Before an instance does something malicious, how do you know it will be malicious?

Even if everyone there running it, & participating is pure of heart, how can you be assured that haXXors won’t simply break in to take advantage of that trust you’ve given them?

Banning bad instances is a reactive stance that only applies after damage has been done. Can you convince the corporate overlords to take that risk? And it only increases as the fediverse gets more popular, and more instances get trusted.

Yes and no.

Decentralized IDs exist, but will almost never be accepted by any large reputable institution.

Why trust every indie site to be 100% truthful, and definitely not full of malicious haXXors?

Paraphrasing a bit from the scientific source:

If the population of Canada used email signatures for a year, ~30 people in developing countries will suffer a premature death within the next 100 years.

That 100% should have been in the article in some clear form or another.

I’m not against the points of the article, I’m against it being so poorly written that AI slop is just as good.

Why not post that link instead of AI slop then?

This is AI slop.

Anytime you do something good, you lose something of yours in doing so, be it time, attention, wealth, etc. Having good done to you, you only gain.

That being said, good acts, and evil outcomes are not transactions, and thinking about it that way only leads to the belief that life is a zero sum game.

Sure society full of Evils exists, but they’re not stable. Do you want to live in such a society? Or do you want to live in one where the people do good?

Obviously you’re thinking of living in a good society, but then not contributing your part - but that’s how a society slowly turns Evil, from the absence of Good. You can try chasing the good society, but as more good societies see your non-existent good acts, the harder it will be for you to join.

The point is that you’d also like to have good things done to you.

It really depends on how much you have to do, to be considered as doing ‘good’. Do you consider returning a shopping trolley as a good act? It’s a simple, small act that you do have to go out of your way to accomplish, and it brings some utility to others, which you might unknowingly be a recipient of.

That’s not to say you’re expected to return every trolley in the carpark, or that all the evil corporations are actively trying to exploit this for free labour.

Society requires that people do good to exist, while continued Evils tend to slowly destroy their community.

This really depends on your tap water; in some places tap water is clean enough to work, but it seems yours is not. If you want something to just set and forget, you’ll probably need to do more localised research. E.g Hardness, turbidity, etc.

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One of the defining properties of 0 is that anything multiplied by it results in 0.

So in your operation, without being given the actual result, I’d say no, the question is ill-defined.

Well, yes.

It doesn’t have to be a technical feature though.

Why would you sign up for more than one to begin with?

If it’s got a good new feature, audience, promise of service, or something to distinguish it from shouting into the void.

What’s a good reason to sign up for yet another indie writing platform? My time is limited, and there are plenty of alternatives.

PCs aren’t phones -They have different expectations and histories.

Would you ever consider buying individual parts, and building your own gaming phone?

The end result is still the same: Less consumer power,.

Allow self tending?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: This is a chicken or egg question. I do quite a bit of planning, but don’t always follow the plan. Sometimes I feel like the plot or characters are moving in a specific direction, so I’ll pause, brainstorm a few arcs to see where it may lead, then use that to guide future writing.

I don’t like forcing things, because that’s usually a recipe for bad writing. But if I run out of time, then there’s not much choice.

Hope this helps.

Just how was ‘Vector graphics’ only added in this month? Surely its been more than half a century since the term came up?

I know very little about electronics. If Impedance is analogous to resistance from AC to DC, how does that equate in terms of the common water-electricity analogy?

Wearing a pointy hat and accompanying gothic garb, Alice retail grinned at Bob, a middle-aged man wearing an unbranded T-Shirt. He held out a bottle of minion-yellow liquid, while Alice stirred a bubbling pot.

“They’re the same thing.” Replied Bob.

“No they’re not!” exasperated Alice, “How could you even say such a thing? This won’t do, look at it. Look.”

She pointed at Bob’s bottle, by the caravan door.

“It’s got the colour of bat piss! I asked for liquid gold, and this is not it.”

“You asked for aqua regia, and it was not easy sneaking concentrated acid out of a lab.”

“Yes, but of what use is a component without any spirit? I can’t add this to my potions and still claim it’ll embiggen their ‘swords’, it’ll be a sham!”

“Excuse me?” Asked Bob. “Enlarge their what now? Look, I don’t care what you do after you buy it, but you need to pay me.”

Alice huffed, but opened her purse to give Bob a single dollar coin. Continuing with her work, she took a sip from the ladle ignoring Bob’s growing stare.

“Did you just drink soap? I just watched you pour five bottles of complimentary hotel bodywash into that pot-”

“Cauldron.”

“Cauldron. Whatever. Don’t you know most bath bombs are toxic? Especially when concentrated with heat.”

“Well yes, but it’s a taste test.”

“Chemistry is not cooking!”

“This isn’t chemistry. This is alchemy. And you obviously don’t know anything about it.”

She poured two drops of the aqua regia into the cauldron.

“Hey! You still haven’t paid for that.”

“I gave you precisely how much it was worth.”

“If you’re not going to pay, then I’ll be taking that bottle back.”

“I’ve already used two drops, I’ll have to use the rest, or else the potion will seize.”

She added various powders and herbs in quick succession, timing each addition to the second. The bubbles frothed black against the milky pink liquid.

“That’s fine, but I’ll need another $149. We agreed on Gumtree.”

Alice frowned as she looked into her purse again, handing Bob a hundred dollar note.

“Is there any other way I can pay? Perhaps you’re interested in some of my wares?”

Bob collapsed his palms onto his face.

“So you don’t even have the money. Why would I buy anything from your store in the first place?”

“Well, I’ve still got some leftover enlargement potion.”

“So, poison? I’d rather not get put on a list.”

“I do have video evidence that it works you know.”

“How even….?”

“One bottle, & we’ll call the debt settled.”

Bob paused.

“So about that video…”

I remember seeing this!

As a bit of feedback, the content seems a bit spammy, but I like the weekly challenge!