It is almost as if this whole "face-to-face" thing that was brought up so much in the online meeting debate when companies insisted on video calls isn't always as universally helpful as some people think. Almost as if human interactions are complex rather than simplistic.
Most of the technical problems with learning/teaching are actually caused by sticking to outdated 19th century concepts in schools such as having the (by definition average) local teacher explain things instead of someone who actually knows how to explain the subject matter well and pretending that kids need to memorize everything in a modern world instead of incorporating the ability to look up things into the learning process.
Most of the actual major problems with education are caused by funding structures and deliberate sabotage by parts of society who benefit from an uneducated population without critical thinking and research skills.
While I can see your point I would like to point out that that might excuse problems parents have raising their children but not parents making that everyone else's problem by insisting the rest of the world is made child-safe somehow.
It would take too long.
Making the bet that is, it would be leaked before you are done setting up the betting system.
The headline said it was right-wing, not a MAGA cultist.
Plenty of things are more difficult in decentralized systems.
You have to store all kinds of data either in multiple copies/caches or get long delays on certain operations such as search or even just displaying aggregated data (such as a post and its comments from different instances on Lemmy).
You have the problem of different jurisdictions and moderation policies for different instances.
You will have a hard time exporting or deleting all data related to a specific user when required by law (e.g. GDPR).
Seems like it would be the word of the first quarter of the 21st century.
LWN is good for Linux kernel related content.
Turns out there was a job writing content so stupid that even AI could do a better job at it after all.
The religious types are really just subsets of the other types who want to play the "See, it is not me saying all those bigoted things about you, it is my god" card to avoid counter-arguments.
Also the world moves towards progressiveness by definition so people who still have the same views with 80 as they did with 20 are probably more conservative (in the traditional sense of the word) relative to the rest of the world.
They hate their kids more than they love their kids too.
The universe? … stuff
I think George Carlin would say that the universe is a place for your stuff.
While true the level of obnoxiousness when having to be around them for a bit certainly gets a lot worse with the "entire personality" type.
Those have been around for close to 20 years at this point.
What kind of devices do you have in mind that use cards but are neither of those?
True, compliance can be helpful to pressure vendors into doing what they should have been doing in the first place.
Generic artist name is generic? Literally would be more memorable if he used his actual name.
To be fair encryption at rest is one of those checkbox requirements that - in the absence of checks how it is implemented - is just implemented as a key next to the file that is encrypted.
Automatic checking of information in error logs/error return types?
After adding some lines today to log some information I had missed that was vital for debugging I was wondering if there were any automated tools like linters or similar static analysis tools that help you identity the information to log and or return in error cases.
I am specifically talking about the information that should be identifiable automatically because it contributes to the control flow arriving in the current scope such as values of variables in the condition for the scope or parameters of functions that calculate those values (e.g. the file name in a permission error, the value of a variable that failed an if let or let else pattern match,...
Is there a spec somewhere on how Lemmy, Kbin and the rest of the threadiverse use ActivityPub?
It seems to me the basic ActivityPub specification is written from the perspective of Mastodon and Twitter-like fediverse instances.
I assume Lemmy and kbin did extend this with some more objects or at least agreed how to use the existing objects and activities there to model a link aggregator with comments on top of that.
Is there some sort of specification or design document about this somewhere? All I found when googling were some old links that resulted in a 404 and the current Lemmy documentation seems more focussed on users, admins and developers and less on the protocol side of things.
Navigation in Second Life
Since a lot of people here don't seem to know about Second Life I figure some introductory materials can't hurt in case anyone decides to try it.
Second Life is made up of so called regions, each of them is a square 256m to a side and 4096m high as far as building is concerned. In theory the water level can be set to different values in each region but the most common is 20m, especially for the connected mainland regions where it has to match for the water to look connected between adjacent regions.
Inside a region there are coordinates x (low=west, high=east), y (low=south, high=north) and z (low=down, high=up).
Each region runs on a separate simulator (modern servers might host more than one simulator but it is separate processes) so crossing or teleporting into another region requires a handover. If regions are crossed in quick succession, especially with high latency connections, this can lead to crashes or falling off a vehicle.
The regions themselves are placed on a grid with x (again, low=west, high=east) and y (low=south, high=north) coordinates. The first region Da Boom around which the mainland grew has coordinates 1000, 1000. The coordinates can be shown in the viewer but the regions are more commonly addressed by their region name.
Spots on that coordinate grid that do not have a region show as an endless ocean (even if there are regions behind it you can not see them) and you can not enter them.
This coordinate grid has lead to Second Life expressions like "on the grid" for things happening on SL.
There are different types of regions with different performance characteristics, agent (avatar) limits and land impact (LI) limits for building and other objects. LI is often also referred to as prims by old time SL users since it used to be a limit in the primitives (cubes, spheres,...) that used to be the only way to build but since mesh objects were added the more general term land impact is used.
