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- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
I'd consider Bolzano. You'd get by with German, and you get to live in a beautiful part of the arguably most beautiful country of Europe.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
In Germany? You'll be fine, they're very aware of the threat of antisemitism but it's not any worse than elsewhere.
Now, whether German culture is enjoyable is another question.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
Israeli politics have been fucked for a long time. Netanyahu has always been a dangerous extremist, and the fact that people repeatedly voted for him speaks volumes for the political culture.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
If by Eastern Europe you mean Belarus and Hungary, maybe.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
You'll never be anything less than what you are, but that's a strength. Just speaking two languages well already puts you at an advantage. The experiences you have of seeing the cultures in relation to each other also gives you an edge.
Sometimes it's nice to be able to just blend in, but life is all about learning and gathering experiences and impressions, and you have a head start. It might not always be easy, but you'll learn to appreciate it.
And as long as Poland is in the EU I'd much rather have a Polish password than an English one.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
But at the receiving end you'll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.
It's a tricky thing to get right.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Open source culture remains the biggest problem with open source software, sadly.
- Comment on PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta 4 weeks ago:
I'm pretty sure Dansup is at least 40 senior developers in a trench coat. It makes no sense how many quality projects this guy manages to develop and maintain.
Off the top of my head: - PixlFed - FediDB - PubKit - Loops - Sup
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely. There's a small handful of sites full of insufferable stalinists. Thank god I didn't discover Lemmy when I was 14, I might have been swallowed right up.
Just block those instances, your experience will be better immediately. And don't hesitate to block individual users, even if they're not breaking any rules or anything. Finding something to be annoying is plenty of reason not to want it as part of your internet experience.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 5 weeks ago:
Nothing is found when searching for their names. There's not a thing out there about "Chief Scientist" Mark Linneaus, although he claims to have had an academic career. If he in fact "dedicated more than 20 years to investigating how diet and environment shape mammalian milk production", it is surprising that his name is nowhere to be found on Google Scholar.
Not to get started on the pictures of their alleged cheeses. There's red flags all over the website.
It's a shame though, I would love to try sustainably produced whale cheese.
- Comment on Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server 5 weeks ago:
Obviously they won't give too much of a shit and they're not going to send any mail, they'll just block the server like they would anyway. They are, however, going to be annoyed to be treated as insignificant nobodies. So all in all not a bad idea.
- Comment on TIL that NodeBB is working on implementing Activity Pub compatibility 1 month ago:
Not to forget those of us not on lemmy! ;)
In the end what this all produces is freedom of choice - we are no longer constrained to using whatever service has users, but we can use whatever service we want to be using. The users will be there independently.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 1 month ago:
The EU is pushing antitrust against tech monopolies for all it's worth. For anyone with half an eye on the EU it's glaringly obvious why Meta is doing this, and all the conspiracy theorists stumbling over each other on the Fediverse just look like clowns.
It's not about EEE, it's not about flooding the Fediverse with trolls (?) or about taking over the market share of Mastodon (??). It's about making a genuine-looking claim that they are not monopolist. Same reason they are working on the Signal protocol for WhatsApp.
It's not exactly rocket science. It's just successful regulation.
- Comment on do you use cotton leggings? would you recommend them? 1 month ago:
I disagree actually. Be an informed consumer. Ask questions in open forums. Buy quality, use for a long time. Avoid fast fashion.
That said, I don't know the first thing about leggings.
- Comment on Why is defederation an option when Limit/Mute exist? 2 months ago:
She has the power to create his own instance with her own rules; she has the power to leave for an instance run by like-minded people.
And other people have the power to block that instance should it poison their internet experience. :)
- Comment on Why is defederation an option when Limit/Mute exist? 2 months ago:
And if I as a user want to join a service that does not feature nazi content at all, I should have that option as well.
I don't want to have to handle this shit on my own: I want admins and mods to do it for me. If I'm not happy with their work I'll leave for another instance. But if I have to block the Nazis myself I would consider that a huge problem and probably not use the service at all.
- Comment on How does lemmy differ from reddit? 2 months ago:
You cannot comment on Beehaw communities as they defederated from Lemmy.world. You can see that here: https://beehaw.org/instances
The fact that they are defederated means that no traffic is being sent between lemmy.world and beehaw: Users of one website are invisible to those on the other.
Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world as they struggled to keep up with the high number of users, not all of them good actors. As creating a friendly space is the top priority of Beehaw, they chose to prioritize friendliness over activity.
- Comment on How does lemmy differ from reddit? 2 months ago:
Not sure I agree with you.
