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I was less thinking "they might become refederated and have content reach instances that wanted to defederate" and more "what happens at a protocol and database level if one just changes a domain name, updates the X.509 certificate, and then refederates?" I mean, I don't know how other instances deal with that, whether it can create problems. IIRC from past discussion, there are user keys somewhere in the protocol, and I assume that those would now be identical and collide across old and new instances, for one...

I don't see Red Windsor on there, which instills grave doubts as to the merits of this map.


Hmm.
I assume that they could refederate under a new domain name, but I have no idea how the Threadiverse deals with an instance changing its domain name. Probably not well.

While I did play a few games on the A2600, I never owned one myself. I do have to say that I remember the joysticks -- these things -- requiring a fair bit of muscle to work compared to any other joysticks that I've used.
If I remember correctly, I think the game I liked the most on it was Combat.
with the “Lynx” being their last gasp IIRC
Yeah, I do remember that. Had a friend who had one, possibly because I -- probably bad advice -- recommended it over the Game Gear.
Then again, Atari sort of failed in similar fashion in preparing to win the next round of the console wars, being utterly blown out of the water by the Nintendo NES a whole 8yrs after the A2600 first came out
You know, I thought that the Sega Master System predated the NES, but I just looked it up, and apparently the NES was 1983, and the Master System was 1986. So I guess it really was the NES that hit it first.

Don't they support video posts?
kagis
Hmm. Apparently so.
https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/posting-video/
- It’ll need to be a MOV or MP4 file.
- You can post up to 20 videos per day.
- A single video can be up to 10 minutes in length.
- The video upload size limit is 500 MB per video.
- The total video time limit per day is 60 minutes.
Well, it's not an open platform, but I guess it may be a platform with the resources to serve some serious video, and it'll be on the Fediverse.
We have been having a lot of discussions about what it would take to get video on the Fediverse at more than PeerTube scale.
I don't use tumblr, don't know if they provide a video-centric interface, but I imagine that one could always write a software package to index those videos and link to them. Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven't played with it enough to know.

the A2600's superior complexity
Now there's a phrase that I didn't expect to see. :-)
I do think that the console's controllers look kind of interesting. I've never seen them before, sort of an alternate fork in console controller design that we didn't go down. A handle with a six-degrees-of-freedom thumbstick on top.

What if it is and it became unrecoverable ages ago?

Well, you've got a good and a bad case. So you probably have all the parts you need to solve the puzzle.
So the next step is probably to narrow down what precisely it is that breaks it.
I'd probably see what headers are being sent for each of your requests, since that's a source of difference, and then add them in one by one to the non-working case until it starts working.
I mean, could be anything. Could be that they restricted the User-Agent of the client you're using for the request due to someone spamming them or something.

I don't really care about the Confederate thing, but there are two Fort Braggs, one a town in coastal California, and it was kind of obnoxious to have the same name on them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg%2C_California
It's notable for Glass Beach:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Beach_%28Fort_Bragg%2C_California%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg
So I kind of liked having it not be "Bragg".
Also, if I remember correctly from the American Civil War military history I've done, Bragg (the general, not the private) didn't actually perform very well across a number of battles. Like, he was high-ranking, but I'm not sure that he'd be someone to name forts after.
kagis
Yeah, actually, sounds like he was outright awful, in fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg
At the start of the Civil War, Bragg trained soldiers in the Gulf Coast region. He was a corps commander at the Battle of Shiloh, where he launched several costly and unsuccessful frontal assaults but nonetheless was commended for his conduct and bravery.
In June 1862, Bragg was elevated to command the Army of Mississippi (later known as the Army of Tennessee). He and Brigadier General Edmund Kirby Smith attempted an invasion of Kentucky in 1862, but Bragg retreated following a minor tactical victory at the Battle of Perryville in October. In December, he fought another battle at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the Battle of Stones River, against the Army of the Cumberland under Major General William Rosecrans. After a bloody and inconclusive battle, it ended with his retreat. After months without significant fighting, Bragg was outmaneuvered by Rosecrans in the Tullahoma Campaign in June 1863, causing him to surrender Middle Tennessee to the Union. Bragg retreated to Chattanooga but evacuated it in September as Rosecrans' troops entered Georgia. Later that month, with the assistance of Confederate forces from the Eastern Theater under James Longstreet, Bragg was able to defeat Rosecrans at the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest battle in the Western Theater, and the only significant Confederate victory therein. Bragg forced Rosecrans back into Tennessee, but was criticized for the heavy casualties his army suffered and for not mounting an effective pursuit. In November, Bragg's army was routed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant in the Battles for Chattanooga and pushed back to Georgia. Confederate President Jefferson Davis subsequently relieved Bragg of command, recalling him to Richmond as his chief military advisor. Bragg briefly returned to the field as a corps commander near the war's end during the Campaign of the Carolinas.
Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the Civil War.[1] Most of the battles he engaged in ended in defeat. Bragg was extremely unpopular with both the officers and ordinary men under his command, who criticized him for numerous perceived faults, including poor battlefield strategy, a quick temper, and overzealous discipline.[1] Bragg has a generally poor reputation with historians,[1] though some point towards the failures of Bragg's subordinates, especially Major General and former Bishop Leonidas Polk—a close ally of Davis and known enemy of Bragg—as more significant factors in the many Confederate defeats under Bragg's command. The losses suffered by Bragg's forces are cited as highly consequential to the ultimate defeat of the Confederate States of America.[1]

When I've interviewed candidates for software engineering positions, I have never asked any questions about them outside of work. I don't personally feel that it has a lot of impact on how they perform at work.
Trump given power to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland' under new bill tabled by Republicans

I mean, the bill isn't going to pass, but it's proposing buying it and then renaming it.

