I think that's a very strong argument and a great metaphor, but you forget relativity.
All reference frames are valid - you could say the Earth and the people are moving and the train is stationary, you could say the train is moving and the earth and people are stationary, or you could say they each have a vector moving around the sun or anything else
But when you travel through a portal, the only valid reference frames are you and the entry portal. Your momentum relative to the Earth doesn't matter - why would it? You can open a portal to the moon and jump through, and we see momentum is preserved. The Earth isn't a special reference frame, it's just the most noticeable one.
So let's pick the reference frame of someone on the track. Let's look through the portal and say there's a sign on the other side - as it approaches, you'd see a sign approaching you through the portal. Relative to you, through the portal the sign is moving at 30mph. The portal passes over you - you haven't moved, but you enter a new reference frame, a frame in which the Earth and everything on it is moving at 30mph
This actually gets me thinking... Is anyone actually working on an aids vaccine? Maybe mRNA could do something there, theoretically it should be able to grant pretty much any type of immunity you can have naturally
Oh, the global economy is going to break regardless. China is physically and economically collapsing right now, and it's going to have huge knock-on effects
Meanwhile, we still don't even have a consensus that long COVID is a thing. I definitely feel slightly foggier long after the fact, it seems to me that it might be less about COVID doing something special - maybe all illnesses chip away at long-term health, and COVID put a lot of people in a state much worse than the flu and got us thinking about it.
Or maybe COVID has unique mechanisms, but it seems to me there's an assumption - why do we assume that once we recover, we get all the way better? If anything, I think it might be the opposite - there's plenty of people in my life who never felt the same after getting an illness, but no one talks about it in a unified enough way to give it a name
They didn't sell it at auction, they sold it at an auction for charity. Entirely different
Which is really strange to me, I mean we've got early adopters and lots of technical people. It seems like science should be big here
I think it's a combination of less presence/engagement in niche content, sorting methods not quite being there, and not enough discovery without going out of band to find things
One thing I really miss is the science groups, askscience always had great debate that I haven't yet found here
Because immunity varies by disease.
Chicken pox? Pretty much one and done. COVID? Falls off rapidly after 3 months, whether you catch it or get the vaccine
Plus, every mutation is a dice roll on how much existing immunity will apply. It could be exactly the same as the last strain, or the old immunity might not help at all
He's not an idiot or anything, but he's pretty ignorant about a lot of topics, particularly science. He's quick on the uptake, but he isn't good at understanding how things fit together
That's fine, it's a fantastic way to do interviews. It's a stand-in for the audience - he says "I'm a dumb guy good at punching, so can you break it down really simple?" People that are sharp don't feel patronized, and people that are actually dumb feel it's much more approachable
The problem is somewhere along the way, Joe started believing people were there for him and not the guest, and he started doing more talking and less listening when he doesn't agree with what's being said (especially since he has some pretty bad takes)
After tech Jesus posted that, a former employee came out about all sorts of stuff about the work environment were pretty horrible
Yeah, except they federate. They keep lists about who they federate, defederate, and know of in machine readable format
So what's going on is the adversaries continuously hitting the lemmy.world server. On its own, a DDOS like that would be manageable - they're much more defeatable these days
But they found request paths that run expensive db functions, giving them enough bang for their buck to make an impact, even tucked behind cloudflare.
As for mitigation, cloudflare and a larger server help, but ultimately lemmy needs some refactoring - right now it's very liberal with the database calls. It needs to divide those up and get more granular with API calls, look at what can be optimized on the DB side, maybe do some caching/memoization... Basically, it needs to become a more mature piece of software in a hurry
Going further, there's things like horizontal scaling - there's even thoughts of how we could leverage the nature of the fediverse to share the load through federation.
I'm a dev, I don't know much about administration so I'm not sure how you could help, but there's plenty of work to go around. I think a database expert would be the most useful right now.
There's messing with configs to tune everything for better performance - that's out of my expertise, but I'm under the impression that there's some significant gains to be had there
If it's in your wheelhouse, you could look at different technologies that might give better performance - the current stack seems like it was chosen mostly with ease of development in mind, if you could make a strong argument for changing some of it out it might get traction.
As far as cyber security in general, if you want to get started - step 1 is basically locking things down, and then setting up monitoring tools and getting experience with them. Basically reading logs taken to the next level. I'm pretty sure they have that handled here, but this problem will never go away
North America, South America, central America, the Pacific islands... The list goes on.
This isn't some kind of metaphysical crap, they respected the land so it would provide for them. Respect in this context means you're mindful of what you take, and you plant the seeds to help more grow down the line. You hunt the herd, but you also chase off predators and make sure it stays healthy.
