Notices by Amikke (amikke@qoto.org), page 3

@icedquinn it’s hilarious when they step one foot into the base and 10+ fairly powerful pals just delete them from existence

Unpopular opinion: the disdain towards for-profit (or even non-profit but monetized) instances is misguided. There is a scale at which running the infrastructure purely on donations stops being feasible, not to mention the moderation problem – at enough scale over a long period of time you either pay good moderators to do their full-time job or have your mods degenerate to reddit and discord levels. No sane person will spend 100% of their free time moderating and not go insane, and "employing" unemployed people that have twice the free time and can use half of it on moderation is exactly how you get reddit mods.

Instances that would for example offer premium accounts / features or even run ads, and therefore be able to financially sustain not only a bigger and highly performant infrastructure and professional mod team but also a full-time dedicated development team working on things normies expect like discovery algorithms, would accumulate the normies, further popularising the fediverse and making it harder for another VC walled garden to swoop in, gather them with shiny features and create another Twitter/Facebook situation.

I'd rather have my IRL friends accessible under some for-profit instance I can interact with from here than on Facebook, thanks. Every time I have to use FB Messenger or FB groups I feel another part of my soul corrupting.

@icedquinn @moffintosh I wish. Human nature dictates that there will always be a percentage of people that will fall for the utopian promises and the contrarian joy of thinking they’re smarter than everyone else by having opposite opinions, and will even believe some of the dumbest propaganda known to man and/or just make shit up to justify that to themselves.

The China shills are at least doing it for money, and being Chinese most of them probably secretly know how bullshit it is what they’re propagating. The western commies that believe them are worse, doing it for free and truly believing it, spreading that mental parasite more successfully.

@moffintosh @icedquinn dude, in the past you linked me, an Eastern European, an 40+ minute long video of some random latvian simping for soviet communism because surely his opinion is worth more than that of the people I personally know that experienced that system, and overall the majority of Eastern European population and the historical facts. Twice. I’m not spending another minute watching whatever delusional takes you link me next.

For you this is tales from another side of the world that might be true either way. For me this is the history of my region, lived by its people. Nothing that convinced you can match that.

@moffintosh @FourOh-LLC @icedquinn words can hardly describe the irony of you using the word “blabber” after posting almost exclusively commie word salad.

@icedquinn @moffintosh it’s almost as if people don’t want to work on the things that are actually needed and need some pressure, so every system that tries to get away from having to work to enjoy life ends up with having to work to not go to a gulag, funny that.

@moffintosh @icedquinn
>nooo you misunderstand, the wageslave life of 996 even worse than in any developed capitalist countries is fine because it's calculated by Marx teachings

Western commies simping for China is the wildest thing.

>capitalism is making us work too much, we need to change the system
>that other system has people work even more but it's ok because it's not capitalism
>sure it might be less efficient and result in worse quality of life but at least we can work more and lick the party's boots

@coolboymew @kirby

@mangeurdenuage @MK2boogaloo @coolboymew damn, I didn’t think it was that bad. And here we were joking about the UK potentially becoming the first formerly developed country…

@freemo I assume they just announce themselves so the traffic would be comparable to being in a room with some people whose phones have bluetooth turned on and discoverable, especially with bluetooth's puny range.

@Moon not written in Ruby, but inspired by its design decisions

@icedquinn you’re talking about bone conductors? Usually ANC works by nullifying the sound waves in the air before they reach your bones, ANC in bone conductors is probably fighting them there, which doesn’t sound pleasant.

@freemo @mike805 @freepeoplesfreepress also take note of memetic evolution. Cultures that didn’t eat human meat didn’t get sick from it and so thrived better than those that did, no matter if they realised the connection or not. Similar to how some Abrahamic religions forbid pork, which carried parasites and similar unpleasantries but is forbidden because apparently God hates it.

@icedquinn @kaia @Jens_Rasmussen american propaganda / stupid view on the rest of the world, Europe absolutely cares about free speech and only a couple of outlier countries limit it for extreme cases. (Like openly urging to violence, which is the case in the US too.) Similarly with religion, religious freedom is treated very seriously. (Probably more than in the US, since there it’s mostly a mask to let protestants do whatever they want, including where it infringes on freedom of other religions.)

@icedquinn this is a hard topic, as giving institutions control is dangerous but leaving it entirely with parents can be tragic. There are some things nearly everyone agrees on that parents shouldn’t be able to ruin. Forgoing education at all is one of them, forgoing early treatment with good success rate for a lethal problem at least comes close. Leaving a child to die a painful death because a parent is an idiot and will attempt to treat cancer with MMC is not good.
Children aren’t their parents’ property and it makes sense that some of their rights as humans and citizens will be defended even against them.

@icedquinn children don’t really have bodily autonomy, in this case it’s either parents or doctors overriding it. Children are people that shouldn’t suffer from more stupid decisions of their parents, so this is in line with the rest of how they’re treated.

@icedquinn with a short attention span both reading and writing seem easier than recording and listening. For me for sure at least.

@freemo makes sense, but it’s not even readable and breaks my web UI :D Also this was supposed to be a reply to https://mas.to/@pkalbers/111502221591441892 but didn’t work right for some reason. That might’ve been me clicking the wrong thing though, but check it out yourself.

QOTO’s latex rendering seems to not work well for full document definitions lol
@freemo look

@lanodan @coolboymew apparently the Event Horizon Telescope (global array of radio-telescopes) uses people flying on planes with suitcases full of HDDs as the main form of data transfer.

Each telescope records at a rate of 64 Gbps, and each observation period can last more than 10 hours. This means each site generates around half a petabyte of data per run. With each site recording simultaneously, Blackburn said the high recording speed and sheer volume of data captured made it impractical to upload to a cloud.