A "normal" download is sending a file from 1 computer (e.g. server) to 1 other computer (e.g. client).

An example of that would be an HTTP server like the one we are both using now, e.g. you (client) visit lemmy.ml (server) and it sends you back the index.html page your browser requests. That is a great solution when you have a page that must dynamically be updated and broadcast back the new information to plenty of clients.

BitTorrent is a protocol like HTTP but instead of having 1 computer sending to many other computers, ALL computers send the part they have, ALL computers request the part they are still missing. That's a different solution for a different problem, namely when a file is large enough and stable enough (does not change) that all the overhead is worthwhile.

So seeding implies having enough upstream bandwidth in order to help others who are still have missing parts. Note that most BitTorrent clients already have useful seeding defaults. Typically they'll let you seed (namely share file parts) even after you have downloaded everything up to a positive ration, e.g. 2/1 meaning that you will keep on sharing until you have uploaded about twice more than you downloaded.

Hope that helps!

This makes me genuinely curious, who thought that would be a good idea?

It feels like a lot of "contribution" to open source suddenly is fueled by AI hype. Is it a LinkedIn/TikTok "trick" that is being amplified that somehow one will get a very well paid job at a BigTech company if they somehow have a lot of contributions on popular projects?

Where does that this trend actually come from?

Did anybody doing so ever bother checking contribution guidelines to see which tasks should actually be prioritized and if so with which tools?

This seems like a recurring pattern so it's not a random idea someone had.

CoMaps / OpenStreetMap / local public service for public transport

So glad I moved from iOS to /e/OS (last year) then to GrapheneOS (last month).

Indeed, when I read this parent comment I had in mind a snake oil salesman in Lucky Luke (Doc Doxey's Elixir, volume 38)

Lex Fridman is a fucking moron and his pretentious podcast is unbearable.

Confession time... just like Elon Musk, initially I though Fridman was good. I even recommended his podcast when he started it around 2018. I was thinking "Nice, he's doing interesting technical interviews" then gradually it became longer and longer about broader and broader topics to the point I asked myself "So... is it still <>" then shortly after stopped listening entirely.

I think he's deal is networking. He started with his domain of expertise, namely AI, but then (that's just me speculating) he noticed the correlation between audience size and fame of the guest, so he tried to gradually climb the social ladder of guests, pulling bigger and bigger names regardless of the topic. He used fame from his employer, MIT, then of his guests, to keep on doing so, and it worked. I also imagined he noticed that the more controversial the broad topic was, again the bigger the audience.

So it went from technical niche to teach... to generalist discussion podcast trying to be "open" to the most outlandish views.

TL;DR: it started good IMHO but it slowly yet surely devolved into garbage indeed.

OG “fake it till you make it” business.

Feels like 99% of "social" network startups. The dead Internet theory started before the LLM craze.

implementing ActivityPub from scratch?

Why do that though? As someone mentioned there is https://fedify.dev/ but also Fedbox itself relying on microfed. So you can rely on existing small servers and libraries https://socialdocs.org/docs/ecosystem/libraries-overview

I would precisely suggest NOT to make your own solution if it's not your focus. If you are a Pinterest alternative, focus on the photo sharing experience (I naively assume that's the core) and rely on something well maintained to federate.

You can try.

FWIW I imagine security and privacy researchers have done that already but my point precisely is that anybody can do so. Even if some researchers might have done it showing results you agree, or disagree, with you should still be able to replicate. It's just a process.

The very notion of proof implies that you can reproduce it. So I would suggest you forget what anybody here or elsewhere said. Instead, you :

• get a cheap phone (so typically Android)
• reset/format/flash it to a blank state
• make a new testing account on it
• use for random browsing, using app, etc and you log your history, namely what did you actually do AND what ads you actually see
• test for something outside of your new habits with a search query, then log and compare again, seeing the threshold to change
• repeat the last step for something said using e.g. a voice assistant, log&compare
• repeat WITHOUT explicit search, log&compare

Yes this takes a of time but that will help you make YOUR own opinion on the matter if you genuinely care.

I like risky sports (relative for some people it might be boring) but when I have to work or even play I want stuff that just works. I can't imagine using a laptop and wondering every day if this is the last update to my OS I might get.

Sure Apple laptops might be great hardware, you might love the design, etc but just the fact that this question exists make it impossible to consider such hardware.

TL;DR: I don't know and I don't want to care. Please support OEMs who are not making money by selling locked hardware.

• get top recent commiters with https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pulse
• click on 1st link https://github.com/bluca and see https://github.com/microsoft in profile

Just 2 steps.

Yes Poettering isn't at Microsoft but seems the person driving the project at the moment is.