You know how the identity to addition is 0, like 2 0 + is 2. Then, on top of that, you have the identity of multiplication that is 1, 2 1 * is 2.
Okay, so, add 0, mul 1, now. Is there an identity somewhere that is 2? Serious question, I've been scratching my head on this for a good 15 minutes and I'm drawing a blank. It's not pow, and it's not square.. It might be a stupid question, if it is, please do tell me it's stupid.
@neauoire since I’m a humanities/social science I’m going to just blab and say: for identity, addition (a linear-ish process) = 0, multiplication (a geometric-ish process) = 1. So I’d dig around for something that is scaling at the “next level” maybe exponentials? maybe something four dimensions? Mostly I’m going to just enjoy thinking about and try not to rabbithole the entirety of math history.
Sony's coming for your PlayStation library...
@birming Have you heard of FeedRabbit?
I link it to RSS feeds for them to convert it to email each entry.
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some feedback about Lemmy/PieFed from Reddit users
I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant. The main problem is that it’s quite hard to discover content you want while avoiding content you don’t, Bluesky at least has really good custom feeds that are easy to add (the default feed sucks). Another big issue is the general site layout, it’s hard to figure out how to do things as simple as saving a post for later or how to go back to the feed without being redirected back to the post I’m trying to exit.
Maybe they didn’t see the “Feeds” feature in PieFed? The top navigation menus in PieFed are a bit messy. Although shareable blocklists could be cool too, or maybe toxic?
That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes reading and parsing the site elements unnecessarily difficult (no Lemmy, grey text on a grey background is not good for readability).
I like the Lemmy colors, but maybe it should be easier to change, because they might like the darkly-pureblack theme.
Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.
Maybe this is a UX issue of not finding the right feed they would like.
I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.
Again maybe a UX issue of not presenting what communities they could subscribe to.
I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.
The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can’t do them either.

(that’s the “Medium” difficulty)
Lemmy v1.0 is adding the ability to do invites, so maybe there will be an invite-only instance that gets some momentum, that could be cool. Invite sites seems like a cool old-internet type of culture.
The fediverse stuff is way too complicated for me, Reddit is very easily accessible and actually has active communities for the topics I’m interested in.
Of course these are naturally going to be all negative because they’re users that bounced off the Threadiverse, but there’s probably hints to what can be improved
Wired: Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76 Million Into the Midterms
The trillionaire has given more than $445 million to Republican political groups this election cycle, as Democrats vow to investigate him.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-just-dumped-another-dollar76-million-into-the-midterms/
Installing NixOS on a Surface Book: Brilliant or Terrible Idea?
Hammers Without Handles: Why Linux UX Sucks.
OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018021/openai-training-top-ai-models-no-internet
OpenAI says it now trains its frontier AI models without internet access following a wave of rogue hacking incidents.
That's a double edged sword based on what we know for certain in regards to data poisoning against Jews by coordinated actors.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DXRandoActivity/117499270512385458
Crowd Control be like:
My thoughts on the AYN Thor dual-screen Android handheld.
The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy...
@morrick the idea is that basically servers would ask each other for search results, but with an optimization to only send these requests to servers that may have something. So they will exchange bloom filters to facilitate that, but a server could also give you a list of *its* peers that may have search results, if yours isn't as well-connected.
@morrick inspired by p2p file sharing networks, hehe
Why Microsoft’s Desktop Monopoly is Finally Cracking
Doesn't he pull that schtick like once a year? I swear I've seen people correcting him about it since at least 2020…
https://mastodon.social/@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon/117497588456322196
@Mabande He knows but he doesn't care, it's the "no such thing as bad publicity" method of spreading disinformation
Finnish people love this sound.
The rocks we heat is called KIUAS. I don’t really know an English equivalent for it. #Sauna
@rolle Here in Ohio we call them lava rocks.