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I am, no worries.

What genius decided to denote the difference by using three shades of the exact same colour?

Using reverse proxies is common enough now that quite a few apps can deal with subpaths, and for the ones that can't you can generally get nginx to rewrite the paths for you to make things work.

Is signal not a viable option? Or can you still not use it without leaking your phone-number?

Because 1 bar is almost atmospheric pressure. Oddly enough I've never seen anyone use kPa, weather forecasts often use hPa (instead of mbar) to report atmospheric pressure.

Not sure about the self-driving, but he had a video challenging the idea that electrons in wires that carry electricity. Basically arguing that it was the electric fields themselves that carried the power, which is largely outside of the actual wires.

Not sure if that's the same one where he asked what would happen if you used a light switch connected to a lamp by two wires. Apart from some truly egregious mistaken units (1s/c as unit of time), I vaguely recall thinking it was basically a huge clusterfuck of misunderstandings about what an electrical circuit diagram even is (stuff like real vs idealized components, parasitic capacitance / inductance etc.)

They're the kind of 'Well actually' half true factoids that you never hope to encounter in the wild if you actually understand the stuff. For someone claiming to be enthusiastic about science communication he did one heck of a job poisoning concepts with subtly wrong/misleading explanations that make it a lot harder to explain stuff to anyone with the misfortune to encounter his version first.

In a way AI refusing to recommend using so much computing power on LLMs could well be the first sign of actual intelligence.

Setting Milei aside for a minute, should you wish to revise government you nigh always need to do so from a position of power. This also applies if you actually wish to reduce the power government has.

Technically giving yourself absolute power makes sense even for someone acting in good faith wanting to reduce or improve government. Wouldn't be the first time someone fucked up the succession though.

Hey I can upvote now!

For some more context, this is probably tied into at least two things. One is that the bubble was starting to be recognized for what it was. The other is that interest rates became positive again, so the bar for a good investment suddenly went from "I'll be happy if I get my money back" to "I want to be paid back double within 20 years".

To settle this argument could you clarify if we're supposed to be considering the straw as a solid 3D object with a thickness, or as a curved 2D surface? The answer kind of depends on which you pick.

I mean, that's how federation ought to work right?

Though it's a bit of a shame that moving user accounts doesn't really seem to be a thing yet.

The highest voted side effect applies for all powers obtained in this way.

Not much you can do about institutions you have no control over, but surely you could go to a different bank?

Assuming there is a bank that doesn't use this of course.

To understand it you'll need to know roughly what an OS is. Very roughly speaking an OS provides a program with a way to access files, connect to the internet and launch other programs.

What docker does is make something a bit like a 'virtual' OS with its own filesystem, network and task manager, and then start running programs in it (which then may launch other programs).

Since you're not making a VM which must simulate all of the hardware, this is a lot cheaper. However since a docker container gets its own filesystem, network etc. it can do whatever it wants without any other programs getting in the way.

Among other things docker containers make installation a lot easier since a program will only ever see its own files (unless you explicitly add your own files to the docker container). To a large extent you also don't need to worry about installing any prerequisites, since those can just be put into the container.

Making a docker container is a bit (a lot) like installing a fresh OS, just putting the stuff you need in it and then copying the whole OS whenever you want to run the thing again. Except it's been optimized such that it takes about as much effort as launching a program, as opposed to a VM which needs dedicated resources and are generally slower than the machine that hosts them.

Yeah this is one of the reasons I don't like companies that profit directly of of pirating. It never ends well and eventually someone is going to figure out they can just buy the company instead of competing on convenience.

People are weird. I mean they're completely fine with random people at google knowing their exact location what they're doing and what websites they look at, but as soon as you start following them around in public they get all upset!

Seriously though, I'm guessing that an app just doesn't feel very 'threatening' somehow. It's just an appliance, in some sense. You don't care about the toilet seeing your private parts right?

Word filtering is fairly easy to do if you know your way around uBlock filters.

I think /r/science is misunderstood. The moderators had quite a clear vision on the kind of discussion they wanted and the kind they did not. This caused some friction every time a post reached /r/all but I don't see that as a bad thing.

If anything that's an ideal situation. People encounter a new community they're interested in, break some rules in ignorance, the mods interfere and the violations are rolled back, the new users then either follow the rules or leave.

Not sure how they're doing with the API changes, pretty sure they had some automation going. Don't think they're compatible with reddit's new view on making communities as interchangeable as possible to stop friction from interfering with ad revenue.

The images can get big, but they're fairly clever about it so it is manageable. Performance wise they don't take up more CPU and RAM than a regular application.

There's an (unofficial) image running nodemon on dockerhub about 250MB in size. The official NodeJS image is about 300MB (presumably they've preinstalled a bunch of stuff). You could start with the official image and install nodemon on it, that would probably be most future proof (no way of knowing if the unofficial image keeps getting updates, if any).

The extra syntax is just to add some features that aren't in CSS. Not quite sure where this came from, I think it's from the Adblock Plus era, but Gorhill perfected it for uBlock origin, which makes it a very powerful tool.

It's not limited to just hiding the elements either, if you want you can simply restyle them (I've used this to redact sports results until I hovered over them).

Are we considering it 3D then? I thought we'd be thinking of it as a 2D surface (which, for the record, has got 2 holes).

Fair. It's not too hard, but most lemmy UIs make it a bit harder than it needs to be because they want to be a fancy JavaScript-ridden mess of html tags.

On old.lemmy.world it is supremely easy, you just use the element picker tool of uBlock to select all posts, add the 'magic' command :contains(reddit) to filter out the word you don't want (in this case reddit), and you've got your filter. This would result in old.lemmy.world##.post:contains(reddit).

On lemmy.world it is trickier because it is the kind of HTML no sane person would write. Doing the above you end up with lemmy.world##div.mt-2.post-listing:contains(reddit) which is messy, and misses a line that is used to divide the posts. With some manual tuning you can first simplify the first part to ##.post-listing:contains(reddit) and then add :xpath(.|following::hr[1]) to get rid of the annoying line. This results in ##.post-listing:contains(reddit):xpath(.|following::hr[1]).

Or there is but it was ages ago, had no decent answers and all information in it has become outdated.

That's fair, but is that environment any different from just a virtual OS? I mean it doesn't have its own filesystem and drivers etc, but that's precisely because they've been made virtual.

In this context I'd say systemd is an application, not the OS, though the distinction gets iffy I know.

The decentralization is what makes it hard to go down entirely, but a key difference between federation and full decentralization is that while lemmy allows the servers to share content they (crucially) don't share users, and sharing can be controlled by each instance. So if there is a group of people who frankly aren't nice to be around they can simply be cut off from the rest.

I'm not quite sure if lemmy allows communities to migrate instances at this point, but even if that is not possible federation is still a way to allow some parts to die while others survive.

Please don't add tracking in the name of security, thank you very much.

As far as 2D topology is concerned the number of holes increase when you glue the edges of the rectangle together.

Though in that case you're basically counting how many boundaries the surface has, which for a straw is 2 distinct circles.

I like the new layout better, just hope everything keeps working

The third is more gravity than physics, or perhaps you should consider it the absence of gravity.

What I'm trying to say is: stop following geodesics.

Dissent is not creativity.

You want the EU to go hard because you've given up on the rest of the world?

I mean I get where you're coming from but that's not even remotely resembling a solution.