uh-huh, uh-huh!

mexanada

hence the worldcoin stuff - not just machine to machine. allows “ai” to perform real world action through human incentivization. entirely disturbing if you ask me.

i try to balance my personal distaste for general bans with the much desired trait that every instance can be an island in a larger ocean if it wishes. so, as long as i have the ability to choose home instances based on my favored criteria, its ok with me. making sure that new users fully understand they have choice and can get vastly different experiences based on instance can be a challenge, however.

consolidation around large instances is more of a worry, but over the last 6 months or so I feel (100% subjective) that there has been much more activity on smaller, topic-centric instances. I try to respectfully engage with them as much as possible - sometimes even successfully.

I am pretty happy with lemmy and the lemmy trendlines. its the only social watering hole I visit now.

in reading through the comments I feel a sense of “lemmy pride” that instances have genuine, recognized flavors and that federation works as well as it does for the overwhelming majority of people. this really is the way, methinks. 👍

nah. I have found .ml to be pretty opinionated but diverse since signing up. aside from some minor inter/intra instance strife, its been good.

I think most people eventually get over themselves and recognize the social and technical usefulness of .ml - having a bleeding edge, well federated instance where you find the beehaws, worlds, hexbears and others is… interesting. the flavor of each instance really comes through and you can still curate your own feed as needed.

holy shit! the FBI is communist?! cool, cool.

pretty much. learning things without a corresponding “oh… shit.” moment, just never quite stick with you the same way.

if you really want a deep dive (cuz your post suggests that), fire up wireshark on a speed test PC and capture the traffic while you test. look for out-of-order, missing and corrupted packets. you will also get awesome stats on the traffic - wireshark is your best friend. be warned, this is the entrance to the rabbit hole.

edit: because at some point you are going to want to slide wireshark between the cable modem and your router - for general troubleshooting (and funsies!) then things get interesting as you figure out how to do that properly.

test it early morning when your neighbor peeps are sleeping (or bulk traffic torrenting - QoS usually knocks them back down pretty quickly). at the least you are looking for rock solid ping times. if pings are wild your link or the community bandwidth is possibility saturated.

is something already pushing 300Mbps worth of traffic across the router? speed tests that are good at power cycle, but quickly deteriorate after, can sometimes indicate that you have unaccounted for traffic crossing a bandwidth limited i/f (your ISPs service).

check your router stats for the missing traffic.

edit: also, almost all ISPs have a “burst bucket” for quick but intensive bursts of traffic. you get super speed for a few seconds while your bucket fills up. once full/overcommitted, your ISP starts rate limiting your service again. that may be why you get nice initial speeds, but they drop off quickly. does your ISP give burst speeds and sustained speeds in its terms of service contract on your kids?

yeah, Alaska is such an odd one. ranked choice voting, prosocial economic policies wrt oil. and yet…

if anyone in the soverign nation of ak can fill in the blanks, it would be greatly appreciated!

CIA: “sounds like socialism, boys. you know what to do.”

Crowd sourced, open access FLOS(Data) is almost always good. will check it out. thanks!

I torture it by pointing its webcam at the wall outlet and forcing it to watch its own pull-the-plug execution.

I will be among the first against the wall when the AI revolution comes.

without addons to control internet crazy, that word “function” is doing some heavy lifting.

ok, now thats just a slice of awesomeness! thank you, kind friend. will look for the show.

looking to slow right the F down? any of the family (meaning not primary islands) islands in the Bahamas, but particularly abaco, eleuthera, long island or andros. 100% totally different way of living than you are likely used to.

visited many times and wanting to go back before its all gone due to climate change.

edit: tagging @[email protected] cuz I did a dumb and subcommented.

ok,

Share of the population using safely managed sanitation facilities

• 884 million people in the world, approximately 1 in 8, do not have access to safe water
• 2.5 billion people across the globe lack access to adequate sanitation services
• 1.4 million children die every year, 1 child every 20 seconds, from diarrhea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation
• 443 million school days are lost each year to water-related diseases
• 47% of diarrhea incidents can be reduced by hand-washing with soap at critical times
• 87% say they washed their hands after using public lavatories
• 77% actually wash their hands after using a public restroom
• 46% say they wash their hands for 15 seconds or less
• 15-20 seconds equals the amount of time recommended for hand-washing with soap and water
• 200% the average increase in life expectancy at birth since the introduction of modern, indoor plumbing

above Current Statistics with additional source links

but, as you said, all of these figurative people can get right outta town.

plumbers through history have saved countless lives, whether you think so or not. I say they are in the top 5 all-time life saving professions.

edit: upvoted you cuz you responded :-)

thoughtful. my issue here is while a community is nascent, isnt building maintaining an honest reflection of the community important?

I have joined a few tiny locally communities based on one post/comment. I may never return and the community traffic is irregular.

in a situation like that I can see a mod pruning me away for zero comments in a year. however that is a form of censorship. so its back to the default of mods run their communities as they wish and, if you disagree find/create another community or instance.

thanks for the thoughful comment.