Yeah this is the first time I’ve heard of someone being taken while trying to leave the country. Very Kafkaesque.

That sounds delicious, and pretty healthy too. Thanks for sharing.

I think Signal can do most of this, although for example exporting requires third party tools like signal-export or signal-backup-decode. Edit: Oh Signal also doesn’t have a web version though…

Perhaps unrelated but Lemmy.world seems to be having some major performance issues right now. Historically this kind of thing could really screw up federation. See https://status.lemmy.world/

Good ol’ Sriracha because of its versatility. It goes well with so many foods.

Some kind of insanely expensive medicine which saves lives so I can give it away. It’d be very rewarding and I don’t need anything else anyway.

Just a few years ago I watched the movie Bridge of Spies which, based on real events, dramatically portrayed the arbitrary Kafkaesque detention of American student Frederic Pryor by the evil Stasi and the unjust East German state. Well I guess we’re the baddies now.

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I had forgotten about Misery Index. I think I saw them live many years ago, good show 🤘

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That’s probably just mail that lands in your spam folder without being entirely blocked. According to Microsoft and Google approximately 99% of incoming spam (of the ~160 billion spam emails sent per day) never even reaches their users mailboxes. I assume that’s roughly standard across email providers. I am concerned comparably sophisticated filtering may become necessary on the Fediverse eventually.

I’ve been using Fedi for a long time and from the very beginning I’ve been afraid of spam and bots ruining it, at least temporarily. Spam is still a problem with e-mail, and it’s been around for 40 years and they’ve developed very sophisticated anti-spam mitigations for it.

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

That’s very quotable.

Some memorable moments in no particular order:

• Outer Wilds when you reach the Sun Station
• Descending into the Lost River biome in Subnautica
• Alan Wake 2: The Musical

In this mode the aircraft has superior protection from all modern anti-air weapon systems.

The Cello Suites and the Goldberg Variations for me.

To quote an old car show: Oh no! Anyway.

“The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.”

A key part of Moore’s law which is often omitted is that Moore was not just talking about transistor density but about cost. When people say we’ve reached the end of Moore’s law this is not because we’re no longer able to increase semiconductor transistor density (just look at TSMC’s roadmap) but that the “complexity for minimum component costs” is no longer increasing. Chips are still getting faster but they’re now also more expensive.