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@Newk @r000t@fosstodon.org solving one problem is better than solving zero problems and at this point most of us are dead tired of being forced to use languages outdated design-wise by 40-50 years by now.

Also with Rust being more readable, structured and overall civilised it's easier to spot suspicious shit happening. It doesn't solve all problems but it's a step in the right direction.

Caution is always advised when adopting new products, especially from previously unknown parties, but if anything Rust makes it easier.

@Hyolobrika chemistry is pretty universal and limits things by a whole lot. Extraterrestrial life might be very different, but it should use a similar system of organic chains of carbon or maaaaybe silicon, and chemistry dealing with them has some common or even unavoidable (side)products.

And then there's things like the ozone mentioned in the video, it's too reactive to naturally stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years without reacting with everything else or decomposing, so if we find it, something must be producing it, and there's not a lot of possibilities.

Similar thing with energy sources. No matter what kind of life exists, it needs usable energy and we can see signs of unusual absorption of light, heat, reactive compounds etc, like the mentioned foliage absorbing certain wavelengths.

@nblr @ErikUden and they're an awkward solution to the problem, a symlink breaks when the original file is moved and you have to keep track of which is the original file, while hardlinks are evil semi-opaque filesystem magic and require extra PITA when dealing with things like rsync.

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TIL that some CCTV systems will have a tummy ache if you happen to expose them to a QR encoded antivirus test string.

revk.uk/2020/01/eicar-test-qr.

@icedquinn I'm sure there's a metal genre that would perfectly fit as an extended punchline to this joke.

@freemo I was actually thinking more about my surroundings and the people I got to know or heard about. It may vary between countries a lot. But tbh, if a crushing majority is "not normal" in a certain way, then whatever they are becomes "normal".

@freemo I'm not so sure about "overwhelming majority", these seem to be not that uncommon once you learn to recognise the symptoms. There is a problem with people assuming them, self-diagnosing and overall subconsciously Munchausening themselves for attention, yeah, but there's also a large pool of fairly high functioning adults who never got diagnosed when it was taboo and now are discovering it in a big wave as awareness spreads.

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Pleased to report that I am now receiving only 12 copies of every delete message from threads.net. A remarkable improvement!

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Countries, where Police force commander in-chief fired a 90mm anti-tank grenade launcher in Police Headquarters

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It is so cringe when i hear people hijack general less descriptive terms like "neurodivergent" to mean really silly arbitrary things like adhd and autism... we already have descriptive terms and that word already means something useful before you bastardized it.

@foone absolutely. Also leads to magi-mechs and orbital magical bombardment cannons.

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Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) can be divided into 3 categories, depending on where the authority resides:

- Secret key (did:key, did:pkh).
- Server (did:web).
- Blockchain (hundreds of them).

With a #DID derived from a secret key you can truly own your identity. Unfortunately, key rotation is not supported, and if you lose your key, you lose everything. This can be partially mitigated with distributed key generation techniques that make key recovery possible if only M of N shards are available, but they are complicated.

Servers can rotate keys, but they can also suddenly disappear, and again you lose everything.

Blockchain-based systems support key rotation and don't have a single point of failure (if done right). Sometimes they are called "servers with superpowers". However, popular ones are not suitable for the job because writing to them is very expensive and their clients need powerful computing devices and a lot of storage.

Is there a way around that? Yes. Blockchains can be very lightweight and they don't actually need a cryptocurrency, miners or stakers in order to work. There is a simple consensus algorithm known as Proof of authority, and one of the Fediverse competitors, Bluesky, seems to be planning to build such system:

https://github.com/did-method-plc/did-method-plc

>We are actively hoping to replace it with or evolve it into something less centralized - likely a permissioned DID consortium.

They are afraid to say the B-word, but "permissioned consortium" is exactly what it is. Of course, their identity #blockchain doesn't have to be the only one in existence. I think in the future we might see quite a lot of "identity cooperatives" of different shapes and sizes. Perhaps even a universal client, curl for identity, can be developed.

@lkundrak @pony @piggo not sure what a .pl extension is, but we Poles are pretty attached to our country code so too bad for the extension.

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USA to ban Tik Tok as fears of china copying dances intensifies.

#TikTok

@icedquinn I was severely disappointed to learn that Satanists don't actually believe in Satan, they're just very edgy and hedonistic.

@BrodieOnLinux @neffscape @weirdtreething as mentioned previously nah, maybe half of them, and it makes more sense for "workspace" to mean a space containing a set of windows related to some piece of work independent of monitors, instead of a virtual monitor. It would be cool if some DE implemented both tho.

I also wonder how did the first multi-monitor implementations of workspaces work. Knowing the *nix ecosystem they were already fighting about it back then lol

@Luap314 @lemba @nixCraft seems like most of them are explicitly focusing on the pro-nuclear aspect. I'm familiar with Polish ones such as Zielony Atom, but according to Wikipedia there's a bunch of international ones: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-nucl. That part of the article seems to be heavily US-centric tho, so there are likely some EU-based that it's missing.

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