Fixed: Matt Gaetz, former Trump AG pick, had sex with raped an underage girl while in Congress, House Ethics report says

A minor cannot consent.

“ ‘Private property is the smallest unit of warfare’ - The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook”

— Annalee Newitz, The Terraformers (2023), chapter 15

It’s not my fault the system is setup in this way.

That sounds like “I’m just following orders.” to me.

Can you indicate which author is associated with which portion of your quoted text? I’m looking to verify the provenance of these statements. Thank you.

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Same, but they’re two very different animals, I think.

Bluesky’s protocol, ATProto, was designed for rapid growth via centralized architecture (a few very expensive nodes) while ActivityPub (e.g. Mastodon or Lemmy) was designed with decentralized architecture (many inexpensive nodes). ActivityPub is less expensive since a message you send is treated like email in that only your home server and the recipient’s home server must see the message; whether other people see it depends on who follows and/or replies to whom and who is blocked by who. In contrast, a Bluesky message you send is treated like a radio broadcast: by default, your message is publicly transmitted to every server without regard to who follows or blocks whom. Therefore, the minimum storage and bandwidth costs scale very differently: an ActivityPub server scales as a function of how many accounts its own users follow have while an ATProto server scales as a function of how many total users exist globally.

The benefit of centralization is the ability to reliably and quickly convey messages from all users to all other users by simply storing all messages then filtering through them when a user asks for an update. Also, moderation is easier, in theory, since fewer nodes must be monitored and regulated.

For details, see this post by ActivityPub developer Christine Lemmer-Webber.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

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Some Lojban suggestions:

• pemnot (gismu: pemci + notci; lit: poem + note)
• kafnot (gismu: ckafi + notci; lit: coffee + note)
• kafpinji (gismu: ckafi + pinji; lit: coffee + penis)

Does this mean Trump gets to pick his Florida judge that dismissed his criminal case now?

Aileen Cannon? I imagine she has a good chance at becoming a Supreme Court justice due to her loyalty in legally shielding Trump.

Although Bluesky is an improvement over X-Twitter in terms of your ability to move to a different server in the event the main Bluesky ATProto node also gets bought out by someone like Elon Musk, ATProto nodes are not really decentralized since they are prohibitively expensive for individuals to run due to early architectural choices. According to “How decentralized is Bluesky really?” (2024-11-22) by ActivityPub developer, Christine Lemmer-Webber, a Bluesky node requires 5 TB, which maps to somewhere between 6-60k USD/year in cloud storage costs. The problematic architectural is that ActivityPub uses “message passing” while ATProto uses “shared heap”, using Christine’s phrasing.

The best way to understand the reason for this difference in hosting requirements is to understand the underlying architecture of these systems. ActivityPub follows an message passing architecture …, the same as email, XMPP, and so on. A message is addressed, and then delivered to recipients. … This turns out to be pretty efficient; if only users on five servers need to know about a message, out of tens of thousands of servers, only those five servers will be contacted. … If Alyssa wants to write a piece of mail to Ben, she can send it directly to Ben, and it can arrive at Ben’s house. If Ben wants to reply, Ben can reply directly to Alyssa. Your intuitions about email apply exactly here, because that’s effectively what this design is.

Bluesky does not utilize message passing, and instead operates in what I call a shared heap architecture. In a shared heap architecture, instead of delivering mail to someone’s house …, letters which may be interesting all are dumped at a post office (called a “relay”) directly. From there it’s the responsibility of interested parties to show up and filter through the mail to see what’s interesting to them. This means there is no directed delivery; if you want to see replies which are relevant to your messages, you (or someone operating on behalf of you) had better sort through and know about every possible message to find out what messages could be a reply.

… The physical world equivalent for a fully decentralized fediverse then is that every user sends mail to every other user’s house, as needed, similar to how sending letters works in the physical world. This is decidedly not the case with a fully decentralized ATProto. The physical world equivalent would be that every user had their own house at which they stored a copy of every piece of mail delivered to every other user at their house.

If this sounds infeasible to do in our metaphorical domestic environment, that’s because it is. A world of full self-hosting is not possible with Bluesky. In fact, it is worse than the storage requirements, because the message delivery requirements become quadratic at the scale of full decentralization: to send a message to one user is to send a message to all. Rather than writing one letter, a copy of that letter must be made and delivered to every person on earth.

tl;dr A Bluesky node is better than X-Twitter but very costly to run compared to Fediverse.

Thanks for the info!

I’m looking forward to seeing the explanation connecting Diablo, Rimuru, and the mask.

Is Elmesia (?), the elf monarch, the head of state of the Sorcerous Kingdom? If so, shouldn’t it be Queendom? Also, besides the really short fights with Razen and some of the religious zealots, as well a Elmesia’s wariness, I still don’t have a good idea of Diablo’s capabilities nor the reason why he’s so interested in Rimuru. I recall Diablo was very interested in the mask Rimuru’s body’s previous owner used, but I fail to see what that has to do with Rimuru since he wasn’t around yet.

It is Kefkaʼs Tower, according to “Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive, Volume 1” (2018). Dark Horse Books. Page 259 of 335. ISBN: 978-1-50670-644-3. OCLC: 1043915833.

Granted, but it is endless because it supplies itself with water from your blood.

You know she’s a competent teacher because she never loses her head.

Utah: Monticello (Italian, but locally pronounced “monta sell-oh”)

You’re telling me there is no Walla Walla, England?

Madness.

Yo estaba pensando por qué no había “Share full article links” en los artículos. Pensaba que era un síntoma de que mi cuenta estaba registrada en los EE.UU.