate. I just started to get Spam recently, but I don't watch the All feed, just my subscriptions so I could have missed it. However I saw all the DDoS attacks happening and I was affected by those. Nowadays I have several accounts on different instances, so I'm prepared.

Yeah. I've asked quite some questions in the AMA the developers had a few weeks ago. Seems they have quite something on their plate. I've reported more serious UI bugs last summer/autumn and they're still open along with several other bugs. But I'm not involved in how things get prioritized. However I've heard them say multiple times that all of this is more work than they can do with the manpower available.

Haha, thx for the info. That answers one of the questions I had. I use protonvpn-free for testing and debugging, check if my firewall works and the webservices ban me if I try brute forcing my webservices. But I've nener tried torrenting on that connection.

TL;DR: Snapdragon, good battery, display and cameras. 1000€ in the EU, not released in the USA.

What about https://protonvpn.com/en/free-vpn/

Do they do shady stuff, too? They say:

"[...] the Proton VPN Free plan has the same level of security as our paid plans, including the same strong VPN protocols and strict no-logs policy."

They don't allow BitTorrent on the free plan... But I don't know how that translates to you using BitMagnet, since you're not downloading the torrents.

I think the real reason has nothing to do with federation. It's probably just one of the many UI bugs. You get notifications on reply but cancelling of notifications isn't implemented. That would mean once you open that notification, the post is refreshed (because there could be new comments, someone could have edited or deleted something) and the UI learns it got deleted at this point and the reply vanishes.

There is a bugreport open for it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3816

Yeah, that's a really annoying design choice.

I mean it's somewhat of a meme. But XY-Problems are super common. I also sometimes learned something new and that my approach wasn't the best and I'm kinda experienced with Linux. It's usually more the annoying and stupid people who don't want to explain what they're trying to achieve even if asked and insist on going with the path they've chosen without listening to advice.... On the other hand it's a balance. There are also nerds without social skills who don't explain things well. But in my experience it's frequently XY-Problems and the people asking for advice not listening.

They really aren't. But with Peertube and video platforms, it's a bit different than for example on Mastodon or here. You wouldn't want wo watch a Mastodon's ALL feed. It's just 400 random posts in a row and then one that sparks your interest. And no one wants to scroll through just loads of random, non-interesting stuff.

On Peertube the "All" feed - the one on the main page - needs to be somewhat useful. To deliver quality content and provide you with new videos to watch. Not just some random ramblings mixed with 3h Minecraft videos mixed with political videos that got banned on YouTube mixed with MLP...

And that's why many Peertube admins don't just include all the content out there. It mainly leads to people being annoyed and saying YouTube shows videos they're interested in and Peertube is just random junk.

But they aren't defederated. You can usually access that content, subscribe to those channels and watch all the stuff. It's just not displayed by default.

I think both approaches are useful. Curated content is nice. You can have for example instances for tech-related stuff, some for tinkerers and makers, some for gamers and some for poliyical drama. They form little bubbles and their peer groups gets relevant videos displayed to them. And they're not closed off. You can still subscribe to all the other content you're interested in.

(There are however also instances that subscribe to everything. And there is actual defederation happening. I don't think the Peertube software shows which instances are defederated to the viewers. There are like 4 instances with porn you might block as an admin and several dubious ones with fascist/nazi content and several more ones dedicated to fake news and covid misinformation. These are blocked on many instances, that is true. The drama behind that is easy to explain: Most people don't like fascists and don't want to support them or give them an audience. And the covid-liers came to Peertube after they got banned on YouTube and Facebook and it annoyed people. It was the same 50 videos with misinformation over and over again and shaky videos of people discovering "nano-bots" in the masks (if you ask me, looks eerily similar to black lint and dirt) and after is started to drown out better quality content and got annoying, we gave them the boot and went on with our lives. I don't think it's too much drama. And it's not that many 'bad' instances. I can't say how many instances other admins blocked but back when I tried Peertube I blocked like 40 instances and there was no good content on them anyways. And I don't think you're talking about those in the first place since it's hard to figure out which instances are completely blocked.)

And seems it never has gotten better than that, regarding this apect. Even worse 😮‍💨

Hmmh, but that's only the thing on top. Contrary to other countries, life expectancy seems to be actually going down since 2014... But there is already something seriously wrong since ~1980...

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My Eternity has that feature. If I search for something with the magnifying glass icon, the next screen that opens has 3 tabs: Posts, Communities and Users...

Yeah, there are lots of distributed filesystems and platforms... the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), Freenet, GNUnet, Osiris, ZeroNet, Dat, I2P, Tahoe-LAFS...

Maybe the Web 3.0 gets us there.

Thanks for the suggestion. Of course Netflix doesn't have this 1988 movie... Let me see if I can pirate it... And thanks for teaching me the term "Pax Americana".

The USA is somewhat far away from the wars it is or has been engaged with. I think the situation is a bit different than for other countries. That is also a thing I don't quite get about the USA. Back in the cold war enormous sums of money were invested to fight the USSR. And nowadays Putin wants to revive that and the USA really struggles to represent their interests. I mean the USA isn't tied as closely to eastern europe as for example a central european country where I live is. But there are some economic interests at play and the USA also benefits from a stable eastern europe and Russia/China not wreaking havoc in the world. This time it's not even American soldiers who have to die in that battle. And the USA could advertise for their arms industry and make some profit, too. But all of that is overshadowed by national politics and it seems to cripple politics and working towards mid-term and long-term interests.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. Google says $13.493 per person in 2022. And in Germany it's a bit more than $7.000...

Also things like maternal mortality are WAY worse...

I mean the USA is bigger and maybe things don't translate exactly from a somewhat densely populated central european country to the vast emptiness of rural Wyoming. I guess an hospital is also something that is subject to economy of scale... But even most northern european countries where doctors come in with helicopters, don't exceed the ~$7.000.

It is really off for the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita

(If that is correct, you could spend half the money on healthcare and also live 3 years longer, on average...)

I've asked LLaVA and it says: "There are no giraffes in the image you provided. It is a California driver's license with various pieces of information printed on it, including the licensee's photo, personal details, and vehicle registration information."

So at least that seems to have a concept of giraffe and "no"/"zero".

Shaking my head and glad I'm not living in the US.

A country can decide how to treat people, how to shape the future. I get that nothing is perfect and everything is complicated. But I completely don't get why the US doesn't want to tackle some of the problems. Mainly school shootings, healthcare, social security and a democratic system by today's standards. Maybe the latter is the answer why... And watching documentaries about the rural areas, it seems like the USA is mostly a third world country, except for in the cities.

Good question. Remains completely ambiguous to me. I've tried googling, but despite a good amount of images turning up, not even Google seems to know the answer. I'd say it's a placeholder name for mythical creature. Or a specific feature in something like a LoRa. But since results from all kinds of models turn up, that's probably not it. And I also can't back up the first idea with any facts...

Edit: Found that: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/21/8757 (but the term has been used well before September 2023)

huggingface.co/datasets/gkiwi/sd-prompt/ also uses the word a lot. And the word "arafed"! Maybe araffe is a mis(?)spelling of that?

https://piratediffusion.com/what-does-arafed-mean-in-stable-diffusion-showprompt-and-the-describe-command/ (explanation, but offers no sources to back it up, could be made up)