OP did you put that list of sources in the description together yourself manually, or do you have some tool/trawler that organizes related new stories and does it for you (or is that some new lemmy/piefed feature)?

Physics -> chemistry -> biology. The further you zoom in, the more you come to grips with the just staggering number of hugely improbable events that lead to us being here. I feel bad for people who need to invoke religion to explain this, as it really hides the beauty of it all.

I can’t think of a single thing that would garner such support. You could suggest an amendment that convicted child rapists couldn’t hold public office and there would be enough pushback that even that wouldn’t succeed.

For some accounts I do. For most I don’t.

Huh. This seems like one of those “this must exist” situations, but I can’t think of anything that does this, and a brief search suggests there may not be. The closest I could find was The Internet Archive’s Archive-IT, though it’s not an exact match. Otherwise, Archive Webpage , a pricey paid-for option (which seems like a terrible idea) appears to be the closest. OSS/self-host like Archivebox and Linkwarden don’t really do this (though you can save/send a current tab to them), and apart from that… I don’t really see anything.

This is very cool. Have you uncovered any hidden gems with it yet (eg genuinely active nice communities, etc). My brief experience with matrix left me feeling that either a) either all of the activity on matrix was for matrix-related things, or b) it was just impossible to actually find active communities.

I think it’s ironic that in light of Discord’s announcement that they’ll be requiring hard ID (which can be gamed, and we’re all up in arms about), there’s a similar, real issue of who is and isn’t a bot that is really hard to solve without requiring hard ID.

I love webs of trust and that kind of thing and it would be awesome to see it implemented on the fediverse, but when it’s possible to cheaply spin up an army of bots and have them gain “authenticity” for months or years, even that can be faked.

I’d be thrilled to get rid of them but couldn’t in good conscience send them somewhere else. We need to clean up our own messes like grownups.

“Our warrior class”

Yikes.

Thank you. Something stirred in the back of my mind when I read the title. Would have jumped down the rabbit hole if not for this comment 🙂

I agree with your sentiment, but the notion that information in the brain is comparable to binary bits on a scratched CD isn’t really accurate either. Even severely damaged brains have been shown to be able to recover both functions and memories, and it’s unclear exactly how things like individual memories are encoded – or whether encoding is even the right way of thinking about it at all.

That aside, even if some loss is irretrievable, I’d vastly prefer to be left with 80% of myself than 0% of myself.

I’d rather see better discovery tools and better community/account migration tools. Id be worried about topic-specific instances potentially backfiring by concentrating too much influence for a given set of subjects on the “preferred” instances

Z is stretched so thin trying to invade just one country right now. How can they possibly be planning to invade another?

(Also, rest of Europe, you watching this? Finland, want to go repatriate some land?)

We do the fun parts taken from Yule (trees/greenery/lights) and Saturnalia (feasting). I think at this point it’s more a celebration of managing to make it through another year than anything else.

SysV 4 eva

I can write the one output it would generate for all of us:

You are a gen-X or elder millennial male who works in the technology field. You enjoy Star Trek memes and whatever the hell PugJesus posts. You use arch, btw.

This has been on my list of things to try for a while, but I’m currently in “if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it” mode.

I have one of these. It’s usb 3.0 only which it sounds like is what you have anyway. It’s not part of my NAS, I just use it when I need to quickly look for something on an old drive, but it’s been pretty reliable for me for the last few years and was cheap, so I have no complaints.

Ah my mistake. As I’m sure you’ve found you can certainly get USB-SATA adapters. They’ll be $15-20 each, so you’d realistically be better off getting 2 2-drive enclosures since that would be about the same price but much cleaner. I’ve used Sabrent for this for a while and they’re fine. There are occasional usb disconnects so it’s not good for anything mission critical. And never do anything port-powered when connecting drives over usb, always use parts that get their own wall power.

Buy a cheap LSI card on ebay, they can usually be had for around $15-20. Make sure it’s either in HBA or IT mode, or that there’s a way to put it into that mode. If it’s in HBA/IT mode, you can then just use it like more SATA ports. Buy a pack of LSI-SATA cables (there are two kinds, get the kind that includes the SATA power connector). Then you can put the card inside your computer and the drives anywhere that the cables will reach.