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fubo,

A more typical breakdown would be beer/wine/spirits, possibly with a separation between spirits alone vs. cocktails.

So, how does the fediverse work?

I want to take a crash course in Fediverse. I was browsing stuff on Mastadon and voila! I found these communities on Mastadon but I wasn’t able to post anything, but I was however able to reply to stuff. I don’t know how this works. I won’t be reading it now, but I want to know more about Fediverse, so a book or...

fubo,

If you’re up for reading Internet standards documents, start here with the official standard for ActivityPub, the protocol that it’s all built on.

fubo,

Wrong community; you want one of the Lemmy support forums listed in the sidebar.

Which learning path makes the most amount of sense?

I just found out about The Odin Project, a self-paced online course to learn full stack web development. There are two paths: one is Ruby on Rails and the other is full JavaScript and nodejs. I am leaning more towards Ruby but I wanted to get some more opinions from folks in the field.

fubo,

Are you brand new to programming? If so, it doesn’t really matter what your first language is, so long as you don’t stop with one.

fubo,

How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over, in states unborn and accents yet unknown?

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 1.

But … I first encountered this line in the shooter game Silpheed on the Apple IIgs, long before I’d read any Shakespeare.

fubo,

Catbox seems to work pretty well, but do note that they are blocked by government censorship in some countries (see their FAQ).

fubo,

This would be a tripcode authorization system.

fubo,

The whole goddamn case was not in good faith.

The supposed customer for a gay wedding website turned out to actually be a married straight dude.

fubo,

Did these folks make fun of Kobe Bryant and his daughter?

fubo,

Water is not very compressible; even at the bottom of the ocean a kilogram of plain water still takes up 0.982 liters of volume (compared to 1 liter at the surface).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Compressibility

However, actual ocean water is saline (salty), and the salinity of the ocean varies widely. Dissolved salt makes ocean water more dense than pure water; and the more salt there is, the denser it is. That's why it's easier to float in the ocean than in a freshwater lake.

Typically, the water at the bottom of the ocean is slightly less salty than the water at the surface. This is because evaporation happens at the surface.

fubo,

House centipedes are predators. They're only there because there's food for them to eat — prey animals that they are hunting.

Now, what are their prey animals? Here's some critters that house centipedes eat:

  • Cockroaches
  • Termites
  • Bedbugs
  • Silverfish
  • Ants

You have house centipedes because you have these.

The centipedes are eating them.

Now, what was it you wanted to get rid of?

fubo,

Well, there's not just one Them.

The Them who wrote your American history textbook and glossed over the centrality of slavery to the Confederate cause, aren't the same Them who write TV sitcoms that propagate stereotypes of bumbling clueless men entitled to dump all the emotional labor on their hyper-competent women partners.

The Them who fund intrusive social media, aren't the same Them who dial down the yellow-light time on your traffic lights to catch more people with red-light cameras.

And the closer you look, the less it looks like a Them at all.

The individual TV writers were really trying to be good TV writers, in the social & economic context of TV studios.

The history textbook people were mostly actual professors. They want you to have a good history textbook. But the Texas Board of Education is giving them a hard time.

Heck, the social-media programmers mostly just wanna launch cool stuff.

The yellow-light people, though? They have no goddamn excuse.

fubo,

Right now, this is a service being provided largely by volunteers, with some help from donors. For example, the lemmy.world instance is run by the same person as mastodon.world, who has posted some information here about the costs and donations involved in running Fediverse services.

As it turns out, it's not super expensive to run a public-facing Internet service with a few thousand users if you're interested in doing so as a hobby activity. And a lot of folks are willing to donate to help the project along!

More generally: Over the history of the Internet, new services have often been prototyped by researchers, students, and hobbyist volunteers. These folks are expecting to spend a little money to make the service work, and usually enjoy it when people using the thing they've built! They usually don't have an immediate need to monetize everything, but they often accept donations if you're enjoying their work and want to contribute that way.

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What are Dynamic Lists?

fubo,

In what context? Those terms are used in a lot of different fields. Even within computing, they could mean a data structure in memory, or they could mean a type of email delivery list ...

fubo,

I've only read the ActivityPub spec; I haven't read the Lemmy code.

With that in mind, my impression is —

The new domain owner — if they set up an ActivityPub server instance (e.g. a Lemmy) and got a list of the old user's post URLs — might be able to delete or edit the old user's posts stored on other instances. That is a vulnerability, albeit a small one.

If the old user was still listed as a moderator of communities hosted on other instances, the new domain owner might be able to take over that moderator role.

One way to fix this would be for instances to issue a public-key cryptographic identity to each user, and distribute users' public keys to other instances. Then activities purporting to be from that user would need to be signed by that user's private key.

Users' private keys would stay local to their home instance, so users don't have to do any key management themselves.

This would mean that if an instance goes away (and its key material is destroyed) then nobody can ever act as any of those users again. A new user created with the same username and domain would be a distinct user for all other instances too.

fubo,

FYI: There is already a pact among some Fediverse operators to block any instance controlled by Meta.

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