• 0 Posts
  • 19 Comments
Joined 3 months ago
Cake day: April 4th, 2026
  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.world•me_irl
    4·
    3 days ago

    audited regularly

    You won’t overturn hundreds of thousands of years of human nature and ungodly profits this way. People already have the ability to vote with their wallets and they don’t for the most part. We do have at least one example of someone who tries, but I wonder how much of that page is still true today: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

    I was surprised to find the old Edward Bernays books online. I guess they’re just that old now. From the first book Propaganda:

    In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. To avoid such confusion, society consents to have its choice narrowed to ideas and objects brought to its attention through propaganda of all kinds. There is consequently a vast and continuous effort going on to capture our minds in the interest of some policy or commodity or idea.

    Stallman’s notions probably aren’t going to manifest themselves in the middle of nowhere without internet. Bernays’ probably will.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.world•me_irl
    1·
    3 days ago

    Just ban the algorithms on social media and you solve a good portion of the issues they cause.

    There’s no way to enforce that, and you have to have seen some bs before to recognize it again. Plus, if you’re the only kid that never sees stuff the algorithm provides then you’re right back to being surrounded by people with different knowledge sets.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.world•me_irl
    161·
    3 days ago

    “autistic kids are retarded, and you aren’t so you can’t be autistic”.

    Growing in a small rural town comes with a lot of good things but also a lot of prejudices that can make your life tough if you aren’t “like the rest of the kids”.

    This is why I waffle about banning “social media” for kids under a certain age. If the parents and the communities they allow say that it’s not possible for a kid to be a certain way then there’s no way for a kid to independently check. I don’t have any idea on how to balance that against the algorithm.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Safe firearm storage may reduce blood lead levels in childrenEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Most traditional hollowpoints aren’t designed to break apart into shrapnel. They’re designed to expand in a controlled manner. The FBI protocol is that it should expand after passing through four layers of cloth (denim, fleece, cotton, and something else), then penetrate between 12 and 18 inches through standardized ballistics gel.

    A non expanding bullet might get double that much penetration if it doesn’t start tumbling. Projectiles designed for large, dangerous game are designed for no expansion and maximum penetration. It all depends on what the goal is.

    There’s a lot of youtube where people have put that kind of stuff to the test if you want to dig. There are a few results out there that are non-intuitive. For example, a regular 38 special hollow point out of a modern revolver often doesn’t get enough velocity to expand, so the cavity will fill up with cloth and over penetrate the gel even though it’s substantially less powerful than a 9mm.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never HappenEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Lots of rose colored glasses being worn here.

    I will take modern rust prevention tech every day all day. The control modules and circuit boards are a hole in repairablity, and there’ll be a wall where nobody makes them anymore and the specs are not published (considered proprietary/trade secret/whatever), and that whole vehicle will just have to be scrapped. The world won’t ever see the end of old body-on-frame vehicles with crate engines. Speaking for myself the “rose colored glasses” is a wish for the best of both worlds. I wouldn’t doubt it’s out there being done somewhere, but I’m sure it’s cost prohibitive to do it, or people are doing it for themselves.

    Maybe I’m just complaining because I don’t personally have the time/knowledge/workspace to do what I want in that area. C’est la vie.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s with all the furry porn on this platform?
    7·
    5 days ago

    I ended up creating an account just to block communities/users. At the time there was a poster posting to his own instance that was federated with lemmy.world, and he was reposting nothing but reddit posts, and the volume was such that they had to go. With no algorithm there’s no way to just see subscribed stuff without losing out on discovering new things.

    And just a tip, Lemmy will let you export (to JSON) your configuration options to include who you’ve blocked.

  • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•C++ takes decades to master
    2·
    11 days ago

    Try the c++23 standard. There’s been a lot of cross pollination. Contrived example follows:

    #include <format>
#include <numbers>
#include <print>
#include <string>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    double pi = std::numbers::pi;
    std::string fstr = std::format("{}, {:>.2}, {:>.5}, {:>.10}", pi, pi, pi, pi);
    std::string h = "Hello";
    std::string w  = "World";
    std::println("{}, {}!", h, w);
    std::print("This won't have a {},", "newline");
    std::println(" but this will add it."); // Add a newline.

    // Can't put a non-constant string as the first argument to
    // print or println so they can be checked at compile time.
    std::println("{}", fstr);
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}