Of course a 6" screen doesn't produce as much as a ball of nuclear fire

But that ball of fire isn't 12 inches from your face at midnight. And, the majority of blue light filter use is targeting sleep quality. A good portion of this comes down to cumulative exposure time. The best solution is to just not look at screens after a certain hour, but no one wants to do that.

It's not my intent to determine how things "should" work.

This is how things DO currently work.

I don't think that assertion is based in reality. A server has to be hosted somewhere, and admins will generally choose to uphold those local regulations for the sake of their instance's own longevity. Federation has never meant that you communicate with literally every other instance. This isn't Tor where nodes pass along communications that don't directly involve themselves.

This isn't handwringing, though I can understand why it might come off that way. This is simply mulling over how things "actually work" in the fediverse as opposed to how people believe it works. I believe that many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of what this software is and how it works. This is an educational issue that we have an opportunity to begin sorting out

People need to understand what lemmy is. This is not monolithic social media like facebook or reddit. People need to understand that, or the mismatch between how they think it works and how it actually works is going to cause a lot of mental anguish that could be avoided.

As they say in software development, 8 hours of debugging can save you from one hour of reading the manual.

When a Lemmy.World user posts to a Beehaw community right now, it updates the cached community that Lemmy.World stores. Beehaw has defederated with them, so the "source of truth" (hosted by Beehaw) never updates. The source of truth is what updates other federated instances. As a result, someone on startrek.website, for example, will not see posts made by lemmy.world users to beehaw communities. The only people who can see what lemmy.world users post to beehaw right now are other lemmy.world users.

Blue light has a documented effect on our circadian rhythm and melatonin production. It's been studied quite a bit. I'm sure mental overstimulation is a component, but it absolutely is not the whole story.

In Western society, there is a big focus on silver bullet solutions because people don't want to address issues in a holistic way. Thus, you have blue light filters instead of turning the screen off.

That is correct, and this is why a new instance only shows the most recent 20 posts for a community until someone from the viewing instance subscribes to it. From that moment forward (barring de-federation), the host instance sends updates to the viewing instance. The viewing instance provides content to its users from the local copy that it stores.

When/if refederation happens, the comments lost to the abyss will stay lost to the abyss. The source of truth will not update based on the past updates of a formerly defederated instance to my understanding

The only way to not address things on a per-server basis is for moderation tools to be expanded in scope. Maybe that will be how things work one day, but it is not how things can work right now.

Lemmy has public mod logs if you're ever curious

How long until Reddit gets evicted from their office?

Sure, and I should've been more clear and said people need to understand what the Fediverse is.

This is, ultimately, about what federation means and how this platform operates. Its deficiencies, and the way things work currently to address those deficiencies. What I have posted is just as true for kbin as it is for lemmy.

I do, personally, think it's reasonable for an instance to have "private" communities exclusive to their own users. This is likely a subject that comes down to personal belief, but after dealing with so many trolls and bad actors on other platforms, I absolutely do see a need to have those kinds of permissions.

As an aside, this was the most difficult shirt I've made yet easily. I attribute this to two factors:

• The fabric having such a fluid drape is crazy. It's like trying to stitch water together sometimes.
• I have come to dislike fusible interfacing because of the puckered texture it often gets during washing. This uses a Pellon branded sew in interfacing, and is my first time using such interfacing. It worked amazingly well, but was an adjustment for sure.

Ultimately I intend to ask my fabric store more about this particular fabric and what other colors it may be available in. It's just so glorious to wear.

Broadly speaking, that's correct.

Regardless of how development goes in the future, this post is meant to highlight the realities of the current, and the ideological realities of what content on the fediverse is, as well as where you are served it from.

Thanks, I really appreciate that. Education was the foremost goal of this post, and I'm glad some of that may have come through

The intent of Beehaw appears to be giving people a safe place that they can return to, but they can venture out just as well. That ideal does not mesh with an allowlist. The goal doesn't appear to be to curate a specific experience, it is to block bad actors from harassing Beehaw's users on Beehaw's hosted communities.

With this in mind, I think it absolutely does make sense for lemmy to include permissions that restrict what foreign users can do vs what local users can

Thanks! The pattern is "Jensen Shirt" from Wardrobe By Me

It's a fantastic pattern, and does a great job (imo) of illustrating collar construction.

