Oh god, I feel this in my soul. I feel so fortunate that most people only see the running average of my work output and not a live feed of what I'm actually spending my time doing.
I'll make the "China bad" post. There are very few governments with an ego as fragile as China's. It barely even makes sense since they have the weight and soft power to lead by example, or develop healthy ties with the rest of the world. But they just. Don't. It really gives the impression that all is not well within their borders.
For those interested, this is because of how Rust uses value gaps to represent its nullable/enum structures. E.g., like how None for Option NonZeroU8 [sic, can't get formatting to work] is represented internally by a 0 instead of a wrapping structure.
When you have that many layers around a unit, it will start at 0 and bump the internal representation for each Some you turn into a None.
That gets wildly different with how taxing games are and how much they specifically take advantage of x86_64 instructions sets. Even decade old games would barely squeak by, if they don't break entirely.
Fediverse could absolutely do better on just that data, though I do want to note the really effective (or addictive) algorithms for TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, etc. work on a hell of a lot more data than that. Not just what you directly interacted with, but did you even just click on the link? Did you go to the comment section? How long were you in the comment section? What comments did you expand? When you follow a link or look at an image, how long till you go to the next post?
Like I said, there are ways to do better with what we have, but the "ideal" behavior is secretly fueled by a whole lot of extra data collection that gets distributed everywhere.
I wouldn't class agnosticism as cowardly atheism, it's very much its own class.
Atheism is the disbelief of gods or enlightened creation.
Agnosticism is just a "we don't know" catch-all. There might be an Abrahamic god, with a heaven or hell that follows. There might be connected life and consciousness in the form of pantheism, where our consciousness dissipates and gets absorbed into the rest of existence. We might be living in a simulation, and wake up to a world with an entirely different set of rules and beliefs. Or maybe traditional atheism is right, this is our only existence, and we return to nothingness after death.
On a tangent, I'm weirded out by staunch atheists in the same way I'm weirded out by organized religion. We're living subjective experiences of reality fed to us by electrified sacs of meat in our head, and even that could just be the truth on paper given to us by a simulation. We don't know what we don't know. We don't remember what it was like before birth, but a nasty blow to the head could make it so we don't remember what it was like yesterday. Observable and measurable fact is all we have, and anyone who claims to know what's behind it or between the lines, or for that matter what isn't there, is just elaborating on their own worldview, not empirical evidence.
Have the new Z Fold after years of owning borderline-phablets and the usability is much better. My previous phone (Galaxy S20+) felt too big and painful to use one-handed, yet typing with two hands felt awkward. This splits the use cases. Slim one-hand phone on the outside. Mini-tablet typing monster on the inside. 🤌
That's true, but whataboutism is a tried and true tactic to deflect attention from Russia. We can do both. Fuck Russia for doing this now, and we should fuck ourselves/hold ourselves accountable and advocate for better transparency.
But this is an article about Russia, now's not the time for tangents.
It's a rough definition, but astroturfing is usually rooted in goals separate from or even counter to the stated movement. E.g. in your example outside support for a labor movement wouldn't necessarily be astroturfing if it's genuinely supporting labor. A fake labor movement sprouted by the companies themselves to take the wind out of the sails of real labor movements would.
I agree, I have some hope as common folk get more and more tuned in, especially as obscure runs like the Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship and votes against the Ohio constitutional amendment process change result in overwhelming positive outcomes.
It's not...? It's literally just another social media site, it doesn't hook into ActivityPub or any cross-broadcast protocol. I don't know why you're throwing around the word "fediverse" here.
Oh god, I feel this in my soul. I feel so fortunate that most people only see the running average of my work output and not a live feed of what I'm actually spending my time doing.