So..... Throw them in jail? Make them accountable? Revoke the companies ability to do business till the records are provided?

Then again, that's just fantasy because the laws don't matter if you're Rick/big enough anymore.

Honestly?

Heat death of the universe.

Our biology is hardwired for tribalism.

Really, victim blaming?

Get out of here with that low quality crap.

From a parent perspective, largely because of societal consequences.

Your toddler talking about sex can lead to undesirable social consequences.

Not that I agree with it, but the reasoning is valid, it's a fear of other people and their lack of understanding or nuance. And the potential for them to assume the worst and attack you over something entirely benign.

Now if we're talking about education, there really isn't any good excuse. Maybe it's an extension of the above?

Definitely distopian, corporate power and entrenchment grows every year.

Probably because of the "you can't be sexist against males" standpoint

browsers themselves are easy to make

That's ... a patently false statement.

They are among the most complex, difficult, resource hungry pieces of software out there along with actual operating systems.

There's a lot of open source browsers out there. Are you using them? Probably not

This is also essentially misinformation. I'm sure none of us have heard of Firefox before, or Chromium. Sure Chrome (closed source) is what most people use, but Firefox isn't exactly some esoteric browser.

I probably come in at ~30-50 searches/day so I never really considered it. But unlimited sounds interesting 🤔

Lemmy is.... Not distributed computing.

If each instance is a separate application than must scale on it's own, then no distributed computing is occuring.

There is one database, and you can have the instance itself behind a load balancer.

Lemmy is not a distributed program, you can't scale it linearly by adding more nodes. It's severely limited by it's database access patterns, to a single DB, and is not capable of being distributed in it's current state. You can put more web servers behind a load balancer, but that's not really "distributed computing" that's just "distributing a workload", which has a lot of limitations that defeat it being truly distributed.

Actual distributed applications are incredibly difficult to create at scale, with many faux-distribited applications being made (Lemmy being n-tier im a per instance basis).

Think of Kafka. Kafka is an actual distributed application.

Cloud computing is.... Not distributed computing.

We're talking about pushing compute workloads across a distributed set of devices where that workload is linearly scalable by the number of devices involved, compute, storage, failovers...etc scale elegantly. Cloud computing can give you the tools to make such a thing a reality within the scope of the cloud provider, but it most definitely is not distributed computing just by existing.

Also the fediverse is NOT distributed computing either, at least for Lemmy. There is no distributed compute available for Lemmy. You can't have a few hundred users toss up their own compute to handle loads for an instance. Each instance is limited to a single database, and can have webservers behind a load balancer to spread out the compute. And that's about the best you've got. Not distributed, you can't just spin up 100 nodes for a Lemmy instance to handle more load and everything "just works". It's a very "classic" architecture in a way.

A K8 cluster isn't distributed computing until you build a distributed application that can elegantly scale with more and more nodes. And is fault tolerant to nodes straight up dying.

Kafka for example, is an actual distributed application. One which you could run on a K8 cluster, it self-manages storage, duplication, load balancing, failovers, rebalancing...etc elegantly as you add more nodes. It doesn't rely on a central DB, it IS the DB, every node. Lemmy is not.

Or Obsidian? Take actual control over them including rendering if you want to customize that.

Maybe it's a different use case 🤔

This is a pretty disappointing and anemic article.

I thought this was going to dive into some of the practical pragmatic and scientific ways to measure information.

This is quite literally "What is a bit and a byte" 🫤