@rysiek I use Newsblur but I know that's not for everyone. When I don't use newsblur, I dabble with rssowl.
re: Birdsite
@TechConnectify I personally think it was a bad idea for them to restrict free speech in either direction, but it's also a private company so they can *legally* do what they want. I don't find those values in conflict at all, one is what they should do as a person providing a platform, the other is what they're legally allowed to do. Musk is just as bad as the prior version of twitter, and just as legal.
@gamingonlinux Unfortunately, neither of the games I'm playing right now have creators on fediverse, but Disgaea 6 and Pic-a-Pix Pieces 2 are my active games. It would be nice if NISa and Lightwoodgames were on fediverse though.
Enjoying Sora ni Mairu. I've really been in the mood for more SciFi series so this one has been fun.
@anime @DaveyDelimbo @Moon @animeirl I've never been to a hot springs in Ridgway, but it would make sense for one to be around there because of its proximity to other hot springs. Ouray and Glenwood Springs also have good potential for someone to make an Onsen.
@union Sam Bankman-Fried did a Bernie Madoff with it, now we need someone to be the new Elizabeth Holmes.
@anime I doubt it, I'm off here in a corner with only a tiny bit of followers. But I think that right around the time I found it, it popped up on Mangadex "Popular New Titles" list. I probably just stumbled into it at the same time everyone else did.
@anime Hah, now there's 7 translators for 5 episodes... I wonder if the chances of it continuing to get translations are going up.
@Moon @grillchen @kaia @lanodan @sim @newt I wrote programs that worked for years. Some of them were more than simple embedded programs like "neutrons go up, rod goes in, neutrons go low, rod goes out + hysteresis". Stuff like managing railroad signaling and whatnot. Most were in assembly, but they were programs by any definition.
In fact, one of them programs was even an Internet MTA. I know it's impossible today: anything that has any connection to Internet must be kept upgraded constantly. In that case the mitigating factor was the slow pace of change in the ancient Internet, and the underlying network links running UUCP, not SMTP. Also, it was not running on a UNIX. Fun fact, the language of implementation was K&R C, but I completely removed malloc(). The daemon had no dynamic memory allocation whatsoever. This would of course bite later, when someone wanted an RFC-822 header that was longer than 2KB. But it worked! For years even.
At one point in the 90s, I became pointlessly concerned about this: we cannot make computers and their software without other computers anymore. I remember - in my living memory - how I wrote parts of OS in machine code. But that's completely in the past. Now you cannot build a computer from the ground up and make it build its own software from zero. The software stack must be cross-compiled on another, pre-existing computer. In one human's lifespan, it happened.
The next stop in this journey was the systems that cannot boostrap even after they were boostrapped. Android for example, runs on a billion of devices, all networked, and it cannot self-reproduce. You need a Linux for it. And a server.
And now, we're in a situation where you need Internet for any of this. If you power it down, you will not be able to restart it. And, programs on the Internet are forever in a lifecycle, forever updating. Of course they cannot run without a restart for years, and why? Not a design parameter.
In fact, one of them programs was even an Internet MTA. I know it's impossible today: anything that has any connection to Internet must be kept upgraded constantly. In that case the mitigating factor was the slow pace of change in the ancient Internet, and the underlying network links running UUCP, not SMTP. Also, it was not running on a UNIX. Fun fact, the language of implementation was K&R C, but I completely removed malloc(). The daemon had no dynamic memory allocation whatsoever. This would of course bite later, when someone wanted an RFC-822 header that was longer than 2KB. But it worked! For years even.
At one point in the 90s, I became pointlessly concerned about this: we cannot make computers and their software without other computers anymore. I remember - in my living memory - how I wrote parts of OS in machine code. But that's completely in the past. Now you cannot build a computer from the ground up and make it build its own software from zero. The software stack must be cross-compiled on another, pre-existing computer. In one human's lifespan, it happened.
The next stop in this journey was the systems that cannot boostrap even after they were boostrapped. Android for example, runs on a billion of devices, all networked, and it cannot self-reproduce. You need a Linux for it. And a server.
And now, we're in a situation where you need Internet for any of this. If you power it down, you will not be able to restart it. And, programs on the Internet are forever in a lifecycle, forever updating. Of course they cannot run without a restart for years, and why? Not a design parameter.
@developing_agent IMO, if someone switches to Allowlists/whitelists then it's no longer fediverse, it's another Gab.
I think the first 3 are plausible in this case, and it's probably a mix of all of those factors. The ones that are less likely are 4 and 5, because these factors are not correlated with the decrease in every country, there's countries and localities that have done exactly the opposite things during these two factors and yet had the same results in that decade and a half.
There was some discussion recently regarding the reasons that crime had been decreasing for roughly 25 years, the person doing the discussion implied it was only in Australia, but it was actually a trend across most of the developed world. The thing is we don't know for sure 100% why. But there's several theories brought up.
1. The reduction in atmospheric lead
2. The reduction of unwanted births
3. The peace dividend from the end of the cold war
4. Gun Control
5. Increase in Incarceration.
1. The reduction in atmospheric lead
2. The reduction of unwanted births
3. The peace dividend from the end of the cold war
4. Gun Control
5. Increase in Incarceration.
@purple @shibao Wow, that's quite the harsh reaction to my simple comment. I wasn't even debating statistics, just a general sentiment regarding the place of self defense in society, there's no need to use foul language. I don't think it would be valuable to continue a discussion with someone who can't be civil about it.
@beej @ldottxt Might be worthwhile for people who are right-handed to practice writing with their left hand as well. I for one learned to type with just my left hand at one point, and now I have a keyboard with the number pad on the left side (makes the mouse closer to my right hand's typing position) so I'm learning to use it left-handed as well.
There really needs to be more Scifi Isekai manga. The last one I found was mostly cheating since it was more Scifi officer lands on backward planet. This one though, "Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen-mochi Datta no de, Ikkodate Mezashite Youhei Toshite Jiyuu ni Ikitai", actually has the main character flying around in a space ship taking down pirates.
@eniko Yeah, I got frustrated after awhile with the amount of noise on Twitter, and cut my follow list down to just people that I knew from elsewhere. It was much less stressful after that.