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I believe an X mirroring service will count as a single "daily active user" for the X numbers, no matter how many actual people are accessing the information downstream of the mirroring service. I don't use that number myself, so I'm not sure how it is calculated.

I can operate without X. But, not everyone can. For example, there are governmental organizations that only publish announcements on X. So, some people are going to need to use a mirroring service (or X itself) until they can get entities outside their direct control to change behavior, which always takes time.

I left X when it was still called Twitter, and do extensive ad-blocking (UBO; Medium mode), so I don't see anything posted there. Thanks for the information.

Please stop using X. It only has ad income due to the "daily active users" numbers still being high. Leave it and if you still need to follow select accounts on it, join a Mastodon instance that doesn't defederate @bird.makeup or one of the other X mirroring services.

As a fan of Bernie, I know the Democratic Party has chosen to freeze out it's left wing often in the past. But, all the D officers/candidates/etc quoted in the article support Abdul El-Sayed.

Let's see if they can stomach unity this time, and not preemptively attack them, since they haven't yet failed Mr. El-Sayed. (Feel free to attack them for actually abandoning progressive candidate that could have or did win in the past.)

Hey, for any progressive / socialist / communist / anarchist lemmings out there that thinks the Democratic establishment can't or won't support a more left candidate:

  • “I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election,” [U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens] said.

  • Curtis Hertel, the chair of Michigan Democratic Party, urged unity ahead of November.

  • Sen. Gary Peters, the Michigan Democrat whose retirement spurred the contentious primary to replace him, said, “Congratulations to him.”

Of course, this doesn't mean we can just vote our way out of this, or that the Democratic party is the best way to move forward your politics. But, just remember the value of a strategic vote isn't nothing and doesn't have much opportunity cost.

on How to move a sofa · c/lemmyshitpost · 58 pts · 1d

If the guys that frequently move furniture describe you are "strong for your size", that is a powerful compliment.

on The perfect date · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 1d

If you work at a company where all of its offices are in the same time zone

coworkers ignore my 11 a.m. CDT, and invite me in their timezone

PLEASE read the comment you are replying to before submitting your reply.


Even in a single-timezone organization, I think it is still useful to use UTC+offset because it avoids DST confusion and lets the company expand to a second timezone without the team members there feeling second-class. But, GMT+offset does have costs with dealing with people that don't really think about timezones when scheduling, and those costs might overwhelm any advantages.

on The perfect date · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 1d

"While Galactus has omniscient knowledge of all current user data providers, it doesn't have future sight"

Just use EKS to deliver the feature this quarter, and block the OmegaStar migration on "the team gets their shit together" and supports ISO timestamps.

on The perfect date · c/lemmyshitpost · 5 pts · 1d

Was looking for this. Yes. Whenever possible, dates should be specified in a format that is BOTH RFC 3339 and ISO 8601. I'd say both have their quirks, but the intersection of the grammars is machine-parseable and human-readable without (much) legacy baggage or (much) experimental / reserved-for-future-use noise.

US here. I remember when it changed, probably 20-25 years ago. (Tho, of course it was gradual and localized and I'm only one data point.) I was an undergrad, and not in my first year.

IIRC, it was because "gulf stream" was a little ambiguous, because there's a lot of gulfs many of which contain oceanic currents / stream. But, if someone in the U.S. or EU says "gulf stream" they are always talking about AMOC.

I don't personally have designs. But, libertarian socialism / anarchism does have perspectives, if not plans.

power and authority to rule over others

No one gets this.

enforce rules

Everyone does this.

tyranny of the majority

Anarchists reject the premise that freedoms of the minority can be removed by democratic vote. While votes can be informative, even useful, they are not binding.

people with the most strength/resources/time/energy to rule over others

My understanding is that the people, collectively, are considered more powerful than any individual, and any anti-social individuals will be corrected by the people.

I personally think that warlord-ism is a risk. It seems a common enough result of a governmental vacuum. But, as I understand the theory, any persons that attempt to rule will be resisted as if they were the government. Liberal socialism isn't pacifistic; it argues that defensive violence is just. In particular, if someone is making a legitimate threat of violence to take away the freedoms of you or someone else, you should use violence to remove the threat. If the threat is significant or persistent enough, this (defensive) violence might require collective action.

on Guntron (2008-04-23) · c/comicstrips · 3 pts · 3d

If the sword isn't part of any of the lions, I don't see why the bullet would have to be one of the robot-animal-vehicles.

on Where it all began · c/memes · 2 pts · 3d

Thanks for the clarification. I was too young to program the 2600. I started programming on PC-compatible.

on Where it all began · c/memes · 2 pts · 3d

IIRC, the 2600 didn't have a graphics processor. So, you had to "chase the ray" with CPU instructions, which made for some interesting limitations.

I think we’d be in a much more agreeable place if we just legally state that a commercial AI tools training isn’t fair use.

Good luck getting any federal law changes through before 2028, at best. So, for at least a couple of years, we get to use the existing laws to address generative "AI"'s use of works still under copyright protection.

Any change in status before then we be policy changes by the U.S. Copyright Office, but they have already come down against training (mostly; the publications are long because there's a lot of nuance).