xantoxis @ xantoxis @lemmy.world

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Except if you leave it solely to the readers of the comment, the communications platform is still flooded by racists and bigots of all stripes. Sure, a lot of their comments are downvoted, but by giving them a platform you're giving them a way to degrade the quality of the platform they're on, drive away reasonable users and eventually take over and shit up the place unrestricted. Just like the nazi bar story.

Downvotes are nowhere near as effective as moderation when it comes to keeping hate off of a platform. Sorry if you posted something in good faith and moderation censored you, but that doesn't make moderation as a concept wrong.

(Also, I kind of agree with you that there should be more signals available to moderators than just "does this comment mention race negatively". However, I'm not sure you want reddit scoring what kind of person you are and attaching that score to every moderation action.)

Good suggestion! I intend to mess with finamp and symfonium. I had no idea jellyfin was so popular as a music backend so I'll just keep using that.

Yeah, I'll probably just buy a few more albums than I used to. Streaming payments has always been a way to wring dollars out of artists, so I'd rather find other ways anyhow.

Gluetun is kind of a wrapper around wireguard or openvpn, that greatly simplifies setup and configurability.

I have a VM that runs wireguard to airvpn, in a container made of gluetun. Then you share that container's network with a qbittorrent container (or pick your torrent) and an nzbget container (or pick your nzb downloader). Tada, your downloaders are VPN'd forever.

Thanks! Yeah, figuring out how to get gluetun working properly with a vpn and downloaders was a chore and a half. Glad I got that sorted, now I feel pretty confident I can punch a mobile app through into the network pretty easily.

Why do the photos associated with Henry's Dumpster Rental contain none (zero (0)) dumpsters?

Oh, so, keep doing it? Even harder? Gotcha.

Man I wish our politicians had as much tech savvy as these ancient COBOL programmers.

Well, I guess they will, once these folks retire and start running for president.

nfn but it's important to point out that the concept of "gold star" lesbians, and actual specific lesbians, are very much connected to the terf movement. Most lesbians have always been on board with trans folk, of course, and even some of the ones who kicked off terf bullshit have since realized that they actually helped create a fascist movement that hurts them too. But that history is there, if you look.

Probably his carpentry skills, man really knew how to build a cabin.

As always, mask up

Or hallucinogenic? Although if there were an easy-to-forage hallucinogen that looked like celery I'm pretty sure I'd know about it.

I do regard them with terror, but this isn't the reason why.

Indeed and--interesting corrollary--if we accept the concept of reduced accuracy simulations as axiomatic, then it might be possible to figure out how close we are to the "bottom" of the simulation stack that's theoretically possible. There's only so many orders of magnitude after all; at some point you're only simulating one pixel wiggling around and that's not interesting enough to keep going down.

There is not, as far as I know, any way to estimate the length of the stack in the other direction, though.

Pretty sure this guy's vibe is completely under the domain of Anger

But if the real world sets up a simulated world which more or less perfectly simulates itself

This is the crux of the logical error you made. It's a common error, but it's important to recognize here.

If we're in a simulation, we have no idea the available resources in the simulation "above" us. Suppose energy density up there is 100x as high as ours?Suppose the subjective experience of the passage of time up there is 100x faster than ours?

Another thing is that we have no idea how long it takes to render each frame of our simulation. Could take a million years. As long as it keeps running though, and as long as the simulation above us is patient, we keep ticking. This is also where the subjective experience of time matters. If it takes a million years, but their subjective "day" is a trillion years long, it becomes feasible to run us for a while.

And, finally, there's no reason to assume we're a complete simulation of anything. Perhaps the simulation was instantiated beginning with this morning--but including all memories and documentation of our "historical" past. All that past, all that experience is also fake, but we'd never know that because it's real to us. In this scenario, the simulation above us only has to simulate one day. Or maybe even just the experiences of one PERSON for one day. Or one minute. Who knows?

The main point is we don't know what's happening in the simulation above ours, if it exists, but there's no reason to assume it's similar to ours in any way.

We're basically already at population plateau. Maybe a billion or so more to go. It could trend up beyond that, but not without radical social changes around the world.

https://www.oglaf.com/labyrinth/

As an expert in technology all I ever see when I'm walking around places with technology is how fucking terrible it all is. It's never wonderful.

Right, the distinction I'm making is this isn't just "normalized" but actually the correct spelling. As in, if a newspaper editor saw it written as "drive-through" they would be obliged to correct it.