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- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 6 hours ago:
Yes, I think it’s a pretty common pet peeve.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 1 week ago:
You’re right, it is absurd.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 1 week ago:
Your whole profile is “I’m a leftist theory guru”. And then you don’t actually have anything to offer when engaged.
- Comment on New ATHEIST community. 1 week ago:
And honestly, most of Lemmy is already pretty close, haha.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 1 week ago:
Not if you’re doing it purely for clout.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 1 week ago:
Humourism is a thing. Y’know, Hippocratese wrote about it. They used to do bloodletting to balance the humours.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 1 week ago:
Lol, who’s side are you on?
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure last time I read a thing you sent me and replied, you just told me to read more things.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 1 week ago:
Free thought, or aimlessly contrarian?
You could pretty much swap in flat Earth theory here and it would still make perfect sense.
- Comment on Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn 2 weeks ago:
Lol, and this guy is blind on top of it all. I respect the commitment - people in my life are pissed I’m not on all the big walled gardens.
I’m not eager to turn this into a malware museum
It’s an XP machine on the internet. I think it already is.
- Comment on A high-resolution spectrometer that fits into smartphones 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the basic principle does sound solid. It sounds like they’re not even relying on it to work like random filters, but are applying statistical analysis to whatever superposition of speckle patterns comes out of the device.
The level of precision they’re talking about sounds more impressive than I would guess for it, though (1nm over 1um), and I don’t see the connection claimed with optical trapping or ultrafast imaging at all. If it checks out, I expect we’ll hear more in not too long.
- Comment on A high-resolution spectrometer that fits into smartphones 3 weeks ago:
Wow. Big if true!
- Comment on A high-resolution spectrometer that fits into smartphones 3 weeks ago:
If someone can replicate this research, it would basically amount to a way to measure the composition of anything. That seems like it could be handy to me.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Most of the research I’ve been doing has mentioned that Piefed seems to take less resources than Lemmy for some reason.
Interesting! Having looked at the Lemmy code, I do have my suspicions about the way it (currently) manages database access.
Yeah, getting a static IP has been a pain for decades. Best of luck!
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I was thinking of the similarly-named Kbin.
Although nothing in there seems to be federating over.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
I think I’d distinguish between a voluntary boycott and a top-down choice by some media monopoly. The latter is what the fediverse is designed to avoid.
How close are you to self-hosting? I’m pretty curious what the overhead is like, since Python is intrinsically going to need more.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna say Python is not the correct choice here, when Lemmy can already get sluggish. Cancel PieFed? /s
PHP was a weird choice for anything in the 2020’s, but Mbin is defunct anyway.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 5 weeks ago:
Nope, that works fine for me. Do you hate this enough to switch?
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 5 weeks ago:
Uhh, so I’ve been on Xfce for a while, and I’ve never seen this. When did the madness start?
You mean into a GUI shell emulator, right? (I didn’t even know there was a clipboard that functions when not in a graphical session, otherwise)
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 1 month ago:
I don’t want to defederate anything. That’s super Orwellian and shitty, but so is .ml sometimes and I still do stuff over there.
- Comment on Inside Nvidia's GeForce 6000 Series 2 months ago:
I think you’re a little late, but nice.
- Comment on Inside Nvidia's GeForce 6000 Series 3 months ago:
Am I missing something, or is this very not retro?
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 3 months ago:
TIL!
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 3 months ago:
Ah yes, the wonders of OSS documentation.
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 3 months ago:
Leaving aside all the work they did making an alternative more to their liking, that kind of implies it’s like a light switch, and it’s not.
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 3 months ago:
Yep, probably. People are just going to have to get used to it to certain degree, and to a certain degree there’s going to be .world-type instances that act as a user-friendly default.
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 3 months ago:
Oh? Complicated, fragile, something else?
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 3 months ago:
Thank you!
TL;DR, the relay bit works as a completely connected network topology, and has the associated quadratic growth issues, which renders it hard to host.
Also nasty: Direct messages are just not federated.
Other things are or were at the time of writing janky, but nothing else is quite that egregious. The author is working on a separate project, and recommends this idea as a solution for portable identity on ActivityPub, and here’s what “object capability” means.
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 3 months ago:
Really? In what way?
Digital identities being cryptographic and independent of any one instance is huge all on it’s own. The rest of it I understand less clearly, but it looks pretty modular.