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Why did Lemmy migration fail? (65 comments)
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The social website without users and content (128 comments)

Yeah, I'm snarky. All of Bluesky's, Lemmy's, Mastodon's (etc) only appeal seem to be that they are not BigCorp, but without any of the benefits (and content) of the existing platforms. They flare up quickly before users go back to their origin. Hard to see how Lemmy is different at this time.
Doesn't lemmy.world require a captcha which some lemmy's don't have. I don't think even 0.18 has captcha support yet.
Another good example of this might be the transition from http to https. Granted, that's not actually the domain name but most people probably wouldn't make the distinction. Although HTTP URL's still work on most TLDs in most browsers, most sites have transitioned to HTTPS. Further, HTTP might not always be supported by browsers, and as a site owner you don't have a lot of control over that. There are some solutions to protocol changes, such as redirecting, but that too could fail down the road.

The internet is so ephemeral and at the same time feels rather permanent.
Congratulations on the sale.

You are about to discover the root of "mid life crisis" which is fundamentally the moment you realise uou are successful, and the focus of your life switches from the search-for-success to the search-for-significance.

Or to put it another way, when you have enough money you need to find another reason to get out of bed in the morning.

It will take time for you to adjust, time to experiment with different things, and time to figure out what satisfies your soul.

Broadly there are two fundamental paths here, one where you focus inwards and one where you focus outwards. Which one works for you will depend on you. Some people are jazzed by toys, travel and social status. Others live quiet lives, but invisibly (or visibly) impact the lives around them. They might bring expertise to non-profits, or mentor people who are starting out or even turn to teaching etc.

These choices are without judgement- you must find you, the thing that brings significance will be different for everyone.

Yes there will be a period of spending. You're going to travel, buy some toys and so on. Part of the success are the spoils. Enjoy this phase, uou earned it. When that season is over though you'll need to find what sparks you - what gets you out of bed.

Of course seeking out role models is a natural starting point. But perhaps there are folk around you who are living this life without posting on social media. They can be hard to find because their significance is not public adulation. But if you ask around at Churches, NPOs, usually you'll be pointed in the right direction. Crumbs ask your financial advisor, he likely knows a bunch of them.

Good luck. Well done. I wish you all the best in your next chapter.
>Radioactivity in the contaminated soil has been measured at 8,900 rad per hour.

Ah, Gell-Mann amnesia, how I forget thee.

The rad is a unit of radiation exposure, or "dose"; it measures how much radiation impacted a target (such as you). The appropriate way to characterize radiation in soil would be curies (properly terabecquerels, but we still use curies because of course we do) per kilogram. This is a material property, while the radiation "dose" is a function of distance (and angular position -- a "geometry" factor).

However, it does correctly correspond to the stated risk to personnel. 8900 rad per hour would indeed deliver a lethal dose of radiation within a few minutes.
Sure but are you really pushing the performance of your phone? More power to you if so. I do game programming and rarely need to utilize super new features (unless AR related, but even then I could get by with a few gens back). For me personally peace of mind and not supporting slavery in worth the downgrade.
I'm asking anyone to provide evidence of privatisation riving up costs in Australia. It's simply not there. The most privatised state in the country has the cheapest prices, this is undeniable.

Put up your "logic" rather your ideology if you want to convince people otherwise. Downvotes don't count sorry :)

Prices are the cheapest in Victoria, with full privatisation of the network. Prices are also most expensive in South Australia, with nearly full privatisation of the network. No rational person can look at that and proclaim there is a correlation.

We have states with nearly all generation, distribution and transmission being government owned, we also have states completely out of the business. This should be a simple slam dunk to people who loudly make these easily proven claims and yet they never have any proof.

Prices are rising uniformly across the board, including in the heavily government owned states, which coincidently are the worst at rolling out renewables because they are protecting their fossil fuel golden eggs at the expense of the environment.

https://theconversation.com/myths-not-facts-muddy-the-electr...
I mean, pretty much all of these cases aren't about getting websites or cakes, they're being done by activists looking for standing to sue.

This was lampshaded in Masterpiece case that noticed that they went past a whole bunch of cake shops to get to that particular one that would refuse.
> Why is Twitter forced to hold the debt for being purchased and not Elon?

Just because that's what was written into the contract when the acquisition happened. Something different could have been put in the contract, but this is what was actually written in it and signed off on by all the parties to the deal.
hn sez 30x plz?
> It’s always been that way. Before Twitter, it was private radio stations, private TV stations or private newspapers.

You can listen to TV and radio stations for free without an account or subscription and they can't cancel you (unlike FB/Twitter/etc).

