I guess depends on the risk factor you want to take. For me I’d go VPN. You could go port forwarding, or you could even do something like temporarally use something like anydesk depending if you want to trust a corporation for remote access.

ah my bad, it’s at the server end, point still goes from the user end, there’s almost nowhere that they would go in which they have to type in the www.

Mainly because it’s lost it’s novelity. all browsers automatically search for it so it’s not something people need.

Ethics is kind of a personal viewpoint, there’s no “agreed upon table of ethics”. So of course be aware you are just getting opinions here.

Now my opinion, I do fall into the “if it’s worth the money pay for it”, if it’s not, don’t, and the Pirate now decide later is IMO a totally valid way to do that, and quite a few independent developers, etc… flat out encourage that method. Of course that doesn’t mean they all do. But to me my personal ethics say it’s more ethical… paying for a bad game, at the cost of not paying for a good game, is a travesty. My ethics say the best games should be the ones purchased… not the ones that had the best marketing and tricked the most people.

Yeah but my point is, conceptually, if we have a general concept of compressing things in memory… I’d imagine there’s enough people that could as well.

Not saying anything with regards to the odds of meta releasing it, or keeping it to themselves. I’d imagine it’s a matter of business. If their goal is to get ahead in the datacenter race, that might be a key worth holding on to for a while, or maybe they think that it will render shitty phones able to keep viewing facebook longer so it’s worth releasing to the public early. Point I was going at is simply the tech exists, it should be possible to replicate it by someone who isn’t as profit driven.

If I were running a tech project, and elon musk offered to help I’d quickly begin questioning all of my life choices.

or more accurately lets assume meta doesn’t share it… doesn’t it just prove the possibility? Opening the door for a similar tech to be made open source?

You mean just in time for the US to declare “Chinese ram” a national security risk and ban it’s import right?

Doesn’t that mean we can have all shows and movies on one platform? Isn’t that a good thing?

kind of like how Disney+ and Hulu just became one bill when Disney took over the rest of hulu. Except of course, it didn’t.

Now keep in mind it’s been years since my son was young. But Mark Rober is pretty entertaining, the backyard scientist used to be one of my son’s favorites (though looks like he hasn’t been active in a about 5 years, but he’s got a pretty good back catalog),

sorry I said that backwards, meant by the time and not by the power you get. But yes IMO that’s what would be silly is I guess if there are exceptions like that where taking longer costs more, as obviously that’s largely a variable they control that doesn’t have to do with your usage, I could see with using that as a workaround with stupid laws though.

I think their point is that for a business a captive audience is a good thing. Kind of like how some grocery stores have noticed that when checkout takes longer, people are more likely to buy the drinks and snacks they put for sale near the checkout line. Likewise a charging station could have an overpriced restraunt selling low quality burgers for twice the price of the restraunts 2 minutes away by car, and customers will eat there because, they don’t want to sit around for 30 minutes, and then drive down the road and stop for another 10.

Unless I’m missing something and fast chargers charge by the watt instead of the hour, in which case that’s pretty big BS.

Mainly post on like craigslist or nextdoor. “mowing lawns” or “house cleaning” etc… Not a fan of churches but that used to be a standard way for word of mouth.

Well technically yes, but defending them from what. IMO I don’t get the point of gratuitous punishment.

IE I see 2 possibilities.

1. Someone can be rehabilitated. IE we think it’s reasonable that after the punishment we consider them able to be low enough risk that more or less they can contribute to society and function as a normal person again.

2. Someone can’t be rehabilitated. In which case punishment is completely meaningless, and we need to keep them away from any potential victims for the rest of their lives. Of which I do understand but not agree with the concept of shortening it.

But in the case of 2, I flat out don’t get the concept of intentionally adding suffering in that point for any purpose other than keeping them from getting near innocents. If we’ve given up on changing them, then we’ve negated any potential purpose to the suffering, and thus it’s just gratuitous and… makes those involved in it’s execution the monsters.

I don’t know to me the level it worked, is what makes it really silly to me that so few things can handle local transcription today without cloud services. I felt like it was 99% accurate running on a crappy win XP system with like 256 MB ram. Seems to me that it’s crazy that 20 years later we’re “well we need to hook you up to a supercomputer to do that”.

constitutions are meaningful because institutions can enforce them.

Throughout trumps term… that’s sounding less and less to be the case.

Maybe that’s the idea, they aren’t trying to raise the bar out of what we expect from this pinky swear. Maybe they want us to lower our expectations of a constitution to be “guidelines that we sometimes follow, when they don’t get too much in the way of what we want to do”.

We’ve also decided to add a “pinky promise” layer to this agreement.

You know what, considering that the world see’s AI on the same level of nukes. Maybe the iran war can be solved this way. Just give Iran a “morally binding” request to not build nukes. Declare that the new victory and end the iran war.

What’s the difference, my opinion, the definition of gender affirming care is.

Treatment to allow your external body to match the characteristics that you feel your body should be.

Which would include, boob jobs, hair transplants. hormones, anything to build up muscle, anything to fix erectile dysfunction etc…

90% of instances should be fine, but, if in doubt while you are using this one, do a search for communities for the topics you care about, and either join the community that has the most of what you want, or check their linked/banned list to know which ones not to join.

The super simplified version of it is.

some instances block other instances. Either due to political differences or because too many spammers are in one etc… Bottom line, if it’s not linked or blocked, you won’t be able to see posts to them, and people on those instances won’t see posts you make from your own, (creates kind of a shadow ban, where you think you are posting, but no one over there can see it).

you can see if you go to

https://thelemmy.club/instances

you can see a list of instances they’ve linked with, and blocked.

compare that to say beehaw

https://beehaw.org/instances

You’ll see there’s a big difference in what they do and don’t federate with. Which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it.

If you have a community or 2 that you really care about, it’s worth checking to make sure their instance you want to post to and read the posts of, is friendly with the one you don’t