Even there though, what is the actual point of a phone app controlled smart toilet, even if you open sourced the whole thing? Unlocking one’s phone and tapping the app icon, and then presumably a button on the app, is going to take more time than one press of a lever that one is right next to anyway, and the latter doesn’t present as many points of failure.

And that’d be reasonable for you to do. However, having a network choose to remove something, or cut ties with servers in the network that don’t in an attempt to persuade them to remove that thing, isn’t exactly the same as a government ordering a thing be removed. The former doesn’t give much avenue for a malicious actor to suppress something that isn’t in their interest, because they can hardly control the collective actions of users on the network, but the latter does by creating a single point of decision making on the network’s content from the outside. Not that the motivations in wanting that video gone were bad, but there is an element of risk to making it possible for a government entity to remove something from a social network, even if the thing they want gone this time is something that really shouldn’t be there.

The moon’s day length is so long that it wouldn’t make any sense for any crewed mission to use it, they’re going to need their own lights on an arbitrary 24 hour cycle anyway, so there’s no reason not to have every future crewed mission there use the same one

What happened in South Korea in 2015?

Can confirm I got this too just now on my G Stylus

I’m not sure I get what you mean about friends, wouldn’t having a partner that gets along with one’s friends be a good thing?

It does make me vaguely curious what happens if you try to make one of these on the more powerful end explain step by step how its own program works. I dont really expect it to be accurate, given that if people dont know how the thing works, it probably wont find much about that in it’s training data, but if what it learns ultimately enables it to make connections about how the real world works to some degree, could it figure out enough to give even marginally useful hints?

“Your honor, let the record state that there is a common saying to the effect that “the internet is a series of tubes”. Now, PVC pipes are also a variety of tube. Therefore…”

In my experience top day works better than hot currently, but there should be a dropdown in the settings menu, the one you’d use to change your profile icon or password or such, to set the default sorting

Possibly conspiratorial thinking on my part, but the first reason I can think of is that those subs are both popular enough that they wouldn’t want them fully migrating off reddit/closed forever, but also the kind of sub to not go along with unpopular decisions/ cause trouble. If you were looking to force a few subs open to serve as an example to mods of other subs that they must reopen or be replaced, you’d want to choose ones that aren’t as likely to reopen on their own anyway after awhile, and who’s moderation team you might want to replace, as you now have an excuse and the people who would get mad already are.

It’s things like this that make me think that I probably could not really be on a jury effectively, because at this point I have seen so many instances of blatant police or prosecutorial misconduct in collecting and presenting evidence (I mean seriously, just assuming that anything done on the device of anyone in a family is from that specific individual, including automated processes outside the control of the user) that it has me worried that it is always reasonable to doubt anything a police officer or prosecutor says, shows, or claims as evidence, in which case it would be literally impossible for one to prove something to me beyond a reasonable doubt, because the mere act of the very people whos job it is to do so, attempting to prove something, feels like a rational enough reason to doubt whatever it is.

Not saying this is a good sentient, because of course there obviously are actual criminals out there, but it’s like the boy who cried wolf, if the people running the justice system blatantly break the rules so much, how can one ever trust that they have been followed, in a particular instance?

that would explain why Im suddenly seeing a ton of star trek posts on my federated feed, I mean Id expect some but Ive seen a lot more all of a sudden

Why wouldn’t it be? Twitter doesn’t have ownership of the entire concept of microblogging or anything

I mean, since there’s no central site to shut down, Lemmy failing would pretty much just mean that it stagnates and some of the bigger instances shut down, at which point there still would be some remnant of it left to stay on, if a smaller one. Failing that, it isn’t the only reddit alternative that people have been working on, so maybe one of the others will be more successful.