I meant current times, not in the past. Sorry, I assumed that would be obvious. There are also some things I like about Germany, though they have a pretty terrible past.

This is the first thing I’ve ever disliked about Switzerland (not that I know a lot about the country).

I imagine that, when deciding whether calls to violence/murder should be grounds for banning, the reasons to ban likely outweighed the reasons not to by a lot

That would make the house hot af where I am. (Or cold af in the winter time)

Also, humidity levels would increase, not decrease, because the air conditioner dehumidifies.

…I suppose it’s not hard to guess that I’m in southern US. People sometimes die if their A/C breaks during a heat wave.

Fun fact: Florida used to be much less livable. Its population skyrocketed when air conditioning was invented.

Honestly, I might not be the best person to ask, as I’m not super familiar with the underlying details of either. But, from a high level, I’d say that Nostr is more decentralized.

(I might get some of these details wrong, so hopefully someone can correct me.)

I’ve seen people say that ActivityPub is decentralized, but I just don’t quite see it. I think even email is more “decentralized” than AP. With email, your identity is tied to a domain name. If you own the domain name, then you can switch email servers/providers. AFAIK, with AP, your identity is tied to a server and domain name. So if the server is gone, then your account is too.

With Nostr, you own your identity. It’s not tied to a domain name or server. If a Nostr relay goes offline (or bans you, I suppose), you can continue using your account through other relays.

I think most people use more than one relay on Nostr (that’s the default setting in many Nostr clients). If one goes down, I’m not sure I’d even notice. You can add/remove relays from your client too.

Nostr feels a bit more like p2p, in a way. More of the heavy lifting is done on the client than the servers/relays.

Nostr. I think the tech is cool, but the culture seems like some sort of cryptocurrency cult

send and receive mobile alerts via text message

I hope this database of phone numbers, and all programs that connect to it, are secure.

(Not that text messages are even secure, but a database is much easier to extract a complete list from.)

They could have done both.

If it’s not fixed by Monday, I will consider starting the approval process from the legal department that requires it from me.

I wish I had the freedom to just open a PR anywhere anytime, but I don’t.

Let’s not get carried away.

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Right…

It sounds like a pull request would have been much more helpful, with much less effort. But you want it fixed less than you want it publicized, so you chose this option (even though you could have done both).

In other words, you cared less about the people impacted by this problem, and more about your own opportunity to put the author(s) on blast like this.

And you care about that opportunity so much, that it’s even worth it to show this dark side of yourself publicly.

Am I understanding that right?

TASER uses their products on their employees? Lol that’s wild

OR maybe everyone — including the poor — will eventually have access to robotic surgeons with the equivalent of like 500 human years of experience, but with the latest surgical best practices that have only existed in recent years. The experience gained by a single surgery could be shared across all of them.

We’re talking about surgery. If some technology can provide significantly more valuable labor than its human counterpart (which, in this case, could mean more lives saved), then it might actually be worth exploring.

If I had to guess, it’s likely due to the obesity problem they were having

It’s kinda interesting how the most power-consuming uses of graphics chips — crypto and AI/ML — have nothing to do with graphics.

(Except for AI-generated graphics, I suppose)

Microsoft Tay would have been proud of Grok for this

Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.

Very cool. Thanks!

Lol he endorsed Twitter after leaving Bluesky? That’s an interesting series of events.

Yeah I think Twitter has been a net negative for society.

What’s it called?

Does the staple cause any issues?