Tonight’s post Halloween film: “Hot Tub Time Machine”

@SrRochardBunson 🙏 thank you! 😎

@arstechnica Whoaaaa... hey!! What's the big hurry all of the sudden???
Let's not go rushing in to blindly adopt all this fancy new-fangled tech.
Color monitors might confuse people! =P

Me personally I would say that private votes are better if possible. But you should be able to filter when you’re logged in what you upvoted and downvoted. That’s how I would like it ideally.

They’re not private at all, I’ve never been under the illusion that they were.

I like it, have some guts, stand on business. If people want to downvote they should be willing to attach their name to it, internet points are fake anyway.

not. at all. i consider anything i put here akin to standing on my nearest street corner during rush hour, shouting into the darkness

confused how anyone could think anything otherwise.

They are not, it’s akin to shouting in the rain. Most people will be inside not getting wet, but there people that either like the rain, or get paid to stand in it

The lemmy vote viewer is quite limited but I suspect that there are are a few servers that have spun there own DB queries and charting:

Lemvotes shows votes. So, it’s not private.

RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/117572660448061849

So damn catchy!

🎶 My little black hatchback 🎶

Data has to federate, so nothing is going to really be private like you mention. I think it’s unreasonable to expect anything otherwise. I don’t see a point to hiding votes because of this. If someone starts stalking or harassing their voters for some reason, have a reporting system and handle that.

From the technical side anyone can spin up their own Lemmy instance and view all votes, but I'm curious at what the community's perspective on how "private" that is. I think Mbin already shows upvoters? Piefed allows anonymous voting. I also know there are sites which show all voting history, but assuming those are fairly disliked.

My general questions to the community: - Do you expect your votes to be private, or just not shown in the UI? - Would per-voter votes showing up on another aggregator platform bother you, even though your instance already shares them with other servers?

For context I'm the dev doing some two way bridge interop between atproto + Threadiverse, in atproto the votes/likes are generally publicly accessible, you just look at the users repo through something like pdsls.dev, they're readable and archivable by anyone. In my opinion this isn't that big of a problem since it's fairly hard to look at and discern (Ex all my votes: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:lmdkqemqrqnfiix72pyjhfey/social.coves.feed.vote). Ultimately trying to figure out if there's already a mutual understanding that they are public and we can just mirror them or whether they should stay hidden as an aggregate.

@woozle @ai6yr @Dougfir California developers have tried "space saving" homes on stilts before. Many apartments were built over stick carports.

They didn't fair so well during earthquakes.
We need to think of both.

may give writing a BASIC in Lisp another go...?

the biggest problem with writing it in assembly is the debugger setup.

nothing much has to change about the concepts behind the interpreter--i can still use the IL (intermediate/interpretive language) method.

so all i'd have to do is implement those basic instructions in Lisp, using concepts like lines, line numbers, the AESTK, NUMSTK, etc.

let me think about it for a bit--Lisp is very portable: ulisp.com

#retrocomputing #lisp #basic

Programmers on Hacker News knew it instantly. One described a setup where every scheduled job runs "with a delay of between 0 and 59 seconds, based on a hash of the server name," which is the same cure. If you build anything that phones home on a timer, I'd give it a little random wait before it does.

The grid has been flinching on the minute for years, and now there's a prime suspect for whose clock it is.

TechXplore quotes the team that batteries may be "only part of the problem here," and Jülich names air conditioners, heat pumps, washing machines and dishwashers as possible suspects too.

Nobody's lights are about to go out. TechXplore reports the deviations were "not critical to grid security," though turbines "slow down momentarily" and the wobble adds wear and tear. The fix is almost funny: "distribute the checks randomly, rather than always starting them at the same time."

The likely cause is timing: the researchers took a closer look at one battery system and found "a spike in electricity consumption at the start of every minute due to the power check." Jülich says the cause "appears to be the many large-scale battery storage systems that check their state of charge every minute."

Europe's power grid hiccups every 60 seconds, and batteries checking their charge on the minute are the main suspect...

The frequency of Europe's power grid dips every 60 seconds, and researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich think they know why. Their paper in Nature Energy traces the dip to devices that all check in at the top of the minute, battery storage systems among them. Dirk Witthaut, who led the Jülich team, called it "years of detective work."

It isn't only Europe's problem.

Jülich's release says the team found it "was not a European phenomenon, but a global one." It also grows where the batteries go. In Ireland, data centres with large-scale battery storage systems "currently account for around a fifth of the country's electricity demand," TechXplore reports, and "the amplitude of the one-minute signal quadrupled between 2016 and 2021."