I certainly don’t doubt the top line trends here in this study. However, I wonder how the fediverse might differ. Anyone can set up a Lemmy or Mastodon instance, regardless of their technical aptitude and desire to secure the instance from toxic content. It’s also inherently more anonymous. A more direct comparison might be 4chan not Reddit.

Both of the platforms they studied on have more sophisticated methods to determine bad actors because of their dominance. Particularly Facebook, where a profile is supposed to be mappable to a single, real identity.

That being said, there’s a very real concern about how algorithms end up placing these “loud mouths” in other people’s feeds. After all, outrage is still something that is preferred by algorithms. So those 3 to 7% of users creating the toxic content, might represent an outsized proportion of views.

It’s good to know the reality on these platforms is that most people are reasonable. I guess the bigger question is why people come to the opposite conclusion. And I think that algorithms overly indexing on outrage are part of that.

I also just lost my father last Monday. He was in Quartzsite, AZ.

Have you tried checking CL or Hotpads for a short term Casita? That’ll save you a lot vs hotels.

Hi @ChrisIsUnavailable@tucson.social ! Welcome to our small community. As you may have noticed most action occurs in the local politics community. That being said, others post to our wonderful community about Comedy Nights at the Kitten Lounge and various other things.

Definitely take a look around! We are “unofficially” affiliated with the /r/Tucson discord server so if you want to pop into a more “living” space go check that out.

We also have a meetup space at https://meetup.tucson.social/ - feel free to sign up there if you want to coordinate or otherwise don’t want to pay $40 a month for a meetup subscription.

There’s also https://tucson.chat/ if you’re in need of secure chat.

Please reach out to me if you have any ideas for improvement or feedback!

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Audhd here, It would be nice if it were a quiet log file. I log straight to the console AND it’s probably with DEBUG enabled.

Yeah as soon as I saw that I went from “must buy” to “eh, maybe if my current laptop breaks”. I mean, I know the iGPU is basically the same as the desktop, but with slower memory it won’t really compare.

Maybe next generation.

You too!? Ha! Today I learned.

I’ll always know exactly how old Linux is. It’s exactly as old as I am.

Eh, it’s more like the pregnancy announcement. Imo the v0.01 release on Sep 17th is a “Birthday”.

But then again I’m biased on this. 🙃

Perfection!

I think I speak for all of Tucson.social when I say fuck this AI bullshit.

I too appreciate the genetic dynasty story. In the original trilogy the various Emperors were featured so rarely and depicted as utterly incompetent. I think the TV adaptation does a much better job of creating a more compelling and nuanced story for the empire. Not to mention - Lee Pace and others do such an excellent job of playing these various “versions” of themselves.

As an aside, I wonder if

I also wonder how or if

Might want to provide some discussion guidance for book readers.

Otherwise, I thought the episode was pretty good. Definitely not as good as last episode.

Otherwise, as a book reader, I’m starting to grow a little suspicious that

I didn’t get the vibe that he didn’t enjoy it. More that he figures that a typical person wouldn’t enjoy it. And that I would agree with.

Hi! This is what I’m trying to do with tucson.social. Wish the city would get back to me. I don’t want to own/operate Tucson.social alone perpetually. Lol.

It would allow me to expand to a lot more community services outside of social media, chat, and Meetup platforms.

There’s dozens of us! Dozens!

Don’t know why the other poster is giving you such grief there. It’s important to note that when you encrypt your root partition that you can’t view it from refind. It doesn’t have a mechanism to decrypt the contents it finds.

The way to address this is to ensure that you’re using a Unified Kernel Image. Essentially, a full image of your Linux boot image that lives on your EFI partition. Keep in mind it can’t get to your personal data until it decrypts your root disk, but at least you can get things booting.

So, you should take the time to switch to a UKI boot process.

I recommend disabling secure Boot and encryption first and Getting the UKI Boot working through refind. Then add secure boot using sbctl. Then re-encrypt your discs. Since secure boot is all set up at this point, you should be able to back your decryption with your systems TPM chip.

Here’s the page on unified kernel images.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image

I mean, FWIW, if it’s made for a 1-4 year-old it’s probably at least non-toxic to consume.

Agreed on aperture fever. I find 10" the largest manageable size unless you get an Obsession Ultra Compact for $$$$$.

Didn’t really consider binos for OP since viewing anything more than 45 degrees up is a pain without a proper mount. A dob is easier to use near the horizon than using a bino to view straight upwards.

For 200 you could probably land yourself an old criterion telescope or used Skywatcher. The important part is the aperture. For good nebula and Galaxy viewing, you’re going to want at least 6 in of aperture. But more is better.

Definitely check Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, and cloudy nights classifieds.

Pretty sure it’s against the TOS to do that. So if found, the account is simply terminated and it ceases being valuable. That means that even if it’s sold - it’s value isn’t in the games, but your friend network - as a sort of trojan spam/burner account. Which also means that it’s not worth more than a few dollars at MOST unless you’re some big-time twitch streamer with a vast network of steam friends.

So yeah, just be aware of what you’re getting into. It’s not likely some guy who wants an instant steam library - it’s someone who wants to exploit your friends, family, and acquaintances for money via scams. Don’t be that guy.

I liked it just fine!

I know there are a lot of Asimov diehards that found it disappointing. I don’t know why. The iRobot book wasn’t even really a book, it was a collection of short stories. Not exactly an easy thing to adapt to a movie.

I think this take is starting to be a bit outdated. There have been numerous films to use Blender. The “biggest” recent one is RRR - https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-indian-blockbuster-rrr/

Man in the High Castle is also another notable “professional” example - https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-man-in-the-high-castle/

It’s been slow, but Blender is starting to break into the larger industry. With bigger productions tending to come from non-U.S. producers.

There is something to be said about the tooling exclusivity in U.S. studios and backroom deals. But ultimately money talks and Autodesk only has so much money to secure those rights and studios only have so much money to spend on licensing.

I’ve been following blender since 2008 - what we have now is unimaginable in comparison to then. Real commercial viability has been reached (as a tool). What stands in the way now is a combination of entrenched interests and money. Intel shows how that’s a tenuous market position at best, and actively self destructive at worst.

Ultimately I think your claim that it’s not used by real studios is patently and proveably false. But I will concede that it’s still an uphill battle and moneyed interests are almost impossible to defeat. They typically need to defeat themselves first sorta like Intel did.