Especially sad because every extra gun that is added is just more opportunity for innocents in the line of fire to get gunned down.

There’s no “bad-guy-seeking-bullets.” This ain’t Roger Rabbit.

I’ll say it before and I’ll say it again:

Having a weapon and not being in a large group in public just means the cops are more likely to shoot first and ask questions later. Especially in Trump’s America.

If you’re alone don’t give them a reason to believe you’re armed, because it will be used as a pretext to murder you.

The only time it works is if you’re in a large enough group and in a public space where the cops will draw unwanted attention to what they’re trying to do.

The first time I took mushrooms it had been after reading about this kind of thing for about a week.

I recall reading about a man who was effectively blind but his eyes worked fine. What didn’t work fine was the part of his brain that interpreted what his eyes saw. So he just saw smeary streaks of light.

It’s kind of like Linux without its V4L2 system for interpreting video capture devices. It can’t actually see video without it.

Yeah Twin Pines Ma— I mean Lone Pine Mall.

Some big things have inauspicious starts.

I know we all want to hang out in a Marquette community, but isn’t midwest.social close enough?

A grue after my own heart! 100% exactly, and this is an issue I feel like most other people aren’t discussing!

Decentralization is moot if we’re using centralized pipes controlled by corporations and governments.

We need a return to community communications like the days of the barbed wire phone networks.

Kickass, that’s great to hear!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

Here are links to the githubs of Lemmy, Mastodon, and Mbin. These are good places to start getting involved. That’s where most of the development happens for each.

Good luck and thank you for wanting to be involved!

You know what the simple way is? Are you a designer? Yes? Then please get involved in the project and help the engineers design it.

It’s all Open Source. That means anyone can contribute, and if designers aren’t contributing, then the design will be done by engineers.

It takes volunteers and I’m so so so so tired of seeing people bitch about it but are unwilling to volunteer their time to make it better.

None of these people are being paid, all the work they do for you is for free for your benefit. They do not have Venture Capital backing them with millions of dollars like Bluesky owes Blockchain Capitol. $15 million to be exact. $15 million they’re going to want a return on which means monetizing users. (Something that won’t happen in an Open Source ecosystem)

“It’s not my job to contribute to a community project that I use daily” you may as well be saying “It’s not my job to make the world a better place.”

Enough folks are here for me. In fact, I’d argue that this is right about the right size, and that if we get that much bigger, it will become a mess like anything else.

I’ve spoken about it with some others, and we think that part of the problem with major sites like reddit is the scale itself.

That at a certain point, no amount of modding tools can save you from the flood of users doing things you have to moderate.

It’s why I think moderation needs to be a paid position (a la MetaFilter), and a site needs to have a max userbase tailored to how many mods they have available.

When you add more users, you’re actually exponentially increasing user interactions. Most of the time, you’re actually moderating interactions between users than actual individual users, so you must add moderators exponentially as your userbase grows because the potential connections between users are growing exponentially compared to the number of users.

The internet is becoming balkanized.

Time to start building a parallel community-organized internet around it.

Oh wait we’ve already planted the seeds of that with what we’re doing here on the Fediverse. Carry on, carry on.

Almost all copper wire phone lines are gone.

Almost all calls are routed via the internet these days, which makes them trivial to track. This was the “metadata” scandal during the Bush admin where they said they were only spying on people’s metadata. But metadata is enough to see that someone made a single, hour-long call to a suicide prevention hotline, and that’s enough to make some likely valid assumptions of what happened during that call.

The NSA has been sucking down the entire internet into their Utah datacenter since late 2013, over 10 years ago.

When the MAGAs went to the Capitol on Jan 6th 2021 I was actually shocked they weren’t rounded up more quickly because cell phones have an IMEI identifier as well as a MAC address , both of which get logged on the cell towers they connect to. It should have been trivial to connect devices to device-owners and be able to track where the devices went after they left the Capitol.

Stingrays, fake cell towers that allow police to surveil all connections made to their Stingray, have been around since 2001.

Hell, hacker Kevin Mitnick was caught using simple cellular tower triangulation back in 1995.

Yep, that’s why Hillary was basically in control of the party via Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and how much the DNC effectively owed Clinton at that point.

People want to memory hole that aspect of it but it was 100% a response to the Obama presidency an attempt to grab a stranglehold on the party which she used to shut down Sanders and force her nomination. People often forget this is the same year the Republicans rejected Jeb Bush. America didn’t want Bush v. Clinton again, and Trump and Sanders were the only voices offering anything different. Democrats shut down their nascent progressive wing, and Trump just steamrolled the Republicans because he’s a fucking bully and those guys bend over and take it for bullies.

Saturday’s People’s March in Washington DC drew smaller numbers than its predecessors.

Organisers had expected 50,000 people. About 5,000 turned up.

Sounds like the voters did show up in the same numbers at the voting booth and at the rallies.

100%, and it stars Matthew Lillard right after he came out of doing Hackers and Scream. It’s a classic and very heartfelt.

Sounds like an overly complicated and resource intensive way to have failover servers to me, and I’m usually pro-decentralization.

I don’t experience DNS interruptions when I’m running multiple failovers.

You posted two different responses to this so I will address them both.

This first one is a study on incarcerated inmate populations who are by definition kept in close, somewhat dirty quarters. A jail shower isn’t something you go into barefoot unless you want some funky fungus. This doesn’t really apply to everyday populations and even referenced that their lack of community data instead of just incarcerated people limits their findings and they can say about them.

Secondly, your other link implies the opposite about “leaky” vaccines than you are implying.

“We now are entering an era when we are starting to develop next-generation vaccines that are ‘leaky’ because they are for diseases that do not do a good job of producing strong natural immunity — diseases like HIV and malaria,” Read said.

What’s the answer?

Rigorous testing and vigilant monitoring of next-generation vaccines to prevent the evolution of more-virulent strains of viruses will help.

Read sees this as crucial to the current attempt to develop an Ebola vaccine. He notes that secondary techniques can help when using leaky vaccines, such as insecticide-treated bed nets for prevention of malaria.

So for one they are talking about diseases like HIV and malaria are more difficult to address because of their lack of immune response, and for two they point out that secondary techniques help. In reference to your first article, the inmates could have been helped by a secondary technique of separation to reduce transmission.

You do, especially if its a new game.

I had seen other comments mentioning the same and had considered mentioning that is out of reach for a lot of people but then didn’t.

Like my PC is running STALKER 2 great on the lowest settings, but if I had to run it through a VM first I would lose a lot of performance and probably dip below 60fps.

Most games people want to pirate are brand new so telling them to do something like reformat their (probably only) PC to run baremental Linux with a Windows VM for the game is just silly and unreasonable. At that point you may as well just buy the game if you need a whole extra computer to pirate it safely.

I couldn’t possibly run brand new games in a VM and I only have one computer that can even play modern games. Silly suggestion.