wuphysics87
@wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
Physics and Free Software
- Comment on Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now 15 hours ago:
Sucks to be an unemployed professor
- Comment on Flooring Pop 1 week ago:
I have nothing to contribute other than the ‘Tile High Club’ joke was very funny. Well done 👍
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
Not if it’s rubbing someone’s face in it
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 2 weeks ago:
Once you download wikipedia, you can edit it and distribute. Other people with their own copies can merge your changes into theirs, or you can push your changes upstream. Even if they need to be signed to accepted. Doesn’t that make Wikipedia more like the Linux Kernel and less like The Encyclopedia Britannica? Sure, for the kernel there is a “main and central” repo, but the whole point of git is that it isn’t centralized. It’s distributed.
In fact, in a loose way, wikipedia meets the criteria of Free Software. You can:
- Read the source code
- Modify the source code
- Distribute the source code
- Distribute your modifications to the source code
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 2 weeks ago:
Agreeish? (M)any one of us can download wikipedia. Does that still make it centralized when it is designed to be distributed that easily? That design choice is baked into the ethos. Centralized vs. Decentralized seems not to be binary.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 2 weeks ago:
Will vpns still work? What would the legal ramifications be if you used one?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 weeks ago:
What happens if you refuse?
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 4 weeks ago:
It’s times like this I wonder about the like/dislike paradigm I.E. “I like/dislike knowing this and/or appreciate the perceived reputability of the source” vs. “This is good news/I fucking hate this.”
This one just got a “I fucking hate this” from me.
- Comment on Amy Klobuchar learned that a video clip of her was going viral. So she clicked on it and saw her face and her voice saying vulgar things she had never said. It was AI. 5 weeks ago:
I mean… fuck Amy Klobuchar? There I said it.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 1 month ago:
Been there. Done that
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 month ago:
I keep a keychain in my backpack for jusr such an ocassion!
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 months ago:
You know how I know you’re gay?
- Comment on the issue: carpet beetles 2 months ago:
It rubs the lotion on its skin
- Comment on Currently side-by-side on the BBC News homepage. 2 months ago:
It least it’s not “at least one palestinian hurt”
- Comment on I just saw that Mick Jagger is attending Jeff Bezos's wedding when did he sell out? 2 months ago:
Who are The Who?
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 months ago:
Equally upsetting. The site is truthsocial.com not truth.social
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 3 months ago:
I saw the headlineand thought, bet this is the one where I live… Correct
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 3 months ago:
I’m far past the point of caring. I’ve moved on with my life
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s clear from the image you throw it away
- Comment on Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earths from e-waste 5 months ago:
A good way to reduce ewaste would be to not make people have to buy new computers
- Comment on is this something only introverts struggle with? 5 months ago:
Say your expert’s name is Kayla. Start by just saying “Kayla”. Pause about half a second until she makes full eye contact, until she acknowledges you. Then ask your question. By doing this, it focuses the conversation on you and Kayla. If Paul interupts you can politely say “hold on Paul, I want to hear what Kayla has to say”. It’s not impolite because you “set up the rules” for the question when you started.
- Submitted 5 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Do you pin favorites? If you don’t, maybe that could help
- Comment on What should I do with this patio? 5 months ago:
Gazebo?
- Submitted 6 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 6 months ago:
If I could heard that pronounced I would totally start call it that too
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Several questions:
- How are they getting our data?
- What is the nature of the data?
- Can we do anything in about:config?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 7 months ago:
There’s a saying some of our american comrads have: come and take it
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 7 months ago:
Whoever dismantles the pre-existing structure will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it. This is the entire reason they are doing it. Great if you share their vision. Not so much if you don’t.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 7 months ago:
Even a god king bleeds