Some people are just more comfortable with good old familiar units like baby elephants per corgi. What do they even use for that in the metric system? Millihectares per decilitre or something? Whatever.

It’s normally thought of as more of a “baby bust” but same thing really, a big whack of old people around for a while.

I’m not much of a fan of the NSA or anything, but that comparison seems unfair to the NSA. I imagine Palantir is more like a souped-up bullshit-ridden profit-driven Stasi.

“The cloud” is just somebody else’s computer.

If disk space is a problem, why don’t more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what’s posted doesn’t need to be archived forever.

If you routinely find that nonsensical thoughts about pedophilia are intruding while you’re in the shower, seek professional help. But there’s no need to inflict them on lemmy.

Okay great, but steam engines from the mid 19th century could probably outrun humans too.

Not that I’m in any position to speak for an entire generation but I feel like a lot of Gen Z also can’t understand why Gen Z can’t put their phones down and watch TV like a normal person.

For a completely random example of things one might choose to learn about today, there is the distinction between “less” and “fewer.”

I was using mullvad a couple years ago. Configs didn’t change often, I updated it once or twice a year or whenever the old one stopped working.

They did have a “killswitch” type option available, I think. But it didn’t seem really useful since normally when wireguard fails (on linux at least) it does not “disconnect” — it just stops any traffic getting through until it’s working again.

You stick the config in /etc/wireguard and then it’s just wg-quick down endpoint1 ; wg-quick up endpoint2 to switch locations. (Being wary that the VPN will be down for a moment.) You can name them whatever you like of course.

Setting up DNS properly is not that hard and only needs doing once.

Also, starting.

Oh, is that what everyone’s reacting to? Just the headline? Yeah, weird that so many people were not previously aware of the basic facts of life.

Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in physics, discusses important questions such as “dude, wouldn’t it be cool if we could send people to live on other planets on the far side of the galaxy?” and “if there are aliens, what do you think they’re like?”

If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There’s not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do “age verification.”

It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won’t go that far right now — they’ll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.

Tomorrow is, uh… Thursday. Done.

If it turns out that some of the big datacentres they’re building have just a few real servers near the front and the rest of the racks are all filled with cheap space heaters, that will be a twist.

I think the window for having that debate was some time around 1992.

Encouraging more teen pregnancies seems like it might cause problems for the education system, but that’s okay; Fox News loves the uneducated.

Personally I suspect that the best cure for a low fertility rate is a good 60 to 100 years of declining population size. It’s worth a try anyway.

Lorde’s “master’s tools” speech is routinely misread in tech discourse

Can confirm. As a person with a “tech” background I certainly misread it that way the first time I saw it quoted and went to learn more. It took some amount of actual thinking to understand what she was getting at and how it could be engaged with more fairly in contexts so far from that of the original.