It’s not Peertube, but as at least a step away from Youtube I’ve found a lot of my favourite creators immediately cross-post all their videos to Odysee (including electronics guys like Louis, Bigclive, GreatScott, etc) and I’ve also found some new channels to watch there. It’s not a great site, it’s marginally better than Youtube, which is not a high bar. For obvious reasons, I’m looking forward to finding recommendations in Peertube too though so I’ll be watching this thread.

“remove any thing that they might be able to do” is a hilariously broad brush to apply to three letter agencies in this day and age that were doing things like this 50 years ago.

I’m not saying it’s realistic that OP is being targeted for such surveillance. But if they are, good fucking luck! Flashing your firmware ain’t going to do shit when they’ve just gone ahead and replaced the chips on your board with their own that act exactly like a normal chip but have extra code that doesn’t get flashed when they don’t want it to.

I know we all really like “freeway speeds” just the way they are, but saying we need them is a bit of a stretch.

You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment. The status symbol of “owning a Lamborghini” goes away forever the second you start the engine.

There is a lot of psychology that goes into designing the appearance of cars. Like, an extreme amount. Car companies spend millions designing and refining body shapes and styles, and building brand images, and pushing commercials that seed these ideas into your head about their brand looking a certain way and that look therefore implying quality, they’re connecting all those dots in your head, one marketing campaign at a time, and it works because we’re honestly pretty gullible creatures at least when somebody wants to spend millions upon millions of dollars researching exactly how they can weasel their way into your brain.

And this might surprise you, but the same “looks incredible but the worst piece of shit ever” can certainly apply to luxury vehicles. Aside from notorious reliability and repairability issues, Lamborghinis don’t usually win any races either. They won’t win a drag race, they won’t win an oval track race, they won’t win a rally race. They’re fast, certainly, but they’re not the fastest and for what you pay for a Lamborghini you could build a much, MUCH better purpose-built race car. You could probably build 10 purpose-built race cars. Hell, people build race cars out of junkyard parts that can beat Lamborghinis. They’re not the end-all-be-all of cars, nor are any of the other luxury brands. They have some nice features but they also have a lot of dumb features and yes, a lot of cut corners too. They’re designed to be desirable and profitable, not to be the best.

So to answer your question, it absolutely IS the case for cars, in fact it’s probably even moreso the case than it is with computer parts. Unless you really need to roar down the highway towing a 10,000 pound trailer at 80 mph and still get up to that speed in 5 seconds flat, you really only need like probably 30-50 horsepower max for most of the daily driving that people do, but people’s driving habits and attitudes would have to change and they would hate the feel of gradual acceleration, so they would simply never buy such a car. I think we really underestimate how incredible even the cheapest “crappiest” cars are. We’re talking about machines cheap enough for almost everybody in our society to own, that can drive at high speeds, in perfectly dry, climate-controlled comfort, carrying many passengers and cargo, in almost any weather short of a tornado or flood, with excellent reliability for hundreds of thousands of miles, that provide constant lighting and electricity and entertainment, all while maintaining a high degree of safety for the occupants.

If you’d rather putter around on a riding lawnmower with a Lamborghini body kit on it, you absolutely can do that, but you have to understand that once you start comparing the limited features and abilities it provides you will quickly find what you’ve constructed is the real “piece of shit” in comparison. Just don’t forget your slow-moving vehicle sign!

Maybe we could generate those with AI… oh wait, I think I see the problem…

That’s awesome thanks! (Community discovery is still something I struggle with on Lemmy)

Reddit had a community “OutOfTheLoop” for these type of questions. It was very helpful for people like me who do our best to ignore these nonsense viral image macros that get blown out of proportion. The problem on Lemmy is, judging by the comments here, I think almost everyone here avoids those things like the plague, so there’s few if anyone “InTheLoop” around to explain for us.

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I’ve never been happier about my Prusa, despite some of what I felt were their suboptimal choices in the last few years, at least they’ve never seemed malicious.

Welcome!

But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddirt?

Hilarious typo if it wasn’t intentional.

Where the population us much larger and its basically the same?

First thing you quickly realize here is that larger is not necessarily better. Small is beautiful, you can have actual thoughtful conversations with individuals here without the incessant dogpiling and low effort meme replies. I have even got smacked down (and rightly so) for accidentally bringing some of that with me at one point. It’s not needed or desirable here.

It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway?