Some of them didn't have to take food with them when they traveled, because over generations they stocked the forest with edible plants. They knew how to, but they often didn't have to plow the soil because their ancestors artificially selected for the environment into being great for humans
They surrounded themselves with food forests. The uneaten food draws in animals too, making for easy hunting. No worries of depleting the soil, you don't have to work the land, you just walk around and gather what you need
It's very efficient and probably what humans did in most places that had good conditions. You get to spend most of the day on your hobbies and hanging out. They had trade networks from Argentina to the Pacific Northwest. They had advanced math and their technology was moving at a reasonable speed. They had hundreds of thousands of people, and plenty of room to grow
Farming has one advantage - a small group working their asses off can feed a much larger group. That let's you field big armies with bupply lines, and then you can turn the "savage" land into farmland, and extract profit from it while denying their food source
Their situation wasn't unique, every indigenous people either had forest gardens or managed herds of wild animals. They even had empires like the incas and the Maya, who were able to build roads, pyramids, and floating cities with huge populations
That's why they started wars when people started killing buffalo for profit and leaving the meat to rot - they were willing to share because they had more than enough due to generations of work, and profiteers slaughtered their food source for no good reason. It wasn't moral outrage, it was an extensional threat
They rejected the idea of ownership of the land because it wasn't theirs to exploit, it belonged to future generations. And that's why our generation is fucked, because capitalism isn't about efficiency, it's about maximization
That's how she goes. Things get worse bit by bit, then all at once
It's how systems fail
On one hand yeah, I'd look at us pretty dimly from the outside
On the other, we've been kinda fucked. Our mental health is in the gutter, we're unable to make connections the way every other generation could, we're missing all these milestones like buying a house and having kids and older generations keep telling us it's our fault.
Even as far as voting, we've been fucked. Previous generations had a choice - we get an ultimatum
They just keep gaslighting us.
We don't have the money, we don't have the power, but we do have the numbers and as a group we're not ok... Frankly, there's no way this ends well. It's hard to comprehend how the powers that be haven't realized that and thrown us a bone now and again
Huh... I'm a huge proponent of brushing your tongue (it doesn't take much, just a brush with a scraper on the back makes a big difference). I've never really tried washcloths, but now I'm going to give them a shot
On the flip side, my skin is weird. I get hives for literally no reason, I tried one of those plastic poofs and it makes me itch like crazy.
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IDK if you can convince it to run on Linux, but I've been pretty happy with paint.net lately
It's basically a newer project like gimp. It's got the core abilities and appearance of Photoshop. Feature wise, it's less than gimp or Photoshop, but what it has works decently well
Most importantly for me, the UX is much better than gimp... Not as good as Photoshop, but I find stuff is usually where I'd expect it to be
Obviously it's built on .net, so theoretically it could run native on Linux... Not sure if anyone has done the work to make that actually happen
Biden was old in 2020, he was old in 2016 too. So was Trump.
Nominating younger options would be great... Except we have 2 parties who have special rights and few restrictions - they can straight up throw out nominations if they want, and they've convinced the public at large that 3rd parties aren't an option
We need ranked choice voting desperately.
Personally, I also think all votes should be write-in. If you don't know which office they're running for and can't spell your candidates name correctly, you haven't met a very low bar of education on the topic. Maybe your vote shouldn't count
Oh for sure with valve - they're still a company and they're certainly capitalist, which basically means they'll get more cold and ruthless, and it means they're making money for someone else through their labors
That's still anarchist though - no ruler, not no rules. They don't get told what to work on or how - the threat of getting let go (with a reasonable chunk of severance) doesn't make it not anarchist. Neither does the fact they don't get to keep their profits
You can mix and match systems - you can have pure anarcho-capitalism or anarcho-communism, although by operating in a predetermined framework it's not really pure anarchism
The ranking system doesn't take much away though, team roles are aren't assigned, they're ad-hoc. And with software we don't have the same hierarchy within a team unless there's a massive gap in skills/experience. You can't code what you don't understand after all - leadership is more about communication. You might have an architect designing the big picture and a team lead coordinating, but even in strict chains of command, programmers usually write tasks as a group then choose their task from what needs doing and what they feel confident in
But anyways, it might've been transformed to be more corporate over the years (I dug into all this a decade ago), but it was certainly designed to be anarchistic - that doesn't mean good, not exploitative, in any way fair or equal... Just that the group functions through the individuals autonomously working towards the groups goals
More than that - it would strain the nascent communities
Already we've started to see it with defederation - admins don't truly grasp the level of seriousness it represents, and are using it as a mod tool. It's one thing to use it against bots and malicious nodes, it's another to use it like a ban hammer
Plus, if you go on different servers, the experience is like a different site. Sh.itjust.works feels like shitpost central (not a criticism), lemmy.world feels like Reddit from a decade ago, lemmynsfw.com feels like a porn site built for tens of thousands and used by dozens.
I think it's great - half the draw of the fediverse is finding a new home, soon I'm going to start trying out some small servers and hopefully get to know some people alongside my accounts replacing the endless posts of Reddit (but with better quality IMO)
If a big wave comes all at once, it'll change the culture overnight. Small servers might close registration to preserve what they have, bigger ones might grow into it, but it also might be enough people to give the entire fediverse the feel of Reddit refugees
Once the culture becomes more stable, we're more likely to teach them the Lemmy way rather than rebuilding Reddit... It'll change no matter what as it grows, but the more gradual and organic the growth the healthier the community
I can't edit in the app I'm testing out, but I'll add a qualifier after hearing the pejorative connotations (I literally first heard the word last week and am looking for context)
I'd love to hear the take on the definition of the term tankies by someone who believes others would push the term on them