Yeah, that's another thing that bugs me about products that can be remotely-updated and especially those which don't currently represent an ongoing revenue stream. I think that it's a broader problem, too, not just cars.
I was kind of not enthusiastic when I discovered that TenCent bought the video game Oxygen Not Included and started pushing data-harvesting updates into it via Steam. As things stand, that's optional. But any company could do the same with other games and not have it be optional. If you figure that all the games out there that have already been sold aren't actually generating revenue but do represent the option to push and execute code on someone's computer, they have value to some other company that could purchase them and monetize that.
Then you figure that the same applies to browser extensions.
And apps on phones.
And all those Internet of Things devices that can talk to the network, cameras and microphones and all sorts of stuff.
There's a lot of room for people to sit down and say "what I have is a hook into someone else's stuff...now what things might I do to further monetize that? Or who might I sell that hook to who might be interested in doing that?"
Like, if I buy a product, all I can do when I make my purchasing decision is to evaluate the product as it is at purchase time. If the vendor also has the ability and right to change that product whenever they want, then what I'm actually buying is a pretty big question mark. And unless they've got some kind of other revenue stream on the line, their only real incentive to avoid doing so is the reputational hit they take...which for failing brands or companies, may not be all that large.
One constraint for efficient markets is that the consumers in it need to be informed as to what they're buying. If they don't have that property, you can get market failure. And a consumer can't be informed about what he's buying if the person selling them the product can change that product at any point after purchase.
Trump given power to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland' under new bill tabled by Republicans

Sure, not saying that you're at fault or anything.
Trump given power to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland' under new bill tabled by Republicans

"He isn't paying attention to the jingly keys."
"Find something more-outrageous to say. We'll get there."

A lot wealthier, but that's in significant part because most of the world is very poor relative to most people reading this. Some guy in Sudan isn't gonna be reading your post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult
Median global wealth per adult (2023):
North America: $108,918
Europe: $28,611
China: $27,273
World: $8,654
Latin America: $6,341
Asia-Pacific (excluding China and India): $5,176
India: $3,755
Africa: $1,242
I think that you're going to have a hard time getting fine-grained data globally, though, because lots of countries just don't gather data and those that do often don't measure it in the same way. I really wish that the UK had stayed in Eurostat when leaving the EU, because now getting comparable data for the UK and EU isn't doable.
If it's the US (in 2021 dollars), on a per-household basis:
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2023/demo/p70br-183.pdf
Median Wealth by Household Characteristics: 2021
Typically someone tends to build up assets during their working life, and spend them in retirement, so age is gonna be a factor.
Age of Householder
Age | Wealth ($) |
---|---|
Under 35 | 30,500 |
35 to 44 | 126,900 |
45 to 54 | 186,000 |
55 to 64 | 276,000 |
65 to 69 | 341,400 |
70 to 74 | 373,900 |
75 and older | 315,900 |
Highest Level of Educational Attainment in Household
Education | Wealth ($) |
---|---|
No high school diploma | 8,460 |
High school graduate | 55,030 |
Some college, no degree | 90,810 |
Associate degree | 139,000 |
Bachelor's degree | 266,600 |
Graduate or professional degree | 555,900 |
Annual Household Income
Quintile | Wealth ($) |
---|---|
First | 12,000 |
Second | 61,260 |
Third | 145,200 |
Fourth | 269,100 |
Fifth | 805,400 |
Also, just for good measure, since I suppose that "gold" would fall into "other asset holdings", you'd be pretty high relative to the norm in that category:
Composition of Wealth by Asset Type
Category | Percent |
---|---|
Retirement accounts | 34.1% |
Equity in own home | 28.5% |
Stocks and mutual funds | 11.9% |
Assets at financial institutions | 8.1% |
Other asset holdings | 4.6% |
Rental properties | 4.3% |
Business assets | 3.9% |
Other real estate | 3.6% |
Vehicles | 3.2% |
Bonds | 0.7% |
Student loan and education-related expenses | -1.5% |
Credit card and store bills | -0.5% |
Medical debts | -0.5% |
Other unsecured debts | -0.4% |
Trump given power to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland' under new bill tabled by Republicans

Trump given power
No, he hasn't. Congress hasn't passed it -- it's just been introduced as a bill.
One House Representative introduced it and then released the statement.

I was away from things for a day and when I came back everything as wizards and orbs.
Let this be a lesson to you.

From top-to-bottom:
- HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 343 Guilty Spark from Halo: Combat Evolved
- GLaDOS from Portal
- Skynet from The Terminator
- Joshua from WarGames

They are, however, able to inaccurately summarize it in GLaDOS's voice, which is a strong point in their favor.

to ensure that the technology is "safe, secure and trustworthy."
None of the really iconic AIs are safe, secure or trustworthy.






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