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If the project is yours, I just looked at the blacklist. Why is litter.catbox.moe on there, but not catbox.moe? They have the same content policy. Litter.catbox.moe just has a limited permitted lifetime for uploaded files to live, and a larger max filesize. I can't imagine why someone would have an issue with just one but not the other.

I mean, personally I don't have an issue with either host, but it just seems like a weird criteria, blacklisting one of the two and permitting the other.

If you're doing mini-ITX as opposed to the more-common ATX, it's presumably for a reason. You might want to list a rationale, since it'd help people make suggestions, as there are different reasons someone might want to go down that path.

Like, a while back, I was looking into doing a mini-ITX build because I wanted a machine that I could lug around as a laptop alternative. For that, being small in volume (even relative to typical mini-ITX systems) and durable is important.

A different person might want a cheaper case. Or just to use less desk space.

Any thoughts on keeping it quiet, since this will be next to my TV?

I looked into this a while back. Very quiet builds are kinda restrictive (especially for gaming systems).

You may have luck just putting it in a (ventilated in the rear) cabinet. Maybe stick some sound-absorbent foam on the inside.

Or just move the PC elsewhere, if you can run an HDMI cable to your TV and a USB cable for input devices into the room. You can get (pricy, stiffer) cables with more shielding, or (also pricy) ones with fiber optic cable inside and a transceiver at each end that permit for much-longer-than-normal cable runs, if you can't manage it with regular cables.

Also, *.itch.io is on there. That's a popular site for hosting and selling indie games. Seems like an odd thing to blacklist.

There are some pornographic games on itch.io, and maybe the list publisher has an issue with that, but nexusmods.com and loverslab.com and a number of other major mod sites that host pornographic mods are not on there.

All communities ending in "Moe" are blocked, so that's presumably aimed at stopping sexed-up underage manga stuff.

Politically, a lot of auth-left (tankie) stuff is on there, but so is conservative stuff, communist stuff, libertarian (probably right-libertarian), and anarchist stuff.

4chan is blocked.

The (controversial) archive.today family of sites, which are mostly used to bypass paywalls, is blocked.

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I'm not, and lemmy.today isn't either, but litter.catbox.moe is listed, and that seems like a bad idea.

Catbox.moe is a popular free place to host files shared by users here, things like video clips, as it has permissive policy on things like filesize compared to the image-rs setup on a lot of Lemmy instances. Litter is for files where the poster only needs them to have a short lifespan, lets catbox.moe delete them and free up space (and also has a somewhat-larger filesize cap).

Maybe if someone just didn't like catbox.moe at all

which I don't agree with, but okay, at least I get that some people are going to object to some content on a filehosting server where anyone can post whatever they want. But blacklisting litter.catbox.moe but not blacklisting catbox.moe seems bizarre. In terms of content policy, the two are the same.

“Disruptive technologies in the past have been really great for people who have had skills,” he said. “Their productivity and incomes have gone up a lot.

Ehh.

I mean, I do think that people tend to underestimate their ability to adapt using their existing skillset. And it's certainly the case that if you know, say, statistics, to grab one skill, there are a wide range of fields where you might use that knowledge.

But you can clearly also find examples where that's not the case, where a skillset wasn't very easy to repurpose.

When the horse was phased out as a means of transport, a lot of people had a skillset around dealing with horses, and as demand for horse-related work declined, people need to switch careers, and some of that skillset isn't going to be terribly transferrable. And because there were many jobs with that skillset that were phased out at one time, there will have been a glut of people on the market with that skillset all looking for new jobs. Not much call for even more expertise in dealing with horses when the existing few slots are already allocated to people who really know their stuff.

That said, it might be that there can be interesting perks for society as a whole, even if it's not great for the people who are unemployed. I do remember being frustrated a while back as to why there were so few good technically-sophisticated late Cold War milsim games out of the West. Most of the good stuff came out of ex-Warsaw Pact states. I went digging. Finally found some discussion on it. Basically, when the Cold War ended, Soviet defense spending dropped precipitously. That meant that you had a lot of people with a lot of knowledge about military hardware looking for work (this is also, incidentally, why the US purchased Russian space launch services for some time, to subsidize the industry, because the US didn't want a lot of unemployed people with a skillset in doing things like making ballistic missiles running around on the global job market). But, anyhow, a lot of military simulator video game developers were able to hire really outstanding ex-Warsaw-Pact defense people as consultants for a while, who really knew their stuff. That's a rare situation. I doubt that we'll ever have a period with that level of quality milsim video games again, not short of another breakup of a huge military power. :-/

I don't subscribe to any, but if you search on:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

...you can search all Threadiverse instances for communities containing given text.

Searching for "fashion" and "clothing", some related communities:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fashion

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=clothing

• !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world
• !streetwear@lemmy.world
• !femalefashionadvice@lemmy.world
• !fashion@lemmy.world
• !gpral@hilariouschaos.com

Investment provides resource allocation, which is not something that just happens on its own. That is, it says "this company or project is a worthwhile project to allocate capital to, and this is not". The money here was also not invented out of ether, but rather lost by investors who shifted capital to SpaceX earlier, and gained by those who tried to shift capital away from SpaceX earlier; other investors came to agree with those shifting capital away. Those who do so earlier are rewarded; this encourages earlier efficient movement of capital.

Resource allocation is a necessary part of economic activity; any economic system will require such a thing to be done. You could have your government do it instead of investors, as in a command economy. Countries generally don't do that, because it has run into more serious problems of misallocation.

Yeah, but the parent comment is talking about pedal brakes. Everywhere I've seen, that's wired to the rear wheel. But that comment is saying that the commenter launched himself when braking on a pedal brake.

I don't think that there is a right community for trying to rent out an apartment without giving a location.

Probably Lumines. Nothing amazing from a gameplay standpoint

lots of falling block games out there

but the music makes it a fun experience.

That being said, you can get it on Steam now, so don't need a PSP.

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I've definitely locked up my brakes on a BMX with a pedal brake many times. I remember, as a kid, going down a hill and trying to see who could leave the longest skid mark at the bottom. I was never thrown off the bike. It just ate up some tire.