namark @namark@qoto.org

@freemo

I would argue that those requirements are not satisfiable unless instances remain numerous and small in comparison to the federation.

And I would again criticize that nebulous notion of generic quality, that you imply to be applicable to every instance or every person.

@snow

@freemo @snow I think the goal of every instance should be to stay as small as possible while still being engaging, that's the point of federation. I would call it a niche though, or a specific quality, rather than some generic quality, which would be a fallacy at best... oof.

Let's make a video of my project and share it with the world! How hard could it be?

*Your 10+ year old laptop can't record your project at reasonable frame rate.* Alright, I have full control of the rendering, I'll integrate a video encoder into my project and encode the frames directly. Let's try libtheora, how hard could it be?

*Theora uses a different color space, and conversion rules are specified from it to RGB not the other way around, so you need to solve a set of linear equations*
I learnt how to solve a set of linear equations at school, it was a lot of fun, but alas I vowed to never do homework again. Also solving them and then hard-coding my solution would make it difficult to verify against the original specification, therefore I'll essentially duplicate the specification in code, and then write a program that would solve the equations at compile time and embed the solutions wherever the conversion is necessary.

Why is everything so hard? -_-

*Can't you just use your ~5 year old desktop instead?*
... NO!

@snow yes, you cannot effectively censor the federated timeline. Qoto in particular is not an instance that even attempts to do that, so you might have a better experience with other instances, but I would still not recommend browsing federated timeline. Treat it as wilderness that you would walk into only when prepared to see things that you don't like. Instead, in theory, you can follow local timelines of specific instances you are interested in. Unfortunately in practice the only client I know of that supports that is fedilab.

@retiredguru@social.linux.pizza @freemo I would suggest not basing the wording on who they are but rather how they behave in qoto. Just like accounts that are primarily aimed at advertising goods and services, account that are primarily aimed at spreading nonsensical claims on nature of things with no basis in any scientific theory could be disallowed.

If someone is a "flat earther" or an "icosahedron mooner" or whatever, but refrains from spamming their beliefs in qoto, and otherwise engages in meaningful conversations/interactions I see no reason to force them to leave.

On the other hand if someone is a professor in some respected university, but decides to troll qoto with bogus theories just to demonstrate their superior knowledge and debate skills, there is no reason to let them stay.

@magvids

I assume in order to realize this greatest technological achievement, people working on it must have been trying their best. Trying your best includes not wasting time and resources on producing an extensive(and completely useless) video log of every step taken. Especially the construction in space, I imagine, would've only involved cameras that were absolutely necessary for the process, with storage and communication capabilities optimized for specific purpose, so any footage (if) preserved would've been incidental not documentary.

I think this is obvious and not surprising. It's not like there were people living next door in the orbit, that could have taken some videos on their camcorders. If there were, I'm pretty sure they would have been recruited to drop everything they were doing and help build the ISS.

@freemo

@genericperson@social.linux.pizza might be the other person who voted on the "5 minute find your soulmate poll". Is he being rude cause he has a crush on @freemo?!

@asd what if your numpad is on the home row too?! just a numlock away on the right side! it's almost like someone thought about it :O

@loke the soul corrupting essence will be absorbed through their skin, because it's not thick enough at that age, duh.

Wow you two voted really quickly and for the same emacs. I think it's meant to be. Soulmates.

Unless(or even if?) it's @freemo voting from multiple accounts.

@freemo next poll:

@freemo

I see, that makes sense. I thought they were referring to their post here (which I would say is a discussion on hate speech) somehow being classified as hate speech itself.

@Sharondee @design_RG

@freemo you'll get banned for spam, @design_RG is very strict

@freemo you made the poll just as an excuse to say this yet again, didn't you?

@Sharondee Nobody called it hate speech, @design_RG is just being cautious, and it seems rightfully so, as you calling him brain dead breaches the rules the way I understand them.

I don't think your feelings will be silenced here, as long as you don't try to hurt others.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe o.o intriguing

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe I think there are a lot of gray areas in between. The whole point of something like GCC is to make it easy to bootstrap itself on new architectures, and then you can worry about optimizing the languages it supports with your instruction set, not necessarily rewriting all software. Basically optimize hardware for higher level languages not old instruction set.
It's kind of happening, but really slowy, I'm guessing cause hardware is also somewhat stuck in paranoid monopoly.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe It's even worse, hardware is catering to old software. Since hardware industry has to play by the rules of the real word it has to constantly improve some objective quality to remain relevant. Sadly that objective quality often is "how better can it run old software", because software industry breaks all the rules by abusing copyright, allowing immense returns on investment for products whose objective quality did not improve in decades.

@brown121407@fosstodon.org O_O *hides the puny makefile in shame*