I am very excited about the possibility of the Fediverse, and the potential for many experiments in instance governance. A problem that all instances must content with is trolling and spam. It seems very difficult to impose a cost on these bad actors without harming honest users as well. Either instances have minimal signup...
Yeah, that seems like it would have too much perverse incentive for admins to ban users they don't like, both to remove them and get money for doing so.
How would that even work? I assume that there would need to be a built in backdoor somewhere, since it's clientside rather than the oldschool data pull from centralized servers.
I was about to say, it's the same system Reddit has just about, except instead of a corporation having your data, it's just some rando with a server.
I haven't dug into the Lemmy system at all, but would it not be possible for the server owner or other users to run a lemmy version of reveddit? Might not be a system by default, but I'd assume any system with direct access to the data can copy it over to a 3rd party no problem.
With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?...
OSRS (stay tf away from the general community, skill n' chill)
Games I used to play more for that comfy feel
Minecraft (discovering cool new things in overhaul mods is just neat, probably need to figure out how to get my account back after the Microsoft stuff)
TF2 Community Servers of the hyper casual variety, running in circles all day shootin' dudes is just fun.
First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
Social media sites that have been in the red, growing primarily through fostering good will in their customers, are finally trying to turn a profit, and there isn't much available to profit off of without intentionally kneecapping some aspect of your product. Taking stuff away is the fastest way to pissing someone off.
Only way that would help is if you're completely disconnected from the system and thus have nothing to take. They're taking photos of you online and then deepfaking them into scenarios, so your adversarial system would need to be active from the beginning to the end of your existence on parts of you (your face) that you want to protect, since having it only nearby opens up the opportunity for the attacker to simply cut out the adversarial system before feeding it to the machine.
I wonder how much interference/potential damage these could cause. Last I checked microwaves can wreak havoc on electronics, even if it wouldn't harm people. Not very helpful to transmit power if every wireless communication system had to turn off to avoid frying.
In any case it seems like a novel concept, but only really useful for situations that cannot be reliably hooked up to a terrestrial grid. Figure for the cost to get one system in the atmosphere, you could get a comparable unit on the ground several times over for the same price. Not a fan of even more potential space junk in orbit either.
I probably wouldn't use them in any form for what they want to do with them, not a fan of plugging in that hard, but I could wear them for extended periods of time no problem. Can play video games with the big bulky Valve Index for hours on end without a break, I doubt this AR set is much heavier or hotter. Any sort of exercise would probably make it way too steamy to be reliable though.
Would be cool to get some sort of advanced vision system to augment my poor vision though. Start looking like I'm from Star Trek with that sweet visor.
But at the same time, deflating the sales of the product has the risk of prompting the company to not continue with a franchise or employ those developers in the future.
At least for utilities you can reframe it as paying for parcels of utility, and then consuming them, like you do for food. Middleman bullshit like cloud services that refuse to let you just self-host can screw off. Having to spend money to spend extra resources to deal with a 3rd party is obnoxious, doubly so when they just decide they don't want to support it anymore and pull the plug.
For me it's been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.
Really just depends on if users can maintain composure in the face of disagreement (and barring that, moderation that can temper the more... rambunctious members effectively and consistently) as the community grows into a more broad audience. Otherwise the community will just fragment as they always do once civil discussion breaks down from bad faith actors of one flavor or another.
this is usually an interesting discussion to have, and there are a lot of interesting questions to ask in this field--so let's ask and talk about a few. feel free to answer as many as you want, or ask your own of people in the comments. here are two groups of three that i think are good to start:...
Do you suffer from anxiety about climate change and its effects?
No. A tidal wave is coming, I do not fret over how to stop it, I plan on how to ride it, and barring that, how to resurface. Maybe we as a group will build systems to reduce it, but I cannot stop it on my own, I have better things to worry about so hard.
Have you ever made significant individual lifestyle choices because of climate change?
Not yet, I will likely go heavy into solar/electrification if I ever get my own home, but even that seems like a bandaid for a systemic issue. I'm not a massive consumer, and would likely be happy with just a computer, some cheap food, an electric scooter, and living in a small house if it wasn't for future aspirations of a moderately large family. I'd live in an apartment if I could guarantee good neighbors (yeah right).
Have you ever thought of leaving where you live because of potential future climactic effects? Have you actually moved already because of them?
I think my area isn't too terrible for future events. Might get really rough deep into summer, but I don't think we have the humidity for wet bulb events, so my only real risks are increased tornadoes, flooding, and maybe drought.
Do you think the world can limit global warming to 1.5C or 2C? Where do you think we’ll “level off” in terms of warming–especially if you don’t think we’ll meet either of those goals?
No, the West is dialing down on carbon emissions, but it's slow. And even if we went carbon neutral, growing economies like India are going to offset any of our progress. Plus, I don't think the vast majority of the 1st world has the spine to cut consumption to sustainable levels, or pay for them. I don't pay enough attention to temperature levels to give a useful number.
