The “fuzziness” inherent in reality once you get close to the Plank distance is clear evidence that we exist in a virtual universe whose computing power goes only so far. Reality breaks down at the Plank distance because that’s the pre-programmed limit of detail in the simulation.

I am sometimes forced to wear size 11 shoes, despite having 9½ feet, because so few manufacturers put out 9½ size shoes in an EEEE (quintuple wide) or oversized EEE (quadruple wide) width.

At least a size 11 in a W (wide) is comfortable enough for me, and most shoes come in at least a wide.

I think out of all the shoes I have ever bought, only two styles in 40 years have been wide enough to allow me to wear a 9½. I recently found that second style in a work boot that was being surplussed (through Princess Auto) and no longer being produced, with the marketing that it was wide enough for any foot. Once I confirmed the comfort, I immediately bought three more pairs for a lifetime supply, clearing out the stock of size 9½ for that shoe nation-wide (I checked, as I wanted even more… would have gladly gotten a half dozen pairs if I could). That brand was Terra. Highly recommend, as the model I got have been fucking awesome work boots.

our telecom infrastructure is privately owned.

This is the crux of the matter.

You look at Norway, Sweden and Finland, and you will find geography on-par with BC’s west coast and then some. And yet, they have full wired Internet access and LTE data throughout the region.

So geography is not a viable excuse.

I’m mid GenX, and frequently have to trot out the saying, “regulations are written in the blood of innocents” to people a lot more ignorant than I am. And I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Am I unreasonably disappointed to not find “Correct Horse Battery Staple” - or some variation thereof - in that list?

OpenBSD does not have a docker engine. Can this be installed without docker?

And even individual squares can be larger or smaller than other brands, leading to rolls with more or fewer squares for the same length.

Honestly, it needs to be in the law that any TP needs to specify the number of square meters of TP on the packaging, so that stores - if they post comparison ratios on the price tags - can give a price per square metre for people to compare with.

There is only ownership parasites and labour.

FTFY. You’re welcome.

you need a way to let them through to start the federation process.

This isn’t via an API endpoint explicitly for that purpose that bots would normally not utilize?

And why not have a process by which admins from a new instance poke the admins of another instance - any other instance, so long as it’s already a part of the network - to do an initial manual whitelist that could cascade through the entire system?

Then there should be ways that the software itself can auth with other instances of itself, via a common encryption protocol. While this would only work with like software, the key point being that only a toehold is needed to start propagating.

The point being, there are options. Some of them quite simple.

Lemmy.world will send my instance hundreds of thousands if not millions of requests a day, in a near steady stream. It’s telling my instance about every post, comment, or vote.

And yet, federation means that each instance should know all the other domain names, yes? So do daily DNS lookups of all IP addresses associated with federation and auto-whitelist them.

Sure, if you have to then configure cloudflare with these IPs, it’ll require an API to do so automatically.

But otherwise if you are running some sort of throttling protection on the actual box or VM the instance is sitting on, it should be rather trivial to update it directly, especially if said throttling software is doing Linux correctly and drawing its whitelist from a flat file.

We really need to embed a mole into the payroll department so that we have an accurate list of names and addresses once America’s Nuremberg trials kick off.

These Gestapo really do need a date with the hangman’s noose once this fascist regime gets overthrown.

After a fair trial, of course. With plenty of signposts so they see all the process they are getting that they have denied others.

Came across a recent saying that being armed and black has even worse outcomes, especially legal ones, than being unarmed and black. In states with “stand your ground” laws, most people of colour are denied that defence even when it clearly applies.

Another reason why, while AI might be a fun toy, no one who is serious about getting work done will touch it with a dirty barge pole. The gratuitous hallucinations alone ought to be a sufficient deterrent.

Well, a lot of that is processed foods and…

Oh.

Oh, Myyyyyy…

The radiator makes unbearable noises throu out the night, which drives her insane.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B008MVYL7C

Works wonders in letting me sleep like a baby through my wife’s chainsaw-like snoring. Just make sure they’re inserted firmly enough and not sticking too far out or in.

You’re welcome.

Even if we limit ourselves to homes within city limits (so we aren’t talking about backwoods cabins, here), Canada has about 6 empty homes for every homeless person.

The problem isn’t a lack of homes, the problem is an excess of “investors” looking for a labour-free income stream parasitized off of the backs of the working class.

I am getting so sick of alt-right nutcases making up stories that they themselves would rather have a leading role in.

We all know most of the alt-right is just itching to unalive anyone not like them.

This is shameful. We should all be questioning Canada’s participation - or lack of action - in the genocide happening in Palestine. To have that kind of pro-genocide intimidation happening to anyone, much less legal scholars…

IDK, I like growing and eating zucchini. Especially Ronde de Nice and Cocozelle. But you have to check pretty much every day during peak season, those suckers can go from hand-sized to arm sized in just a day or two.

I haven’t heard of those in an AI context yet, thanks for the ping!