The fediverse as designed is actually pretty inefficient. If it ever were to go to Reddit scale it would melt down.
That's because there's effectively no batching for federation currently ... every single vote from an instance is forwarded back to the instance hosting the community and must be processed individually. So if you get 500k votes on something even if it's from 200 servers, the servers hosting the community have to be able to withstand the flood of votes and store the associated data... And that's just votes.
Worse yet, those votes then get replayed to every single one of those 200 servers one by one. So every server needs 500k vote entries and all the associated traffic ... even if half of the servers are just 1 guy looking at cat videos once a month.
Federating actually is way more expensive than just adding another user as designed.
I'm really glad AT&T and Verizon decided to step in and start competing. At least in my area it's changed everything, Spectrum (formerly the only cable provider) is now offering much more competitive pricing and better service (though AT&T has earned some loyalty because the fiber and symmetric speeds have been really great.
Following the Biden admin pricing transparency regulations I was able to get a better price as well.
Gotta say, Americans do seem significantly dumber than the average world citizen.
Presumably what an American once said about Germans. It can happen anywhere with the right stream of propaganda.
That's really interesting! I'd heard the white flight explanation for downtowns falling apart, but this adds a new layer to it
Old School RuneScape potentially fits this description
Depends on the particular telling I think. DC has IIRC gone both ways with that.
I don't think it really takes a side ... just kind of points out that it's super weird that it's more socially acceptable in one direction than the other.
I do hope the author intended for what I said to be the point though.
IMO, it shows security is not a priority for them. Just because you're on LAN it doesn't mean encryption is insignificant. There also isn't really "LAN" there are just networks, so this necessitates using some sort of server even in the case where you have an IPv6 or IPv4 address that would otherwise allow you to directly connect to your peer.
Seems interesting. I'm a bit concerned that they don't see encrypting direct traffic as an issue though https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#i-only-use-rustdesk-for-a-few-devices-on-my-local-network-with-no-internet-connectivity-can-i-still-use-rustdesk-with-direct-ip-access
Mixed feelings on that since games that get delisted often get delisted because some critical servers they depend on are going offline.
I'm not sure if that applies to Forza ... but personally the last thing I want is something that's about to be delisted.
I'm not blind, but ... there seems to be quite a bit of progress in this area to the point where (at least on the surface) your claim seems outdated.
https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/18/update-on-newton-the-wayland-native-accessibility-project/
flatpak for something as low level as a VPN is just not a great use case. I say that as a huge proponent of flatpak.
It's really weird to think I put out feed to attract the colorful cousins of alligators to my back yard.
They couldn't even be bothered to report the correct keys if you use anything but an xbox controller or allow custom key binds in Dark Souls 3. I will never understand the praise the Dark Souls 3 PC port got.
I don't know if I would call that a Muppet but fair enough lol
People are allowed to not like games you like ...
I also find souls likes to feel janky. Elden Ring is playable for me, Dark Souls 3 I just rage quit rather than dealing with its UI.
Don't count standard notes out just yet!
They offer discounted plans upon request!
https://standardnotes.com/help/56/what-if-i-can-t-afford-the-price-of-extended
A bill that will force the app’s Chinese owners to sell will soon become law.
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf
This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.
Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"
A bill that will force the app’s Chinese owners to sell will soon become law.
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf
This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.
Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"
Hi all,
I'm visiting a relative that has a Google WiFi system with multiple access points. There's an access point literally right next to me that I can see in the KDE BSSID list with 100% connection strength.
For some reason, it's instead picking a BSSID with only 60% strength. Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's choosing this access point instead of one of the others? Is this something the Google WiFi controls/suggests to the laptop, is something bugged, or is there a good reason Linux might be choosing this particular access point?
EDIT: It turns out the access point placement was actually just really bad, and the access point in question was not even making it to the rest of the LAN... The speed difference between my phone and laptop seems to be just that, something to do with a difference between the framework and the Pixel's wireless cards (or drivers). Even with everything corrected, the Pixel is significantly out performing the framework.
Hi folks,
I was wondering what people's thoughts are on the state of font rendering on Linux and if there are any important settings/packages I might not be aware of.
I've never been particularly font sensitive. So despite being a long time user at this point... I'm still a Linux fonts noob. However, I know a lot of people are big into fonts.
I recently installed Debian KDE as a desktop for my father. He likes it, but he wasn't crazy about the fonts. We turned the normal subpixel rendering on in KDE Font settings, but some pages definitely had blocky looking fonts (e.g. the Yahoo home page my dad still uses 🙃).
Any tips? The documentation in this area seems to be lacking... and maybe it's just the resolution of the mintors and things (my dad had gotten used to his high resolution phone so jumping back to a 28" 1080p monitor is going to look blocky no matter what). Regardless, if there are any tips or things I might have missed, they'd be much appreciated!
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I've been (probably like most players) playing around with Necromancy the past few days. I'm finding necromancy to be one of the more interesting skills Jagex has released. I think like archeology before it, it has a lot of different components to the skill that helps keep it fresh, vs just lighting fires. It also seems to have a lot of tie ins with other skills and under utilized items (e.g. ashes) which seems nice (and perhaps a bit OSRS inspired).
What are you thoughts? Are you loving it? Hating it? Somewhere in between?
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