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One of the main problems is that Ernest is the owner and only mod on those magazines getting all the spam. I guess I missed the memo (figuratively speaking) about deletions not being federated though. That seems like a problem even if there were alternative moderators.

There’s at least one person on the mod-request queue for most of the spam-ridden magazines. That “at least one” is me, which is how I know. I’m not here all the time and wouldn’t be great at it, but at this stage even a part-time mod would be better than none at all. Hopefully, as and when Ernest comes back he can assign some roles. Twice as hopefully, someone else who would be better at it gets it instead.

Stage one complete: Embrace.

The lack of answer to the question “Why are Meta suddenly so open and willing to integrate with the Fediverse when they’ve basically been doing the opposite with their own products?” is a huge concern.

My guess is that they don’t have an exact game plan yet, and are letting their naive, enthusiastic staff - those with no idea of the answer to the above question - do the initial scout and integration work with a view to see how it can be perverted for Meta’s profit/benefit in future.

Meta probably wouldn’t use the word “perverted”, but from an outside perspective that’s what it’d be.

My thinking here is exactly the same as in comments I posted about Microsoft’s embrace of Linux a short while back: 1 2

I only know that one time an obscure thing I was talking about here on kbin.social, perhaps as a response to a post on some Lemmy or another, ended up being indexed incredibly quickly by Google regardless of however things are structured in URLs.

This became apparent when I tried to do further research on the topic and I found myself staring at my own comment as federated on yet another Lemmy.

As long as search engines remain as on the ball as whatever happened there, we might actually end up with a repository anyway.

Unrelated username commentary: Your leet/hex username had me wondering if it resolved as an IP address too. Turns out you belong to the US Department of Defense. Unsure if you knew that already.

For obvious reasons, I decided not to try to actually visit that IP.

Isn’t our species wonderful? All races, religions and creeds; every single one of them has absolute nutjobs.

Centauri Prime probably.

When the right-wing party moves so far right that the left-wing party now stands where the right wing party once stood, it’s time for everyone to do a little soul searchi…

hahaha no! fuck that! profits! profits are all that matters! hahaha. bow to your corporate masters! dance, peasant dance! or die! we don’t care! we have all the money! hahahaha!

The true secret of X and its predecessor was to not use the main timeline. It was to put everyone you follow into a List and then only look at that.

Downside? You don’t see what your follows liked. It was that way before the new manglement too.

The other downside: If you’ve not been adding follows to a List on a regular basis as you followed them, making such a List from hundreds of follows is going to be a bit of a chore because the Lists feature has never made it all that easy.

Considerable upside: No ads. Literally none.

Of course, now that I’ve put this out there, the boss man might get wind of it and shut down or enshittify the Lists feature, but it’s had a good run.

Over on Mastodon, I mostly follow hashtags instead.

harassing political dissidents

Mm-hm. There are good bots and bad bots. This being a subjective categorisation, and Uncle Elon wanting very much to be friends with Uncle Jinping, these bots are undoubtedly most welcome on the platform.

“Nothing to see here. Move along.”

Going to assume Americans left them behind.

Nah. They need their skivvies. There’s no way they’ll get other men to do those things for them, and they’ll be damned if they’ll do it themselves.

Dude can’t have any family if this is true, because they’d no doubt be getting special attention from Uncle Vladimir right about now.

A couple of things to ponder:

1. Assume true. What would Putin say or do to this soldier if they were to meet? Publicly? Privately?

2. Assume a Ukrainian soldier has done the same. What would Zelenskyy say or do to his soldier? Publicly? Privately?

Think about those for a while. What will people of all priorities (pro-Russia, pro-Ukraine, anti-conflict, etc.) think about the decisions that are made and things that are said?

I don’t have the answers to these questions, but know what my guesses would be and I can see people of either side of this conflict giving any one of the possible answers and justifying it either way.

e.g. Imagine Putin has his soldier court-martialled and shot; Some pro-Russians will proclaim this a strong move. Others will say that he should not have done that because those Ukrainians deserved to be murdered and the soldier did the right thing. Likewise if Putin was to throw this soldier in prison, some might say it wasn’t enough and others might say that he shouldn’t even be in there. (NB: I don’t believe anyone deserves to be murdered. Ukrainian or Russian. This is all hypothetical.)

Alternatively, we might have Putin outwardly congratulate this soldier. This would be an internationally unpopular move, more-so than having the soldier shot, because the West kind of expects Putin to “deal with” people who make him look bad, but some pro-Russians would proclaim it a strong move. Others will think that it was a bad idea but say nothing.

Zelenskyy might have his own soldier court-martialled and shot. If he is truly interested in aligning with the West as Russia fears, he probably wouldn’t do this. He’d instead have the soldier tried in court, and if found guilty, possibly even turned over to Russia if it could be guaranteed the soldier was going to be imprisoned for his crimes and not tortured or shot.

Would Russia consider turning over their own POW murderers to Ukraine? Probably not. They don’t recognise Ukraine.

It would be nice if they did though. If they realised where their soldiers and tanks were they might be able to get them out of there and this conflict would be over. Enough lives have been lost to make up for any transgressions either way at this point.

Would those unspecified metals be of good quality or is there a risk they might be the sub-par stuff that is said to be exported by unscrupulous Chinese companies?

“Russia never invaded. This is a special military exercise to, uh, help Ukraine rid itself of Nazis and then as thanks they can rejoin greater Russia rather than being a puppet of Western propaganda and colonialism.”

“The only propaganda and colonialism should be Russian. It never did Belarus any harm.”

“Yet.”

It is impossible for the good guys to bully anyone. Anything done by the good guys is, by definition, good, and so cannot be bullying, which is bad.

Because they’re lazy and need to get better jobs. Don’t come at us with your woke logic. – Conservative HQ

(The trouble with making an ironic comment like this is that conservatives won’t see what’s wrong with it, and non-cons might think I’m conservative.)

What are the odds that muons are more sensitive to neutrino interaction and this is what the scientists are seeing? Muons are pretty massive, after all, and neutrinos are literally everywhere. Obligatory: “billions of neutrinos pass through you every second”.

Muons are leptons like neutrinos and their electron cousins, and we already know that electrons can be boosted by the occasional neutrino interaction. A free muon in a magnetic field has nowhere to be boosted to, so, coupled with a hypothetically higher chance of interacting with a neutrino, I’d expect something to happen when it does, though not exactly what.

I figure we don’t already use muons in neutrino detectors because they don’t last very long (about a second) before decaying, and the only way to get them to last longer is to accelerate them to a decent fraction of the speed of light. That way, from our reference frame they can last minutes or more. That’s going to be energy-hungry compared to the passive detectors we have.

i.e. the passive detectors which take advantage of the aforementioned electron / atom interaction.

Can’t say I fully understand his position on this, but I’d still rather have him running Brazil than the other guy.

“The world needs a new system of global governance.” Let me counter that part with “any long term system of governance inevitably becomes corrupt (assuming it wasn’t corrupt to begin with).”

It may be true that the (subjectively) important UN countries’ support of Ukraine in the conflict might not be for reasons that are completely aligned with those of Ukraine itself, but the fact Ukraine is being supported has - shall we say: ironically - prevented the governance of that country from being replaced by a more corrupt one.

Of course, pro-Russia folks will have the opposite opinion there.