Yeah, I’m using a native app.

This seems to be a common problem with Lemmy clients. When responding, you can only see the comment to whom you’re replying. It makes it really difficult to see whether they’re a new person, or someone you replied to before; it discourages referencing commentators by name. It’s quickly becoming my least favorite behavior of all clients.

Is there an Android client that shows you the whole thread ancestor history via scrolling? It’s not even a problem to figure out a reasonable way to implement it; it’s just no-one does.

I love nitrile gloves; never tried the foam ones. Is the foam on the outside?

Money. AIPAC is well funded, run by a foreign entity, and contributes a lot of money to the campaigns of nearly every politician in the US.

Also, there’s the “block voting” threat. While domestic Jewish support for the genocide is questionable, and it’s by no means certain that the Jewish community is as cohesive as it had been in the past, nobody is really sure if AIPAC can coordinate voting of the large numbers of Jewish people in the US. No politician wants to risk finding out.

Mostly, it’s the money thing. They spent $127 million dollars on campaigns in the 23-24 election cycle. They are, by far, the single largest PAC contributors to congressional elections in the US.

Go’s tooling is second to none; it’s one of the things I like best about it. The sheer number of debugging, benchmarking, live and static analysis tools is enterprise-level.

I will say, while having unit testing as a first-class supported function is fantastic, the test package is a big anemic. I had been using Ruby a lot when I first got into Go, and it was almost harder to write Ruby without doing test-driven development; it was so fantastically easy, it changed my entire vie perspective on unit tests. Go is… harder. There are no assertions built into the test package, mocking is a PITA, and all of those great Go language safety features make writing tests harder. Yes, there are a lot of this party tools to address these things, but honestly I wish testing had been a bit more built-out. Many of the defacto standard testing practices still dominant today were already well established by the time Go was released; there really was little reason not to provide more tools to make writing tests easier, and thereby encourage test-driven development.

But, really, it’s a fairly minor grievance, and far too late to address.

It sounds like a less fun version of a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

So adorable! What a cute smile! I can imagine the cat-eye makeup, maybe a studded collar, some black lace… I’m going in…

I’m not sure that we’re living in rational times, though. There’s a concerted effort to divided the public, focusing discontent within the lower and middle class. I am increasingly skeptical of the idea that there’s a large group of people who listen both to Fox News and NPR and seriously haven’t formed a world view favoring one or the other.

And, again, time and again polling has proven unreliable. Lies, damned lies, and statistics? On the other hand, we have verifiable voting counts that show clearly that turnout was significantly - statistically significantly - low this election.

But now I’ve forgotten what we were originally disagreeing about.

Hmmm. Only involuntarily, like, when I’m reading a book I like and it’s a fight whether to keep reading or go to sleep.

I’ve reached a détante with my body, though. If I close my eyes and it’s any effort to open them, I put the book down.

I don’t remember the exact quote, but I love the thing about “the thing about science is that it doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not.”

I mean, that very well could be a goth GF down there.

Oh, hell yeah. That was TOS, which is still, in my opinion, the best series, and absolutely the best time line.

I do not like the current time line, where Starfleet has black OPs and performs CIA-level “diplomacy.”

I’m not the person who brought git up.

Then I apologize. All I can offer is that it’s a weakness of my client that it’s difficult and outside the inbox workflow to see any history other than the comment to which you’re replying. Not an excuse; just an explanation.

Work is the thing you’re complaining about, not the proof.

If given the option, I’d prefer all computing to have zero cost; sure. But no, I’m not complaining abou t the work. I’ll complain about inefficient work, but the real issue is work for work’s sake; in particular, systems designed specifically where the only important fact us proving that someone burned X pounds of coal to get a result. Because, while exaggerated and hyperbolically started, that’s exactly what Proof-of-Work systems are. All PoW systems care about is that the client provably consumed a certain amount of CPU power. The result is the work is irrelevant for anything but proving that someone did work.

With exceptions like BOINC, the work itself from PoW systems provides no other value.

Compare this to endlessh.

This is probably wrong, because you’re using the salesman idea.

It’s not. Computer networks can open only so many sockets at a time; threading on a single computer is finite, and programmers normally limit the amount of concurrency because high concurrency itself can cause performance issues.

If they’re going to use the energy anyway, we might as well make them get less value.

They’re going to get their value anyway, right? This doesn’t stop them; it just makes each call to this more expensive. In the end, they do the work and get the data; it just cost them - and the environment - more.

Do you think this will stop scrapers? Or is it more of a “fuck you”, but with a cost to the planet?

Honey pots are a better solution; they’re far more energy efficient, and have the opportunity to poison the data. Poisoned data is more like what you suggest: they’re burning the energy anyway, but are instead getting results that harm their models. Projects like Nepenthes go in the right direction. PoW systems are harmful - straight up harmful. They’re harmful by preventing access to people who don’t use JavaScript, and they’re harmful in exactly the same way crypto mining is.