What do you think of proposed technologies like carbon capture? Do you think they’re useful, or a technocratic waste of time? Can they be viably used at large scale on any reasonable timeframe?
Haven't bothered keeping up with technologies much. In theory are likely cool and possibly able to help fix carbon, doubt anyone uses them to a scale that's useful.
Do you support something like climate reparations either now or in the future? Do you think such a thing is even viable?
Worthless concept imo, at least in raw money. Going to be hard for most countries to stomach giving that money over, especially countries they're moderately hostile to (China). Probably better off pushing for negative carbon emissions at home to offset the other countries and investment into their systems to make them more efficient. Not to mention the Twitter post already starts to dip into targeting the rich, which will make it a non-starter.
AI has the potential to be the most powerful propaganda machine the world has ever known. The ability to seamlessly jump into conversations and actively steer them towards the owner's target position en masse is terrifying. Add to that the ability for the AI to swarm dissenters with dozens or even hundreds of sock puppet accounts, creating manufactured consensus is undoubtedly already being done by people on a smaller scale, and definitely being tested by state and corporate actors to use for a variety of targets and subjects.
I built a massive overkill NAS with the intention of turning it into a full blown home server. That fizzled out after a while (partially because the setup I went with didn't have GPU power options on the server PSUs, and fenangling an ATX PSU in there was too sketchy for me), so now it's a power hog that just holds files. I just turn it on to use the files, then flip it back off to save on its ridiculous idle power costs.
In hindsight I'd have gone with a lighter motherboard/CPU combo and kept the server grade stuff for a separate unit. The NAS doesn't need more than a beefy NIC and a SAS drive controller, and those are only x8 PCIE slots at most.
Also I use TrueNAS scale, more work to set up than UNRAID but the ZFS architecture seemed too good to ignore.
I was trying to do some fancy stuff like GPU passthrough to make the ultimate all in one unit that I could have 2 or 3 GPUS in and have several VMs running games independently, or at least the option to spin it up for a friend if they came over. I'm probably not quite sophisticated enough to pull that off anyways, and the use case was too uncommon to bother with after unga bungaing a power distribution board after a hard day of work.
Yeah, I was trying to go all the way when I should have compartmentalized it a bit and just had two computers instead of one superbeast. The server PSUs aren't super expensive relatively speaking, 1U hotswap 1200W PSUs with 94% efficiency are like $100. Problem was that the power distribution board I had didn't have GPU power connectors, only CPU power connectors, and tired me wasn't going to accept no for an answer and thus let out the magic smoke in it. I got lucky and the distribution board seems to be the intended failure point in these things, so the expensive motherboard and components got by unscathed (I think, I never used the GPU, and it was just some cheap Ebay thing). Still a fairly costly mistake that I should have avoided, but I was tired that night and wanted something to just work out.
Was going to make it a sort of central computer that could centralize all the computing for several members of the family. Was hoping to get a basic laptop that could hook into the unit and play games/program on a virtual machine with graphics far above what the laptop could have handled, plus the aforementioned spin up of more machines for friends. Craft Computing had a lot of fun computing setups I wanted to learn and emulate. I would have also had the standard suite of video services and general tomfoolery. Maybe dip into crypto mining with idle time later on. Lots of ideas that somewhat fizzled out.
Staked cryptocurrency to ensure good behaviour
I am very excited about the possibility of the Fediverse, and the potential for many experiments in instance governance. A problem that all instances must content with is trolling and spam. It seems very difficult to impose a cost on these bad actors without harming honest users as well. Either instances have minimal signup...
French Senate gives green light to surveillance through cameras and microphones (cybernews.com)
This doesn’t sound great…
Thoughts on this Reddit post claiming 'Lemmy doesn't care about privacy'? (old.reddit.com)
Comfort games?
With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?...
Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update (www.reddit.com)
Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances (public.flourish.studio)
A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances.
Android’s distribution numbers remain as depressing as ever (www.androidpolice.com)
Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak?
First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
FBI warns that compromising deepfakes are on the rise (www.techradar.com)
Fake nudes are circling the Internet...
Beaming Solar Energy From Space Gets a Step Closer (archive.today)
Scientists are testing how satellites could collect power from the sun and send clean electricity to Earth—and getting encouraging results
Do People Actually Want to Wear a Headset All the Time? (www.wired.com)
What is your boomer opinion
What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years
What are some communities that aren't here yet that you hope to see in the future?
For me it's been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.
questions about climate change
this is usually an interesting discussion to have, and there are a lot of interesting questions to ask in this field--so let's ask and talk about a few. feel free to answer as many as you want, or ask your own of people in the comments. here are two groups of three that i think are good to start:...
How the web became unreadable (infosec.pub)
Any of y'all have a NAS? What's your setup?
Curious what you've got installed on it. What do you use a lot but took awhile to find? What do you recommend?