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- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 8 months ago:
Let’s worry about the inefficiency of SUVs and pickup trucks for transporting one person to work. Compared to that solar panels are a drop in the bucket.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 8 months ago:
But sliced bread has become something else that doesn’t exist with loaves. You can’t buy an unsliced loaf of ultra-processed white bread.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 8 months ago:
2FA is entirely offline. So it’s not really the same service and there’s nothing to breach.
- Comment on Reason I'm Fat #614 11 months ago:
By the way, 1 tablespoon of peanut butter does not weigh 14.79 grams. 1 US tablespoon is a unit of volume that’s equal to 14.79 milliliters(mils). Grams are a unit of mass. In order to convert between them we need the density. Because the metric system is great, the density of water is 1g/mil, so 1 US tablespoon of water weighs exactly 14.79 mils. However the density of peanut butter is a bit higher, so the US tablespoon of peanut butter will weigh a bit more.
Additional pedantry, yes I did have to write US tablespoon every time. A US tablespoon is 14.79mils, a metric tablespoon is 15mils, a traditional Australian tablespoon was 20mils although now they mostly use metric tablespoons.
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 1 year ago:
I haven’t had any issues with Nextcloud yet. But any torrent client refuses to work. I’ve tried various qbittorrent containers, transmission, deluge briefly, they all work for a while but eventual refuse to do anything.
- Comment on xkcd 2861: X Value 1 year ago:
Statistically, 100% of large numbers are irrational so we should assume that it is
- Comment on Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon 1 year ago:
The same thing is true here. A novice shouldn’t be hosting their own instance, heck a experienced user shouldn’t host their own instance unless they want a hobby.
- Comment on Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon 1 year ago:
Because it matters to the end user that all the instances are cross compatible, that’s the federated part. When I first heard of Lemmy and Mastadon as “self hosted social media”, I assumed that all the instances were isolated, and dismissed it as pointless. Once I learned what federation was, possibly through the email analogy, I was instantly onboard.
We’re not at a stage where you can make full use of these platforms without having a basic understanding of how they work. A disinterested idiot is going to go " WTF is an instance, why is [whatever instance they landed on] so empty" and give up. The email analogy is useful for the interested skeptic and they’re the people that are most likely to stick around.
In this thread the email analogy has been criticized for being not technically accurate enough and too technically accurate. That tells me it’s about right.
- Comment on Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon 1 year ago:
Maybe I’m optimistic here, but I feel like most users of email and Facebook understand that you can send email from Gmail to Outlook and that those are different services, but you can’t send a Facebook(message? story? idk I don’t use Facebook) to a Twitter user.
I can’t think of a better way to explain that activitypub is an open and cross-compatible protocol. The only other big cross-compatible protocol is the web(HTML etc), but that’s hopeless, half of people don’t seem to understand what a browser is.
- Comment on Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon 1 year ago:
Email is the only federated social platform that every normal person is familiar with. It doesn’t matter that the technical specifications are completely different. The metaphor goes as far as “in the fediverse anyone signed up with any instance can communicate with anyone on any other instance, like email”. For that purpose, it’s a good metaphor.
- Comment on Who wouldn't want to finance warm cardboard? 1 year ago:
They meant Citizens United v. FEC, a supreme court case that allowed much more election advertising.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No it burns pretty easily too. I wouldn’t recommend trying it though, if you inhale too much of the smoke you might end up looking like this “woman”.
- Comment on I've lately been making my git commit messages with AI 1 year ago:
If it’s faster to get an AI to write your commit messages than to write them yourself, your commit messages are too long. They should be one sentence.
- Comment on An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification ... 1 year ago:
Corporate welfare is a problem in all capitalist countries
- Comment on A few Questions about reverse proxies and running your own Jellyfin server 1 year ago:
There’s a nice explanation of how caddy reverse proxies work here. caddy.community/t/…/9427
Essentially you setup your router to port forward any new incoming connections to Caddy, which then decides what to do with them according to the configuration (Caddyfile).