If I want to make a community, is there a reason I would choose one lemmy over another?
There's absolutely good reason to choose instances wisely when making a community. Some instances defederate from others, and you want to make your community somewhere where you agree with the moderation policy. Also, it might be easier to immediately reach people on a larger instance.
If you create your community on lemmy.ml, you might not reach everyone because some people and instances have blocked .ml due to different philosophies. If you make it on Beehaw, you'll reach fewer people as they have a higher moderation standard than most, which could of course also be good for your community. Lemmy.world is more neutral in their moderation policy, but I'm sure there are pros and cons there as well.
I like it when there are specific instances for specific niches, as it gives the community control over who to federate with. But of course, that's not always possible.
If I report a comment, is my report private?
They're not public at least. Few things on the Internet are truly private.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
The same exact people will whine about how Bluesky should have been using ActivityPub in one second, and bitch about how they don't want their content bridged over there in the next. It's almost as if they haven't thought this through.
Of course anyone is free to join an instance that blocks the bridge - that's part of the beauty of the whole system.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
You're not really moving your account - you're just migrating your followers over to the new one. If people try to reach you at the old handle they won't get through, like a dead email address.
That said, I don't really think this is such a big problem. The reason the AT protocol was invented is because they wanted to do their own thing rather than adhering to standards.
- Comment on I like women but I also like cock but I'm not otherwise attracted to the male body at all. Wtf is my sexual orientation? 3 months ago:
I guess the + in LBGTQHA+ could be replaced with WFYB , for convenience.
- Comment on Could time start moving faster due to climate change? 3 months ago:
No worries at all! My original comment was playing around with pseudoscience while being willfully ignorant, I totally see how that can trigger a negative reaction. :)
- Comment on Could time start moving faster due to climate change? 3 months ago:
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as an asshole - just meant to emphasize that the word "theory" could also be used as a figure of speech.
I realize it maybe wasn't clear enough from my post that I didn't try to make any actual scientific hypothesis or anything - I merely found it entertaining to figure out why anyone would think climate change could alter the speed of time. It just seemed like such an absurd starting point that I found it enjoyable to try to make sense of.
But again, no bad feelings - communicating online can be tricky. Sorry about that!
- Comment on Could time start moving faster due to climate change? 3 months ago:
Sorry for not committing to scientific standards in my pioneering research into why OP would ask such a question!
Imagine you're coming back home with your partner one day. You see your new pair of shoes all chewed up. In the corner of the room you see your dog, looking guilty as hell. Your partner might ask you "what happened to your shoes". You might respond "I don't know, but I have a theory". To which your partner might respond "well actually, that's not a theory, that's a hypothesis, you idiot".
- Comment on Could time start moving faster due to climate change? 3 months ago:
Nicely explained! (not that that's the only flaw of the logic of course)
- Comment on Could time start moving faster due to climate change? 3 months ago:
I have two theories.
First, E = energy, and temperature is energy. So if temperature increases, doesn't that increase E? And if E = mc², doesn't that mean that either mass or the speed of light would need to speed up in order to keep up with it?
Second, although false, a lot of people are trained to believe that time stands still at 0 K. In that case, light could never escape 0 K, and as temperatures approach 0 K light would slog to a halt. If that was the case, the logical conclusion would be that speed of light would increase as temperatures rise.
Or maybe something completely different - I just thought it was a fun question to try to reverse engineer. :)
- Comment on Could time start moving faster due to climate change? 3 months ago:
Temperature itself does not affect the speed of light - remember that space is freezing cold, and light moves through it just fine. So warmer temperatures don't do anything with time.
If earth suddenly gained a bunch of mass, that would change things up as gravity would increase. However, we wouldn't really notice, as everything would speed up more or less the same. We'd have to compare ourselves to someone in a system where time moves differently in order to notice.
- Comment on George Carlin’s Daughter Blasts Dudesy AI-Generated Comedy Special Impersonating Her Dad: “No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius” 4 months ago:
If anything the George Carlin-imitating AI serves to highlight that the brilliance of Carlin was in his thinking, not in his shtick of delivering cynical jokes in his signature fashion. The AI captures the cynicism and the voice and at least in part the delivery, yet it just left me bored. Carlin on the other hand I can listen to again and again.
I guess it's like training a moral philosophy bot. Sure, you could train an AI on everything Immanuel Kant has ever written and it would be capable of delivering an endless series of platitudes that sound like something Kant could have written, but it's not going to become a Kantian philosopher, and you'll be better off just reading Kant.