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Is there dead babies somewhere? Probably, I don't want to look for it either. Was there exactly 40 beheaded babies that journalists claimed "were hidden but reported by the IDF so it was impossible to verify"? Well, I might have a bridge to sell you.

Trust me bro it's 100% true in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure LiveLeak used to have 40 hours of IDF sniping children uploaded to it daily

Of course, it would be just as useful if they claimed 0.4 babies or 4,000,000 - the only thing that really matters is they have a unified line the media can repeat ad nauseum for the next month.

The US housing market is so expensive that incomes would have to spike 55% for it to be considered affordable, industry exec says in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope those people living in the Midwest making 40K a year got their income bumped up to 60-70K a year so they could afford the new housing market.

That's the real rub with these studies that use national averages. It's not affordable for anyone, anywhere - unless you're blessed with a remote job paying HCOL money and don't mind moving somewhere where the nearest doctor is an hour away and the local past time is fentanyl and larceny.

Voice comments in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

This is okay but only if they auto play and contain guttural screaming

Child poverty in the United States just more than doubled. You can thank Joe Manchin. in c/politics@lemmy.ml

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

In my humble opinion, blaming the continued dismantling of these welfare programs on Joe Manchin or another ghoul of the day™️ isn't actually a 'well informed take' unless you think legislation is a sport Democrats keep mysteriously fumbling at

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Why is Server Content Federated Instead of Identities w/ Metadata? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Sinonatrix@hexbear.net to c/fediverse@hexbear.net

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Hello fellow fediverse feds, I'm 100% sure this has definitely been thought of before, but I'm apparently bad at googling the idea, so what's up with this?

There's obvious problems with the federation model:

It's a moderation nightmare and standards are effectively that of the worst website Federated with
It's a bandwidth catastrophe, last I heard Lemmy broadcasts every single vote to every Federated server??? At serious scale this is a genuine waste of resources with real carbon cost. I've read mitigations to this that seem to basically be going down the same route of Usenet or cryptocurrencies, such as having trusted servers/shards/whatever bundle transactions, which is a whole new mess
No cross-server identity management (not an inherent problem though). Super important ™️ clout chasers can try to squat their names on the big sites, but nobody's stopping anyone from doing a "REAL Elon Musk crypto give away" on a new server with the name not taken yet.

So what if users just had an rss-like experience of subscribing to individual communities on any server they pick? Their signed identity could carry meta data to facilitate cross-server connections (DMs go to XXX, also member of X, Y, Z, etc), and servers would only have to worry about serving and moderating their own content. What's lost? Discoverability? That seems lower stakes to centralize than moderation and corporate control.

Obviously the technology already exists: we have centralized OAuth providers and a more decentralized regime could be built off asymmetric encryption, but the attempt to apply it here is where?