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With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

I’m pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we’ll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.

The purpose of the base model is to make the more expensive higher end models look better in comparison than they otherwise would.

More details here http://thechagosrefugeesgroup.com/our-history/

How does the data throughput compare to cloudflare or wireguard?

You know how if your email app stops working you can just install another one and still communicate with anyone else with an email address? The fediverse is like that except it’s not email it’s twitter and reddit and YouTube all rolled into one. So if twitter was part of the fediverse when Musk bought it and destroyed it you could move to another server with a better moderation policy and pick up where you left off.

A convicted rapist (also charged with 91 other felonies) running for president, with as much chance as winning as the other guy.

Yes

They are synced. There is an insane data volume, yes. It is hell.

AppleScript. Amazing little language that comes with the OS. Can be used to to automate any app, send keystrokes, etc. Completely ignored by Apple and very underrated.

Another anecdote:

My girlfriend and I bought our phones (different makes and models, sadly) at the same time, about a year ago. I have been doing 80/20 religiously while she dgaf and does what she likes. I have not noticed any change in how much charge mine holds while she has started to complain that hers needs charging more often. Her phone cost twice as much as mine.

Judging by the upvotes, this is a common approach. I had no idea! Thanks.

If you have to block that many, it implies a UI issue with Lemmy. Something is wrong.

If there was a better way to find new communities to subscribe to, what would it look like? If there was a built-in community browser like https://lemmyverse.net/communities, would that help? What is lacking about the subscription process that causes you to use “All” instead?

My guess is specialized hardware. Similar to how mining crypto moved from CPU -> GPU -> ASIC, we’ll see LLM hardware that optimizes the currently-cpu-intensive pieces.

Check out Matomo

Life IS the purpose. If you’re alive, you’re already fulfilling your purpose whether you are aware of it or not.

That week recently when there were floods in every country except where there were fires in every country. That was wild.

By all means, put some effort in. Please.

The issues you raised about those sites were fixed within two hours.

https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

That mass games thing they do where each person is a pixel is quite something. Video.

The fediverse software I’m building weights the upvotes based on whether the instance has downvotes enabled or not. No downvotes = 0.5 weighting (admin configurable). My thinking is that when there are no downvotes, half of the signal is missing so upvotes from that instance are less useful.