When you actually look at the comments I usually find almost everyone is on a different instance, in fact when there are relatively small numbers of comments like the are on most posts, you often won’t even see the same instance in the comments twice unless it’s the same person. Yeah, some instances have “huge numbers” of people and communities (lemmy.world) but I think a lot of them are honestly just rarely used, abandoned, or otherwise non-participatory, and the communities can be used by anybody (which is exactly the point of federation). The people actually spending their time here are on a wide variety of instances, often even using different frontends or software. And that’s great. To me, the ecosystem feels healthy and diverse.

Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right?

The point is you can choose an instance whose moderations suit you. (Almost?) all instances moderate to some degree, complete unmoderation is how you end up infested with child porn and other horrible shit. But the directions they moderate in, and the specific things they moderate, can vary wildly depending on the preferences of the owners and the countries they operate in. They also federate with and defederate different instances, which is a large-scale form of moderation. Most instances defederate (and have been defederated by) hexbear and lemmygrad. But not all of them do. Some also defederate lemmy.ml. But not most. And of course those three still federate with each other, and with some other instances. The point isn’t to completely prevent isolated echo chambers, it’s to allow the instances themselves (and the users who join them) to choose how much echo they want to hear compared to how many challenging views they disagree with. Everyone should be able to find a balance that suits them. Most of the people complaining about the content on Lemmy have probably just chosen the wrong instance, frankly, because most people don’t understand how this works and the biases and moderation attitudes inherent in all these different instances is not always super obvious at first glance.

Reddit sucks now. I still check there regularly but I find both the content and the commenting less and less interesting and find myself spending less and less time there. It hasn’t been a sudden process, but the more time I spend on Lemmy the more I like it and the more communities I find and engage in.

Honesty, empathy and respect.

Good luck ever convincing me an LLM has any of those. I’m not even convinced most of humanity does.

It’s mostly a relic from an older time, it can be useful for more traditional services and situations that struggle with sharing public IPs. In theory, things like multiple IP addresses (and IPv6’s near unlimited addresses) could be used to make things simpler – you don’t need reverse proxies and NAT and port forwarding (all of which were once viewed as excessive complexity if not outright ugly hacks instead of the virtual necessity they are today).

Each service would have its own dedicated public IP, you’d connect them up with IP routing the way the kernel gods intended, and everything would be straightforward, clear, and happy. If such a quantity of IPs were freely available, this would indeed be a simpler life in many ways. And yet it’s such a distant fantasy now that it’s understandable (though a little funny) to hear you describe it as “additional complexity” when, depending on how you look at it, the opposite is true…

From a modern perspective, you’re absolutely right. The tables have really been turned, we have taken the limitation of IP addresses in stride, we have built elaborate systems of tools and layers of abstraction that not only turn these IP-shortage lemons into lemonade, the way we’ve virtualized the connections through featureful and easily-configurable software layers like private IP ranges, IP masquerading, proxies and tunnels can be used to achieve immense flexibility and reliable security. Most software now natively supports handling multiple services on a single IP or even a single port, and in some cases it requires it. This was not always the case.

It’s sort of like the divide between hardware RAID and software RAID. Once upon a time, software RAID was slow, messy, confusing, unreliable, and distinctly inferior to “true” hardware RAID, which was plug-and-play with powerful configuration options. Nobody would willingly use software RAID if they had any other choice, the best RAID cards were sold for thousands of dollars and motherboards advertised how much hardware RAID they had built-in. But over time, as CPUs and software became faster and more powerful, the tide changed, and people started to realize that actually, hardware RAID was the one that left you tied to an expensive proprietary controller that could fail or become obsolete and leave your array a difficult to migrate or recover mess, whereas software RAID was reliable, predictable, upgradable, supporting a wide variety of disk types and layouts while still performing solidly and was generally far nicer to work with. It became the more common configuration, and found its way into almost every OS. You can now set up software RAID simply by clicking an option in a menu, even in Windows, and it basically works flawlessly without any additional thought.

Times change, we adapt to the technologies that are most common and that work the best in the situations we’re using them in, and we make them better until they’re not just a last resort anymore, but become a first choice, while the old way becomes a confusing anachronism. That’s what multiple public IPs have become nowadays, for most purposes.

That’s exactly my point. If they do in a few days “come back from” that and are all buddy buddy again, then I think that indicates it was just a staged performance for show and distraction and none of it was real fighting. Suggests it was all just an act. (IF they do come back from it. Which remains to be seen)

Muskrat has already backed down from a few things he said in the “heat” of the argument, like that he was going to disassemble the Dragon capsules. So I wouldn’t jump to your conclusion that they can’t possibly “come back from” this, my point is just that if they do, it was probably all just an act to begin with because I agree if it’s real, stuff was said that neither one of these vindictive sociopaths is likely to forget.