It’s a rant, for sure

first of all, bitcoin in its original form was meant to be used as a transaction log between banks.

Satoshi Nakamoto, they guy who invented Bitcoin, was motivated by a desire to circumvent banks. Bitcoin is the exact opposite of what you claim:

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. … Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. … What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.

https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/whitepaper/

My comment is a rant, because I constantly see these strongly held opinions about systems by people who not only know nothing about the topic, but who believe utterly false things.

cryptocurrencies result in a centralisation of power by default, whether they use proof of work or proof of stake, because they are built so that people with more resources outside the network can more easily get sway over the system

Ok, now I have to wonder if you’re just trolling.

Bitcoin, in particular, has proven to be resilient against such takeovers. They’ve been attempted in the past several times, and successfully resisted.

Are these the same data-driven polling that have consistently screwed up election prediction for the past decade?

Nate Silver did a better job in this last one, but he said going in that they’d finally recognized that polling was broken, it they’d stopped relying on it so heavily and were considering other factors in their predictions.

Have you ever met a honestly “undecided” voter, who votes?

63.7% turn out in the 2024 general. Nearly 40% of Americans didn’t bother to vote. That was 66%, in 2020. There were an estimated 244M eligible voters in 2024; that means about 5½ million people who did vote in 2020 didn’t bother to get off their fat asses this time and vote. Trump won the popular vote by 2½ million votes. So there’s that.

Not that the popular vote means much; most Republican presidents who’ve won in the past quarter century did so while losing the popular vote, proving what a great system we have.

Anyway, I don’t believe in swing voters. Specifically, I don’t believe there are any significant numbers of people who actually vote who swing between the parties. The provable evidence of down-ballot voting speaks for itself. I have no doubt there undecideds; what I doubt is that many of them go to the polls.

I’m not sure where you’re going with the git simile. Git isn’t performing any proof of work, at all. By definition, Proof of Work is that “one party (the prover) proves to others (the verifiers) that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been expended.” The amount of computational power used to generate hashes for git is utterly irrelevant to its function. It doesn’t care how many cycles are used to generate a hash; therefore it’s in no way proof of work.

This solution is designed to cost scrapers money; it does this by causing them to burn extra electricity. Unless it’s at scale, unless it costs them, unless it has an impact, it’s not going to deter them. And if it does impact them, then it’s also impacting the environment. It’s like having a door-to-door salesman come to your door and intentionally making them wait while their car is running, and there cackling because you made them burn some extra gas, which cost than some pennies and also dumped extra carbon monoxide into the atmosphere.

Compare this to endlessh. It also wastes hacker’s time, but only because it just responds very slowly with and endless stream of header characters. It’s making them wait, only they’re not running their car while they’re waiting. It doesn’t require the caller to perform an expensive computation which, in the end, is harmful to more than just the scraper.

Let me make sure I understand you: AI is bad because it uses energy, so the solution is to make them use even more energy? And this benefits the environment how?

I think decentralized currency is the best part of crypto. Much of US strong-arm policy has been through leveraging control over the dollar? Remember a few years ago when OPEC were making noises about maybe tying oil prices to something other than the dollar? The US government has a collective shit fit, and although I never heard it reported how the issue was resolved, but it stopped being news and oil is still tied to the dollar. It’s probably one of the reasons why the Saudis were about to kidnap, torture, and murder of Jamal Kashogi in the US.

I am 100% in support of a currency that is not solely controlled by one group or State. For all of its terrible contribution to global warming, Bitcoin has proven resistant to an influential minority (e.g. Segwit2x) forcing changes over the wishes of the community. I especially like anything that scares bankers, and usury scabs.

Satoshi made two unfortunate design choices with Bitcoin: he based it on proof of work, which in hindsight was an ecological disaster; and he didn’t seize the opportunity to build in depreciation, a-la Freigeld, which addresses many problems in capitalism.

We’re all on Lemmy because we’re advocates of decentralization. Most of Lemmy opposes authoritarianism. How does that square with being opposed to a decentralized monetary system? Why are “dollars” any more real than cryptocoins? Why does gold have such an absurdly high value?

Wikipedia says the first episode originally aired as a single, 2-hour episode, but later airings break the episode into a two-parter.

IMDB counts Encounter at Farpoint as a single episode.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0708739/

I’m reluctant to disagree with Memory Alpha, but in this case, the original airing had it as a single episode - not a “to be continued”, and I’m going to side with IMDB on this one.

Not hypocrisy by the author, but by every reader who cheers this while hating on cryptocurrency.

IME most of these people can’t tell the difference between a cryptocurrency, a blockchain, and a public ledger, but have very strong opinions about anyway.

Yeah, then definitely just install VLC. Far easier than mucking about with Jellyfin.