“Siberia feels like it just serves Moscow’s money needs”, says Trifonova. “It’s a wealthy area with lots of oil and gas, but locals don’t benefit much. It feels like we have a gold mine, but others benefit from it.”...
Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn’t that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication...
I’m not necessarily experienced with server hosting, but isnt bandwidth the primary cost of fediverse instances for example? There shouldn’t be to much logical work compared to delivering content?
I own a house in the midwest and recently got a spirit level for some repairs. However, I don’t stay here in the winter - I go south where it’s warmer. Can I leave my level here in the house? temps will probably get down to -30 or so.
While vodka technically freezes at -27C (-16F), alcohol solutions rarely freezes in the normal sense. It generally forms a sludge, and doesn’t crack the bottle. It should be safe to store in the cold.
That’s the beauty of FOSS, we aren’t generating revenue for them. If they implement something we don’t like, we can change it. There is not anything inherintely wrong with using code written by someone we don’t agree with.
The real shower thought was about movement across the highest speed we know of at the minimum distance we know of, so I divided Planck length by the speed of light.
I’ve been thinking about this recently and it’s one of those innocent sayings that are quite insensitive. Growing up I heard this quite a lot, usually in response to being shy about asking someone out....
I think you are overestimating how bad Russia was pre ussr. It was still a global power, and had it continued as an imperial power and slowly democratised as the west it would still fill the power vacuum from Germany. Also calling everyone who is an anti communist or opposed the ussr fascist is super reductionist. You can also oppose the ussr for their genocides.
Police in Moscow arrested Yekaterinburg resident Dmitry Bakhtin on Monday after he staged a one-man protest on Red Square in an effort to convince the Russian authorities to provide lifesaving medication to his three-year-old son, according to the news outlet Sota. A journalist from Sota who was covering the protest was arrested...
"In Siberia, calling someone 'Muscovite' is almost an insult:" an interview with Yelena Trifonova, publisher of one of the few independent regional opposition media in Russia (globalvoices.org)
“Siberia feels like it just serves Moscow’s money needs”, says Trifonova. “It’s a wealthy area with lots of oil and gas, but locals don’t benefit much. It feels like we have a gold mine, but others benefit from it.”...
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How come there isn't more torrent based technology
Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn’t that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication...
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Can I leave my spirit level in a winterized house?
I own a house in the midwest and recently got a spirit level for some repairs. However, I don’t stay here in the winter - I go south where it’s warmer. Can I leave my level here in the house? temps will probably get down to -30 or so.
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After the tragedy, hexbears swarmed posts on lemmy.ml with vicious antisemitism and calls for violence....
Unable to upload images using Photon? (lemmy.world)
Anytime I try to upload images using Photon (desktop), I get this error. Any idea what it means and why this is happening?
The clockspeed of observation is 18.5 tredecillion Hz
The real shower thought was about movement across the highest speed we know of at the minimum distance we know of, so I divided Planck length by the speed of light.
"Women/Girls love a man with confidence"
I’ve been thinking about this recently and it’s one of those innocent sayings that are quite insensitive. Growing up I heard this quite a lot, usually in response to being shy about asking someone out....
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Every country has problems. Maybe let’s shit on those too.
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Russia: man arrested for staging protest in Red Square demanding lifesaving medication for his son (meduza.io)
Police in Moscow arrested Yekaterinburg resident Dmitry Bakhtin on Monday after he staged a one-man protest on Red Square in an effort to convince the Russian authorities to provide lifesaving medication to his three-year-old son, according to the news outlet Sota. A journalist from Sota who was covering the protest was arrested...
can anyone tell me wtf this is? (pasteboard.co)
Found it dead in my dishes