FYI: you can just look it up.

https://lemmy.world/modlog

It was a picture of the CEO of Funko captioned with a death threat.

Yeah, it always seems that every time someone questions the wisdom or validity of this analogy seems not to understand it.

It’s either the misunderstanding that the constraints of the hypothetical are finite (a million vs. infinity).

Or the insistence that any sufficiently infinitesimal chance is “practically zero”, when literally any likelihood multiplied by infinity is going to guarantee an occurrence.

You can actually expand the infinite monkey theory to say that an infinite number of monkeys using typewriters for an infinite amount of time would write every single book ever written in any language the keyboard is capable of typing, as well as every possible book that could ever even theoretically exist, an infinite number of times, and still be correct.

Any infinite set of random (or even semi-random) characters will contain every possible set of characters that could ever exist, of any length. The works of Shakespeare are also encoded into Pi, we just haven’t calculated enough digits to discover one yet (and very likely never will).

If you don’t really want kids or care, you have a fine compromise here, but if you are sacrificing something you want in life, you should be honest with your parents about who you are and have kids for your own sake. You’re an adult, and you shouldn’t live your life based on what your parents would approve of.

Naw, look at that play button. You don’t see it?

Does anyone else see a vague resemblance to goatse in the map, or is it just my decades of being poisoned by the Internet?

you need to be part of an org to be a socialist

Saying shit like this makes you feel special because you can call yourself a “Real Socialist”, while gatekeeping political self-identification from anyone you feel isn’t as pure as you.

Telling me that I’m not a Socialist because I’m not a registered member of a Socialist organization doesn’t encourage me to join any organization. It encourages me to dump you and find an actual mutual ally.

Stop saying stupid exclusionary things about your left-wing allies if you want to actually have a movement capable of change. I’ll happily accept anyone who believes in Socialism as a Socialist.

Imagine actually drawing the line at Hasan Piker’s net worth…

• Average U.S. net worth: $1,000,000
• Hasan Piker net worth: $2,600,000

Here are your real enemies:

• Elon Musk net worth: $336,800,000,000
• Jeff Bezos net worth: $225,900,000,000

This is pretty much why the left will always lose. They will purity test their movements until only the most dogmatic ideologues remain, and those dozen or so purists will get steamrolled by the right-wingers that remained united over a single issue.

When I was young, and generally much poorer, leftist groups basics tried to court me. My young mind, not yet sure how to attain wealth and establish my place in the world, was quite valuable to their movements because it was easy to convince me that my dreams were being gatekept by elites. To this day, this rings true to me. I see the lack of meritocracy and fairness every day with my own eyes.

But after I graduated college and started building a career, my political leanings didn’t really change, but I noticed that my political allies’ attitude toward me certainly did.

The more stable, self-sufficient, and financially solvent I became, the more I found myself ostracized by the left. Working in tech became disqualifying - I was a “tech bro” just for getting the job. Wearing decent clothes would get me side-eyed by those who insist on black bloc. Enjoying any luxury or pleasure in the world without suffering would have me cast aside as too privileged to understand the world.

So any material assistance I could ever provide the left is nullified by the fact that other leftists won’t give the time of day to anyone with a positive net worth, and any desire I have to work with the left is nullified by the fact that all of my so-called allies expect me to either live in poverty and misery to be a real leftist, or self-flagellate about my privilege because I have an education and career.

The left convinced me to establish myself as a progressive, socialist participant in our democracy, and then chased me away over a matter of class membership, rather than substantive disagreement. No matter what class I fight for, the left brands anyone who attains middle-class status a class traitor by default.

If I chose to align with the right, they would accept me with open arms. They would pat me on the back for my career. They would tell me I deserve more. It’s no mystery why so many men like me drift towards validation like that. The only thing stopping me is my moral core would never let me align myself with the socially regressive goals of the right, and my education keeps me from falling for the incredibly stupid policy positions of the Republican Party.

As for Hasan, he’s a great example of what I am talking about. He’s worth $2.6 million, and he stands up against the interests of people worth more than $300 billion, yet the left is eager to group him together with the people he opposes.

I have a net worth 1/8 of Hasan Piker’s. Elon Musk has a net worth 130,000x that of Hasan Piker’s. If you’re drawing the line between me and Hasan, congratulations, your movement is dead in the water. Unfortunately, the line is usually drawn so low that even I don’t make the cut.

pouet.net

Tons of retrocomputing/demoscene resources.

Well, Bluesky claims to be a federated service, so I guess people should consider whether or not the service they are backing is capable of fulfilling its promises.

It’s from Clickhole from when The Onion owned them, so yes.

A dollar’s worth of Asian street food every day. From a place like Vietnam, a dollar goes a long way. I could turn that into an amazing lunch every day.

I’m not sold.

Only two Ethernet ports. No SFP. Only available on AliExpress. Dishonestly marketed as the “first router designed specifically for OpenWRT”.

Perhaps they are the first to make a router for OpenWRT the FOSS project, but certainly not the first to make one specifically for compatibility with the OpenWRT the Linux-based OS.

CZ.NIC (Czech Republic) makes several fully open-source routers under the “Turris” brand that run their own open-source variant of OpenWRT called “Turris OS”. It’s basically just an Open-WRT based distro with a custom frontend + root ssh and LuCI, and you can go vanilla if you want to.

GL.iNet (China) makes dozens of routers all designed for OpenWRT. They come standard with a custom install that includes a custom frontend and a handful of integrations, but you’ve gotta root ssh and LuCI, and you can go vanilla.

There are probably more out there. I think GlobalScale makes a few also, once on Kickstarter.

Unrelated, just sharing this banger.

Filtering the cooking oil through the digestive systems of an entire urban population really adds an earthy flavor profile.

ATProto Federation is hypothetical at best. Bluesky remains centralized for all intents and purposes.

Founders are all cryptocurrency dorks. The CEO got her start in selling shitcoins and peddling AI slop. Not a lot of confidence in their ability to lead a successful social media company.

It’s a for-profit company, and so far their actual profit-generating function has yet to be determined. Maybe it’s ads. Maybe it’s subscription fees. Maybe they just end up selling all your data off to their 1,000+ data broker partners. Nobody knows yet, but it isn’t going to remain free and open permanently.

ActivityPub is already fully federated with dozens of different services, and thousands of different instances. Every instance has its own leadership, and most are run by generous sysadmins, donations, and volunteers. It can’t make top-down decisions, it can’t go out of business, and it can’t be bought.

Yeah, but what if they’re right wing weirdos obsessed with genealogy and they reach out to you first because they want to save you or something?

Eh, depending on what you like to program, C, C++, and Rust are often the only languages that will let you do certain things.

If your specialty can’t be done efficiently or effectively with other higher level languages, then you would be justified in thinking of those languages as BS.

Just as a data scientist who specializes in quickly sorting and comparing data with Python or R would consider C, C++, and Rust to be awful tools for the job.

Uh, Shared GPU memory absolutely exists on Linux. Mind you this only exists (regardless of OS) when you have a shitty integrated GPU with no dedicated VRAM, but I am not sure why you think this only exists for Windows (or some other non-Linux OS, you did not specify).

It’s an open federated system, just like Lemmy. Your posts belong to everyone.