FYI - mouse and keyboard can be on usb2 with no issues. It doesn’t really matter tho, unless you’re taking a usb3.0 slot that could be used by another device which does consume that bandwidth.

I assure you that’s not the case anymore

When you edit your comment all you’re doing is adding a “new” comment, the old comment is flagged to not show and the new comment shows in its place.

This achieves nothing.

If compiled languages bother you, then you’re gonna love assembly.

I’m know it’s a meme, but a lot of people actually live like this. It’s part of that insanity of fear that people live in. “Except one” implies that it’s inevitable that you’ll be attacked in the night.

It’s just like the psychos who stock up on guns, they’re positive that “it’s only a matter of time”

People are fuckin stupid

I’m now on time. People notice my punctuality, no one actually cares.

Seems like a lot of people are unaware of white pages

This right here, you can gui a single program, but with pipes we can chain nearly infinite programs. No way can you make a gui that is that flexible, I refuse to believe until I see it

A gui is helpful sometimes, but there’s a lot of cases where there’s no feasible way to make a good gui that does what the terminal can do.

Right tools for the right job.

For example, a gui to move a file from one folder to another is nice - drag and drop.

A gui that finds all files in a directory with a max depth of 2 but excludes logs and runs grep and on matching files extracts the second field of every line in the file? Please just let me write a one liner in bash

Yep, I don’t disagree, just wanted to make it clear what is shared and what isn’t. I suppose if you don’t like people training AI on the text you write, then you may not like that they could gather it with literally no effort. Most other sites would require that they put some effort either into web scraping, using an api to request the post, or just buy the content in some text dump format.

But ya, I mean, this is a minor difference between platforms, overall.

So, on that topic of “security” - just remember that whenever you post, your post is essentially sent to every “instance” that is federated (and listening for the community you posted to). Each instance is it’s own server running it’s own version of an activitypub implementation (lemmy, mastadon, etc).

So on lemmy.world that means your post is sent to literally thousands of servers that you cannot directly influence. If you delete a post, a request is made to those servers to also delete the post, but if that instance is modified or unavailable when the request is sent (it’ll re-try, but there’s a limit how many times), then it’s possible your post will not be deleted and you’ll never know.

Keep in mind this also means that anyone, say a government or private company, can establish an instance, federate, and receive the posts of everyone. Their instance may be nearly completely invisible - so you won’t know they’re collecting that information.

However, lemmy stores and sends almost no information about any user. A user profile does not contain IP address or country or anything. All of that stays in the server logs of the instance you originate from, and never enters the database. So your “true” personal information isn’t shared, but your account name, and a link to your account, and the post content (whatever text you add) is shared.

Lastly, images tend to be shared. Lemmy uses “pict-rs” which is a FOSS image hosting server, and when an instance receives a federated post, if there is an image in the “URL” field, then it will ask pict-rs to download that image to its server for easier serving to its users.

This is stupid, why can’t I just point it at my interpreter? Oh, right, money. smh

I always felt like Jim was a dick here. But I agree in this context.

That’s fun, and it’s a much better use of heatmap since it’s just a binary scale (least-most similar). When we’re showing discrete options rather than a continuous “similarity” we don’t want to use heatmaps because they cause undesirable blurring.

Really what the OP is trying to do is show which areas use which phrases. A heatmap could have been used where we have multiple visualizations - one for each phrase - using “Popularity” to show smooth distribution. I assume that the source data is not by county level and instead aggregated so the choropleth never would have worked great.

This is a terrific example of where a choropleth (Ideally by county) would have been much more effective than a heat map.

If you want to federate, then yes. Your instance needs to accept the activity pub messages sent by the instances you federate with. You would also need to send out the apub notices whenever you do activity on your instances

You can solve your “problem” by running your own instance and federate with whoever you want

ITT a bunch of fuckheads who don’t understand how federation works, and thinks that lemmy should be a free-for-all with infinite ‘freedom of speech’

Jesus, go host your own instances, there’s literally nothing stopping you. it’s as easy as editing a config file and running a single command. Why people find defederation some major sleight i’ll never understand.

You are definitely the goon, in this situation.

This is based upon a misunderstanding of the original text. Glorfindel’s words to Eärnur in the aftermath of the Battle of Fornost were as follows:

“Do not pursue him! He will not return to these lands. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall.”

This does not say that he can’t be killed by man, but that he won’t be killed by man. Glorfindel is not saying that the Witch King has inherent powers which prevent him from being killed by men, but rather is making a prophesy about the future, where the Witch King is killed by a woman aided by a hobbit. As with all the best prophecies, it was vague and could only be fully understood once it has been fulfilled.

Most importantly we should note that it is the dagger Merry uses to stab the witch king right before Eowyn kills him. That dagger is from the barrow downs which were specifically crafted as repellants to the witch king during the second age. The dagger was imbued with magic that dispells the magic which keeps the Nazgûl in the spirit realm and allowed mortal weapons to harm them.

My boy JRR thought of everything.