All hail the arrival of Threads, perhaps the most unfortunately named and most pre-blocked social media platform ever, at least until Elon decides to launch a fediverse platform and name it โSyphilisโ or something
So, here's my question about all of this. Does anyone else think that there is something fundamentally wrong about only two giant corporations owning the entire global social media market? And does anyone out there ever question why government regulators aren't doing their Goddamned job about putting the breaks on trusts and monopolies?
@aaronIsHere @scorpil the problem isn't whether or not trans women are mums, plenty are, the problem is mumsnet isn't known as prosecco stormfront for nothing. Its such a hive of TERFs that trans people don't go there. That said you're right that facebook's whole deal is building widely sourced targeted ad data and we should block them for that on principle.
@aaronIsHere @scorpil Mumsnet is notoriously a transphobic hotbed and terf gathering spot. Bringing it up around trans people, then getting defensive when people point out how that's problematic, is incredibly tone-deaf
@Gigi ๐ฅ @Scorpil ๐บ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ @aaron It is, and Iโm sure the now server blocked concern troll knew exactly that. I have so very little time for disingenuous wankers.
FWIW, came across this enormous blocklist of facebonk domains/IPs; no idea if necessary/useful to block these as well as the threads dot net front door (seems like it'd be Sisyphean) mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE/11โฆ
It's true. I stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast (and lazily) as I could, and before I even knew what I had, I tooted it.
I think I understand his advertising strategy. Create a site full of techno libertarian fanboys who are not anywhere near as clever as they think they are, but who are demonstrably willing to throw money at any old crap if they think Ayn Rand would have approved, and then present it to unscrupulous con artists, wanting to sell scams like NFTs or bitcoin or whatever, as a captive audience of gullible losers who will buy any old crap as long as it โowns the libsโ.
He may not be doing this on purpose, but scammers will absolutely see the value in an audience of a few million gullible right wing arseholes who wonโt complain about terrible service and who have money to burn.
Is he tho....?! Or did he make enough money with selling PayPal to employ people who are good at business related things? I don't really know the answer to that, but his Tesla track record, especially with "Full-Self-Driving" isn't really that of a savvy business man.
Or maybe I'd just like to think he's a babbling potato, because I really don't like him... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Apparently the โbasic biologyโ nut jobs on Twitter, when theyโre able to post, are going on about how itโs biologically impossible for trans women to lactate.
Meanwhile, Iโve literally had tea made with my own milk.
For someone who lives in the Algarve and routinely goes out without sunscreen (I know, I know), it's astonishing how much sunburn I got from 2 hours on the solent on a mostly overcast day yesterday. I guess the sea really bounces that UV around.
I don't even bother with sunscreen because I tan so quickly, but the ex was your typical Anglo-Saxon lobster in the sun! I forget the brand, but there is a particular high-SPF cream she swore by that binds to the skin, so even going swimming won't wash it off.
Quite expensive stuff, as I remember, but worth it because you don't have to keep reapplying it. She spent a month in Goa during a heatwave, and returned looking like she'd spent a weekend in Cornwall. ๐
@ajlanes Here are solar cells built into a sail (as well as liquid crystal panels for steering), but this might not be what you had in mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
Thereโs a new alternative to Twitter that Iโve developed and am accepting signups. The best bit is that you can run your own instance on a laptop, or even your phone! And itโs free!
Hereโs how it works: open your notes application. Write out up to 280 characters. Repeat using new notes if you want a โthreadโ.
Then delete the whole lot.
Given nobody can actually read anything you post on Twitter, this is functionally equivalent to actually tweeting, except with far more uptime and no Nazis yelling at you to buy bitcoin for your grandma.
I'd like to propose an add-on to this service for people who would like to buy bitcoin. They can send me all their money and I'll deposit it all in my bank account which perfectly replicates the user experience without harming the environment.
That is in fact the experience I had with the Twitter "algorithm" and my attempts to tweet. That it also destroys the garbage that white supremacists and Nazis are attempting to post seems like a feature to me!
@Friendica Support A problem Iโm noticing with my instance is, especially with the Twitter migration picking up, the deferred queue is just growing and growing as people experiment then abandon accounts or even entire servers.
I assume it will sort itself out eventually, but is there any way to reduce the timeout? Iโve got stuff thatโs days old sitting in there that is probably never going to get actioned because the servers have just gone away.
@FeralRobots I don't have open reg. It's a Mac mini sitting in my living room. The deferred queue is full of attempted communication with servers that are down for days at a time, or maybe permanently?
@Sarah Brown Please donโt worry about the deferred queue, thereโs an increased delay for each failure which means you can have days/months old stuff that should have a minimal impact on performances.
