Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
Keep in mind that “having a plan”, doesn’t say when that plan is to be executed.
If you asked me, every object launched into orbit, should have a safe de-orbit plan beforehand. Chances are, as more private entities get onboard launching space stations, there might be regulations put in place to require a de-orbit plan for the launch to get approved.
Getting a de-orbit plan for the ISS now, might be just a preemptive plan for when those regulations get enacted.
There is no Lagrange point “North”.
L1 is sunwards, L2 is counter-sunwards, L3 is on the other side of the Sun, L4 is Eastwards, and L5 is Westwards.
Going from LEO to L1/L2, requires a ∆v of 7.5km/s, which is comparable to the 9.4km/s ∆v required to go from Earth surface to LEO.
Meanwhile, the ISS keeps getting slowed down by Earth’s atmosphere, and it only takes a ∆v of 1km/s or less, to plunge it into denser atmosphere for reentry.
The US, has a history of slavery.
China has a history of suicide prevention nets, docking pay for not finishing your lunch, millions of undocumented illegal migrant workers, houses full of camgirls “because they’re young and need to be controlled”, closed apartment complexes with thousands of catfishing “remote workers”, and so on. AKA: outsourced slavery.
But you’re right, it’s the capitalist way.
a Taliban spokesman also denied there had been any arrests for “bad hijab” and said: “The issue of rape is not at all possible because there is not just one or two people [in the room with a prisoner] and when there are three people, such a crime would not happen …[this is] a very sensitive issue for the Taliban. I am sure such a thing did not happen.”
Translation: gangbang is not possible. 🙄
Would be quite a plot twist if it resulted that the whole “seizures cure” spiel from electroshock therapy, resulted in it being “electrical waves help the brain to clean itself”, and have nothing to do with brain-destroying seizures.
As someone who’s never been into sexting… what’s the difference between “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate”, and “actual sextimg”?
How so?
Anyway, it’s not our call what people in 100+ years will think the exchange rate of Bitcoin should be.
As Bitcoin has grown, transactions have become slow
Except for Bitcoin Lightning Network:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
Bitcoin is always being diluted
It’s also constantly getting un-diluted by people losing their keys.
Current estimates put the “lost coins” at around 25% of the total. That is twice as many as there are left to mine.
it is possible that transaction fees will need to be raised to compensate miners.
That’s been the plan from the beginning.
Mining halving has been defined with a rough estimate of adoption, volume, and technological advances. It’s why Lightning Network was developed, and why Ethereum has switched to a Proof-of-ownership mining scheme.
The estimate is rough and quite inflexible, which has lead to cyclic fluctuations around the period of halvings… but from a long term perspective, it has been working reasonably well for the first 10% of Bitcoin’s starting period.
This is a fancy way to say that it is slower unless you pay higher fees.
My bank takes:
So my bank is also “slower unless you pay higher fees”… or “slower even with higher fees”… and on top of that, it has an amount cap.
Meanwhile, on Bitcoin Lightning (https://1ml.com/statistics):
fork the network and update it if they had 50%+1
No. There are 3 components to Bitcoin: Miners, P2P nodes. and coin owners.
Neither of those are impossible, some are just easier and have a higher ROI than others.
The tax and identity layers have to be added on top. They are not built-in.
Same as with cash.
Yes, this is one of the selling points of Bitcoin vs. Banks, in an age where cash is getting phased out.
The opposite, is also a selling point of “OpenSource Money with Taxes built-in” vs. Bitcoin.
Pick whichever side you prefer.
Why not call it by its full name: Decentralized Peer-to-peer Open-source Cryptographically-secured Self-custodial Money
“Everyone” doesn’t have a clue about “crypto” other than “there are scams”.
If it did it from a bit lower altitude, it wouldn’t be that bad… at least for some AA batteries. And look, the package even landed with the ⬆️⬆️ arrows the right side up! (/jk)
Depends on what interests are linked to the sides.
In the case of Taiwan, the PRC is the main worldwide producer of cheap goods, so nobody wants to antagonize them, but at the same time many countries have interests in outsourcing and importing from Taiwan, so they end up in a “low-key recognize” situation.
In other cases… some countries have a direct strategic interest in one side, some have economic relations with one side but not the other, and others just don’t care.
Depends on the meaning of “recognized”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Full_diplomatic_relations
Only 12 countries have Taiwan embassies, but another 89 maintain “unofficial diplomatic relationships”.
The UN has 193 member states, so that would make it either 6%, or 52% of the countries.
The conclusion seems to be “wait, let’s talk this over”. Sounds reasonable.
There is an allegation about him helping/inciting/collaborating/conspiring with Manning to break a password that would allow them to access information requiring a higher security clearance.
It’s a serious accusation, and it’s compounded by suspicions of him favoring Russia in his filtering of leak releases, but it’s still crazy the amount of time he’s been not-free because of something he hasn’t been tried or found guilty of.
Yeah… “problem” was kind of tongue in cheek.
But it’s not exactly a “default”, it’s more of a “demographic with little data”… and I bet it’s small enough that the algorithm is showing exactly the content most of its members are looking for. It’s somewhat of a sad reflection on the state of privacy, when keeping things private becomes a segmenting parameter.
I need an issue tracker that syncs with git, essentially.
Gitea + Redmine
If you need CI/CD, then Gitlab CE is an option… but it’s on the heavier side, not worth it if you don’t need it.
OpenProject is an eye-candy fork of Redmine. Unfortunately it has lost plugin and 3rd party app compatibility, and Redmine’s simple interface is still less buggy.
document any research […] diagrams […] general note-taking
Joplin + Syncthing, Zim Wiki + git, draw.io
Other nice tools: FreePlane, Jupiter notebooks, any markdown editor
Interesting article, but in my experience it overstates the problem… at least for Facebook itself (I have zero interaction with Instagram, Threads, or VR).
I’ve gone back to Facebook for the last few months, and out of what it mentions, I’ve only seen like half of it, mostly in the comment sections.
Or to be more precise, for 2024 Q2, I’m seeing:
The article however forgot to include:
Still interesting how I get close to zero of these in my main feed.
there’s a level of disinvestment in Facebook
Disagree. Facebook has reached a “plateau of stability” where the current moderation tools keep enough people on the platform to make it profitable.
I’ve been actively reporting+blocking problematic content, and while about 99% of my reports end up in “no action was taken”, it works wonders to keep my feed and group comments clean.
Because I have basically nothing in my feed on this account, Facebook backfills it with “recommended” posts and I was pretty shocked at how universally terrible they are. […] since I’ve provided very little in the way of alternative information or interaction for it to use
There is your problem.
When an information-hungry platform like Google or Meta asks you to fill out your preferences “to serve you more relevant content”… they are not lying. I mean, it’s also to select ads that will pay more for your attention, but the thing with the content algorithm is, if you don’t give it data, then it will ass-u-me that you’re statistically most likely to engage with content that is getting most engaged… by people who have also not provided it any data.
The problem with that cohort, is it not only includes the few people with legitimate security concerns, but also those who got dark secrets to hide, and/or are using “incognito” browser mode to look for porn.
I don’t like to give too much info about myself, but I also don’t want to get stuff intended for the “average horny fanatics” group, so I try to give enough data for the algorithm to put me into a group that makes more sense to me.
And it works. The strongest signal you can send to the algorithm, is blocking content you don’t want to see. It’s amazing how quickly modern algorithms learn to avoid showing me most porn, politics, or religious content, and instead show me science and humor. They still send like 1% of trash my way, clearly checking whether I’ll maybe engage with it, but report+block works wonders.
Ah… I didn’t catch on that. Nvm then.