https://youtu.be/bBhDWTZDH9c
Glad to see the fediverse getting more exposure (though it's worrisome that companies like meta are noticing too....)
Glad to see the fediverse getting more exposure (though it's worrisome that companies like meta are noticing too....)
https://youtu.be/pjspKrRPKrM
I can't help but come to the conclusion that "conspiracy theories are a threat to our democracy" is a conspiracy theory.
I can't help but come to the conclusion that "conspiracy theories are a threat to our democracy" is a conspiracy theory.
Do people say Google killed usenet? I've seen people pointing at xmpp, but this is the first time I've heard anyone say Google killed usenet.
Imagine for a second that you’re a contract killer, and you make a lot of money doing that, and you have a very nice life for yourself. Your family lives in a mansion, eats the best food, gets the best schooling and medical care. Then one day you wake up and realize what you’re doing is evil and you need to stop doing it. You get a nice, respectable job that of course makes much less money. The reality is you have 2 choices: You can pretend you’re still a contract killer and go deeply into debt to maintain the quality of life for your family, or you can realize that you’re respectable now and the consequence of that just decision was that your family isn’t going to have the quality of life they once had. You can make moral arguments all you like that your family deserves the lifestyle you used to have, that your kids are going to be harmed, but unless you want to go back to your previous evil lifestyle (and let’s be honest, that probably isn’t possible anymore, and that’s a good thing) you really just need to sell the mansion and find something in your price range, start shopping at tesco like everyone else, send away the top tier teachers and doctors and send the kids into the same schools and hospitals as everyone else. That’s what actually needs to be done.
People treat austerity as a choice, but really it's a consequence.
The west isn't the global colonizer it used to be, and so it can't just take all the materials from everywhere else and get rich on the backs of someone else, or levy a technological advantage so extreme it just crushes everyone else. That's good for the soul of the society in the long run, and it's also helped lead to the largest quality of life improvement for the most people in the history of the world.
It also means that western countries don't get to have the same quality of life as they did when they were taking advantage of everyone else. Austerity is inevitable when there just isn't as much to go around. The only question becomes, "When?"
If you just keep taking out debt you never intend to pay back as western societies have done for the past 20 years, you're not austere today, but you will have to be austere tomorrow (or worse, your kids will because you'll be dead and they'll be paying for your largesse). It sucks, but you'll always have to eventually face austerity when reality is you're not going back to Pax Britannia. That being the case, if you're austere today then it'll hurt a lot less than taking heroin to hide the pain and continuing to run as if your legs aren't broken.
In a metaphorical sense, the west went from spacial colonization, where they go out and take over another country to steal from it, to temporal colonization, where they borrow money they never intend to pay back so they can get their descendants to pay for their own largesse.
The key here is money they never intend to pay back. If countries borrowed money with an intention to pay it back using tax money within their lifetimes, then that's a different moral situation than borrowing money with the intention to never pay it back and leave the problem for future generations to take care of. That action is almost like selling someone into slavery -- They create a massive burden for their children, who never asked for it, and often the debt isn't spent on something like public goods which will be there for their children to enjoy, but something like tax cuts which solely benefit the people who receive it.
The west isn't the global colonizer it used to be, and so it can't just take all the materials from everywhere else and get rich on the backs of someone else, or levy a technological advantage so extreme it just crushes everyone else. That's good for the soul of the society in the long run, and it's also helped lead to the largest quality of life improvement for the most people in the history of the world.
It also means that western countries don't get to have the same quality of life as they did when they were taking advantage of everyone else. Austerity is inevitable when there just isn't as much to go around. The only question becomes, "When?"
If you just keep taking out debt you never intend to pay back as western societies have done for the past 20 years, you're not austere today, but you will have to be austere tomorrow (or worse, your kids will because you'll be dead and they'll be paying for your largesse). It sucks, but you'll always have to eventually face austerity when reality is you're not going back to Pax Britannia. That being the case, if you're austere today then it'll hurt a lot less than taking heroin to hide the pain and continuing to run as if your legs aren't broken.
In a metaphorical sense, the west went from spacial colonization, where they go out and take over another country to steal from it, to temporal colonization, where they borrow money they never intend to pay back so they can get their descendants to pay for their own largesse.
The key here is money they never intend to pay back. If countries borrowed money with an intention to pay it back using tax money within their lifetimes, then that's a different moral situation than borrowing money with the intention to never pay it back and leave the problem for future generations to take care of. That action is almost like selling someone into slavery -- They create a massive burden for their children, who never asked for it, and often the debt isn't spent on something like public goods which will be there for their children to enjoy, but something like tax cuts which solely benefit the people who receive it.
Do you smell that? It's bullshit!
I won't speak for anywhere else, but Toronto and Vancouver are about as "livable" as the surface of the sun.
A single family home in Vancouver is over 2 million dollars and in Toronto is over 1 million dollars for starters. Then there's the homeless, crime, and drug problems. Many people in the Toronto area have a multi-hour commute.
But really the first thing should do it for you. "Much livable! Many wow! 4500/mo mortgage ftw!"
I won't speak for anywhere else, but Toronto and Vancouver are about as "livable" as the surface of the sun.
