Beigeshirt propaganda?! In MY fun hole?! How conflicting…

Super initiative!

I suspect there is wisdom to be learned from forest management, specifically how regular, small controlled burns are how you avoid huge, unmanageable forest fires.

It’s probably not what you’re imagining, but there is the lemmynsfw instance which is a Lemmy instance that is more or less explicitly for porn.

But there is one other, probably even more important advantage: Prolog is a programmer’s and software engineer’s dream. It is compact, highly readable, and arguably the “most structured” language of them all. Not only has it done away with virtually all control flow statements, but even explicit variable assignment too! These virtues are certainly reason enough to base not only systems but textbooks on this language.

The 90s certainly were a different time…

Yeah, that’s closer to the truth. Also, state education makes sure that we are at least aware of a certain few parts of our history, from executing our King and subsequently fighting off most of Europe to preserve the republic, to armed resistance when the Nazis occupied and the state capitulated, and finally De Gaul’s staunch non-alignment (as far as Western former empires go). Not to mention that the biggest improvement in the collective safety net for our society was obtained thanks to an ostensibly leftist coalition in the 1930s.

So it’s very much in our collective consciousness that we can protest, and that it’s a pretty normal thing to do, all things considered.

More to your point, I don’t know how many people here in France still expect protests to meaningfully obtain anything nowadays.

Does this make “be gay, do crime” easier or harder now?

I don’t expect ai/LLM tools to make it easier to create nice looking art, but they should make it easier for anyone to create their own placeholder graphics that at least would allow them to run the game on their own.

Merci pour le taf!

Interesting news, to be sure. It’s a shame that the article’s “What People Are Saying” section is really “what high-placed Russian officials are saying”.

Thank you, OP, for sharing an archive link.

I don’t think anyone can host a relay right now aside from bluesky.

People can host their own data / Personal Data Server, which is somewhere between self-hosting a mastodon instance and creating an account on someone else’s instance. The actual equivalent would be self-hosting your masto account separately from any instance (which is just not a thing with the current state of mastodon nor activity pub).

Sometimes it’s been butch cis women being accused of “being a man”.

Hate and bigotry really break people’s minds, it’s sad to see.

• !programmer_humor@programming.dev est chouette (et souvent tres con)
• !historymemes@lemmy.world, !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
• !weedtime@crazypeople.online tres con mais si tu consommes (ou a consommé par le passé) du cannabis y’a moyen que tu trouves drole
• !oglaf@midwest.social un de mes webcomics préférés se fait re-partager dans cette commu. c’est souvent très con, et encore plus souvent très NSFW, mais pour autant rarement (meme pas du tout) pornographique
• !homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org partage régulièrement pleins de recettes chouettes (et vegan, au cas où c’est important pour toi)
• !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works est la version anglophone de !artsdufil@jlai.lu (et du coup est plus active)
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works et !patientgamers@lemmy.ml pour des discussions plutot posées et nuancées sur des jeux vidéo hors-actu
• !quefaitlapolice@jlai.lu remplissait bien mon fil mais ne reçoit plus de postes depuis 20 jours (en meme temps y’avait que le modo qui l’animait donc ça ne m’etonnerait pas qu’iel fassent une pause)
• !grimdank@lemmy.world pour des memes 40K
• !godot@programming.dev

Mes chouchous persos :

• !permacomputing@slrpnk.net + !permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
• !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
• !digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world

Now there’s a name I hadn’t heard in a long time.

RIP and damn you Jacen for fallling so hard (even if said fall made for some very compelling writing).

Sounds like The Matrix.

They probably think the tree farming that the space age expansion introduces (finally a way to counter your pollution!) is “some gay shit”.

I like the idea, but then who gets to decide who is and isn’t a credible source? Is it only intra-account verifying? Can anyone verify anyone else, or do you need to be authorized by bluesky to start verifying others?

100% agree on this recommendation. Her Young Wizards / “So you want to be a wizard?” makes almost the exact opposite choices as the Harry Potter series does (magic is a choice not inherited at birth, Wizards feel responsible towards the rest of the world instead of wanting to ignore it completely, they learn on their own with their magic tome and some informal tutors instead of going to a school).

I love the paper-collage-effect! If I may ask, what’s your technique?

Succinctly put, though I got some cognitive dissonance when the author wrote about bluesky being their choice of decentralized network to get involved with without even mentioning the hosting costs involved with running a bsky relay (or whichever component of the ATP network actually holds the data “firehose”).

According to this article it took a server that costs around $150/month over 4 days to spin up a working relay, most of which was spent ingurgitating half a terabyte of data (that’s what ended up on disk in any case). Far from exorbitant, yet if I want to self host for my own personal needs it’s still gobs more data and compute than any activity pub software needs.

Maybe my view of “decentralization as in democracy” is just fundamentally different from the author’s. I get the feeling that to them, as long as each friend group has 1 self-hoster in it then democracy through decentralization is preserved. This would make sense that they orient themselves towards something like bluesky and the AT protocol. Personally, I don’t think we should be satisfied with that level of decentralization/democracy - it’s a nice start, but we should strive for reaching at least 50% of people self-hosting an activity pub instance to truly achieve the type of decentralization that serves democracy. Of course, I’m not aware of any activity pub software that can be selfhosted by even 10% of the population, currently, so there’s definitely a lot of work to do before my vision is feasible.