The Second Life mainland has a number of continents, almost all of them are part of a continuous area of connected regions. The major exception is Zindra, the adult continent.
Since this post is already quite long I will perhaps introduce the continents in a future post in detail. Hopefully this information will be helpful to some people.
Summer Sailstice in SL from Saturday the 24th of June to the 7th of July
This year's Summer Sailstice event is coming up this Saturday with lots of events. This link contains an event calendar among other things.
Second Life Activities - Sailing Cruises
Since some people here do not seem to be very familiar with the many activities we use to fill our time on SL I am going to start a new series of posts, introducing some of them.
There are many different vehicles on SL, bicyles, motorbikes, cars, trucks, mechs and many other land vehicles of course, planes, helicopters, paramotors, blimps and others up in the air and of course sail- and motorboats of many different types.
Of course it is possible to just take some friends and make your own fun with these but there are also some organized group activities. Some are races and others are cruises where people just sail together on a route provided by some cruise director in the group. For some groups it is the same person every time, for others the role is shared by a couple of people.
These cruise groups are a great place to learn sailing since there are a lot of people to ask for help and there is always someone who has a moment to answer your questions.
If you don't have a boat of your own you can also ask and usually there is someone who has a free spot on their boat.
It is usually a good idea to take off any HUDs or attachments you don't need to make region crossings smoother. You also want to avoid crossing twice in quick succession since crashes or falling off your boat is quite common when you do (usually 3s is a good number to aim for). This is particularly important when crossing close to corners.
It is also helpful to enable property lines on the minimap (not supported by all viewers) which helps seeing the sim corners and also the open waterways (or roads for land vehicles).
There are many groups who have regular cruises during the week, this is just a small selection, feel free to mention more in the comments if you know any others.
(links go to the SL groups, you need an SL viewer installed to open those)
Leeward Cruising Club Phoenix Rising Yacht Club Rainbow Sails Yacht Club Tradewinds Yacht Club Topless Sailors Cruising Club Topless Cruisers
This post is already quite long so I won't explain in detail how sailing or navigation work or the SL continents and waterways but maybe I will add some posts about that soon.
Are you ready to celebrate Second Life’s 20th birthday with us? The festivities begin on June 22nd and will run through July 11th. During the celebrations, there will be a series of Lab Gab events, held live at SL20B, where you can meet the founder of Second Life, Philip Linden, and Executive Cha...
If you have any questions for the Lindens at the SL20B (Second Life's 20th birthday) Lab Gab events you have two more days to submit those.
Photo by Semiiina Are you ready for this year’s SL20B Music Fest? From June 22nd to the 24th, go on an interstellar journey through sound and emotions, as the crème de la crème of Second Life's live musicians set the SL20B Mandala Stage ablaze with spellbinding performances! In the middle of Musi...
With Second Life's 20th birthday event coming up on the 22nd (next Thursday) the artists for the music fest might be something to have a look at
What are your favourite annual Second Life events?
For me Fantasy Faire is definitely the one I am looking forward to most. They just have the best mix of stunning regions and avatars, great stories and music on the radio, amazing events for the whole faire and they somehow even manage to integrate the Relay for Life donations and remembrance of those we lost into the event without spoiling the mood of either the sad or the happy parts of the event.
In the past I was also looking forward to Mario2 Helstein's seasonal light shows but sadly he stopped doing those.
Since Linden Labs is notoriously bad about letting us know what is going on, what are your favourite events that others might not even know about?
Second Life Community
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What are your favourite Second Life activities?
Personally, apart from spending time with friends I do enjoy sailing and motorboats, dancing, live concerts, flying my planes, blimp, paramotor/trike, Shergood Aviation helicopters.
In the past I have also roleplayed in various medieval fantasy, urban fantasy and sci-fi regions but that activity, while fun, always took up a bit too much of my time to leave much for other things I enjoyed.
For sailing and motorboat use, apart from doing so on my own, I like to go on cruises with groups that design routes in advance. It is a good way to get to know the grid better and see how it all fits together and it is a fun way to get to know people in the group over a shared activity.
I don't like land vehicles as much because the roads often cross through sim corners or go close to banlines and security orbs I would like to avoid.
Which viewer do you use?
Personally I have been using the Firestorm Viewer for about as long as it existed and it offers a nice set of additional features over the default viewer but I regularly hear that others use a different third party viewer. What do you use and why?
Which Second Life Blogs do you read?
Personally I sometimes read the ones below.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld
Owl is a good friend on Second Life who is always busy organizing live concerts and music and art events.
Welcome to the SL community on the threadiverse
In this post you can introduce yourself, mention your avatar name(s) and favourite activities in Second Life if you want to, remaining anonymous as far as your SL identity is concerned is perfectly fine too.