The answer to your question is yes

Let's count our blessings that 55 million people haven't tried to join this platform at once.

It would have a lot of severely negative effects:

• Bringing over the hive mind
• Bringing over the influencers and thirst traps
• Crippling all or most of the current instances
• Etc

Given the nature of this platform, you can generally expect slightly more technical people on average or at least people who are not afraid of trying new technologies. The average person will not want to deal with learning how instances work or how federation works. Hell, I was chatting with a good friend who is a senior programmer and he doesn't want to deal with these things.

Thank you for phrasing my point so eloquently.

I have absolutely seen some highly upvoted pillars of salt over there.

I agree. These mechanisms are in place to stop the fediverse from becoming fedChan

Aha, good eye.

Thanks for clarification!

That makes sense. Unfortunate, but hopefully better mod tooling comes fast

In my opinion, if you are interested you should.

It's very satisfying to wear a shirt that you created and that no one else can even own because you made it. Just make sure you watch some tutorial videos and don't let fear of failure get the best of you

If you are worried about losing the fabrics value from messing up, consider picking up some super cheap cotton muslin to practice on. Near me it is as low as $5 a yard, So a practice shirt could be 10 to $15 worth of muslin

To be completely honest, I have no idea how many man hours this one took.

In general, I can complete this pattern with cotton fabric in a couple days of hobby work, but this fabric is a bit slippery and I definitely spent twice as much time preparing everything to mitigate that. Plus this was my first time doing French seams

This is all cotton. It's a quilting fabric so it's a little thick for a shirt, but that works fine for men's wear

Doesn't make sense to include a lemmy.world community as long as we aren't federated with them imo

The biggest thing is to not be afraid of mistakes in my opinion. You will learn more about how constructions go together by doing them, making mistakes, reevaluating your mental model, and fixing those mistakes than you will by paralyzing yourself with fear.

Find a reasonable first pattern and make it several times. Then find a second pattern that takes skills from the first and adds others. In this way, you grow your skill set to accomplish the things you want to do.

Once you reach that point, try different materials. Learn about how different materials need to be finished, and use that knowledge to modify the patterns you already know. French seams are an excellent tool for this.

At this point, the world is your oyster. I'm currently working my way through a few new patterns, and a wild variety of fabrics. It's very satisfying, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I am.

This was my fourth shirt, but I recently posted my ninth. I've come a long way, and I still make a bunch of little dumb mistakes. It's fine, it has never ruined one of my shirts.

Oh and one more thing! When you buy a pattern many will be printed on tissue paper, and will have the lines printed for ever available size. It's expensive, but I have grown to love swedish tracing paper. It's not actually "paper", and the idea is that you trace your intended size lines of a pattern onto it, cut the panels out of the swedish tracing paper, and now you have a more durable way to repeat the exact same sewing pattern with whatever fabric you find yourself with. By doing this, you can keep the purchased tissue pattern as an archive. Maybe you need to retrace something eventually, or maybe you want to make the same thing in a different size one day. Regardless of why, you can't do that if you cut your intended size out of the tissue pattern.

I strongly recommend The Indian Cooking Course if this sounds delicious to you

It has a ton of recipes from different regions of India

I know someone who is experiencing this as well. I don't have an answer, but this may be an issue that affects multiple users

The tools are lacking, as you said.

This post is not about how things should be. It's not about how things might be one day. It's about how they are right now

I've been in QA for 12 years, and it can be great if you want to innovate (test automation) while also sometimes doing manual work (manual test) to punctuate hard thinking sessions.

I'm not diagnosed as neurodivergent(and strongly suspect I may have ADHD) but do I have a lot of ND coworkers in dev and QA.

This really comes down to choosing for what your ND needs. Spend some time getting to know your brain and it's particular needs. Identify what you want vs what you need.

Good luck on finding your way

I'm also in the market for this.

I'm considering setting up a raspberry pi4 nas, and would love to hear pros and cons from people with experience on the matter.

I assume there are faster solutions, but I think it should meet my needs well

What model pi? How responsive do you find it?

Chat GPT can legitimately assist you here.

I'm not saying that it's going to be 100% perfect, but I am saying that you can ask it to explain things in plain language and it generally does okay

Thanks!

It's been very satisfying getting better at these and occasionally wearing them into fabric stores.

The ladies running the stores are always taken aback when they realize I'm wearing my own work

A little bit yes, a little bit no

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