NaibofTabr

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Enforced toxic positivity is unhealthy, yes.

It’s not the cause, it’s a symptom of a larger problem.

What would I need an “out” for?

I wouldn’t imply that the unhealthyness of hexbear is due to the disabled downvoting though, and I’m sure you aren’t either, but just to be clear.

No, I’m implying the reverse: disabling downvoting is a symptom of the unhealthy mentality of the people running that server. Disabling downvoting appeals to authoritarians - that is, the type of people who are interested in silencing dissent (QED).

The only Lemmy community I’m aware of that has actually removed downvotes is hexbear - because they were tired of having their pro-Maoist rhetoric downvoted to oblivion by sane people. Hexbear is not a healthy place.

Don’t worry, this will still happen, they’ll just use stolen IDs from previous fishing victims, or from the database of 70,000 that Discord already had breached.

Enforced toxic positivity does not produce better conversations or better communities. It basically just turns a discussion forum into Disneyland, where everyone is happy all the time, because there’s no other option. It’s the kind of yes-man thinking you get in corporate meetings that produce really bad ideas because “don’t be negative! there are no bad ideas here!”

However, sustaining broad-spectrum jamming over a large area is expensive and impractical.

If the mesh network is wide enough, redundant enough, mobile enough, then traffic can be routed around jammed areas.

Um, do you have some contrary evidence to present? Or is your position just “US bad”?

He’ll probably feel right at home in Klantee.

That is you can take the heat and radiate it into space as Infrared radiation. IR radiation is able to travel through space as it is made of photons.

I’m not sure how effective this would be for the amount of heat generated by servers, but it’s not actually fully disqualified as I thought it would be.

This is how the International Space Station deals with waste heat: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/473486main_iss_atcs_overview.pdf

It’s very slow compared with convective cooling, definitely not practical for running any high-powered computer hardware, slow enough that it can be considered disqualified.

Every obscure website was a passion project. Forums were mainly for people being enthusiastic about something.

Though as a side note, those forum discussions would go on for years, with possibly months in between new posts. Enthusiast forums were mostly small communities with only a handful of users adding content.

Here on the Fediverse we have similar small communities sustained by small groups of active posters, but it feels like most users lose interest in posts and comment discussions very quickly, usually less than a day.

I guess my point is that one of the aspects of the Internet of the 90s/00s is that it wasn’t immediate, and people tended to show more patience with each other and with the technology. Even an IRC conversation might stretch out over days or weeks, especially if you were talking to someone multiple time zones away.

Neocities: https://neocities.org/browse!

Webrings: https://www.brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm

Usenet: https://www.spocket.co/blogs/what-is-usenet

Zombo: https://zombo.com/

Also:

Hmm, I think Windows and most Linux distros support mounting disk images directly at this point.

Literally just Right-click -> Mount

I’m not sure why you’d bother writing the disk image to an SD card and then using this hardware to mount it.

slugs

Yes, but it might gain other buffs to Charisma between now and 24 months. Charisma is forced to 1 at 24 months regardless.

Or pipe GUI output into another GUI function.

Or >> log.txt

Every person in every industry in a rush to replace the work of creative people with output from machine learning models can fuck right off.

Every consumer who is content with products made by such people can also fuck right off.

there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI

This opinion is contradicted by basically everyone who has attempted to use models to generate useful code which must interface with existing codebases. There are always quality issues, it must always be reviewed for functional errors, it rarely interoperates with existing code correctly, and it might just delete your production database no matter how careful you try to be.

Seriously, fuck Pearson. Garbage company.