The issue is that if you don’t default to federation, it becomes essentially impossible for new instances to join the fediverse. A potential new instance would have to go around to every single existing instance and ask to be allowlisted, which is onerous for both the new instances and for the large server admins who would be getting tons of requests. It would also essentially kill small-scale selfhosting as a result.
I’ve noticed this too and it’s so sad because I love em dashes, but whenever anyone uses them it puts me on guard. I still use them from time to time, but I’m more self-conscious about it now
Yeahhh I didn’t really think through how I worded that one, sorry. I was trying to say that Ada is essentially the face of enforcement and I haven’t seen you going out and banning people, but that hardly means there’s only one admin.
I really appreciate you keeping this place running for us!
Most people earn their currency in-game, which would make it awkward to have a real-world conversion attached to everything—especially when there’s no way to pull it out so it’s not really meaningful.
It’s already hard enough getting people to undock and risk their internet spaceships, it’d be even harder if there were little real-world price estimates attached to everything.
A better solution would be to attach the prices only to PLEX (the premium currency), since that’s what maps directly to real-world money and would be what you’re spending your money on. They could also post the going exchange rate for euro to isk on the market itself without having to attach price tags to every individual item.
My point is that rules do nothing to “control corruption” as you put it.
In an instance like this where there’s only one active admin, the rules are fundamentally just a courtesy to the users. The owner can just do whatever they want.
It doesn’t ultimately matter what their rules are. Anti corruption laws exist IRL so they can be enforced by the government on its own members, but when the “government” is one person what are they gonna do, say “welp I made a rule against corruption, guess I gotta stop being corrupt.” The very concept of controls is silly.
Ada owns this space, so she decides how to run it. I like that because it means there’s no room for arguments over what’s technically within the rules or not. Are you transphobic/potentially harmful to the safe space? You’re out.
Writing down a million rules to explain Ada’s internal logic for banning people would be ridiculously infeasible because it’s such a personal thing. But for people who like the way that Ada runs things, it’s a nice space. Anyways, I don’t particularly want “polite transphobes” here who are capable of following the rules if written out but would be horribly transphobic otherwise.
EDIT: what even is “corruption” in this context? I feel like your government analogy doesn’t apply very well to this situation
Laws need to be stringent because governments involve lots of people, and people’s livelihoods and well-being are on the line.
No one’s livelihood is on the line here, worst case scenario they get banned and then they find a new server.
There’s only two (really one) admins, and they enforce the safe space according to their own judgement. This isn’t a government, it’s a Lemmy server. Fleshing out rules would only invite rules lawyering which bigots love and is a headache for little practical gain.
There’s no need to “control corruption” or prevent “enforcers not understanding the rules” when the person making the rules is also the person enforcing them.
A big part of IPv4’s persistence I think is that people insist that IPv6 is complicated, but then refuse to learn it or think outside their IPv4-brain. It’s just different enough that it’s easier to stay in v4, even if it requires a million hackjob fixes to keep around.
If anything is to blame for that, it’s the lack of momentum behind IPv6. We’re out of IPv4, so NAT is inevitable, and IPv6 doesn’t have enough inertia for single-stack to be viable (certainly wouldn’t be described as “no drama” at least).
What’s up with Star Trek communities and doomerism? Seems like missing the point of the shows
They did do it through political reformation though. The replicators came ~200 years after getting rid of money.
The show this clip is from is set in a time before they had the replicator tech, even.
EDIT: It’s set before they perfected it, at least. They don’t refer to it as replicators but DIS and the other new prequel shows have fleshed out some of the precursor tech for the replicator in that time.
The brigading wasn’t from the same person who made the pull request, and happened three years later. The thread isn’t even that toxic as far as GitHub threads can get.
It’s not a great example of what you’re talking about.
