HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should my character be 21-23?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on what was written, the relationship age gap seems to be an important part of the character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long can someone physically walk for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. It brought about a new hunting strategy that a lot of prey didn’t have a counter strategy for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a civil engineering degree and go into construction management. Then, crawl your way into international development. You won’t be at home, but that seems like a decent fit for someone with an affinity for STEM and a desire to make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The standard of safety was far lower back then. You could legally drink alcohol and drive in all states in the 1970s and didn’t face a national ban until 1998.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, the issue is transmission.

  There are parts of the world where solar power is deployed to help with the power grid; the Southwest USA uses solar power a lot as peak solar generally aligns with peak electrical demand. However, there isn’t the infrastructure to move west coast power to the east coast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably.

  1. One of the two major employers of programmers, tech companies, have significantly curtailed future development of their products as the cost/benefit ratio isn’t worth it. That isn’t projected to change in the near future.

  2. Companies that have full WFH are no longer constrained by office location in hunting for talent. A Bay Area programmer now has to compete with someone in Tulsa or Mexico City, which have far lower costs of living.

  3. AI slop will probably get good enough to do basic tasks. So, companies who only need a little programming talent may be able to get by on shitty AI code instead of hiring a second or third developer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The powermods arent bringing anything unique moderation except a network that allows them to control content for a specific audience.

  It depends who. There are some that build tools and procedures for handling large forums. They may also share best practices across different subs.

  As for controlling content, it isn’t like a corporation or political group can’t create 20 accounts and take over subs. That’s already happened on Reddit.

  Its overall a good thing but the powermods will be replaced with reddit admins doing the ame

  Or sock puppet accounts. Banning the current set of mods without a plan on who replaces them doesn’t fix the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with powermod isn’t that they exist, though. Moderation of a large sub is still done by volunteers that have had to hack solutions together because they don’t get a lot of support from Reddit. It helps Reddit to have experienced mods overseeing several subs because they bring with them experience on how to handle high profile and large scale moderation efforts. They are a technical talent pool that Reddit relies upon a lot.

  The problem is that Reddit has shitty mod governance. It still uses rank by add date and offers no ability for users to kick a mod out except for TOS faults. Reddit doesn’t want to fix mod governance issues because it creates a legitimate mod power structure and Reddit doesn’t want to give that much power to users, including mods.

  That said, Reddit’s shitty mod governance was copied directly to Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was how the Internet worked back in the day. Site reliability for small sites was shit and going viral would routinely pull a smaller site down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The conservative need to burn everything down got Trump elected.

  The problems with Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the following.

  First, random gun violence hit a conservative news commentator. Worse, it was someone who grew up in a conservative family. So, you’ve got a lot of conflicting emotions playing out in real time.

  Second, there has been a lot of push back regarding what kind of commentator Charlie Kirk was. The discussions of who Kirk was outside of the conservative bubble are leaking in and a lot of Kirk’s fans hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The funnier thing would be having them react to hearing ChatGPT answer a question verbally asked "How many R’s are in the word strawberry? and hearing ChatGPT answer back verbally “Four.”

  Like, a computer program could convert sounds to written text, understand it was a question that needed a number for the answer, and then completely beef it on the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re used to kids getting shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably ~20%.

  It would be higher if you removed “thriving” from the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you should make some noise until an MP cleans up the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So how does UK law handle federation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IANAL, but most law that I’ve heard of regarding third party content requires the site hosting the content to conform to takedown notices issued. So, having a good DCMA system requires you to be able to take down content from instances that may not be bad, but governed differently.

  As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.

  It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smaller community size. It is a lot easier to moderate a small community instead of a large one.

  It is also the reason why Reddit moderators fought the API ban. Reddit moderators had developed their own tech stack to help them moderate the very large subs. Lemmy isn’t at the size where those tools are needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia was relatively early in labeling the Gaza genocide.

  Also, as others have said, you can clone Wikipedia right now and set up your own structure to edit it. The problem is that most clones end up like Conversatopeda, which generally tends to add a lot of bias to the articles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The NBA developed a 3d printed basketball. Does material science count?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In general, tech is an industry with high fixed costs and low costs per unit sold. That kind of pricing structure tends to limit competition.

  Nvidia was founded at a time when outsourcing chip fabrication was common and viable, so all Nvidia had to do was focus on design. After a series of failures and near bankruptcy, Nvidia was finally able to invent the idea of a GPU and sell it to the marketplace.

  After that Nvidia bought several companies to round out its patent portfolio and capabilities, remaining a dominant company in an industry it created. The only real competition was with other companies that had previous chip design experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there "headhunters" that work *for* you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. The problem is that headhunters earn a lot of money on their end and the market wouldn’t bear having employees give months of their salary for job placement.

  An external headhunter would probably be a better choice for what you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t hypocritical, but I’d question why I would invest in something that I would want to lose value from a moral standpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Android could be profitable if Google Play Services went with it. However, that doesn’t exactly fix the monopoly problems associated with Android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to say it, but unless Chrome becomes an open source project, I’d rather that it be owned by Google. No other company that could make money on a browser should own Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But even then, Godot is an engine instead of a game. For various reasons, it appears that the ratio of open source games to closed source games is orders of magnitude lower than other forms of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t going to get corporate nonsense, but volunteer nonsense instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.