I remember stories about the early days of Castro’s Cuba and how an actress who fled to the USA had all her trophies for her acting taken from her and made State Property. I remember it being treated as a cautionary tale of the evils of Socialism (*cough propaganda) using the argument that the Cuban State under Castro did not understand nor care about the difference between private property and personal property (which I find to be a very suspect argument, personally).

I mean fuck me, but this is no different. He’s effectively selling his own memorabilia that he had kept for himself to stay alive. Selling it to the highest bidder, and the highest bidder is almost assuredly some parasite of the capitalist class.

Yeah, pretty sure it was called “Fex” translation layer for emulating x86 binaries on ARM64. To me that was absolutely the biggest takeaway, because that’s a massive game-changer for eventually moving the industry away from x86 exclusivity and into wider adoption of other architectures.

Which is even sadder because Ethereum has always been a trash coin.

For real, that’s actually the opposite of helpful. Documentation should be based on experience from use combined with discussions with the devs (providing they have the time).

Documentation documentation documentation! One of the most often overlooked and wildly important aspects of many major projects is accurate, up-to-date, and detailed documentation. If you’re not a programmer, one of the number one ways you can contribute is to help draft and produce documentation for applications you enjoy! It’s still a contribution to the project!

I always wanted to start an all-man all-theremin band called “ThereMen.”

One of my favorite memories was seeing The Octopus Project and Man or Astro-Man? live and at the end of the show the two bands had “dueling theremins” and the guy from Man or Astro-Man set his theremin on fire.

That’s all I really have to contribute here. Cool project though, I’d still rather save a hell of a lot of money for a Moog.

Absolutely, which was my point. That the tooth thing wasn’t “only two years ago” it’s actually been in the research and development process for probably over 15 years at this point, with a long way to go.

I hear pocket pool is a lot of fun.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2014.00036/full

It’s been in the works for over ten years. Here is a paper on research into it from 2014.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3000521/

Here’s another one from 2010.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761608000070#cesec60

And another from 2008.

Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst.

Please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft, please be Microsoft.

Sometimes you just cant beat the classics.

It’s not as though that power structure behind the economic system is leveraged to dismantle and destroy competing economic systems or labor rights or anything. Yeah, totally and completely separate and never the twain shall meet. The CIA definitely didn’t use economic terrorism to force countries to submit to US cartels business demands.

Nothing has ever happened, like say, the US corporations using their wealth to dominate the court systems and laws of other counties to do something like put media “pirates” calling themselves “The Pirate Bay” in prison for things that were legal in their own country to enforce the US’s own draconian capitalistic IP laws.

What an absolute crock of shit dude get a grip. Capitalism is oligarchy by any other name.

Underrated because the game itself was often kind of lacking in terms of solid foundational RPG systems…

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Pretty good attempt at putting a Middle Earth type world ahead a few hundred years in the midst of an Industrial Revolution.

Really thoughtful stuff like the labor exploitation of certain races like orcs, with quests like a half-orc you can help start a labor union or help the shop boss shut down the nascent union.

Twice now I have tried to make a top level comment and accidentally responded to a thread instead… Anyway…

Instead of leaving this deleted I will agree wholeheartedly that while I personally am not the biggest fan of the TES series they have some of the most deep, complex and (somewhat) organized lore there is.

I just wish they would hire better script writers and weren’t so afraid of locking content behind player choices. Always having every option available just feels a little silly.

Wait Raft has lore and world building?? I love that game but I never even paid that close attention. Guess I need to go look now.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01477-0

Here’s the paper published in Nature.

However, it’s worth noting that Nature has had to retract studies before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(journal)#Retractions

From 2000 to 2001, a series of five fraudulent papers by Jan Hendrik Schön was published in Nature. The papers, about semiconductors, were revealed to contain falsified data and other scientific fraud. In 2003, Nature retracted the papers. The Schön scandal was not limited to Nature; other prominent journals, such as Science and Physical Review, also retracted papers by Schön.

Not saying that we shouldn’t trust anything published in scientific journals, but yes, we should wait until more studies that replicate these results exist before jumping to conclusions.

Which docker container do you use, if you don’t mind me asking. Also, how complicated would you rate the setup? I have a degree in network admin and run multiple Linux servers and docker containers with manually created docker network bridges so they can freely communicate with one another, to give an idea of my knowledge base. Honestly the only thing I haven’t done before yet that makes me nervous is setting up a reverse proxy to expose the endpoint to the internet and connect it to my owned domain name.

I didn’t even know they had it set up as an apt repository for Ubuntu. Very interesting.

I don’t even really plan to use any bridges, as I understand it those are for if you want to pass messages from other services through your matrix server. I would rather keep those separate personally, even though I understand certain benefits, including having all your messaging in one application instead of numerous.

I always heard that rolling out an initial Matrix instance isn’t terrible, especially with ansible and/or docker, but I also have heard that a lot of updates have breaking changes and that updating your server is less simple.

As someone who runs your own Matrix server, would you agree with this sentiment or disagree and why? I have considered rolling out my own many times but get discouraged by those who say keeping it updated is kind of a nightmare. For example, a private tracker I am a member of used to have a Matrix server and an IRC server, but they eventually dumped the Matrix server entirely to reduce complexity as well as the fact that fewer people used it.