I'm always astonished when there's a discussion about a topic so deep that it's been hotly debated by philosophers for centuries and someone drops in the dictionary definition thinking they solved the whole discourse with a one-liner from the dictionary.

I mean, it kinda is.

Lemmy is setup in a way that it totally crumbles at around 100-200k active users. The "every instance replicates almost everything while being legally liable if it doesn't correctly moderate everything" means that it's close to impossible to run a Lemmy instance if there's too many people on the platform.

Reddit has more than one billion accounts and hundreds of millions of active users.

Lemmy physically cannot sustain anything near those numbers. Thus it's kinda hard-coded to prevent it from getting serious astroturfing, for better and for worse.

For comparison: Both the LTT forum and the crackberry forum have more total and more active users than all of Lemmy combined.

Congrats, you managed to find the dictionary, but didn't even make it to the encyclopedia, let alone the acutal literature.

And now, with just the barest of definition and no deeper knowledge on anything you think you are an expert.

Here, please read at least the wikipedia entry to get a very basic understanding about what the adults in the room are talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

Sentience is roughly defined as "Line in the sand between humans and things we are allowed to eat".

It's a concept created to justify treating animals differently than humans in a world where the old justification ("You can eat animals because God said so") isn't applicable anymore.

Since the concept is defined backwards to justify preexisting actions, it doesn't have any actually solid definition, and whether something's sentient or not depends pretty much entirely on the opinion of the person deciding it.

Amazing quote!

Probably the closest way to pronounce the name as an American would be "Virt", with "i" pronounced as in "will".

Yeah, go tell that to your company's IT department.

That's what WSL is used for: keeping developers somewhat sane in a company that's Windows-only.

Wahrscheinlichste Lösung: die Stadt Wien verlangt dann €0.50 für's Pissoir.

How sad for them. I'm sure the kids who are now not getting their aids treatment because DOGE employees cancelled USAID didn't feel abandoned.

I also love this part:

Earlier this month, game publishing trade association Video Games Europe said the initiative's proposals "would curtail developer choice"

Well, yes, that's the point of pretty much any regulation about anything. Curtailing the choice of people abusing the system.

The good thing is that coffee withdrawals are over quite quickly and don't have long-term effects.

But getting peer pressured into an addiction by one's mom of all people is ironic.

Tbh, this is just a massive stack of misguidedness.

First, look at what the original law does:

• OS needs to know the age.
• OS itself doesn't do anything with the age
• OS needs to provide the age to apps and services asking for it
• Apps and services need to block content based on the age provided with the OS
• If the OS doesn't provide an age, apps and services have to block as if the user was a toddler

Removing the requirement for the OS to provide an age doesn't change anything at all, because someone running an OS that doesn't provide an age will just be blocked everywhere. That's not a solution, that's a joke to appease idiots who don't know what the law does.

This is just as misguided as the backlash against systemd who added an age field to the user account to allow people to be still able to access age-restricted content.

The actually relevant part that people should be combatting is the requirement for apps and services to do age verification using the OS-provided age. The OS age field doesn't matter.

The other day when asking about the sex ratio of chickens, it told me that fertilized eggs turn into male chickens while unfertilized eggs become female chickens.

Tbh, this is not quite as dumb as it sounds. Tampons weigh nothing and if there's no way to resupply, it's not quite as dumb to take more than you need. What if, for example, there's a series defect on these things and a large portion of them are defective?

In fact, when they asked her said it's excessive, to which they told her they wanted to be on the safe side, so she said to cut it in half and bring 50pcs (which is still excessive for most periods, but on the safe side).

In fact, in the same mission they also brought jelly beans, which were entirely irrelevant to the mission, because Reagan insisted on his favourite snack to go to orbit. They were likely heavier than 100 tampons and also much less necessary up there.

Info for anyone reading, while the read was quite interesting, the whole article turned out to be an ad.

In a dictatorship.

When I approached the head of the team that constructed the tool after the meeting and shared the inaccuracies and my concerns, he told me that he’d rather have more data fluency through the ease of the tool and that inaccuracies were acceptable because of the convenience and widespread usage.

"I prefer more data that's completely made up over less data that is actually accurate."

This tells you everything you need to know about your company's marketing and data analysis department and the whole corporate leadership.

Potemkin leadership.

In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.

If you work 80+h and it doesn't feel like work, then maybe playing golf and eating out doesn't magically turn into work just because you write it off as work expenses.

Hey, it worked. This is just as valid to prove that the internet connection is up.

I would so love if this causes an usage spike for Firefox, so that all websites and webapps start testing for Firefox compatibility again...