Now you’re completely entitled to join the Minecraft piracy world

Solana currently has 1777 validators - which doesn’t look like much compared to Bitcoin, but is actually way more than enough for any practical intents and purposes.

While Lightning doesn’t need you to open a channel for every new recipient and has smart routing through other participants, I still think it’s an inconvenient solution we don’t have to take.

We have Solana, a 300.000+ TPS Layer-1. We have much smarter Ethereum Layer-2’s that don’t require this bullshit. We have many ways to tackle this problem, it’s the hyperfocus on Bitcoin that, in my opinion, makes people go for Lightning network anyway.

Transactions per second

Mining is barely transactional in nature. Pretty much all of it is calculating hashes, which, on one hand, is super important as part of Proof-of-Work consensus, the most decentralized one we have, but on the other we have other reasonably secure options that waste two orders of magnitude less power.

Is it practical beyond confirming Einstein’s equation works both ways, with all of the theoretical implications?

Considering you need a ton of energy to produce even a milligram of matter (8,99*10^10 J, or 24,7 MWh, assuming 100% conversion).

I’m talking specifically about instances with strong rules, either prohibiting any child imagery or only allowing drawings (which is just about any anti-contact place). Both types are heavily defederated from, and barely anyone makes a difference between that and literal child porn instances (which should be not just defederated, but seized by authorities and admins brought to justice)

I’ve updated third bullet point in accordance with your comment, thank you.

I’ll just give an example.

Recently, when discussing defederated instances, I’ve seen an interesting picture: people cheered defederating instances of Nazis and…pedophiles.

An average person would see no issue here. Right, one more terrible group banned! Take those perverts down! But there’s a catch that I discovered quite a while ago, and it’s a rabbit hole like no other.

• First, pedophile is not a child molester. We equate the two wrongly all the time, and those words became synonymous.
• Second, pedophilia is an immutable trait; unlike with Nazis, no one can decide to stop being one.
• Third, many of the pedophile instances, including those massively banned, actually feature anti-contact pedophiles, i.e. those specifically dedicated to never ever touch or interact with a child in any inappropriate way; said instances also generally prohibit any forms of child sexual imagery or only allow fictional drawings. And early research suggests it actually helps them. We brought up some reads and scientific articles on the matter throughout discussion. Conclusion: there are uncertainties, but it seems to work in protecting kids and reducing suicide rates.

And when you see something like that, you clearly understand that there’s a lot of things in the world people still heavily misunderstand, while feeling certain about the position they didn’t have 5 minutes to research on, and that people are already on the slippery slope, banning groups they didn’t have time and effort to comprehend. And there’s a lot more of that than just pedophiles, this is just a very bright example that will probably make most of those reading this uncomfortable and will illustrate the concept best.

Also, I’m full aware that most people will likely choose to downvote this, not comment anything and end up thinking I support child molesters (hell no, if you support child molestation go get some mental health asap, fucking kids is very bad)

It all depends on the nature and goals of the platform.

It’s one thing to create a platform for positivity and brave new world (in a good sense). It’s good we have those, and this probably should be the approach of mainstream media.

It’s another to create a truly free speech platform. You can’t claim free speech and then ideologically ban someone, even if that’s someone bad. And you should have such venues - for among 9 terrible ideas (like Nazism) lies one that is underappreciated and misunderstood, and wrongly considered to be bad. Feminism was considered to be bad. LGBT people were considered to be bad etc. etc. And if you start banning some ideas, it leaves you with carte blanche to ban everyone you don’t like, including people who actually promote healthy and positive ideas and values, but are misunderstood.

Only leaving the first option means starting a circlejerk where no good new idea has a chance to flourish.

As per Nazis, homophobes and other people with terrible ideas - you really can’t overcome it by just pulling it under the rug. We need to develop patience and advance our rhetorics to counter those, and to quickly seed that grain of truth from which all their misconceptions get to shatter. That’s literally the only way to combat ideology - by exposing how deeply wrong and flawed it is, and providing arguments.

Will there be people with no reason following such ideologies out of spite and emotion? Sure. But by stepping against them on an equal footing, we can show the rest how stupid their arguments are, rven on a dedicated free speech platform.

Because Nazism is not bad simply because we decided it to be so. It is a faulty ideology meant to distract people from real sources of their struggle while expending millions of lives in the process.

It removes critical understanding of economic processes by the masses, fooling them into believing the issues are caused by some nation and not their own elites - something that is well-researched and obvious to almost every other modern individual.

In order to retain people’s decisiveness amongst deep economic crisis directly caused by application of such ideology (due to rampant expropriation, paranoid protectionism, economic mismanagement and removal of active economic participants), Nazi government always needs to wage a war - this way it can blame its faults on its enemies. And war inevitably comes with millions of deaths, deaths directly attributed to the ideology cause it can’t run without them.

Finally, it’s an ideology based on hate to a group with an immutable property - it ignores the differences all of us have and tries to attribute a certain property to an entire nation - something we know isn’t true - and then exterminate people based on what is known to be wrong association.

No matter how you look at it, under any rational look, Nazism is just plain stupid, and in its stupidity it produces extreme and unnecessary suffering.

With all that being said, again, I don’t think we should make platforms like Substack mainstream and we should moderate general-topic places to exclude Nazis and other harmful actors. But we sure as hell need them to be present.

Because the only thing worse than Nazis allowed to influence us is the tyranny of subjective good.

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Regardless of low you look at it, this is great news.

It’s not a reason to switch back to Google indeed, but people inside this ecosystem just got a little less surveillance.

They might end up being forced to, should Threads decide to revert.

Mastodon users will inevitably hook up on Threads communities instead of fostering their own, and at that point being left to their own devices would be a catastrophe.

And yes, this is exactly what happened to xmpp.

Recommending Linux is good; forcing it down someone’s throat is not.

If parents are just comfy using Windows, it’ll get them super frustrated when they’ll face new issues coming from Linux use, as you just can’t turn Linux into Windows and they never asked for it.

Now, if they complain about all the shit Windows throws at them, you can offer an alternative.

Lack of one is an immediate showstopper for me, too.

Ain’t it this? Random Lemmy stranger, but this seems to be what you want. It might require you to have Python 3.8, but then again, I know nothing of the program and only reply becase no one did yet. https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases/download/Tip/FreeCAD-Link-Tip-Win-x86_64-py3.8-20231102.7z

I ended up with IceCat, a GNU Firefox fork that does 0 telemetry or data send.

Librewolf does send data out without you asking, checked with my firewall (Safing Portmaster).

Russia has very low population density, too, yet I pay 10$/mo for unmetered 4G Internet and calls, and that’s after dramatic price spikes that raised prices from 6$/mo a year and a half prior.

I see Thanks for more info!

Falkon seems to be based on the modified Chromium. Do you know if it gets affected by the changes in upstream Chromium, particularly Manifest updates and such?

LibreWolf still sends out quite a lot - even on startup, it makes dozens of connections.

My goal is to try and push the limits on how little a browser can send out when unasked for. Qutebrowser quite literally makes one connection to check updates…and that’s it.