If disk space is a problem, why don’t more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what’s posted doesn’t need to be archived forever.

If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There’s not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do “age verification.”

It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won’t go that far right now — they’ll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.

Those licenses are not free or open source, and thus it is not relevant to this community.

Stretching, good call. I try to get in a little after the 20 minutes is up but should probably do more.

So far roughly half the time I’m on the bike-like machine with pedals, and the other half it’s a mix of doing stuff with dumbbells and other assorted calisthenics type stuff. Anything that keeps the heart rate up.

The impression I get of the common wisdom — after reading all about it in the course of convincing myself to try actual exercise — is that as long as you do at least 10 or 15 minutes at a time it doesn’t make much difference whether you do a little every day or 75 minutes twice a week.

I think the window for having that debate was some time around 1992.

Miniskirts were a thing in the 1960s.

Encouraging more teen pregnancies seems like it might cause problems for the education system, but that’s okay; Fox News loves the uneducated.

Personally I suspect that the best cure for a low fertility rate is a good 60 to 100 years of declining population size. It’s worth a try anyway.

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Yeah, I was somewhat dismayed to see Little Snitch getting so much attention on mastodon despite it not being free software. I don’t see the appeal.

OpenSnitch does the job quite well. Things in debian are mostly well-behaved, but it’s caught quite a few games running under wine that were up to no good.

It’s gambling all the way through, but sure enough there’s some amount of information to be found in the way people are betting.

As I understand it, the psychology of other participants does come into it in much the same way it does in a poker game or the stock market. One doesn’t strictly bet on the outcome of events — in all such markets that I heard about positions can be taken up and then sold for profit as opinion shifts, before the predictions are ever constrained by actual outcomes.

The goal of “prediction” markets is to make money for the people who operate them. But sometimes they’re right anyway.

Linux vs Windows? One is a popular computer operating system, the other is some kind of advertising and data collection tool from Microsoft.

Finland wins again!

It used to be the largest, a few years ago. It used to be among the best, a few years before that. It’s still pretty good, but no longer suitable for everyone like it was in the old days.

Don’t laugh.

Oh I’m not laughing. They’re really pulling out all the stops to try and lose, and it’s appalling.

Much as people would like them to, both upvotes and downvotes mean very little. I learned this on reddit but it seems equally true here.

I remember admiring its art style when it first came out — it seemed to capture something beautiful about the landscape that reminded me of real Canadian wilderness. Now seems like a good time to try playing it.

Lorde’s “master’s tools” speech is routinely misread in tech discourse

Can confirm. As a person with a “tech” background I certainly misread it that way the first time I saw it quoted and went to learn more. It took some amount of actual thinking to understand what she was getting at and how it could be engaged with more fairly in contexts so far from that of the original.