sj_zero @ sj_zero @lotide.fbxl.net

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I have to find the same thing with linux. You'll be sitting there going "I don't know if I'd be able to use Linux daily" just to realize you're on your Linux PC right now.

With the way things are set up right now, a community is centered on a server. This means that if that server goes down, your community disappears. If someone else creates the same community elsewhere, the community is split. If you're on server A and community is on server B but you're defederates then you can't participate at all, even if person on server C would be ok with you participating.

If the community was a Commons then no single server going down could eliminate the community. Individual servers could have mods for their portion of the community so each local community would have control over what they see and if the local community trusts other local community mods then that could be outsourced. Regardless, servers can get what they want to see -- gaming at exploding-heads and gaming at hexbear could coexist in a superimposed state, and servers that are kosher with both extremes would see everything, servers that are kosher with one extreme or the other would see what they're comfortable with, and servers not comfortable with either extreme could see nothing from either while still having a unified community regardless.

This sort of decentralization is why the broader fediverse works well. Lemmy as it currently operates isn't really decentralized since the majority of the power is aggregated into a limited number of servers who have the popular communities.

There's lots of talk about "web 3" as regarding some crypto nonsense, but I think activitypub is the next step of the web, where different platforms communicate and you can have your home and you reach out to everywhere you want to be, and it's all integrated at your home.

Tbf, depending on the region, that's just how the electricity is made. The fbxl network runs off of electricity generation made up of 86% hydroelectric and biomass, with the balance made up of wind, solar, and natural gas.

As I have repeatedly repeatedly said, with a geography of canada, the entire country could be 100% renewables in a decade or two if there was a real focus on hydroelectric generation that is presently powering entire regions, and it would make people's lives better in the process with plentiful inexpensive hydroelectric we would make electric heat the most competitive and thus would start offsetting burning fossil fuels for building heat which would have a massive impact on carbon emissions since buildings make up 25% of total emissions and most building heat is done with fossil fuels because electricity is too expensive and the costs are rising so people are migrating to fossil fuels even with the carbon tax...

But I digress...

No worries, it was fun trying to figure out a solution to the problem regardless.

Strings and human beings are two things that mix to create really tough problems.

https://www.newsweek.com/crabs-evolved-five-times-carcinization-scientists-dont-know-why-1638921

Its Like crabs. "They keep evolving into this! Why?!?"

The hell, man! You had one job!

Seems like a for statement and a case statement could work.

Detect numargs

For a = 0 to numargs

Get core command on arg a (probably read until you hit an equals sign or a space), trim and lcase

Select Case core command

Case "thing"

Do stuff

Case "--name" Get part after equals and do stuff

Case "-i" Get next arg and increment a

End select

The technical solution I would prefer would be something more like communities set up like hashtags on mastodon. You could set up a community in the way that it's set up now, or you could set up a global community where every individual instance can subscribe to the posts that are marked for a certain topic, and it would be a distributed community where no one instance has all the political power, and if any instance goes down then the rest of the instances just continue on.

You only really own a PC game you bought on gog. Everywhere else you're just renting.

Guess I'll be buying fallout 4 again then.

One more for the Google graveyard. Abandon all hope ye who enter here

I loved watching him type out "yes I understand the thing that I'm about to do is going to break my computer" and then complain that the thing that he did broke his computer!

I love LTT, but Linus has always been a marketing guy first. The whole purpose of the Tech tip videos was to move product, and with the seventeen ads per video it sorta still is.

Honestly, I love me some internet archive but they should probably lose virtually any given case against them.

There's a difference between leaving a job undone and leaving a job in a situation that's going to cause damage. Contractor might leave the water off, they're not going to leave the water on filling up a basement that doesn't have any drainage.

Some men undress you in their heads. Data has a full suite of subposoitronic simulations, he can go all the way however he wants.

I don't know why these platforms think they'll ever take off without even implementing federation. It's 2023!

What if I told you that this is just how the media treats everything, including whatever moral panic whoever is reading this believes in?

Yes, even that one. No, that one's not real either. Yes, I know you saw it on TV.

I think one of the key things we need to be teaching our kids about everything from technology to nature is to think for themselves and apply rigor to make sure that they're not being let down the garden path. In the book I wrote to my son, the first chapter is not about the basics, it's that he should question everything including and especially me.