@A_C_McGregor Update for the fediverse: Coffee has been supplied. Next task: attempt to figure out how to induce water hammer in a digestive tract using coffee as the liquid. Iโm sure thereโs a Practical Engineering YouTube video on this.
Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for womenโs sex drive.
I suspect it would blow their minds if they ever found out that the hormone most involved in making women horny is actually testosterone.
They act like weโre a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. Thatโs why medical transition is even possible.
@Adam @Alexandra Lanes @Richard Gadsden yeah. AIUI, histamine used to be considered a hormone until its mechanism of action was better understood and it was realised that it is actually a neurotransmitter
@Alisdair Calder McGregor I mean, this isnโt particularly advanced. Itโs just โhypothalamus makes GnRH, pituitary receives GnRH and makes LH, gonads receive LH and make testosterone, testosterone encounters aromatise and turns into oestrogen, hypothalamus notices testosterone and oestrogen and makes less GnRH in responseโ
A makes B makes C makes D makes less A ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
To make it even funnier: Hormones act thru "hormones receptors" which are proteins - coded in our genes as all proteins. The testosterone receptor is actually coded on the X chromosome ( check at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgenโฆ ) - the female chromosome - which means that women have 2 copies of it while men only one !
@EugeneMcParland Doesn't it usually blow South? My guess is they'll irradiate Crimea, the Black Sea, everything down to Sochi. Erdogan should be up in Putin's grille.
@Nazani @Eugene McParland ๐บ๐ฆ Donโt know which way it prevails, but I just pulled up a grib for the next week and itโs totally blowing northeast.
interessting thing though that within a generation one pic if gif can transport many messages. Like in the old pictures where a vase stand for faith etc. Aa always humans like to group together and invent social codes and secret handshakes (but with a 10 times cropped cat pic from 2009)
But yeah my S/O is of the โIf I fits, I sitsโ school of plugging cables where they donโt belong. I ended up #3Dprinting โchild-proof coversโ that same day.
I think the masthead wind transducer is nearing the end of its life. That means that: A. I need a new one and theyโre quite pricy (like 400 euros), and B. I need to go up there with a screwdriver. FML
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes The bit I hate most is how you get cramp in your arms from trying to undo a rusted bolt above your head while your legs go numb from sitting in the harness.
I am not scared of heights (used to be, cured myself), and my mast climbing technique is solid, but I just find working up there unpleasant and uncomfortable.
@ajlanes I haven't climbed my mast; before the refit I was too sketched out by the state of the bearings. But I rock climb so not toooooo fussed about sitting high up while tied in. Ofc, rock walls don't usually sway.
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes I'm a climber too, although I can't do it much any more because I have Dupuytrens.
Climbing the mast is easy. Friction knot with a mooring line round the mast, make a foot loop, main halyard tied to belay loop, have someone on the winch. You lift yourself up, they take in the slack. Repeat.
The issue is that you're not standing on anything, so even in the comfiest of harnesses, I find my legs go unpleasantly numb quite quickly. If you were hanging on a rock face, unless it was severely overhanging, you can usually take SOME weight on your legs, but try with the mast and you'll just pirouette around it.
The swaying you get used to. Worst bit is when some prick in a gas guzzler does a close pass and kicks up a load of wake. Then it gets interesting.
@ajlanes yeah, fair. Hard to justify a bosun's chair when you already own climbing gear I guess. Bummer about the dupuytrens. I've only been climbing for about 18mo but I enjoy it well enough. I have to take a couple months off for recovery starting in (omg) a week, but that's very temporary.
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes Itโs annoying. Started when I was 38. Held it at bay for ten years with radiation, but itโs now very aggressive. I can do stuff that doesnโt involve fiddly finger work, so via ferrata and suchlike.
400 quid? You own a yacht. You're super rich. Just kidding. I so agree to what you said about the average yacht owner the other day. And which these complacent idiots being happy about orcas attacking sailing yaczts just don't want to see. Keep it up!
And the message queue is empty! Check out that little Mac Mini there, taking friendica-cron in its stride!
(Ok, I have the contact directory discovery thingie turned off because that is a destroyer of worlds, and disk space, and doesnโt actually seem all that useful for a small instance, but still)
Dear god, the number of follow requests Iโm getting. Tempted to set to auto approve. I may be a miserable cynic so expect most will go back to the shouty Nazi site if he pays his server bill, but my, itโs busy!
Seriously though, if the fediverse doesnโt work out for you, thereโs always Bluesky, where all posts are the same 12 people telling obscure in-jokes that you wonโt get if you donโt have Bluesky piped directly into your cerebral cortex 23.9 hours a day.
Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesnโt work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.
Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.
@supercharv Sure. I wasnโt suggesting that all users should be interacting on all of the issues that come their way, even if they had the energy. However, there are many who limit their interractions to retweeting/boosting, and I think social media is a better place if they do more than that.
There were two things I liked about Twitter. People could be very very funny and the immediacy of the news (from reputable people) was great. Can someone direct me to some suggested follows to find similar? I seem to have a lot of deep tech connections and Iโm just an ordinary Joe who knows how to click on things.
@Tomsprints2 I'm not sure it's a twitter thing, I think it's always been a little bit like that in online networks. Even just "likes" are a great step forward from the olden days when you made something and was received with deafening silence, and then six months later multiple people come up to you saying: "I really liked that thing you did".
@Alisdair Calder McGregor Thing is, we're here doing our own thing. Plenty of us will carry on doing that, and it can't really be killed. Anyone with enough tech knowledge can spin up their own instance in half an hour and jump in.
It fails to catch on for a certain group. If you look at where they are coming from they, I would say, see that they will lose any influence that they previously enjoyed. Their only recourse is to undermine what they perceive as a threat to their ethereal influence.
He used a carbon fibre pressure vessel. Carbon fibre is a material that’s good in tension. Is has no strength in compression at all: it’s just woven cloth.
It works as an aircraft pressure vessel because the pressure inside is higher than the pressure outside, hence the carbon fibre works as a balloon and is in tension.
But for a submersible, the pressure outside is higher. The pressure vessel is getting compressed.
So the carbon fibre will give it a bit of stiffness, but the actual crush resistance is being provided by the epoxy resin that holds the carbon fibre weave together.
Am I missing something? Why the hell did they build a compression pressure vessel out of string glued together? It doesn’t matter how strong the string is: it will still fold up if you scrunch it into a ball. The structural strength came not from the string, but from the glue.
I’m amazed it took as long to fail as it did. I must be missing something here, right?
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Am I missing something about the Titan sub?
He used a carbon fibre pressure vessel. Carbon fibre is a material thatโs good in tension. Is has no strength in compression at all: itโs just woven cloth.
It works as an aircraft pressure vessel because the pressure inside is higher than the pressure outside, hence the carbon fibre works as a balloon and is in tension.
But for a submersible, the pressure outside is higher. The pressure vessel is getting compressed.
So the carbon fibre will give it a bit of stiffness, but the actual crush resistance is being provided by the epoxy resin that holds the carbon fibre weave together.
Am I missing something? Why the hell did they build a compression pressure vessel out of string glued together? It doesnโt matter how strong the string is: it will still fold up if you scrunch it into a ball. The structural strength came not from the string, but from the glue.
Iโm amazed it took as long to fail as it did. I must be missing something here, right?
Why, for the love of all thatโs holy, did they use carbon fibre?
If you have many many layers of T-shirt tightly bonded together (see gambeson), it might manage to be self-supporting. Maybe. The US Navy experimented with this for *shallow* water. But it's a really stupid way of doing it at any depth for all the reasons you say.
@Sion [main] I mean, thatโs how my boat is built except s/carbon/glass/ but it doesnโt have to withstand a gazillion atmospheres. It just has to take its own weight and stay watertight.
Still, glass reinforced plastic boats delaminate if they take too many big waves. Itโs not like delamination is a novel unknown failure method in these materials. Itโs what they do.
I also heard - though don't know how true it is our how much bearing it has - that he got the CD cheap as it was old stock and possibly out of date ๐ฌ
The other obvious flaw, besides being made of a material that is notable for being strong in tension, not compression, is the use of a cylinder for a vessel that is going to experience pressure from the outside, not the inside.
Just suck the air out of an empty lemonade bottle, and you'll see how little of a pressure differential is needed for the cylindrical center section to squash flat, while the spherical ends keep their shape. Thicker walls are only going to do so much to prevent that.
That's why cylindrical submarines used down to hundreds of feet have bulkheads at intervals along their length to support the cylinder from the inside.
And submarines that are used at thousands of feet of depth are made up of spherical pressure vessels, because additional bulkheads and thicker walls cease to reinforce cylinders sufficiently at depths where the slightest imperfection can result in deformation, that /will/ progress further under those forces. Even submarines that look cylindrical from the outside, like the DSRV:
The boat is filthy. We need to go outside to clean it. We have brought materiais to clean it. We cannot be forced to clean it. Once we are outside the hatch, we are outside the law.
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(Pretty sure the issue is Mumsnet is legendarily transphobic af.)
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