Compass and Straight Edge @compass_straight_edge@qoto.org

@realcaseyrollins There are differing definitions. This one from Richard Stallman, the creator of free software and the gnu project, is very interesting too: https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

@design_RG Those large speeds are only on the 5GHz band as opposed to the normal 2.4GHz. Given a fixed power consumption, increasing the frequency decreases range.
The person probably got a good coverage because of those big boy antennas.

As long as you are not gaming the most cost effective solution would probably be small repeaters through the house.

That is, if you really want wireless.

Cable is usually better.

There are also adapters to transmit data over power cables but I don't think they are usually very good. And unless you encrypt everything there is the small risk that your neighbors can sniff your network from their power outlets too. Given that the cable path is not too long.

@Gomario Because a lot of mastodon users up to now are twitter refugees, that is, people with "extreme" political views.

A lot of those are left wing and like to block other instances with generic block lists that they find online. A lot of those also like to block people that don't use similar block lists, because everyone in the lists are "fascists" (for a given definition) and everyone that collaborates (i.e. doesn't block) fascists is also a fascist.

If mastodon.social didn't use those lists or something similar it would be blocked by a lot of left wing instances and half of the new comers would feel out of place or "unsafe".

Also eugen seems to be pretty fond of american liberal and identity politics.

This could all be solved if he closed sign ups on the main instance and let others grow to a considerable size too.

I think the cyber truck is pretty cool.

@sda Or at least that was what I learned at school but I'm not into chemistry that much.

@sda Ph only goes from 1 to 14 under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. (25º and 1atm).
The statement is not wrong, it's just meaningless if you don't inform under which conditions it was measured.

@shibaprasad I recently got into R. It's pretty cool too.

@sda 1. The principle of induction(the basis of science, together with falsifiability and reproducibility) is taken axiomatically(belief).
2. "Little evidence that it works". This is just false.

But yeah, peer review is not perfect.

@freemo Just realized, is this because of the new influx of indian posters? If so, then know that most of them are bots. They are popping up on all instances. Comment something on their posts and see if the response makes any sense.

India recently blocked twitter so a lot of people are comming to the fediverse. Which includes advertising and data mining networks that have to rebuild their bot netoworks.

Most or all followers of those "people" should be similar accounts.

@rvlobato Tem serviços de streaming "pirata" de tvs. Da pra ver de varias regiões. Nunca usei nenhum então não posso recomendar.

@metapsyche Idk where you are from but mate is a stimulant, I hope it's not close to your bed time.

@freemo >tfw people start annexing photos of their posts written on a piece of paper