Inb4 Sam Altman says all hard drives belong in data centers.

Wonder if they can trigger cosmic inflation in their lab.

Is it already an aftermath if AO3 is still down? For now I think it’s a duringmath, or whatever.

16gb model went from $305 to $385. Smaller increases for other models. Thanks Altman.

Openlibrary.org?

It took me a couple looks to figure out that the idea was to not throw out the fiber component in the first place, as opposed to eating it out of the bin. I wouldn’t eat banana peels but some people throw away apple skins which is kind of pointless unless you’re making applesauce or a pie or the like. Similar for potato peels.

The original Pi had 512MB not KB. It ran Linux and had an SD card “disk”. The ESP32 series aren’t in the same class.

I meant see what AP (Activitypub) aimplementation Mastodon is using, and adapt that implementation, not the entirety of Mastodon. In fact quick web search immediately finds there are multiple pre-packaged Ruby gems for Activitypub, so just use one.

I looked at the Wikipedia article about AP and it’s kind of bureaucratic but I don’t see much difficult. Yeah it’s not suited to a raw beginning programmer but it shouldn’t take a big expert. OP, have you done much programming?

I see on Wikipedia that there’s a new thing called “AT Protocol” that’s supposed to improve on AP. That might also be worth looking into.

It would surprise me if there isn’t already an implementation that can be adapted. E.g. as someone said, Mastodon uses Rails .

It might be a bit much for a beginner but for someone with some programming basics it could be a decent way to learn more. It’s all back end stuff, so not much browser madness. Rails has its learning curve but has tons of convenience features. The part I have trouble understanding is why anyone would want this. Say federation appears. Then what? Anyway, OP, if you take this on, I can probably give a bit of technical advice if you want it.

Um what are these things and who should care? That info would help a post like this.

“Beszel” is Hungarian for “speak” if anyone cares.

This looks interesting but boy is it long. Is there a tldr?

Usenet was great back in the day. Decentralized and mostly unmoderated, full of trolls but you learned to block them. It still exists but barely.

Yeah I was going to suggest doing this, though on a PC instead of a phone.

The software is almost completely irrelevant. It’s all about the story archive. Given Lemmy’s observed distaste for edgy content, I don’t think a federated AO3-like repo is likely to fly, but I’d love to be proven wrong. It might be preferable to have a straightforward mirror if that can be arranged with AO3.

This is cool, it’s sort of like the hanging chain problem. Simplest solution probably uses the Lagrangian. Basically you want to minimize the potential energy, which is found by adding the gravitational potential and the spring energy as a function of where on the spring the weight is hanging. Then integrate the Euler-Lagrange equation to get the shape of the uncoiling spring.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary for info about the hanging chain. There are good online tutorials about how to solve it but a quick web search didn’t find the one I remembered.

The real culprit sounds like web itself, being designed so that browsers can deliver 0-click spyware. Once that capability exists, of course baddies will use it. Surprise directed at the baddies is almost completely misplaced.

What? Lol. FBI raid incoming. Or treasury dept or whatever.

Plot twist: someone wins first prize and then there’s a cheating scandal because it turns out they didn’t use AI.

I haven’t been following trends but I just looked on newegg, and HDD and SSD prices look about where they were before, or maybe a bit higher. It’s nothing like the Chia craze where every drive of any kind was snapped up by crypto miners. Or the simliar thing further back where a flood in Thailand(?) clobbered a factory so there were big shortages and price spikes. Right now you can get drives if you’re willing to pay for them. There just hasn’t been the usual downward price trend.