Newspapers tecnically you had to buy, but reading the headlines at the newstand was free and you could always go to the library of coffee shop to read the whole thing for free.
Mostly mature adults addicted to cigarettes, caffeine, alcohol and cheap dopamine.

Voting for whoever shouts louder.

Don’t overestimate being mature. I’m 35 and look at my aunts and uncles turning 65 and 70 it is so much different view from when I was 15 to 25… it is just people.
https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/324building

https://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/324_Building_Fact_Sheet_Fe...

https://www.hanford.gov/news.cfm/DOE/E1011025_2.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvoOV-9tSU (previous plan)
Student loans in the US have "special" terms that are unusual. For example, unpaid interest past a certain amount is capitalized, so the principal of the loan can increase if the borrower doesn't make large enough monthly payments to cover the interest. In addition, the borrower wishing to make the principal actually decrease over time needs to make a payment on the principal over and above the interest payment.

How much each borrower pays per month depends on the payment plan selected and how much is owed, but the terms of the loan ensure that any mismanagement by e.g. a first time borrower will result in growth of the principal. Very many people who took out loans to go to college as an 18 year old student have been mismanaged in the subsequent years and ballooned by an insane amount.

To give you an idea of what can happen, on my own loan I have paid (since I left college) an amount roughly equal to three times the actual debt (original principal) I had when I left school.. I have ADHD and other issues that kept me from getting secure and well paying employment for about a decade after school. During that time, the principal grew to a total that is slightly more than 3x the original debt, which I still owe.

If I were making monthly payments right now, I'd be paying about 12% of my monthly income each month to simply prevent the principal from growing.

I'm one of the lucky well-paid ones, many people who graduated with a four year degree are paid half what I make or less money, because their degree isn't able to be used for one reason or another - not enough jobs in their field, or they're in a field that pays very poorly (like e.g. primary/secondary teaching), where they literally don't make enough money to live.

Many young people at present in the US have student loan debt that they have not been able to make headway on for years. During the part of their lives they might normally marry, buy a house, or start a family, they have no money to do so, because they're required to make payment on their student loans. Entire generations are unable to build lives for themselves because of generational theft of wealth.

I suggest reading up on the various things that make these loans different from most others, including the fact that Federal student loans can not be discharged in bankruptcy, unlike almost every other kind of debt.

I can't see the graphs myself because of a paywall, but I suspect the graphs don't tell the whole story.
You can use macros to personalize your language, but for the slight overhead of run time, it's often better to use state machines or object composition style to recreate that same vocabulary.

Eg somekind of cron-like event library, made from a macro

(wait 6 'hr' (run './myapp'))

In some OOP you could create an object style expression flow that's similar

Scheduler.create(6,'hr').then(() -> system('./myapp'))

Or state machine

scheduler(6, 'hr', steps= [() => { system(./myapp) }, ...]);

Then you customize the state machine steps with whatever, monad-like modifications are needed for that expression flow.

In the end macros save you a tiny bit of typing at the expensive of limiting static analysis tooling, limiting readability since the language can be modified, and most the time the runtime way of doing it 99.9999% as fast, easier to understand, easier to debug by stepping through it. That being said I like using macros, especially in emacs. No one will ever read my dot files, and I can live in my own world.
Talk about dark patterns. Reddit has disabled scrolling down on mobile devices. Well that ends my reddit usage.
It smells like an abusive clause. I would be tempted to ignore it and never tell anyone if I had to collect data from those sensors. They would be named sensors from company "A" in the reports and papers.

But to do things in a pleasing way for legal people, how could we proceed ?
The Columbia passes north of Portland, and no water from the Columbia should flow down to it (since everything is draining out through the Columbia into the pacific), while Seattle is far enough away that it isn’t an issue. Vancouver WA is the only biggish (but not very big) city down stream from the tri-cities (plus lots of really pretty towns on the gorge).

The spill is 1000 feet away from the river so there isn’t any immediate danger yet. They’ll just dig it out probably?
It might make people be more authentic and real as positive commerce fake reviews is the issue at hand. If im using my U.S. public Internet reputation ID to leave a review then it one says Im in the U.S.(not a foreigner) as ive been granted such an ID in the U.S. and two people would be more prone to be nice. While the negative comments would be in the majority anonymous I'm betting. Though anonymous comments would not hold as much weight but still been seen.

As for an incentive in time especially if a small to mid-size portion of Internet citizens are sick of all the fakeness and start using their Internet public reputation ID then it becomes a societal push.

