Solving the fragmented community problem is something I’ve been pondering too, and the meta-community idea you described seems interesting.

Obviously, a proper technical solution will be difficult. Federation comes with a host of challenges, as well as benefits.

Giving communities the opportunity to be open to other like minded people on different instances would be beneficial to the network, for a number of reasons.

If two communities on different instances have the same name, it doesn’t seem crazy to ask each of them if they’d like to federate with each other.

That way, apart from instances defederating, discussions could continue even if individual servers go down.

Of course, people love to hold on to their little fiefdoms, so the issue is as much social as technical.

I have little interest in being a mod, but I see the issues you’re describing as a user and I’ve given them some thought.

You can create a community with a similar name or switch instances if you cant get your instance admin to help. For me, the frustration isn’t so much with unmoderated communities but abandoned ones, especially on larger instances.

Fixing that seems simpler, as adding a toggle to hide inactive communities should hopefully not be controversial and it could be implemented by the client. Please?

It will be interesting to see how things evolve, as a solution is clearly needed but federation poses some interesting challenges especially since deleting posts should be discouraged.

This is probably the closest to any sort of disclosure we are going to get for a while, and I’m here for it. This is much more persuasive than a cellphone video; that the US government knows that UAP are both real and consider it technology that could change all of our lives is huge even without a known origin.

That’s just how research works most of the time. The experimental setup required to build a working prototype and prove the initial hypothesis is always going to be larger and more complex than a mass market appliance. If that appliance ever gets built depends on a huge number of factors too. If the process scales as expected, how complex the device is to produce and if a company thinks that it can make money on it. The researchers, meanwhile, are probably more worried about their next grant funding.

That, and it would be in portrait mode, with a video playing. And ads taking up a third or the screen.

If I was in his shoes I’d frame the email of Linus apologizing because he wasn’t aware it wasn’t in linux-next already. Everything else is just process crap that should be expected dealing with large organizations.

Is it really? I figured it was just another textbook example of convergent evolution, as that is where I learned about it. I know my comment should have said ‘evolved crab-like bodies’ instead, as they’d still be genetically distinct, and not taxonomically true crabs. Now I feel like I have to read up on what the exact nature of the debate is.

Fun fact: Through a process of convergent evolution called carcinisation, crustaceans have evolved into crabs several times.

Weirdly, I saw it normally immediately. Then I stared at it until it made no sense at all, as I tried to figure out why people would be confused.

Depending on who you ask OC is basically a myth, and everything is just fanfic expanding on base archetypes and themes anyway.

The Romans literally copied Greek statuary, and nobody questions the virtuosity of neo-classicists even if their work is “just” Greco-Roman fanart.

Most art is memetic in some way, making it accessible and engaging to a large audience and reducing the amount of exposition and context needing be communicated. Ironically, art that doesn’t do so is often criticized for being inaccessible, elitist, or “something my baby could have done”.

Telling artists what art they should make is silly outside of commissions to begjn with.

I was wondering the same thing before reading the article. This is for a 28 year mission, and doesn’t include setting up the base, or power and water supply.

Looks interesting. I’ll probably keep using nano, as it is usually installed by default and my needs are minimal. The single binary without dependencies should certainly make adoption easier.

Apparently I’m from an area that uses sunshower, but I’ve always heard it called the devil beating his wife