riskable

I don’t think Google cares if the Fediverse succeeds or not. All they care about is that it can be indexed and people will be able to show Google ads on their instances.

Google doesn’t have a Reddit equivalent or even any other social network competitor (anymore; they killed them all). They explicitly chose to exit that entire concept of products.

The only reason XMPP mattered to Google at the time was they were trying to compete with Apple for messaging on mobile devices. XMPP meant that Android devices using Google Hangouts/Chat/Gmail could chat with users on other platforms/services while Apple’s chat app could only do SMS.

I guess what I’m saying is that Google is mostly irrelevant from the perspective of the Fediverse other than the fact that it can index and maybe give priority to discussions of certain products/topics like it does with Reddit currently.

If you’re trying to get ancient software to work I think “user friendliness” is the least of your concerns. Especially compared to the alternative (Windows) where the answer is just, “No: That’s not going to work no matter what you do.”

The majority of trips taken in the US in cars is 3 miles or less

This statistic is true but incredibly misleading. Firstly, a huge chunk of those trips are trips to the supermarket or other shopping which is not something you’re going to do on a bike. You can only fit so many groceries in a bike trip… Even with a trailer. (Aside: I wonder if frozen foods would even make it safely all the way home in the South if you loaded up a bike with a trailer and had to travel 3 miles?)

The second reason why it’s misleading is that it includes trips after you’ve gone to work. So you commute to work: 41 miles. Actually, you stop at Starbucks on the way and that’s only two miles from your house so that counts as a single-destination car trip. Then for lunch you take a short trip from the office to a restaurant/fast food place. That’s a single-destination car trip.

You go out to dinner some nights at a restaurant 3 miles away. That’s a short trip that certainly could’ve been done on bike but are you really going to get the whole family on their bikes to show up at the restaurant all hot & sweaty for dinner? In the South you’d be so sweaty it’d be worthy of taking a shower and in the North you’d be trudging through snow, freezing your face off.

Then there’s the fact that the weather doesn’t matter when it comes to cars. Rain or snow is no issue: You’re still going to the supermarket but you would not make that same trip on a bike unless it was an emergency and you had no other option.

The reality is that while the majority of trips are 3 miles are less it’s also true that the majority of trips are not trips you’d want to make on a bike.

There’s another problem with that statistic: The majority of people in the US live in big cities! I wonder how much that statistic would change if you removed big cities/metro areas from the data. My guess: “<3 miles” would jump to “<10 miles”.

I live in Jacksonville, FL and we have two supermarkets that are ~5 miles away (in different directions) and we have bike lanes! Nobody uses them. It’s just too fucking hot! For about 9 months out of the year it’s >90°F with ~90% relative humidity (in the morning; late afternoon it can drop to a mere ~60% when it’s not summer! haha). The only time of the year it would be comfortable to do something like ride your bike to get something done (as opposed to just for exercise) is December through February. Any other time it’s just not realistic unless you plan (and have the time) to take a shower afterwards.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Florida/humidity-annual.php

It also rains pretty much every single day in the afternoon during the summer and sometimes off/on all throughout the day. Rarely rains at all in winter though so that’s a plus I guess.

On July 1st when the apps stop working.

Biking infrastructure is only useful in big cities where your distance to work could be quite short (within 5 miles or so). The average American commute distance is 41 miles. It just doesn’t make sense to build out bike infrastructure very many places in the US.

Trains and changing the roads to make it easier for cars to drive themselves make a lot more sense.

The closest thing to a universal word is a scream. After some experience nearly all humans–regardless of region or native languages–can tell the difference between a scream of sudden fear and the scream of a mother who’s child just died.

The scream of pain is a bit cultural/regional (“ow!”, “fuck!”, “damnit!”) but I’m guessing most humans could tell what someone means when they shout any given sound or word after accidentally banging their finger with a hammer or stepping on a lego brick while barefoot.

Yes, install your 25-year-old software on your 30-year-old NTFS filesystem (it’s that old).

EDIT: I just looked it up and NTFS turns 30 on July 27th, 2023 LOL

/m/linuxmasterrace would like a word

Fewer than Reddit!

OMG great question! I want:

• Laser range finder/“tape” measure
• Thermal camera
• Air quality sensor
• Radiation detector/Geiger counter
• Multimeter capabilities
• IR LED (so I can use it as a remote)
• Ultrasound capabilities
• Peltier so I can put a drink on my phone to chill it down 👍

What a cattastrophe!

Listen, if the recipe says add a clove of garlic add three. If it says add a “dash” of garlic powder put like half a cup in there. You can never have enough garlic!

If you’re not going to be sweet at least be savory and add some garlic!

I’d say this information will come as a shock to many but apparently it won’t!

Ahaha, someone who knows

Adding over-engineered hardware into the mix isn’t out of the question 😁

I’ve never used anything Oracle out of principle

As someone who’s been forced to use Oracle products many times in the past I nod to your standards and tip my hat for your sound judgement 👍

Can you do us all a favor and blog about your experience setting this up and running it somewhere? I’ll follow you 👍

I was thinking about making my own Federated kbin-like server (writing the code from scratch) as an academic exercise. I’m a full stack developer and it’s the perfect thing to hone my non-embedded (full std) Rust skills and freshen my JavaScript skills.

I have several side projects going on at the moment (that I’ve been working on constantly for almost three years straight) and I need a mental break from that. I’d love to learn what’s a pain in the ass VS what’s good from a semi-layman’s perspective so I can make something better.

I may be just a pie-in-the-sky optimist but I think the duplicate communities thing will die down eventually. Natural selection will do it’s thing and we’ll all eventually settle in specific communities on specific instances.

Based on the nature of life itself all living things become specialized over time. This includes creatures, jobs, products, communities, etc. So what’s likely to happen is some communities will die out or be abandoned while others will thrive and yet others will simply become more specialized.

Hypothetical example: /m/gifs on Kbin might become the place to find perfect loops and high quality/serious stuff while /m/gifs on some other instance might become the place for animated silliness.

AT THE TONE THE TIME WILL BE 12:49 AND 50 SECONDS. BEEP!

No thanks. I like my internet time sync and GPS navigation.