Matrix will sadly never be a thing, much like XMPP never really became a thing (well, it was a thing until google pulled a play from the 90-00s era Microsoft of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). And each of those tried to replace IRC which still works and is perfectly fine.

Five years? My, aren’t we optimistic.

No country currently accepts asylum applications from Americans as far as I’m aware, certainly nowhere in Europe.

Yet.
I’m waiting for the full nazi invade-your-neighbors moment. Pretty sure that changes for the Operation Reverse Paperclip. I’m already here in EU on a work visa. Claiming political asylum while already here and stable hopefully helps me avoid some red tape in staying permanently.

I don’t think it is about needing a doctorate beforehand and I find your characterization of @it_depends_man@lemmy.world’s advice on social etiquette weirdly non-sequitur and white knighty. Would you walk into a religious place of worship, a strip club, a gun range, or Costco without at least knowing how to interact with that space? Wearing your magic underwear? Bring enough fives? Ear protection? Membership card?

The point being virtual spaces are weird and full of weird people that live in their head. And they make communities that have implicit and explicit rules like all communities. And if you’re wading neck deep into a pool of internet weirdos (their pool, mind you, you’re the outsider traipsing in wanting their knowledge and wisdom) and want your question answered, the lurk and learn advice from above is solid.

Does it suck? Maybe? I can see it from the community’s perspective where they set the barrier to entry.

A little bit dated, but it seems like it has been receiving updates. There is a whole section at the bottom now about how to answer questions (ie. don’t be an asshole). I really want to emphasize that idea. Lots of FOSS communities now have codes of conduct which I find useful in mitigating this behavior, too.

As for the tone, it definitely has an ivory tower, individualism, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, slanted view but I don’t think it unduly burdens a newbie to learn how to teach themselves by ensuring they’ve exhausted all the typical avenues of stored knowledge before bothering someone with a well-crafted question. It is a self-sufficiency that has very positive returns in the future.

Without more context, it is difficult to say how justified OP is in their read of the situation. Maybe the forum posters weren’t really out of line because the general topic was #random and OP asked in the wrong place?

“Have you asked the clanker yet?”

Most of my search process prior to LLM was querying google with keywords and specific phrases, clicking through several of the first page links that are from reputable sources, reading all of that, synthesizing an answer. Now that google has completed its enshittification of search, it’s index is gamed both from the SEO grifters and from inside with them making search worse because it ultimately leads to more ad impressions. The quality of those first page links is directly related to how much the stink of money the topic has.

I now pay for search with kagi (not an ad, swear) so that incentives are properly aligned. I get very useful first page links again because I can lens the search to exclude a lot of the SEO shit sites or only return academic sources. And I also use their robot assistant now for many searches because it can synthesize good summaries and good gists of topics from good source links. Prompted to always cite shit so I can always verify the clanker’s bullshit, but trust has been getting higher lately as the models get better.

At some point we will end up with a lmgtfy.com but lmpalfy.com (let me prompt an LLM for you)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html <-- this too

A very anti-“Eternal September” sentiment.

We would have never had all of the money blown on the infra that actually enabled the explosive growth after the dotcom bust. Probably would require a university account to access. And you’d probably be billed for all the bits

I think web 2.0 (ie. the internet after standards bodies had congealed around the browser stack of tech) would have been better off as a complete redesign. Sure we made SPAs work on top of the hodge-podge of shit that is HTML/CSS/JS, but at what cost? Before React and it’s ilk, there were many attempts to bring desktop GUI-like toolkits to the web which imo was a superior paradigm. Now, a browser is basically a shitty VM with horrible abstractions for web applications. If only we’d stopped and rethought that. WASM was also a chance for that to happen, but 1.0 is so limited (can’t challenge the browser too much! it makes google money!). And the fractured WASI nonsense that exists now means we’ll never get to the point where it could replace it.

I wonder what impact that would have had on early hardware because it would require more memory for the TCP stack

Y’all some unimaginative peeps. Suggesting a bunch of things that taste good but are far from ideal. The true, ideal stoner food would engage all of the mouth senses in positive ways. That satisfying crunch, the burst of flavors, with an easy chew, and a greedy swallow. It would elevate the very act of mastication beyond what these mortal realms can dream. And bring with it unbound euphoria and a literal (yes, literal) mini symphony would start sound tracking the experience to resonate with the overwhelming emotional sublime waves of gratification washing over me. Oh and it would be like low cal and shit, so I could eat tons of it without getting fat, like I am now.

If you feel a friend should be texting you back more, just go ahead and ask why they aren’t.

This one trick that resolves most shitty movie plots. Why does OP choose to live their live like one of those shitty movie plots?

I mean, maybe it is better to just ban you? You’re being decidedly unsocial for social media, bro. Go back to Reddit/Instagram and consume away. And keep your shitty behavior away from the fediverse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zqFJDJf2Q

TL;DW:

• Farts can smell worse in the shower due to being in a closed space with nowhere for the gas to go.
• The main reason for intensified fart smell in the shower is increased humidity.
• Higher humidity enhances the sense of smell, allowing detection of lower concentrations of odors.
• Water vapor may help smell molecules interact with nasal receptors.
• Gas particles can bind to water vapor, allowing the air to hold more smell.
• Hot showers create steamy water vapor, which amplifies fart odors.

(only after asking her several times if she would get mad at me)

It is wild as kids we internalize quickly the angry consequences of fucking up, but usually we aren’t given the proper guidance, rules, or explicit explanations upfront to avoid it.

Please tell me you’ve watched Pleasantville.

I was curious if you were to analog the solar wind to sound (ie. measure solar activity) how loud would the difference be between nominal activity vs. coronal mass ejection, and it is surprisingly quiet according to the clanker’s math. Basically the difference between the background noise of a library vs. a clothes washing machine

Fuck yeah, a sequel to Primer would rock. How many layers deep could this one be? The director for Primer is/was a bit of a crazy person. I recommend Upstream Color if you’ve not seen it yet.

When you do fix it, the internet would appreciate a follow up comment on what you did to fix the problem