If there are other people, you likely mean a campground which is not retreating to nature. Campgrounds are very unnatural manipulated outdoor spaces.

Hopefully you have real wilderness near you where camping is allowed in places you could likely not encounter other humans. Highly recommend the experience if so. It makes campgrounds feel like trailer parks in comparison.

Did the Linux gods see what the hardware gods had going on and decide to get in on the action?

Sure, but if it wasn’t for vulture capitalism trying to cut every cent possible, it’d be a minor increase in cost to make these systems degrade gracefully. Then at worst it’d still function as the equivalent ‘dumb’ device.

What subject, and was it time limited? If there was any chance of not finishing in time I’d probably leave those until last.

Regular chalk is calcium carbonate. Crayola’s website says their sidewalk chalk uses calcium sulfate (gypsum as an ingredient in plaster of paris).

So they’re both calcium salts.

But how could you get your hand to seamlessly meld into the fabric of the shoulder strap?

Agreed, but the headline and article mention chlorine many times. It’s become obvious the last several years that most people are unable or unwilling to put in the effort required to understand nuance in anything. So if the discussion on this topic continues to bang on chlorine, it could lead to a real threat to clean water and perhaps sanitation in general.

Instead they should say something like ‘chemically-disinfected chicken’. Because as you said, it’s not that chlorine is bad.

You know the municipal water supply is disinfected by adding chlorine, right? https://www.water.org.uk/water-supply/drinking-water

There’s plenty of other reasons to not buy most poultry produced in the states, but it’s a bad idea to start fear mongering about chlorine.

And he traveled with the carnival shows

I think you may have missed the point:

servers run by other people for the community to use

hosted instances of these components for real use

I’m hoping to see hostnames or IP addresses of existing instances of these components that anyone could connect to, and that aren’t controlled by Bluesky PBC.

Not sure if an absolute list, but https://atprotocol.dev/ is a good resource.

There are no matches for the word ‘relay’ on that site’s main page, or via the site search.

there isn’t much incentive to run a relay in particular, as it all funnels into the same place

I disagree with this sentiment, especially since Bluesky “is designed to not be controlled by a single company” and have “many hosts, firehoses, and indexes, all operated by different entities and exchanging data with each other”.

but if you’re questioning the tech this guy did it a few days ago with the relay

https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3lkubavdilf2m

I wasn’t able to find a hostnames or IP for his instance on that page.

It looks like ^ he also has an appview up thats long form blogging here: >https://github.com/whtwnd/whitewind-blog

That looks cool, but it appears to show different content than BlueSky.

Another guy also built a lightweight app view

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lkwg2djrfk23

I dug through that thread and didn’t see the URL for where it is hosted. Also I now feel the need to volunteer that I don’t use Mastodon and am definitely not some kind of diehard fan of that app.

And stream.place is another appview but it’s not a microblog platform. Also very early stages I believe.

Again, I’m hoping to see alternative server instances of all the Bluesky services available for utilization by the public (whether customized or just reposted), not other apps that use atproto.

I want to see distributed platforms succeed, but as Bluesky notes on their About page, the problem is with centralization of authority. If a necessary part of the system is exclusively managed by a single corporation, it is centralized - whether by intent or just de facto. If that is the case, it would indicate some problem(s) exist that need solutions pursued until the situation is remedied.

Is there a list of all the relays and appview servers run by other people for the community to use? I looked for one, but could find no evidence that others have actually hosted instances of these components for real use.

It isn’t federation, since not all nodes in the system have equal power (control). There is still a central authority that controls what the inferior nodes can do.

Contrast that with email servers where you can send a message from one server to another without a more authoritative node as a required middleman.

This is an absolutely braindead lazy take.

The same professional journalists who’ve worked at these big media corporations have used the substack platform to open up sites in droves so they can focus on more niche topics, or just escape the censorship of owners and advertisers.

If you think that legitimate news can only come from a company owned by billionaires, then you’re wrong.

Are you suggesting they didn’t know Signal wasn’t an approved platform for sensitive government communication and willfully used it anyway?

That’s literally the defining feature of asymmetric cryptography. There are many explanations of how it works which you can easily find. One example is the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

If you educate yourself and are still confused, you should probably just accept the fact that even though you can’t understand the specifics, information encoded with the public key cannot be decoded with the same public key.

In my opinion the most relevant commonality is the hypocrisy of all the involved parties. Hillary had sent out a notice to the entire State Department saying to only use official communication platforms, and then did the opposite as if she thinks she’s above the rules.

Then these Republicans who condemned the actions also used a non-official platform.

Giffords group lies or misleads about guns?

I helped do the easy scenario at large scale in a fortune 50 several years ago after the vendor thought they could get greedy on the support contract renewal. Only required small changes to a few files and packages.

Copyright does not give the holder control over every “use”, especially something as vague as “using it to undermine their skillset”.

Copyright gives the rights holder a limited monopoly on three activities: to make and sell copies of their works, to create derivative works, and to perform or display their works publicly.

Not all uses involve making a copy, derivative, or performance.

OP - If you don’t give thanks and praise FSM, you’ll find all your vermicelli will break into short pieces, and your macaroni will be mushy. Who would want to dine at your home then?