Biggest issue is probably that everything, including private messages, is public here. Not where you want to share your adress/phone number.

“western food” is something that only exists in foreign countries anyways, like “asian food”. If it is something that is available, it’s not really what I’m used to from home, but some weird mish-mash of what someone thinks the typical american/british/german/other (in that order) eats. And on top of that, it’s usually terrible quality, not due to a lack of skill, just well, not having the right ingredients, not knowing the nuances of the food or what it’s supposed to taste like. So between a postmodernist interpretation of what someone thinks I eat, or proper local food, I really don’t understand why you’d ever not eat the local food.

But it’s not only western people. Japanese/Taiwanese/Chinese traveling in Switzerland do like to buy/bring instant noodles and cook them at the hotel instead of eating local food (not that there really is local swiss food, there’s like 3 dishes and then it’s mostly an amalgam of italian, french and german cuisine). Part of that is the high price, but not only. And from the few times I traveled in other european contries with friends from those asian countries, it seems common enough that they prefer to eat at asian restaurants. Except for italy, where everyone loves the local food.

So your stance is that as long as there’s anyone in the world not speaking out against everything made by immoral people, you can use whatever you want?

Also just FYI, Omarchy has a big history of beginner-level exploitable bugs, so just from a security standpoint I wouldn’t use it.

Also the highway is usually fenced in, making it clear that in this case you’re not supposed to be there.

They’re maxmaxxing hard…

and ‘revved up’

Oh my teeth hurt
Oh my tee-eeth hurt
It’s got to be my teeth hurt

• Led Zeppelin

Denmark and Norway. Not sure what he wants with the Netherlands, though.

Oh absolutely, you can only do this so long, and you can still see it if you look closely, but is seems that many investors forgot how to look closely?

Microsoft specifically had 13 billion capex on AI in January 2025, the last time they mentioned it separately. And like 75-100 billion revenue from cloud iirc, which was growing a lot because of AI financing shenanigans. So that could still hide the growing expenses at that point.

Not disagreeing with your overall point, but they can and do fudge the numbers to some extent with reporting tricks.

Like, you don’t want the public to know how terrible the AI business is? Merge it with the profitable cloud business internally and just report the numbers as a single line item. Overall the numbers are still correct, but you can hide unprofitable stuff inside larger, profitable stuff.

Or you suddenly increase the depreciation of GPUs from 3 years to 6 years, even though they wont actually last that long, to hide/spread out the huge investments you made.

heck if anything, the Fediverse, as it is right now, is more susceptible to this. You can spin up spam instances on new domains, with spam users, and have them federate to existing instances, faster than volunteer run instances can ban/defederate.

So you end up with not federating by default, but having some trusted web of instances that federate and maybe an approval process for new instances to federate with? But that’ll still lead to centralization with “trusted” instances and new instances having a hard time to join the club (there’s also the scaling problem of the fediverse, but that’s besides the point). So you end up with a few very big instances and the owners of those instances having all the power. Or maybe small isolated islands of mutually trusting instances? Still better than tech oligopoly, but also a far cry from the original dream.

I feel Authentik is at the sweet spot between complexity/features (keycloak) and ease of setup (authelia)

Look at the Tether stablecoin, Tether is solely responsible for minting new tokens and has full control over the tokens, being able to blacklist or destroy wallets/tokens (since it controls the “smart contract” involved). And they have done so because of sanctions and law enforcement request in the past, with afaik well over 1 billion USDT frozen.

I see no reason why the trump team wouldn’t just go for the same mechanism for their stablecoin.

Poor guy just wanted to get better at writing/animating

Good time to shamelessly plug valetudo, if your vacuum robot is supported.

With this, it does not access the public internet, and still functions the same as without rooting it. You just can’t manage it if you’re not home, unless you have some VPN set up or home assistant integration. But I don’t know when I ever wanted to manage/watch my vacuum robot when I’m not home. Some sort of offline mode should be legally required for these kinds of devices that don’t really need it. “Does not need an app to work” has become a major selling point for me for things, alongside “has physical buttons”.

Also drop me a message if you’re in switzerland and need an unsoldered valetudo breakout board, I still have around 5 left.

I think there’s still a lot of room to explore without abandoning the utopia setting. like we usually only see the spaceship stuff, but what about a more political drama taking place on member worlds, that kind of thing, i think it could be amazing.

also, as you say, it’s been done for 60 years. Might as well do the same thing over again for a new generation that hasn’t seen tos/tng/ds9. They don’t know it yet, so it’s not overused, and the TOS audience wouldn’t be the target audience anyways. and could still explore new topics. the audience isn’t the same, our world isn’t the same, making the same show again would still not be boring as it be a completely different thing.

Both approaches can work imo and have a place, without the need to go more dystopia.

Afaik to poison AI data.

Of course if it’s only them doing it, it will be too little data to affect AI training. And if enough people do the same to affect the training, it’d just be the way we talk now and AI wouldn’t be affected either. So it’s pretty pointless, but with bad externalities (being annoying), much like AI…

OS: Arch DM: Niri Terminal: Kitty Editor: Helix

A big issue is that this works for bots that announce themselves as such, but there’s lots that pretend to be regular users, with fake user agents and ips selected from a random pool with each ip only sending like 1-3 request/day, but overall many thousands of requests. In my experience a lot of them are from huawei and tencent cloud/ASN

I don’t actually know how nostr deals with messages if you’re offline, if at all, not that familiar with the protocol. But your idea sounds workable.

I tend to come at it from the other side, I like the federated model, but think the “supernodes” could behave more like dedicated relays. Like, a lemmy server right now does a lot of things, like serve a frontend, do expensive database queries to show a sorted feed, etc. and a lot of that does not scale very well. So having different kinds of nodes with more specialization, while still following a federated model makes sense to me. Right now if one of my users subscribes to some community, that community’s instance will start spamming my instance with updates nonstop, even though that user might not be active or might not even read that community anymore. It would be nicer if there was some kind of beefy instance I could request this data from if necessary, without getting each and every update even though 90% of it might never be viewed. But keeping individual instances that could have their own community and themes, or just be hosted for you and your friends to reduce the burden on non-techies having to self-host something.

Or put another way, instead of making the relays more instance-y, embrace the super instances and make them more relay-y, but tailor made for that job and still hostable by anyone, if they want to spend on the hardware. But I’m still not clear on where you’d draw the line/how exactly you’d split the responsibility. For lemmy, instead of sending 100’s of requests in parallel for each thing that happens, a super-instance could just consolidate all the events and send them as single big requests/batches to sub-instances and maybe that’s a good place to draw the line?