• Binette
    10•1 year ago

    I really like you guys ❤️

    I’m learning rust and going to contribute one day.

  • @RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee
    2•1 year ago

    You guys and gals a pretty cool! Ok, a lot react way too hard at stuff (I’ve done it a bit too, check my comment history). But overall, a reasonable online space.

  • @SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    Gutenberg was a grifter. He stole money from people, sometime his own family, and ran up debts that he couldn’t pay.

    The only reason that he started printing bibles and became religious was because he was going to be thrown in prison for swindling people out of money, and it’s a bad look to throw someone in prison who prints the word of God. In fact, most of what we know about Gutenberg comes from his court documents.

    Also movable type and the printing press were already known in Europe and had already been invented in East Asia several hundred years earlier than Gutenberg. (the first printed texts date back to 700 CE and movable type prints around 1000 CE, both in modern China). It was nothing new.

      • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Honestly if the UK can spend a couple of decades with half a hiroshimas worth of high explosives sitting unguarded within sight of London I think a nuclear facility with actual security will be fine.

      • @Thorry84@feddit.nl
        9•1 year ago

        Wtf are you talking about? Nuclear power facilities are freaking huge and have top notch security. You ain’t getting anywhere near any place you could ever do any damage. And since everybody who’s supposed to be there needs clearance, it’s easy to have strict security protocols in place. Anybody who isn’t supposed to be there or takes anything in or out they aren’t supposed to is identified easily and taken care of.

        Any nuclear facility is more worried about espionage than any kind of attack. Even if you are able to bomb a part of it, worst case it will be shutdown for repairs for a while and maybe kill a dozen or so people who are near the bomb as it goes off. Something like a crowded square in a city centre is a much easier target for terrorism and probably has more impact in the causing fear department than bombing some energy facility.

        So no, denying nuclear power based on fear of terrorism isn’t only unfounded, it’s also exactly what the terrorists want. Fuck them guys, don’t give in to fear.

        And in case you don’t know: a nuclear power plant is not a nuclear bomb, it can’t become a nuclear bomb and it doesn’t contain any materials to create a nuclear bomb. Just because they both contain the word nuclear and work on a fission principle, doesn’t mean they are the same thing.

        (I blame the recent Chernobyl series for fueling the fear of nuclear once again. You should know that whilst it is a good series, it is not a documentary and they dropped the ball hard on all the science parts)

          • @Thorry84@feddit.nl
            4•1 year ago

            Yes military targets, as are most energy production facilities. Any part of critical infrastructure is a prime military target. Just ask the people of Taiwan.

            This has nothing to do with terrorism and certainly isn’t a reason not to build them. Whatever replacement you have for them, would then become the target. This is common sense.

            I would also say that being energy independent is a deterrent to all out war, as it removes leverage one party may have over another. With a balanced field of power, total war becomes less likely.

            Also by the time Western Europe / Mainland US is under military assault and our allies can’t protect our critical infrastructure, we have much bigger concerns.

        • nicerdicer
          -1•1 year ago

          These all are valid points. From the technological point of view nuclear technology is pretty safe and the margin of error is rather low. There are many redundant fail-save measurements to retain a save operation. But if something will happen, it will be devestating. Most famous incident is Chernobyl. Also, nuclear waste management is a huge issue. Not many (if any) locations for waste storage have the capability for eternal storage. The Asse II mine for instance is a former salt mine which has been re-purposed as a deep geological repository. It was supposed to last alt least several thousand years. After only 30 years of usage it has been detected that water seeps into the vault which leads to corrosion of the barrels filled with nuclear waste which will result already resulted in a release of radioactive elements. This is how the barrels were handled and stored. I am no expert but thirty years into almost eternity is a pretty bad figure.

          And there is another thing - and in my opinion this is a really serious one: Nucular power plants are operated by corporations within the private sector. This means that such a power plant is conducted with an economical focus (= profit). The incentive to make profit will result in skipping maintenance, bribing inspectors and downplaying any technical difficulties. Even when assumed that all the other issues (waste management etc.) are solved, every technical malfunction that resulted in the leakage of radioactive material woult be not be made public voluntarily. There were many incidents that have been made public, because the law required them to do so.. The hidden number of incidents that were not required to be made public is probably much higher.

    • @variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      The weather is not nice today, but I wish it was. Had to run through 98f yesterday with my baby to pick up some lunch and did not enjoy it

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      5•1 year ago

      That link led me to a thread on /generaldiscussion where a user posted about how they want their teacher to dominate them sexually.

      We really need to figure out a canonical way of linking to content in the fediverse.

      • CMLVI
        4•1 year ago

        I think that was the intent. OP is also the OP of that thread lmao. Maybe he also just wants us to know?

        • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
          6•1 year ago

          Oh shit. I assumed it wasn’t working properly since I’ve seen too many examples of linking not working

          • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            I’ve never seen a problem with links not going to the right post.

            But there is a problem that you can create a link to a community that will be visible via a user’s home instance. Here’s an example:

            !world@lemmy.world

            Any user, no matter where, will get hyperlinked to a “local” view of that community via their own instance.

            But there’s no analogous syntax to create compatible links for posts. If you just slap an URL in, it links directly to the view of the post on the instance that was linked to.

            I know that it’s possible to do this mechanically, because the Firefox “Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin” addon adds a button in the sidebar of posts on remote instances to “view this post on your home instance”, and it works. But there’s no native syntax in lemmy or kbin to generate a link for someone else’s client to do that.

            • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
              2•1 year ago

              But there’s no analogous syntax to create compatible links for posts. If you just slap an URL in, it links directly to the view of the post on the instance that was linked to.

              Yeah that’s my problem. Compounded with the fact that the instance will try to load its own version of the link which may end up somewhere completely different. There’s a decent chance it’s an issue with Jerboa as well on my end. I think the only reason it actually worked here was because the weirdo I was responding to is on the same instance as me.

              • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
                2•1 year ago

                Compounded with the fact that the instance will try to load its own version of the link which may end up somewhere completely different.

                …I don’t see how.

                If someone links to a post on a remote instance, your home instance won’t rewrite the URL to point at a local view of the post. It’ll just have a link to that remote instance.

                Like, the problem that should come up isn’t that you see something random, but rather that you’re not on your home instance, which is obnoxious.

                If you’re manually copying post IDs and changing the instance name, yeah, that won’t work.

                There’s a decent chance it’s an issue with Jerboa as well on my end.

                I mean, maybe Jerboa tries rewriting URLs itself and there’s some kind of bug, I guess. I could be wrong, but the last time I was using Jerboa, which was some time back, I think that it might have opened them in my web browser instead of the client.

                checks to see what Eternity does

                It looks like Eternity goes to the remote instance, but does so in Eternity.

                The Firefox addon does it flawlessly, in my experience, so I can’t imagine that there’s any kind of great complexity in the mapping.

                I don’t know if there’s a way to link, in a universal way, to your home instance’s view of a comment, though. Just a post. The Firefox addon can’t do that.

  • Admiral PatrickEnglish
    31•1 year ago

    Considering a lot of us are here from the Rexodus and have cake days coming up (or recently passed): Happy cake day.