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Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?

I'm dabbling in Bluesky atm. Having run my own Masto server for over a year at this point. Here's things I've found that Bluesky does just plain better - mostly cause it's not beholden to the whims of the ActivityPub protocol.

  • Shows me all replies to any post I happen to come across.
  • Lets me see all posts about things I happen to search/look for, including hashtags.
  • I don't have to worry about being unable to see content I haven't personally blocked (not so much of an issue on a small/single server like mine though).
  • I can repost things (not actually too bothered with this one but many people want it).
  • I can set per post reply permissions to a very granular level (no-one, mentioned, followers, specific followers)
  • It handles video in a way that works i.e. I can post them, and people can watch them with minimal buffering/waiting.
  • Gives me access to community built collections/algorithms that expose the content I want to see.
  • It defaults to providing an additional feed driven by what the people I'm following are liking/interacting with.
  • Finally, a big one for new users, it provided a default feed of content when I first logged in so that I had something to look at.

The first two are huge on a small/single user server. By default we get nothing, following a single account will get us the content of just that account and the replies that they happen to reply to. A post may get 200 replies, but unless I go looking on the original server I will see a fraction of that. Technical solutions exist to help with this but the Fediverse's penchant for privacy and control (quite rightly) limits the effectiveness (Fedifetcher, GetMoarFedi).

3 is something most people won't think about. But if they become aware they're not seeing something they thought they'd be able to they then have to deep dive into who's defederating who and why.

Most all the other points just make the whole thing a much more seamless experience for your average user. Bootstrapping a list of people to follow on a small server is hard (I'd absolutely recommend creating a Fediverse account somewhere large first to build up some sort of list before migrating)

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Question about Active Noise Cancellation alternatives

The sound produced by ANC is the exact 180 degree inverse (or as near as possible) of the incoming bad noise.

It's produced in realtime by dedicated signal processors and requires mic arrays feeding in the sound. The quicker your processing pipeline the better the match is and the more powerful the effect is.

There's no prerecorded sound that would work.

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The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer

Had some of the details super close, then screw up others. Hopefully it's good though.

  1. She tips the "bulb" of drink despite having just snatched it from the float beside her (whats that gonna do?).
  2. The ship spins to decelerate (would have been done long before "just arriving"), then spins again under fire despite not being slow enough. It should be dodging and returning fire whilst burning to decelerate, it's why the turrets are turrets after all.
  3. The station is under zero or very low g - but the drone needs constant downward firing jets to hover in place?

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[Help] I can't make Radarr's hardlink work

It's the multiple volumes that are throwing it.

You want to mount the drive at /media/HDD1:/media or something like that and configure Radarr to use /media/movies and /media/downloads as it's storage locations.

Hardlinks only work on the same volume, which technically they are, but the environment inside the container has no way of knowing that.

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'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable

Fuck.

My wife and I were in this A&E 3 days later. She'd new lower body numbness appear some months into a broken back recovery. 101 said go straight there, this is a no fuck around situation.

We get there and are advised it's a 12 hour wait, the place is rammed, ambulances are queuing and the corridors are full of gurneys and paramedics.

My wife at this point is in tears. The broken back means sitting for an hour on a shit waiting room chair is hard work. 12 literally can't happen.

So we leave. What else can we do.

The situation was fucking awful, but I don't blame the staff. I felt genuinely bad for all of them - there was just a complete lack of hope on any of their faces.