I’m putting 50/50 odds that it’s an intentional, theatrical distraction from other more important things that are going on, or it’s just the inevitable outcome of two malignant narcissist sociopaths being in the same room together too often. If they quickly kiss and make up I’ll lean more towards the former than the latter.

It also sounds like sealioning. So yeah genocide denial by either shutting you up or making you appear to be the bigot would be the goal.

The problem honestly isn’t even the seawater, necessarily. Even that is technically fixable.

Where it gets potentially unfixable is that most naval architects seem to think that the ship probably twisted her keel lying in that position. Non-naval-architects might not appreciate what a catastrophic problem that is, to put it roughly in automotive terms that’s like having a twisted frame on a car (it’s actually significantly worse, but that’s the closest layperson analogy you’re likely to get). There’s nothing you can do to to a twisted frame to exactly straighten it, and it will never drive “properly” again, in fact it can be extremely unstable and unsafe. Cars that this happens to are basically without exception considered “totaled” and for good reason.

Ships, in general, and warships, in particular, can be put under pretty extreme forces by the water they are in, especially at high speeds or heavy seas, and even small imperfections in the shape of the hull can cause very serious hydrodynamic drag and forces. These effects can be even stronger and more dramatic than aerodynamic effects on cars or airplanes since the water itself is so much thicker and heavier as a fluid. A ship with a twisted hull is almost certainly a write-off, and if you stubbornly refuse to accept that and do everything you can to mitigate it, even if you are lucky it will still likely be a poor, dangerous sailer that can never safely approach anything near the sort of speeds it was originally designed to achieve. A warship that can only go half the speed, and half the range it was designed to, with a non-negligible chance that it may be so poorly handling that it is at least uncomfortable and hard to crew, if not actually dangerous or even doomed in heavy weather, is not a very useful warship, no matter how hard you are committed to putting it into service despite the damage.

Yeah, maybe it still floats, but that’s only a small part of what a ship is actually expected to be able to do in the real world, and “modern warship” is a pretty unforgiving role that needs every bit of performance the ship is supposed to be able to provide. It’s not a situation where you can accept having a scratch-and-dent salvage title if you want it to actually be good at its job. That’s why people are considering this a total loss (and it still will be no matter how much work they put into it).

If Trump nationalized it out of petty vindictiveness I wouldn’t criticize him for that. I’d still criticize literally everything else, but even a broken clock can be right twice a day and maybe this could be Trump’s moment to be right by accident.

Even the WWW was actually popularized first in the US, specifically NCSA made the first web browser with inline image support which is the origin story for every modern browser (and is part of why every browser’s “User-Agent” identifies itself as some variety of “Mozilla”… the “Mo-” comes originally from Mosaic).

Of course they were not the only people ever involved at any step or of any specific technology, exclusively, but the US played a huge and honestly significantly outsized part in the initial development of the internet as we know it, and that continued for decades (and arguably still does). That’s why they can and do claim responsibility. Because in very large part, they are responsible. It’s not unfair to acknowledge facts. Someone had to lead the way. That was the US. Others followed, and helped, and sometimes led a little bit of the way in a particular area. But mostly, the US led the way to the modern Internet, leveraging both significant government funding and the tech-utopians of academia, then-established-but-now-forgotten tech industry veterans like Xerox and DEC, and the capitalist innovators of Silicon Valley to attract and support the best people and ideas they could use to win almost every tech race they participated in, which was almost all of them.

Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I’m sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there’s nothing we can do about it.

Yeah a good analogy is refloating the Costa Concordia. They patched the hole and emptied the water and it certainly floated, fixing the hole in the hull wasn’t the problem. Refloating it didn’t return it to passenger service, it was just step one of being scrapped, because that’s all you can do with a ship like that short of completely rebuilding it from scratch. Repairing it would be vastly more complex, risky, and expensive than simply replacing it. It’s salvage and scrap, that’s all. You get it out of the way so its not blocking your route as a hazard to navigation, anything you can salvage you salvage, then you scrap it.

Now, on the other hand, if you wanted to do some theatrical performance of how you are the greatest and most resourceful country on Earth, you could certainly refloat it and jury rig it piecemeal until it looks like a perfectly functional ship again, as long as nobody has to go inside and it never has to perform any significant functions. If you want to use it as a floating barge to launch missiles from (like the first of its class, which is rumoured to have no engines as it has never been seen moving under its own power) then absolutely you can refloat it and use it for that no problem. That might be a good way to save face if you’re a recently-embarrassed despotic banana republic with nuclear weapons and no functioning economy, and plausibly that is what will happen here.