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- Comment on Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn 11 hours 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Wow. Big if true!
- Comment on A high-resolution spectrometer that fits into smartphones 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 3 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 3 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 5 weeks 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 2 months ago:
Am I missing something, or is this very not retro?
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 2 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.
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests 3 months ago:
That’s not a very good headline. Of course they did it for food, the model was about whether they could have domesticated themselves fast enough without being forced.
I’ll have to actually look into the research; I have trouble imagining how one would model that in silico.
- Comment on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests 3 months ago:
I read about this just recently. It was more of an evolutionary cousin thing; dogs and wolves diverged like a million years ago, well before we were in the picture. The ones humans ran into on our way out of Africa would have been from a different subspecies, and potentially were prone to domestication from the start, while the one that became modern wolves were confined to (now submerged) Beringia until the end of the ice age.
- Comment on I hate how many people are against russian ancestry 4 months ago:
In the US itself, there’s also people that claim they’re every bit as Italian as someone born and raised in Italy, like it’s a biological race. I’ve only seen that a couple times and it doesn’t really have anything to do with the topic, but I’ll mention it anyway because it’s so very, very cringe.
- Comment on I hate how many people are against russian ancestry 4 months ago:
Weird. I have Russians in the mix and literally nobody has ever cared.
- Comment on I hate how many people are against russian ancestry 4 months ago:
I’m guessing you’re in Europe?
- Comment on Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there 5 months ago:
I feel like this about every rebrand. And yet, the media usually goes along with it, and everyone follows.
X is a letter and that’s it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Hmm, odd. I just posted to .ml with no issues.
This isn’t the chemical polishing post so nobody else gets confused - dullard just posted twice.
- Comment on Is pixelfed.sdf.org fully working? I'm not receiving my confirmation email to sign up. 5 months ago:
Just our instance, or all of it?
Images are heavier, unfortunately, so it wouldn’t surprise me.