Yeah, fair enough. To my mind I guess I don’t think of array indexes as an example of actual zero based numbering, simply a quirk of how pointers work. I don’t see why one starting from zero has anything to do with the other starting from zero. They’re separate things in my head. Interestingly, the article you linked does mention this argument:
Referencing memory by an address and an offset is represented directly in computer hardware on virtually all computer architectures, so this design detail in C makes compilation easier, at the cost of some human factors. In this context using “zeroth” as an ordinal is not strictly correct, but a widespread habit in this profession.
That said, I suppose I still use normal one-based numbering because that’s how I’m used to everything else working.
Picard is definitely the worst for this. It’s woefully generic and miserable.
On the other hand, SNW feels like it has much more of the TOS-era vibrancy, LD is pretty similar to TNG in terms of setting (plus modern humor of course)… Prodigy even takes the novel approach of seeming like generic sci-fi at first only to become probably the most similar to 90s Trek out of all the new shows, albeit in kid’s show format. Still, it’s really fun and is all about the hope the Federation represents.
And for that matter, while early Discovery is pretty dark, I feel like Discovery gets more hopeful. Sure, the 32nd century has kind of a “fallen utopia” thing going on, but it very quickly turns into rebuilding and by the end they’re looking hopefully to the future as they’re expanding their borders again. It’s different from the previous eras of Trek, but it’s still hopeful.
Indexes start from zero because they’re memory offsets, but array[0] is still the first element because it’s an ordinal number, not an offset. It’s literally counting each element of the array. It lines up with the cardinality—you wouldn’t say ['A', 'B', 'C'] has two elements, despite array[2] being the last element.
When done correctly, the banner is actually a consent banner. It’s a legal thing, not necessarily trying to discourage criminals. It’s informing users that all use will be monitored and it implies their consent to the technology policies of the organization. It’s more for regular users than criminals.
When it’s just “unauthorized access is prohibited”, though, especially on a single-user server? Not really any point. But since this article was based on compliance guidelines that aren’t all relevant to the homelab, I can see how it got warped into the empty “you no hack” banner.
We use a lot of vegetable stock; we make it at home sometimes and it’s delicious but nowadays we often use stuff from a jar. Looking at the jar the first ingredient is vegetables, so better than your standard stock I suppose.
It’s never occurred to me to use nooch as a substitute before when we’re out, I’ve always just skipped the broth and had sad weak soup with water instead… This will be good for the days I’m craving soup but the fridge is empty.
I love that you posted this because it confirms @hamid’s point so succinctly.
It’s mostly MSG, with chicken fat being below palm oil on the ingredients list. Just replace both fats with some other oil and you’re good to go
I agree that democratic socialism is probably the closest IRL system, I just think it’s fairly vague about it and any assertions are easily glossed over or disregarded as fiction, or attributed to the advanced tech.
It comes back to the disconnection of tech, the vagueness, the allegory. You don’t see queer people, you just see allegories for queer people that are either safer to accept or just aren’t acknowledged as allegories. You don’t see Federation imperialism being questioned that much, they’re pretty much always right. The only meaningful people who question it are the Maquis, and Sisko loses himself in his vengeance and pursuit of them (but is never humbled for it—from the audience’s perspective, he’s right). And then there’s S31, which is fascist to begin with.
And I’m just talking about canon here. Not the books or anything like that.
Technically money was abolished prior to the invention of the replicator, but we never hear any details about that. The most detail we get is a one off line in Voyager about a “New World Economy”.
They don’t flesh out what the economy actually looks like, or how we got here without replicators. The “without replicators” is an important bit, which might seem like a random thing for me to be focusing on but I’ve talked to conservative fans who will often cite replicators as something that would be required for the Federation’s socialism. Even liberal fans often think that. The message of the show is about post-scarcity, not workers owning the means of production. It’s not socialism in the ways that it exists on earth, and so conservatives don’t hate it.
I kinda of lean towards the idea of “private accounts” being a bad idea as a result, just because it creates a false sense of security. But I’m not in the target demographic so idk