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Freud's Tetris
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Sadly, this kind of trash is far more important to the average person than the things that matter (and this is hardly just an American phenomenon). It’s mainly because the things that actually matter are much more complicated, and require effort to understand
From bikeshed + -ing. The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson's Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp[1] and has spread from there to the software industry at large.
yeah i think it's more about the quality than the quantity
like, there can be a thousand comments but all of them pointless, which is what happens when your social media platform only tries to grow in user numbers. we should strive for quality over quantity, i think.
well yeah there used to be a concept of "noblesse obligee" which basically means "from everybody according to their abilities" - in the aristocrat context, it means that the higher-ups should care about their people because they can afford to, not because they're forced to. it was no always implemented, of course, but the concept was there.
i think they want them for everybody else as well, maybe?
The ecosystem is so hollowed out that higher-up the foodchain species like beaver have a tougher time feeding themselves, while lower-down species have to re-populate an underpopulated environment. of course you'd rather be a mouse than a beaver in these days.
it's not so cool for the spaceships that attempt to land there as they'd be squashed to death, presumably, but yeah, from a scientific point of view, it's cool :D (not really since it's rather hot inside)
yeah i read up on it and all four giants (jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune) have no "clear" surface: they all have a gaseous atmosphere on the surface, but when you go down, it goes above the critical point and therefore continuously changes into a liquid phase with no clear line in between. very deep inside, they all have cores made from rocks, but it's rather small compared to the total size of the planet.
"Hello."
"Do you have a moment to talk about Linux?"
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parallels
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parallel inventions in the 15th and 20th century:
- books (printed through the printing press) spread knowledge just like the internet does, allowing a facilitated and drastically accelerated exchange of ideas
- new transport methods allow new lands to be reached and new worlds to be explored. i wonder whether it is an accident that "spaceships" are called after ships
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keeping the fediverse human [edited]
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As a follow up to this post in this community: The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
I have thought about how to set up local, community-hosted fediverse servers that respect privacy and anonymity while still guaranteeing that users joining the server are human-beings.
The reasoning behind these requests is that:
- You want anonymity to guarantee that people won't face repercussions in real life for the opinions they voice in the internet. (liberty of free speech)
- You want to keep the fediverse human, i.e. make sure that bot accounts are in the minority.
This might sound like an impossible and self-contradictory set of constraints, but it is indeed possible. Here's how:
Make the local library set up a fediverse server. Once a month, there's a "crypto party" where participants throw a piece of paper with their fediverse account name into a box. The box is then closed and shaked to mix all the tokens in it. Then, each one is picked out and the library confirms that this account name is indeed connected to a human. Since humans have to be physically present to throw in a paper, it is guaranteed that no bot army just opens a hundred anonymous accounts. Also, the papers are not associated to a particular person that way.
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What are the consequences of an unlocked bootloader on Android phones?
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Consider i have a phone, and it's bootloader is unlocked. What is the worst that could happen?
I'm interested in the security aspect of it. Consider you're detained by the police, and they want access to your phone. Can they get access if the bootloader is unlocked?
What is the role of the password? I.e., i'm using a 4-digit PIN for my phone today. Can the phone's data be secured against police force if they get physical access to the phone?
To further elaborate:
I'm well aware of the XKCD:
I'm wondering, apart from applying physical force, what are the surveillance aspects? Could somebody sneakily install spyware on my phone that can read all files on the phone's internal storage if they get a physical hold of it for (let's say) 15 minutes?
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kids these days
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Transcript:
To my fellow olds - If you suffered in life and want others to suffer because you turned out fine - you in fact, did not turn out fine. Enough with the "kids these days".
it's from mastodon
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anti-democrat campaign by a lemmy.ml user
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Insinuating that the liberals are the bad guys. I went through the !usa@lemmy.ml post history and a lot of posts by @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml are factually skewed and very suggestive, such as this post suggesting that AOC is actually pro-genocide.
Can effective action be taken to clean up the Fediverse? Can @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml be banned from federation?
It's not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
The alternative, btw, would be to fry everything in butter or some plant oil, i believe. That's what they're opposing.
step 1: send your men to a pointless war
step 2: potential mothers realize their sons would only be meat in the meat grinder
step 3: nobody wants to have children anymore
step 4: be confused??
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