I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
Yes, this is because of the recent Technology Connections video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=INZybkX8tLI
My car charger can boil water really fast
That title might be the best effort I can pull off.
Other stuff:
Technology Connections on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.social
Technology Connections on Mastodon: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify
They must have been editing the article back and forth. I also only saw “WebRender Layer Compositor”, but it’s organized nicely now
IMO vaccine and evolutionary biology is very nuanced, and depends a lot on the individual genetics, type of pathogen, type of vaccine, etc. The net result from people dying off might be moot, and could even be harmful.
Immune science is often taught as an arms race, but that model tends to imply that both sides are constantly gaining beneficial traits. That’s true in some cases, like the fever response, which is a beneficial trait we gained at some point, and it continues to be useful.
Meanwhile, other phenotypes are very context dependent for whether they are helpful or harmful. HLA (human leukocyte antigen) for example, that’s how our T-cells identify between ‘self’ and ‘foreign’ particles. We rely on the tremendous diversity of HLA alleles in the human population in order to survive new diseases. Someone’s HLA alleles can be a poor match for a current disease, but very helpful for a future disease. Having them die off now would be a bad thing. Similarly, someone with an HLA combination that makes them more effective against a current disease, may be ineffective against a future disease. Another simpler one is the ABO blood types, where different pathogens (ex. malaria, cholera, smallpox) are better/worse at infecting cells with certain blood types, evidenced by the different proportions of blood types in regions endemic to such diseases.
Evolution is messy, and the evolution of the immune system is messier still. Even if we only look at it from a simplified Darwinian evolution perspective, having genetic diversity might be more important than any shedding of ‘weaker’ alleles from people dying off because their natural immunity couldn’t handle a particular infection.
You can view the source for my comment and copy paste :)
Do this in order:
Install with LUKS full-disk encryption and Btrfs subvolumes for and @home so snaps are atomic.
Enable automatic snapshots with Timeshift or snapper.
Export your package lists:
dpkg --get-selections > packages.txtpacman -Qqe > pkglist.txtflatpak list --app > flatpaks.txtPut your dotfiles under version control and manage them with chezmoi or GNU Stow.
Use Flatpak for GUI apps, containerized toolchains (podman) for dev environments, and keep only system-critical packages in the distro manager.
Back up with Borg: borg init --encryption=repokey /path/to/repo ; borg create repo::$(date +%F) /home /etc --stats ; borg prune --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6
Keep a small, bootable USB with the exact kernel/tools you use so you can unlock LUKS and mount Btrfs snapshots.
Test restores quarterly: restore a snapshot to a spare partition and boot it. Do that for a year and tell me reinstalling is fun again.
Why post something in the first place then?
The other user asked you for more context because they want to understand/ learn from what you’ve shared.
Your post is missing context.
That’s awesome, I haven’t seen many family software projects before.
Looking forward to seeing how it develops!
Hello,
Please keep the original title when making a link post, or leave the link field empty so that it appears as a text post. That way it’s clear to everyone that these are your words and not the headline of the article. Some apps/clients can make that confusing for users.
In your case, it would be easiest to edit the post and clear the link field. You can keep the link that you already have in the body of the post.
Otherwise the post will be removed by one of the mods.
Thank you :)
Very cool, it’s on my list of things to try out at some point
my family and I’ve been working on
I’m curious what this has been like, if you don’t mind sharing 😄 What is each person working on?
Likely related
https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3
Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.
Microsoft has since denied this, but they haven’t released much info on what they say happened instead.
A Microsoft spokesperson said that it had been in contact with the court since February “throughout the process that resulted in the disconnection of its sanctioned official from Microsoft services.” The spokesperson added that “at no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC.”
Khan’s email disconnection has sparked Europe’s fears that Trump could flip a “kill switch” to cut digital services through American tech giants, as the continent seeks to become less dependent on U.S. technology. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others dominate Europe’s cloud and digital services sectors.
Microsoft declined to comment further in response to questions regarding the exact process that led to Khan’s email disconnection, and exactly what it meant by “disconnection.” The ICC declined to comment.
They also said that they’ll be adding legal clauses that would stop them from doing that, but I’m not sure how much that actually helps in practice.
It’s very similar to Lemmy, and probably the closest to Lemmy out of the other platforms that follow this format.
We tried to describe the differences here
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms#forum-style
These platforms follow a forum format, similar to platforms like Reddit or Hacker News. You can share and discuss links, text, and images, and upvote/downvote content to decide on what content rises to the top.
These platforms use one of two projects under the hood:
- Lemmy - Lemmy is an established and stable project. It was designed to be very fast and reliable, and it makes up a large part of the forum side of the Fediverse
- Piefed - Piefed is a relatively new project that is growing in popularity. It offers new ways to organize content, such as topic lists, feeds, flairs, and additional moderation tools.
As they’re both federated, you can use any of them to connect to the wider Fediverse!
Thank you for creating it and maintaining it!
I’ve been trying it out and it’s nice :)
Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the split
programming of physics joke
Yes
That is possible
To get a link post with a custom thumbnail, you add the link and put the image in the thumbnail field.
To get an image post with a link, you make an image post and put the link in the post body.
There are exceptions to all of the points below, but generally:
What do you like better here than on Reddit?
Everyone is here trying to build something better. The developers are actually prioritizing transparency and user choice when making the software. Since the instances aren’t after profit, there’s no financial conflict of interest. It’s actually possible for instance admins to prioritize user experience and a healthy community instead of making a profit.
I love seeing all the different organizational structures emerging; some instances are nonprofits, some are co-ops, some are benevolent dictatorships. I think in the long run this will produce a fairer and more representative online platform.
Also my interactions feel human. If I get 5 upvotes on Lemmy or 5 likes on Pixelfed, it feels like I connected with 5 real people. On Reddit, I just can’t tell anymore.
What do you miss from Reddit?
Activity in niche communities, but that’s changing slowly.
Also, as a mod, we could still use better moderation tooling.
Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?
I think over time it will become more like Reddit. As the user base grows, the average will shift closer to what Reddit is like. Also, at the end of the day, a number of the issues are because of how groups of humans interact and not the platform itself.
However, the reason I’m here instead of the many other Reddit alternatives is because of federation. I believe that as long as we maintain a healthy balance in the fediverse (and not let one entity control too much), we can avoid the enshitification while centralized social media becomes unbearable for more and more people.
Very cool, thank you!
They all cool really cool, which might also mean that they’re all deadly to handle?
It’s still helpful for messages. The social share/thumbnail isn’t always available
A user is more likely to click on
https://unfamiliar.site/c/cats/192837/my-cat-napping-in-the-sun
compared to
https://unfamiliar.site/post/192837
I’m not saying that this should take priority over all the other things the developers are doing, but I’d still like to see it implemented at some point
There’s also been some recent discussion about possibly moving them to a whale sanctuary
I’d be curious if some independent entity can weigh in on if this facility would be adequate.
Cool!
Well that’s interesting