A single family home in Vancouver is over 2 million dollars and in Toronto is over 1 million dollars for starters. Then there's the homeless, crime, and drug problems. Many people in the Toronto area have a multi-hour commute.
But really the first thing should do it for you. "Much livable! Many wow! 4500/mo mortgage ftw!"
It started off as Google Talk, then became Google Hangouts, now it's Google Chat.
It's gotten progressively worse each time tbh
It's gotten progressively worse each time tbh
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
@realcaseyrollins
How microsoft and google have killed OSS projects
@realcaseyrollins
How microsoft and google have killed OSS projects
>TFW Meta wants to join the fediverse
(I'm no artist at the best of times, and there's no way you're getting good art with my current setup)
(I'm no artist at the best of times, and there's no way you're getting good art with my current setup)
When you start going through lists of instances that block, you start to realize just how petty and stupid the people doing the defederating are.
Some people block my instance because I asked fediblock to add my instance to their stupid list because I'm a doubleplus ungood wrongthinker and fediblock are a bunch of nazi gestapo. So I guess the instances that followed the block recommendation on fediblock are pro orwellian and pro nazi gestapo? They're just doing it because someone (in this case me) told them to.
The most important lesson of our age is that even the most positive and just idea can become evil if you turn off your brain and stop thinking and just do what you're told.
Some people block my instance because I asked fediblock to add my instance to their stupid list because I'm a doubleplus ungood wrongthinker and fediblock are a bunch of nazi gestapo. So I guess the instances that followed the block recommendation on fediblock are pro orwellian and pro nazi gestapo? They're just doing it because someone (in this case me) told them to.
The most important lesson of our age is that even the most positive and just idea can become evil if you turn off your brain and stop thinking and just do what you're told.
In 5 years we'll all be like "Hey, do you remember back when we thought $2M was a lot of money?"
I reused the hardware for it for my lemmy instance so it's down now, but for a while I ran an openstreetmap instance. OSM has a big map that shows all the continents. Then you zoom in a bit, and you can see countries. Then you zoom in a bit, and you can see provinces. Then you zoom in a bit, and you can see cities. Then you zoom in a bit, and you can see neighborhoods. Then you zoom in a bit, and you can see individual buildings.
And this incredibly detailed map of the entire planet right down to individual buildings doesn't know about the stories of the people in those buildings, it doesn't know about individual trees, individual blades of grass, of the bugs in the soil, of the nematodes that are to the bugs as the bugs are to us, to the bacteria and archaea, to the viruses, to the molecules, to the atoms, to the subatomic particles.
And at every scale, you see what's in front of you and think it's the most important thing, but there's everything you can't see at the scale you're at, and all the other things at all the other scales, but it's easy to become fixated on one thing in one place at one scale and forget the universe as a whole is a lot of things all at once.
And this incredibly detailed map of the entire planet right down to individual buildings doesn't know about the stories of the people in those buildings, it doesn't know about individual trees, individual blades of grass, of the bugs in the soil, of the nematodes that are to the bugs as the bugs are to us, to the bacteria and archaea, to the viruses, to the molecules, to the atoms, to the subatomic particles.
And at every scale, you see what's in front of you and think it's the most important thing, but there's everything you can't see at the scale you're at, and all the other things at all the other scales, but it's easy to become fixated on one thing in one place at one scale and forget the universe as a whole is a lot of things all at once.
That I can't explain. Basic features like that have typically worked well for me. (In fact, one thread was going off the rails and I muted the thread, and even the old posts went away in my notifications!
Typically, a good start is to just do a refresh. Especially if you're like me and keep a tab open almost all the time for notifications.
Typically, a good start is to just do a refresh. Especially if you're like me and keep a tab open almost all the time for notifications.
I remoted in (just gave myself that ability last week), the back-end is being pulled using git via the commands recommended on the soapbox page. So the front and back-end are up to date as of just this second. you should be able to reload the page and the latest front-end will show up.
I suspect there's something else going on though, it isn't like there were any major changes in the past 7 days.
I suspect there's something else going on though, it isn't like there were any major changes in the past 7 days.
The front-end is 3.2.0, there's a zip file of the latest version on gitlab.
As for the back-end, I actually don't remember. I'll have to take a look when I get back home. Intuitively I expect I delete the code then just pull from git and rebuild, but it was a long time ago now I set up the auto-update scripts.
As for the back-end, I actually don't remember. I'll have to take a look when I get back home. Intuitively I expect I delete the code then just pull from git and rebuild, but it was a long time ago now I set up the auto-update scripts.
Oh shit, the screen turned white
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSxX1zPO_M&list=PLx4sFUT7IpJpfH8LmizUBjefHx5NkhjZW&index=7
Every time I hear the konami code I think of the beginning of this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSxX1zPO_M&list=PLx4sFUT7IpJpfH8LmizUBjefHx5NkhjZW&index=7
Every time I hear the konami code I think of the beginning of this song.
It's shocking, lemmy and kbin have absolutely exploded in the past 2 weeks. It seems like hundreds of new instances, new communities, and overwhelming numbers of new users.