As a fellow Beehaw local, ditto. Would definitely be a shame, even if I can appreciate why it's being considered.

I do think the potential federation to build a unified alternative to centralised megacorps with freedom of movement for users is well worth the cost, and Beehaw leaving the party erodes that, but ultimately what will hit me on a day to day will be the loss of the usage pattern described above.

I'm going out my damn mind trying to work out what I should set it at. I've been obsessively adding more and more temperature and humidity sensors around my living space to work out exactly what my idiot brain thinks is comfortable.

I don't understand why 23C/50% makes me feel like I'm in the fucking Amazon rainforest one day, but on another I feel like I've got ice forming on my damn face like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining.

I'm this close to buying a ZigBee rectal thermometer. Core body temperature has to be the missing piece. (I suppose any ZigBee environment sensor can be a rectal one if I bite down on something first).

(Oh and lux, I wonder if lux levels tricked my brain but that doesn't seem to correlate either!)

Man! I was super excited about this, being a big NixOS fan, but then I realised that the "Way" bit is going to kick me in the nuts. I haven't made the switch to wayland yet; I keep thinking about switching, but last time I checked being tied to i3 and nvidia hardware scared me off (although I'm aware sway is a drop-in alternative to i3, but it's an extra complication). Another reason to make the switch when I can though!

Out of curiosity, how do big media apps treat something like Waydroid? Like, I imagine Netflix and co being awkward with anything like this in a misplaced attempted to prevent "piracy". Do you find apps treating you like a second class citizen?

While I understand the logic wrt the concerns about the content of hentai, I do find it interesting that it's so prominent in the discussion of safety issues.

To me, it's always felt "safer" than real-life content because a lot of the big risks go away. I don't have to consider whether the actors were coerced, or whether they would have been able to stop a scene if uncomfortable, or whether they regret putting that content out there and so on.

As a consumer of hentai or similar, it becomes a lot more reasonable to say, "I don't know what the imaginary background of this character is, but I'm interpretive them as an adult, so I'm all good", or "Did they really give their consent to dick-cthulhu? Of course they did! Who wouldn't!?" because I can't really be meaningfully wrong about a imaginary character.

Whatever the morality of, I guess let's say, fictional immorality, the potential harm from "real" porn just seems so much larger than the potential harm from drawings and writing. However much I enjoy seeing real human beings doing delightful things to each other, if the only porn on the internet was hentai and dirty stories, I'm inclined to think it'd probably be an overall win in terms of harm reduction, just because it doesn't require real people to be doing the stunts. So it's interesting that the fictional stuff seems to be so top of mind when we talk about safety.

Although, I imagine that's likely because in the discussions of rule-setting the issues around "real" porn are talked about far less, because who's really going to make a good-faith argument that's pro sharing images of abuse of real people.

(Also found your point about cultural imperialism interesting! An angle on the topic I'd not considered before)

Lol I love this comment! Mwah! 👄

Would second this. On one hand I'm terrified to find out; I'm conflicted enough already about the morality of a lot of the porn industry, but sticking my head in the sand won't help.

I think the number of decent human beings who would use the list to actively blacklist and advocate against bad studios is far greater than the number of diseased individuals who would use it to look up the content for "fun".

As someone with an interest in human (ironically given the context of tentacles) sexuality, seeing all these nuances and intricacies emerge from the complexities of human kink is really fun.

Although that being said, I can imagine it's very much not fun for you admins trying to navigate this stuff in your free time. Much appreciation for taking on the task! ♥️

I keep beating this dead horse (no kink shaming 😜), but it's still a bit worrying how difficult it appears to safely build a sexual community online today. The work of making a community safe, diverse and welcoming would naturally always be a challenge, but I can only imagine the stress worrying about the legal and regulatory side of things, so again, thanks for your efforts!

Go easy on people. It's hard to change, and something like lemmy can be intimidating for people to get on board with. That's ignoring the fact that even if they move they can't force their communities to come with them.

I'm personally happy to see the back of Reddit, and am convincing anyone I can to switch too, but I can understand the challenge for the average user to switch. Hell, even Reddit is a technical step-up for a lotta people. The tech world has forced a paradigm that traps the average user, using the fact it all appears free as the bait. Be angry at big tech, not the ones they swindled.

I'd say even if the overall efficiency ends up lower with automation (not that you're saying that or that it's true) I'd say it's still the right course.

If we in developed countries are saying that working in a factory is degrading and inhumane work, then it's not much of a solution to offload it to a country with people desperate enough to do it anyway. It doesn't solve the problem if we get our own people to do it either, by incentive or otherwise.

The aim should be that no one is stuck doing degrading, unfulfilling work. If automation fails to be as efficient than human labour, be it in the short term or long term, and whether that be in terms of profit or resources, it's still worth it to minimise the number of people stuck in unfulfilling wage slavery.

Again, to emphasise the point, even if human hands are cheaper than automation for the next hundred years, we should still drive to automation.

That being said, this all assumes we get our shit together as a society to get UBI and other ways for people to live meaningful lives without the factory work!

Good spot!

Nice one 👍. I've been looking to replace onenote handwritten notes for years with something with better Linux support. Interested to give this a try! Thanks for sharing!

I briefly worked in safety critical software, so adjacent to defence and aeronautical in the UK. I recall that when the UK was asking for the source code for windows running on the trident subs at the time (which is terrifying thought at the best of times. A whole new meaning to blue screen of death) that UK gov had asked to inspect the source code but was told to swivel. IIRC US and China were both allowed to look. That was all on the grapevine though, and I was still a kid so obv take with a pinch of salt, but I'm inclined to believe it.

I had more direct experience in my role validating software to run on military aircraft. We were contracted in to "prove" that the software was up to do-178b security stand and bug free via line by line inspection and some other techniques (which was a joy as you can imagine). I never got the impression that the source would be shared with the government, only that it had to meet the standard.

Interesting sidenote there, was that because it was for defence, being up to the standard was really marketing more than legal requirement. We'd find bugs that would trigger hard reboots of the hardware and the message was always "thanks for letting us know, but it's too expensive to get the original contractors back to fix it so we'll just ignore it". I think they'd have been legally obliged to do something for civilian aircraft but military is a different game.

(Again should emphasise these are vague memories from working a gap year before my masters, so take with pinch of salt.)