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- Comment on Have you practiced your "war face" recently? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on New social experiment 4 weeks ago:
NOT_PORN_NO_PEEKING/
- Comment on New social experiment 4 weeks ago:
tux/
- Comment on Midwest wins funding for a new hydrogen hub. Not everyone is convinced it's 'clean.' 1 month ago:
I generally view hydrogen as fossil fuels’ last gasp at relevance. It might be useful in some very specific cases, but mostly it just doesn’t make sense. It leaks through metal and is way more complex and finicky than wind/solar/battery. Let’s invest heavily in advancing battery tech and then we’ll solve the base load issue too. Iron air batteries are looking promising for that.
- Comment on France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas 2 months ago:
You have to be a little careful with what seems “obvious”. Solar roadways had some enthusiasm behind them, but they turned out to have a lot of challenges:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20725910
That being said, I can’t think of any reason why this is a bad thing. It does seem really obvious with no major drawbacks
- Comment on Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US 2 months ago:
I’m really looking forward to solar, but I will never touch anything I don’t own myself, for this exact reason. They took the shitty business model of game “licensing” and applied it to physical goods. The other issue is that sometimes your power can go out and you’ve got solar panels, but they’re owned by the utility company, run straight to the grid, and you’re not allowed to use them, making them useless for you.
- Comment on !loops@midwest.social - Share interesting/cool/funny loops videos you find here 2 months ago:
Based on some of the comments so far, some people really don’t like the videos, so it’s probably good to have separate communities for discussion of Loops vs posting loops. People can block this community and still subscribe to !loops@lemmy.world
- Comment on !loops@midwest.social - Share interesting/cool/funny loops videos you find here 2 months ago:
I could be wrong on this, but that looked like it was more about discussing Loops, the project. Seemed like would be annoying to spam it with lots of videos from loops
- Comment on !loops@midwest.social - Share interesting/cool/funny loops videos you find here 2 months ago:
I haven’t had any negative interactions with him. I know over on this post about the doxxing of Nick Fuentes, he edited the post to add “Report all you want. This is not getting taken down. Fuck nazis.”, but I see that as an advantage of the Fediverse vs Reddit. Instance admins can decide what their instance allows, instead of everyone needing to follow what’s socially acceptable to advertisers.
- Comment on Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse 2 months ago:
For anyone not familiar with the Miiverse, what’s attractive about it over existing clients?
- Submitted 2 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 2 months ago:
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 months ago:
Wrong community. This dystopia is about get real interesting, real fast 😬
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 months ago:
Another comment explains the moon landing one. It’s a hexbear comment and probably not federated to a lot of instances, so copying it here:
The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.
Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 months ago:
That’s exactly what I was wondering. Simple objective, very difficult problem, maybe have to invent new algorithms. Kind of like this:
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 months ago:
Here’s the tweet in question: xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m
Anyone know what studies it’s referring to?
- Submitted 2 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Monster 2 months ago:
To join in the obligatory reminders:
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 months ago:
⅐ = 0.1̅4̅2̅8̅5̅7̅
The above is 42857 * 7, but you also get interesting numbers for other subsets:
7 * 7 = 49 57 * 7 = 399 857 * 7 = 5999 2857 * 7 = 19999 42857 * 7 = 299999 142857 * 7 = 999999
- Comment on xkcd #3003: Sandwich Helix 2 months ago:
Totally. My comment was just a note that if you screw up like the alt text is humorously referring to, that’s a good tool for fixing it.
- Comment on xkcd #3003: Sandwich Helix 2 months ago:
FYI if you get mojibake like in the alt text, this is a great tool for automatically fixing it:
- Comment on A little essay I wrote about "mods are power tripping" 3 months ago:
The way I’m imagining it, it wouldn’t be microblogging, but I’m probably not describing it well. You’d still have communities with threads, unlike Mastodon. You’d just wouldn’t have people posting “to” those communities (unless maybe you intentionally wanted to).
It’s mostly a way to get at the same thing as merged comment threads, just in a way that feels like it would have fewer edge cases to me.
- Comment on A little essay I wrote about "mods are power tripping" 3 months ago:
IMO copying communities from Reddit as-is was a mistake long-term, but was maybe necessary short-term so that people wouldn’t be confused. If I had my druthers, I’d make a new system where communities are uniquely identified purely as
!UUID@lemmy.instance(though still with a human-friendly display name). You don’t get to create a community that namesquats something like!gaming@lemmy.world. All posts would be made with hashtags like Mastodon, and then each community would just configure “Include all posts with this tag in our community”. The big issue then is who moderates tags? I think a system like Bluesky has would work well, as you mention. People can moderate tags and other people can follow their work, or not.If that was combined with seamless account/community migration, that would solve a lot of moderation issues. If you mod a community and the admins suck, just move it to a new instance. If the mods of a particular community suck, start your own. They won’t be able to monopolize a common name, so it’s much easier to get traction.
On the long-ago internet, there were many, many different software options that supported the same protocols, and they were also a lot more configurable generally speaking
Lemmy is pretty good about that, actually. It’s interoperable with Mastodon via ActivityPub, and there’s other projects like MBin that work nicely with Lemmy.
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 3 months ago:
Neat!
- Comment on Lemmy Federate - tool to help communities sync across instances 3 months ago:
Not sure, sorry. I don’t really use Mastodon all that much, maybe somebody else knows?
- SMBC - for posting and discussing the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic by Zach Weinersmithmidwest.social ↗Submitted 3 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Peanuts - A community for posting about the Peanuts comic by Charles M. Schulz 3 months ago:
Makes sense, thanks!
- Comment on Peanuts - A community for posting about the Peanuts comic by Charles M. Schulz 3 months ago:
Is that a different format than the link I edited in? I don’t use mbin, so not sure if it handles things differently
- Comment on Peanuts - A community for posting about the Peanuts comic by Charles M. Schulz 3 months ago:
Yeah sorry, edited to add 🤦
- Submitted 3 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 9 comments
