FYI: you can just look it up.

https://lemmy.world/modlog

It was a picture of the CEO of Funko captioned with a death threat.

Yeah, it always seems that every time someone questions the wisdom or validity of this analogy seems not to understand it.

It’s either the misunderstanding that the constraints of the hypothetical are finite (a million vs. infinity).

Or the insistence that any sufficiently infinitesimal chance is “practically zero”, when literally any likelihood multiplied by infinity is going to guarantee an occurrence.

You can actually expand the infinite monkey theory to say that an infinite number of monkeys using typewriters for an infinite amount of time would write every single book ever written in any language the keyboard is capable of typing, as well as every possible book that could ever even theoretically exist, an infinite number of times, and still be correct.

Any infinite set of random (or even semi-random) characters will contain every possible set of characters that could ever exist, of any length. The works of Shakespeare are also encoded into Pi, we just haven’t calculated enough digits to discover one yet (and very likely never will).

Poor person commits crime: “Life in prison”

Rich person commits same crime: “One day in prison”

Excellent plan. Even worse than the current system. You’re a genius.

They won’t be able to continue running their business in the US, so likely they won’t be able to continue working with US cloud providers. But there’s nothing stopping them from hosting it somewhere else and allowing US users to still connect, but all the commerce options are going to be useless at that point.

If you don’t really want kids or care, you have a fine compromise here, but if you are sacrificing something you want in life, you should be honest with your parents about who you are and have kids for your own sake. You’re an adult, and you shouldn’t live your life based on what your parents would approve of.

its largest power plant, Antonio

Naming a power plant “Antonio” is where it’s at. We should give more buildings people names like that.

I understand that people are answering this question in good faith, but I also want to point out that the snippet at the end of the video is intended to be a citation for the content creator, and the motives for removing that part of these videos in bulk are questionable.

I can’t think of any good reasons to want to do this. I can think of a really bad one though: automated content theft.

How is this an example of failed privacy?

YouTube is a video sharing site. People pushed a button to share their videos. They wanted people to see these.

These videos aren’t much different than what you find on Facebook or Instagram today, it’s just that over the past decade people have gotten better at naming and categorizing what they post.

The real quirk here is that the app made it way too easy to upload the default filenames, so we can now search for them specifically like a little time capsule.

Why would this be convincing? Do cars just start doing burnouts when they’re near explosions?

This is the shittiest, fakest VFX I’ve ever seen.

you need to be part of an org to be a socialist

Saying shit like this makes you feel special because you can call yourself a “Real Socialist”, while gatekeeping political self-identification from anyone you feel isn’t as pure as you.

Telling me that I’m not a Socialist because I’m not a registered member of a Socialist organization doesn’t encourage me to join any organization. It encourages me to dump you and find an actual mutual ally.

Stop saying stupid exclusionary things about your left-wing allies if you want to actually have a movement capable of change. I’ll happily accept anyone who believes in Socialism as a Socialist.

Imagine actually drawing the line at Hasan Piker’s net worth…

• Average U.S. net worth: $1,000,000
• Hasan Piker net worth: $2,600,000

Here are your real enemies:

• Elon Musk net worth: $336,800,000,000
• Jeff Bezos net worth: $225,900,000,000

pouet.net

Tons of retrocomputing/demoscene resources.

Well, Bluesky claims to be a federated service, so I guess people should consider whether or not the service they are backing is capable of fulfilling its promises.

This was an indigenous community that believes that eating these turtles grants long life and health. They don’t recognize the endangered status at all, and aren’t equipped to detect the threat of toxic algae contamination. In many cases, the victims of these incidents are children, who are fed turtle meat for its proported benefits.

Think carefully about publicly celebrating these people’s deaths.

A dollar’s worth of Asian street food every day. From a place like Vietnam, a dollar goes a long way. I could turn that into an amazing lunch every day.

I’m not sold.

Only two Ethernet ports. No SFP. Only available on AliExpress. Dishonestly marketed as the “first router designed specifically for OpenWRT”.

Perhaps they are the first to make a router for OpenWRT the FOSS project, but certainly not the first to make one specifically for compatibility with the OpenWRT the Linux-based OS.

CZ.NIC (Czech Republic) makes several fully open-source routers under the “Turris” brand that run their own open-source variant of OpenWRT called “Turris OS”. It’s basically just an Open-WRT based distro with a custom frontend + root ssh and LuCI, and you can go vanilla if you want to.

GL.iNet (China) makes dozens of routers all designed for OpenWRT. They come standard with a custom install that includes a custom frontend and a handful of integrations, but you’ve gotta root ssh and LuCI, and you can go vanilla.

There are probably more out there. I think GlobalScale makes a few also, once on Kickstarter.

Hey, maybe the Department of Education just never had anyone in charge with professional wrestling experience. Maybe that’s the change we’ve needed. /s

ATProto Federation is hypothetical at best. Bluesky remains centralized for all intents and purposes.

Founders are all cryptocurrency dorks. The CEO got her start in selling shitcoins and peddling AI slop. Not a lot of confidence in their ability to lead a successful social media company.

It’s a for-profit company, and so far their actual profit-generating function has yet to be determined. Maybe it’s ads. Maybe it’s subscription fees. Maybe they just end up selling all your data off to their 1,000+ data broker partners. Nobody knows yet, but it isn’t going to remain free and open permanently.

ActivityPub is already fully federated with dozens of different services, and thousands of different instances. Every instance has its own leadership, and most are run by generous sysadmins, donations, and volunteers. It can’t make top-down decisions, it can’t go out of business, and it can’t be bought.

Yeah, but what if they’re right wing weirdos obsessed with genealogy and they reach out to you first because they want to save you or something?