I like the referenced riddle because you can’t “fully” solve it, in the sense that you know all the information. You can figure out which path to take (which solves the riddle) but you cannot simultaneously know who lies and who tells the truth, which gives the riddle a bit of an unresolved feel. (I’m assuming it’s one yes-no question only.)

Y2K was a big deal, but it was well funded and successfully dealt with. Wikipedia:

The total cost of the work done in preparation for Y2K likely surpassed US$300 billion…

Similar with Y2K — it was only a nothingburger because it was taken seriously, and funded well. But the narrative is sometimes, “yeah lol it was a dud.”

Lights on boat began to flicker before incident, suggesting some sort of power failure. Steering a full size car without power steering is possible, but spoiler, steering a huge container ship ain’t.

Someone commented that exhaust increased noticably as well, possibly because pilot put ship in reverse after losing power (with prop walk veering the ship into the support).

All just people talking on the Internet at present, but “asleep at the wheel” isn’t necessarily what happened.

Maybe I’m naive but I kinda don’t get it. People talk about defederating as if…what, all Meta IP addresses will be magically blocked from scraping your content? Any script kiddie can harvest Lemmy/Mastodon/whatever content.

Has Meta shown itself to be a bad actor? Yes. Should my email provider block all emails from Meta? Well…that’s a bit much I think? If Facebook email still existed, should my email provider block that?

My point is yes, Meta bad, but all Thread users also bad? I thought — and apparently I’m very wrong here — that the Federation paradigm was kinda like email. And the only email I want blocked is a domain where every single user is malicious, not a domain run by a malicious entity which has normal people as users, who aren’t necessarily very tech literate.

I don’t actually care, but I just find it a little confusing tbh.

Professor should know that it’s etymologically Greek, not Latin, so octopi is generally considered to be wrong.

Octopuses, or octopodes if you’re feeling badass, would be preferable afaik.

I think there’s room for philosphical differences here though. One can acknowledge Meta being evil but not advocate for defederation.

The standard federation analogy is to that of email. Google has shown themselves to be evil at times (prone to enshitification at the very least). But if my email provider drops support for any email from gmail.com, well… that’s kinda not a good thing.

Obviously ActivityPub is not email, but still, I think it’s a somewhat nuanced issue.

And with regards to the EEE issue, I’m personally not convinced of any threat. Slack embraced IRC then killed support, and no harm was done that I’m aware. XMPP always gets trotted out as an example, but I think it’s a weak argument at best, disingenuous at worst.

Takes all types I guess.

But maybe take OP’s distro recommendations with a grain of salt…

Shouldn’t matter — Saturn should be far enough away that it’s effectively infinite.

Here’s some explanation: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/58765/how-does-the-jwst-change-focus-when-it-goes-from-looking-at-a-near-subject-to-lo

The messaging on this topic is interesting — too doom and gloom and you can turn people off, since it seems hopeless. Too rosey, and you come across as a science-denying dolt.

The hedline+lede here seem to strike a nice balance.