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I really enjoyed Lain as a work of speculative fiction, especially watching it in 2019 and being able to compare and contrast the portrayal of computer's effects on society with what "actually" happened as we moved more and more of our lives onto the internet.

The "actual" story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn't as long for me to get through it). If I had had the patience I think I would have preferred rewatching until I "got" it, but there's so much else out there to experience. Maybe some day I'll sit down and do a "proper" rewatch.

A good part of the initial enjoyment for me was the vibes and letting the different scenes slowly add up onto each other in the back of my mind.

As others have said in this thread already, it's not necessarily the most coherent nor meaningful story as it is conveyed. Being depressed can unironically help it make sense (though I would never ever recommend getting depressed just to better understand Lain or any story really, your mental wellbeing is more important!).

The shots of telephone lines with audio of power line hums and the weird purple/red splotches are probably some of my favorite bits, and they're what I immediately think of whenever Lain gets brought up.

It's a bit clearer in french; "weed" is "mauvaise herbe" which literally translates to "bad herb/grass".

To my knowledge, there is 1 feature that forgejo has that gitea doesn't: it can generate a new ssh key for you at the click of a button that can be used to push repo changes to another git forge.

I have several personal repos on my forgejo instance that are each setup so that they mirror themselves onto my Codeberg account at noon every day.

I also have a gitea instance on a raspi on my local network that itself will push out changes on certain repos to the (public-facing) forgejo instance.

I can push and/or pull to any of the three origins as needed, but usually I just push to the gitea when I'm at home and the forgejo when I'm not, and let the mirroring take care of propagating changes to Codeberg.

Part of the problem is also that, while an acre of land can feed a family of 4, there's no way to generate enough surplus from that single acre to be able to afford a tractor in the first place. So the tractor creates the need for much larger farm plots being owned by a single person, which way up all the supposed extra free time the automation/mechanized tool was supposed to bring.

In the end, less people can work the land to sustain themselves and the only people better off are those who already had more than enough to go buy.

And now they're trying to automate community, the last thing we have. Don't let them!

If you have a fediverse account, you can comment on this article from your own instance. Search https://hackers.pub/ap/articles/0197de66-6d9c-7728-abed-b8a4996f3022 on your instance and reply to it.

Very cool to see, now if only those comments could show up here in Lemmy...

Dog_with_thousand_yard_stare.jpg except instead of Vietnam flashbacks it's

I see the tumblr culture is already present, congrats! Although I never personally used tumblr, my understanding is that more than features or functionality it was very much the culture that its users cultivated that made that site special.

I wonder if they just want some more data they can then sell off to others.

Thank you for that link, it was really helpful.

Just as we are creatures of habit, we are creatures of belief. Ritual is belief + habit + (ideally) intent.

To be clear:
I don't argue for abandoning objective reality, but rather that the path to there, from within our own minds, will need to incorporate rituals on some level. The scientific method is really just a very specific kind of ritual. Let's lean into all of our strengths as human beings, not just our capacity for reasoning.

I think the reasoning expressed here is taking the wrong approach. The type of person in most need of convincing that we should consider ritual as an important (if not outright necessary) tool for changing society (especially if it's to "save" the environment) is the type of person for whom:

1. ritual is responsible for everything wrong with the current state of the world
2. the ends don't justify the means
3. indigenous practices are something to be "sifted through" with modern science to keep the "actual" and discard the "frivolous"

To convince such a person (for whom I expect Carl Sagan's words on science being a "candle in the dark" deeply resonate), I think it would be much more productive to talk about how we came to care so much about democracy and human rights given neither are, to my knowledge, falsifiable.
The acts of voting and holding an election are deeply secular rituals; we imbue them with power by performing them, and we perform them because we view them as imbued with power (specifically, the power to confer legitimacy on the decision made by their own outcome). Similarly, writing down on a piece of paper that human beings should be treated on equal footing has been effectively ritualized[0] to help convince others - including those born long after the paper was written on - that we should act as if it were true, despite any evidence our senses may provide us for the contrary.
A third, even more mundane example of a secular ritual is when two parties sign a contract.
A fourth, much more fun example of a secular ritual is gift-giving on certain significant moments in time - birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas.

I would wager this hypothetical reader-in-need-of-convincing thinks all four of these rituals are good - for them, for everyone, and also just plain Good. They don't need to be scientifically proven to "work" so much as they need to be scientifically "cleared of harm" - we don't give up on contracts just because they can be used for harm, we pass laws so that we can ignore and/or annul any harmful contracts that might otherwise take effect. Similarly, maybe we can make "coexisting with the environment" sacred without involving notions of heaven, hell, or any sort of higher power. We certainly seem to want to treat human rights as sacred, even though that isn't a perfect approach either.

In any case, I would have been much more receptive to this line of reasoning back when I would have dismissed the article itself as not-that-deep and somewhat fetishistic.

[0]: both by repetition and by continued transmission of reverence. Not only have there been multiple signings of declarations of human rights over the years, many of them were directly inspired by previous one(s). From the USA's "bill of rights" to the French "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" to the UN's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", most continue to be taught about in Western education as being important milestones for society as well having a net good impact on us.

Looking at your profile, Lemmy itself seems to be saying your account is 3 weeks old. I don't know what exactly is going here.

I feel you w.r.t. debugging :-)

Thankfully there's always the "brute-force" approach to the rescue; scale up and/or ship in whatever you need from a planet where it's cheap(er).

If I'm not mistaken, inserters will always take from either the first or last occupied slot in a container that matches their filters. I'm not in front of my PC so I can't check, but I'm fairly certain it's not random at all. From your description of your setup (miners -> recyclers -> train) I suspect the "randomness" you're seeing is due to how the train wagon gets filled up by the recycler output - which is itself definitely random.

As another comment says, you'll need to use filters to have the inserters do a "balanced pull". If you want maximum throughput then you'll need to wire up some combinators to dynamically adjust the filters over time. If you don't care about achieving max throughput and just want to be sure you don't clog up the unloading, you only need to spread out the ten-ish scrap recycling outputs across the filters for the 6/12 inserters that interact with a given train wagon.

Mass Effect : Legendary Edition est à 6 euros. J'ai l'impression qu'il s'agit des 3 premiers jeux ainsi que la totalité des dlc sortis pour eux.

Aw, geee, thanks! It's been a while since I figured in a meme

Well, now that I made this post lemmy is finding cross-posts of it..... at least none of them seem to be in this community.

On a au moins la base du monde diplomatique qui leur sert à faire leur fameuse carte des médias & leurs propriétaires !

Les données sont organisées en sept tableaux :

• personnes.tsv, medias.tsv et organisations.tsv contiennent les médias, personnes physiques ou morales actionnaires
• personne-media.tsv, personne-organisation.tsv, organisation-organisation.tsv et organisation-media.tsv détaillent les liens capitalistiques entre ces actionnaires et médias qu'ils possèdent

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Dans la partie "sources" du poste originel

S'il arrive a ramener des gens voter à gauche, qui sinon sont trop perturbés par Mélenchon ou trop cyniques envers le PS ou EELV, alors tant mieux!

J'espère qu'il ne se fera pas trop entraîné dans le jeu des médias à se faire tirer dans les pattes les gauches entre elles alors qu'on a Macron encore et son gouvernement qui continue de dériver vers l'extrême droite.