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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And Apple. And Amazon. Actually, all the stuff from Magastan.

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The Stop Killing Games movement is great because it brought this kind of thing to light. I just hope it will succeed and not just fizzle out after gamers think getting 1M signatures is the end of the road. There is a long battle ahead.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Louis Rossman will cry tears of joy if this gets adopted in its current form. I bet the MAGA cohort and their ilk will do their best to water it down and call it patriotism, then clap when it's either passed as a diluted mess or rejected.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As they should. Please drag out and lose big. Hopefully the fine increases the longer this goes on.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nowadays, anything "unlimited" is highly likely to be fake. There's just too much potential for abuse and nobody is going to finance that.

Cursor is also US, so their terms and conditions can change at any moment without following any rules whatsoever if you're in the US. Probably for EU customers they might have a problem, because they require notification of changes and to give the user the option to reject the changes and cancel with no supplementary charge.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

The ability to generate tritium within the reactor is crucial. A sustainable fusion energy system needs to produce more fuel than it consumes

I clearly don't understand the fusion process. Deuterium is used to fuse and create tritium?

The reactor core also features an electron-screened environment. This design reduces the energy needed to overcome the Coulomb barrier between particles, which lowers required fusion temperatures by several million degrees and allows for higher performance in a compact size.

What's this "electron screened environment" they are talking about? They can't purge all electrons from molecules when they enter can they? That would make the molecule instable. But it sounds like they are doing something similar in order to reduce the temperature required for fusion.

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To preface this, no I do not have kids nor am I a child educator. The involvement I have with children is having been one.

TL; DR educate yourself, educate your kids, ease into stuff, explain why


So, what's this about? Well, I've seen it in my private circles, online, and quite recently by multiple governments proposals that children shouldn't access social media, have smartphones, or in some cases even no access to technology. It's a stance I find is borne in fear, uncertainty, doubt, and often ignorance. Now, I cannot claim to be much more educated on the subject than everybody else, but just like everybody has an asshole, I have opinion.

Abstinence is not often a solution to a problem. Sure, you could get pedantic and say abstaining from deadly things like alcohol, drugs and stupid actions, but to that I respond: it's all about the dose. Nigh everything has a lethal dose, even water. Anyway, abstinence from sex is the most common example of abstinence I know of, and it is not known to help. In fact, places that preach and teach abstinence only are more likely to have teenage pregnancies, youth and adults alike who know little to nothing about their bodies, safe sex, consent, and so on.

A lack of education and experience is not a solution I can feel comfortable with. Don't misconstrue my distaste for abstinence as a call for complete freedom. As with many things, everything in moderation (even moderation).

What am I actually proposing then? Education, my fellow humans. Educated actions. Children aren't stupid, they are just vessels that have just started being filled with knowledge, understanding and experience. Teach them about the things they are using or will use. Help them understand the advantages and disadvantages of things. Help them make informed decisions and provide guardrails based upon existing knowledge.

A specific example, too much screentime has been shown to impact mental and oral development in children. They get less time practicing how to flap their lips, discovering their physical limits, training their bodies and aiding physical development, and many other things. (Adults are of course not immune)
However, this world runs on screens and the things displaying things on them. Being unable to operate these devices leaves people behind technologically and reduces independence. Some people never get comfortable with electronic devices. Some because they lack the experience, some out of resistance, some are just afraid of looking dumb, and there are of course many other reasons.
The solution isn't to ban screentime entirely, but to introduce it slowly, provide alternatives, and explain why. But not just "I don't like it" or "you're too young". I hated those as a kid and probably you did too.

I understand that not all parents are educated enough to make informed decisions and that is a much bigger topic than for this brain dump. However just because it isn't that way, doesn't mean we should give up and not try to improve it.

Isn't this what the kids call "rawdogging" nowadays? Rawdogging icecream, rawdogging life, rawdogging rawdogging.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The comparisons you're making are off base and it feels like you're mocking something you don't understand, while doing so with a lot of confidence. I'd suggest you either read an article, watch a video, or read the ActivityPub spec's intro. It isn't long and should help you understand the basics. Then you can move on the ForgeFed spec which is the ActivityPub extension for source forges. And you can always ask an LLM to summarise it for you if you really don't understand.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Git is already inherently distributed and automagically mirroring to other remotes is generally like three lines in any CI syntax (and there is probably a precommit hook for it too).

Git is, but what about everything else? When you clone a project on gitlab or github, does it come with all the issues, discussions, MRs, and so on?

I can see a LOT of security issues with not having a centralized source of truth on what the commit hashes should be and so forth.

That's what signed commits are for. Also, pull/merge requests and issues are sent to the origin instance, just like in the fediverse. Like now, you made a comment on a post on Fediverse@lemmy.world through your instance lemmy.zip. The same would happen with your comments, pull/merge requests, issue reports, and so on. There's no need for a "central authority".

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Uh... Responding to the wrong post? Not sure what you're on about.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Does it include route search using public transport?

Regardless, congrats on the release!

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A single contributor (oelmekki) had started integrating ActivityPub into GitLab, which could have been a huge win for the source forge, but despite praising him for it GitLab didn't assign enough resources to help him out. Unsurprisingly oelmekki ran out of steam and now, a year or so later, Gitlab just closed the epic.

Comments have started coming in from the community (and customers) expressing their frustration with GitLab over the decision. The ticket was reopened but without an official communication.

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It's like to hackterms but opensource. I found myself having to look up some terms and not finding them on wikipedia. When I finally find the meaning, I add to my own personal dictionary and rarely hackterms, because contributing to a closed-source project that might just someday disappear seems wrong.

 

A few people pointed out that many rust projects were MIT licensed and since then I indeed have seen MIT licensed projects everywhere in Rust. Then I found the link of this post and it looks like MIT was by far the most popular license in all of opensource in 2023.

Any ideas why?

 

It allows adding github and gitlab to the bridge, but I don't get what it does. Anybody know?

 

What's going on @organicmaps@fosstodon.org? Have you gone back to github?

Edit link to forgejo repo: https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

Edit2: The project was forked https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps

 

A distributed, content-addressed filesystem across the internet, not just in a home LAN, than can be mounted (fuse or whatever else), doesn't require storing data twice, has a reasonable API and acceptable documentation.

Does something like that exist?

 

Both seem to post similar memes and jokes. This community doesn't have a sidebar text to clarify what the community is nor when to post what stuff where, and it's not clear why the community exists.

 

The related ticket quickly became the most commented one in their ticketing system.

 

I left Github a while ago and have been relying on simple pre-push scripts in my workflow, but would like to be able to test PRs from others without putting my machine at risk. Besides codeberg and radicle (neither of which have reliable CI), I also have a build machine, where I could run CI jobs, however it is important that the CI jobs can also run locally so that external people do not require access to the build machine.

Is there a CI that can do those things (run locally and remotely)?

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Why do so many games rely on client-side anti cheat and stuff like kernel level anti-cheat?

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