I think such is needed even more so for all the deepfakes that may proliferate the Internet in the next few years or more. If that becomes a huge problem of really Internet citizens figuring out what is what then maybe that starts the societal push with government offering it but not ever pushing it.
It's a very myopic decision on their part if true, even worse than the API pricing update. This will stop any form of viral content on twitter from reaching non-internet people. Forget about sharing that one twitter link to friends or relatives. Instead it will make the twitter echo chamber increasingly detached and irrelevant to the larger discussion. On the long run, this decision changes the narrative of twitter from being a catalyst of political change (e.g. Arab Spring) to a tumblr clone with ecelebs. I don't have an account and never will. I followed a handful of accounts via nitter rss. Now I'll just wait until they build their presence outside the platform.
That sounds like if the public institutions line Twitter, they should sub their own federated Mastodon server so they are in full control of it.
> You wouldn’t create an account with Google and expect that login to work anywhere else, would you?

There are literally thousands of sites that let you login with your google account.
Counterexample: python
"Suprnova", but definitely point taken!
I’m not disagreeing, but note that what you’ve quoted does in fact confer an accredited undergrad degree
The spill was discovered 13 years ago, and happened even earlier. This is nothing new to be worried about.

If anything, be reassured that the cleanup process will happen based on more accurate information that it previously was.
I don’t think you quite appreciate how big the Columbia River is there, or what the terrain is like.
It's just weak willed management. Sure a reality show will outperform the history of the soda can.

If you run a "discovery channel" your task should be to maximize the performance of that niche, not just throw up your hands and decide to just show whatever performs well. I'm surprised they havent just started showing softcore porn. That'll probably get viewers too.
This could create a weird dynamic where prostitutes are blackmailing their customers. Why are humans so weird about sex? What is the difference to a massage?
Sadly no. My AMEX does it. But my BofA does not.
Out of curiosity, what was the reason for defederation?
Weird Conway’s base64 PNG overlaying all of my ads
Here is the base 64. The png looks similar to Conway’s game of life. Any ideas?

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Wasm, I believe.
Creating accounts on multiple websites is something we all do all the time. It’s better than staying with a single rent-seeking site that’s getting increasingly aggressive about monetizing the content provided for free by its users.

Everyone should be furious that Twitter was purchased by a billionaire to basically promote his own tweets and other viewpoints he agrees with. Reddit users shouldn’t be happy about a site (and app) that has only gotten worse over the years.

It has also never been easier to replace Reddit and Twitter technologically.

This is a key opportunity to fight against the enshittification of the internet and you’re on here complaining about creating multiple accounts… Ugh
I presume the NYT always published the solution in the next day's paper? If so, a fitting conclusion would have been to not acknowledge the two possible solutions, and (since by then the result was known) only include the solution with Clinton as the winner. I'm curious what they actually did.
Isn't Musk a major investor in OpenAI? If he said "my data feeds chatgpt, not its competitors", that would make sense, right?
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia00335-full-disk-color-ima...
I hope it will be different with Lemmy (it won’t) but on Mastodon I see very specific type of users, mostly activists and hackers. There are
no normies at all. No Kpop stans. No football fans. No gamers arguing which console is the best etc.

I follow /r/soccer which has not just the userbase but people posting goals in _real time_ a lot of times even before happened on your regular broadcast. There is no replacement for that.
That’s a good point. I think (in jest) the data is invaluable for training automated trolls, for which various state actors should be willing to pay good money.

But more seriously, maybe the value is in it being a real-time source of new data, albeit the signal is drowned in noise like a needle in a hay stack.
Ask HN: What are you doing for self-care?
Trying to find more inspiration for leisure and self-care activities, wonder how are you spending your free time outside of typing variables in a cubicle? :)
I mean, you cant just have Pepsi being advertised in a r/wtf deadly bus crash with people wearing coca cola, now can you?

I mean, think of the chil... advertisers!
I'm excited by the idea, but I'm honestly pretty confused by Lemmy & Kbin. Reddit accounts and subreddits give an incentive to protect the account and "build up a history". My Reddit account is 13+ years old, and I don't want to sign up on the "wrong instance" of Lemmy/Kbin.

1. Will apps like Liftoff, Boost for Lemmy, and Sync for Lemmy support Kbin instance accounts? Should I be signing up for Lemmy instead if I want a familiar mobile app?

2. If I register a Kbin account, can I register with the same username on a different "home instance"? Can you login (not federate) to a different instance with a Lemmy/Kbin account? e.g., if I sign up for an account on kbin.social, can I login to lemmy.world with the account since most apps currently only support Kbin instances?

3. What happens if your home instance goes down temporarily? What happens if it goes down permanently? What if there is drama and suddenly many instances stop federating with your home instance? What if my instance stops federating with an instance I participate in? Do you need to start over somewhere else?