Even simpler: Your local network is like a castle, inside is a safe and secure place where your devices communicate freely. Your router is a firewall around the castle, by default it blocks incoming connections. This is good because the internet is scary. By port forwarding you allow a door in the firewall which leads to Caddy, which is like a guard. Caddy asks them what they want, and if they say e.g. jellyfin.example.com, then it sets up an encrypted connection with https to your local jellyfin server. If they want anything else they aren’t allowed in.
- Comment on anyone willing to walk a noob through getting some services running? 1 year ago:
I guess so. Your question was
Would anyone be interested in something like that?
Which most of us have answered with a clear “no”. So I guess we’re done here.
- Comment on anyone willing to walk a noob through getting some services running? 1 year ago:
If you’re confused about a specific term, ask about that specific term, and you’ll get many people eager to help. Sorry nobody wants to get on an open ended video call with a stranger to teach you how to run a server, but that’s just how these forums work. Everyone’s setup is different so there’s not much I could do to help in your video call.
Learning this stuff is hard, don’t let anyone tell you any different. We all went through the same struggles, perhaps for some people that was so long ago that they forgot how hard it was.
- Comment on xkcd #2842: Inspiraling Roundabout 1 year ago:
You shouldn’t have to lane shift in roundabouts. On a well designed multi lane roundabout you choose your lane before you get there and simply follow it to the exit. The only reason to change lanes is if you screwed up.
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
That’s an arbitrary line too though. Insects experience some form of emotion, but it appears not as complex as a mammal. If you’re going to define value of life by (estimated)complexity of experience, then we’re both agreed on a similar heirachy with humans at the top.
My point is that there’s nuance. Everyone has their own opinion and none of us are right or wrong.
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
You don’t axiomatically presuppose human supremacy? I don’t understand how that moral position works, and I want to hear more.
In general, we empathize more with creatures that are more similar to ourselves, and creatures that are cute. Given that, human supremacy follows logically for me. Humans are top of the heirachy, followed by similar mammals, then birds, then fish, then insects. It’s sad that’s there’s a heirachy, but the alternative is considering the life of an insect equal in value to the life of a human. I think that’s a less moral position, but it would also drive you insane because we murder so many insects in our lives.
I don’t believe it’s possible to have a consistent and non-hypocrytical ethical system, and if it was that wouldn’t be desirable. Every meat eater I’ve ever met agrees that agriculture kinda sucks, but they have other priorities.
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
But you do exploit humans. The food you eat, the clothes you wear, actually pretty much everything you use was made with exploitation. The fact you can choose to go vegan and complain about it on the internet means you are incredibly privledged. As am I.
You talk about rational discussion but all I’m seeing from you is the opposite, “all meat eaters are evil”.
The world is complicated and there’s a lot of things wrong with it. You chose one problem to focus on, and that’s great. But just because other people have other things that they prioritize doesn’t mean they are bad people.
- Comment on They are watching 1 year ago:
Nope, you’re just wrong. Quantum mechanics without complex numbers(real quantum theory) is less predictive than complex(regular) quantum theory. scientificamerican.com/…/quantum-physics-falls-ap…
- Comment on They are watching 1 year ago:
Quantum mechanics, as far as we know, requires imaginary numbers.
- Comment on When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, thean have a look at the Lemmy.world status 1 year ago:
Each instance is it’s own server, then it has many communities which are created by users. Ideally we spread the communities across instances, but unfortunately most of the big communities are clustered on the big instances, because finding communities on small instances is hard.
- Comment on Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. 1 year ago:
Yes
- Comment on I wonder where police cars get their gasoline from? 1 year ago:
Surely a public entity would be exempt from taxes, no?
- Comment on I can't code. 1 year ago:
They aren’t talking about a programming language, just the graphical tools in the programs you already have.
If you are interested in simple automation for your computer, learn python. If you are interested in simple automation in a browser, learn JavaScript.