What's happening in the fediverse nowadays? Any exciting projects to check out? It's something I feel I should be involved in, but never really got around to investing time in looking at properly.
> ... I am mostly curious why anyone would bother watching/subscribing to this media, since the amount of information you gain from them is enough to influence you emotionally, but not enough information to gain you a market advantage.
That's the point. They want their audience to be confused. They want them to act on instinct, to spend funds as they choose. It's not about value, it's not about growth - it's about power, first and foremost.
The purpose of smart locks such as these is never convenience. It's not even to make money.
The purpose is to deprive you of the resource they control should you say something they disagree with.
In fact, this applies to all smart devices, and IoT gadgets - to spy on you, and to control you if you step out of line.
"Oh I'm sorry your dishwasher won't start, should have thought of how much you valued having clean dishes before you started speaking out against the regime"
Obviously, that doesn't happen right now. But if the infrastructure is in place, all it'd take is a software patch and suddenly we get a dystopia that nobody could see coming and everyone reached for with arms outstretched.
Hi, asking for help is hard but I'm used to it at this point.
I'm looking for a job, if you know someone who's "always hiring" for remote positions please let me know. I have a year's worth of experience as a laboratory technician working on Intel IA platform systems, and most of a computer science BS degree. I have a few certifications, and I've made a few projects that almost work. I'm a little schizophrenic, but as long as I can take a day off if my symptoms flare up it shouldn't get in the way.
At my previous job I've given trainings, assembled documentation, resolved tickets, drafted emails, worked with spreadsheets, assembled complicated computers, installed operating systems, worked independently on a special debug task for a project that had been abandoned for a year or two, wrote bash scripts, flashed firmware, updated inventory, gathered a team for a task, debugged networking, learned soldering (once, oops), and probably some more stuff I'm forgetting.
It was a great job but I couldn't stay because traveling tends to trigger my symptoms - sometimes I'd get to work and realize I'd have to turn around. I was kind of embarrassed so I told my friends there that I was quitting for "health reasons" and nobody asked what I meant so...
I tried to apply to jobs but I wasn't getting many responses. You know how it goes. I like programming and make a hobby of game design, among other non-tech things. I have a cute cat and I wear a hat when I go outside. If I sound like a cool person to work with let me know and we can network!
> on Facebook or Reddit, you suddenly read a comment written by a veterinarian in Azerbaijan – someone who you would almost certainly never have met in real life and who is more different from you in every way than all the people you interact with as part of your daily routine.
that veterinarian may be more different than the people you see in everyday life, but the point of a social media bubble is that the veterinarian and you are likely to be very similar. Otherwise, why would you be on the same subreddit? How would you have met them on the internet if not because you were interested in common topics?
Interested in one common topic. If I like crocheting, interacting with people in a crocheting subreddit doesn't create a "filter bubble". The people in that sub are still going to have wildly different opinions and preferences from myself on any topic besides crocheting. And large subs like AskReddit are obviously being frequented by people from every imaginable background.
A forum on a single common topic can still create a filter bubble. For example, I know some music and outdoor-sports forums where the participants now post about not only those topics, but also a limited spectrum of US political rants or social-justice advocacy. If you come from somewhere else and you have different views or do not participate in such discussions, you can feel outright excluded from the club.
On any anglophone forum, it can happen that just enough participants are North Americans with the same views, that their political and social concerns are considered relevant and important. Some Reddit subs have seen this, too. Obviously a moderation rule of “no politics” or “no off-topic” would help, but sometimes even the moderators are passionate about those same political or social concerns, and believe that preventing discussion of such would be fascist.
> Obviously a moderation rule of “no politics” or “no off-topic” would help, but sometimes even the moderators are passionate about those same political or social concerns, and believe that preventing discussion of such would be fascist.
Worse, as long as the the mods have free reign to decide what is and isn't politics this is just yet another way of phrasing the real rule of "no things we don't approve of".
> ...The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum.
until, of course, someone updates a library that your code depends on or the OS changes the way it executes code or some other arbitrary change happens and your code is broken forever.
I don't understand that graph. Why is it so spiky? for any particular year. It almost looks like the temperature varies by ~0.5 degrees week to week. Can someone explain it to me?
The anomaly is the variation from the average, and the anomaly is measured daily. What happens on any given day is _weather_, and it is expected to vary greatly based on things like cloud cover and wind speed and direction. The 2C anomaly on November 18th was just the anomaly on that day and doesn't represent climate change having reached 2 degrees.