4. Are there multi-reddits to combine the same topic from multiple instances? What happens if multiple instances each have their own version of a community?
5. How do you moderate a community on Lemmy/Kbin? How do you deal with spam?

6. How do I link to or save a post? How do I search?

I want to sign up, contribute, and give the best chance of it taking off. But I don't understand the future implications of which instance I sign up on.
But it federates with most other Lemmys, so there's theoretically plenty of user interactions on there that haven't been verified by captcha.
But they were too stingy with the tiers and too greedy with their prices. Even for minor use cases where you need to make, say, 100 API calls a day, you’ll need to pay $100/month.

Which just leads people to scrape.
Haha. That's pretty much identical to our "decriminalization" of drugs where we let people buy them, but leave the laws in place against those that sell.
It's somewhere in between.

React as a lib and architecture _is_ platform-agnostic. The core logic is defined in the `react-reconciler` package. It contains all the implementation of rendering components, diffing trees, managing state, and running effects, as well as all the "Suspense" implementation.

However, the way `react-reconciler` works is that it's built _into_ each platform-specific renderer implementation. So, the size of `react-dom` is actually the size of `react-reconciler` + all the DOM-specific behavior.

A quick check of https://bundlejs.com/?q=react-reconciler suggests it's about 100K minified. https://bundlejs.com/?q=react-dom is 138K, so that tells me that the DOM-specific logic is 38K.
The spill was discovered 13 years ago, and happened even earlier, so we aren't sure how long this extremely toxic radioactive material (which is so toxic that can kill a person in 2 minutes) has been seeping into the soil and the ground water.

Nothing to worry about.
Have you bought anything from Youtube advertisement? Any time I tried to disable adblock in order to get acknowledged about what's up is advertizing I finished with immediate return. There is no category of goods which might be safely consumed from Youtube ads, probably because only idiots use to watch those ads nowadays.
Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. I want a community for my football club, but there are already 3 across multiple instances - which one do I join?

Would much better understand if each 'subreddit' was something that was federated and could be defederated and users all moved to another instance.

But right now, it's just too fragmented.
Content consumed/content produced is tending to 0 cause the denominator has grown ridiculously massive.

Whats funny is the goal of most tech companies when the internet came out was to minimize Info Explosions networks began to produce. What tech has instead done is the opposite causing massive info pollution. And naturally things are breaking down.

In an ideal world minimization of Info Overload any network produces should be the primary objective of tech.
Wordpress doesn't have ActivityPub built in, it's a plugin in beta currently. Without AP, there is no client that can pull in website feeds and provide discoverability between WordPress sites, Mastodon posts, etc.
Amid San Francisco’s Woes, Elon Musk Plays Critic
Oh, only, what, a dozen plus years since this technique has been routinely weaponized?

How much are we spending each year on this farce of an organization? The fact that they are only figuring this out now exemplifies how clueless they are.
I don't know if I'm reading this right, but it sounds like the article takes "A cool URL doesnt change" to mean "Expect that URLs are forever" - where I take it to mean "To be cool - dont change your URLs".

My point is - I expect all URLs to rot or change. But you're still cool for keeping your URLs stable while it's in your power.

Reddit permalinks disappearing is is the very reason for the phrase, not proof that it's wrong
All big tech companies that store non-e2ee data are equally evil, because they all by law must make that data available to government spies without a warrant. (They know this, and they still collect the data.)

These same government spies run an international network of torture centers.
> It’s kinda like email.

Ok, that does not sound reassuring. What does that mean for my account if the server I am on disappears? Can I still login? Will my posts disappear? (probably not, but join-lemmy.org doesn‘t say if I am not mistaken)

My email provider has some way to make money. There is a good chance that it is around in 10 years. What about these servers? Who is running them and why should a single one still be around in 10 years?

If the choice of a server really is not important, why doesn’t join-lemmy.org have a "join random server" button.

Maybe these are non-issues. As a casually interested person I genuinely don’t know.
The biggest advantage of using SBCL over other Common Lisp implemnetations is that it has very good support for Common Lisp types:

https://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Handling-of-Types

I "(declaim)" the types of my exported functions (at least) which makes life much easier when consuming the library's API, and when you make a mistake (either in the caller or the implementation) you'll get either an error or a warning when you compile the function. The types also show up in the documentation in SLIME and can (but is not guaranteed to, you can check with (time) and (disassemble) and (sb-profile)) make code much faster... specially if you need a lot of numeric computation, declaring the types of the numbers as `fixnum` or `single-float` (you may need to explicitly restrict the range of the numbers too to get the best Assembly) your code can run much faster as that will let it compile to basically what C would do, as it avoids the Lisp numerical tower slowing things down.