NaibofTabr

So, business as usual.

Patch Tuesday didn’t become a thing for no reason.

The genie is out of the bottle

This is a lot more like Pandora’s Box - all the evils have been let loose.

“We appreciate China’s support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, and we had a very substantive and pragmatic conversation.”

How has China supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity? They’ve been supplying Russia with war material since the invasion started.

In an official Chinese summary of their meeting, Wang said China was “willing to provide new humanitarian assistance to Ukraine” but made no mention of any invitation to visit Kyiv.

China is interested in establishing a foothold in Ukraine, with its own equipment and security personnel.

“We are willing to maintain communication with Ukraine and work with the international community to play a constructive role in achieving an early political solution to the crisis,” Wang added.

How very gracious and noncommittal.

China has close economic and security ties to Russia and has refused to join international sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

No kidding.

I think I saw a 2…

Enforced toxic positivity is unhealthy, yes.

It’s not the cause, it’s a symptom of a larger problem.

What would I need an “out” for?

A good forum design will only get you so far, the rest is up to the moderators. If you let bad actors in, it doesn’t matter how you designed your forum, they will poison the well and drive other people out.

Yes, well, the problem with hexbear was that it started with bad actors. As they made their true colors apparent to the lemmy community at large, they were increasingly defederated.

The best communities I’ve been in are in independent old-style forums. One of them is Tildes. Most of these don’t feature downvotes (or upvotes for that matter) and are honestly the better places to have discussions IMO.

Oh yes, my past experience is in old web forums as well. Those communities were more isolated though, they essentially existed inside their own bubbles. Unregistered users could read them, but not participate in any functional way, and typically the people that found them were looking for a community like that on purpose.

I’ve also experienced such communities becoming toxic due to the actions of individual moderators or admins, post voting not required.

Ultimately I think I agree this far - if you’re going to disable voting you should do all of it. Removing only the downvoting is the YouTube path, the authoritarian path, the toxic positivity path.

I wouldn’t imply that the unhealthyness of hexbear is due to the disabled downvoting though, and I’m sure you aren’t either, but just to be clear.

No, I’m implying the reverse: disabling downvoting is a symptom of the unhealthy mentality of the people running that server. Disabling downvoting appeals to authoritarians - that is, the type of people who are interested in silencing dissent (QED).

The only Lemmy community I’m aware of that has actually removed downvotes is hexbear - because they were tired of having their pro-Maoist rhetoric downvoted to oblivion by sane people. Hexbear is not a healthy place.

Don’t worry, this will still happen, they’ll just use stolen IDs from previous fishing victims, or from the database of 70,000 that Discord already had breached.

Enforced toxic positivity does not produce better conversations or better communities. It basically just turns a discussion forum into Disneyland, where everyone is happy all the time, because there’s no other option. It’s the kind of yes-man thinking you get in corporate meetings that produce really bad ideas because “don’t be negative! there are no bad ideas here!”

It looks like the pivots are on opposite sides of the disk platters, which means that if one fails you essentially lose access to the data on that side.

That’s not really appreciably different from the same failure happening in a single-pivot drive, though it is more mechanical complexity packed into the same amount of space.

I’m not sure what the failure rates on HDD pivots are like. In my own experience the control board or motor is more likely to fail.

That is you can take the heat and radiate it into space as Infrared radiation. IR radiation is able to travel through space as it is made of photons.

I’m not sure how effective this would be for the amount of heat generated by servers, but it’s not actually fully disqualified as I thought it would be.

This is how the International Space Station deals with waste heat: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/473486main_iss_atcs_overview.pdf

It’s very slow compared with convective cooling, definitely not practical for running any high-powered computer hardware, slow enough that it can be considered disqualified.

There’s a community for that! https://sh.itjust.works/c/youtubeclassics

Believe it or not, different types of paint dry at different rates.

It’s the weekend!

Time to relax and watch some… Netflix!

the age of indie film has begun

brought to you by Netflix

Yes, but it might gain other buffs to Charisma between now and 24 months. Charisma is forced to 1 at 24 months regardless.

That is a very short amount of time to organize a nation.

Really nice overview