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David Raygoza Gómez

@mhoye I have a very blunt answer to what

BlueSky users *interact*

Here is an example, this are from an artist who is posting in both BlueSky and Mastodon at the same time, he is not a big famous artist but just look at the number of likes and boosts.

In the same time he got 49 likes and 9 boosts on BlueSky

And 1 like and 1 boost on Mastodon

You can yell that numbers don't matter all you want, they do

And as long we are a void being yell, we will keep loosing users

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@_elena Thanks, that's interesting! I was unaware that Friendica had that feature. It seems like a very good idea.

In the context of the OP's question about people rejecting the Fediverse in favor of Bluesky, though, it would have been Mastodon they were rejecting in almost all cases (because that was what people flocked to as a Twitter alternative). So, for this particular discussion, I think that the features of Mastodon are most relevant, but I agree that the culture of the Fediverse overall is also relevant.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified:

Ran the 'The Murkmire Malevolence' module tonight and we had a blast. It's a heist story a la Leverage. Took about 4 hours. Highly recommend Keys from the Golden Vault if you DM D&D.

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Florian Marquardt

Today: Trying to get an LLM to give me some scientific references for a specific question. Both GPT4 and Claude listed plausible-sounding references. Almost all were fake.

When called out on this, the replies were of the type "Upon further analysis, it appears the references I provided were fabricated. Here are some genuine reliable references" (...invents some more...). And Claude says something like "The articles I mentioned were not real but just for illustrative purposes." ...

:-((

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@hacks4pancakes I guess I should say that I *think* it's a minority view. One always wonders. My experience with being (very) white is that other white people are generally more than happy to share any explicitly-held racist views in one-on-one discussions; they all seem to share the delusion that all white people secretly agree with them (or at least the ones they perceive as being "normal"). I don't know if the same is true of misogyny, but I would suspect it largely is.

While I don't encounter it from almost any of the people deal with regularly, I do notice a lot of casual misogyny from men I deal with in passing, especially salesmen for some reason. That seems like a really risky strategy for sales, but I guess see again "think everyone secretly agrees with them."

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@platypus @grimalkina Definitely brought a smile to my face as well.

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Cat Hicks

I have the best update after teaching my mom to play her first video game a month ago 😂

My little brother and I were catching up and he said "Can you please explain to me why I called our mother and she started talking about "superior graphics" in the choice between gaming consoles?!"

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@hacks4pancakes I think it's still a minority position, and not held among almost anyone I know personally, but it does seem like it's distressingly common among straight cis men. Obviously some strains of this go back to "traditional" ideas about gender roles from the 19th and early 20th century, but I guess I really think of this crystalizing as an explicit ideology in contemporary times with the rise of incels.

It's been distressing to me that many things that I basically think of "incel terminology", like referring to "chads" and "gammas", have apparently become a part of the common lexicon.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born #OTD in 1910. He established an upper limit on the mass of stable white dwarf stars, and made numerous contributions to astrophysics and relativity.

Above the Chandrasekhar Limit – about 1.44 solar masses – electron degeneracy pressure cannot prevent a stellar remnant’s gravitational collapse into a neutron star or black hole.

Photo: Stephen Lewellyn / AIP

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Techlore

Google has officially begun killing uBlock Origin. It's an attack on focus, privacy, and security. In our newest video I dive into what's going on and what your options are:
youtu.be/nmO5dvn8jN0

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Quiet Lurker

@mhoye I’ve been on here over a year now and it’s the only social media I use, however, I’m now at the point where I’m considering giving up and going to Bluesky. I have a number of reasons, but it seems like a lot of people here like it the way it is. They might want more people here, but they don’t want it to change, they just want people to like what is and criticize people who don’t. That’s fine, but to what I think your point is, that isn’t going to attract more people.

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Tilde Lowengrimm

I am once again trying to solve Problems with Email™ using technology. I am destined to fail because email problems are social problems. So adding technology just leaves me with two problems.

Nevertheless. I would like to store archived mail on my own hard drive, in an easily-accessed, portable format — like a maildir. Then I should be able to copy, move, access, archive, sync, whatever, using regular tools which interact with files. Ideally all the mail clients I use could just work with a maildir directly, but as you may be aware… kids these days… get off my lawn &c. &c. So I think that the practical compromise would be to run a little local IMAP server which just serves to read and write to the maildir in my home directory.

My question for the lazy/indie/fedi-hivemind is this: what’s the safest, smallest, simplest tool I can run to speak maildir to my filesystem and IMAP to my mail client? (And, implied: why is all of this the absolutely wrong way to go about this?)

I feel a little guilty asking a question like this at 5pm on a Friday; I worry that I’m going to nerdsnipe someone’s entire evening. Well, someone else’s, at least.

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@dmm Weirdly I'm getting the text of the post itself as the alt text for each image. I'm not sure if that's a problem on my end or perhaps an error when it was posted.

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David Meyer

Born #onthisday 114 years ago, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics (along with William A. Fowler) for the "...theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" [1].

Chandrasekhar's amazing discovery of the limit for the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star [2] is known as the Chandrasekhar Limit. The currently accepted value of the Chandrasekhar Limit is about 1.4 M☉ (solar masses), or about 2.765 × 10^30 kg [3].

Learn more about Chandrasekhar and the Chandrasekhar Limit here pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/the- and here galileo-unbound.blog/2019/01/0.

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[1] "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983", nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/

[2] "The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs", articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/fu

[3] "Chandrasekhar limit", en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t

#chandrasekhar #chandrasekharlimit #physics

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@grimalkina I feel like you're unfairly shutting down like 50% of online discourse if you're saying that "you just don't like it because you don't understand how great it is" is an unacceptable response. 😜

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Cat Hicks

There's a thing they teach you about intervention science and it's that you absolutely cannot under any circumstances get more attached to your intervention than to the reality of the people the intervention is impacting.

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Zack Whittaker

23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data.

@carlypage looks at what you can do to delete your data ahead of a potential sale or privatization of 23andMe.

techcrunch.com/2024/10/19/23an

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And to your point, @fencepost, I'm curious if anyone has written an article trying to assess the security (including timeliness of patches) of the various Firefox forks/derivatives. I've seen conflicting claims but have not personally delved into it. @dangoodin

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@dangoodin I'm curious if you have or plan to elaborate on the reasons. I can imagine some possibilities, of course, with some of the recent controversies.

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@fencepost @dangoodin Along that line, presumably Mullvad Browser would be another FF offshoot to consider (or Tor Browser, but that's probably not what you want to use as a default).

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